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Departing The Desk: Reference, Change And The Art Of Letting Go, Christopher Sweet, Sue Stroyan, Stephanie Davis-Kahl
Departing The Desk: Reference, Change And The Art Of Letting Go, Christopher Sweet, Sue Stroyan, Stephanie Davis-Kahl
Scholarly Publications
What happens when librarians decide to radically change their reference service model? Our presentation will discuss the impact of the new model on librarians’ time and workload, student assistant perspectives on their new roles, and the student training program developed to support student assistants at the desk.
Is There Value In Value-Added Cataloging?, Lauren Marshall, Mina Chercourt
Is There Value In Value-Added Cataloging?, Lauren Marshall, Mina Chercourt
Grasselli Library
We discuss a project they conducted to identify whether adding table of contents and analytics to certain materials in the collection would increase circulation. They selected monographic series in the Q classification that were titled separately and five or six large series in the Ps for analyzing. The work resulted in significant increases in circulation of the materials ( anywhere from 59% to 186%). The work was labor intensive, but the increased use of the materials made it certainly worthwhile.
Beyond The Basics: How Can Librarians Teach What We Truly Care About?, Christopher Sweet
Beyond The Basics: How Can Librarians Teach What We Truly Care About?, Christopher Sweet
Scholarly Publications
Most research instruction sessions do very little in the way of inspiring creativity among students. The great majority of these sessions engage students only at the lower levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (Remembering and Understanding). This often occurs by necessity- someone has to teach students research basics before they can ever hope to use research as part of a creative process. At the same time, we didn’t become librarians because we were passionate about Boolean operators! How can librarians move beyond the basics and begin to teach big-picture information literacy concepts such as intellectual freedom, critical thinking, and ethical use of …
Incorporating Millennium Catalog Records Into Serials Solutions’ Summon, Jeffrey D. Daniels, Patrick J. Roth
Incorporating Millennium Catalog Records Into Serials Solutions’ Summon, Jeffrey D. Daniels, Patrick J. Roth
Presentations
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Understanding Teacher Users Of A Digital Library Service: A Clustering Approach, Beijie Xu, Mimi Recker
Understanding Teacher Users Of A Digital Library Service: A Clustering Approach, Beijie Xu, Mimi Recker
Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications
This article describes the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) process and its application in the field of educational data mining (EDM) in the context of a digital library service called the Instructional Architect (IA.usu.edu). In particular, the study reported in this article investigated a certain type of data mining problem, clustering, and used a statistical model, latent class analysis, to group the IA teacher users according to their diverse online behaviors. The use of LCA successfully helped us identify different types of users, ranging from window shoppers, lukewarm users to the most dedicated users, and distinguish the isolated users …
The Uva Bay Game:Complex Systems, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, And Institutional Renewal, J. Plank, David F. Feldon, W. Sherman, J. Elliott
The Uva Bay Game:Complex Systems, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, And Institutional Renewal, J. Plank, David F. Feldon, W. Sherman, J. Elliott
Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications
Research-intensive universities enjoy—or suffer—a paradoxical reputation: They are thought to be dedicated to both cutting-edge research and to the preservation of the canon. They are seen as broad and diverse communities of scholars with a vibrant collective intellectual life, yet also as silos of disciplinary entrenchment. Most significantly, they are thought of as places where the complex problems of our society are studied intensely but from which solutions are rarely forthcoming.