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Collection Management Matters: The Database Dance: Waltzing With A Big Budget Cut, Glenda Alvin

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Earth Day Display, Maggie Mason Smith

Presentations

Are you looking for a way to celebrate Earth Day? You may find an idea in a book or in a DVD from our Earth Day display, which is located on the New Books Shelf. Items on display include: The Carbon Diaries 2015, On Extinction: How we became Estranged from Nature, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, No Impact Man, and The World without Us.

Interference Archive: A Free Space For Social Movement Culture, Alycia Sellie, Jesse Goldstein, Molly Fair, Jennifer Hoyer

Publications and Research

This paper discusses activist archives within the context of community archives and the practices of archiving activism. Interference Archive (IA), a volunteer-run independent archive in Brooklyn, New York, is presented as one example of an activist archive. We explain the manner in which IA functions as a transmovement and prefigurative “free space” under Francis Poletta’s typology of movement spaces. Through this explanation, we illustrate how the structures of free spaces can help us understand the way activist archives forge connections between communities and the ways that they create new networks of solidarity through the archival process.

Leveraging Oa, The Ir, And Crossdepartment Collaboration For Sustainability: Ensuring Library Centrality In The Scholarly Communication Discourse On Campus, Steve Brantley, Todd Bruns, Kirstin Duffin

Faculty & Staff Research & Creative Activity

More than halfway into the second decade of the 21st century, academic libraries are becoming more integrated in the scholarly life of their faculties than ever before. Important trends in scholarly communication, such as transitioning from subscription journals to open access journals, increasing amounts of “born digital” data and creative works, the growing importance of protecting one’s intellectual property rights, and keeping digital scholarship organized, managed, and preserved, are all areas where academic scholars and researchers require support services and assistance. Librarians are natural partners to provide these services.

Geomorphology: Changing The Scholarly Sources Landscape With Geology Students, Heidi Blackburn, Ashlee L. Dere

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Find out how we changed the landscape for geology students from a popular sources wasteland to a lush garden of scholarly sources through a library instruction intervention. Data from before and after the library instruction will be shared, showing student growth from Wikipedia in first drafts to meeting ACRL Information Literacy Standards for Science through the use of scholarly sources in the final paper. The library instruction activity, learning outcomes, and assessment components are included.

Awareness And Usage Of Electronic Databases By Geography And Resource Development Information Studies Graduate Students In The University Of Ghana, Gladys Kwadzo Mrs

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this study was to examine the awareness level and usage of electronic databases by graduate students in the University of Ghana. The focus was on graduate students of Departments of Geography and Development Resource, and Information Studies. Questionnaire was used to collect the data. The findings were that students were very much aware of the databases available to them as indicated by 96.9%and 93.8% indicated to use them. The studies has also established that majority of students knew about the databases from their lecturers and most of them accessed from the central library. Despite the claimed usage …

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 039, Number 25, March 23, 2015, Grand Valley State University

2014-2015, Volume 39

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 039, Number 24, March 16, 2015, Grand Valley State University

2014-2015, Volume 39

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Rod Library Newsletter: Rod Notes, V7n7, March 2015, University Of Northern Iowa. Rod Library.

Rod Library newsletter: Notes for the Stalled

Contents:

-- Media and Social Media
-- RodCon 2015
-- Canada and U.S. Symposium

Volume 35, Number 1, March 2015 Olac Newsletter, Marcy Strong, Heather Pretty, Christina Hennessey, Jan Mayo, T.J. Kao, Jay Weitz, Lisa Romano

OLAC Newsletters

Digitized March 2015 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.

Fostering Reading Enjoyment And Achievement In The School Library, Reneé C. Lyons, Deborah Parrott, Gina Podvin, Millie Robinson, Edward J. Dwyer

ETSU Faculty Works

Excerpt: In this age of increased accountability through testing and implementation of the Common Core State Standards, the elementary and middle school librarian is often part of the school team working toward enhancing reading achievement among students.

Nebraska Libraries - Volume 3, Number 1 (February 2015)

Nebraska Libraries

No abstract provided.

Scholarworks Usage Report, 01-2015, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, January 2015.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 039, Number 20, February 09, 2015, Grand Valley State University

2014-2015, Volume 39

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Issue 38, David Bell

NoteBooth

"Quanah and Cynthia Ann Parker: The History and the Legend" exhibit; The Keep - Downloads around the world; Story Time in Ballenger Teachers Center

Don's Conference Notes: Video As A Scholarly Content Format: An Nfais Virtual Sermiar; And The Next Generation Of Discovery Services: Where Are They Headed? An Nfais Workshop, Donald T. Hawkins

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

From The Reference Desk: Reviews Of Reference Titles, Tom Gilson

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Rod Library Newsletter: Rod Notes, V7n6, February 2015, University Of Northern Iowa. Rod Library.

Rod Library newsletter: Notes for the Stalled

Contents:

-- Comic Con
-- Blind Date With A Book
-- Canada's Arctic Exhibit

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 039, Number 18, January 26, 2015, Grand Valley State University

2014-2015, Volume 39

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Lanthorn, Vol. 49, No. 37, January 22, 2015, Grand Valley State University

Volume 49, July 7, 2014 - June 1, 2015

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

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 039, Number 17, January 19, 2015, Grand Valley State University

2014-2015, Volume 39

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 039, Number 16, January 12, 2015, Grand Valley State University

2014-2015, Volume 39

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

From Princess To Chief: Life With The Waccamau Siouan Indians Of North Carolina, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Review of the book From Princess to Chief: Life with the Waccamaw Siouan Indians of North Carolina by Pricilla Freeman Jacobs and Patricia Barker Lerch. Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8173-1797-3.

Natives In The Nation's Archives: The Southwest Oregon Research Project, David G. Lewis

Journal of Western Archives

The Southwest Oregon Research Project, initiated by members of the Coquille Indian tribe broke ground in Oregon for archival collections. Tribal scholars, working to restore and support their tribal nations collected documents and learned skills of archival research and organization. The last phase of the project returned collections to regional tribes in a community process of potlatch. The project theory reversed the trend of the late 19th and early 20th centuries of collecting information from tribes with little or no reciprocity. Tribes today are using the information to write histories, restore cultural identities and support tribal sovereignty.

Penn Center: A History Preserved, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Review of the book Penn Center: A History Preserved by Orville Vernon Burton with Wilbur Cross. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8203-2602-3.

Data Information Literacy: Librarians, Data, And The Education Of A New Generation Of Researchers, Jake Carlson, Lisa R. Johnston

Purdue University Press Books

Given the increasing attention to managing, publishing, and preserving research datasets as scholarly assets, what competencies in working with research data will graduate students in STEM disciplines need to be successful in their fields? And what role can librarians play in helping students attain these competencies? In addressing these questions, this book articulates a new area of opportunity for librarians and other information professionals, developing educational programs that introduce graduate students to the knowledge and skills needed to work with research data. The term “data information literacy” has been adopted with the deliberate intent of tying two emerging roles for …

Ur Scholarship Repository: 2014-2015 Year In Review, Lucretia Mcculley

UR Scholarship Reports and Statistics

Annual Report for the University of Richmond's institutional repository, UR Scholarship.

2015 Author Recognition Bibliography, Grand Valley State University

Author Recognition

No abstract provided.

Developing, Using, And Interacting In The Flipped Learning Movement: Gaps Among Subject Areas, Hsin-Liang Chen, Kevin L. Summers

University Libraries Faculty Research & Creative Works

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current video collection of an open-access video website (TED-Ed). The research questions focus on its content as evidence of development, its viewership as evidence of use, and flipping as evidence of interaction in informal learning. In late September 2013, 686 video lessons were posted on the TED-Ed website that spanned 12 academic subject categories and 60 academic subject subcategories, as labeled and sorted on the TED-Ed website itself. The findings of the analysis of the TED-Ed video collection indicate several gaps in the humanities, social science, and natural science academic areas …

Eastern Kentucky University Libraries Biennial Report: 2012-2014, Eastern Kentucky University Libraries

Eastern Kentucky University Libraries Biennial Report

Table of Contents:

• Dear Colonels and Friends (message from Betina Gardner, Dean of EKU Libraries) (p. 2)
• Developing and Managing Resources: By the Numbers (p. 3-4)
• Enhancing our Collections: Acquiring Material "Just in Time" (p. 5)
• Strengthening Communication: The Noel Studio for Academic Creativity (p. 6)
• Collecting and Sharing EKU's Research, Creative Works, and History: Encompass (p. 7-8)
• Sharing the Eastern Story: Digitization of the Eastern Progress (p. 9)
• Preserving Community History: Elmwood (p. 10)
• Inspiring our Region's Children: The Future Colonels Project (p. 11-12)
• Celebrating Scholarship: Student Awards (p. 13-14)
• Breaking through the Noise: Silent Study Zone (p. 15) …