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Neoliberalism And Reconfiguration Of The Diaspora In Contemporary Indonesia, Inditian Latifa

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

In most studies on globalization and transnationalism, diaspora is positioned in a conflicting and antagonistic relationship with the nation-state regime. Nevertheless, the global ascendancy of neoliberalism as a market-based mode of governing populations has brought certain changes to the relationship between the diaspora and home countries which call for further research. This essay investigates the implications of neoliberalism for diasporic kinship ties by examining emergent discourses in contemporary Indonesia that constitute an elite-led project on diasporas known as the Indonesian Diaspora Network (IDN) Global. Based on a social constructionist analysis of data gathered from activities, media reporting, and promotional materials …

Kebijakan Pembangunan Tol Laut Dan Potensi Dampaknya Pada Tinggalan Kapal Asing Bersejarah Yang Karam Di Wilayah Perairan Indonesia, Hutomo Putra

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

The construction of sea toll roads is one of the manifestations of President Jokowi’s superior program for strengthening Indonesia’s identity as a maritime country and to develop Indonesia as a whole from west to east. The necessity for sea toll road construction aims to improve the distribution of goods and trade commodities, particularly for the purpose of balancing the economic gap between the western and eastern regions of Indonesia. On the other hand, the construction of sea toll roads could possibly have an impact on archaeological objects, especially the remains of historic shipwrecks that have sunk and spread in several …

Not Stuck In A Drawer: Successfully Implementing A Strategic Plan, Jennifer Nutefall, Nicole Branch

University Libraries Faculty Publications

Discover strategies to successfully manage the implementation of your library’s strategic plan. This session will focus on five activities to successfully implement a strategic plan. These activities make the plan a living document with real connection to the day-to-day work of the entire library. The activities include breaking goals into concrete actions, creating a tracking spreadsheet, assigning leads from library management to each strategic plan objective, conducting quarterly strategic plan update meetings with the library management group, and providing regular communication with the library managers and the entire library staff.

Watt - Libraries Summit, Clemson University

Presentations

No abstract provided.

Gender And Organizational Citizenship Behavior In Library Technology: Mixed Methods Study, Sharon Whitfield

Theses and Dissertations

Academic librarianship continues to be a feminized profession, yet there are specializations within the profession that tend to be gender segregated, such as library technology. In this mixed methods study, women technology librarians' behaviors are examined through the gendered lens of organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs), which are discretionary, voluntary acts that are outside an employee's job description (Organ, 1988), but help shape the organizational culture and facilitate organizational functioning (Podsakoff & MacKenzie, 1997). This mixed methods study uses a survey to inform the extent of differences in organizational citizenship behaviors between men and women, and interviews to provide new insight …

Data Migration From Legacy Systems To Koha: A Practical Approach, Vimal Kumar, Majeed Abdul

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Koha library management software opened up a new ray of hope for libraries not automated yet in India. Many libraries would like to free from proprietary software and switch over to Koha. Data migration from legacy software, not an easy task due to vendor lock-in and data in a non-standard format. Good homework and teamwork required for the successful migration from proprietary software to Koha. The article gives an overview of various processes in data migration from legacy library automation software to Koha.

Escape The Doubt Using Escape Rooms To Teach And Align Learning With Ga Standards Of Excellence (Gse) & The Common Core Georgia Performance Standards (Ccgps), Dawn Nikki Cannon-Rech, Kay Coates

Library Faculty Presentations

Presentation given at the EdCamp 2019 Conference.

Reading Habits Of Senior Secondary School Students: With Special Reference To Nagaur District, Rajasthan, Pramod Kumar Research Scholar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of the present study to find out and investigates the use of library services-facilities and reading habits of senior secondary school students in Nagaur district Rajasthan. This study was conducted in 6 Senior Secondary Schools under the CBSE affiliation schools and Government Board of Rajasthan schools in Nagaur Rajasthan. This study display the diverse aspects of reading habits like,reading study of the documents issued from the library, use of references documents, aims of the study, place of reading, time spent inside the library, which medium reading documents preferred by students .For this study only class 11th and 12th …

Where Have All The Good Tweets Gone? An Examination Of The Information Policies At Play In Twitter Archiving, Georgia Westbrook

School of Information Studies - Post-doc and Student Scholarship

In 2010, the Library of Congress started archiving every public Tweet after receiving a “starter” archive of Tweets from the first four years of Twitter’s existence (2006- 2010); however, the Library could not keep up with the volume of Tweets being produced, so it halted the program at the beginning of 2018.

With changes in data harvesting and mining technologies, the ultimate goal of the project — archiving every Tweet — may be realized in the near future. As a result, it is necessary to examine the policies in place, alongside the issues which informed them, and those policies which …

Alma Normalization Rules: The Basics And Beyond, Julene L. Jones, Susan Wynne

Library Presentations

Alma normalization rules are a powerful tool for editing and enhancing bibliographic and holding records, in batch or individually. This presentation will describe how to read and write normalization rules for beginner and intermediate users. We will cover the syntax and logic of normalization rules, how and why to add a rule as a process, common use cases and real-world examples, and best practices and tricks we’ve learned along the way. No programming experience is necessary for this session. At the end of the session, attendees will understand the basic syntax of normalization rules, how to interpret a normalization rule, …

Carpe Data With Alma Analytics, Mary Ellen Willemsen, Julene L. Jones

Library Presentations

Capturing your data is vital to the smooth functioning of any library. We will be providing some tips and tricks to help you gather and analyze your data using Alma Analytics. After the presentation you will know how to gather data within a date period (i.e., all items that circulated in the last 30 days or between a date period), filter your data, count data, subtract one set of numbers from another, and import your results into a set in Alma to further analyze or manipulate your data. We will also include any formulas that we have found to be …

A Bibliometric Study And Visualization Of Library Philosophy And Practice During 1998-2018, Mohammad Karim Saberi, Sana Barkhan, Ronak Hamzehei

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to analyze bibliometrics and visualization of Library Philosophy and Practice (LPP).

Design/methodology/approach- Scopus citation database was used to gather the data. Using advanced search in the database, bibliographic data of the articles published in the journal over the past twenty years were extracted. Then, the analysis was performed using bibliometric indicators and some applications, such as Microsoft Excel and VOS viewer.

Findings- The data indicated that the process of publications (R²=0.69) and citations received by papers (R²=0.85) was ascending. The paper of W. Fang (2007), "Using Google analytics for improving library website content …

Ways To Create Awareness On Cultural Heritage: An Overview, Somipam R. Shimray

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to examine the various ways to create awareness and facilitate general awareness on cultural heritage

Design/methodology/approach - The author had reviewed the past literature on methods to promote cultural heritage awareness and analyzed how it can be used by memory institute to create awareness.

Findings - Preceding studies on cultural heritage it is found that heritage festivals, freedom walk, heritage trails, heritage walk, heritage awards, street plays, heritage newspapers and promotion of heritage in education are the prominent tools to create awareness.

Originality/value - This study helps to understand different techniques to …

Environmental Sustainability In Libraries Through Green Practices/Services, Priti Singh (Junior Research Fellow), Rajani Mishra (Associate Professor)

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper is an attempt to discuss the role of green practices/services which are incorporated within libraries towards environmentally sustainable. With continuous use and easy availability of new technologies like computer printers, faxes, and photocopiers etc. it is very important to protect the environment. Since, all these machines have an impact using paper, ink, and electricity on the environment. This paper begins with an explanation of sustainability, environmental sustainability, green printing, and copying etc. Further, demonstrates the various sustainable strategies for the libraries. And also highlights the strategies for overcoming the impact of paper use, ink use and electricity. This …

Recording Transcript: Backward Design For Librarians, New England Library Instruction Group

New England Library Instruction Group

Full transcript of the webinar to accompany the recording.

Slides: Backward Design For Librarians, Michael Goudzwaard

New England Library Instruction Group

Slides for Mike Goudzwaard's Backward Design for Librarians webinar, NELIG's 2019 spring program.

Legacy Grants: Assessment, Feedback, & Action, Daardi Sizemore Mixon, Sherry Stirling, Carolyn Veeser-Egbide, Melinda Hutchinson, Sheila Brommel

Library Services Publications

Members of the Legacy Strategic Agenda (LSA) Grants Priority Action Team (PAT) will provide an update on the recommendations presented at last year’s MALHM conference. The session will include:

• A quick overview of our assessment process and the recommendations that were developed
• Information on how feedback from the 2018 MALHM conference impacted the process
• Recommendation prioritization and implementation timeline
• Implementation updates

The session will conclude with an opportunity for attendees to provide additional feedback on the project.

Hidden Treasures, Nicole Grady Mountjoy

University Libraries Librarian and Staff Presentations

The Poster Presentation will consist of the reasons and steps taken to reevaluate/reprocess the Holt-Atherton Special Collections book collection, and the results. When the project was first started, it was found that several of the books thought to be cataloged were actually not. Now that the project is drawing to a close all previous items not discoverable can now be found and are accessible to our patrons. The project also brought to light several “hidden treasures” that can now be used in classes given in Special Collections. For example a fore-edged painted book that was unknown is not cataloged as …

Because I Said So: Ten Tips For Finding Volunteers And Keeping Them Happy, Adam Stephen Guy Smith, Heather Hoagland

Library Services Publications

Volunteers, interns and student workers are indispensable at local museums and archives in achieving their yearly goals. Teaching and managing the occasional quirks of this important group of people is as important as knowing how to sew a tag on an artifact. “Because I Said So” will provide ideas for how to work with volunteers of all ages doing collections management and archival tasks without tearing out your hair, or ruining any artifacts.

A Bibliometric Analysis Of Theses At The School Of Nuclear And Allied Sciences, University Of Ghana, Legon, Albert Paa Kojo Ebi Bilson, Anankyela Anaba Alemna, Edwin Ellis Badu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of the study was to analyse the Master of Philosophy and the Doctor of Philosophy theses publications by postgraduate students at the School of Nuclear and Allied Science (SNAS), University of Ghana from (2008 - 2016) using the INIS database as the source of data. The study used the bibliometric method. The purposive sampling technique was used to retrieve four hundred and fourteen (414) theses records from a population of five hundred and thirty eight (538) theses records published in Ghana. The International Nuclear Information System (INIS) database and the search query language (country:Ghana AND recordtype:Thesis/Dissertation) were the …