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A Comparison Of Systematic Review Services In Nj Academic Libraries And Beyond, Alyssa Borozan, Siobhan K. Mccarthy, Bonnie Fong

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

In recent years, there has been increased interest from faculty and graduate students at many colleges and universities in performing systematic reviews (SR) and evidence synthesis. How are libraries supporting these efforts? The presenters researched and compared the types of SR support services provided by its peers, aspirant peers, and notable R1 and R2 institutions with established SR services. This information is expected to help determine and shape the types of SR support services to provide at Montclair State University, and would likely be helpful for others interested in supporting these types of reviews on their respective campuses.

Louisiana Academic Library Workers And Workplace Bullying, Catherine Baird, Andrea Hebert, Justin Savage

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

Workplace bullying is a problem in many work environments and can take different forms, including spreading gossip, criticism of work, unreasonable workloads, and being excluded. It can cause physical, psychological, and emotional stress, manifesting as depression, anxiety, self-esteem issues, exhaustion, feelings of rage/despair, and in some cases, post-traumatic stress disorder or suicide. Little is known, however, about the prevalence of bullying amongst library workers in academic libraries. This comprehensive state-wide study provides a replicable model to explore workplace bullying in a systematic manner amongst all academic library workers, not just librarians.

I Don’T Have The Time Or Really Understand What This Is!Examining Our Faculty's Motivation To Use (Or Not) The Montclair State University's Institutional Repository, Darren Sweeper, Karen Ramsden

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

This poster aims to examine how we can encourage faculty to deposit their scholarly works into our institutional repository (IR). After devoting considerable energy on the development, implementation, and populating of content, the time had come to refocus our efforts to address the lack of faculty participation. Our research compelled us to rethink how we engage with faculty to identify barriersthat may limit their participation and awareness of the IR. In this study we conducted semi-structured interviews with faculty to explore how to best address the issues that define their engagement, and use of the institutional repository. After data

Information Literacy In A Post-Truth Era, Catherine Baird, Jonathan Howell

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

The founders of American democracy believed it could not survive without an “informed citizenry”. What does an informed citizenry look like in today’s world? And what role do we have as educators and students to support it?

First, we look at the significant challenges to institutional and media legitimacy that emerged in the second half of the 20th century, which rightfully called attention to the ways longstanding Western knowledge practices excluded marginalized communities and silenced important histories. We ask about the status of norms and mores in the aftermath of this challenge, in an era often called “post-truth.”

Second, we …

Faculty Perceptions Of Students' Il Learning In First-Year Writing, Catherine Baird, Tiffany Soares

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

The study investigates the perceptions of first-year writing faculty of how their students develop information literacy (IL). The authors conducted 16 semi-structured interviews and analyzed them using a qualitative inductive coding method. The study contributes a close and nuanced understanding of faculty perceptions of IL learning to a literature with few recent qualitative studies. Faculty identify what they see as enablers and barriers to student learning. The authors conclude that the empathetic, process-oriented characterization of IL learning by these faculty invites further examination using multiple methodologies and elevation of faculty's voice in the discourse around IL.

Establishing And Promoting An Institutional Repository And Research Information Management System, Darren Sweeper, Karen Ramsden

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

The purpose of this paper is to share the experiences and to highlight lessons learned from the establishment of the institutional repository (IR) while collaborating in a state-wide initiative to showcase the scholarly output of New Jersey researchers.

A Tale Of Two Research Platforms: Partnering And Promoting A Statewide Database While Managing An Institutional Repository!, Darren Sweeper, Karen Ramsden

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

The purpose of this poster is to share our experiences and to highlight lessons learned from the establishing of our institutional repository while collaborating in a statewide initiative to showcase the scholarly output of Montclair State community along with New Jersey researchers. We will discuss how we collaborated with multiple stakeholders from across the campus to establish an open, discoverable, and sustainable resource, to support the University's vision plan and to connect users to our research in the digital age. Through the implementation of new technology, we preserve the history of our University and provide access to the intellectual capital …

Natural Selection And The Workshop, Siobhan K. Mccarthy

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

In Fall of 2017, the Sprague Library began offering workshops for citation management software in response to the increasing number of 1-on-1 appointment requests. While workshops covering various topics had been offered in the past, attendance had been low. Casting this precedent into the wind, we offered additional workshops (using anecdotal evidence from library instruction classes, research appointments, and conversations with faculty to guide the topics), and targeted graduate students and faculty as our audience. Instead of using attendance as a way to measure success, we focus on participant feedback, follow up appointments, and word-of-mouth to advertise the guide topics …

Making Use Of Open Access And Open Education Resources, Siobhan K. Mccarthy

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

As the costs incurred by students for tuition and materials continue to rise, as educators we have a responsibility to ensure that resources used in classwork are accessible to all without causing financial burden. In this session we will cover Open Access and Open Education Resources that can be used in both teaching and research, including Open Access journals, Open Education Textbooks, and institutional repositories such as Montclair State's own Digital Commons, and how these tools can decrease costs for your students.

Exploring Faculty Perceptions Of Student Information Literacy Learning: A Qualitative Study., Catherine Baird

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

This study investigates faculty members in a university writing department and their perceptions of how students learn information literacy (IL) skills. Based on a qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews with faculty, the results fill a gap in the literature where only a few recent qualitative studies exist.

Marketing And Outreach Program Showcase, Gary Marks, Hilary Westgate, Denise I. O'Shea, Kim Reamer, Tara Maharjan, Allison Piazza, Kate Hossain

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

As marketing and outreach increasingly become core values for librarians, we are always looking for fresh ideas on how to best reach our users. Come and hear from a varied panel of academic librarians about ways to market your resources, services, and events/programs. Each panelist will be discussing a specific marketing or outreach program that their library has initiated recently. We hope to showcase the great work that NJ academic libraries are doing and inspire you to try something new at your library!

Government Information Essentials. (2018), Darren Sweeper

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

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Submitting Data To The Institutional Repository, Denise I. O'Shea

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

Article that describes the submission process for scholarly data within the Montclair State University Institutional Repository.

Contributing Material To The Montclair State University Institutional Repository, Denise O'Shea

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

Detailed instructions for contributing material to the Montclair State University Institutional Repository.

Building Your Selected Works Profile, Denise O'Shea

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

Instructions for building your Selected Works profile and associating that profile with Montclair State University.

What’S Mine Is Yourls, Kimberly R. Abrams, Junior Tidal

The Emerging Learning Design Journal

Hyperlink management is critical to website functionality because a site with dead links is not fully operable for the end user. In libraries, links used for marketing, course materials, electronic resources, social media, and other uses are laborious to maintain. Often, these links are long, unreadable, and unmemorable. In order to streamline link maintenance, improve link usability, and promote resources, an open source, short link manager called Your Own URL Shortener (YOURLS), was implemented at an academic library. This primer describes this process. Not only does YOURLS shorten links, it also acts as a database link manager. Long URLs are …

Who Gets To Graduate? How College Administrators Can Use Census Data In The Recruitment Of Students, Darren L. Sweeper

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

The purpose of this poster is to demonstrate the ways that current and historical data from the Educational Attainment in the United States: 2015 report may be used to project trends in demographics and social characteristics of adults to focus recruitment efforts on students who are more likely to graduate.

Course Reserves Best Practices Roundtable, Denise I. O'Shea, Jami Powell, Laina Ridenour, Nathan Schwartz

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

Panel discussion at semi-annual WMS Global Community + User Group Meeting 2017, in Dublin, Ohio. Panelists discussed best practices for working with OCLC's Course Reserves module and for migrating Course Reserves from WorldCat Local to WorldCat Discovery.

Developing Digital Scholarship: Emerging Practices In Academic Libraries, Darren Sweeper

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

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Infographics: A Practical Guide For Librarians, Darren Sweeper

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

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Exploring Authority In Linguistics Research: Who To Trust When Everyone’S A Language Expert, Catherine Baird, Jonathan Howell

All Book Chapters by Montclair State University Authors

Many instruction librarians use the CRAAP test or a similar pneumonic tool as a regular activity in information literacy instruction classes. This involves having the students in the class select one or more sources and instructing them to answer a series of questions about these sources, as prompted by a simple checklist. Is the selected source Current, Relevant, Authoritative, Accurate and What is its Purpose? The goal is to help the students ascertain whether or not they should select this source and use it for an assignment. On occasion, a student will raise a hand and ask a simple question: …

Teaching Google Scholar: A Practical Guide For Librarians, Siobhan K. Mccarthy

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

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Databrarianship: The Academic Data Librarian In Theory And Practice, Darren Sweeper

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

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Data Visualizations And Infographics, Darren Sweeper

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

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Copyright And Open Access Resources For Faculty, Mary Mallery, Siobhan K. Mccarthy

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

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Putting Assessment Into Action: Selected Projects From The First Cohort Of The Assessment In Action Grant, Darren Sweeper

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

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Data Information Literacy: Librarians, Data, And The Education Of A New Generation Of Researchers, Darren Sweeper

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

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Copyright Resources For Images, Mary Mallery, Siobhan K. Mccarthy

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

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Copyright Resources For Faculty, Mary Mallery, Siobhan Mccarthy

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

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Visual Literacy For Libraries: A Practical, Standards- Based Guide, Siobhan K. Mccarthy

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

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