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Reading Habits Among Students And Its Effect On Academic Performance: A Study Of Students Of Koforidua Polytechnic, Micheal Owusu-Acheaw Koforidua Polytechnic

Reading Habits Among Students And Its Effect On Academic Performance: A Study Of Students Of Koforidua Polytechnic, Micheal Owusu-Acheaw

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study sought to assess the reading habits among students and their effects on their academic performance. The study was conducted in Koforidua Polytechnic situated in the Eastern Region of Ghana. A questionnaire was used for the data collection. The data collected were analyzed quantitatively with the use of Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). Figures and tables were used to present the results of findings. From the total of 1052 copies of questionnaire distributed, 1000 copies, representing 95.0% were filled and returned. The findings showed that majority of the respondents acknowledge the importance of reading, 81.9% of ...

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A Comparative Study Of Use Of The Library And The Internet As Sources Of Information By Graduate Students In The University Of Ghana, Cynthia H. Kumah McGill University

A Comparative Study Of Use Of The Library And The Internet As Sources Of Information By Graduate Students In The University Of Ghana, Cynthia H. Kumah

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study was conducted to compare Internet use and library use among graduate students. It was based on the assumption that graduate students use the Internet more than the library. Literature on library and the Internet were reviewed. The researcher adopted convenient sampling technique to select the sample for the study. Data was collected using questionnaires. Collected data was statistically analyzed and interpreted using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. Findings of the study indicated students do not bypass the library in satisfying their information need. They use both the library and the Internet, although Internet usage was more ...

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Ola Today: Oregon Librarians Respond To Changing Times, Pacific University

Ola Today: Oregon Librarians Respond To Changing Times

OLA Quarterly

This issue’s contributors and topics span academic and public institutions, rural and metropolitan libraries, political activism and personal narrative, and programming as well as abstraction. Considering instances of political action and librarianship, Oregon Library Association President Elsa Loftis begins this issue by profiling the organization. She cites its Legislative Agenda and its advocacy body, the Library Development and Legislation Committee, offering resources and steps toward political action that align with such guiding principles as Intellectual Freedom, Equitable Access, and Stewardship of Public Resources. Donna L. Cohen details a series of civic education workshops she has offered in recent months ...

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Guns And America And The Library And Us: What We Learned From The Worst Library Program … Ever!, Barratt Miller, Jane Scheppke Oregon City Public Library

Guns And America And The Library And Us: What We Learned From The Worst Library Program … Ever!, Barratt Miller, Jane Scheppke

OLA Quarterly

On a dark and stormy night in Prineville, fifty members of the community gathered in Crook County Library’s meeting room. The program facilitator walked in the door five minutes before go-time. The Assistant Director introduced him to the room. And then all hell broke loose. The program topic? Guns and America.

Guns and America was offered as part of the Conversation Project series of community discussion programs given by Oregon Humanities. Conversation Project programs are intended to be open-ended discussions run by a trained facilitator who is an expert in the topic at hand. The facilitator creates a neutral ...

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The Use Of Social Networking Sites Among The Undergraduate Students Of University Of Nigeria, Nsukka, Helen N. Eke Miss, Charles Obiora Omekwu Prof, Jennifer Nneka Odoh Miss University of Nigeria,Nsukka

The Use Of Social Networking Sites Among The Undergraduate Students Of University Of Nigeria, Nsukka, Helen N. Eke Miss, Charles Obiora Omekwu Prof, Jennifer Nneka Odoh Miss

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study was carried out to investigate the use of social networking sites among the undergraduate students of university of Nigeria Nsukka. In the context of today’s electronic media, social networking sites have come to mean individuals, using the Internet and web application to communicate in previously impossible ways. This is largely the result of a culture-wide paradigm shift in the uses and possibilities of the internet itself. The objectives of the study are to ascertain the various categories of social networking sites used by UNN Undergraduates, to examine the extent of usage of social networking sites by UNN ...

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The Effect Of Social Networking On Students’ Academic Performance: The Perspective Of Faculty Members Of Periyar University, Salem, Sudha S, Kavitha ES Dr Department of Library and Information Science, Periyar Universtiy

The Effect Of Social Networking On Students’ Academic Performance: The Perspective Of Faculty Members Of Periyar University, Salem, Sudha S, Kavitha Es Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The Internet has undergone rapid development, with significant impact on social life and on modes of communication. Social media refers to the means of interactions among people in which they create, share, and exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks. This study aimed to study the faculty perception of SNS on academic performance of students. The study also focuses to assess the positive and negative impacts of SNS on students’ academic performance. A structured questionnaire designed and was randomly distributed to 110 faculty members of Periyar University, Salem. After collecting the data, SPSS 16 Software was use for ...

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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 Botswana

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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Researchgate, Copyright, And You, Andrée Rathemacher, Julia Lovett, Amanda Izenstark University of Rhode Island

Researchgate, Copyright, And You, Andrée Rathemacher, Julia Lovett, Amanda Izenstark

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides from a presentation, "ResearchGate, Copyright, and You," offered at the University of Rhode Island Libraries on November 4 and November 15, 2016.

"ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and other websites make it easy to share your scholarly content, but is sharing on these sites safe to do? Learn about the implications of posting your research online, and find out how you can do so to have the most impact."

Part of the University Libraries' Search Savvy Seminar series.

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Cataloging And Classification Skills Of Library And Information Science Practitioners In Their Workplaces: A Case Analysis, David A. Cabonero, Russell B. Dolendo Saint Mary's University - Phillipines

Cataloging And Classification Skills Of Library And Information Science Practitioners In Their Workplaces: A Case Analysis, David A. Cabonero, Russell B. Dolendo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Information resources are useless when access is not provided. This fundamental function is within the concept of cataloging. Thus, cataloging is an essential process that provides access to all acquired information resources of the library for it allows people to find information needed for their personal and professional growth and development. It also provides access points to information resources in a way that users will be able to find the need information or resources.

With this, the study determined the cataloging and classification skills of library and information science graduates which is centered on assessing the cataloging and classification skills ...

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Analysis Of The Journal Database, Evelyn Little, Evelyn Little Lehigh Valley Health Network

Analysis Of The Journal Database, Evelyn Little, Evelyn Little

Research Scholars Poster Presentation

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Chart Your Course, Kenya S. Flash, Caroline Zeglen, Stephanie Miranda 2018 University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Chart Your Course, Kenya S. Flash, Caroline Zeglen, Stephanie Miranda

Faculty: Other Publications and Presentations -- UT Libraries

Library instruction is most effective when thoughtfully developed with faculty and integrated in a course. But how do you determine which faculty partnerships will have the most impact? In this poster, we discuss the process of curriculum mapping in an agriculture program, how it reveals new opportunities for library instruction, and pitfalls to avoid when charting your course. In fall 2016, librarians at the University of Tennessee Hodges Library and Pendergrass Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Library developed learning outcomes for library instruction and services using feedback from staff and the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy. We mapped or coded the ...

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Contemplative Pedagogy: Building Resilience In Academic Libraries:, Madeleine K. Charney, Jenny Colvin 2017 Furman University

Contemplative Pedagogy: Building Resilience In Academic Libraries:, Madeleine K. Charney, Jenny Colvin

Madeleine K. Charney

This paper addresses the emerging movement of contemplative pedagogy in higher education with an emphasis on academic librarianship. The authors posit how integrating mindfulness-based practices into pedagogy and programming builds resilience in students, creating meaning in an age of climate disruption, information overload and uncertain times. Examples of librarians’ relevant professional development activities are also included. Library spaces offering mindfulness opportunities for students are explored and a contemplative-oriented, campus-wide collaboration centered on climate disruption is featured.  Selected Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda are touched on, demonstrating how contemplative approaches in academic libraries support well-being, justice, community ...

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Safeguarding For The Future: Managing Born-Digital Collections In Museums, Kimberly Kruse 2017 Seton Hall University

Safeguarding For The Future: Managing Born-Digital Collections In Museums, Kimberly Kruse

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

Over the past few decades, advancements in technology have changed society entirely. Every bit of information about world news, popular culture, and art is just a tap of a touchscreen away. So many aspects of the contemporary world have become digitized so that it was only a matter of time before museums would have to face the issue of born-digital media in their collections. From videos to web-based art, museums have to tackle how to save this new form of cultural heritage. Museums have to do so now before it gets lost forever. The challenge of born-digital objects lies in ...

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Get To Know Your Librarian: How A Simple Orientation Program Helped Alleviate Library Anxiety, Rachael Muszkiewicz 2017 Valparaiso University

Get To Know Your Librarian: How A Simple Orientation Program Helped Alleviate Library Anxiety, Rachael Muszkiewicz

Rachael Muszkiewicz

Library orientations do their part to familiarize students with information literacy, and how the library fits within university life.  But what if an orientation could give a student a strong introduction to their academic librarians?  Research in academic libraries has noted that library anxiety remains a continual problem among current students.  Valparaiso University librarians created the Get to Know Your Librarian program, which sought to make librarians accessible.  Using humor and casualness, incoming students were “introduced” to librarians through a series of fun facts.  This simple program, was successful in helping alleviate incoming students’ library anxiety before their first semester.

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Scholarly Commons And You, Michele Gibney 2017 University of the Pacific

Scholarly Commons And You, Michele Gibney

Pacific Libraries Scholarly Communication Talks

Scholarly Commons is a relatively new service of University of the Pacific Libraries to create a centralized digital repository of research, scholarship, and creative works by faculty, students and staff. Online access will be provided to both published and unpublished works by University of the Pacific community including journal articles, books, book chapters, theses, dissertations, reports, conference proceedings, teaching materials, data sets, university publications, and archival/special collections. Contributions to this repository showcase the intellectual and creative output of University of the Pacific faculty, students, and staff, ensuring long-term preservation and worldwide electronic accessibility. The Digital Repository Coordinator will demonstrate ...

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Demystifying Citation Metrics, Michael Ladisch 2017 University of the Pacific

Demystifying Citation Metrics, Michael Ladisch

Pacific Libraries Scholarly Communication Talks

Attendees will learn about the benefits and limitations of citation analysis. We will also provide help to find metrics such as h-index or Journal Impact Factor in Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar. Finally, we will give some advice on the use of metrics on your resume.

  • Pros and Cons (use and benefits, controversy and limitations)
  • Tools (Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar)
  • Metrics (H-index, Journal Impact Factor, CiteScore)
  • Altmetrics
  • ORCID ID
  • Metrics for CV

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Your Online Identity As A Researcher, Michael Ladisch 2017 University of the Pacific

Your Online Identity As A Researcher, Michael Ladisch

Pacific Libraries Scholarly Communication Talks

This workshop will help researchers to create an online identity as a way to better disseminate research and to collaborate. Social networks such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu will be introduced as well as Google Scholar profiles, Twitter for research, blogs and the ORCID identifier.

  • Benefits (and where to be careful)
  • Tools
    • ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Google Scholar, LinkedIn
    • Twitter, Facebook
    • Blogs, Personal website
    • ORCID ID and other identifiers
    • Slideshare, figshare

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Psa For Undergraduate Sustainability Research Award, Madeleine K. Charney 2017 University of Massachusetts Amherst

Psa For Undergraduate Sustainability Research Award, Madeleine K. Charney

Madeleine K. Charney

No abstract provided.

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The Unh Open Access Incentive Program, Eleta Exline 2017 University of New Hampshire, Durham

The Unh Open Access Incentive Program, Eleta Exline

Open Access Week

The UNH Sustainability Institute and the University Library, with funding from the Provost's Office, have teamed-up to offer UNH faculty, students, and staff an incentive for participating in the Scholars' Repository. If you've submitted 8 or more articles for publication in a journal, you may be eligible.

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Scholarly Commons And You, Michele Gibney 2017 University of the Pacific

Scholarly Commons And You, Michele Gibney

Pacific Libraries Scholarly Communication Talks

Scholarly Commons is a relatively new service of University of the Pacific Libraries to create a centralized digital repository of research, scholarship, and creative works by faculty, students and staff. Online access will be provided to both published and unpublished works by University of the Pacific community including journal articles, books, book chapters, theses, dissertations, reports, conference proceedings, teaching materials, data sets, university publications, and archival/special collections. Contributions to this repository showcase the intellectual and creative output of University of the Pacific faculty, students, and staff, ensuring long-term preservation and worldwide electronic accessibility. The Digital Repository Coordinator will demonstrate ...

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#Textbookbroke: What's The Most You've Spent On Textbooks In One Semester?, Scholarly Communications 2017 Gettysburg College

#Textbookbroke: What's The Most You've Spent On Textbooks In One Semester?, Scholarly Communications

Open Access Week at Gettysburg College

Throughout Open Access Week, a large graph will hang on the main floor of Musselman Library where students will share how much they spend on textbooks in a semester. Under the title of "#textbookbroke," this crowdsourced data will be displayed to the campus community as it's gathered over the course of the week.

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Full Schedule For 2017 Open Access Week Events At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Erin Jerome 2017 University of Massachusetts Amherst

Full Schedule For 2017 Open Access Week Events At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Erin Jerome

Open Access Week

The UMass Amherst Libraries will host a series of events as part of Open Access Week 2017 pertaining to copyright and fair use, open access, electronic theses and dissertations, open technologies, and open data.

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Demystifying Citation Metrics, Michael Ladisch 2017 University of the Pacific

Demystifying Citation Metrics, Michael Ladisch

Pacific Libraries Scholarly Communication Talks

Attendees will learn about the benefits and limitations of citation analysis. We will also provide help to find metrics such as h-index or Journal Impact Factor in Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar. Finally, we will give some advice on the use of metrics on your resume.

  • Pros and Cons (use and benefits, controversy and limitations)
  • Tools (Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar)
  • Metrics (H-index, Journal Impact Factor, CiteScore)
  • Altmetrics
  • ORCID ID
  • Metrics for CV

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Book Review: Students Lead The Library: The Importance Of Student Contributions To The Academic Library, Jennifer A. Bartlett 2017 University of Kentucky

Book Review: Students Lead The Library: The Importance Of Student Contributions To The Academic Library, Jennifer A. Bartlett

Jennifer A. Bartlett

Academic libraries, often said to be the “heart of the university,” owe their existence and importance to the students they serve. Students are at the core of the library mission, driving decisions in collections, services, innovation, outreach, and research support. However, their direct role in institutional planning is minimal, and their primary role is most often that of library user. Given their importance to libraries, how can students actively participate in library success? Students Lead the Library offers several examples of student involvement in action, or, as editors Sara Arnold-Garza and Carissa Tomlinson state, “this book seeks to elevate the ...

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#Textbookbroke: What's The Most You've Spent On Textbooks In One Semester?, Scholarly Communications 2017 Gettysburg College

#Textbookbroke: What's The Most You've Spent On Textbooks In One Semester?, Scholarly Communications

Open Access Week at Gettysburg College

Throughout Open Access Week 2017, a large graph hung on the main floor of Musselman Library where students shared how much they spent on textbooks in a semester. Under the title of "#textbookbroke," this crowdsourced data was displayed to the campus community as it was gathered over the course of the week.

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Working And Negotiating With Publishers: The Devil's In The Details, Johnson Center for Creative Teaching and Learning, Scholarly Communications 2017 Gettysburg College

Working And Negotiating With Publishers: The Devil's In The Details, Johnson Center For Creative Teaching And Learning, Scholarly Communications

Open Access Week at Gettysburg College

Several people have expressed interest in meeting to talk about what’s involved in dealing with publishers, what kind of questions should one ask, and what aspects of a contract are especially important to pay attention to. Join Julie Hendon, Scholarly Communications Librarians Janelle Wertzberger and Chris Barnes, and special guests Dan DeNicola (Philosophy) and Radi Rangelova (Spanish/LACLS) for an informal discussion of these issues based on your concerns or questions. We also welcome questions related to journal publishing or being a contributor to an edited volume. We’re not lawyers or literary agents but we have experience with ...

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University Research Enterprise And Your Library, Anne E. Rauh, Jan Fransen 2017 Syracuse University

University Research Enterprise And Your Library, Anne E. Rauh, Jan Fransen

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

No abstract provided.

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New And Upcoming Bepress Developments, Promita Chatterji 2017 bepress

New And Upcoming Bepress Developments, Promita Chatterji

Digital Commons - Heartland User Group + IR Day

This presentation will discuss recent and upcoming developments from bepress, including:

  • Harvesting: Work with pilot testers, a demonstration of the initial release of our harvesting tool, and plans for future development of the feature
  • New option to host streaming content on Digital Commons
  • Fields to support grants and professional service information on the Expert Gallery Suite
  • Tools to support reporting on campus

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Cool Things In Scholars' Mine, James Roger Weaver 2017 Missouri University of Science and Technology

Cool Things In Scholars' Mine, James Roger Weaver

Digital Commons - Heartland User Group + IR Day

No abstract provided.

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Customizing Metadata Fields And Using The Content Inventory Report To Manage Digital Commons, Nancy Krost 2017 Missouri University of Science and Technology

Customizing Metadata Fields And Using The Content Inventory Report To Manage Digital Commons, Nancy Krost

Digital Commons - Heartland User Group + IR Day

In Scholars’ Mine, we have heavily customized the metadata in our series, event communities, journals and galleries. This allows us to more easily track the content in our IR, discover errors, find opportunities to make the IR more robust, and run statistics.

The Content Inventory report is an incredibly useful tool in managing Digital Commons because it combines data across series rather that our having to export each series, adjust the metadata fields and then combine them. One example of this is our faculty works which are deposited in departments and filtered into a Faculty Research and Creative Works collection ...

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Popular Authors

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Agatha Gifty & Michael Larson /Owusu-Acheaw University of Winneba & Koforidua Polytechnic

Cynthia Kumah McGill University

Paul Royster University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Charles Omekwu University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Helen Okpala (nee Eke) University of Nigeria,Nsukka

Jennifer Odoh University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Sudha S Department of Library and Information Science, Periyar Universtiy

Adeyinka Tella University of Botswana

David Cabonero Saint Mary's University - Phillipines

Russell Dolendo Benguet State University - Philippines

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