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Assessing E-Journal Post-Cancellation Access, Sunshine Carter, Yumiko Toyota-Kindler Mar 2021

Assessing E-Journal Post-Cancellation Access, Sunshine Carter, Yumiko Toyota-Kindler

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Enhancing The Rigor Of Common Library Assessment Activities, Craig E. Smith Mar 2021

Enhancing The Rigor Of Common Library Assessment Activities, Craig E. Smith

Against the Grain

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Deadlines Mar 2021

Deadlines

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Letters To The Editor, Katina Strauch Mar 2021

Letters To The Editor, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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From Your Editor, Katina Strauch Mar 2021

From Your Editor, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch Mar 2021

If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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Epistomolgy- Three Ways Of Talking About Sci-Hub Library Patrons, T. Scott Plutchak Mar 2021

Epistomolgy- Three Ways Of Talking About Sci-Hub Library Patrons, T. Scott Plutchak

Against the Grain

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Library Analytics: Shaping The Futire- Call It What You Want, John Mcdonald, Kathleen Mcevoy, John T. Elwell Mar 2021

Library Analytics: Shaping The Futire- Call It What You Want, John Mcdonald, Kathleen Mcevoy, John T. Elwell

Against the Grain

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Library Serials Vendor Relationships: The Human Element, Barbara Albee Mar 2021

Library Serials Vendor Relationships: The Human Element, Barbara Albee

Against the Grain

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Progress And Pitfalls In Consortial Ebook Acquisitions: The Orbis Cascade Alliance Experience, Abigail Bibee, Andrea Langhurst Eickholt, Jesse Holden Mar 2021

Progress And Pitfalls In Consortial Ebook Acquisitions: The Orbis Cascade Alliance Experience, Abigail Bibee, Andrea Langhurst Eickholt, Jesse Holden

Against the Grain

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How To Use Data And Assessment To Automate Collections Workflows And Decisions, Daniel M. Dollar Mar 2021

How To Use Data And Assessment To Automate Collections Workflows And Decisions, Daniel M. Dollar

Against the Grain

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Biz Of Digital — Digitization Workflows: Streamlining The Digitization Process And Distinguishing The Peculiarities In Capturing Various Archival Materials, Michelle Flinchbaugh, Marina Georgieva Mar 2021

Biz Of Digital — Digitization Workflows: Streamlining The Digitization Process And Distinguishing The Peculiarities In Capturing Various Archival Materials, Michelle Flinchbaugh, Marina Georgieva

Against the Grain

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Both Sides Now: Vendors And Librarians — The First Rule Of Negotiation Requires Both Sides To Bargain In Good Faith, Michael Gruenberg Mar 2021

Both Sides Now: Vendors And Librarians — The First Rule Of Negotiation Requires Both Sides To Bargain In Good Faith, Michael Gruenberg

Against the Grain

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If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch Mar 2021

If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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Going The Distance For International Students: Academic Integrity Support Online, Mandi Goodsett Mar 2021

Going The Distance For International Students: Academic Integrity Support Online, Mandi Goodsett

Michael Schwartz Library Publications

Targeted instruction that teaches international students about plagiarism is an important service that academic libraries can offer. Offering such instruction as an asynchronous, online workshop has distinct benefits in terms of flexibility and ease of learning, but it must be designed with the needs of international students in mind. This study describes one library’s online anti-plagiarism workshop, as well as the results of a qualitative study to determine how such a workshop can best be designed to meet the needs of international students.


What Documents Cannot Do: Revisiting Michael Polanyi And The Tacit Knowledge Dilemma, C. Sean Burns Mar 2021

What Documents Cannot Do: Revisiting Michael Polanyi And The Tacit Knowledge Dilemma, C. Sean Burns

Information Science Faculty Publications

Our culture is dominated by digital documents in ways that are easy to overlook. These documents have changed our worldviews about science and have raised our expectations of them as tools for knowledge justification. This article explores the complexities surrounding the digital document by revisiting Michael Polanyi’s theory of tacit knowledge—the idea that “we can know more than we can tell.” The theory presents to us a dilemma: if we can know more than we can tell, then this means that the communication of science via the document as a primary form of telling will always be incomplete. This dilemma …


University Libraries Faculty Assembly Covid-19 Impact Statement, Emily Frigo, Leigh Rupinski, Sheila García Mazari, Jeffrey D. Daniels, Annie Bélanger Mar 2021

University Libraries Faculty Assembly Covid-19 Impact Statement, Emily Frigo, Leigh Rupinski, Sheila García Mazari, Jeffrey D. Daniels, Annie Bélanger

Library Reports and Communication

This University Libraries Faculty Assembly Covid-19 Impact Statement serves as documentation of changes that occurred across University Libraries and caused disparate, inequitable, impact to faculty throughout the pandemic, beginning in March 2020 and spanning into 2021. The document is necessarily limited in scope to assist faculty candidates in the tenure-track process and mitigate potential traumas as a result of the pandemic’s impact on that process. The structure of the tenure-track process is imperfect in nature, and this statement takes a trauma-informed, person-first, approach to investigating how to best support candidates in making their case for contract renewal, tenure, and/or promotion.


"We Can Be Our Best Alliance": Resilient Health Information Practices Of Lgbtqia+ Individuals As A Buffering Response To Minority Stress, Valerie Lookingbill, A. Nick Vera, Travis L. Wagner, Vanessa L. Kitzie Mar 2021

"We Can Be Our Best Alliance": Resilient Health Information Practices Of Lgbtqia+ Individuals As A Buffering Response To Minority Stress, Valerie Lookingbill, A. Nick Vera, Travis L. Wagner, Vanessa L. Kitzie

Student Publications

This article examines the resilient health information practices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) individuals as agentic forms of buffering against minority stressors. Informed by semi- structured interviews with 30 LGBTQIA+ community leaders from South Carolina, our findings demonstrate how LGBTQIA+ individuals engage in resilient health information practices and community-based resilience. Further, our findings suggest that LGBTQIA+ communities integrate externally produced stressors. These findings have implications for future research on minority stress and resiliency strategies, such as shifting from outreach to engagement and leveraging what communities are doing, rather than assuming they are lacking. Further, as …


Online Behaviors Of Teenagers On The Autism Spectrum, Amelia Anderson, Abigail Phillips Mar 2021

Online Behaviors Of Teenagers On The Autism Spectrum, Amelia Anderson, Abigail Phillips

STEMPS Faculty Publications

The Internet can be a source of connection and support for teenagers on the autism spectrum. This study explores how teenagers on the autism spectrum who identify as library users spend time online by addressing the following research questions: How do teens on the autism spectrum participate in the online environment? And, how do teens on the autism spectrum make sense of social media? Quantitative and qualitative data was analyzed from nine participants, recruited through online discussion forums. Implications suggest a potential role for educators and librarians to offer opportunities and support in creating and building online connections.


Scientometric Analysis And Visualization Of Astrovirus Based On R-Packages, Sivankalai S, Virumandi A, Sivasekaran K, Bala Sankar B, Balamurugan B, Sharmila M, Kaladevi P Mar 2021

Scientometric Analysis And Visualization Of Astrovirus Based On R-Packages, Sivankalai S, Virumandi A, Sivasekaran K, Bala Sankar B, Balamurugan B, Sharmila M, Kaladevi P

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

We examined scientific production of the astroviruses study community done the past two decades in the worldwide. Scientometric methods, particularly the literature development models, Document types, Most Global Cited Documents, Most Frequent Words, Authors collaboration, Author Impact (h-index, g-index, m-index), Most Local Cited Authors, Relevant Countries by Corresponding Author, Most Cited Countries, Most Relevant Affiliations are identified. The results of this study confess that the scientific literature on astroviruses in worldwide had grown-up exponentially with an annual growth rate of about 8.86% during the above declared period. Journal of medical virology were the most productive journals contributing 71 articles of …


A Case Of Pre-Implementation Of The Integrated Repository For University Administration By Academic Librarians, Marek Deja, Leszek Szafrański Mar 2021

A Case Of Pre-Implementation Of The Integrated Repository For University Administration By Academic Librarians, Marek Deja, Leszek Szafrański

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this paper is to observe how employees of academic library administration are developing and how they comply with the internal quality assurance policy (IQA) regarding pre-implementation of the integrated repository (IR). We are interested in information practices of administration staff in the scope of cooperation and open communication with the management staff and external entities. We have studied the role of the current information practices in the successful implementation of IR at the university by academic librarians. We used the method of participant observation and unstructured interviews supported by BPMN modelling (Business Process Model and Notation) and …


Counter 5: Lessons Learned And New Insights Achieved, Jill Emery, Lorraine Estelle, Stephanie J. Adams Mar 2021

Counter 5: Lessons Learned And New Insights Achieved, Jill Emery, Lorraine Estelle, Stephanie J. Adams

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources) Release 5 has brought many improvements to reporting usage of e-resources. This session covered the three main developments which are the ability to see both total and unique downloads, the default exclusion of Gold Open Access usage in Standard View reports, and the introduction of the Unique_Title metric for reporting e-book usage. Examples of the manner in which different types of e-journal and e-book usage are reported with the new metrics as well as recommendations for calculating cost per use were also provided. Detailed information on Release 5 can be found in …


Analysis Of Recent Trends In Continuous Sign Language Recognition Using Nlp, Vijayshri Nitin Khedkar, Sonali Kothari Dr, Aarohi Prasad, Arunima Mishra, Varun Saha, Vinay Kumar Mar 2021

Analysis Of Recent Trends In Continuous Sign Language Recognition Using Nlp, Vijayshri Nitin Khedkar, Sonali Kothari Dr, Aarohi Prasad, Arunima Mishra, Varun Saha, Vinay Kumar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Oralism is an ideology and practice that advocates communication that is based solely on speech. This practice is encouraged from a pretty early age in our country. As a consequence, the hard of hearing are constantly forced to negotiate with schools, colleges, organisations, workspaces, and families that don’t acknowledge the need and preference for sign language over oral languages. This results in inconsideration of an entire community for admissions, jobs and general social position. We aim to close that communication gap a little and take a step towards fighting the stigma associated with Sign Language. The aim is to provide …


Never Waste A Crisis: Digital Inclusion For Sustainable Development In The Context Of The Covid Pandemic, Amanda Reed, Kim M. Thompson Mar 2021

Never Waste A Crisis: Digital Inclusion For Sustainable Development In The Context Of The Covid Pandemic, Amanda Reed, Kim M. Thompson

Faculty Publications

In responding to United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in 2030, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions recently launched the mutual commitment of Library Pledge for Digital Inclusion and its Call to Action along with other international organizations. Domestic and foreign library leaders and well-known experts and scholars discuss the theme of Library and Digital Inclusion. Rao Quan points out that with the development of modern technology, the digital divide has become a growing problem. The National Library of China has put forward an idea of building a “National Smart Library System”, to lead public libraries to realize smart …


Is “Just Googling It” Good Enough For First-Year Students?, Maureen Richards Mar 2021

Is “Just Googling It” Good Enough For First-Year Students?, Maureen Richards

Publications and Research

This study analyzes citations by first-year students to determine what content they were citing and whether it was available through the open web or the library. Examining the role of these two places as content providers for academic work fills a gap in the literature. Most of the cited works were available through the library and the open web. As the line between content providers continues to blur, these results can help academic libraries prioritize what to teach students about information literacy, where to focus collection development efforts and how to promote the discovery of library resources.


Analyzing The Publishing Trends Of The Indian Council For Agricultural Research (Icar): A Scientometric Study, Dr Mariraj Vasudev Sedam Mar 2021

Analyzing The Publishing Trends Of The Indian Council For Agricultural Research (Icar): A Scientometric Study, Dr Mariraj Vasudev Sedam

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study analyses the publication productivity of the faculty and researchers of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR). Many scientometric studies have been done about institutional scientific outcome in recent years. The study presents a quantitative study of productivity, characteristics of various aspects of publications of ICAR. A total of 9236 contributions published and received 43876 citations with 4.75 average citations per paper in the study period.


Information Needs Of Myocardial Infarction Patients: An Integrative Review, Nazeer Hussain, Khalid Mahmood Mar 2021

Information Needs Of Myocardial Infarction Patients: An Integrative Review, Nazeer Hussain, Khalid Mahmood

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Cardiovascular diseases including myocardial infarction, heart failure, heart attacks and other related risk factors are on the rise in Pakistan. This heart disease is generating a high burden of coronary artery disease on healthcare services and becoming a leading cause of death in developing countries like Pakistan. Health information is an integral part of patient education and ultimately for patient care. Thus, understanding the information needs of heart patients are seriously important and essential in ensuring quality care, controlling heart diseases and improving the self-care abilities of heart patients alongside the advanced medication and treatment strategies. This integrative review intends …


Research Trends Of Icar-Iari Scientists: A Scientometric Analysis, Nidhisha P K, Sarangapani R Dr. Mar 2021

Research Trends Of Icar-Iari Scientists: A Scientometric Analysis, Nidhisha P K, Sarangapani R Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of the study is to analyze the research publication of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute published from 1989 to 2020. The study focuses on axes like publication growth, document type, country, journals, authors and trending topics. A total of 8764 publications visible through the Web of Science database as of January 2021 consider for the study. Bibexcel, Bibliometrix R-packages and MS Excel are the data analysis tools. The major findings show that Articles are the most published form of research works and the USA is the most collaborative country. Most of the top productive journals are Indian journals. …


Service Quality Dimensions And Quality View Point Of University Librarians In Gujarat, Dharmendra Trivedi, Atul Bhatt Dr., Sanchala Sejalben Dineshbhai Mar 2021

Service Quality Dimensions And Quality View Point Of University Librarians In Gujarat, Dharmendra Trivedi, Atul Bhatt Dr., Sanchala Sejalben Dineshbhai

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract: The present study focus on service quality dimensions and their attributes for measuring service quality of any kind of libraries. The study also discovered the quality viewpoints of librarians in terms of five elements of quality mainly: Leadership, Policy & Strategy, Staff management, Resources and finally the process aspects. For collecting the data, researchers has prepared a close ended questionnaire and collected data from five private university libraries. After analysis of the data, findings revealed that the all university librarians willing to improve quality services in the library and they are positive to listen to library users needs to …


Documenting And Mapping Covid-19 Responses By Ceal Libraries, Ryuta Komaki Feb 2021

Documenting And Mapping Covid-19 Responses By Ceal Libraries, Ryuta Komaki

Journal of East Asian Libraries

This paper presents an ongoing project to collect as-it-happens data on CEAL libraries’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, and discusses the information collected so far. The author collected website and social network site postings of CEAL libraries (n=43), which were posted from March to mid-September, 2020, and analyzed them using visualization tools. In the period of initial responses in March, most CEAL libraries suspended in-person reference services and circulation of print holdings, and closed their physical locations to patrons. Access to print books restarted in some libraries during the spring semester/quarter, while other services remained relatively unchanged. Print collections became …