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Pesticides And The Environment Ent 411, Michael Cerbo

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

Thinking Lean: The Relevance Of Gemba-Kaizen And Visual Assessment In Collection Management, Nazimah Ram Nath

Research Collection Library

The Singapore Management University (SMU) Libraries’ have used the LEAN and Six Sigma methodologies in recent years to plan and push for continuous process improvement in their operations. In one assessment project, the Gemba-Kaizen principle from LEAN was adapted and applied to an initiative centered on assessing the library’s Lifestyle print collection. This strategy became a prime agent for change, which resulted in some marked improvements in collection management activities within the SMU Libraries. This case study at SMU Libraries will describe key principles of Gemba- Kaizen and how it was found to be a sustainable tool to drive continuous …

Theological Libraries And Scholarly Publishing In Religion And Theology, Andrew J. Keck

Perkins Faculty Research and Special Events

Theological libraries and scholarly publishing in religion and theology operate within multiple overlapping contexts and economic markets: faith communities, theological education, scholars, libraries, and publishing. This paper will complete an analysis of available religious publishing and theological library purchasing trends in order to create a thicker description of the system of scholarly communication. Even allowing for degrees of uncertainty in the data presented, there remains a significant disconnect in the rising collective costs for publishing versus the declining expenditures among theological libraries. The trend appears to be that the average theological library is purchasing a declining portion of the scholarship. …

Database Trials Marketing Plan, Jackie Blanton-Watkins, Jennifer Jacobs

Collection Development Unit

This document details the marketing plan created by the Electronic Resources Librarian and the Strategic Marketing & Outreach Librarian to market upcoming database trials at the KSU Library System. It includes responsibilities for all collaborators essential to marketing database trials to the KSU community, the timeline, and the digital and physical marketing strategy used by the Strategic Marketing & Outreach Librarian and the Liaison Coordinator.

Database Trials Flowchart & Procedure, Jackie Blanton-Watkins

Collection Development Unit

This document contains a flowchart of the full database trialing process at the KSU Library System and the Collection Development Unit procedure to initiate and close a database trial, including the set up, export, and close of the Qualtrics survey and the creation and close of the database trial in Alma.

Twentieth-Century Global Perspectives, Janice Schuster

Library Faculty and Staff papers

The collections that comprise Twentieth-Century Global Perspectives,

covering 1941-1996, include primary sources from the Central

Intelligence Agency’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)

Daily Reports, 1941-1996 and its Joint Publications Research Service

(JPRS) Reports, 1957-1995. The online versions of these sources are

not consolidated anywhere else, making these collections invaluable

for researchers in the various disciplines covered. Weaknesses of the

database include the inability to search across all collections simultaneously,

the absence of help screens, and the inability to export to

bibliographic management tools such as RefWorks or Zotero.

Collection Management Matters — Migrations And Migraines, Glenda M. Alvin

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Collection Management Matters--Facing The Ugly Truth: Inventory, Glenda M. Alvin

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Advocating For Technical Services Through Assessment (Presentation), Rebecca L. Mugridge

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

This presentation discusses how managers can advocate for technical services through a variety of assessment activities.

Contextual Classification At Out On The Shelves Library, Amber Dierking

Conference Proceedings

Out On The Shelves is Vancouver’s only Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Two-Spirit, Queer, Intersex, Aromantic/Asexual (LGBT2QIA+) library. Due to recent organizational changes, it has become apparent that its current classification system is no longer working effectively. Not only was the previous system unstructured and confusing, it failed to explicitly represent many aspects of the community it serves. This project was undertaken during the summer of 2018, researching alternative classification and queer issues in knowledge organization to determine how to improve it. This research, combined with careful consideration of the needs of the library itself and its users, suggested that building …

The Roma And Documentary Film: Considerations For Collection Development, Rebecca Schiff

Publications and Research

This paper explores the issues and criteria involved in developing a creditable documentary film collection about the Romani people for an academic library. Throughout their history, the Roma, or Gypsies, have dealt with biased, romanticized versions of their story, perpetuated by stereotypes found in legend, literature, song, and film. The expectation in the present undertaking is that the evidence coming from documentary films provides an effective antidote for misrepresentations. The paper reviews pertinent literature, suggests a selection process, and furnishes commentaries on individual titles as they relate to a framework based on the Romani historical and geographical narrative. A critical …

Zine Authors ’ Attitudes About Inclusion In Public And Academic Library Collections: A Survey- Based Study, Anne Hays

Publications and Research

Zine collections are becoming an increasingly popular addition to public and academic library holdings. Although academics have made strong arguments for the value of zines' inclusion as part of our cultural heritage, current research does not focus on zine authors' perspectives. How do the zine writers themselves feel about having their work--which is often highly personal--collected, shared, and sometimes circulated in the public and academic library sphere? This study will report the findings of a survey designed to uncover zine authors' attitudes about having their works collected, shared, and circulated--in academic libraries, public libraries, and institutionally affiliated archival collections across …

Terrorism: The Essential Reference Guide, Rob Tench

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

Book review of Colin P. Clarke's Terrorism: The Essential Reference Guide (2018) Santa Barbara, California, ABC-CLIO, ISBN 9781440856280.

Hatred Of America's Presidents: Personal Attacks On The White House From Washington To Trump, Rob Tench

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

Book review of Lori Cox Han's Hatred of America's presidents: Personal attacks on the White House from Washington to Trump (2018) Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, ISBN 9781440854361.

Overview And Evaluation Of Selected General Business Databases, Yu Zhang, Di Su

Publications and Research

Aiming at business librarians, this article outlines and evaluates general business databases commonly used in academic libraries. The evaluation is based on the authors’ practical experience. The authors hope that this article may help librarians make decisions when dealing with business database subscriptions.

Money In American Politics, Rob Tench

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

Book Review of Money in American Politics, by David Schultz, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, ISBN 9781440851766.

Globalization Of Area Studies: An Analysis Of Collection Development Resources, Izabella Taler

Publications and Research

The article provides a detailed analysis of collection development tools of use to area studies subject bibliographers

The Global Economy As You've Never Seen It: 99 Ingenious Infographics That Put It All Together, Rob Tench

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

Book review of Range, Thomas, Schwochow, Jan, and Garcia-Landa, The Global Economy as You've Never Seen It: 99 Ingenious Infographics That Put it All Together. New York, NY: The Experiment, ISBN 9781615195176.

Modern American Extremism And Domestic Terrorism: An Encyclopedia Of Extremists And Extremist Groups, Robert Tench

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

Book review of Barry J. Ballec'sk, Modern American Extremism and Domestic Terrorism; An Encyclopedia of Extremists and Extremist Groups. (2018) Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, ISBN 9781440852749.

Mass Shootings In America: Understanding The Debates, Causes, And Responses, Rob Tench

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

Book Review of Mass Shootings in America: Understanding the Debates, Causes, and Responses by Jaclyn Schildkraut, 2018 Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781440856242.

Reliquaires Pervertis. Inscriptions Du Deuil Chez Maupassant, Mirbeau Et Rodenbach, Elizabeth Emery

Department of World Languages and Cultures Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Dans cette étude il est question de la fascination pour les tombes, reliquaires et épitaphes à travers leur représentation dans des textes naturalistes et décadents de la fin du XIXe siècle. Alors qu’on commande de plus en plus de monuments funéraires, surtout dans les années 1880 et 1890, les écrivains tels que Maupassant, Mirbeau et Rodenbach se moquent de leurs inscriptions ; ils privilégient une vision moins historique (celle de l’Histoire, avec un grand H) et plus intime (celle de l’histoire, avec un petit h) de l’épitaphe, la dotant ainsi d’une fonction de moins en moins matérielle et de plus …

Scholarly Communications Of Nephrology By Indian Scientists In Science Citation Index Expanded: A Scientometric Profile, Chandran Velmurugan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Objectives: Nephrology is one the complicated diseases of the human body. This study tries to focus the scholarly communications of Nephrology which were indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) from the Web of Science (WoS) bibliometric database and to observe various elements in terms of yearly growth, author productivity, document, language, institution, geographical, most productive keywords, collaborative index (CI), degree of collaboration (DC) and many more characteristic features during the study period.

Method: The data were collected from the Web of Science Core Collection database by using the keywords as topic ‘Nephrology’ and refined by ‘countries /Territories’ (India) and …

Bibliography For Interstices 2018: Beyond Human: Emotion And Ai, Kristin Laughtin-Dunker

Library Displays and Bibliographies

An annotated list of materials in the Leatherby Libraries to accompany the Interstices 2018: Beyond Human: Emotion and AI event held at Chapman University in February 2018. The event featured Lisa Joy, co-creator and executive producer of HBO’s Emmy winning hit series Westworld, Jon Gratch, Director for Virtual Human Research at the University of Southern California’s (USC) Institute for Creative Technologies and Caroline Bainbridge, a Professor of Psychoanalysis and Culture in the Department of Media, Culture and Language at the University of Roehampton London. The Leatherby Libraries also hosted two book club discussions of The Positronic …

The Use Of Electronic Resources Postgraduate Students Of The University Of Cape Coast, Ebenezer Ankrah, Diana Atuase

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have radically taken over every sphere of activity in university libraries. Academic libraries owe it a key duty to keep pace with technological advancement in order to cope with users’ continual sophisticated information requirements. The main purpose of this study was to examine the use of electronic resources by postgraduate students of the University of Cape Coast, and with a view of giving recommendations based on findings. The major objectives of the study are: (1) To determine postgraduate students’ awareness of electronic resources in the library. (2) To find out the frequency of …

The Internet Users And Cybercrime In Ghana: Evidence From Senior High School In Brong Ahafo Region, Kwaku Anhwere Barfi Mr., Paul Nyagorme Dr., Nash Yeboah Mr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Cybercrime, an offence that is committed against individuals through the internet has bedeviled the global online industry. Cybercrime is also criminal activity using internet facilities such as virus infections, identity theft and hacking. There is high risk of becoming a victim especially young internet user. All efforts to combat it have not worked much. The study examined the awareness of Senior High School students towards cybercrime in order to suggest policies to deal with this menace. The study underpinned by social strain theory. The study employed descriptive survey design. Simple sampling technique was used to select 200 students from Sunyani …

Content Analysis Of Web Presence Of National Law University Libraries In India, Soumya Singh Tomar, Mohammed Imtiaz Ahmed, Amarjit Kumar Singh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper is an attempt to examine the contents of National Law university library website, that has been carried on the twenty national law universities in India. The content available on the website was analysed according to a framework designed to meet the objectives of the study. The data was collected from the websites of universities during March 2017 to May 2017 that has been ranked using a rating scale. Analysis reveals that NLUO ranks the top most among all the national law universities in India followed by NLSIU, RMLNLU, NALSAR, NLSJA and WBNUJS. The study would be helpful for …

Beyond The Left: Documenting American Racism In Print Periodicals At The Wisconsin Historical Society, And Theorizing (Radical) Collections Today, Alycia Sellie

Publications and Research

This chapter merges what I experienced in developing collections at the Wisconsin Historical Society with new scholarship on anti-racism and interrogations of whiteness in library and information studies (LIS).

Examination Of Save Marketing Mix Situation In Public Libraries Of Tehran, Elahe Amir Inanloo, Atefeh Zarei, Mohsen Haji Zeinolabedini

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study was conducted to determine the rate of usage of SAVE marketing mix components in public libraries of Tehran.The research method is descriptive survey. The statistical population of the study consisted of 33 libraries of public libraries affiliated with the public libraries of Tehran city which have been studied by census method.In order to analyze the data, SPSS software descriptive statistics (frequency distribution, relative percentage, mean and standard deviation) and inferential (t singlesample) was used. The findings of the study showed that the general libraries of Tehran were weak in terms of all components of the SAVE marketing …

Institutional Budget And Impact Of Internally Generated Revenue On Funding Of Academic Library In A Developing Economy, Tolulope Tosin Ogunjimi, Mujidat Adeola Bello, Olanike Oladunni Olaniyi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Provision of funds for the academic libraries has been one of the challenges to adequate availability of information resources. Most institutions rely on institutional revenues to be made available to the libraries at appropriate and available period.

The study showcased among others; determined the percentage of institutional budget of internally generated revenue for funding of the academic libraries, gathered information on products and services that generate income into academic libraries, exposed ways through which academic libraries could generate funds for self-dependence.

The instrument used for data collection was the questionnaire and study employed descriptive design to investigate the percentage of …

Black Power Encyclopedia: From "Black Is Beautiful" To Urban Uprisings, Robert Tench

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

Book Review of Akinyele Omowale Umoja, Karen L.Stanford, and Jasmin A.Young's Black Power Encyclopedia: From "Black is Beautiful" to Urban Uprisings. Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood: ABC-CLIO, ISBN 9781440840067.