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The Faculty Notebook, April 2024, Provost's Office

Faculty Notebook

The Faculty Notebook is published periodically by the Office of the Provost at Gettysburg College to bring to the attention of the campus community accomplishments and activities of academic interest. Faculty are encouraged to submit materials for consideration for publication to the Associate Provost for Faculty Development. Copies of this publication are available at the Office of the Provost.

A Visual Workflow For Cataloging, Arden Kirkland, Minor Gordon

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

Our digital collections team took on the challenge to improve the tools and processes of cataloging. We began to explore how we could build features that helped students into a cataloging worksheet tool, under development at DressDiscover.org. After our initial development of the tool, we looked back and realized just how much Universal Design for Learning (UDL) had influenced our design, although we had not consciously intended that from the start. Our assessment of the project through a UDL lens was at first extremely affirming, helping us to note many ways that our work already supported all three of …

Spring 2024 Library Newsletter, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Library Services

Library Services Newsletters

Minnesota State University, Mankato Library Services newsletter for Spring 2024.

Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Spring 2024, Musselman Library, Gettysburg College

Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter

From the Dean (Robin Wagner)

Library News

• Behind-the-Scenes at the Library of Congress
• Honor Commission Survey
• One Million Views
• Blues Masterclass
• Long Night Against Procrastination

Library Exhibits: Rare and Quiet: The Past Lives of Books (Sunni DeNicola)

Crafternoon Break

Browsing Room Makeover

Plant Propagation Program

Then and Now: The Eclipse

Improving Climate

Catherine Quinn Perry 1975 – 2024

GettDigital: Art and Geography Intersect

Getting to Know...

Memorial Day Reflection

Flashback: A Mark Twain Connection

Donor Profile: Meet the Collector

Library Bookshelf: How Do You Travel? (Beth Carmichael)

New Volume of Stewart Herman's Letters Published

Focus on Philanthropy: Hidden History

Unexpected …

Issue 56, Anna Nelson

NoteBooth

No abstract provided.

From The Vault - Spring 2024 Newsletter, Archives & Special Collections

From the Vault: Archives & Special Collections Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Smu Libraries – An Enabling Partner In Ai Information Literacy, Samantha Seah, Zhe Benedict Yeo, Lukas Tschopp

Research Collection Library

SMU Libraries plays a pivotal role in advancing AI information literacy within the larger need for digital literacy skills in the SMU community. In this presentation, participants will get an overview of SMU Libraries' engagement and partnerships with the academic community and will showcase initiatives and resources supporting AI literacy. This includes a discussion of insights from the scholarly literature, research findings and critical perspectives to inform teaching and learning practices related to AI. Speakers will share SMU Libraries’ contributions towards awareness and adoption of AI through a portfolio of successful collaborations and initiatives with partners and stakeholders within and …

The Anchor: April 2024, Hope College

The Anchor: 2024

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

Key Library Resources: Resources With Spanish Content, Raquel Estrada, William Flores

Library Display Posters

Collection of resources that contain spanish content. Also included are local collections found in ScholarWorks that contain spanish-only resources.

Research Support Newsletter (Spring 2024), Elizabeth D'Angel

The AC's Research Support Newsletter (Formerly AISR Connections)

New Resources

• Artificial Intelligence Guide
• Coming Soon: Proofig
• Coming Soon: Covidence

Grants & Funding

• Open Access Publishing Opportunities: Wiley, ACS, Springer, etc.
• Pivot-PR

Citation Tools

• RefWorks
• EndNote
• Sciwheel

Statistical Tools

• SAS
• SPSS
• Prism
• NVivo

Events

• LabArchives Introductions
• Qualitative Institute
• Research Seminars

Design, Publishing, & Communications

• Office for Writing, Publishing, and Communication
• Photographers, Graphic Designers, and Videographers
• BioRender & ChemDraw
• PubPeer

Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 23, No 2, Spring 2024, Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Magazine

Grand Valley Magazine is a quarterly publication about Grand Valley State University produced by University Communications since 2001.

Beyond The Library: The Role Of Academic Libraries’ Chat Reference In Answering Campus Questions, Erin Owens, Vanessa Arce, Darcy Del Bosque, Robin Fowler, Silvia Sheffield

Publications and Research

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic drove most users online, chat was establishing itself as a core service for asking library-related questions of many types, from basic directional and reference to research queries of a more sophisticated nature. This investigation seeks to provide insight into how academic libraries are seen not only as a source of library assistance, but also as a means of filling an information gap on a wider subject: the university campus at large. The study’s methods involved analyzing chat transcripts from five large four-year public universities during a two-year period (2019- 2021), noting the frequency of campus-related …

Test Document - Aria Overview Pdf, Corinne Sartori

Librarian Publications

This is a test document for Accessibility.

Bibliography For "Pubcrawl: Stacy Russo Display", Arianna Tillman, Isabella Piechota, Kalea Brown

Library Displays and Bibliographies

A bibliography created to accompany a display about Stacy Russo during April 2024 at the Leatherby Libraries at Chapman University, to support the annual Literary Pub(lishing) Crawl event hosted each year by the Department of English and the Leatherby Libraries.

Introduction, Predatory Publishing And Global Scholarly Communications (Chapter 1), Monica Berger

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Bibliography For "Pico Iyer Display", Isabella Piechota, Arianna Tillman, Kalea Brown

Library Displays and Bibliographies

A bibliography created to support a display about Pico Iyer at the Leatherby Libraries during April 2024 at the Leatherby Libraries at Chapman University.

Information Literacy In The Age Of Ai: A Conversation, Karen Kaufmann, Clarence Maybee

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Presented at the Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy April 19, 2024, this presentation discusses information literacy as a discipline in the age of AI, as well as teaching and research considerations for this new lens on information literacy.

The Discipline Of Information Literacy: A Conversation, Clarence Maybee, Karen Kaufmann

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Presented at LEAF, 2024. Introduces information literacy as a discipline and implications for teaching information literacy.

It's All Greek To Me: A Comprehensive History Of Greek Life Organizations At Hope College, Lauren Carpenter

Archives and Special Collections Quarterly

It’s All Greek to Me:  A Comprehensive History of Greek Life Organizations at Hope College

Column: From the Director of Archives and Special Collections

A Building Block Of Empathy: Establishing A Graphic Medicine Collection In An Academic Health Sciences Library., Jess King, Alison Bobal

Journal Articles: Leon S. McGoogan Health Sciences Library

To help address the well-being of the campus and contribute to empathy building amongst students pursuing careers as healthcare providers, an academic health sciences library built a graphic novel collection focused on comics that discuss medical conditions and health-related topics. The collection contains the experiences of patients, providers, and caregivers. The reader-friendly format of graphic novels provides an easy entry point for discussing empathy with health professions faculty and students. The collection has been used in the classroom during library instruction sessions, with the idea of integrating it within the curriculum.

Lbsci 790.3 Digital Humanities, S E. Hackney

Open Educational Resources

This course examines the history, methods, tools, and scholarly practices of teaching and research in the digital humanities (DH), including ways in which the library can engage with, enhance, and support those activities. The course will focus on digital humanities as a burgeoning field in its own right, as well as the development of digital methods in specific disciplines within the humanities. Students will consider their role as information professionals in the creation, cleaning, storage, and dissemination of digital humanities datasets and research projects, as well as gain hands-on experience with some of the tools and methods used in these …

Library Faith, Self-Care, And Academic Librarianship, John P. Delooper

Publications and Research

Librarianship has long been regarded as a service-oriented profession, compared with fields such as social work, teaching, nursing, and others with a high degree of emotional labor. The roots of this run deep, perhaps as far as Dewey, who spoke of a “library spirit,” which represented an extreme commitment to patron service. Dewey, who was obsessed with efficiency, both in his personal and professional life, created and popularized the American Library Association’s motto of “the best reading, for the largest number, at the least cost.” This motto, passed on as professional wisdom and taught in library schools for decades, was …

Inviting Submission: Isabella Beeton At The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, 1856-1865, Julie Megan Sorge Way

English Theses & Dissertations

Isabella Beeton, creator of the iconic domestic manual Beeton’s Book of Household Management, died suddenly in 1865, just before her twenty-ninth birthday. Her popular book survived to codify stereotypical Victorian female ideals. Yet the “Mrs Beeton” mythos camouflages a remarkable talent: far from domestic drudgery, Beeton maintained a vibrant career as a writer and editor at the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine (EDM), traveling widely to research the latest fashions and laboring behind the scenes to ensure the magazine’s success. Closely examining Beeton’s EDM work demonstrates how these formative, productive years shaped her later, more popular writing. Such a …

Lanthorn, Vol. 58, No. 15, March 25, 2024, Grand Valley State University

Volume 58, August 7, 2023 - April 15, 2024

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Creating Accessible Instruction Materials, Rachel E. Trnka

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Webinar for the Tampa Bay Library Consortium (TBLC)

Have you attended multiple webinars and trainings on accessibility and feel a little overwhelmed with information and resources? Join me as we focus on specific strategies for making your library instruction materials accessible. Rather than offering generalized information about web accessibility, this presentation will address accessibility issues related to specific types of instructional materials, including presentation slides, LibGuides, and videos. In this session, we’ll discuss

• Interpreting common accessibility standards and vocabulary
• Creating an inventory to help plan your approach to updating materials
• Specific tools to help you evaluate and improve the accessibility …

Patrons Of D.V.G Public Library, Kolar Are Aware Of And Using The Information Sources & Services: A Survey, Geetha C S, M S Akshay Kumar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The most important aspect of any library is its patrons. Any library’s goal is to determine what its users need, meet those needs, and satisfy them to the best of its ability. When it comes to public libraries, they face greater challenges in meeting the requirements of their increasingly diverse readership. The present study is an attempt to analyze the awareness and usage of the information sources and services offered by the D.V.G. public library, Kolar. A well-structured questionnaire was distributed to draw the data from the users. Responses from the users show that 95% of respondents are aware of …

Buckets Of Fun: Impacts Of Fraction Ball Activities On Students' Math-Related Emotions, Siling Guo, Drew H. Bailey, Katherine Rhodes, Kreshnik Nasi Begolli, Vanessa N. Bermudez, Luettamae Lawrence, Daniela Alvarez-Vargas, Lourdes M. Acevedo-Farag, June Ahn, Andres S. Bustamante, Lindsey E. Richland

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications

Rational number learning can cause frustration and negative emotions for elementary school students. Fraction Ball, a play-based math intervention, allows students to actively learn rational numbers through engaging and interactive activities. Based on a cluster-randomized trial with 16 teachers and 360 students, our pre-registered analyses showed moderate positive impacts of Fraction Ball on overall students' self-reported math-related emotions. Exploratory analyses indicated that students with higher negative emotions at pretest showed larger experimental impacts on decreasing negative emotions at posttest. Finally, we found that Fraction Ball evidenced no trade-off between rational number learning and emotional outcomes at the classroom block level, …

Organizing Knowledge Through Revealing Data In Knowledgebases., Jian Qin, Qiaoyi Liu

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

This paper uses the knowledgebases in the biomedical field as a case study to discuss the characteristics and requirements of knowledge organization (KO) practices and products by looking at the constructs, cross-linking, and curation methods. Modern knowledgebases such as Gene Ontology and Disease Ontology reflect the major expansions in KO to be more computational, portable (entification allows individual nodes to be extracted and used in combination with multiscale resources) and connected. Many techniques and methods used are not covered in KO textbooks. The interdisciplinary nature of KB development will be a worthwhile research area for the field of knowledge organization.

Rachel Franks, Double Agent: A Librarian And A Crime Author - William Blick Interviews Rachel Franks (January 2024), William Blick

Publications and Research

The following is an interview from January 2024 with Librarian and Crime Scholar, Rachel Franks and was posted on the Captivating Criminality Blog:

Rachel Franks is the Coordinator, Scholarship at the State Library of New South Wales and an Honorary Associate Lecture at The University of Newcastle (Australia). She holds PhDs in Australian crime fiction (Central Queensland University) and in true crime texts (University of Sydney). A qualified educator and librarian, her extensive work on crime fiction, true crime, popular culture and information science has been presented at numerous conferences, as well as on radio and television. An award-winning …

Analysis Of Library School Syllabi Reveals Poor Design And Limited Content About Disability And Accessibility, Nandi Prince

Publications and Research

A Review of: Pionke, J. (2023). What are library graduate students learning about disability and accessibility? A syllabus analysis. Urban Library Journal, 29(1). https://academicworks.cuny.edu/ulj/vol29/iss1/2/