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Bilingualism In The United States And Its Relationship To Pluralism, Joseph J. Pizzillo

Education and Culture

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Differential Mitochondrial Toxicity Screening And Multi- Parametric Data Analysis, Maria V. Tsiper, Jennifer Sturgis, Larisa V. Avramova, Shilpa Parakh, Raymond Fatig, Ana Juan-García, Nianyu Li, Bartek Rajwa, Padma Narayanan, C. W. Wualls Jr., Joseph P. Robinson, Vincent J. Davisson

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications

Early evaluation of new drug entities for their potential to cause mitochondrial dysfunction is becoming an important task for drug development. Multi-parametric high-content screening (mp-HCS) of mitochondrial toxicity holds promise as a lead in-vitro strategy for drug testing and safety evaluations. In this study, we have developed a mp-HCS and multi-parametric data analysis scheme for assessing cell responses to induced mitochondrial perturbation. The mp-HCS measurements are shown to be robust enough to allow for quantitative comparison of biological systems with different metabolic pathways simulated by alteration of growth media. Substitution of medium glucose for galactose sensitized cells to drug action …

Incorporating Advanced Aircraft Technologies Into An Aeronautical Engineering Technology Curriculum, Timothy D. Ropp, Jay B. Hedden, Philip J. Mick, J. Michael Davis, S. Wesley Austin Jr.

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

Researchers in the Aeronautical Engineering Technology program at Purdue University are exploring innovative ways to introduce and integrate aircraft maintenance data from their advanced training fleet of networked aircraft into an undergraduate Aviation curriculum. This report describes a work in progress toward that goal. This initiative will better prepare students for an industry where synthetic process visualization, drag and drop planning screens and ‘‘smart’’ personal computing device applications play a significant role in problem solving and daily aircraft operations. The goal is to equip students at all levels of the curriculum with awareness and modern methods of process visualization, troubleshooting …

Intelligent Shelter Allotment For Emergency Evacuation Planning: A Case Study Of Makkah, Kwangsoo Yang, Faizan Ur Rehman, Hatim Lahza, Saleh Basalamah, Shashi Shekhar, Arif Ghafoor

Cyber Center Technical Reports

Given maps of an evacuee population, shelter destinations and a transportation
network, the goal of intelligent shelter allotment (ISA) is to assign routes, exits and shelters to evacuees for quick and safe evacuation. ISA is societally important due to emergency planning and response applications in context of hazards such as floods, terrorism, fire, etc. ISA is challenging due to conflicts between movements of evacuee-groups heading to different shelters and transportation-network choke-points. State of the practice based on Nearest Exit or Shelter (NES) paradigm addresses the former challenge but not the latter one leading to load-imbalance and slow evacuation. Recent computational …

Taking Action: A Proposal For An Analytic Solution To Increase Gateway Course Success, Andrew K. Koch, Victor Borden, Mikel Berger, Ben Brautigam, Michael Culbertson, Lee Rynearson, George Siemens, Chi Wang

Teaching and Learning Technologies Publications

As part of the 2012 SoLAR Flare gathering at Purdue University (October 1-3, 2012), colleagues from higher education institutions and technology service organizations participated in an exercise to develop a learning analytics application to improve college student performance college gateway courses. Defined as high enrollment, high failure rate courses taken by primarily first- and second-year college students, these gateway courses are critical to overall student success in college. This paper summarizes the activities of the group, including the conceptual frameworks that guided discussions and the proposed features of the analytics solution. The exercise was guided by Andrew K. Koch, Executive …

Indot Technical Training Plan, Bob Mccullouch

JTRP Technical Reports

The study provides the background documents necessary for the development of a Technical Training Plan and makes recommendations for the content and structure of such a plan for the District Operations, Operations, Capital Program Management and Engineering Services and Design Support Divisions.

The product of the study is a web-based tool for employees that provides training resource information by job category. The resources are grouped into three categories: in-house training, training available through outside vendors or third party, and higher education resources

Recommendations specific to the Technical Training Plan include incorporating technical training requirements in the position descriptions currently being …

Managing Expectations And Obligations: The Librarian’S Role In Streaming Media For Online Education, Kathleen Carlisle Fountain

Charleston Library Conference

Educational films have been a standard feature of classroom instruction for decades, but the growth of online education is challenging how librarians can support the media needs of their faculty. Legacy physical collections exist on library shelves, but license and copyright restrictions may limit their use in online courses. Streaming collections are available in the marketplace but may not be affordable to license. Free or subscription media sources may be available but do not meet the needs of some instructors. This paper describes the comprehensive approach taken by library staff to manage streaming media demand on the Vancouver campus of …

Tired Of Reinventing The Wheel? Then Stop! How To Use Online Communities For Solutions To Common Library Issues, Laura Warren, Julie Obst

Charleston Library Conference

Do you know that the library issues you regularly face cannot possibly be exclusive to your library? Would you like to find better solutions without “re‐inventing the wheel”? Have you tried participating in an online library community? This lively discussion based session focuses on participating in online communities and networking through social media as free resources for theoretical and practical solutions to common library issues. Common community offerings, including continuing education and far‐reaching collaboration opportunities, are discussed as tools for addressing any range of library issues. Furthermore, tweeting, e‐mail digesting and other best practices for making the most of community …

You Ought To Be In Pictures: Bringing Streaming Video To Your Library, Cheri Duncan, Erika Peterson

Charleston Library Conference

Since 2003, James Madison University has been building a streaming video collection. Using vendor licensing and fair use guidelines, the University Libraries’ have added thousands of online videos via either purchased files or in-house digitization. Whether through media collections or title by title, the Libraries strive to provide faculty and students with access to the resources they require at the time and place they need it. The Libraries’ efforts in building and maintaining this collection from selection to licensing and from digitization to access over the last seven-eight years has presented numerous learning opportunities and eye-opening moments. Through their experience, …

Mainstreaming Media: Innovating Media Collections At The Ncsu Libraries, Darby Orcutt

Charleston Library Conference

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) predicates its "Guidelines for Media Resources in Academic Libraries" on assumptions that general principles of collection management and library service apply equally to media formats (http://ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/mediaresources.cfm). Yet, implicit in ACRL's Guidelines is the additional (and perhaps contradictory) assumption that, to be effective, academic library media collections and services must form a separately administered "program," headed by a single librarian. At The North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries, we have instead chosen to administer our many media collections and services using the same structures we use for those of other formats, interweaving media …

Hyde Park Corner, Melody Burton, Kimberly Douglas

Charleston Library Conference

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The Status Quo Has Got To Go, Brad Eden

Charleston Library Conference

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The Future Of Online Newspapers, Debora Cheney, Chuck Palsho, Chris Cowan, Fredrick Zarndt

Charleston Library Conference

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I Hear The Train A Comin’, Greg Tananbaum, Kevin Guthrie, Anne Kenney

Charleston Library Conference

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Executives’ Roundtable: The Boundaries Are Getting Blurred, T. Scott Plutchak, Paul N. Courant, H. Frederick Dylla, Anthony Watkinson

Charleston Library Conference

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New Initiatives In Open Research, Clifford Lynch, Lee Dirks

Charleston Library Conference

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Everything We See Hides Another: Coping With Hidden Collections In The 21st Century Library, Mark Dimunation

Charleston Library Conference

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Data Papers In The Network Era, Mackenzie Smith

Charleston Library Conference

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The Semantic Web For Publishers And Libraries, Michael Keller

Charleston Library Conference

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Partnering For Patron‐Driven Acquisitions: What You Need To Know, Ashley Bailey, Molly Royse, Deb Thomas, Gail Watson

Charleston Library Conference

Vendors are offering to facilitate patron‐driven acquisitions. Should your approval vendor be your PDA partner? After collaborating with YBP as a beta site for demand‐driven acquisitions for ebrary electronic books, we can share with you what we have learned from our first‐hand experiences. Through this practical presentation we will detail why we chose to partner with a vendor, how we got started, and the decisions necessary to implement the service. We’ll share the record profiles that we designed, and the workflows we developed and revised. In addition to covering the planning process, we’ll cover the first six months of this …

Discovery By The Numbers: An Examination Of The Impact Of A Discovery Tool Through Usage Statistics, Jody Fagan, Meris Mandernach

Charleston Library Conference

In August 2010, James Madison University (JMU) implemented EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) and placed its search widget front and center on the library home page. This paper will examine general usage trends over the tool’s first two semesters, including changes in physical circulation, library catalog searches, home page traffic, and other database usage. Searches, sessions, and full‐text downloads of subject‐specific databases before and after the implementation of the discovery tool will be compared. Finally, the limitations of the data and our methods will be discussed in order to inform other libraries’ work with similar data. The objective of the paper …

Experiences From The Field: Choosing A Discovery Tool For Your Unique Library, Jennifer Castaldo, Christine Korytnyk Dulaney, Tom Klingler, Doralyn Rossmann, Laura Wrubel

Charleston Library Conference

Our users want an easier way to search library resources; currently, there are many discovery tools available, which can seem daunting. How do you know which one will work for your unique library? Librarians from different types of libraries—an online library, a land-grant school, a law library, a private university, and a consortium—describe how they evaluated the available products and made decisions on which tools to implement. A variety of platforms are discussed, including: Ebsco’s Discovery Service, III’s Encore Synergy Discovery, Serials Solutions’ Summon, and even a homegrown solution. Discover what libraries are looking for in these tools, strategies for …

Understanding The 21st Century Research Landscape: Emerging Trends And Needs Within And Across Disciplines—Perspectives From A Business Library, Corey Seeman

Charleston Library Conference

The needs of researchers in key disciplines are changing rapidly and this has important implications for the library’s role in enhancing research productivity and impact. This session will create a roadmap for supporting 21st century research needs that draws on published research and rubber‐hits‐the‐road insight from subject experts. Are there common threads to 21st century research needs that cut across all subject areas? To what extent are emerging trends common to the sciences, social sciences, or humanities, and to what degree are they discipline‐specific? Key areas to be explored will include research funding trends, new methodologies such as article data …

Understanding The 21st Century Research Landscape: Emerging Trends And Needs Within And Across Disciplines, Mike Diaz, Audrey Powers, Corey Seeman, Dennis Brunning

Charleston Library Conference

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Getting To The Heart Of The Matter: What Faculty Tell Us About How Our Collections Support Student Learning, Marcia Thomas

Charleston Library Conference

In 2010, librarians at IWU's The Ames Library embarked on a multi‐year collection review process. This is an evaluation and prioritization project for assessing and building our collection as a whole. Our purpose is to not only evaluate what we have now, but also identify what resources, in which formats, best support student learning. The centerpiece of the review is one‐on‐one interviews conducted by librarians with each full‐time faculty member in their liaison subject areas/departments. We asked faculty to reflect on how our collections (in all formats, including electronic) meet their pedagogical needs and support student research, as a way …

Patron‐Driven Acquisition Practices Of U.S. Research Libraries: East Vs. West, Jennifer Duncan, Jeff Carroll

Charleston Library Conference

During the past few years, Patron Driven Acquisition, or PDA, has become the catchword at library conferences, increasingly promoted by some as the answer to shrinking budgets and the new normal for developing library collections. On one level, the debate over PDA is just an extension of the old question of just in time versus just in case collecting; however, technological developments have facilitated taking the just in time model toward the logical extreme as vendors have seen the rewards of implementing the immediate delivery of e‐books and profiled record sets directly to end users with only minimal library mediation. …

The Libvalue Project: Three Reports On Values, Outcomes, And Return On Investment Of Academic Libraries, Carol Tenopir, Rachel A. Fleming-May, Tina E. Chrzastowski

Charleston Library Conference

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Keeping Up With The Things That Matter: Current Awareness Tools And Strategies For Academic Libraries, Mike Diaz, Clifford Lynch, Karen Downing, John Dupuis

Charleston Library Conference

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Are Libraries Thriving? An Oxford Debate, Jill Emery

Charleston Library Conference

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Budgets Stretched, Staff Stressed, Usage Stalled...Something’S Gotta Give!, Stacy Baggett, Megan Williams

Charleston Library Conference

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