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Qr Codes And Library Engagement, Michael J. Whitchurch

Faculty Publications

This article will contain a small sampling of current QR code implementations as well as a summary of what has been used to encourage student engagement with the library through the use of QR codes at the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University.

A Review Of Arguments Regarding Faculty Status And Tenure For Librarians, Sara Smith

Student Works

The issue of whether or not academic librarians should be awarded faculty status with the same status and similar responsibilities given to teaching professors has been debated for more than thirty years among librarians, professors, and administrators alike, and it is still a relevant topic. The popularity and continued relevance of this issue is evident in the number of articles written on this issue—from the 1970s to 2009, more than 100 articles have been published in academic journals exploring, arguing against, or defending the faculty status of the librarians. The majority of the articles published about the faculty status by …

Register Of The Camp Floyd Field School Records, J. Michael Hunter

Faculty Publications

The Brigham Young University Field School of Archaeology excavated part of Camp Floyd during the 1980s. College credit was offered to both university and high school students for participating in the field work. This Register contains an inventory of 4 boxes of materials from 1982 to 1992, including field school correspondence, field notes, laboratory notes, historical research notes, photos, copy orders, flyers, student information, budgets, artifact records, newspapers articles, journal articles, historical records such as enlistments, deaths, and supply inventories. The materials inventoried are housed in the Camp Floyd State Park Museum at Camp Floyd Stagecoach Inn State Park, 18035 …

Shopping Carts And Student Employees: How Student Committees Can Bring Innovative Ideas To Academic Libraries, Quinn Galbraith, Sara D. Smith

Faculty Publications

In 1999, ABC’s Nightline asked IDEO, a well-known innovation and design consultancy, to redesign the shopping cart in five days. While the challenge of re-imagining a cultural icon “inexplicably stuck in a sort of an innovation limbo”1 drew enough interest, even more compelling was the process the IDEO team used to research, brainstorm, and design the new model. The IDEO team threw out middle-management hierarchies based on experience or seniority—the project leader, who had only worked with IDEO for six years, was chosen for his skill in leading groups. The team members came from many disciplines, including psychology, architecture, linguistics, …

Analysis Of Educational Technology, Research And Design, 2001-2010, Holt Zaugg, Mayavel Amado, Tyler Randall Small, Richard E. West

Faculty Publications

This article examines 10 years (2001-2010) of journal articles from Educational Technology, Research, and Design (ETRD) to determine trends in article topics, key contributing authors, citation patterns and methodological trends. Our analysis identified several unique characteristics of this journal over the past decade including a balance between theory, research, and design, as well as a commitment to international perspectives.

Interlibrary Loan Purchase-On-Demand: A Misleading Literature, Gerrit Van Dyk

Faculty Publications

Many libraries are engaging in interlibrary loan purchase-on-demand without fully acknowledging all of the costs of adding such titles to their collections. This study compares the costs of monograph interlibrary loans and the costs of monograph accession, including staffing overhead costs for both. In order to be truly cost-effective, interlibrary loan purchase-on-demand titles must have a minimum projected circulation, depending on the base price to purchase the item. A review of current patron-driven acquisitions models associated with interlibrary loan purchase-on-demand is included.

Building Digital Collections Through Partnerships: Byu's Harold B. Lee Library And Internet Archive, Elizabeth Smart

Faculty Publications

Since June 2009, BYU’s Harold B. Lee Library (HBLL) has worked in partnership with the Internet Archive (IA) to scan library holdings for public access in the Internet Archive’s digital library (www.archive.org). While many libraries send microfilm, monographs and serials to IA Scanning Centers for digital imaging on Scribe scanning stations, HBLL is one of very few academic libraries working with the Internet Archive in a “no-cash model” partnership. This partnership is based on an exchange of goods and services.

The Internet Archive provides: Scribe scanning stations (one in June 2009; two additional in January 2011), relevant software, post-scan processing. …

Louisa May Alcott In Her Own Time: An Introduction Through Her Printed Works, Maggie Kopp

Faculty Publications

Text and slides of presentation given at Orem Public Library, 19 April 2011.

The Entrepreneur's Reference Guide To Small Business Information, Leticia Camacho

Faculty Publications

Compiled by Robert M. Jackson, business reference specialist at the Library of Congress, this guide includes several areas of entrepreneurship: "Getting Started," "Raising Capital," "Managing Your Business," "Human Resources," "Markering: Research, Srraregy, and Advertising," "Doing Business with Government," and "International Opportunities." The author includes valuable information about the research process and how to gather data and keep current.

Qr Codes And The Library: The Library Audio Tour, Michael J. Whitchurch

Faculty Publications

How do new college students learn about the library? What information do librarians provide to help connect them with the library, its resources and its importance to their academic success? How can we encourage student engagement with the library and all the information available to them, both print and online? All of these are questions to which college and university libraries struggle to find answers. Finding answers to these questions will increase usage of library space and resources, as well and improve the research abilities of the students. One method is through an introduction to or tour of the library. …

Mendeley: Creating Communities Of Scholarly Inquiry Through Research Collaboration, Holt Zaugg, Isaku Tateishi, Daniel L. Randall, Richard E. West

Faculty Publications

Mendeley is a free, web-based tool for organizing research citations and annotating their accompanying PDF articles. Adapting Web 2.0 principles for academic scholarship, Mendeley integrates the management of the research articles with features for collaborating with researchers locally and worldwide. In this article the features of Mendeley are discussed and critiqued in comparison to other, similar tools. These features include citation management, online synchronization and collaboration, PDF management and annotation, and integration with word processing software. The article concludes with a discussion of how a social networking tool such as Mendeley might impact the academic scholarship process.

You Can Lead Them To Water, But You Can’T Make Them Drink: Using Crowd Sourcing To Lead Library Patrons To Extended Library Services Relevant To Their Search Criteria, William B. Lund, Chad Hansen

Faculty Publications

The Lee Library at Brigham Young University has extensive resources in the forms of highly skilled subject librarians, print resources and digital collections, but getting the students to be aware of and use them effectively is a problem. To help inform library patrons of these resources librarian subject specialists have created over 150 subject guides using LibGuides for subject areas, classes, and some subspecialties, which was an enormous task; but are these resources being used effectively? This paper explores and reports on a subject guide recommender system, which recommends relevant subject guides based on patron searches, using a crowd sourced …

Entrepreneurship.Gov, Leticia Camacho

Faculty Publications

Below these tabs, the page is divided into three columns. The right column includes Events and Entrepreneurship Law. The left column, titled Quick Access, contains links to resources on subjects such as finance, accounting, employment, sales, marketing, products and services, and operations. This column includes a section called The Entrepreneur, where experienced business owners share tips, tactics, and stories about entrepreneurship.

Transitioning To E-Books: Usage And Attitudes Among Business Faculty, Leticia Camacho, Andy Spackman

Faculty Publications

The authors discuss declining usage of print collections in business disciplines and describe a survey of business faculty conducted in fall 2009. Results indicate a preference for print books but a willingness to substitute e-books. Using these results, this article outlines reasons for faculty preferences and implications for future collection development.