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Revealing Tarumanagara Kingdom Indigenous Knowledge From The Jakarta History Museum Collections, Rizki Nurislaminingsih, Heriyanto Heriyanto

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Tarumanagara is the oldest kingdom in Java island with its territory along the west coast of Java island. Their socio-cultural was diverse which were created by the people who live in every region of Java. Their legacy is now preserved in the Jakarta History Museum which tell about the Tarumanagara indigenous knowledge. This study aims to identify the knowledge through the Jakarta History Museum collections. Museum studies approach was employed to identify the indigenous knowledge of Tarumanagara people. The findings show that behind the the Jakarta History Museum collections there are stories that represent the indigenous knowledge of the Tarumanagara …

Comparative Study Of Academic Performance Of Undergraduates Admitted Through Utme, Pre-Degree And Direct-Entry Into The Federal University Of Technology, Owerri., Felix M. Eke Dr, Ngozi Chima-James Dr, Peter O. Moneke Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In this research on comparative study of academic performance of undergraduates admitted through UTME, Pre-Degree and Direct-Entry into the Federal University of Technology, Owerri. Seven (7) Schools/Faculties were randomly drawn for the study, from where sixteen (16) departments were randomly selected and the CGPA of their graduated students 2011/2012 – 2015/2016 used for the research. A total population of 1280 students out of which a sample of 668 students’ CGPA across the departments were drawn. We analyzed the CGPA data using different sample sizes for each admission mode and found that the average performance of graduated students, their standard deviation, …

Jewish Music Sound Recording Collections In The United States, Judith S. Pinnolis

Faculty Works

This chapter examines several significant Jewish music sound-recording collections in the United States, most of which originated as private collections but are now housed at academic institutions. Their origins provide insight into individual agency tied to different understandings of Jewish music. A discussion of their complexities from a library-science perspective focuses on conservation and preservation as well as bibliographic control and other issues in which the complexities of Jewish music unfold more clearly. Authenticity, comprehensiveness, and other constructions demonstrate how sound-recording collections reflect the overall difficulties of defining and delimiting Jewish music. Subsequent discussions and observations on access and audiences …

Bibliotherapy: An Expanded Role For Libraries And Librarians, Loretta Odiri Daniel (Cln)

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

A deep research into the concept of bibliotherapy revealed that it has been existence for a long time and rooted in ancient librarianship. However, the concept has moved from libraries to other corporations and organizations. This paper looks at the expanded role for libraries and librarians in bibliotherapy. Firstly, it discusses bibliotherapy or the combination of literature and healing which is designed to bring healings to library users through their interactions between relevant literature and their personalities as well as the etymology of the concept. Secondly, it expedites the types of bibliotherapy; relationship between bibliotherapy and library science; types of …

Promoting Library Cultures: The Roles Of Libraries In Human Resources Development In Bangladesh, Md. Aktarul Islam, Md. Habibur Rahman

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Since the library is the paramount destination for obtaining knowledge and information, it has been a matter of great regret that the culture of pursuing lifelong learning programs through libraries remains unstressed and unfamiliar in Bangladesh. People from all walks of life have not felt the necessity of going to libraries to seek information and obtain knowledge to solve their day-to-day affairs and resolve other problematic issues. The tradition of reading, learning, and researching is still in a deplorable state, and to this end, the development and expansion of “Library Culture” is too slow to fulfill the information needs of …

Advancing Research Visibility Through Collections: A Case Study From Nursing, Travis Nace

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Temple University Libraries' scholarly repository, TUScholarShare, began in 2020 and is a relatively young scholarly repository with growth potential in many subject areas. Travis Nace, the nursing liaison librarian, noticed an area for potential growth: nursing-produced posters were noticeably absent from the repository. No specific community or sub-community (collections) were focused on nursing research and scholarly publications despite much being produced at Temple University.

In the spring of 2022 discussion began to create a nursing specific community. Talks were scheduled with Temple University Hospital nurse educators to obtain posters presented between 2015 and 2020. These were seen as a good …

Hca Healthcare Scholarly Commons: Assembling A Knowledge Menagerie, Lindsay Million

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

HCA Healthcare Scholarly Commons is the institutional repository for HCA Healthcare Graduate Medical Education programs. Utilizing the bepress Digital Commons platform, our repository houses scholarly works from over 300 residency and fellowship programs at 66 teaching hospitals nationwide. During the presentation, the institutional repository manager will discuss using Scholarly Commons to create traditional collections and various writing education and scholarly activity initiatives housed in the repository. Collections discussed will include:

1. The Write Way: A Peer Review Panel "This is an online peer-review platform for HCA Healthcare GME residents, fellows, and faculty; participants can serve as a reviewer and/or submit …

Publishing Medical Student Capstone Research In Your Institutional Repository: Challenges And Opportunities For Scholarly Publishing Instruction, Marlowe Bogino, Benjamin Saracco

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

The Cooper Medical School of Rowan University has a unique, required four-year curriculum and course named Scholar's Workshop. The Scholars Workshop course addresses biostatistics, epidemiology, quality and patient safety, health care disparities, research, research ethics, and other related topics. A primary assignment on this course is the creation of culminating capstone projects completed in the M3 and M4 years which include a written a thesis and poster presentation under the guidance of a clinical mentor. Rowan University medical librarians began a new service that allows medical students the option of publishing their capstone project materials into the library's institutional repository …

Finding The Golden Mean: An Efficient Model For Improving Discovery And Access For Legacy Theses And Dissertations In A Medical Library’S Institutional Repository, Brandon Pieczko

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Developing an efficient and cost-effective method for providing access to legacy print theses and dissertations is a challenge faced by many libraries that serve medical schools and other academic health science programs. The significant staff time and financial cost associated with systematically digitizing and providing complete online access to print theses and dissertations can be problematic given the potentially limited return on that investment as reflected in patron use statistics and other metrics. This presentation will describe how a medical school library improved the discoverability and accessibility of its legacy print theses and dissertations by implementing a cost-effective, selective digitization …

Care Data Principles Data Curation Primer, Katie Pierce Farrier, Sarah Barsness, Maria Victoria Fernandez, Alex Wieker, Ann Myatt James

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

The CARE data principles (Collective benefit, Authority to control, Responsibility, and Ethics) are a conceptual framework meant to ensure ethical collection, sharing, and stewardship of Indigenous data. As part of a workshop hosted by the Data Curation Network in 2022, librarians created a foundational data curation primer on the CARE data principles and how they apply to data management, curation, and sharing. The primer touches on the cultural context regarding the CARE data principles, the historical misuse of Indigenous data, tribal sovereignty, and Indigenous Peoples' right to governance of their data. This session will discuss how CARE principles can be …

Slump: Find Funding And New Friends In A Bad Year, Dina Mckelvy

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

The MaineHealth Library has funded its repository with crumbs for several years. 2023 was supposed to be the year to create a permanent repository staff position. In a severely challenging financial year, we used supportive data and created new partnerships to find sweet success.

Knowledge Syntheses Search Strategy Repositories: Canadian Case Studies, Heather Cunningham, Sabine Calleja, Julia Martyniuk, Daniela Ziegler, Alix Pincivy, Jill Boruff, Alisa Rod

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Knowledge synthesis research is central to evidence-based medicine. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses literature search extension (PRISMA-S) outlines full reporting of the search strategy component including uploading documentation of all search strategies into a data repository to increase accessibility, transparency, and reproducibility. In response to the PRISMA-S recommendations, Canadian universities and health care institutions have been increasingly offering local services for librarians to support depositing and sharing search strategies in a digital data repository on the Borealis platform. Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository, is a bilingual, multidisciplinary, secure, Canadian research data repository which supports open discovery, …

Getting Creative: Implementing "Fan Favorite" Voting In Digital Commons Event, Jennifer Deal, Elizabeth Suelzer

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Problem/Scenario: The coordinators of our institution's 2023 Scientific Day event wanted to allow attendees to cast votes for a new Fan Favorite poster award and they asked library staff for help in making this possible. Library staff maintain the institutional repository (IR) for our large health care system, and posters from Scientific Day are deposited in the IR so they are visible to judges and attendees during the virtual event. Our Digital Commons IR did not have a built-in voting system, so library staff used Springshare's LibWizard and our HTML and design skills to add "Like" buttons to conference posters …

Nlm Scrubber To De-Identify Clinical Text Data And Facilitate Data Sharing, Christine Nieman Hislop, Katie Pierce-Farrier

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Before sharing clinical data, personal and sensitive information must be removed or de-identified. The NLM Scrubber is a clinical text de-identification tool developed by the National Library of Medicine. This session will give a brief introduction to different branches of AI. Natural language processing (NLP) is one such branch of AI that combines linguistics and computer science to make human language understandable to computers. The NLM Scrubber uses NLP to identify personally identifying information and replace it with generic terms. It is a freely available tool that can be customized to look for and redact specific terms and phrases. NLM …

How To Showcase And Preserve The History Of A Medical Library Using The Tmc Library's Digital Commons Exhibits, Alice Sherwood

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

How can you engage users with the history of your medical library? The TMC Library has a rich history that started in 1915, while Texas Medical Center started in the early 1940s. The TMC Library, which also has a historical center that regularly showcases archival materials using exhibits at library public spaces, started exploring additional options reaching out to a wider audience to view these exhibit materials since November 2022. With the TMC Library started using Digital Commons in 2005 with close to 1.85 million total downloads to this date, using other features of Digital Commons becomes logical choice. From …

Modifying Koha To Use As A Local Authors' Catalog, Fred King

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Koha is a widely-used Integrated Library System, free to download, free to use. It is open-source software, is infinitely configurable and can be used in a variety of ways. This presentation will show how MedStar Washington Hospital Center is using Koha and modified Medline records to track articles written by MedStar authors.

Cleaning-Up And Marketing Ohsu Digital Collections, Pamela Pierce, Marijane White

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

"Cleaning-up and Marketing OHSU Digital Collections" focuses on the metadata clean-up and marketing of our new Tind digital collection platform. This lightning talk will highlight the work we did in OpenRefine to be able to have newly cleaned records to show people, increasing deposits. We will also share our communication plan which focuses on the following audiences: general students, faculty/program directors, researchers/research mission/, clinicians, and postdocs. Continuing conversations started at the earlier phase of implementation is essential to a successful marketing plan.

Pure-Ly For Authors: An Update Of A Health System Researcher Profile Platform, Heather J. Martin, Amanda Schwartz

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

In 2023, a large healthcare system transitioned their institutional repository's author profile service to an upgraded and more comprehensive platform, and in doing so re-energized author and leadership buy-in.

After Digital Commons'™ Expert Gallery Suite eliminated some functionality, institutional repository (IR) staff began the process of exploring other author profile platforms that would align with essential workflows. Elsevier's™ Pure rose to the top of compatible and robust platforms suitable to replace our previous solution.

Pure's™ automated importing and database-integration was a primary draw, but IR staff had to find creative ways to utilize the administrative features that didn't integrate with …

Risalud-Andalucia, The Institutional Repository Of The Public Health System Of Andalusia, Laura Muñoz-Gonzalez, Victoria Barragan-Roman, Eva Toro-Periñan, Juan Antonio Hernandez-Morales

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Introduction: The Andalusian Public Health System is made up of a public care network that has 63 hospitals, 1,500 primary care centers, 5 health research institutes, and other non-care public entities, mainly management and training institutions. RISalud-ANDALUCIA, the Institutional Repository of the Andalusian Public Health System is a unique and open space where the intellectual and scientific production generated by the professionals of the Andalusian Public Health System is gathered, as a result of their assistance, research and management activity.

Objective: Development of a new version of RISalud-ANDALUCIA which implies a new software upgrade and functional improvement. Methodology RISalud-ANDALUCIA, was …

Mirl 2023 Plenary Panel: Irs In The Medical Landscape: A Conversation With Library Leaders, Robin Champieux, Kristi Holmes, Elizabeth Mamo, Mary Piorun, Gabriel Rios

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

The landscape for medical institutional repositories (IRs) is diverse and evolving. MIRL kicks off the 2023 symposium with a plenary panel of health sciences library directors from around the U.S. discussing their various perspectives on how IRs and IR services contribute to and support their institutions’ goals. The aim of this plenary session is to set the stage for the symposium and inspire interesting and constructive conversation within the medical IR community.

Conference Program And Welcome: Medical Institutional Repositories In Libraries 2023 (Mirl 2023), Medical Institutional Repositories In Libraries

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Program for the Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL 2023) Symposium that took place on Thursday, November 16, 2023.

Addressing The Unmentionable At The Circulation Desk: An Unlikely Library Partnership For An Often-Overlooked Cause: Period Equity, Jessica Garner

University Libraries: Faculty Presentations

The role of libraries at universities has grown over the years in surprising ways to improve service to the academic and student community. One such surprising change came from a project aimed at decreasing period poverty. The Period Equity Movement (PEM) was created in collaboration with the university’s Office of Student Wellness and Health Promotion through funding that came from a $48,000 Sustainability Fee grant and other internal funding. The grant specifically focused on purchasing reusable products such as menstrual cups and fabric pads and organic disposable tampons and pads. The Access Services Department became an impactful partner in this …

Adoption Of Qr Code Technology Foreasyaccess To Library And Management Information Services: A Comprehensive Analysis, Dr. Surendra Sethy, Manish.Dadhich Dadhich

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

QR code technology can provide an easy and convenient way for users to access library and management information services. By using QR codes, libraries can improve the user experience, save time and effort for users, and gather feedback to improve their services.QR code technology can provide easy access to library and management information services in several ways. QR codes can be placed on library shelves, books, and other materials to allow users to quickly access information about the resource, such as its location, availability, and details about the content. This can help users save time and effort when looking for …

Digital Transformation: Revitalizing Public Libraries As Inclusive Hubs For National Development, Bukunmi Paul Bello, Itunu Mary Adepegba

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Public libraries play a vital role in providing equitable access to information, resources, and digital skills development to advance socioeconomic goals. However, declining usage and widening digital divides pose adaptability challenges. This paper examines strategies for public libraries to leverage technologies and transform services to remain relevant, inclusive hubs supporting national development priorities. It analyzes the impacts of existing services like public computing and e-books while exploring barriers around funding constraints, infrastructure limitations, staffing shortages, and digital literacy gaps. These inhibit technology adoption, particularly across underserved rural communities.

Recommendations center on policies and partnerships to improve access, combined with investments …

Reading Perceptions Of Intrinsically Motivated High School Juniors, Judy Henning, Sherry R. Crow

Advanced Education Programs Faculty Publications

Studies show pleasure reading results in academic benefits but declines between elementary and secondary years. The question addressed is “what are the experiences in the lives of juniors (aged 16-18) that foster intrinsic motivation to read for pleasure?” Juniors from four mid-western U.S. schools with varied ethnic and socio-economic profiles were identified as highly and distinctly intrinsically motivated for pleasure reading. Interviews revealed participants excelled academically and had family members who were readers. They read to escape stress, occupy time, and investigate careers. Rarely reading for rewards, they were “opportunistic readers.” Relationships with librarians were important in finding good books …

Migrating 120,000 Legacy Publications From Several Systems Into A Current Research Information System Using Advanced Data Wrangling Techniques, Yrjö Lappalainen, Matti Lassila, Tanja Heikkilä, Jani Nieminen, Tapani Lehtilä

All Works

This article describes a complex CRIS (current research information system) implementation project involving the migration of around 120,000 legacy publication records from three different systems. The project, undertaken by Tampere University, encountered several challenges in data diversity, data quality, and resource allocation. To handle the extensive and heterogenous dataset, innovative approaches such as machine learning techniques and various data wrangling tools were used to process data, correct errors, and merge information from different sources. Despite significant delays and unforeseen obstacles, the project was ultimately successful in achieving its goals. The project served as a valuable learning experience, highlighting the importance …

Research Data Management Readiness At Uganda Cancer Institute, Edward Mukiibi, Joyce Bukirwa

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study explored research data management readiness at the Uganda Cancer Institute. Its objectives were to; establish the state of research data and the institutional readiness for research data management practices. The case study applied a survey method using a questionnaire modified from the Data Asset Framework and the Community Capability Model Framework. The respondents were 60 staff members at different professional levels purposively selected. The findings show massive data generated from clinical trials, and routine cancer clinics at the institute. The business processes are mainly manual except for the funded research projects which are hybrid. The existing data sets …

Lanthorn, Vol. 58, No. 07, November 13, 2023, 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.

Opening The Door To Student Wellness: An Access Services Lead Collaborative Effort To Help Students, Samantha Kennedy, Nancy Demaris, Abigail Hummell

Libraries Scholarship

Returning after the pandemic, students wellness and mental health is at the forefront of all campus services. After an internal DEI audit, the library realized there were populations that were missing our services, resources, and space. This is a mutual effort that takes the findings of the DEI audit and combines them with the organic efforts of the library’s Access Services department to plan for wellness related services, activities, and information for our population. This presentation will highlight those efforts and showcase how the access services staff and the librarians were able to create a cohesive plan to increase programming …

The Miller F. Whittaker Library's Renovation Project, Ruth Hodges

South Carolina Libraries

The author describes the renovation project undertaken by the Miller F. Whittaker Library at South Carolina State University.