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Tapping Into The Skills Of School Librarians, Audrey Church

Audrey P. Church

The article focuses on the role of school librarians in evaluating the teacher's effectiveness. It states that librarians has knowledge about various areas other than library including information literacy, media literacy and digital literacy. It further presents various scenarios that can be used for analyzing the performance of librarians including formal observation, self-evaluation and portfolio.

2015-06 Library Impact Statement For Csc 104 Puzzles + Games = Analytical Thinking, Amanda Izenstark

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for CSC 104 Puzzles + Games = Analytical Thinking. This class was supported with no need for additional resources. Responding library faculty: Amanda Izenstark. Requesting faculty: Ed Lamagna.

Relationship Between Library Resources And Research Productivity In Five Nigerian Health-Based Research Facilities, Chigozie Simeon Ugwuona Dr., Virginia Winsell Dike Professor

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study of the relationship between library resources and research productivity in five Nigerian health research facilities was conceived majorly to investigate the relationship existing between these two variables. The study employed a descriptive survey design to undertake a population of 198 research staff in the five research centres (out of this number, 166 were actually used). Questionnaire and observation check list were used to collect data which were presented in tables and analyzed using descriptive statistics. The Pearson Product Moment Correlation coefficient (r) was applied to determine the relationship while hypothesis was tested with t-statistics at 0.05 probability level. …

Assessment Of Library Resources And Programmes In Unity Schools In Nigeria, Nkechi, Anthonia Idoko

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study assessed Library User Resources and Programmes for Library Skill’s (LS) acquisition in Unity Schools of South East Nigeria. In conducting this research, survey research design was adopted and out of a population of 29,358, multiple-stage sampling technique was used to select a sample of 1,212 that comprised of 480 JSI students, 469 SSIII students and 263 staff from the 12 Unity Schools under study. Two research questions guided the study. Observation check-list and questionnaire titled Library User Education Questionnaire (LUEQ) were the instruments used for data collection. These instruments were validated by five experts. Reliability co-efficient of 0.91 …

Guest Editors' Column: The Solo Librarian, Audrey Church, Frances Reeve

Frances M. Reeve

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the guest editor discusses the various stories of solo school librarians in the U.S.

Mentoring Through Collaborative Partnerships Until The End Of Time, Frances Reeve, Audrey Church

Frances M. Reeve

The authors offer insights on mentoring through collaborative partnerships based on personal experience. According to them, as school librarians, their relationship with their students can be described as a lifelong partnership of learning. Their graduate students under their university's School Library Media Preparation program are nontraditional adult learners.

Mentoring Through Collaborative Partnerships Until The End Of Time, Frances Reeve, Audrey Church

Audrey P. Church

The authors offer insights on mentoring through collaborative partnerships based on personal experience. According to them, as school librarians, their relationship with their students can be described as a lifelong partnership of learning. Their graduate students under their university's School Library Media Preparation program are nontraditional adult learners.

Catch Them (Preservice Teachers) While You Can!, Audrey Church

Audrey P. Church

The article addresses a university school library instructor's approach, which features a meeting with preservice teachers early in the sequence of coursework. The majority of preservice teachers are not learning in their teacher preparation programs about the benefits of collaborative partnerships with teacher-librarians.

Early Days With An Ir: Identifying And Adding Content, Michele Gibney

Digital Commons Southeastern User Group

When I started as an IR manager at Nova Southeastern University (September 2014), the IR had been live for 6 months and one of the in process pilot projects was a journal with 219 back issues dating to 1990. The journal was still on the demonstration site when I started. In this presentation I will discuss the ways in which I interacted with the journal staff, the full migration of all issues and the ensuing projects that have developed due to the primary editor’s interest. These include a conference, book publishing and four additional journals. One of the most important …

Becoming The Gothic Archive: From Digital Collection To Digital Humanities, Rose Fortier, Heather G. James

Rose Fortier

The Gothic Archive is the flagship digital humanities project for the Marquette University library. The project was birthed from a simple digital collection, and through the partnership of faculty and librarians, was transformed into something more. The core tenets of digital collection creation were adhered to in order to create a solid foundation upon which to build the Archive. The expertise of both groups and communication were key in the evolution of the collection, and in discovering and highlighting the relationships between the objects. This case study reviews the steps Marquette took in creating the collection and taking it to …

Microaggressions: Small Actions That Are A Big Deal, Molly Higgins, Charlotte Roh

Charlotte Roh

“Microaggressions” refer to those brief occurrences and encounters that subtly reinforce systems of power and privilege. The term can be applied across groups, including but certainly not limited to people of color, LGBTQ individuals, and individuals with disabilities. Libraries and information organizations are not immune to these microaggressions. They exist in our library catalogues, archives, research, professional organizations and interpersonal interactions. They have also garnered attention in the library world, through projects like the Microaggressions in Librarianship Tumblr, and a recent webinar on the subject put on by Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA). How do we create safe, affirming, …

A Digital Collection Center's Experience: Etd Discovery, Promotion, And Workflows In Digital Commons, Kelley F. Rowan

Works of the FIU Libraries

This presentation was given at the Digital Commons Southeastern User Group conference at Winthrop University, South Carolina on June 5, 2015. The presentation discusses how the digital collections center (DCC) at Florida International University uses Digital Commons as their tool for ingesting, editing, tracking, and publishing university theses and dissertations. The basic DCC workflow is covered as well as institutional repository promotion.

Alma Integrates With External Systems: Experiences And Lessons Learned At Cwu, Ping Fu

Library Scholarship

This presentation describes how we set up an SFTP server and enable patron load from the student information system, bursar out, invoices export to and payments import from the financial system. Experiences and lessons including communication with the vendor, peer institutions, university IT and other campus units will be covered.

Migrating To Alma: The Changing Role Of The Systems Librarian, Ping Fu

Library Scholarship

This presentation will discuss how the roles of systems librarians are expected to change in migrating to Alma from other ILS systems such as Voyager or Aleph. Since Alma is deployed via cloud computing, Ex Libris will centrally implement applications, upgrades, enhancements, etc. Consequently, the roles and responsibilities of systems librarians will be changing, and systems librarians should re-engineer themselves accordingly so that they will be able to support more critical issues in the library.

History In The Making: Creating The Shenandoah Living Archive, Lynn Eaton, Kate Morris

Kate Morris

Competing Standards In The Education Of School Librarians, Audrey Church, Gail Dickinson, Nancy Everhart, Jody Howard

Audrey P. Church

Education for school librarians traditionally blends elements from the fields of LIS and education. A thorough preparation in both professions is necessary since school librarians hold state teaching certification in K-12 library media. A variety of standards from professional organizations guide school librarians in performing their multi-faceted roles, and accordingly inform the curricula of school librarian preparation programs. However, the plethora of standards may actually make it more difficult to determine what standards to include in LIS curricula, and when to include them in educating future school librarians. The implications of competitive aspects of inclusion of each of these standards …

Definitely Not Alone!, Audrey Church

Audrey P. Church

The article discusses the importance of technological innovations for solo school librarians in accomplishing their tasks in various schools in the U.S. It notes that the availability of web sites allows librarians to have an easy and constant access to professional information including several conferences and opportunities, continuing education, and grants. Electronic (e) mails and social media will also promote connections and communications among professionals.

Voices From The Ivory Tower, Gail Dickinson, Robin Boltz, Renee E. Franklin, Audrey Church, Carol A. Doll

Audrey P. Church

Perspectives on the move from being a school librarian to teaching and researching with those preparing to enter the field are provided. Personal perspectives of a doctoral student, an assistant professor, an associate professor, and a full professor are provided.

Guest Editors' Column: The Solo Librarian, Audrey Church, Frances Reeve

Audrey P. Church

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the guest editor discusses the various stories of solo school librarians in the U.S.

Ophelia And The Marvelous Boy, Maggie Mason Smith

Maggie Mason Smith

No abstract provided.

Star Wars Display, Maggie Mason Smith

Maggie Mason Smith

May The 4th Be With You!

Star Wars Day is an unofficial secular holiday in May celebrating the Star Wars franchise.

Fans of the films, print series, and Star Wars in popular culture celebrate Star Wars Day in a variety of ways; we recommend celebrating with a book from our Star Wars display in Cooper Library.

Data, Management, And Digital Science, Christine Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

No abstract provided.

China's Global Growth In Social Science Research: Uncovering Evidence From Bibliometric Analyses Of Ssci Publications (1978–2013), Weishu Liu

Weishu Liu

The phenomenon of China's rise as an emerging scientific power has been well documented, yet the development of its social science is less explored. Utilizing up-to-date Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) publication data (1978–2013), this paper probes the patterns and dynamics of China's social science research via bibliometric analyses. Our research indicates that despite the national orientation of social science research and the linguistic obstacle of publishing for an international audience, China's publications in the SSCI dataset have been rising in terms of volume, world share, and global ranking. But China is still not yet a major player in the …

The Academic Librarians' Guide To The Craft Of Writing Book Reviews, Brian Flota, Michael Mungin, Genya O'Gara, David Vess

Libraries

What is the art of writing a book review? Succinctly articulating a book’s main selling points, presenting a clear evaluation, and the occasional witty quip are just some of the many components in a reviewer’s bag of tricks. Finding venues to publish reviews (journals, review outlets, blogs) suited to your professional and individual areas of expertise also requires savvy. This presentation will demonstrate how book reviews can be effective tools for a librarian’s collection efforts, an avenue of exposure for one’s library, and a vital artistic and creative outlet in a profession that doesn’t always allow time for those pursuits.

Social Media As Game Strategy: Twitter In The #Infolit Instruction Session, Kelly M. Blanchat, Lydia Willoughby

Publications and Research

The lure of distractions can entice even the strongest of student wills in a computer classroom. Research requires strategic thinking and ordered planning to drown out the noise of online distractions. This poster demonstrates a unique way to capitalize on the natural overlap of research, communication, and social media by employing game strategy to lead learning outcomes for undergraduate student research. Instead of silencing social media, this activity incorporates Twitter as a platform to introduce information literacy concepts and participatory practices of scholarship.

Tools Managing Seed Urls (Detecting Off-Topic Pages), Yasmin Alnoamany, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from the Columbia University Web Archiving Collaboration: New Tools and Models Conference, in New York, New York, June 4-5, 2015. Also available on Slideshare.

Musical Similarity As Conceived By "Avid Recreational Music Listeners", Jason R. Neal

Jason R. Neal

Over the past century, sociocultural and technological developments have fostered the emergence of what Peterson and Kern (1996) call “omnivorous” music listeners, as well as non-hierarchical forms of categorization like tagging. Despite such trends, genre remains the primary basis for ascertaining similarity in systems with musical content, metadata, or both. Furthermore, techniques employed within many recommender systems indirectly continue to reflect genre-based categorization and taste. This paper will provide an overview of the contexts in which such trends and tensions have emerged. It will also consider prospects for incorporating more actively nuanced dimensions of similarity into recommender systems, which could …

“Quantitative, Quantitative, Quantitative!” Is Qualitative Research The Jan Brady Of Social Sciences Data Services?, Mandy J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.

Mandy (Amanda) Swygart-Hobaugh

The University Of Iowa And The Flood Of 2008: A Case Study, Paul A. Soderdahl

Paul A Soderdahl

No abstract provided.

Diy History: Building Digital Connections Between Collections And Courses, Thomas M. Keegan, Matthew Gilchrist, Paul A. Soderdahl

Paul A Soderdahl

In 2011 the University of Iowa Libraries began crowdsourcing the digital transcription of its manuscript archives. Four years and over 50,000 transcribed pages later, that project, known as DIY History, has garnered considerable internet attention via Buzzfeed, Twitter, Tumblr, and the NBC News blog. At the same time, it has been threaded into undergraduate classrooms at Iowa as a means of introducing students to primary source research, information literacy, and multimodal design.