Library and Information Science Commons^™

December 2011 - Digital Minute Issue 14, Brad Matthies

Digital Minute

This issue promotes the 2011 Annual Report.

Digital Commons Annual Report, Brad Matthies

Digital Collections Reports

The Digital Commons Annual Report is a document that interested parties may use as a means of monitoring the yearly progress of the Butler University Libraries’ institutional repository.

October 2011 - Digital Minute Issue 13, Brad Matthies

Digital Minute

This issue introduces Modern Languages, Literatures & Culture and also highlights IR educational resources.

September 2011 - Digital Minute Issue 12, Brad Matthies

Digital Minute

This issue discusses SelectedWorks photos and unique repository content.

August 2011 - Digital Minute Issue 11, Brad Matthies

Digital Minute

This issue introduces the College of Communication and LinkedIN.

National Library Legislative Day 2011, Julie Miller, Rand Simmons

Scholarship and Professional Work

Here's a reference question for you: What do the names Cannon, Dirksen, Hart, Longworth, Russell, and Rayburn have in common? If you answered "names of the Congressional office buildings in Washington, DC," you get a gold star! We got to know these names well when we attended the National Library Legislative Day 2011 on May 9-10 as the WLA delegates representing Washington libraries.

April 2011 - Digital Minute Issue 10, Brad Matthies

Digital Minute

This issue explains content selection.

Winning Strategies From Ir All-Stars, Lewis Miller

Scholarship and Professional Work

Your faculty and students have been producing scholarly work for many years. Is it locked away in print format, getting very little use? Are you thinking about creating an Institutional Repository (IR) at your college or university to digitize these valuable resources and make them more widely accessible? If so, Butler University and bepress invite you to learn from game-winning IR specialists. This event will feature successful strategies for content acquisition and growth, distributing scholarship globally, and using metrics to take stock of your progress. Dave Stout (bepress Sales Director) will kick off the event with a brief introduction to …

March 2011 - Digital Minute Issue 9, Brad Matthies

Digital Minute

This issue showcases how to leverage open access to promote your presentations.

Staffing The Repository: How To Build Your Team And Use It Effectively, Brad Matthies

Presentations

Brad Matthies, Access Services Librarian and Project Manager for Digital Commons at Butler University, discusses the development of DigitalCommons@Butler, offering valuable suggestions for managing a repository with limited staff and resources.

Among the topics covered in the webinar: using the staff you have available to best advantage; developing successful, scalable workflows; and maintaining momentum over time.

Over the last two and a half years, and with no more than half an FTE dedicated at any one time, Brad and his team have brought Digital Commons@Butler from several hundred objects to over 2,000 objects. Just in the past year, it has …

February 2011 - Digital Minute Issue 8, Brad Matthies

Digital Minute

This issue highlights the value of having your work in open access publications.

The Library Student Liaison Program At Eastern Washington University: A Model For Student Engagement, Julie Miller

Scholarship and Professional Work

Teach students to love the library.

-John N. Gardner, Executive Director of the Policy Center on the First Year of College, told to academic librarians at the 2003 Association of College and Research Libraries conference.

The unspoken conclusion in Gardner's challenge to academic librarians to "teach students to love the library" is or become irrelevant. Recent research shows the importance of student engagement, particularly in the first year of college, to student success and retention in higher education.

Course-Integrated Information Literacy Instruction In Introduction To Accounting, Anne Kelly, Teresa Williams, Brad Matthies, J. B. Orris

Scholarship and Professional Work

Two groups of students, enrolled in Introduction to Accounting, volunteered to participate in a pedagogical study to assess course-integrated information literacy instruction. Only one group had received information literacy instruction in an earlier business course. Academic librarians provided three instruction sessions, and students completed a semester-long case to evaluate a company as a potential investment. The results suggest that information literacy skills can be learned for application in subsequent coursework. This research also provides some evidence of significantly greater improvement in information literacy and significantly higher perceptions of course-integrated instruction benefits by students who had not received the previous instruction.

The Development Of An Online Plagiarism Tutorial, Kenetha J. Stanton, Sally Neal

Scholarship and Professional Work

Case Study of a pilot online plagiarism tutorial at Butler University.