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Common Ground At The Nexus Of Information Literacy And Scholarly Communication, Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Merinda Kaye Hensley Illinois Wesleyan University

Common Ground At The Nexus Of Information Literacy And Scholarly Communication, Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Merinda Kaye Hensley

IWU Authors Bookshelf

Common Ground at the Nexus of Information Literacy and Scholarly Communication presents concepts, experiments, collaborations, and strategies at the crossroads of the fields of scholarly communication and information literacy. The seventeen essays and interviews in this volume engage ideas and describe vital partnerships that enrich both information literacy and scholarly communication programs within institutions of higher education. Contributions address core scholarly communication topics such as open access, copyright, authors’ rights, the social and economic factors of publishing, and scholarly publishing through the lens of information literacy. This volume is appropriate for all university and college libraries and for library and ...

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Web 2.0 For Reference Services Staff Training And Communication, Jane Currie Loyola University Chicago

Web 2.0 For Reference Services Staff Training And Communication, Jane Currie

University Libraries: Faculty Publications & Other Works

This paper focuses on applications of Web 2.0 that improve training and communication within the reference services department. It discusses some of the best known and most heavily used examples of Web 2.0: blogs, calendars, wikis, RSS, image collections, podcasts or vodcasts, social bookmarks, text messages, instant messages, and social networks. Implementing Web 2.0 tools to coordinate communication and training creates a dynamic, interactive system for sharing procedures, ideas, and new developments within a reference services department.

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Wikis: Disruptive Technologies For Dynamic Possibilities, Gerry McKiernan Iowa State University

Wikis: Disruptive Technologies For Dynamic Possibilities, Gerry Mckiernan

Reference and Instruction Conference Papers, Posters and Presentations

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Natural Language Processing, Elizabeth D. Liddy Syracuse University

Natural Language Processing, Elizabeth D. Liddy

iSchool Faculty Scholarship

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the computerized approach to analyzing text that is based on both a set of theories and a set of technologies. And, being a very active area of research and development, there is not a single agreed-upon definition that would satisfy everyone, but there are some aspects, which would be part of any knowledgeable person’s definition.

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A Statewide Survey Of Censorship And Intellectual Freedom, Kathleen M. Monks, Anne M. Gaines, Caitlin A. Marineau University of Nebraska - Lincoln

A Statewide Survey Of Censorship And Intellectual Freedom, Kathleen M. Monks, Anne M. Gaines, Caitlin A. Marineau

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This article presents the results of a survey given to public and school library workers to gain a foundational understanding of censorship within the state of Idaho. Our population was asked questions regarding position demographics; experience with challenges; the tracking, reporting and assistance sought; and the contents of said challenge policies. Special attention was also given to the history of censorship, both nationally and statewide, and the demographic, political, and legislative characteristics of Idaho, to provide a conceptual framework for the findings. The results of this statewide survey address an important and uninvestigated segment of national challenges and Idaho librarianship.

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Friending Our Users: Social Networking And Reference Services, Cliff Landis Georgia State University

Friending Our Users: Social Networking And Reference Services, Cliff Landis

University Library Faculty Publications

Social networking sites are changing the way that libraries engage their users. Sometimes called social networking software or social networking services, these Web sites are designed to let users share their lives with friends, family, and the general public. Many librarians immediately saw the possibilities in the proliferating social networks--by connecting with our users in "their space," we are making ourselves readily available and removing many of the obstacles to their information needs. As reference librarians, our first reaction to new technology is to "set up desk"--to provide the same services we have traditionally offered, only in a new ...

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Work Motivation, Job Satisfaction, And Organisational Commitment Of Library Personnel In Academic And Research Libraries In Oyo State, Nigeria, Adeyinka Tella, C.O. Ayeni, S.O. Popoola University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Work Motivation, Job Satisfaction, And Organisational Commitment Of Library Personnel In Academic And Research Libraries In Oyo State, Nigeria, Adeyinka Tella, C.O. Ayeni, S.O. Popoola

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

A well-managed organization sees employees as the source of quality and productivity. This study examines the perception of work motivation in relation to job satisfaction and organizational commitment of library personnel in academic and research libraries in Oyo state, Nigeria. Two hundred library personnel (41% female, 59% male) were selected through a total enumeration sampling from five research and four academic libraries. A questionnaire called Work Motivation, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Commitment Scale (WMJSCS) with the overall co-efficient of r = 0.83 cronbach alpha was adapted from Organization Commitment Questionnaire by Mooday et al. (1979), Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire by Weiss ...

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The Quick Response (Qr) Code: Graphic Potential For Libraries, Memo Cordova Boise State University

The Quick Response (Qr) Code: Graphic Potential For Libraries, Memo Cordova

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

The convergences of Web-ready mobile tools and applications have changed how we interact with our physical and virtual environments. Web-ready mobile devices (particularly smartphones, but tablets and Wi-Fi ready MP3 players are also on the increase) have supplanted the traditional desktop computer. According to IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, a February 7, 2011, press release noted that “Smartphone manufacturers shipped 100.9 million devices in the fourth quarter of 2010...PC manufacturers shipped 92.1 million units” (IDC). For the first time ever, smartphones have outsold traditional desktop computers. This is telling on several levels, the most salient being ...

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Mobilizing User-Generated Content For Canada’S Digital Advantage, Samuel E. Trosow, Jacquelyn Burkell, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Pamela McKenzie, Michael B. McNally, Caroline Whippey, Lola Wong Western University

Mobilizing User-Generated Content For Canada’S Digital Advantage, Samuel E. Trosow, Jacquelyn Burkell, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Pamela Mckenzie, Michael B. Mcnally, Caroline Whippey, Lola Wong

Library and Information Science Publications

Executive Summary: The goal of the Mobilizing User-Generated Content for Canada’s Digital Content Advantage project is to define User-Generated Content (UGC) in its current state, identify successful models built for UGC, and anticipate barriers and policy infrastructure needed to sustain a model to leverage the further development of UGC to Canada's advantage. At the outset, we divided our research into three domains: creative content, small scale tools and collaborative user-generated content. User-generated creative content is becoming increasingly evident throughout the technological ecology through online platforms and online social networks where individuals develop, create and capture information and choose ...

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An Analysis Of Little Red Riding Hood Storybooks In The De Grummond Children’S Literature Collection, Cheryl Pittman The University of Southern Mississippi

An Analysis Of Little Red Riding Hood Storybooks In The De Grummond Children’S Literature Collection, Cheryl Pittman

SLIS Connecting

The focus of this study was an analysis of one fairy tale currently located in the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection in order to determine the extent of the collection as well as characteristics of the collection of Little Red Riding Hood illustrated storybooks. It includes analysis of year of publication to indicate the oldest version in the collection, publication trend over time from 1966 to 2010, culture or country of origin, and authorship. Adult-themed books in Cook Library that are related primarily to the topic of LRRH were also examined.

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Importance Of School Library Programs, Cynthia Strong 2014 Seattle Pacific University

Importance Of School Library Programs, Cynthia Strong

SPU Works

Within the discipline of library science, over 20 research studies have been done in the United States attesting to how high-quality school library programs contribute to improved academic achievement. On the other hand, in the fields of education, school counseling, administration, and school leadership, and so on, there is a dearth of scholarship and recognition of the positive impact librarians and library media program have on student success. This conceptual paper first presents an overview of the empirical research on school library programs and the positive impact they have on the academic achievement of students in the United States. Second ...

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Information Literacy In The New Core Curriculum, Elisa Slater Acosta 2014 Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School

Information Literacy In The New Core Curriculum, Elisa Slater Acosta

Elisa Slater Acosta

Faculty and librarians at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) are partnering to embed important information literacy skills into the new core curriculum. Beginning fall 2013, every freshman at LMU will spend some mandatory time in their Freshman Seminar course developing basic information literacy skills. The same skills will be reinforced and enhanced in their Rhetorical Arts course the following semester. This will provide the foundation for students to later develop more advanced information literacy skills during a required course that has been “flagged” for information literacy at the upper level. This tiered and systematic approach will allow for a more consistent ...

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Librarian, Heal Thyself: A Scholarly Communication Analysis Of Lis Journals, Chealsye Bowley, Micah Vandegrift 2014 The Florida State University

Librarian, Heal Thyself: A Scholarly Communication Analysis Of Lis Journals, Chealsye Bowley, Micah Vandegrift

Library Faculty Publications

This article presents an analysis of 111 journals in Library and Information Science based on measurements of "openness" including copyright policies, open access self-archiving policies and open access publishing options. We propose a new metric to rank journals: the H.O.i.i. Factor (How Open Is It). Finally, the article calls for librarians and researchers in LIS to examine our scholarly literature and hold it to the principles and standards that we are asking of other disciplines.

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Back Matter, Brian Wilson 2014 Kennesaw State University

Back Matter, Brian Wilson

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

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Reviews, Luke Meagher, Ryan Speer, Carol Waggoner-Angleton 2014 Kennesaw State University

Reviews, Luke Meagher, Ryan Speer, Carol Waggoner-Angleton

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

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Functional Analysis And The Reappraisal Of Faculty Papers, Gregory Schmidt, Michael Law 2014 Kennesaw State University

Functional Analysis And The Reappraisal Of Faculty Papers, Gregory Schmidt, Michael Law

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Many repositories at American colleges and universities hold the official records of their institutions as well as the personal papers of individuals. Archivists appraise these different materials—institutional records and personal papers—using separate theoretical perspectives. They tend to bring a records-management view of evidential value to the appraisal of institutional records and a curator’s eye for informational and intrinsic values to personal manuscripts. There is one collecting category common to university repositories, however, that requires a hybrid approach. Falling between the two broad categories of university records and personal manuscripts are the papers of university faculty members. Studies ...

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Company History': Corporate Archives' Public Outreach On Fortune 100 Company Websites, Marie Force 2014 Kennesaw State University

Company History': Corporate Archives' Public Outreach On Fortune 100 Company Websites, Marie Force

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Just before commercialization of the Internet, corporate archives communicated with the public via museums and exhibits, books and articles, educational curricula, television, anniversary publications, and nostalgic packaged goods. By 1996, as growing numbers of companies experimented with their first Web sites, corporate archivists such as Philip F. Mooney at Coca-Cola found a new, “unparalleled opportunity for outreach.” Mooney and his colleagues at Chevron, Ford Motor, J.C. Penney, Levi Strauss, Texas Instruments, and Wells Fargo were among those contributing early content to company Web sites, such as the J.C. Penney “History Page,” with its illustrated timeline, founder’s biography ...

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Statement By Archivist Of The United States, David S. Ferriero 2014 Kennesaw State University

Statement By Archivist Of The United States, David S. Ferriero

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

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Society Of Georgia Archivists Timeline, 1969-Present, Brian Wilson 2014 Kennesaw State University

Society Of Georgia Archivists Timeline, 1969-Present, Brian Wilson

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

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History Making History, David B. Gracy II 2014 Kennesaw State University

History Making History, David B. Gracy Ii

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

What a wonderful occasion! A celebration of forty years of growing and strengthening the archival community of Georgia through association in the Society of Georgia Archivists. A celebration of forty years of service of the archival community of Georgia to the citizens of this wonderful and historic state. A celebration of forty years of contribution to the archival profession of the United States—no, not just the United States, but every part of the world where Georgia Archive and Provenance have been and continue to be read. This is a great occasion to bask in the pleasure of long-time and ...

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Front Matter, Brian Wilson 2014 Kennesaw State University

Front Matter, Brian Wilson

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

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Back Matter, Brian Wilson 2014 Kennesaw State University

Back Matter, Brian Wilson

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

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Reviews, Sarah Quigley, Christine de Catanzaro, Laura L. Carroll, Michael Law, Jana Meyer, Leigh Ann Davis, Suzanne K. Durham, Brooke Fox, Brittany Bennett Parris, Debra Branson March, Robert G. Richards, Jordon Steele 2014 Kennesaw State University

Reviews, Sarah Quigley, Christine De Catanzaro, Laura L. Carroll, Michael Law, Jana Meyer, Leigh Ann Davis, Suzanne K. Durham, Brooke Fox, Brittany Bennett Parris, Debra Branson March, Robert G. Richards, Jordon Steele

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

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Postmodernism, Processing, And The Profession: Towards A Theoretical Reading Of Minimal Standards, Melanie Griffin 2014 Kennesaw State University

Postmodernism, Processing, And The Profession: Towards A Theoretical Reading Of Minimal Standards, Melanie Griffin

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

As Frank Burke noted in 1981, evidence-based practice rather than theory tends to dominate professional literature about archives. The papers presented at archival conferences and published in journals often concern themselves with the quotidian functions of archives: processing, description, access, preservation, reference, education, and (in the decades since Burke wrote) digitization. This situation is hardly surprisingly given the fundamentally practical – indeed pragmatic – thrust of archival work. The field is often referred to as a science, not a theory, and abstract concepts neither offer concrete solutions to the immediate questions of daily practice nor provide new techniques for managing collections. Focusing ...

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Easing The Learning Curve: The Creation Of Digital Learning Objects For Use In Special Collections Student Training, Judith A. Wiener 2014 Kennesaw State University

Easing The Learning Curve: The Creation Of Digital Learning Objects For Use In Special Collections Student Training, Judith A. Wiener

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Low-staffed and often under-funded, academic libraries have traditionally relied upon student labor to maintain library services and to complete a seemingly unending workload. The use of students within the archival or special collections setting is no different. Special Collections departments often use students to complete tasks that could be reserved to the realm of professional staff. These include processing collections, preservation and conservation work, digitizing, and providing reference assistance.

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History On The Move: Relocating Special Collections And Archives, Pam Hackbart-Dean, Leah Agne, Julie Mosbo 2014 Kennesaw State University

History On The Move: Relocating Special Collections And Archives, Pam Hackbart-Dean, Leah Agne, Julie Mosbo

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

As anybody who has moved from one house or apartment to another knows, moving is hard work. It requires physical strength, to be sure, but it also demands mental strength since any move will cause a mixture of excitement, frustration and anxiety. The most crucial step to minimize mental stress is planning, which should be started as far in advance as possible. Because every move offers its own challenges, communication, coordination and flexibility are also essential. The same principles apply to moving an academic library‘s special collections. The focus of this article is on the preparation and execution of ...

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Through To Cyberspace: And What Janus Found There, Richard Pearce-Moses 2014 Kennesaw State University

Through To Cyberspace: And What Janus Found There, Richard Pearce-Moses

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

A few years ago, I was presenting at a workshop in electronic records management for state agencies in Arizona. Many in the crowd came from agencies that had done little or no thinking about how they would manage their electronic records. They had basic questions, like ―How long do I need to keep email?‖

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Let's Give Them Something To Talk About, Kathleen D. Roe 2014 Kennesaw State University

Let's Give Them Something To Talk About, Kathleen D. Roe

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Every morning I drive to work past Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a highly regarded college in the northeast for engineers, architects, mathematicians, and a predictable array of geeks and techno-nerds as well as a couple of what my daughter would term ―hot college kids.‖ What fascinates me during my drive, beyond the people-watching opportunities, is a banner displayed on the overpass linking the two sides of campus that poses one simple question to the students: ―Why not change the world?‖

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Front Matter, Brian Wilson 2014 Kennesaw State University

Front Matter, Brian Wilson

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

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Back Matter, Brian Wilson 2014 Kennesaw State University

Back Matter, Brian Wilson

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

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