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Playing Well With Others: Integrating Your Institutional Repository With Third-Party Products, Ashley D. Lowery, Jeb Barger

Digital Commons Southeastern User Group Meetups

Institutional repositories are using third-party products to entice more users and contributors. Most repositories have some sort of integration, even if it is simply embedding a YouTube video. Over the last two years, Zach S. Henderson Library has worked with the Office of Research and Economic Development to provide a robust set of services for their faculty by integrating multiple products. While Zach S. Henderson Library provides Digital Commons@Georgia Southern and its SelectedWorks profiles, the Office of Research and Economic Development sponsors PlumX Metrics and the Expertise Search. The Expertise Search is a tool for users to find faculty members …

Measuring The Impact Of The Repository And Sharing That Information With Shareholders, Aaron Doran

Digital Commons Southeastern User Group Meetups

Measuring the Impact of the Repository and Sharing that Information with Stakeholders

The Thinker 4.6, Amy Thompson

Library Newsletters

The Thinker newsletter for June 2016.

Editorial Staff And State Representatives

The Southeastern Librarian

Listing of editorial board for The Southeastern Librarian and current SELA state representatives.

Guidelines For Submission And Author Instructions

The Southeastern Librarian

Guidelines for article submission to The Southeastern Librarian.

James And Esther Cooper Jackson: Love And Courage In The Black Freedom Movement, Tim Dodge

The Southeastern Librarian

James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement. Sara Rzeszutek Haviland. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-8131-6625. 359 p. $45.00.

Brown V. Board And The Transformation Of American Culture: Education And The South In The Age Of Desegregation, Melinda F. Matthews

The Southeastern Librarian

Brown v. Board and the Transformation of American Culture: Education and the South in the Age of Desegregation. Ben Keppel. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-8071-6132-6. 225 p. $41.16.

A Yankee Scholar In Coastal South Carolina: William Francis Allen's Civil War Journals, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina: William Francis Allen’s Civil War Journals. Edited by James Robert Hester. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-61117-496-0. 344 p. $49.95.

Understanding Ron Rash, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Understanding Ron Rash. John Lang. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-61117-411-3. 152 p. $39.95

Understanding Pat Conroy, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Understanding Pat Conroy. Catherine Seltzer. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-61117-516-5. 160 p. $39.95.

Conversations With The Conroys: Interviews With Pat Conroy And His Family, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Conversations with the Conroys: Interviews with Pat Conroy and His Family Edited with an Introduction by Walter Edgar, Afterword by Nikky Finney. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-61117-630-8. 136 p. $27.95.

The Manhattan Cocktail: A Modern Guide To The Whiskey Classic, Melinda F. Matthews

The Southeastern Librarian

The Manhattan Cocktail: A Modern Guide to the Whiskey Classic. Albert W.A. Schmid. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8131-6589-9 120 p. $14.95.

Personnel News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent personnel new from SELA member institutions. Includes Auburn University at Montgomery, University of Louisville, UNC Chapel Hill, UNC Greensboro, and NCSU.

Library News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent developments from SELA member institutions. Highlights from Science Boot Camp for Librarians Southeast, Mississippi State University Libraries Scholarly Communication Summit, NCSU Libraries' 2016 IMLS National Medal and exhibit on Horticulturist J. C. Raulston, as well as NCSU's video walls, and Quillen College of Medicine Library's "Pi(e) Day".

Sela/General News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent activities from the Southeastern Library Association. Includes information about Georgia COMO (2016) and New Voices Program.

Comparing Apples To Apples Oranges: An Exploration Of The Use Of Libguides In Arl Libraries, Rosalinda Hernandez Linares, Anna Marie Johnson

The Southeastern Librarian

The University of Louisville (UofL) Libraries, like thousands of libraries all over the world, use LibGuides content management software from Springshare to create and maintain several hundred subject guide webpages. Although the librarians spend countless hours every year on their guides, a study of guide usage has never been undertaken. As the authors began to look at the usage statistics for their institution, they wondered if examining only statistics from UofL Libraries would be looking at them in a vacuum. The UofL Libraries is a mid-size to large library system with six separate libraries and is a member of the …

The Thinker 4.5, Amy Thompson

Library Newsletters

The Thinker newsletter for May 2016.

The Southeastern Librarian V 64, No. 1 (Spring 2016) Complete Issue

The Southeastern Librarian

Complete Issue of The Southeastern Librarian, vol. 64. no. 1.

Workshops Toolkit: Tailoring Learning To Schedules And Needs, Zachary W. Elder

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

George Washington University Libraries were tasked with transforming support for graduate students while taking into account increasing numbers of online students, off-campus programs, and students working full-time. In addition, due to librarian turnover and other factors, we needed to accomplish our goal with a reduced workforce and without reducing services and instruction to our undergraduate population. Our solution focuses our graduate instruction on in-person workshops and digital objects (research guides and “How-Do-I?” videos), along with a “toolkit” with scripts, handouts, presentations, and outlines so that, while one librarian may be the expert (e.g. citation management), any librarian can have the …

Etds And The Landscape Of Open Access Publishing, Gail Mcmillan

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

Countering anecdotal evidence and calming fears about publicly accessible ETDs—electronic theses and dissertations, McMillan will present a variety of perspectives based on current data. She has led international surveys and gathered data from publishers and journal editors about their policies regarding ETDs. To these she will add data about ETD initiatives based on graduate school and university library activities.

Make It Happen: How Libraries Can Start A Grassroots Campus-Wide Graduate Writing Initiative, Jen Salvo-Eaton

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

The University of Missouri-Kansas City's University Libraries played a major role in starting a campus-wide Graduate Writing Initiative at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The Graduate Writing Initiative is a campus-wide effort to improve the process, quality, and impact of graduate student writing. Despite the challenges of reaching a graduate student population of commuters, full-time workers, parents, and online learners, UMKC Libraries helped devise ways to extend the reach of the Graduate Writing Initiative to all. Currently, UMKC Libraries remains a core service of the Graduate Writing Initiative and librarians serve on the campus advisory committee. This presentation will describe …

The Borg Revisited: Why Big Data Matters, David Evans

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

The Library System at Kennesaw State University has attempted to replicate the Library Cube initiated at the University of Wollongong (Cox and Jantti).The Library Cube is based on a multidimensional data warehouse that joins library usage data and student demographic data and students' GPA.

The Grad Commons In The Academic Library: Reimagining Collaborative Learning Spaces And Services For Graduate And Professional Students Through Participatory Design, Michael Courtney, Erika L. Jenns

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

During the Fall 2013 semester, the Indiana University Libraries officially launched the Grad Commons, a flexible, multipurpose space in the heart of the Herman B Wells Library’s research collection stacks to provide graduate and professional students easy access to the information resources and subject librarian expertise vital to their research. As part of a much larger vision that has sought to fulfill user needs by reimagining conjoined library spaces such as the Learning Commons, a 24/7 technology-infused learning center where students work on class assignments from start to finish, and the Scholars’ Commons, designed to stimulate scholarly conversation, interdisciplinary exchange, …

You’Re In Good Company: Developing A Research Conference For Advanced Graduate Students In The Humanities, Brian Vetruba, Daria Carson-Dussan, Melissa Vetter

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

In 2014, librarians at Washington University in St. Louis developed an annual research conference for advanced graduate students in the Humanities. This conference was inspired by the desire to connect to graduate students at the dissertation stage as librarians had observed a gap in librarian-graduate student interactions between the first years of graduate school and when students embark on their own dissertation research. Librarians discovered that graduate students often struggle in isolation with similar research questions as well as project management and dissertation writing; thus, we aptly entitled the conference “You’re in Good Company: A Mini-Conference for Advanced Graduate …

Naked And Afraid: Or, Giving Graduate Students The Clothes And Confidence For Data-Analysis Success, Amanda J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

Abstract:

While masters- and doctoral-level graduate students in the social sciences are likely to have past undergraduate experience in doing secondary research such as literature reviews, they often have minimal to no experience in collecting and/or analyzing data (be it quantitative or qualitative in nature), a requisite for their completing theses or dissertations. Likewise, they are likely to be crunched for time and money resources that prohibits ambitious collections of new data, and thus they need guidance in finding existing data and accessible research software/tools for their original analyses. This presentation will give an overview of the specialized services I, …

Unique Library Services For Graduate Students: Support Throughout The Graduate Lifecycle, Susan Smith, Erin M. O'Toole, Rebecca Barham

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

In response to changing needs of graduate students, the University of North Texas Libraries have created unique services, spaces, and instruction. The transformation began with the recent creation of the Library Research Support Services (LRSS) department, a department focused on serving graduate students. The department quickly identified needs that fell into two categories: everyday needs and academic lifecycle needs. Everyday needs of graduate students include quiet study and writing space, writing assistance, and research assistance. Academic lifecycle needs are different, as needs vary depending on where a student is in the cycle: new graduate student, graduate student completing coursework, graduate …

Transforming Services: A Year Of Investigating User-Centered Marketing Strategies And Information Literacy Programming For Graduate Students, Lisa M. Martin, Porcia N. Vaughn

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

The University of Houston (UH) is a Carnegie-designated Tier One public research university that strives to serve more than 7,000 graduate and professional students. Graduate students have been historically underserved by the UH Libraries, however, in recent years the Libraries have made expanding services to graduate students a strategic initiative. UH Library administration has designated targeting specific user groups, including graduate students, with revitalized marketing and innovative programing a high priority.

Two project teams were established within the Liaison Services Department to investigate the role of liaison services in graduate education. Project Team 1 investigated best practices for marketing existing …

The Thinker 4.4, Amy Thompson

Library Newsletters

The Thinker newsletter for April 2016.

My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, John Mack Freeman

Georgia Library Quarterly

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Effective Collaborations In Multi-Campus And Online Environments Using Libguides, Rebecca Rose, Mary Ann Cullen, Sofia A. Slutskaya

Georgia Library Quarterly

The paper presents a series of case studies that describe and demonstrate successful collaborations created via partnerships with instructors, departments, and other groups in both multi-campus and online environments at Georgia Perimeter College (GPC) where all three authors worked together as librarians for five years. The case studies illustrate the use of LibGuides in building librarian-librarian and librarian-­faculty partnerships to support teaching and other campus activities. This discussion includes successful strategies for establishing connections and adopting LibGuides as communication tool for collaborative projects.