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Maa & Mmdp: Fall Workshop 2016 With Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners, Matt Schultz, Annie Benefiel

Matt Schultz

Reference Sources For Small And Medium‐Sized Libraries, Jack O'Gorman

Jack O'Gorman

Focusing on new reference sources published since 2008 and reference titles that have retained their relevance, this new edition brings O’Gorman’s complete and authoritative guide to the best reference sources for small and medium-sized academic and public libraries fully up to date. About 40 percent of the content is new to this edition. Containing sources selected and annotated by a team of public and academic librarians, the works included have been chosen for value and expertise in specific subject areas. Equally useful for both library patrons and staff, this resource:

• Covers more than a dozen key subject areas, including General …

Breaking The Cycle: How Slow Fashion Can Inspire Sustainable Collection Development, Alyssa Vincent

Alyssa Vincent

What do academic librarians and fashion designers have in common? As designers produce a good—clothing—and librarians provide a service, it may seem like the two share no similarities. However, in recent years, both professions have been asked to do more with less. Designers are tasked with churning out clothing collections at a record rate while academic librarians have had to maintain and in some cases increase their level of service in the face of steadily decreasing budgets. One response to this relentless cycle in the fashion world is the development of slow fashion, a designer-oriented process that prioritizes producing fewer …

Moving The Digital Curation Needle @Gvsu, Matt Schultz, Kyle Felker

Matt Schultz

Web Archiving In Academia: Collection Strategies Beyond The Institutional Domain, Kevin C. Miller

Kevin C. Miller

Comparing Electronic Vs. Print Book Preferences Between Students In The Social Sciences, The Arts And Stem, Lee Cummings, Anne Larrivee, Leslie Vega

Anne Larrivee

The purpose of this study was to determine if there were any distinct differences in e-book usage habits among students in the social sciences, technical fields and the arts. To complete this study, students from three different disciplinary areas were surveyed. The same nine questions were posed to each student group, with slight modifications to some questions based on the discipline.The results of this study show that students in each discipline have a preference for convenience and accessibility, whether material is print or electronic. Some more unique characteristics between disciplines include the percentage of students using books and frequency of …

Seeding Your Institutional Repository Community, Helena Marvin

Helena Marvin

The Business Of Collaboration And Electronic Collection Development, Timothy L. Harper, Barbara P. Norelli

Barbara Norelli

Purpose - Strategic business partnerships inform business faculty-librarian (BFL) collaborations. This paper seeks to address how the motivations for business partnerships and faculty-librarian collaborations are similar. A conceptual model suggests that the depth of the BFL relationship significantly enhances electronic collection development outcomes. Design/methodology/approach - Literature concerning strategic business alliances, faculty-librarian collaborations, and collection development was examined to determine whether principles that are applied to strategic business alliances can also be applied to BFL collaborations. A case-in-point is included for illustration. Findings - Specific principles of strategic business partnerships can be applied to BFL collaborations aimed at improving electronic collection …

Library Testimonial: Madeline Mcdermott, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

A research instruction in the University Libraries and a visit to the Marian Library on the seventh floor of Roesch Library inspired Madeline McDermott '15 to create an archive for her high school alma mater and pursue two master's degrees in library and information science and public history.

Library Testimonial: Libby Durnwald, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

Student Libby Durnwald shares the impact the University Libraries had on her studies, service and work.

Library Testimonial: Mary Kuttler, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

Graduate Mary Kuttler '15 shares the value of her library skills in her career.

Library Testimonial: Deogratias Eustace, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

Civil engineering professor and Transportation Engineering Laboratory director Deogratias “Deo” Eustace shares his thoughts on the people, materials, services and technology available in the University Libraries.

Library Testimonial: Margaret Mcaleese, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

Experience in the University Libraries led Margaret McAleese to pursue a career in business research and helped land her a job with an industry-leading firm.

Storytime Censored, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

A exhibit of rare first editions of banned and challenged books -- many of them children's classics -- celebrates young people's freedom to read. Exhibit dates: Sept. 6-Nov. 13, 2016. Exhibit location: Roesch Library first-floor gallery.

Library Testimonial: Barath Narayanan, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

Electrical engineering doctoral candidate Barath Narayanan shares how he relies on the University Libraries to help him find the materials and information he needs to succeed.

Library Testimonial: David Darrow, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

History professor David Darrow, director of the University Honors Program, shares his thoughts on the value of the University Libraries to students and faculty.

Library Testimonial: Linda Arvin Skuns, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

Secondary education graduate Linda Arvin Skuns ’63 shares how the role of libraries has grown and changed since her time as a student at UD.

International Travel, Groovy Guys ... And Fathomless Good, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

In 2013, the Marian Library received the papers of the late John S. Stokes Jr., co-founder of Mary’s Gardens, a Philadelphia organization that taught and encouraged the planting of devotional gardens in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mother. Active in civil rights and social justice movements, he was the director of the Wellsprings Ecumenical Center in Philadelphia. He died in 2007.

Among his papers was a collection of promotional brochures from a variety of religious orders. The University of Dayton Libraries have digitized them and made many of them available in eCommons, the University’s open-access institutional repository. In observance of …

Library Testimonial: Sam Wallace, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

Sam Wallace remembers when Roesch Library opened in 1971; since then, it has been as much a part of campus life as Flyer basketball, Christmas on Campus and the student neighborhood. Its technology, spaces and resources keep advancing with the latest learning, research and teaching methods, he says.

Separating The Wheat From The Chaff: Intensive Deselection To Enable Preservation And Access, Colleen Hoelscher, Jillian Ewalt

Colleen Hoelscher

In 2014, the Marian Library at the University of Dayton completed a long overdue revision of its collection development policy. The new document more clearly defined the scope of the library’s collections, and was intended to guide new acquisition decisions. However, this new document had the unexpected benefit of providing a framework for deselection projects that enabled preservation and improved access to the collections.

This paper will discuss and analyze two of these projects, and demonstrate how the revised collection development policy laid the foundation for successful deselection outcomes. In the first case study, legacy collections of genre-based ephemera were …

Prospects And Strategies For Deep Collaboration In The Galleries, Libraries, Archives, And Museums Sector, Jill Deupi, Charles Eckman

Charles D. Eckman

This paper reports on the findings of a working summit hosted by the University of Miami in January 2016 at which the administrative heads of art museums and libraries from fourteen academic institutions convened to explore the barriers to—and opportunities for—deeper intra-institutional museum-library collaborations. The summit was jointly funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and featured presentations by thought-leaders in the academic galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) sector. This paper presents a summary of the work, discussions, and outcomes of the summit including recommendations for further effort in the following areas: (1) …

An Olympic Ode To Cataloging, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

When my colleagues in the University Libraries gathered on the west portico of Roesch Library June 9 for our own version of the Olympics, our competitive nature, mostly dormant in our daily work, emerged in events that put our teams to the test both physically and mentally: journal Jenga, journal toss, cart racing, book balancing, speed sorting and the hardest scavenger hunt I’ve ever participated in.

But like many things I’ve discovered in my two years in the Libraries, the information science that inspired these trivial games is anything but trivial.

As I raced to put a cart full of …

Journal Usage At Department And Research Group Level (Postprint), Ian Mccullough

Ian McCullough

Beyond The University: Preserving The Personal @Gvsu, Matt Schultz, Annie Benefiel

Matt Schultz

Oclc Worldshare Management Services: New Ways Libraries Are Efficiently Managing Cataloging And E-Resources Workflows, Josh Petrusa

Josh Petrusa

Josh Petrusa's presentation from the 2014 ALA Annual Conference, presented June 28, 2014 in Las Vegas, NV.

Anything Can Happen In The Zone: Library And Departmental Change Driven By Migration To A Cloud-Based Library Management System, Josh Petrusa

Josh Petrusa

Butler University Libraries had already made progressive changes in public services areas, but Technical Services remained unchanged and bound to legacy practices from decades past. For us, the best catalyst for change was a system migration to a cloud-based type of management system. This system migration was tied to organizational restructuring and a new strategic plan, each of which intertwined with the details of the migration project and was underpinned by thoughtful analysis of how to help employees through change. Details of the migration are discussed in relation to how they inspired departmental and organizational change through updated technology.

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

Heather James

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 …

Hospitality Management: A Guide To Key Reference Works, Tim Bottorff

Tim Bottorff

Purpose– This paper aims to provide an overview of the field of hospitality management and a guide to the major books, databases, web sites, and other resources that comprise a quality hospitality management reference collection. Design/methodology/approach– Following a short introduction and overview, key sources and annotations are presented in categories that will help reference and collection librarians to better understand and serve hospitality management students. The sources were identified through the author's experience, library research guides and web sites, bibliographies, and other standard sources. Findings– Hospitality management is growing and maturing as an academic discipline, aided by the fact that …

Adding Patent Records To Clemson's Ir--Highlighting The University's Output, Andrew Wesolek, Jan Comfort, Lisa Bodenheimer, Brenda Burk

Jan Comfort

Conventional Wisdom Or Faulty Logic? The Recent Literature On Monograph Use And E-Book Acquisition, Amy Fry

Amy Fry

The idea that academic libraries acquire a great many books that are never used, and that this is because traditional collection development – i.e., professional librarians purchasing books based on subject expertise and local knowledge of student and faculty needs and interests – is ineffective, has been repeated frequently during the last decade. This claim has been used as justification to change collection practices and to bolster ideas about new organizational models for libraries and their work. A closer look at the literature, however, reveals that the data being cited to support this claim has been communicated, for the most …