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The Cupola: Scholarship At Gettysburg College - Promotional Flyer, Janelle L. Wertzberger Dec 2013

The Cupola: Scholarship At Gettysburg College - Promotional Flyer, Janelle L. Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

Promotional/informational piece aimed at faculty, based on 2012-13 annual report of Gettysburg College's institutional repository.


Chapter One: A Small College Library Joins The Open Access Movement, Janelle L. Wertzberger Dec 2013

Chapter One: A Small College Library Joins The Open Access Movement, Janelle L. Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

The open access movement has been going strong for over a decade. Large research universities tend to have the oldest and most active programs. Their work is inspiring, but it can be challenging for librarians at smaller institutions to identify ways to contribute to the movement. Gettysburg College launched its institutional repository in 2012. This presentation tells how we got started.


Cupola Brochure, Janelle L. Wertzberger Dec 2013

Cupola Brochure, Janelle L. Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

No abstract provided.


The Cupola: Scholarship At Gettysburg College - Institutional Repository Report, Janelle Wertzberger Dec 2013

The Cupola: Scholarship At Gettysburg College - Institutional Repository Report, Janelle Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

First annual report for Gettysburg College's institutional repository, The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College. Covers January 2012-May 2013.


The Cupola: Scholarship At Gettysburg College - Institutional Repository Report 2012-13, Janelle Wertzberger Dec 2013

The Cupola: Scholarship At Gettysburg College - Institutional Repository Report 2012-13, Janelle Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

First annual report for Gettysburg College's institutional repository, The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College. Covers January 2012-May 2013.


How The Cupola Can Help You With Your Research, Jessica Howard, Janelle Wertzberger Dec 2013

How The Cupola Can Help You With Your Research, Jessica Howard, Janelle Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College is a collection of scholarly and creative works produced by faculty, students, and other members of the Gettysburg College community. This video describes the benefits of putting your scholarship in this open access institutional repository, including increased discoverability, visibility, and citation impact for your work.


Who’S Reading You? Alternative Metrics To Measure Your Scholarly Impact, Janelle Wertzberger Nov 2013

Who’S Reading You? Alternative Metrics To Measure Your Scholarly Impact, Janelle Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

A short presentation will introduce altmetrics and describe how they seek to measure scholarly influence beyond traditional impact measurements (like journal impact factor and citation counts). We will show how altmetrics display on journal websites, library databases, and our own institutional repository. We’ll end with a discussion about altmetrics in your disciplines and departments … and fabulous door prizes!


Open Access And The Liberal Arts College, Janelle Wertzberger, Stephanie Davis-Kahl Oct 2013

Open Access And The Liberal Arts College, Janelle Wertzberger, Stephanie Davis-Kahl

Janelle Wertzberger

Colleges and universities are generating increasing amounts of information both from research and scholarship as well as institutional histories and practices. What's the best way to handle this increasing volume of material while making all of it accessible to the college community? How should copyright be handled for documents owned by other entities? How should you handle creative works from artists or musicians? Join Janelle Wertzberger, Director of Reference and Instruction at Gettysburg College's Musselman Library and Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Public Services Librarian at the Ames Library at Illinois Wesleyan to hear about two projects that aim to gather much of …


Information Literacy And Educ 340 At Gettysburg College, Janelle Wertzberger Aug 2012

Information Literacy And Educ 340 At Gettysburg College, Janelle Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

No abstract provided.


Assessment Of Students' Research Process, Janelle Wertzberger, Divonna Stebick May 2012

Assessment Of Students' Research Process, Janelle Wertzberger, Divonna Stebick

Janelle Wertzberger

No abstract provided.


Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Using Clickers To Enhance Learning In The Library, Janelle Wertzberger Dec 2007

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Using Clickers To Enhance Learning In The Library, Janelle Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

Musselman Library’s Reference & Instruction Department has an active and growing information literacy (IL) program based on faculty-librarian collaboration rather than institutional curriculum. While a few information literacy session sequences are taught within a specific course, the vast majority of instructional sessions are traditional “one-shots.”

Because formal instruction time with students is limited, instruction librarians take care to include active learning and other participatory pedagogies to improve learning and increase the likelihood that students will return to the library, the reference desk, and the library website. Incorporating personal response devices, or “clickers,” into IL sessions is another technique for engaging …