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An Online Competency Test For Information Literacy: Development, Implementation, And Results, Lynn Cameron, Rebecca Feind

Faculty and Staff Publications

Librarians, faculty, and assessment specialists at James Madison University (JMU) collaborated to develop an online Information-Seeking Skills Test (ISST) to measure competencies relating to information literacy. In this paper we will report on how we developed and implemented the test as a required competency for all first-year students in General Education. We will also report on test results, challenges in implementing a competency test for all freshmen, our training program for faculty, and our remediation program.

Information Outlook, March 2001, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2001

Volume 5, Issue 3

Web Information Retrieval And Monitoring Using Adaptive Agent, Yuen Beng Chong

Student Works (2000-2009)

Internet is the information house. There are million of pages posted in the Internet, and still growing in exponential. Locate a web page, without a search engines, is like a blind explorer. There are many search engines in the existence world, but more new search engines is under construction. Each search engine has its advantage and disadvantage, depend on the need of the searchers. The projects aims to develop an agent, with some advanced features, to allow the searchers obtain the information from the Internet easily. The advanced features included, table of contents preview, chart of relevant, session review and …

Information Outlook, February 2001, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2001

Volume 5, Issue 2

Children's Book Festival, Karen Rowell, Onva K. Boshears Jr., University Of Southern Mississippi

Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival Programs

The program for the thirty-third annual Children's Book Festival held on the campus of The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 2001.

New Learners, New Models: Cultivating An Information Literacy Program, Andrée J. Rathemacher, Mary C. Macdonald, Joanna M. Burkhardt

Technical Services Faculty Publications

This is the authors' manuscript of chapter 21 in the book Library User Education: Powerful Learning, Powerful Partnerships, ed. Barbara I. Dewey, Scarecrow Press, 2001. It is posted here with publisher permission.

Information Outlook, January 2001, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2001

Volume 5, Issue 1

Champlin Grant Funds Wireless Classrooms, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Publications

Short article announcing that the University of Rhode Island Libraries received a $132,250 grant from the Champlin Foundations to fund the acquisition of mobile media carts networked to portable laptop computers.

Historical Fabrications On The Internet: Recognition, Evaluation, And Use In Bibliographic Instruction, John A. Drobnicki, Richard Asaro

Publications and Research

Although the Internet provides access to a wealth of information, there is little, if any, control over the quality of that information. Side-by-side with reliable information, one finds disinformation, misinformation, and hoaxes. The authors of this paper discuss numerous examples of fabricated historical information on the Internet (ranging from denials of the Holocaust to personal vendettas), offer suggestions on how to evaluate websites, and argue that these fabrications can be incorporated into bibliographic instruction classes.

The Personal Library And Indexing Management Information System (Plimis), Wai Kit Choong

Student Works (2000-2009)

The Personal Library and Indexing Management Information System (PLIMIS) is an information system used to organize and manage personal collections of reading materials such as books, journals, journal articles, magazines, articles, dictionaries and CD-ROMs. The system allows easy searching and retrieving of the items in the collections as it adopts a systematic classification and indexing for the reading materials. This will save the time in searching a specific item. PLIMIS is designed for personal use and contains most of the features in the current library information systems. It provides user friendly interface and help to the users for easy using …

Teaching Intermediate Students Research And Critical Thinking Skills: Integrating Technology Into The Curriculum, Michelle Stach

All Graduate Projects

The focus of this project was to create specific activities that teach students how to research material and use their critical thinking skills to present a product. The project implements an integrated approach with an emphasis on the intermediate grades. Throughout this project the students will be exploring a variety of ways to acquire the knowledge ofresearching quality information. This project concentrates on integrating technology into the social studies and science curriculum. The final product encompasses research and critical thinking skills into an intermediate curriculum.

Desk Set: Ready Reference On The Web, Beth Juhl

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Enhancing Women's Studies Action Research Projects Through Technology, Lucretia Mcculley

University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

This article describes how library and Internet technology enhanced an action research assignment in a unique women’s studies program, Women Involved in Living and Learning (WILL), at the University of Richmond. The Women’s Studies Liaison Librarian and the Director of the WILL Program collaborated to provide a meaningful assignment that incorporated the use of online databases and the Internet. The main objective of the assignment was to provide a research opportunity whereby the students would learn to use electronic women’s studies resources and actually utilize the information into some type of social action, such as writing a letter, volunteering in …

E. Help Desk: A Natural Language Processing For Answering Query, Mohd. Nor Norwin Shariman

Student Works (2000-2009)

This report is about a search engine, E. Help Desk that is to be deployed in a location where usually the users have a brief contact with the search engine. Thus it is designed to be very easy to use as it is designed to be intuitive, so as the learning curve for the search engine is very shallow. The system is divided into two modules, the user interface and the administrator module. The user interface provide· a basic search engine capability to the user to enable them to search for relevant article. In regard to place like a shopping …

Review Of Tennessee’S New Deal Landscape, Rebecca Tolley

ETSU Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Developing, Marketing And Evaluating Web-Based Library And Information Skills Tutorials At Old Dominion University, Cynthia Wright Swaine

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

Confronted with an expanding distance learning program, a growing set of student expectations, and recent changes in general education requirements, the Library Instruction Team at Old Dominion University is addressing the related needs for new approaches to library instruction by creating a series of web-based tutorials.Confronted with an expanding distance learning program, a growing set of student expectations, and recent changes in general education requirements, the Library Instruction Team at Old Dominion University is addressing the related needs for new approaches to library instruction by creating a series of web-based tutorials.

Information Outlook, December 2000, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2000

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Information Outlook, October 2000, Special Libraries Association

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Information Outlook, July 2000, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2000

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New Learners, New Models: Information Literacy At The University Of Rhode Island, Mary C. Macdonald, Joanna M. Burkhardt, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Powerpoint slides for a presentation, "New Learners, New Models: Information Literacy at the University of Rhode Island," at the ACRL New England Bibliographic Instruction Committee (NEBIC) Annual Program 2000, Information Literacy Into the Curriculum: Methods and Models for Librarians. The program took place on June 9, 2000 in Boston, MA.

Information Outlook, June 2000, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2000

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Information Outlook, May 2000, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2000

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Information Outlook, April 2000, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2000

Volume 4, Issue 4

Financial Information Resources For Special Librarians, Di Su

Publications and Research

Speed has always been a competitive factor and corporate asset in business world. The growth of the Internet has created an equal opportunity for information service professionals in both big and small companies to improve their efficiency. The prominent advantages of Web source are currency, accessibility, and thus, the speed. You are provided with instant updates on issues like rules, official statements, interpretations, statistics, etc., and these documents can be accessed twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. There are so many valuable Web sites on the Internet that it is impossible to include them all in this article, …

Information Outlook, March 2000, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2000

Volume 4, Issue 3

Are Transaction Logs Useful? A Ten-Year Study, Julie Banks

E-JASL: Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship (1999-2009, Volumes 1-10)

Introduction

Transaction log analysis has long been a staple in academic libraries. Recently, for example, authors have reported on transaction logs and their use in identifying access point use, re-engineering the online public access catalog (OPAC), improving search retrieval, utilizing flip charts at terminals, and employing log data for general personnel management. There are still questions left unanswered, however, about the usefulness of transaction log analysis in marshalling personnel resources. One is whether the logs have predictive value over a span of time, and another is whether any useful trends can be discerned from the logs' data. To answer these …

Subject Librarians Relations With Faculty At The University Of Botswana: A Review Of Liaison Activities, Edwin Qobose

E-JASL: Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship (1999-2009, Volumes 1-10)

Conclusion

Liaising at the University of Botswana Library (UBL) is at the heart of all subject librarian activities. It is therefore absolutely essential that we make an effort to maintain a liaison program which will ensure effective communication with all the academic departments for all of the library's services. As liaison librarians, we are academic partners, and should actively participate in the promotion of excellent teaching and research activities. By monitoring curricular and research developments in assigned subject fields, subject librarians develop and maintain library collections for their respective faculties. It is vital that we should always be proactive, and …