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How Do You Like Your Books: Print Or Digital? An Analysis On Print And E-Book Usage At The Graduate School Of Education, Dana Haugh Nov 2016

How Do You Like Your Books: Print Or Digital? An Analysis On Print And E-Book Usage At The Graduate School Of Education, Dana Haugh

Library Faculty Publications

The shift from physical materials to digital holdings has slowly infiltrated libraries across the globe, and librarians are struggling to make sense of these intangible, and sometimes fleeting, resources. Materials budgets have shifted to accommodate large journal and database subscriptions, single-title article access, and most recently, e-book holdings. This analysis measures the impact of digital acquisitions in an academic setting during a highly transformative period of library practices. The study finds that both electronic and print books are valuable to the academic research community at GSE.


Harnessing Yik Yak For Good: A Study Of Students’ Anonymous Library Feedback, Mark Robison, Ruth Connell Nov 2016

Harnessing Yik Yak For Good: A Study Of Students’ Anonymous Library Feedback, Mark Robison, Ruth Connell

Library Faculty Publications

This study explores academic libraries’ potential uses of the mobile application Yik Yak, with particular focus on patrons’ anonymous feedback about library services and spaces. Over a 232-day period, the authors observed the Yik Yak feed for their university and recorded all yaks related to the library. A content analysis of the 249 library-related yaks found six distinct purposes that these library-related yaks served, from the perspective of the patron, that are of interest to the library: asking questions about library services; reporting problems with library spaces; reprimanding violations of and encouraging adherence to library policies; sharing compliments about library …


Lightening Up The Library: A Case For Humor, Silliness And General Jackassery In Library Outreach, Rachael Muszkiewicz Nov 2016

Lightening Up The Library: A Case For Humor, Silliness And General Jackassery In Library Outreach, Rachael Muszkiewicz

Library Faculty Publications

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Book Review: Critical Information Literacy: Foundations, Inspiration, And Ideas., Cindy Gruwell Nov 2016

Book Review: Critical Information Literacy: Foundations, Inspiration, And Ideas., Cindy Gruwell

Library Faculty Publications

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Motivated Reasoning, Political Information, And Information Literacy Education, Mark N. Lenker Jul 2016

Motivated Reasoning, Political Information, And Information Literacy Education, Mark N. Lenker

Library Faculty Publications

Research in psychology and political science has identified motivated reasoning as a set of biases that inhibit one’s ability to process political information objectively. This research has important implications for the information literacy movement’s aims of fostering lifelong learning and informed citizenship. This essay argues that information literacy education should broaden its scope to include more than just knowledge of information and its sources; it should also include knowledge of how people interact with information, particularly the ways that motivated reasoning can influence citizens’ interactions with political information.


The Perfect Storm: Examining User Experience And Conducting A Usability Test To Investigate A Disruptive Academic Library Web Site Redevelopment, Darren Chase, Elizabeth Trapasso, Robert Tolliver Feb 2016

The Perfect Storm: Examining User Experience And Conducting A Usability Test To Investigate A Disruptive Academic Library Web Site Redevelopment, Darren Chase, Elizabeth Trapasso, Robert Tolliver

Library Faculty Publications

The researchers conducted a task-based usability test of the effectiveness of online research beginning on the library Web site homepage. The participants included five university faculty members, six graduate students, and six undergraduate students. All participants reported feeling satisfied with their overall research experience, though most were unable to effectively complete all the research tasks of the test. The researchers identified weaknesses in the approach and process of many participants, and overall usability issues of the library discovery tool and other library Web site pages and research interfaces. Findings indicate the need to strategically incorporate self-service information literacy and research …


Exploring Collaborative Stewardship Of Government Information In The Southeast: The Aserl Collaborative Federal Depository Program, Heath Martin, Cheryle Cole-Bennett, Sandra Mcaninch Jan 2016

Exploring Collaborative Stewardship Of Government Information In The Southeast: The Aserl Collaborative Federal Depository Program, Heath Martin, Cheryle Cole-Bennett, Sandra Mcaninch

Library Faculty Publications

There has long been great interest in the “collaborative stewardship” of federal government information among library deans and directors and documents librarians in the southeastern United States, who seek a new vision for managing federal depository collections that focuses on local needs and interests while also supporting these collections as a regional asset. In 2006 the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) took steps toward realizing a collaborative model of stewardship by establishing its first program to explore options for cooperative services and collection management of tangible federal government publications. This initiative was fueled both by concerns about diminished public …


Using Single-Case Research Design To Assess Course-Embedded Research Consultations, John Watts Jan 2016

Using Single-Case Research Design To Assess Course-Embedded Research Consultations, John Watts

Library Faculty Publications

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Timeline Of “Illegal Aliens” Subject Heading Change Petition, Jill Baron, Tina Gross, Óscar Rubén Cornejo Cásares Jan 2016

Timeline Of “Illegal Aliens” Subject Heading Change Petition, Jill Baron, Tina Gross, Óscar Rubén Cornejo Cásares

Library Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.