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Making Decisions: Using Electronic Data Collection To Re-Envision Reference Services At The Usf Tampa Libraries, Lily Todorinova, Andy Huse, Barbara Lewis, Matt Torrence
Making Decisions: Using Electronic Data Collection To Re-Envision Reference Services At The Usf Tampa Libraries, Lily Todorinova, Andy Huse, Barbara Lewis, Matt Torrence
Barbara Lewis
Declining reference statistics, diminishing human resources, and the desire to be more proactive and embedded in academic departments, prompted the University of South Florida Library to create a taskforce for re-envisioning reference services. The taskforce was charged with examining the staffing patterns at the desk and developing recommendations to give librarians greater flexibility and to better respond to the information-seeking needs of users. These recommendations were based on statistics of desk usage, collected with the newly adapted online tool Desk Tracker, and structured interviews with library administrators. The taskforce was interested in how these stakeholders use quantitative data in decision-making.
Special Collections And The New Web: Using Libguides To Provide Meaningful Access, Barbara Lewis, Melanie Griffin
Special Collections And The New Web: Using Libguides To Provide Meaningful Access, Barbara Lewis, Melanie Griffin
Barbara Lewis
Librarians have long struggled to find user-friendly mediums to provide meaningful information to patrons; using bibliographies, pathfinders, and subject guides with varying degrees of success. Content management systems, such as Springshare’s LibGuides, have recently been developed to facilitate the creation of online subject guides. Special Collections units also struggle with this issue. This article examines how special collections are presented on the Web, the use of LibGuides for special collections, and how the use of LibGuides is facilitating the goal to provide information in a meaningful way by Special & Digital Collections at the University of South Florida Tampa Library.
Connecting To Marginalized Groups Through Web 2.0, Tomaro I. Taylor
Connecting To Marginalized Groups Through Web 2.0, Tomaro I. Taylor
Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
Basic Archives Processing Manual For Student Employees And Volunteers, Tomaro I. Taylor
Basic Archives Processing Manual For Student Employees And Volunteers, Tomaro I. Taylor
Tomaro I. Taylor
A step-by-step guide for the arrangement and description of archival collections. Developed for individuals new to archival processing in a special library setting.
Connecting To Marginalized Groups Through Web 2.0, Tomaro I. Taylor
Connecting To Marginalized Groups Through Web 2.0, Tomaro I. Taylor
Tomaro I. Taylor
No abstract provided.
Basic Archives Processing Manual For Student Employees And Volunteers, Tomaro I. Taylor
Basic Archives Processing Manual For Student Employees And Volunteers, Tomaro I. Taylor
Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications
A step-by-step guide for the arrangement and description of archival collections. Developed for individuals new to archival processing in a special library setting.
Colecciones Especiales: Usf's Documentary Heritage Of Tampa's Immigrant Communities, Tomaro I. Taylor
Colecciones Especiales: Usf's Documentary Heritage Of Tampa's Immigrant Communities, Tomaro I. Taylor
Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
Colecciones Especiales: Usf's Documentary Heritage Of Tampa's Immigrant Communities, Tomaro I. Taylor
Colecciones Especiales: Usf's Documentary Heritage Of Tampa's Immigrant Communities, Tomaro I. Taylor
Tomaro I. Taylor
No abstract provided.