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Assessment As Engagement, Assessment As Outreach: Understanding Student Learning About Research At The Trinity College Library, Kelly Dagan, Erin Valentino Jun 2014

Assessment As Engagement, Assessment As Outreach: Understanding Student Learning About Research At The Trinity College Library, Kelly Dagan, Erin Valentino

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.


The Suma Project: Integrating Observational Data Assessment Into Space And Service Design, Joyce Chapman, Bret Davidson Jun 2014

The Suma Project: Integrating Observational Data Assessment Into Space And Service Design, Joyce Chapman, Bret Davidson

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.


Seeing The Whole Elephant In The Room: A Holistic Approach To Ebooks, Pamela Jacobs, Robin Bergart Jun 2014

Seeing The Whole Elephant In The Room: A Holistic Approach To Ebooks, Pamela Jacobs, Robin Bergart

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.


You're On Candid Camera: Using Time Lapse Photography To Assess The Library Learning Commons, Angie Brunk, Cynthia Kane Jun 2014

You're On Candid Camera: Using Time Lapse Photography To Assess The Library Learning Commons, Angie Brunk, Cynthia Kane

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.


Modeling Information Diffusion In University Libraries: Assessing Peer Interaction Patterns As A Complex Dynamic System, W. Michael Johnson, Danuta A. Nitecki Jun 2014

Modeling Information Diffusion In University Libraries: Assessing Peer Interaction Patterns As A Complex Dynamic System, W. Michael Johnson, Danuta A. Nitecki

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.


Scholarly E-Book Across Disciplines: Content Analysis Of Usage Reports And Search Terms, Nisa Bakkalbasi, Melissa Goertzen Jun 2014

Scholarly E-Book Across Disciplines: Content Analysis Of Usage Reports And Search Terms, Nisa Bakkalbasi, Melissa Goertzen

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.


Getting Them There: A Small-Scale Usability Test Of A University Library Website, Jason C. Simon Jun 2014

Getting Them There: A Small-Scale Usability Test Of A University Library Website, Jason C. Simon

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.


Voila: Building An Assessment Tool Isn't (Always) Enough, Stephanie Margolin, Philip Swan Jun 2014

Voila: Building An Assessment Tool Isn't (Always) Enough, Stephanie Margolin, Philip Swan

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

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Assessing The Design Of The Library's Discovery Interface And Online Resources: A Case Study At The University Of Maryland, Angel Dang, Chelsea Osborne, Misty Trunnel, Debby Vargas, Martha Kyrillidou Jun 2014

Assessing The Design Of The Library's Discovery Interface And Online Resources: A Case Study At The University Of Maryland, Angel Dang, Chelsea Osborne, Misty Trunnel, Debby Vargas, Martha Kyrillidou

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.


Using Process Mapping To Facilitate Positive Library Change, Emily Campbell Jun 2014

Using Process Mapping To Facilitate Positive Library Change, Emily Campbell

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.


Can't Get No Satisfaction: Lessons Learned While Developing An Assessment Of Faculty Awareness And Attitudes Towards Library Services, John Pell, Sarah Laleman Ward, Margaret Bausman Jun 2014

Can't Get No Satisfaction: Lessons Learned While Developing An Assessment Of Faculty Awareness And Attitudes Towards Library Services, John Pell, Sarah Laleman Ward, Margaret Bausman

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

The presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.


The Mixed-Method Library: Qualitative Research And The Future Of Assessment In Higher Education, Donna M. Lanclos Jun 2014

The Mixed-Method Library: Qualitative Research And The Future Of Assessment In Higher Education, Donna M. Lanclos

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.


Of Library Budgets And Scholarly Productivity: What Academics Analytics Can Tell Us About How Library Spending Impacts Scholarly Communication At Different Types Of Universities, Michael M. Rawls Jun 2014

Of Library Budgets And Scholarly Productivity: What Academics Analytics Can Tell Us About How Library Spending Impacts Scholarly Communication At Different Types Of Universities, Michael M. Rawls

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.


From Data Snore, To Data Score: Communicating Library Assessment Data Visually Through Infographics, Cassi Pretlow Jun 2014

From Data Snore, To Data Score: Communicating Library Assessment Data Visually Through Infographics, Cassi Pretlow

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.


Assessing The Implications Of Faculty Beliefs And Expectations For Information Literacy Instruction, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Susan Avery Jun 2014

Assessing The Implications Of Faculty Beliefs And Expectations For Information Literacy Instruction, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Susan Avery

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.


Disciplinary Differences In Applying E-Journal Usage Metrics, Katherine Chew, Caroline Lilyard, Mary Schoenborn, Jim Stemper Jun 2014

Disciplinary Differences In Applying E-Journal Usage Metrics, Katherine Chew, Caroline Lilyard, Mary Schoenborn, Jim Stemper

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.


Integration And Assessment Of Information Literacy In An Undergraduate Biology Program: A Sustainable And Transferrable Model, Brian Winterman Jun 2014

Integration And Assessment Of Information Literacy In An Undergraduate Biology Program: A Sustainable And Transferrable Model, Brian Winterman

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.


Assessing Threshold Concepts For Information Literacy, Silvia L. Lin Hanick, Amy R. Hofer, Lori Townsend Jun 2014

Assessing Threshold Concepts For Information Literacy, Silvia L. Lin Hanick, Amy R. Hofer, Lori Townsend

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.


Now What!?! Exploring The Next Steps For Large-Scale Library Assessment Projects, Kate Peterson, Jan Fransen, Shane Nackerud, Kristen Mastel Jun 2014

Now What!?! Exploring The Next Steps For Large-Scale Library Assessment Projects, Kate Peterson, Jan Fransen, Shane Nackerud, Kristen Mastel

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.


"I Like Being Under Those Rules Here": Students Using The College Library, Maura A. Smale, Mariana Regalado Jun 2014

"I Like Being Under Those Rules Here": Students Using The College Library, Maura A. Smale, Mariana Regalado

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.


Problems With Authority, Meagan Lacy Jun 2014

Problems With Authority, Meagan Lacy

Open Educational Resources

These presentation materials were used to create an online tutorial for undergraduate students about how to evaluate the authority of an information source. It includes a PowerPoint presentation and lecture notes on an event-driven publication cycle and uses the death of pop star Michael Jackson as its primary example. This resource was designed with the Association of College & Research Libraries' Framework for Information Literacy (2015) in mind and addresses two of the threshold concepts that the Framework identifies: 1) "Authority is Constructed and Contextual," and 2) "Information Creation as a Process." These materials can be easily adapted for …


Opening Remarks To Outing Lorraine At The Schomburg Center, Shawn(Ta) Smith-Cruz May 2014

Opening Remarks To Outing Lorraine At The Schomburg Center, Shawn(Ta) Smith-Cruz

Publications and Research

This article is an edit of the opening remarks for the event held on May 22nd, 2014 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture as part of the In The Life Series supplying Black LGBT programming coordinated by Steven Fullwood. Outing Lorraine included panelists: Alexis DeVeaux, Joi Gresham, and Steven Fullwood and was moderated by Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz. Opening remarks provide a biographical description of Lorraine Hansberry's life, prepare the audience for a conversation on the implications for "outing" a black iconic figure, details the purpose for use of primary and secondary sources when, and provides a bibliography for …


How Cuny Students Create And Negotiate Learning Spaces, Maura A. Smale, Mariana Regalado May 2014

How Cuny Students Create And Negotiate Learning Spaces, Maura A. Smale, Mariana Regalado

Publications and Research

As commuters CUNY undergraduates employ various strategies to find time and space to be students. While students’ constraints may be invisible to faculty and staff, they may affect engagement in students’ academic work. We interviewed CUNY students to learn how they study in various locations. Knowledge of the student experience outside the classroom can inform strategies to increase student success.


Scholarly Publishing & Open Access Within Cuny: One Faculty Looks At Changing The Paradigm, Summary Of A Presentation By Philip Pecorino, Lisa Finder May 2014

Scholarly Publishing & Open Access Within Cuny: One Faculty Looks At Changing The Paradigm, Summary Of A Presentation By Philip Pecorino, Lisa Finder

Urban Library Journal

Professor Philip Pecorino reports on what led him to embrace Open Access (OA) as a nxew paradigm for scholarly publication and describes his experiences bringing the topic of OA to the attention of CUNY colleagues. ...


Making Electronic Databases Functional On The Library Website: A Practical Approach, Kanu A. Nagra May 2014

Making Electronic Databases Functional On The Library Website: A Practical Approach, Kanu A. Nagra

Publications and Research

This paper presents a process on making electronic databases functional on the library website for on and off campus access for optimum use. It covers the steps after the price, license terms and conditions are finalized between library and vendor and the decision is made by library and subject experts to subscribe or purchase the database. The operational workflow steps can be challenging for new professionals when implementing it for the first time. The step by step approach provided in this paper is meant to help new professionals in strategic planning, organizing the structure and management of library databases provision, …


Scholarly Publishing & Open Access Within Cuny: One Faculty Looks At Changing The Paradigm, Philip Pecorino May 2014

Scholarly Publishing & Open Access Within Cuny: One Faculty Looks At Changing The Paradigm, Philip Pecorino

Urban Library Journal

The author reports on what brought him as a CUNY faculty member to the position that he holds on Open Access as a new paradigm for scholarly publication and dissemination of information, knowledge and creations. He relates his experiences in bringing this topic to the attention of his CUNY colleagues and his understanding of what may happen in the future at CUNY as a response to the open access model. He will also relate his current efforts related to the archiving of the academic creations of faculty and of governance materials.

He presents his views on tenure and promotion review …


Advocacy Begins At Home: Methods Of Promoting Faculty Awareness Of Open Access Publishing At The Brooklyn Campus Of Long Island University, Edward Keene May 2014

Advocacy Begins At Home: Methods Of Promoting Faculty Awareness Of Open Access Publishing At The Brooklyn Campus Of Long Island University, Edward Keene

Urban Library Journal

The paper reports on efforts of the Periodicals Librarian at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus, a mid-sized urban institution, to measure the awareness of open access (OA) publishing among faculty and document methods that proved effective in raising awareness of the advent of, and debate over, OA publishing. The author reports his survey findings; interprets their implications; reports on the means available at LIU to promote OA and those that proved worthwhile; notes the departmental and committee relationships integral to the process; proposes ideas for future initiatives at LIU/Brooklyn. The findings in the paper will add to the body of …


Open Access And The Association Publisher, Summary Of A Presentation By Dr. Martin Blume, Jill Cirasella, Martha Corpus May 2014

Open Access And The Association Publisher, Summary Of A Presentation By Dr. Martin Blume, Jill Cirasella, Martha Corpus

Urban Library Journal

The American Physical Society (APS) publishes eight titles along with Physical Review Focus (a free service that provides lay-person explanations of selected articles from the other APS journals) and two open access journals, Physical Review Special Topics: Accelerators and Beams (funded with institutional sponsorship) and Physical Review Special Topics: Physics Education Research (funded by author charges). ...


Open Access And The Public Library Of Medicine, Summary Of A Presentation By Dr. Harold Varmus, Michael J. Miller May 2014

Open Access And The Public Library Of Medicine, Summary Of A Presentation By Dr. Harold Varmus, Michael J. Miller

Urban Library Journal

Dr. Varmus opened his comments with a vignette regarding his own foray into the publishing world. Based upon his exposure to Cornell's arXiv.org, (the evolutionary result of Ginsbarg's "e-print archives" for electronic research publications for physics materials), he eventually pursued similar means of electronic research publishing in the areas of biology and medicine. Though challenged by the academy, these efforts guided by accompanying constructive criticisms led to the development of PubMed Central(tm). ...


Beyond Satisfaction: Understanding And Promoting The Instructor-Librarian Relationship, Margaret Bausman, Sarah Laleman Ward, John Pell May 2014

Beyond Satisfaction: Understanding And Promoting The Instructor-Librarian Relationship, Margaret Bausman, Sarah Laleman Ward, John Pell

Publications and Research

This article reports upon the assessment and research activities undertaken by a research group of faculty librarians at Hunter College regarding the perceptions, awareness, and usage of library services by non-librarian faculty members. Given the initial directive to measure faculty satisfaction with library services, the research group developed an ongoing action-research protocol to pursue more meaningful assessments of faculty awareness and use of library services and resources. The researchers employed both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, gathering data through informal information groups with faculty members and through an online survey measuring faculty awareness of library resources and services (Faculty Awareness of …