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Seeking Serendipity With Summon: How Web Scale Discovery Changed How We Think About Teaching And Reference, Jennifer Dejonghe, Michelle Filkins, Alec Sonsteby
Seeking Serendipity With Summon: How Web Scale Discovery Changed How We Think About Teaching And Reference, Jennifer Dejonghe, Michelle Filkins, Alec Sonsteby
Library Technology Conference
Has your library struggled to justify purchasing a discovery tool? Are you skeptical that they do all they claim to do? Librarians at Metropolitan State University implemented a Web Scale Discovery tool in 2012 after becoming convinced that we needed to radically change how we provide access to our collections. In this presentation we will discuss how we implemented Serials Solutions Summon and how it is transforming the way we approach reference, instruction, and acquisitions.
Dataverse: A Free, Hosted Solution For Social Sciences Data, Linda Eells, Julie Kelly, Amy West
Dataverse: A Free, Hosted Solution For Social Sciences Data, Linda Eells, Julie Kelly, Amy West
Library Technology Conference
Scientists are being asked to keep and share their research data, and librarians are beginning to have a role in the curation of that data. Working with a small economics association, the librarians who coordinate AgEcon Search worked with the data services librarian at the University of Minnesota to select Dataverse (http://thedata.org/, hosted at Harvard) for the data related to the association’s journal. Dataverse is free, has good documentation, and is optimized for social sciences data. This poster presentation will give the reasons for our selection of Dataverse and give an overview of our implementation of this project.
Accidentally Embedded, Amy Dumouchel
Accidentally Embedded, Amy Dumouchel
Library Technology Conference
Enrollment in one Suffolk University’s graduate political science programs has provided this Electronics Resources Librarian with a view of faculty, graduate, and undergraduate information behaviors from ‘in the wild.’ This poster presentation will document how this experience has not only served to provide better hands on understanding of the department’s needs, it has also served to identify an under-used method of library outreach.
Basic Elements Of Responsive Web Design, Jason Bengtson
Basic Elements Of Responsive Web Design, Jason Bengtson
Library Technology Conference
Mobile sites are a clunky way to solve a common problem; engaging with mobile users. Responsive Web Design offers ways to create a single site that responds dynamically to the device viewing it. Learn the basics of how to employ this approach, including the use of media calls and tools such as "smartlinking" to make your site work on all sorts of devices!
Low-Skilled Adult Learners And Learning Technologies: Strategies Supporting Inclusion, Tom Cytron-Hysom, Adam Kieffer, Julia Tabbut, Jen Vanek, Jennifer Weaverling
Low-Skilled Adult Learners And Learning Technologies: Strategies Supporting Inclusion, Tom Cytron-Hysom, Adam Kieffer, Julia Tabbut, Jen Vanek, Jennifer Weaverling
Library Technology Conference
Lower-skilled adult learners likely lack print or digital literacy skills to independently use self-directed interactive websites like LiveMocha and learning systems like MOOCs. The rapid pace of technological development is increasing the digital divide, further limiting participation of lower-skilled people in higher-education and employment. In the session participants will consider strategies for addressing the issue and learn about efforts in Minnesota to provide support for lower-skilled adults working to become self-directed, digitally literate learners.