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Opioids For Dyspnea End Of Life Review, Lindsey Obarzanek, Wendy Wu, Victoria Tutag-Lehr

Library Scholarly Publications

Objective: The objective of this systematic review is to consolidate the existing evidence on opioid use, including administration, dosing and efficacy, for the relief of dyspnea at end-of-life. The overarching goal is to optimize clinical management of dyspnea by identifying patterns in opioid use, improving opioid management of dyspnea, and to prioritize future research.

Background: Opioids are commonly used in the management of dyspnea at end of life; yet specific administration guidelines are limited. A greater understanding of the effectiveness of opioids in relieving end-of-life dyspnea with consideration of study design, patients, and opioids, including dyspnea evaluation tools …

Hybrid Teaching For Music Information Literacy, Taylor Greene

Library Presentations, Posters, and Audiovisual Materials

The Music Information Literacy course taught by the Performing Arts Librarian at Chapman University’s Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music has evolved in its format and pedagogical approach over the period of 8 years. In this talk, I discuss this evolution from its inception into its present version; a hybrid of online asynchronous learning modules and in-person instruction and activities. This presentation is an update to a previous talk (2016) and poster (2018) at Music Library Association Annual Meetings, both of which focused on specific aspects of the Music Information Literacy course. I discuss the benefits that became evident during the online …

Webometric Study Of National Institutional Ranking Framework (Nirf) Listed College Website With Special Reference To Library Web Pages, Sunil V. Narnaware, Shashikant Ganpatrao Rokade

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study is an analysis of National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) listed top 20 college website under the college category on NIRF websites with special reference to library web pages in the year 2021. A total of top 20 NIRF listed college website selected for the study. The study focused on webometric analysis, which examines the domain, domain age and all three types of web impacts factors. To collect data in this study, various small SEO tools such as opensiteexplorer.org (now moz.com), duplichecker.com and smallseotools.com had used to find out domain age, domain authority, page authority and total, internal …

Facilitating An Engaging Regional Open Education Conference Online: Opencon Cleveland, Mandi Goodsett, Ben Richards, Marsha Miles, Melanie Gagich

Michael Schwartz Library Publications

No abstract provided.

Case Files From The Late Hon. Michael S. Kanne Donated To The Jerome Hall Law Library, James Owsley Boyd

Keep Up With the Latest News from the Law School (blog)

The case files of the late Judge Michael S. Kanne have been donated to the Indiana University Maurer School of Law’s Jerome Hall Law Library.

Kanne, a 1968 graduate of the Law School, served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1987 up until his death in June 2022. Prior to his elevation to the Seventh Circuit, Judge Kanne served on the bench of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Indiana.

Judge Kanne’s files span the entirety of his service on the Seventh Circuit, and contain papers regarding opinions, concurrences, and dissents …

"Glad She Was There, Otherwise I Would Have Failed": Student Perceptions Of An Embedded Librarian, Susan Franzen, Mallory Jallas, Joshua Newport, Caitlin Stewart, Allison Rand

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

Embedded librarianship offers students, faculty, and librarians the opportunity to work closely together. After many years of collaborating with faculty partners and assisting students both inside the classroom and out, an embedded librarian in an undergraduate nursing research course sought the student perspective on having an embedded librarian.

In spring 2021, the research team scheduled focus groups to measure students’ perceptions of the embedded librarian’s impact on their research experience. Twenty-four students in five focus groups participated via Zoom. The group members met with students to capture firsthand accounts of their experiences.

This poster presentation will highlight students’ perceptions of …

Transforming Thesaurus Records Into Marc 21 And Mads: Designing A Framework For Libraries, Sukumar Mandal, Sailendra Malik

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose

This paper analyzes various thesaurus formats for converting data and how they can easily be implemented in libraries. These data formats are very important and necessary because they can easily transfer data from one system to another. The main focus of this system is on the data format of the Thesaurus Constructon.

Methodology

It is made with the TemaTres tool, which is used by many other tools. It has many new and modern features that librarians can use to create a new interface. In other words, it is possible to link other software very easily through these formats. There …

Honors Undergraduate Thesis Final Revisions, Kerri Bottorff

STARS Documentation

Slides from the workshop presented to Honors Undergraduate Thesis students each semester.

Impacts On Web Presence, Heather L. Cribbs, Danielle T. Daugherty

Library Scholarship

A case study on adventures in branding, site redesign, and user engagement as a response to the pandemic and the changing needs of users, sharing experiences in gathering input and support from students and other employees in order to meet the needs of their users and improve accessibility.

Licensing Considerations For Your Oer: An Argument For Virality, Jonathan Poritz

OER & Beyond - Blog Archive

It was my great pleasure to participate in planning the 10th anniversary celebration of the Open Education Network‘s Open Textbook Library [OTL] in the spring of 2022. Since I tend to think of the OTL as one of the main, canonical OER repositories, it was fun to make graphs with some of its publicly available data, as they are, to me, an almost canonical snapshot of the OER world as it exists now.

Poster Session: "I Know They Are Very Popular, But They Still Have Issues." Student Ebook Preferences & Covid-19, Mallory Jallas, Jennifer Schwartz, Grace Ansani, Katierose Mceneely

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

COVID-19 impacted access to collections at all libraries, and the urgency of patron needs precluded the ability to ask our users about their opinions and preferences. In response to the pandemic, some libraries initiated an eBook-preferred model, some invested in e-textbooks, and others maintained the status quo for collection strategies. As part of CARLI Counts, four librarians at various institutions investigated the attitudes and preferences of students at their campuses by surveying them about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their experiences with eBooks. This poster will share the findings from the survey and describe its implications for different …

Bounded Confidence: How Ai Could Exacerbate Social Media’S Homophily Problem, Dylan Weber, Scott Atran, Rich Davis

New England Journal of Public Policy

The advent of the Internet was heralded as a revolutionary development in the democratization of information. It has emerged, however, that online discourse on social media tends to narrow the information landscape of its users. This dynamic is driven by the propensity of the network structure of social media to tend toward homophily; users strongly prefer to interact with content and other users that are similar to them. We review the considerable evidence for the ubiquity of homophily in social media, discuss some possible mechanisms for this phenomenon, and present some observed and hypothesized effects. We also discuss how the …

Special Edition Table Of Contents Newsletter - Renovation, Brooke Cox, Kayla Birt Flegal

Table of Contents Newsletter

An update for the campus on the progress of the Roy O. West Library renovation.

Equivalent Access To Library: A Means Of Bridging The Gap Between The Abled And Disabled, Mukesh Kumar Jha

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Libraries, bookkeepers and their subsidiary establishments have for some time been logically proactive in giving equivalent access to data to everybody. Notwithstanding a characteristic proclivity for this demeanor, there are number of laws that require this stance. In the course of the most recent two decades, there has been a change in perspective in the manner in which the general public perspectives people with handicaps. This distinction in methodology for example seeing handicap not as an individual pathology but rather as a social develop not just discovers articulation in the lawful instruments that have been authorized for their social, monetary …

Growth Of Literature In “Information Literacy” Topic 2000-2021 Through Bibliometric Study., Amar Krishnaji Kulkarni, Rama Krushna Charan Patro Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Information literacy has been an emerging topic for many fields in recent years, and this paper aims to evaluate the field of information literacy in the context of Library and Information Science (LIS). The evaluation will be conducted by using bibliometrics and scientific visualization techniques. A total of 2288 articles were retrieved that are indexed under topic information Literacy on web of science (Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index & Arts & Humanities Citation Index) were identified in order to achieve this objective. Search using the term 'information literacy'. Unify and standardize the data to make reliable evaluations. Evaluate …

Awareness And Use Of Social Media: A Study Of Ict Students At Kwara State University, Nigeria, Abdrahman Atanda Moustapha

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The use of social networks among students at higher institutions has become popular and is widely celebrated amid criticism. This is because these social networks are changing the way people communicate, interact, and socialize. The purpose of this paper is to explore students' awareness and use of social media: a study of ICT students at Kwara State University, Nigeria. This study used a survey research method. The respondents were students’ faculty of information and communication technology, and the results reveal that the majority of respondents (91.4%) are familiar with social networks, have access to the Internet, and regularly use mobile …

Users' Perception And Utilization Of Serial Resources In The Academic Library, Kwara State University, Nigeria, Abdrahman Atanda Moustapha

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Investigative research, focused on users' perception and use of serial materials, was conducted in academic libraries at Kwara State University library, Nigeria. The study population consisted of users in the respective faculties. A stratified random sampling method was used to select the sample. A questionnaire dealing with users' perception and use of serial materials was conducted on 4500 users registered in the Kwara State University library. The collected data was analyzed mainly by frequency counts and simple percentages. Study results indicate that university users occasionally use serial materials. The majority of users are somewhat satisfied with the reference materials available …

Security Of Information Resources In Academic Libraries In Kwara State, Nigeria, Abdrahman Atanda Moustapha

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study was on the security of information resources in academic libraries in Kwara State, Nigeria. Academic libraries in Kwara State include both private and public institutions. The libraries were predominantly selected for academic purposes, such as Kwara State University, University of Ilorin, Al-Hikmah University, and Kwara State Polytechnic Ilorin. Four research questions and four corresponding objectives of the study were framed. The case study design was approved for research. Targeted sampling was used to select 25 respondents from a pool of 115 professionals in all four academic libraries in Kwara State. Semi-structured interview guides were used to collect data …

The Heart Of A Library: Getting To Know Each Other, Grace Allbaugh, Susan Franzen, Angela Yon

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

Starting a new job is overwhelming! New employees can feel isolated and disconnected without concerted effort by library colleagues, limiting their ability to create meaningful partnerships.  Milner Library grappled with these challenges when a cohort of new employees arrived in summer 2020. Milner’s new mentoring program began to organize a series of virtual information sessions to increase awareness of different library departments. In the Getting to Know Milner series, presenters highlighted partnerships and the interconnectedness of library activities. Collaborators in the audience were able to see the value of their work reflected in their colleagues' presentations. These sessions illustrated the …

Docs For Digital Humanities: An Example That Could Launch New Possibilities, Laura Baker

Library Research and Publications

As part of a class on Europe after WWI, the library helped create an interactive assignment in which students looked at geographic and political changes in European countries as a key to understanding the effects of WWI. Based on government publications, students created and annotated digital maps to show how the Treaty of Versailles redrew country boundaries and changed governmental alliances. The library’s government documents collection made the assignment possible.

We describe the project, the outcomes it produced, and most importantly, what it suggests about a burgeoning role for govdocs that could cast the collection in a new light. The …

Institutional Surveys Redux: Student And Faculty Responses On Course Materials During Covid-19, Jennifer Mayer

University Libraries Publications

The presenter developed and distributed two campus survey questionnaires in fall 2018, and redistributed them in fall 2021, to see what, if anything, had changed in responses. One survey focused on textbook and course materials costs and impacts on students. The other survey focused on perceptions and awareness of open educational resources (OER) by faculty members. The survey instruments were deployed both years via the Provost's Office to students and faculty. This session features an analysis of results and implications of the fall 2021 survey results, how the themes and trends compared to the fall 2019 surveys; how survey data …

Lanthorn, Vol. 57, No. 09, October 17, 2022, Grand Valley State University

Volume 57, August 1, 2022 - April 10, 2023

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

Marketing Of Library And Information Product And Services: Study Of Special Libraries Of Karachi, Hafiz Muhammad Huzaifa, Naweed E. Sehar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Marketing and advertising are essential for expanding awareness of library product and services. Special libraries have an assortment of difficulties in marketing library and information product and services due to quickly changing media advancements, expanded user demands, competitions from other data sources like the web, and diminished library financial plan. The focal point of this study was on the promoting view of LIS Professionals working in Karachi's special libraries, likewise centered on marketing procedures for library and data items and services. The Research was restricted to Special libraries of Karachi. The study was directed utilizing a quantitative methodology and an …

Building Inclusive Stem Collections: Books By Bipoc Scientists, Hilary Wong

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

No abstract provided.

Predictions About The Future Of Scholarly Communication: A Friendly Review Five Years On, Robert Boissy

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

No abstract provided.

From Ho-Hum To Fun: Engaging Audiences With Game-Based Learnin, Lauren Mabry

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

Are you ready to transform traditional slideshows and lecture-style presentations into exciting games that will have your audience actively collaborating, exploring, and learning? Let’s investigate multiple free(mium) tools that make it easy! Make sure to have an internet-connected personal device with you to participate in the fun.

Connecting With Departments Through Impact Study: Nature Index Analysis For The University Of Rochester, Sarah Siddiqui, Jieer Chen

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

No abstract provided.

Learning Styles Reconsidered, Peter Tagtmeyer

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

Study of individual differences in learning processes has a long history across several lines of psychology inquiry. Learning style theory (LST) is arguably a broadly recognized approach to education, embraced by educators theoretically and practically. Accommodation of individual learning styles with differential instruction is supported and endorsed globally, and well-funded. Yet empirical evidence in the literature that examines augmented learning achieved via learning styles accommodation in pedagogical practices is not compelling. Learning style theories are regularly researched in psychological and educational literature, and questions about the validity of findings persist. Currently LST research gives cause for many to regard learning …

Conscious Editing And Metadata Enhancement For Library Collections, Sai Deng, Jeanne Piascik

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

To promote Diversity and Inclusion and conscious metadata editing, the librarians in Cataloging Services at the University of Central Florida collaborated with several departments for the audit and reparative editing of digital collections related to sensitive materials, and enhancement and enrichment of subject headings for physical collections on biographies.

Working with Digital Initiatives, and Special Collections & University Archives, the cataloging librarians have been auditing and editing metadata for The African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection, 1794-2010, The Civil War Collection, and PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements. For instance, an inclusion statement has been added to …

At The Corner Of Happy And Healthy: The Increasing Scope Of Pharmacists And What This Means For Healthcare, Sarah Lynch

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

No abstract provided.