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Assessment On The Go: Surveying Students With An Ipad, Jennifer Link Jones, Bryan Sinclair Nov 2011

Assessment On The Go: Surveying Students With An Ipad, Jennifer Link Jones, Bryan Sinclair

University Library Faculty Publications

Ongoing assessment in academic libraries, particularly the measurement of student perceptions, preferences, and satisfaction, can be a challenge to schedule and execute. This paper describes a pilot project at Georgia State University Library that combined assessment with the portability of the tablet computer. A tablet computer--in this case, Apple’s iPad--loaded with survey software became a digital clipboard with the added benefit of automatic data compilation. Subjects were surveyed quickly in the library buildings, maximizing convenience for both subjects and researchers alike. The result was a model that other libraries, as well as campus student services divisions and classroom instructors, can …


Moving Around Town In Downtown: Gsu’S Earliest Locations (1914-1955), Laurel Bowen Oct 2011

Moving Around Town In Downtown: Gsu’S Earliest Locations (1914-1955), Laurel Bowen

Selections from the University Library Blog

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Make Googling Yourself More Fun, Georgia State University Library Oct 2011

Make Googling Yourself More Fun, Georgia State University Library

ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University Documents and Forms

Promotional Flyer for the Georgia State University Institutional Repository.


Digital Archive Trifold Brochure, Georgia State University Library Oct 2011

Digital Archive Trifold Brochure, Georgia State University Library

ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University Documents and Forms

A promotional brochure outlining the benefits of the Georgia State University institutional repository.


Provost's Open Access Week Letter, Risa Palm Oct 2011

Provost's Open Access Week Letter, Risa Palm

ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University Documents and Forms

Letter from Provost Palm encouraging participation in Open Access Week 2011 activities.


Jane (Journal/Author Name Estimator), Sharon L. Leslie Oct 2011

Jane (Journal/Author Name Estimator), Sharon L. Leslie

University Library Faculty Publications

Acceptance of a manuscript is a relief but often depends on submission to the appropriate journal. Jane is a Web-based resource to assess novelty or repetition of subject matter in MEDLINE. Researchers and scientists can use this Web site to help determine the best journal to approach for publishing a manuscript, discover who has done similar research in a specific field, and search for articles with related topics.


Syllabus - "Information - Power To The People" (Georgia State University, Honors Freshman Seminar), Mandy J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D. Oct 2011

Syllabus - "Information - Power To The People" (Georgia State University, Honors Freshman Seminar), Mandy J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.

University Library Faculty Publications

Guided by this notion and the sociological frameworks of “critical theory” and “social justice,” we addressed specific situations in which access to, control of, and use of information is unequal, impeded, manipulated, and/or abused and thus can result in people’s disempowerment. We also explored efforts aimed at empowering those within these situations.


Fall Semester 2 - 2011, Stall Times Oct 2011

Fall Semester 2 - 2011, Stall Times

University Library Stall Times

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An Investigation Of Etds As Prior Publications: Findings From The 2011 Ndltd Publishers’ Survey, Gail Mcmillan, Marisa L. Ramirez, Joan Dalton, Max Read, Nancy H. Seamans Sep 2011

An Investigation Of Etds As Prior Publications: Findings From The 2011 Ndltd Publishers’ Survey, Gail Mcmillan, Marisa L. Ramirez, Joan Dalton, Max Read, Nancy H. Seamans

University Library Faculty Publications

Do publishers and editors of scholarly journals view theses and dissertations that are readily available on the Internet and through convenient Web browsers as prior publications? This has been a topic of discussion for well over a decade in the ETD community, not only of concern to graduate schools and libraries but also among research faculty and their graduate students. At the same time that a growing number of universities worldwide are requiring ETDs and making the research and scholarship of their graduate students publicly available, many faculty advise their students to restrict online access to their theses and dissertations …


Summer Semester 1 - 2011, Stall Times Jul 2011

Summer Semester 1 - 2011, Stall Times

University Library Stall Times

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Using An Ir To Enhance The Undergraduate Experience: The Colonial Academic Alliance Undergraduate Research Journal, Laura G. Burtle Jun 2011

Using An Ir To Enhance The Undergraduate Experience: The Colonial Academic Alliance Undergraduate Research Journal, Laura G. Burtle

University Library Faculty Presentations

No abstract provided.


The University Library: Your Partner In Teaching And Learning, Bryan Sinclair Apr 2011

The University Library: Your Partner In Teaching And Learning, Bryan Sinclair

University Library Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Webinar Series Title Changed To Honor Founding Member, Sarah King Steiner Apr 2011

Webinar Series Title Changed To Honor Founding Member, Sarah King Steiner

University Library Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Spring Semester 2 - 2011, Stall Times Apr 2011

Spring Semester 2 - 2011, Stall Times

University Library Stall Times

No abstract provided.


Our Aims As Library Instructors: Context, Value, And Ownership - Selected Resources, Jennifer Link Jones Jan 2011

Our Aims As Library Instructors: Context, Value, And Ownership - Selected Resources, Jennifer Link Jones

University Library Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


A Declaration Of Survey Interdependence, Tammy S. Sugarman, Jennifer Link Jones Jan 2011

A Declaration Of Survey Interdependence, Tammy S. Sugarman, Jennifer Link Jones

University Library Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Spring Semester 1 - 2011, Stall Times Jan 2011

Spring Semester 1 - 2011, Stall Times

University Library Stall Times

No abstract provided.