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Future Is Now: Introducing Ereaders To Cuny Libraries, Stefanie Havelka, Jennifer King, Rebecca Arzola, Alevtina Verbovetskaya

Publications and Research

Amazon.com’s announcement in July 2010 that eBooks out sold print books for the previous three months indicates that eBooks are here to stay. What effect will this have on teaching and learning? Will ease of access and portability facilitate cheating and plagiarism? How will eBooks and eReaders work in an urban academic environment? Are eReaders and eBooks the new digital divide?

Faculty from the Leonard Lief Library at Lehman College will share their experience with Sony eReaders and downloadable eBooks via OverDrive. Following this presentation there will be a guided discussion on eReader and eBook issues, such as:

• How do …

Bam! Pow! Graphic Novels Fight Stereotypes In Academic Libraries: Supporting, Collecting, Promoting, Beth Jane Toren

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

This study examines the launch of a graphic novel collection in an academic library and presents a study analyzing the increase of titles in Association of Research Libraries with the subject heading “Graphic Novels” between fall 2008 and fall 2009. Statistics show a 40% increase, averaging 62 additional titles, during a year of global financial crisis. Exploring the prejudice against comics lingering in more traditional corners of academia, this paper encourages librarians to counter stereotypes and therefore bring more people, including other librarians, to view graphic novels as literature. This study includes recommended practices for supporting, collecting, and promoting these …

Developing Repository Collections — The Benefits Matter Most, Marianne A. Buehler

Library Faculty Presentations

Presentation Contents:
We have an IR-now what?
Open access mandates
Value proposition of mandates
ETD mandates
Timing can be everything
Campus content: Build relationships
Strategic repository collaborators
Engagement
Strategic repository partnerships

Information Outlook, December 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Volume 14, Issue 8

Electronic Reserves And Fair Use: Preservation Of Educational Exceptions To Copyright Law, Eric A. Robinson

Education Collection

Electronic course reserves serve a vital function in university instruction, enabling students to easily access important published literature in their discipline. While electronic systems have greatly improved the functionality of course reserves and have led to their ubiquitous use on campus, publishers have become more litigious and threaten to erode educational exceptions to copyright law under fair use. This paper reviews recent relevant case law with a view to providing recommendations for best practices for electronic reserves in university libraries that preserve traditional legal exceptions to copyright protections in education. While the courts have often upheld these exceptions, libraries could …

Information Outlook, October/November 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Volume 14, Issue 7

Government Information: Presidents & Elections, St. Mary's University, Texas

Elections/Voting

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from St. Mary's University, Texas.

Weeding Or "Collection Refreshment", Brian Gallagher, Andrée Rathemacher, Loraine Winthrop

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Powerpoint presentation slides for the session "Weeding or 'Collection Refreshment'" at the ACRL New England Chapter Access Services Interest Group program, The Many Hats of Access Services. The program took place on October 28, 2010 at The University of Massachusetts Boston in Boston, MA.

Building Global Bridges To Sustainability Research/Collaborations In Higher Education, Marianne A. Buehler

Library Faculty Presentations

Institutional/University Repository
Created/designed by faculty & librarians
Captures, preserves, showcases scholarly, peer-reviewed output
Eliminates financial barriers to subscription costs & provides global access to research and data
Extends the reach of authors’ work, ensuring worldwide access and increased impact factor
Effective and sustainable approach to disseminating scholarly knowledge

Caveat Emptor: It May Be Electronic, But Don’T Overlook The Fine Print, Stephanie N. Aken

Library Presentations

No abstract provided.

Strategic Planning For Sustaining User-Generated Content In Digital Collections, Cory K. Lampert, Su Kim Chung

Library Faculty Presentations

• Should there be an overarching philosophy for user-generated content in the organization?

• Who in the management or leadership determines this philosophy or guides the organization to come up with a shared vision?

•What technical considerations are there for these projects? Are there staff that need to be consulted for software choices and technical customization?

•Is there are point person for the project and does this person have the authority and appropriate expertise to moderate content and respond to user’s contributions?

•Should there be appropriate guidelines for communicating an institutions’ brand or message in these new venues?

•And ultimately, …

Technical Services' Trip To The Strand, Joanna Burkhardt, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides from a presentation, "Technical Services' Trip to the Strand," given to the University of Rhode Island Library Faculty Development Committee on September 27, 2010.

Native American History Month, Southwest Minnesota State University

Ethnic History

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Southwest Minnesota State University.

Information Outlook, September 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Volume 14, Issue 6

Tracking Online Document Usage From Your Catalog: Using Statistics To Demonstrate The Value Of Government Publications, Susan Kendall

Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Lib Value: Measuring Value And Return On Investment Of Academic Libraries, Carol Tenopir, Regina N. Mays, Paula Kaufman

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Library professionals are looking for new ways to measure and express the value of their libraries to their parent institutions and to measure how well they meet the rapidly changing needs and expectations of their users. They need both to find the best ways to meet patron needs and to communicate the value of their operations to administrators and funders. Developing a strategy to help libraries attain these goals is the focus of the Value, Outcomes, and Return on Investment of Academic Libraries project, “Lib-Value” for short. Funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), …

Information Outlook, July/August 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Volume 14, Issue 5

Finding The Middle Ground In Collection Development: How Academic Law Librarians Can Shape Their Collections In Response To The Call For More Practice-Oriented Legal Education, Leslie A. Street, Amanda M. Runyon

Library Staff Publications

To examine how academic law libraries can respond to the call for more practice-oriented legal education, the authors compared trends in collection management decisions regarding secondary sources at academic and law firm libraries. The results of their survey are followed by recommendations about how academic and firm librarians can work together to best provide law students with materials they will need in practice.

Presidential Elections, Southwest Minnesota State University

Elections/Voting

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Southwest Minnesota State University.

Collaborating With Faculty To "Start Up" An Open Access Journal, Marianne A. Buehler

Library Faculty Presentations

University faculty have ongoing pressure to publish their research findings and teaching successes and produce scholarship worthy of tenure. Acceptance to publish an article in a journal can be highly competitive and in some fields of study, there are few journal publication options. With the advent of open access (OA) publishing opportunities, academic libraries are fulfilling a need by supporting sustainable models of scholarly communication that include collaborating with faculty and editors to “start up” an OA journal or convert a traditional print journal to OA. Some faculty would prefer to transcend the traditional publishing model and may not be …

"The Mad World Of Ebooks In The Scholarly Communications Supply Chain: A Focused Discussion", Rob Kairis, Kay Downey

Rob Kairis

No abstract provided.

Information Outlook, June 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Volume 14, Issue 4

Designing The Born-Digital Archive, Michelle Light

Library Faculty Presentations

Light spoke generally about the major issues facing archivists who manage born digital records and how the UCI Libraries responded when providing access to the Richard Rorty papers. She discussed the challenges, such as dealing with rapid technological change, ensure present and future accessibility of legacy files, managing privacy and copyrights, guaranteeing the authenticity and integrity of files, preventing loss and destruction, and selecting the most important material for preservation. She also discussed numerous decisions archivists make that impact the future archive, such as emulation or preservation of the original computing environment, the organization of files, the migration of materials …

Information Outlook, April/May 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Volume 14, Issue 3

Holocaust Remembrance Day, South Dakota State University

Ethnic History

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from South Dakota State University.

Print Reference Collections In New York State: Report Of A Survey, Jane G. Kessler

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

An up-to-date, well-managed reference collection is essential to the provision of quality reference service in all types of libraries. This article presents the results of a survey of managers of reference collections at public and academic libraries in New York State.

Oral History On The Web, Tom D. Sommer

Library Faculty Presentations

This session will examine how oral history is increasing its relevance in a changing digital landscape. This session will not only showcase a few oral history collections currently online, but how oral historians can place them there. Further, this session will explain the basic steps to uploading your interviews (audio, video and transcriptions) to the Web with some practical tools. This session will also showcase a new method of access for oral history researchers. This new method is the digital collection. For example, the University Libraries at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas has created the digital collection entitled, “Nevada …

[Review Of] A Cultural Dictionary Of Punk, Robert A. Aken

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Information Outlook, March 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Volume 14, Issue 2

Information Outlook, January/February 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Volume 14, Issue 1