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Giving Games The Old College Try, Amy R. Hofer
Giving Games The Old College Try, Amy R. Hofer
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
Based on evidence that games might help students get more engaged in my online class, I decided to overcome my skepticism and road-test two information literacy games. First I tried BiblioBouts, which uses the online citation management tool Zotero to integrate gaming into a research paper assignment that is already part of the course syllabus. Students have to set up Zotero accounts and log into the game’s online platform to play and see their scoreboard; the technology requirements were too much for my class and the experiment didn’t feel successful. The following year I tried a comparatively low-tech game that …
Heard On The Net: It’S A Small World After All: Traveling Beyond The Viewpoint Of American Exceptionalism To The Rise Of The Author, Jill Emery
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
This column explores how scholarly publishing is changing and becoming a more international marketplace filled with new opportunities and new pitfalls.
Privco Review, Kerry Wu
Privco Review, Kerry Wu
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
PrivCo is a unique database with in-depth information on private companies and private market investors. It excels in providing private company financial data that are usually elusive to the public. Company reports in PrivCo often include not only hard data, but also value-added content such as expert analysis on business models and growth strategies. The quality and quantity of PrivCo’s data are unmatched in the current market. Information on small, local firms is sometimes limited or not available. If a target company is not listed, unless it’s a very small one, PrivCo strives to generate a report within 48 hours …
Love Your Keyboard! Professional Writing For Librarians, Emily Ford, Kim Leeder
Love Your Keyboard! Professional Writing For Librarians, Emily Ford, Kim Leeder
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
Participants of the session engaged in the inquiry process as focused in 4 areas of librarianship: Public Services & Programming; Teaching & Learning; Leadership & Management; Collections & Technical Services. Additionally, the workshop moderators engaged in the inquiry process regarding Publishing in Librarianship. The following are snapshots of the brainstorming that took place.
Defining And Characterizing Open Peer Review: A Review Of The Literature, Emily Ford
Defining And Characterizing Open Peer Review: A Review Of The Literature, Emily Ford
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
Changes in scholarly publishing have resulted in a move toward openness. To this end, new, open models of peer review are emerging. While the scholarly literature has examined and discussed open peer review, no established definition of it exists, nor are there uniform implementations of open peer review processes. This article examines the literature discussing open peer review, identifies common open peer review definitions, and describes eight common characteristics of open peer review: signed review, disclosed review, editor-mediated review, transparent review, crowdsourced review, prepublication review, synchronous review, and post-publication review. This article further discusses benefits and challenges to the scholarly …
Mining For Gold: Identifying The Librarians' Toolkit For Managing Hybrid Open Access: Based On A Paper Presented At The 36th Uksg Annual Conference, Bournemouth, April 2013, Jill Emery
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
In 2012, the author and colleagues surveyed eight publishers that had been involved with the Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER) project to learn about the state of hybrid journal publishing. At the same time, one of the key questions asked to a panel of librarians at the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers May 2012 Meeting was what role librarians would play if scholarly publishing shortly went open access (OA) across the board? From the survey of the market, and the rapid OA developments in the UK and EU that include hybrid OA, a picture …
Returning To Learn: Research And The Prodigal Student, Emily Ford, Meredith G. Farkas, Molly Blalock-Koral
Returning To Learn: Research And The Prodigal Student, Emily Ford, Meredith G. Farkas, Molly Blalock-Koral
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
Returning students - those with a significant lapse in time during their formal education - make up a large and growing percentage of the student population at Portland State University (PSU). Over 40% of PSU undergraduates are over 26 years of age and 21% of graduate students over 39. Given returning students’ experiences in the work force, motivations for learning, and the lapse of time since conducting academic research, returning students may approach research differently than traditional students. Despite the size of this student population at PSU and the growth of the returning student demographic in higher education, very little …
Discovery Is In The Eye Of The Beholder: Next Generation Integrated Library Systems, Jill Emery
Discovery Is In The Eye Of The Beholder: Next Generation Integrated Library Systems, Jill Emery
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
This presentation examines the increasing need for clear metadata production targets for publishers and their partners to produce and deliver descriptive data required by new discovery platforms.
Marketing To Individuals: Insights From The Library, Jill Emery
Marketing To Individuals: Insights From The Library, Jill Emery
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
This presentation focuses on how library systems support user purchases and which sales channels are involved.
Beyond A Box Of Documents: The Collaborative Partnership Behind The Oregon Chinese Disinterment Documents Collection, Natalia M. Fernández, Cristine Paschild
Beyond A Box Of Documents: The Collaborative Partnership Behind The Oregon Chinese Disinterment Documents Collection, Natalia M. Fernández, Cristine Paschild
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
This article is a case study of a collaboration between the Oregon Multicultural Archives of Oregon State University, Portland State University Library's Special Collections, the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA), and the Northwest News Network to preserve and make accessible a recovered box of Oregon Chinese disinterment documents. By examining what influenced and engaged each partner, this case study offers an opportunity to better understand the motivations of diverse stakeholders in a "post-custodial era" project that challenges traditional practices of custody, control, and access.
Becoming A Writer-Librarian, Emily Ford
Becoming A Writer-Librarian, Emily Ford
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
This article offers a reflection on my pursuit to become a writer-librarian. In addition to participating in a professional writing program at my institution, in November of 2012 I participated in Academic Writing Month and Digital Writing Month. Through these immersive experiences I worked to figure out who is my writerly librarian self and discovered some tools and techniques to help me along the way. This article begins with an explanation of Academic Writing Month and Digital Writing Month, discusses writing in Library and Information Science, and then offers more reflection on my discoveries as I tried to become a …
Is Digital Better Than Analog? Considerations For Online Card Sort Studies, Emily Ford
Is Digital Better Than Analog? Considerations For Online Card Sort Studies, Emily Ford
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
The article discusses the author's experience conducting a Web-based card sorting activity, and outlines the advantages and disadvantages for libraries adopting and using Web-based card sorting tools in an attempt to answer the question: Is digital card sorting better than analog? Screenshots described in the article are available here: http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/9246
Keeping Your Copyrights Is Easier Than You May Think, Emily Ford
Keeping Your Copyrights Is Easier Than You May Think, Emily Ford
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
This article presents the author's recent successful experience negotiating a copyright agreement and suggest some reflective questions for you to consider regarding your personal values in publishing and copyright transfer. It also lists tools that will assist authors in understanding and negotiating copyrights.
The Changing Roles Of Repositories: Where We Are And Where We Are Headed, Karen Bjork, David Isaak, Kay Vyhnanek
The Changing Roles Of Repositories: Where We Are And Where We Are Headed, Karen Bjork, David Isaak, Kay Vyhnanek
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
This presentation examines the past, present, and future role of institutional repositories (IRs). IRs rapidly rose to prominence in libraries, but failed to live up to the promise of transforming scholarly communication. A decade since the debut of DSpace, IRs today look very different in their content and services. We will present the results of an in‐depth survey of repository managers. The role of IRs is now evolving to include support for data curation, e‐research, and scholarly networks. The session concluded with a discussion of how repository managers can better network and share expertise. Files ending in .csv are plain-text, …
Halfway Open Or Halfway Shut?: Oa Hybrid Journals In Academia, Robin Champieux, Jill Emery, Kasia Stasik
Halfway Open Or Halfway Shut?: Oa Hybrid Journals In Academia, Robin Champieux, Jill Emery, Kasia Stasik
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
This panel session asks why is hybrid open access important? Scholarly publishers have responded to the OA movement by offering authors the choice of publishing their articles as Open Access (using an author pays funding mechanism) in subscription journals. The study surveys eight publishers to explore a number of questions about the mechanics, implementation, price impacts, and author tracking of this model; and investigates the uptake at two research institutions, with one operating in a NIH Public Access Policy environment.
Mining For Gold: Identifying The Librarian's Toolkit For Managing Hybrid Oa, Jill Emery
Mining For Gold: Identifying The Librarian's Toolkit For Managing Hybrid Oa, Jill Emery
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
This plenary presentation was given on April 8 at UKSG Conference 2013 and discusses the following points: (1.) Open access provision does not mean that access is provided with absolutely no cost associated with it. Management of open access publishing is an investment that libraries are making (2.) Open access publishing whether it is done in your library or outside of it still needs to be organized and managed. (3.) Open access within your institution is an enterprise-wide endeavor and this is especially true within the library itself. Whatever you do, do not create another silo of management. The video …
Terms And Conditions Apply: Refining Best Practice For Electronic Resource Management, Graham Stone, Jill Emery
Terms And Conditions Apply: Refining Best Practice For Electronic Resource Management, Graham Stone, Jill Emery
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
Two decades after the advent of e-journals and databases, librarians are still grappling with ways to best manage these resources. In addition, economic pressures are resulting in librarians having to justify their spending on collections. Techniques in E-Resource Management (TERMS) is a project to encourage crowd sourcing of areas of best practice for each of the stages of the E-resources lifecycle. (1). Investigating New Content for purchase (2). Acquire New Content (3). Implementation (4). Evaluation and Ongoing Access (5). Annual Review (6). Cancellation and Replacement. This session aims to encourage further review and comment. Tell us about your areas of …
Assessing Through Reflection: Valuing Our Wisdom And Trusting Our Gut, Robert Schroeder
Assessing Through Reflection: Valuing Our Wisdom And Trusting Our Gut, Robert Schroeder
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
Reflection on teaching and learning of information literacy
Mapping Standards To Content: Creating Research Guides Using Acrl’S Psychology Information Literacy Standards, Annie Armstrong, Kimberly D. Pendell
Mapping Standards To Content: Creating Research Guides Using Acrl’S Psychology Information Literacy Standards, Annie Armstrong, Kimberly D. Pendell
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
Although librarians have embraced online research guides (typically SpringShare’s LibGuides) as a mechanism for informing students of key resources across the disciplines, to what degree have they leveraged the full potential of these guides for delivering and supporting instruction? Guided by disciplinary information literacy standards, how could librarians create more instructionally robust guides which both promote and support the development of disciplinary research competencies?
Developing Terms: Techniques For Electronic Resource Management, Graham Stone, Jill Emery
Developing Terms: Techniques For Electronic Resource Management, Graham Stone, Jill Emery
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
TERMS (techniques for electronic resource management) began five years ago as a project to try to draft best practices for electronic resource management in today's library's environment. As libraries have changed and resources have expanded and grown, the project has taken on new aspects. Come learn what is new.
Is Digital Better Than Analog? Considerations For Online Card Sort Studies : Screenshots, Emily Ford
Is Digital Better Than Analog? Considerations For Online Card Sort Studies : Screenshots, Emily Ford
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
The following are screenshots captured from Optimalsort.com. These screenshots display visualizations compiled by OptimalSort.com based on data collected using OptimalSort, an online card sort study tool. These images serve as supplemental material to Emily Ford's article, Is Digital better than analog? Considerations for online card sort studies, published in College & Research Libraries News. Volume 74 Number 5 and is available here: http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/9417
Creating New Partnerships: Strategies For Growing Your Repository, Karen Bjork, Sue Kunda, David Isaak, Kay Vyhnanek
Creating New Partnerships: Strategies For Growing Your Repository, Karen Bjork, Sue Kunda, David Isaak, Kay Vyhnanek
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
This presentation was given February 8 at Online NW 2013 in Corvallis, OR. Academic institutions, as well as private corporations, have taken on the responsibility of building institutional repositories in order to collect, manage, archive and provide access to the intellectual work taking place on their respective campuses. Over the years, building or procuring a repository has become fairly straightforward. Filling it hasn't. Convincing faculty and academic units to contribute their research and scholarship is still a struggle for most repository owners and requires equal parts determination, imagination and perspiration. Join four repository managers from OSU, PSU, WSU and Kaiser …
Flipping The Distance Classroom, Amy R. Hofer
Flipping The Distance Classroom, Amy R. Hofer
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
A "flipped classroom" assigns lecture learning for homework and uses in-person class time for hands-on practice with the instructor's support. It's an exciting model, but how can it work for distance students? Portland State University's Senior Inquiry program offers high school seniors a PSU Freshman Inquiry course at their schools for college credit. This lightning talk outlines how the Distance Learning Librarian at PSU used LibGuides, Google Docs, YouTube, and lots of friendly reminders to help teachers flip information literacy instruction for these distance students.
From 3x5 To Lcd: Considerations And How-Tos For Conducting Online Card Sort Studies, Emily Ford
From 3x5 To Lcd: Considerations And How-Tos For Conducting Online Card Sort Studies, Emily Ford
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
What is an online card sort and why use it? Why not? What should libraries consider when designing usability studies that incorporate online card sort methods? Using a recent experience conducting an online card sort study as a framework, the pros and cons of conducting online card sort studies will be examined, and practical tips and how-to knowledge will be offered.
The Role Of The Modern Intermediary And What Constitutes Value In The Library Of 2012, Jill Emery
The Role Of The Modern Intermediary And What Constitutes Value In The Library Of 2012, Jill Emery
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
The article discusses how subscription services for electronic publications can add value to academic libraries. The author looks at the subscription agent for academic periodicals called JSTOR and its platform offered by the ITHAKA subscription service. Additional topics include the June 2011 decision by the American Institute of Physics to discontinue its use of its Scitation electronic publication platform in 2012, as well as the electronic publication platform of the publisher Taylor and Francis. Also discussed are academic libraries' strategies for data management in their work with intermediary subscription providers and intermediary vendors.
Accountability Vs. Improvement: Seeking Balance In The Value Of Academic Libraries Initiative, Meredith G. Farkas
Accountability Vs. Improvement: Seeking Balance In The Value Of Academic Libraries Initiative, Meredith G. Farkas
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
The article focuses on a program by the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) which focused on finding ways for libraries to show value and create a research agenda on the subject of value. The initiative produced "The Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report" focused on demonstrating correlations between library collections, instructions and student success. It notes the importance of libraries showing value to those who determine funding levels.
The Research Process And The Library: First-Generation College Seniors Vs. Freshmen, Elizabeth F. Pickard, Firouzeh Logan
The Research Process And The Library: First-Generation College Seniors Vs. Freshmen, Elizabeth F. Pickard, Firouzeh Logan
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
In a follow-up study to the ERIAL (Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries) Project, librarians at UIC compared the responses of first-generation college freshmen from the original study to those of seniors. The study’s aim was to determine whether student information literacy increases as a result of undergraduate education and to further explore the student research process with respect to the particular factors that inform and effect change in it. The findings showed that information literacy increased among these students, and they developed a more complex approach to the research process and the library.
Building And Sustaining A Culture Of Assessment: Best Practices For Change Leadership, Meredith G. Farkas
Building And Sustaining A Culture Of Assessment: Best Practices For Change Leadership, Meredith G. Farkas
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the idea of using Kotter's eight-step model for change leadership to create a culture of assessment that is embedded in the organizational culture of an academic library. Design/methodology/approach – This is a conceptual paper that examines the potential application of a business change model to an academic library change context. Each step of Kotter's model is described within the context of building a culture of assessment, supported by examples and suggestions from the literature of libraries, higher education, organizational behavior and change leadership. Findings – While building a culture of …
From Exhaustion To Exhilaration: Assessing Librarian Job Satisfaction With Virtual Reference, Arthur Hendricks, Sherry Buchanan
From Exhaustion To Exhilaration: Assessing Librarian Job Satisfaction With Virtual Reference, Arthur Hendricks, Sherry Buchanan
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
Purpose – Librarians respond to staffing L-net, Oregon's statewide reference chat service, in different ways. The aim of this paper is to create a survey to look for ways to improve the statewide service and improve the experience of chat librarians (as well as patrons). Design/methodology/approach – The authors surveyed L-net librarians to learn their thoughts and satisfaction with answering L-net chat questions. They collected anonymous survey data via PSU's web survey software (Qualtrics). The survey instrument was a mixture of qualitative and quantitative questions. The survey consisted of 29 questions. Findings – While the literature has many articles regarding …
Meeting The Challenges Of Professional Committee Meetings, Robert Schroeder, Donald G. Frank
Meeting The Challenges Of Professional Committee Meetings, Robert Schroeder, Donald G. Frank
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
Librarians join many professional associations and work on a great number of professional committees over the course of their careers. Working on a committee as a member can be a challenge, and the challenges can be even greater if you are chairing the committee. The authors summarize some of the key points for planning and executing effective and enjoyable meetings. Get tips as well on how to follow through to get results and how to improve future meetings.