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Mental Health First Aid, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

Lifespan Development I, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

Examining Young Children's Information Practices And Experiences: A Child-Centered Methodological Approach, Sarah C. Barriage

Information Science Faculty Publications

Researchers interested in children and youth's engagement with information have developed participatory, multi-method approaches of collecting and analyzing data directly with children and youth. However, examples of this approach in studies specifically focused on young children in library and information science are scarce. This article describes the methodological approach used in a study of 5- to 7-year-old children's information practices and experiences related to their individual interests. Drawing on conceptual frameworks from both library and information science and childhood studies, this study used multiple methods of data collection in understanding young children's own perspectives of their information activities. Namely, data …

Look What We've Got For You! – Promoting Library Collections, Viola Voß, Göran Hamrin

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Librarians spend a lot of time and thought on the question "what to buy for the library?" to meet the users’ needs as best as possible. But what happens once a book or a database or a journal has made it onto the (virtual) shelf? How do users learn about new acquisitions or interesting holdings? In this talk we take a tour across collection-marketing activities by academic or research libraries, highlighting some successful examples and collecting ideas for reuse. Method: We scouted the internet presence of all IATUL member libraries, taking into account their websites and, if available, their web …

An Introduction To The University Of Otago Library Capability Framework And What Its Data Reveals About The Capabilities Required By Researcher-Facing Librarians Delivering Inside-Out Services., Shiobhan Smith

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Lorcan Dempsey has coined the term “inside-out” to describe how academic libraries are increasingly supporting the processes of research at their institutions (Dempsey, 2016). Digital scholarship, changes in scholarly communication practices, advancing technology, and the growing use of bibliometrics for research evaluation, are fuelling the evolution of library research support services. Researcher-facing librarians are increasingly being required to upskill and engage with the research process at deeper, more technical, levels. In 2019 a project commenced at the University of Otago Library to gather information about the knowledge, skills, abilities and attributes of researcher-facing librarians performing inside-out tasks. Various job descriptions …

International Visibility Of Thesis And Dissertations From Ulisboa Through The Institutional Repositories: Gateway For Open Science, Tatiana Sanches, Luiza Baptista Melo, Silvia Costa Lopes, Susanna Oliveira Henriques

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Institutional repositories of universities are initiatives that integrate the concept of Open Science, enhancing the free circulation of academic and scientific production. The current University of Lisbon (ULisboa) results from the fusion of the former University of Lisbon and Technical University of Lisbon, in 2013. Currently, ULisboa comprises 18 schools. Since the fusion, University of Lisbon still has two independent institutional repositories based on DSpace – the Repositório.UL and the UTL Repository. Focused on the collection of theses and dissertations, the aim of the following study is to look at the scientific production of ULisboa and analyse the international visibility …

Library And Faculty Partnering To Increase Open Access Publishing Among Researchers, Cristina Sousa Lopes, Teresa Oliveira Ramos, Palmira Seixas, Luis Miguel Costa, Ana Freitas

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This paper aims to describe the collaboration of FEUP’s Library with faculty in the course unit “Publishing and Scientific Writing” for third-cycle students. It contributed to U.Porto Journal of Engineering, a new open-access journal of the Faculty of Engineering, indexed in DOAJ, OpenAIRE and Scopus. This study also reports the course unit’s lifecycle from its design, development and implementation as a face-to-face format until its present evolution to an online offer. Throughout the last decades, academic libraries have reinforced their educational role as active partners in teaching, learning and research activities within their institutions. In this course, FEUP’s Library is …

A Scientometric Introspect Of Literary Warrants Published In Annals Of Library And Information Studies (Alis) During The Last Decade, Manash Esh Mr, Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Scientometric studies are enduring studies that portray an organized visual of messy data. The current study is a scientometric study based on secondary data sets included in Scopus. A corpus of 311 documents published in the journal Annals of Library and Information Studies (ALIS) from 2011 to 2020 was the population of the study. The study focused on several characteristics of the journal, including article distribution, average author per document, average document per year, authorship productivity, collaboration index, country-wise distribution of documents and citation analysis. The study retrieved the most prolific author contributing to this journal with 19 articles. The …

A Bibliometric Study On Research Of Cloud Computing In Libraries, Shanmugam Rajeswari, Praveena Krish

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Cloud Computing is internet based computing where virtual shared servers provide software, infrastructure, platform devices and other resources and hosting to customers on a pay-as-you-use basis. All information that a digitized system has to offer is provided as a service in the cloud computing model. Users can access these services available on the “Internet Cloud” without having any previous know- how on managing the resources involved. Publication is essential to productivity in research, the work will be recognized only when it takes a conservative, physical form which can be received , accessed and recongised by professionals. This study aims to …

Analyzing The Theses & Dissertations To Inflibnet Shodhganga By Central And State Universities Of North East India, Nipan Haloi, Digbijoy Das

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have provided various means to the institutions in carrying out research as for the intellectual output of any academic institution is variably measured, analyzed and interpreted by the quality of contributions through research publications. Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), its creation and use has made the way for more scholarly outreach. The academic institutions are in the process of making these research assets available for public sharing. ‘Shodhganga’ being one of the crucial projects undertaken by the INFLIBNET center provides a common space for the Indian Universities to upload and share their institutionally published theses …

Exploring The Information Needs Of Competition Inclined University Students, Vinit Kumar, Rahul Pandey

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study investigates the information needs of university students engaged in preparing for competitive examinations. Investigating the format and kinds of information sources highly considered by competition inclined students the study identifies the factors the library should consider while selecting information sources from the perspective of competition inclined students. Collecting data using a structured questionnaire, the study reveal that the majority of the respondents consider both print and electronic format of information sources. The competition inclined students use books the most, followed by newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals, Similarly, the most considerable challenges emerged to be ‘relevant information scattered …

Exploring The Etds On Shodhganga Project: A Detailed Study On The State Universities Of West Bengal, Srijan Dey, Digbijoy Das

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The intellectual output of any academic institution is variably measured, analyzed and interpreted by the quality of contributions through research publications. The creation and use of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) have paved the way for more scholarly outreach. Beside keeping the hard copies in the library book-shelves, the academic institutions are in the process of making these research assets available for public sharing. ‘Shodhganga’ being one of the crucial projects undertaken by the INFLIBNET center provides a common space for the Indian Universities to upload and share their institutionally published theses and dissertations in electronic form. In this paper, …

Online Information Resources Utilization Among Students In Adeyemi College Of Education, Ondo, Nigeria, Peter Olubunmi Olubiyo, Victoria Yemi Fagbemi (Mrs), Robert Akinade Awoyemi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study is on online information resources utilization among students in Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, Nigeria. Five research questions guided the research work. 150 copies of questionnaire were administered to students through face to face method in order to collect data. Simple Random sampling technique was also used for the study. In the data analysis, frequency counts, simple percentages, mean and standard deviation were used for the statistical analysis. The findings revealed that that the level of students’ awareness of online information resources in Adeyemi College of Education Library is low. It also indicated the level of students’ of …

Comparative Study On Information Seeking Behaviour Of Research Scholars And Teachers Of Selective Science Departments In Burdwan University, Amit Kumar Das, Sukumar Mandal Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose

The study has been made on selected three departments of pure science research scholar and teachers’ information seeking behavior in Burdwan University and to find out the various aspects of information seeking behavior, (i.e., motivation, various library visits and spending times, and resources used, satisfaction level, success rate of seeking information resources etc.).

Methodology

This study encompasses on research scholars and teachers in pure science departments (i.e. Chemistry, Physics and mathematics of the University Burdwan. The online Google form questionnaires were disseminated to teachers and research scholars in three science departments in Burdwan University. Out of that 186, 154 …

Bibliometric Review Of Fpga Based Implementation Of Cnn, Priti Shahane, Piyush Tyagi, Purba Saha, Shravan Sainath, Swanand Bedekar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Nowadays Convolution Neural Network (CNN) has become the state of the art for machine learning algorithms due to their high accuracy. However, implementation of CNN algorithms on hardware platforms becomes challenging due to high computation complexity, memory bandwidth and power consumption. Hardware accelerators such as Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) are suitable platforms to model CNN algorithms. Recently FPGAs have been considered as an attractive platform for CNN implementation. Modern FPGAs have various embedded hardware and software blocks such as a soft processor, DSP slice and memory blocks. These embedded resources …

Research On Psychology In India And South Africa A Comparative Scientometric Study, Praveen Bhoopal Hulloli

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Psychology is one of the field in which constant research is going on, the main objective of this paper is to compare the quality of research output of the two countries like India and South Africa in the field of psychology. The study is conducted by taking citations from WOS database. In this paper the analysis of 14,30,700 global research publications out of which, India contributed 12,543 (0.88%), 96,871 citations with 107 h-index and South Africa 9,938 (0.69%) papers, 1,21,385 citations with 126 h-index received is considered. Study during the years from 2001to 2020 has been compared in the form …

Global Scientific Trends On Management And Public Policy Research During 2000-2019: A Bibliometric Study, Prakoso Bhairawa Putera, Rostiena Pasciana, Siti Zubaidah

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This research utilizes bibliometric review of global management and public research in 2000-2019, through co-word analysis, co-author analysis, journal analysis, institution analysis, and country analysis. A total of 19,050 bibliographic records from Scopus core collection databases were selected and analyzed. The findings reveal an evolution of the research field on the management and public policy. This research aims to provide an understanding of trend for research on management and public policy worldwide. The results navigate that during the last twenty years, the average annual publication in the field of management and public policy was recorded approximately 568 articles, with the …

Effects Of Automated Housekeeping Operations And Services On Work Productivity Of University Library Professionals In Punjab, Pakistan, Muhammad Younus, Memoona Bukhari

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study aimed to explore the effects of automated housekeeping operations and services on library and information science (LIS) professionals’ work productivity in university libraries in the Punjab, Pakistan. It also aimed to gain an overview of the status of automation of housekeeping operations and services in the libraries. The study employed the quantitative research method. The data were collected from LIS professionals working in leading university libraries (both in public and private sectors) through the questionnaire.

The findings of the study suggest that most of the libraries included in the study had automated housekeeping operations. The majority of the …

Finding Aid For The Newark-Wayne Community Hospital Collection, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital

Finding Aids

Collection of records for Newark-Wayne Community Hospital.

Scholars' Mine Quick Facts June 2021, Nancy S. Krost

Scholars’ Mine Statistics

Scholars' Mine Quick Facts are monthly reports of downloads, page hits, and other information about works in the institutional repository of Missouri S&T. A map with downloads by region is also included.

A Study Of Causes Behind Low International Scientific Publishing Rates In Social Sciences Majors, Saffanah Zedan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

International publishing of researchers’ intellectual production has become one of the most eminent indicators for ranking universities. This is because the number of research studies published in international journals reflects the extent of a university’s progress in world university rankings and its interest in the scientific research as an indispensable element. This study aims to uncover the causes of the low international scientific publishing ratios in scientific journals indexed in international databases among faculty members in social sciences majors at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, and to identify faculty members’ preferred methods in acquiring the international publishing culture through a …

We Are Partners! Connecting Through Collaboration And Engagement With Communities At Smu Libraries, Wei Xia

Research Collection Library

No abstract provided.

Fulcrum, Newsletter Of The Furman University Libraries. Issue 15, Jenny Colvin, Kathy Hamlin

Libraries Institutional Records

Table of Contents

• From the Director
• Celebrating Our Library Staff Member, Robyn Andrews
• April 23, 2021 - A Record Breaking DiNS Day!
• Joseph Vaughn Plaza and Statue Dedication
• News Flash from Digital and Resource Management as well as Outreach and Access Services
• On to a Degree in Librarianship
• Special Collection and Archives: "Cocktails with a Curator", Rare Book Acquisitions, a Truly Unique Look at 2020
• Steve Richardson Retires After 35 Years at Furman

Rebuilding Orcid Campus Outreach During A Pandemic, Christina M. Miskey

Library Faculty Research

Since 2017, ORCID outreach at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas has stagnated due to insufficient staffing. A new librarian was tasked in early 2020 with facilitating new ORCID campus outreach and education with campus researchers. Simultaneously, the COVID-19 pandemic caused the university campus to shut down, which significantly limited the ability to forge relationships and outreach. Despite these challenges, the new librarian managed to rebuild campus partnerships, establish relationships with library colleagues, and develop an outreach plan that focused on creating virtual services such as workshops and on expanding digital resources such as LibGuides and tutorials to reach faculty …

Deconstructing Service In Libraries: Intersections Of Identities And Expectations (Book Review), Nandi Prince

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Public Knowledge, Emily Drabinski

Publications and Research

An editorial framing the author's perspective on book reviews as a form of scholarly communication.

Implementing Excellence In Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion In The Library Workforce: Tips To Overcome Challenges, Kanu A. Nagra, Bernadette M. López-Fitzsimmons

Publications and Research

Diversifying the library workforce is challenging, with the graduation data of library and information science degrees not representing equity in demographics for diverse populations. Is this the reason for the lack of diversity among library staff or are recruitment practices not based on measurable performance standards? Both questions call upon the library and information science (LIS) profession to address diverse staffing issues to remedy these challenges.

Storytime Programs As Mirrors, Windows, And Sliding Glass Doors? Addressing Children’S Needs Through Diverse Book Selection, Maria Cahill, Erin E. Ingram, Soohyung Joo

Information Science Faculty Publications

Much research suggests that exposure to diverse books that feature the lived experiences of people with marginalized or underrepresented identities influences how children perceive their own value and the significance of others who do and do not look like them. Library associations have recently called for greater attention to issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion to be reflected across all aspects of library services and programs. The purpose of this study was to examine the print materials used in public library storytime programs to identify the extent to which storytime exposes children to diverse people. Results indicate that, across all …

Quick Pivots: Maintaining An Agile Approach To Outreach During An Evolving Crisis, Holly M. Surbaugh

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

As the University of New Mexico responded to the coronavirus pandemic during the spring and summer of 2020, the University Libraries piloted enhanced virtual outreach initiatives, including an online event series and scaled-up social media activity. The Summer of Sci Fi (SoSF) consisted of three Zoom-facilitated programs that offered fun activities designed to engage a socially distanced campus community while highlighting various library resources. Numerous “quick pivots” were necessary to accommodate unpredictable circumstances throughout the pilot implementation. This experience has demonstrated the advantages of approaching outreach with an agile stance, particularly during a crisis.

Merged Nces Academic Library Survey 1996 - 2018, Starr Hoffman Phd, Samantha Godbey

Library Faculty Datasets

This data set consists of data on academic libraries in the United States from 1996-2018. Multiple data sources from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) were merged, as detailed in the comments below.

See also: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/lib_datasets/1/.