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A Call For The Library Community To Deploy Best Practices Toward A Database For Biocultural Knowledge Relating To Climate Change, Martha B. Lerski

Publications and Research

Abstract

Purpose – In this paper, a call to the library and information science community to support documentation and conservation of cultural and biocultural heritage has been presented.

Design/methodology/approach – Based in existing Literature, this proposal is generative and descriptive— rather than prescriptive—regarding precisely how libraries should collaborate to employ technical and ethical best practices to provide access to vital data, research and cultural narratives relating to climate.

Findings – COVID-19 and climate destruction signal urgent global challenges. Library best practices are positioned to respond to climate change. Literature indicates how libraries preserve, share and cross-link cultural and scientific knowledge. …

Participatory Design Ethnography In The Learning Commons: Initial Research Findings, Krista Harper

Krista M. Harper

Presentation on initial findings from research at the UMass Amherst Learning Commons using participatory design ethnography and Photovoice. In this Spring 2014 project, I guided students through a semester-length research study of students' perspectives on and practices in the library.

Western Kentucky University Libraries Oral History Project (Fa 756), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 756. Collection includes 39 interviews with Western Kentucky University Libraries faculty, staff, and administrators about their work in the university’s libraries from the 1950s to 2015. Each interview includes information about the individual’s particular role in the library’s function, the evolution of the libraries, and significant projects in which they were involved.

Students Studying Students: An Assessment Of Using Undergraduate Student Researchers In An Ethnographic Study Of Library Use, Allyson Washburn, Sheila C. Bibb

Faculty Publications

This paper reports on the use of undergraduate students enrolled in an Applied Anthropology course as researcher for a library use study at Brigham Young University's (BYU) Harold B. Lee Library (HBLL). This is a common practice at BYU, but has not been reported extensively in the literature. The study was carried out by the authors with the assistance of undergraduate students, the students being the researchers and was conducted in order that the HBLL could determine student ideas for reconfiguring some newly opened space in the Periodicals room. Using students assisted the library as well as met a curricular …

Legacy - July 1996, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

SCIAA Newsletter - Legacy & PastWatch

Contents:

Charlesfort Discovered!.....p. 1
Director's Notes.....p. 2
Vision Quest.....p. 3
Santa Elena/Charlesfort Video Project.....p. 4
Allendale Paleoindian Expedition.....p. 4
SCETV Archaeology Series.....p. 5
Stallings Culture.....p. 6
Santa Elena Ceramics.....p. 11
Chairman's Notes.....p. 12
New Windsor.....p. 12
Pumpkin Site Update.....p. 13
Wachovia Book.....p. 13
Petroglyph/Rock Shelter Survey.....p. 13
Hunley Project.....p. 1
Spirek Joins Staff.....p. 14
Sport Diver Data Trends.....p. 16
Ashley River Survey.....p. 18
Current Research.....p. 20
Tobago Research Program.....p. 21
Charles' Lifetime Achievement.....p. 22
Sassaman Book Signing.....p. 22
Research Library.....p. 23
Researchers Receive RL Stephenson Funds.....p. 23
SC Archaeology Week.....p. 24