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Number 7 Fall 2007, Special Collections Research Center Oct 2007

Number 7 Fall 2007, Special Collections Research Center

Newsletters from The Special Collection Research Center - The Courant

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Fall 2007, School Of Information Studies Oct 2007

Fall 2007, School Of Information Studies

iSchool Newsletter

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Planning For And Managing Digital Projects, Peter D. Verheyen Sep 2007

Planning For And Managing Digital Projects, Peter D. Verheyen

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

Part of the "Ready, Set, Digitize" workshop series hosted by CLRC and SCLRC. Cortland, NY, September 10, 2007. The full-day workshop described types of digitization projects and discussed infrastructure, funding, standards for file formats and metadata, and the impact on public services /reference.

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Member Profiles: Karen Hanmer And Peter Verheyen, Peter D. Verheyen, Karen H. Hanmer Aug 2007

Member Profiles: Karen Hanmer And Peter Verheyen, Peter D. Verheyen, Karen H. Hanmer

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

This is the second in a continuing series of interviews of Guild members. Current and former Exhibitions Chairs Karen Hanmer and Peter Verheyen met at Standards in Chicago in 1999. She never dreamed his subliminal messages would entice her from making “freaky-foldies” to become a binder. He never suspected she would attempt to seduce him to the other side with odd examples of vaguely book-like ephemera. They share an appreciation of fine craft, spare design, and excessively robust (read Teutonic) endsheets.

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Number 6 Spring 2007, Special Collections Research Center Apr 2007

Number 6 Spring 2007, Special Collections Research Center

Newsletters from The Special Collection Research Center - The Courant

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Planning, Building, And Assessing An Online Information Literacy Tutorial: The Lobo Experience, Megan Oakleaf Jan 2007

Planning, Building, And Assessing An Online Information Literacy Tutorial: The Lobo Experience, Megan Oakleaf

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

Each fall, first-year students arrive at colleges across the country with widely varying abilities to complete library research assignments. Some students enter higher education as veterans of the information seeking process, armed with strong school library media preparation and ready to conquer any research assignment. Far more first-year students are over-reliant on Internet resources, confused about distinctions between scholarly and popular sources, daunted by scores of article databases, and mystified by the LC classification system. Academic librarians face the challenge of establishing baseline information literacy skills in all students, often with limited time and resources. One way to confront this …

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2007 Feedback, Rochester Institute Of Technology Jan 2007

2007 Feedback, Rochester Institute Of Technology

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

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Using Rubrics To Collect Evidence For Decision‐Making: What Do Librarians Need To Learn?, Megan Oakleaf Jan 2007

Using Rubrics To Collect Evidence For Decision‐Making: What Do Librarians Need To Learn?, Megan Oakleaf

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

Objective ‐ Every day librarians make decisions that impact on the provision of library products and services. To formulate good decisions librarians must be equipped with reliable and valid data. Unfortunately, many library processes generate vast quantities of unwieldy information that is ill suited for the evidence based decision‐making (EBDM) practices librarians strive to employ. Librarians require tools to facilitate the translation of unmanageable facts and figures into data that can be used to support decision‐making. One such tool is a rubric. Rubrics provide benefits to librarians seeking to use EBDM strategies. This study examined librarians’ abilities to use rubrics …

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Understanding Virtuality: Contributions From Goffman’S "Frame Analysis", Joann Brooks Jan 2007

Understanding Virtuality: Contributions From Goffman’S "Frame Analysis", Joann Brooks

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

Virtual interactions are normally assumed to be separate and distinct from the “real world,” yet they are also situated within material reality. In this paper I propose that a situated approach to understanding virtuality can be developed through drawing from Goffman’s Frame Analysis (1974/1986). I explain how Goffman’s terminology and concepts afford a way of integrating the study of virtual interaction with the study of social interaction more generally. His frame analysis approach offers constructs useful for distinguishing virtual worlds from each other and from real worlds in a way that is consonant with perspectives on human-computer interaction. His language …

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Lib 103 The Ub Libraries: What Transfer Students Need To Know, Fred Stoss Jan 2007