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Electronic Resources: A Wolf In Sheep’S Clothing?, Bradley L. Schaffner Jan 2001

Electronic Resources: A Wolf In Sheep’S Clothing?, Bradley L. Schaffner

Staff and Faculty Work

This article examines the impact of electronic technology on libraries and scholarship. It focuses on some of the challenges of using electronic resources in research libraries, which include the cost of acquiring electronic formats and the effect that such expenditures have on other library services and collection development practices. The article also explores how electronic resources have changed the way students and scholars conduct research. The goal of this essay is not to criticize or condemn electronic formats but, rather, to illustrate that electronic technology is simply one tool, among others, for the dissemination of information. As such, electronic resources …

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Community Practice And The Internet, Roger A. Lohmann, John Mcnutt Jan 2001

Community Practice And The Internet, Roger A. Lohmann, John Mcnutt

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

This article examines several developments in electronic technology which appear to hold great potential for advancing human well-being and community organization and have already manifested some important portion of that potential in recent years. They are, in order of presentation, electronic communication and networking, electronic advocacy, fund raising support, geographic information systems and data base management. We conclude this brief article with a brief discussion of information poverty and the growing disparity of information haves and have-nots.

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The History And Development Of The Education And Training Of Library Technicians In Australia, Christine E. Hart Jan 2001

The History And Development Of The Education And Training Of Library Technicians In Australia, Christine E. Hart

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The history and development of the education and training of library Technicians in Australia is currently recorded in the literature in a piecemeal und uncoordinated manner. The aim of this research is to provide a current and coherent account of the history and development of courses, examine the role of major stakeholders and identify the major issues that have accompanied the evolution of education and training for paraprofessional library staff. A comprehensive chronicle of the education and training of library technicians will contribute to the research and literature of Library and information science in Australia. The research will examine: • …

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Civic Courage: One Librarian’S Protest Against Web Filtering, Christine H. Murphy Jan 2001

Civic Courage: One Librarian’S Protest Against Web Filtering, Christine H. Murphy

Graduate Research Papers

The goal of this research paper was to describe one Waterloo Community School District elementary school librarian's experiences in dealing with a District-imposed Internet filter. An Internet filter was imposed on public schools and their library media programs in the Waterloo Community School District (WCSD). The population of this study consisted of various administrators, School Board members, District facilitators, coordinators, principals, computer technicians, teachers, and secretaries. Data collection methods for this descriptive research included notation, description, analysis, and questioning. The researcher gathered articles from newspapers and periodicals, videotaped and audiotaped meetings, communicated with and kept records of personal email messages …

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Best Books For Young Adults: Are Young Adults Reading Them?, Kathryn J. Bratland Kellner Jan 2001

Best Books For Young Adults: Are Young Adults Reading Them?, Kathryn J. Bratland Kellner

Graduate Research Papers

The major aim of this research was to determine whether or not young adults are reading books from recommended reading lists. The study was conducted on a sample of 801 students in grades six through twelve who were administered a questionnaire survey designed to determine what young adults are reading and why they read. Overall, the data was quite consistent with similar studies that have been done. This study found that females read more than males and usually read because they want to while males read because they have to. Both genders prefer to read fiction over nonfiction. A small …

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A Plan For Implementing Cooperation Between Home School Educators And Public Schools In Buena Vista County, Iowa, Mary Kohnen Jan 2001

A Plan For Implementing Cooperation Between Home School Educators And Public Schools In Buena Vista County, Iowa, Mary Kohnen

Graduate Research Papers

Home school education is a choice that more parents are selecting for their children in today's world. Parents may decide to home school their children for a variety of reasons. Public schools can begin to cooperate with home school parents and assist in the education of home school students by offering the use of school resources. The purpose of this project was to develop a core collection of resources, provide a listing of services in the school library for home school families in Buena Vista County, Iowa schools. It was also intended to develop an informational brochure for home school …

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Desk Set: Ready Reference On The Web, Beth Juhl Jan 2001

Desk Set: Ready Reference On The Web, Beth Juhl

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

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Literature Connections To Music, Elizabeth Lynn Wick Mclean Jan 2001

Literature Connections To Music, Elizabeth Lynn Wick Mclean

Graduate Research Papers

This project was to produce an annotated bibliography of fiction for young adult readers with important characters or themes relating to music. The music and English departments at Mormon Trail Jr./Sr. High School in Garden Grove, Iowa requested a bibliography of young adult fiction related to music as a theme or important character so that teachers and students could choose a story to read when team teaching music and reading. The 120 books annotated were chosen through criteria selected so as to produce a list of books that would meet the curriculum needs of the teachers and reading levels and …

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Finding Grandpa's Patent: Using Patent Information For Historical Or Genealogical Research, Jan Comfort Jan 2001

Finding Grandpa's Patent: Using Patent Information For Historical Or Genealogical Research, Jan Comfort

Publications

Hardly a week goes by without a phone call, an e-mail message, or a visit from a patron who is looking for a patent issued to a family member. Often, the patron does not have complete information, and sometimes has nothing more than a name and a notion that Grandpa once invented something. This article describes some strategies that can be used by Librarians to assist patrons in historical patent research. It, additionally, includes a list of sources and highlights special materials that are available at Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries.

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Editorial, Ron Jordahl Jan 2001

Editorial, Ron Jordahl

The Christian Librarian

Forget the hoopla of New Years Day 2000; we know that January 1, 2001 actually marks the beginning of the 21" century. That fact notwithstanding, in this first issue of The Christian Librarian for the new millennium you will find a "business as usual" attitude. Perhaps that is because not all of the TCL team members share my mathematical insistence this is really the first month of the new millennium, but more likely it is because my colleagues are more concerned about the realities of Christian librarianship in the real world than they are in sophomoric niceties.

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A Biblical View Of Library Administration, John Allen Delivuk Jan 2001

A Biblical View Of Library Administration, John Allen Delivuk

The Christian Librarian

While individuals sometimes do worthwhile tasks working by themselves, most of the work of modern civilization is done by people working together in groups. Groups require administration. This essay examines some aspects of the role of administration and administrators in libraries from a biblical point of view.

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Resource Reviews, Phyllis Fox Jan 2001

Resource Reviews, Phyllis Fox

The Christian Librarian

No abstract provided.

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Russian Soldiers Move Library!, Lois L. Luesing Jan 2001

Russian Soldiers Move Library!, Lois L. Luesing

The Christian Librarian

How does one make plans to move a library from one building, across town, and into a new site when that site is thousands of miles away from where you are in Michigan? One evening I was trying to come up with an idea of how to proceed. Suddenly there flashed into my mind a plan that I quickly wrote down. It was that very plan that we used at St. Petersburg Christian University in Russia. Surely the Lord gave it.

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Enhancing Women's Studies Action Research Projects Through Technology, Lucretia Mcculley Jan 2001

Enhancing Women's Studies Action Research Projects Through Technology, Lucretia Mcculley

University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

This article describes how library and Internet technology enhanced an action research assignment in a unique women’s studies program, Women Involved in Living and Learning (WILL), at the University of Richmond. The Women’s Studies Liaison Librarian and the Director of the WILL Program collaborated to provide a meaningful assignment that incorporated the use of online databases and the Internet. The main objective of the assignment was to provide a research opportunity whereby the students would learn to use electronic women’s studies resources and actually utilize the information into some type of social action, such as writing a letter, volunteering in …

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Practice In The Electronic Community, Roger A. Lohmann, John Mcnutt Jan 2001

Practice In The Electronic Community, Roger A. Lohmann, John Mcnutt

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

The Internet was at its inception a commons rather than a marketplace. Increasingly, however, communitarian notions have been overwhelmed by the internet as one huge shopping arcade. The potential is certainly there for this amazing technology to advance the causes of human freedom well-being and community. At the same time, however, this powerful set of technologies that in less than a decade have become nearly universal in scope and sweep, have the potential also to become simply another extension of the global economic marketplace. Far worse, there is also the potential to become a power tool for class domination or …

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Annual Report Of The President, 2000-2001, Molloy University Archives And Special Collections Jan 2001

Annual Report Of The President, 2000-2001, Molloy University Archives And Special Collections

Annual Reports of the President

This item is an annual report published by the Office of the President in 2001, detailing the 2000-2001 academic year. It provides summaries of institutional changes, achievements of the students, faculty and staff, as well as an overview of the past academic year's events.

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Authority Tools For Audiovisual And Music Catalogers: An Annotated List Of Useful Resources, James Alberts, John Bewley, Robert Bratton, Ann Caldwell, Robert B. Freeborn, Sheryl Holmes, Phyllis Jones, Michelle Koth, Marilyn Mccroskey, Jeanne M. Piascik, David Procházka, James L. Soe Nyun, Barbara R. Tysinger, Iris Wolley Jan 2001

Authority Tools For Audiovisual And Music Catalogers: An Annotated List Of Useful Resources, James Alberts, John Bewley, Robert Bratton, Ann Caldwell, Robert B. Freeborn, Sheryl Holmes, Phyllis Jones, Michelle Koth, Marilyn Mccroskey, Jeanne M. Piascik, David Procházka, James L. Soe Nyun, Barbara R. Tysinger, Iris Wolley

OLAC Publications and Training Materials

The Subcommittee on Authority Tools designed this list to bring together, in one place, descriptions of information sources that are useful when developing authorized headings to support audiovisual and music catalog records. Work began on this project in 1999, and the list was released in 2001. It became a historical OLAC document in 2020. Please note that links in this document were active in 2001 and may no longer exist currently.

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Role Clarification And Role Dilemmas: New Challenges For Teacher-Librarians?, Ken Haycock Jan 2001

Role Clarification And Role Dilemmas: New Challenges For Teacher-Librarians?, Ken Haycock

Faculty Publications

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Editorial, Diane Sullivan Garber Jan 2001

Editorial, Diane Sullivan Garber

The Christian Librarian

As I write, jackhammers are pounding above my office. Water leaks have been pouring in on our book stacks. Dust and debris litter the hallways outside the library. Anyone who has endured a home renovation or library expansion project may relate to this chaos and upheaval.

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Editorial, Anne-Elizabeth Powell Jan 2001

Editorial, Anne-Elizabeth Powell

The Christian Librarian

For those of us serving in the academic community a new year has just begun - the fall semester or quarter is upon us. Students have returned to campus and summer-quiet library halls are now ringing with stage "whispers," book drops filling with materials rediscovered on unpacking day.

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Websight, Dennis Read Jan 2001

Websight, Dennis Read

The Christian Librarian

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Making Electronic Resources Available To Patrons, Robert Linz Jan 2001

Making Electronic Resources Available To Patrons, Robert Linz

Faculty Articles

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Advanced Searchers???, Jimmy Ghaphery Jan 2001

Advanced Searchers???, Jimmy Ghaphery

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

Log analysis from 2001 focused on use and popularity of advanced search features of an online library catalog (OPAC).

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 025, Number 21, December 18, 2000, Grand Valley State University Dec 2000

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 025, Number 21, December 18, 2000, Grand Valley State University

2000-2001, Volume 25

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

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 025, Number 20, December 11, 2000, Grand Valley State University Dec 2000

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 025, Number 20, December 11, 2000, Grand Valley State University

2000-2001, Volume 25

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

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The Anchor, Volume 114.12: December 6, 2000, Hope College Dec 2000

The Anchor, Volume 114.12: December 6, 2000, Hope College

The Anchor: 2000

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.

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 025, Number 19, December 4, 2000, Grand Valley State University Dec 2000

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 025, Number 19, December 4, 2000, Grand Valley State University

2000-2001, Volume 25

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

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12-2000 Newsletter, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Library Services Dec 2000

12-2000 Newsletter, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Library Services

Library Services Newsletters

Minnesota State University, Mankato, Library Services Newsletter for December 2000.

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Consumer Health Information For Asians, Vol.13 (6) November - December 2000, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library Dec 2000

Consumer Health Information For Asians, Vol.13 (6) November - December 2000, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Library Lines (1998-2009)

No abstract provided.

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West Virginia Libraries 2000 Vol.53 No.5&6, Cheryl Harshman, Ted Nesbitt Dec 2000

West Virginia Libraries 2000 Vol.53 No.5&6, Cheryl Harshman, Ted Nesbitt

West Virginia Libraries Newsletter

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