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How Will You Share Your Work? Creative Commons Bookmarks And Activity Packet, Anna Michelle Martinez-Montavon, Nicole J. Bungert

UWM Libraries Instructional Materials

These bookmarks and activity packet were created to teach university students about the Creative Commons during the UWM Libraries' celebration of Open Access Week 2015, October 19-25. The bookmarks provide a quick guide to the Creative Commons licenses and can be printed on colored paper. The activity packet is a Halloween-themed paper doll coloring set that includes public domain and CC-BY materials, as well as a full range of Creative Commons licenses. Through coloring, mixing and matching, and other modifications, students can explore the possibilities of open content, engage in remix culture, and practice attributing the work of others.

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Orland Park Library Porn Update, Megan Fox

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

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More Donuts Buying, Megan Fox

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

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Case Study Analysis: Oppl ʺHeartsʺ Show Public Does Not Want Porn Or Sex In Library, Megan Fox

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

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Orland Park Public Library Had A $10,000, Megan Fox

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

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Search@Uw (Primo-Alma) Usability Testing Materials, John Hubbard

UWM Libraries Other Staff Publications

These are the scripts used for usability testing a library discovery layer (Primo-Alma) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In usability testing, participants are recruited to perform a set of common research tasks. By observing how these tasks are completed (or in some cases fail to be completed), you can learn what works and what does not with your website's structure, terminology, and design elements; along with patron feedback and internal requests, usability testing provides an additional mechanism for identifying areas needing improvement.

Orland Park Library To Pay Out $55k To Settle Lawsuits Over Library Porn, Lauren Traut

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

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Orland Park Library To Pay $55k To Settle Lawsuits Related To Internet Porn, Lauren Zumbach

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

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Orland Park Public Library Still Covering Up Child Porn, Dan Kleinman

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

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Letters To The Editor March 5, 2015, Kathleen Andrews, Kevin Dujan

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

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The Symbiotic Relationship Between Information Retrieval And Informetrics, Dietmar Wolfram

School of Information Studies Faculty Articles

Informetrics and information retrieval (IR) represent fundamental areas of study within information science. Historically, researchers have not fully capitalized on the potential research synergies that exist between these two areas. Data sources used in traditional informetrics studies have their analogues in IR, with similar types of empirical regularities found in IR system content and use. Methods for data collection and analysis used in informetrics can help to inform IR system development and evaluation. Areas of application have included automatic indexing, index term weighting and understanding user query and session patterns through the quantitative analysis of user transaction logs. Similarly, developments …

Letters To The Editor Feb 26, 2015, Kate Rimkunas

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

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Letters To The Editor Feb. 18, 2015, Maria Kalantizis, Diane Jennings

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

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Letters To The Editor Feb. 5, 2015, Joshua Rogers

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

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Closer Look: Barcelona, Eric Skalac

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

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Letters To The Editor Jan. 22, 2015, Nanc Junker, Colleen Kisel, Megan Fox

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

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A Closer Look At The Changing Oppl Board, Eric Skalac

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

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Letters To The Editor Jan. 15, 2015, Jean Morrow

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

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Letters To The Editor Jan. 8, Kevin Dujan, Roger Sanzenbacher

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

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Former Health & Human Services Employee, Megan Fox

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

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Culture And Classification: An Introduction To Thinking About Ethical Issues Of Adopting Global Classification Standards To Local Environments, Wan-Chen Lee

School of Information Studies Faculty Articles

Ethical issues arise from adapting standardized classification schemes to local environments. Research affirms mutual influences between culture and classification schemes, however, there are various conceptions of culture. Before diving deeper into discussions on designing a culturally sensitive model of classification and providing ethical information services, it is critical to clarify how culture is defined in the literature. In order to gain a deeper understanding of how scholars view the concept of culture, we review, compare, and aggregate discussions on culture from two bodies of literature: knowledge organization and anthropology. Based on the review, we then propose a working definition of …

Access To Infrastructure, Nadine I. Kozak

School of Information Studies Faculty Articles

Access to infrastructure is a perennial issue in the field of communication, which started in the era of postal services and continues to the present era of broadband networks. As infrastructures, or large-scale systems, information and communication technologies (ICTs) are central to citizens’ political, economic, and social lives. Historically and today, a variety of factors such as political and regulatory decisions impact access to infrastructure. Current concerns about equitable access include the network neutrality.

"If You Build It, They Will Come" : Lusk, Wyoming, And The Information Highway Imaginaire, 1989-1999, Nadine I. Kozak

School of Information Studies Faculty Articles

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How Library And Information Science Faculty Perceive And Engage With Open Access, Wilhelm Peekhaus, Nicholas Proferes

School of Information Studies Faculty Articles

This paper presents the inferential analysis of a systematic survey of North American Library and Information Science (LIS) faculty awareness of, attitudes toward, and experience with open-access scholarly publishing. The study reveals that engagement with open access is related to faculty rank and perceptions about tenure and promotion committee assessments of open-access publications. The perceived constraints of the tenure and promotion system within the academy impact LIS faculty engagement with open-access publishing in ways found in other academic disciplines. However, those who themselves engage with open access tend to assess publications in such venues more favourably than those without such …

Do You Have An Institutional Data Policy? A Review Of The Current Landscape Of Library Data Services And Institutional Data Policies, Kristin Briney, Abigail Goben, Lisa Zilinski

UWM Libraries Other Staff Publications

INTRODUCTION Many research institutions have developed research data services in their libraries, often in anticipation of or in response to funder policy. However, policies at the institution level are either not well known or nonexistent. METHODS This study reviewed library data services efforts and institutional data policies of 206 American universities, drawn from the July 2014 Carnegie list of universities with “Very High” or “High” research activity designation. Twenty-four different characteristics relating to university type, library data services, policy type, and policy contents were examined. RESULTS The study has uncovered findings surrounding library data services, institutional data policies, and content …