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Zach's News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

University Libraries News Online (2008-2023)

• New York Times Online Now Supports Mobile Apps!
• Film Series: Latino Americans: The 500 Year Legacy that Reshaped a Nation

Zach's News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

University Libraries News Online (2008-2023)

• Hot Doc: Congress.gov Improvements

Zach's News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

University Libraries News Online (2008-2023)

• Georgia Tech Library temporarily withdraws from GIL Express, effective 12/1/2015

Take It To The Eteam: Improving Era Troubleshooting Management And Communications With Libanswers, Jeffrey M. Mortimore, Debra G. Skinner

Library Faculty Presentations

This presentation was given during the Springshare SpringyCamp Virtual Conference.

Zach's News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

University Libraries News Online (2008-2023)

• Save the Date: ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods and Statistics

Zach's News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

University Libraries News Online (2008-2023)

• Citation Workshops in the Henderson Library

Zach's News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

University Libraries News Online (2008-2023)

• Westlaw update- New Interface Available Now

A Letter From Your Library Liaisons, Zach S. Henderson Library

A Letter from Your Library Liaisons (2015-2016)

Henderson Library now offering Citation Workshops

Meet Your New Liaison: Kay Coates

Did You Know? Document Delivery

A Convoluted Web: Reusing Metadata To Highlight Faculty Scholarship,, Ashley D. Lowery

Library Faculty Presentations

What would happen if the same metadata creates multiple structures that focuses on highlighting faculty scholarship? At Georgia Southern University, the library staff reuses the same metadata to produce virtual bibliographies and bookshelves, faculty profiles, altmetrics, and an expertise search. Peer-reviewed publications initially are entered into departmental bibliographies and bookshelves in our institutional repository, Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. Only publications that faculty have published while at Georgia Southern are included. These citations are collected into university-wide bibliographies and bookshelves and SelectedWorks faculty profiles. The SelectedWorks faculty profiles also include peer-reviewed publications that faculty produced outside of Georgia Southern as well as …

Letting The Data Lead The Way: Georgia Southern's Journey With Alternative Metrics, Ashley D. Lowery

Library Faculty Presentations

The landscape around alternative metrics has been evolving rapidly. Going from a twitter hashtag in 2011 to a key component in research evaluation at many institutions, metrics that move beyond citation counts and journal impact factor are here to stay. Metrics can now be harvested and applied to research around usage, captures, mentions, and social media, in addition to citations, giving a much more comprehensive and holistic view of impact. These new metrics are also much more timely than citation metrics and can keep pace with new formats much faster than the entrenched, legacy practices. However, as institutions begin to …

Zach's News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

University Libraries News Online (2008-2023)

• West Georgia Historic Newspaper Archive Is Now Available

Zach's News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

University Libraries News Online (2008-2023)

• EBSCO eBooks Mobile Apps Now Available

Zach's News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

University Libraries News Online (2008-2023)

• Star Wars Events at Henderson Library

A Letter From Your Library Liaisons, Zach S. Henderson Library

A Letter from Your Library Liaisons (2015-2016)

Open Access Week @ Henderson Library

Affordable Learning Georgia

New Books NOW Available on Demand

Zach's News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

University Libraries News Online (2008-2023)

• New Titles Added to Savannah Historic Newspaper Archive

Making A First-Year Experience Course Ipad Intensive: A Cautionary Tale, Ruth L. Baker

Library Faculty Presentations

This presentation tells the story of an experiment to make a First-Year Experience (FYE) course more engaging and enjoyable through the integration of iPads into the curriculum and the infusion of information-literacy throughout the course. Students analyzed 4 films from classic horror cinema and created cultural-historical documentaries about them. Students worked in groups of 4 or 5 on iPads using the Adobe Voice app and learned how to locate and evaluate sources, incorporate sources into their projects, and cite them properly. An exemplary documentary will be screened for the audience.

Growing Gkr: Increasing The Undergraduate Research Component, Debra G. Skinner

Library Faculty Presentations

The Georgia Knowledge Repository (GKR), an initiative of GALILEO, is a central repository that contains academic and intellectual works produced by Georgia colleges and universities. Established in 2013 and comprised of over 100,000 item records, GKR increases the importance of open access scholarly communication and joins a growing number of academic digital repositories. Colleges and universities are developing research seminars, open access journals, and other scholarly initiatives on campus. Libraries who manage their institutional repository are collaborating with campus departments to preserve the scholarly works of these initiatives. A panel will discuss how librarians and faculty are increasing their repositories …

Zach's News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

University Libraries News Online (2008-2023)

• FindIt@GeorgiaSouthern Scheduled Maintenance Downtimes
• Institute of Physics Journals Now Available

Henderson News 4.1, W. Bede Mitchell, Fred Smith, Jessica Williams, Janet Burns

Henderson Library Newsletters (2010-2019)

In This Issue:

• Welcome From the Dean
• New Faculty: Meet Jeff Mortimore
• Banned Books Week Activities
• Zach's Sustainable Seeds
• Retirement: Ann Hamilton
• Farm to Table 2015

A Fruitful Collaboration: Offering More Than Faculty Profiles, Ashley D. Lowery, Debra G. Skinner

Library Faculty Presentations

The institutional repository Digital Commons@Georgia Southern launched in Fall 2013. Faculty immediately began to utilize the services including journals/conferences sites and SelectedWorks faculty profiles. The repository also sparked an unexpected success: collaboration between the Zach S. Henderson Library and the Office of Research. The Office of Research created an Expertise Search and purchased Plum Analytics, two services that integrate with SelectedWorks profiles. The Expertise Search is a tool for users to find faculty members by expertise keywords. Plum Analytics provides faculty with traditional metrics (citations) as well as altmetrics (usage, captures, mentions, and social media). Through these tools, the Henderson …

Ebsco's Plumx And Our Institutional Repository (Ir): Integration And Impact At Georgia Southern University, Ashley D. Lowery

Library Faculty Presentations

In the summer of 2014, Georgia Southern University’s Office of Research & Economic Development acquired PlumX. At this time, the Zach S. Henderson Library staff had already created numerous SelectedWorks faculty profiles in their institutional repository, Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. In order to avoid duplicating work, the Office of Research & Economic Development tasked the presenter with integrating SelectedWorks and PlumX. In this fast learning presentation, GSU’s Ashley Lowery will talk about how the two systems integrate as well as the pros and cons of this integration. She will also discuss the outcomes of marketing PlumX alongside the IR.

Zach's News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

University Libraries News Online (2008-2023)

• Ovid User Interface Enhancements

Zach's News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

University Libraries News Online (2008-2023)

• New Books Now Available "On-Demand"

Accessibility For All: New Laws And Strategies For Diverse Learners, Melissa Whitesell, Andrea Roberson Ms.

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

The number of students with disabilities in the United States is steadily increasing. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2012, 11.3 percent of undergraduates reported some type of disability. The laws under Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act regarding electronic and information technology (EIT) dictate changes that institutions must make to ensure accessibility for these students and the public at large.

All individuals, including those with disabilities, must have the tools for a world-class education offering them opportunities for success as a student and in the workplace. Due to rapid changes in information technology, this presents challenges …

Researching My Role For Myself: Reacting To The Past And Information Literacy, Caroline Hopkinson Ms., Allison Belzer

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

In Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College (Harvard UP, 2014) Mark Carnes argues that curricula such as “Reacting to the Past” engages students in subversive play in order to succeed in instilling concepts that have proved difficult to teach by other methods: critical thinking, empathy, leadership, a realistic view of history, and ultimately a better understanding of themselves. Such experiences, we have found, also foster inquiry and strategic thinking, core concepts of ACRL’s framework for information literacy.

Participants will experience an abbreviated “game day” session from the Reacting to the Past curriculum, to illustrate how the role playing …

International Students And The Ase Research Process: A Language Acquisition Approach To Research, Kimberly Willson-St. Clair

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

The ASE research model, Analyze, Search, Evaluate, developed by Don Latham and Melissa Gross with IMLS funding for teaching community college students remedial information literacy and research skills works remarkably well with international students studying English. The ASE research model can be incorporated into LibGuides and used to structure library classroom instruction especially in regards to vocabulary building within the disciplines. In this presentation, I will demonstrate how this process works toward discovering new language. The Intensive English Language Program (IELP) at Portland State University is the oldest English immersion program for higher education in the Pacific Northwest. As the …

“All About That Bass”: Source Evaluation For Music Performance Students, Elizabeth J. Weisbrod, Karen Garrison

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

The information literacy needs of music students include not only the written word, but also scores and recordings. Music students need to be able to evaluate music sources in the same way an English composition student would evaluate written sources for a paper. What makes an edition of a musical score authoritative? What makes a recording reliable? Information literacy for music students involves learning to use scores, recordings, and musical research to better prepare their performances. Helping students develop the tools to evaluate musical editions and recordings assists the student in becoming a better overall musician and performer.

Using the …

Librarianship After Detours: The Path Of Second Career Librarians, Carrie Moran, Erica England, Jenna Settles

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

Librarianship is often a second career path, and librarians typically have varied academic backgrounds. A librarian’s academic and professional career prior to librarianship can impact and inform one’s library career, particularly outreach and instruction activities related to information literacy.

This panel will feature three librarians who will discuss how their diverse backgrounds have impacted the way they work with students within and outside of the classroom. Two of the librarians are from public research universities, and one represents a large two year college system. Their academic backgrounds include degrees in Psychology, English, and Business, while their professional backgrounds include crisis …

High School To College Transition Initiatives: Making It A Reality, Denise Woetzel, Anita B. Tarbox

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

The challenge continues for both secondary and post-secondary institutions to help high school students successfully transition to college. High school and college librarians share common goals with teaching faculty in helping students succeed and include improving college students’ first-year experience as well as fostering lifelong learning. One step towards bridging this gap is for librarians to work together with their constituencies in improving students’ information literacy skills. Historically, librarians at Reynolds Community College in Richmond, VA have collaborated with high school librarians and teachers in the Richmond area on an ad hoc basis upon request. Most recently, Reynolds librarians have …

Seismic Shifts: The Framework For Information Literacy As An Integrating Force, Sharon Mader

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

Sharon Mader, Ed.D. is the ACRL Visiting Program Officer for Information Literacy, whose primary responsibility is to spearhead the launch and implementation of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Dr. Mader retired at the end of January 2015 after fifteen years as Dean of Library Services at the University of New Orleans. She has worked at a variety of public and private academic institutions, including University of Illinois Health Sciences, Lake Forest College, DePaul University, and University of Memphis. Her teaching background includes service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tunisia and being a founding faculty member …