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Love Your Keyboard! Professional Writing For Librarians, Emily Ford, Kim Leeder Aug 2013

Love Your Keyboard! Professional Writing For Librarians, Emily Ford, Kim Leeder

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Participants of the session engaged in the inquiry process as focused in 4 areas of librarianship: Public Services & Programming; Teaching & Learning; Leadership & Management; Collections & Technical Services. Additionally, the workshop moderators engaged in the inquiry process regarding Publishing in Librarianship. The following are snapshots of the brainstorming that took place.

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Mining For Gold: Identifying The Librarians' Toolkit For Managing Hybrid Open Access: Based On A Paper Presented At The 36th Uksg Annual Conference, Bournemouth, April 2013, Jill Emery Jul 2013

Mining For Gold: Identifying The Librarians' Toolkit For Managing Hybrid Open Access: Based On A Paper Presented At The 36th Uksg Annual Conference, Bournemouth, April 2013, Jill Emery

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

In 2012, the author and colleagues surveyed eight publishers that had been involved with the Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER) project to learn about the state of hybrid journal publishing. At the same time, one of the key questions asked to a panel of librarians at the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers May 2012 Meeting was what role librarians would play if scholarly publishing shortly went open access (OA) across the board? From the survey of the market, and the rapid OA developments in the UK and EU that include hybrid OA, a picture …

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Defining And Characterizing Open Peer Review: A Review Of The Literature, Emily Ford Jul 2013

Defining And Characterizing Open Peer Review: A Review Of The Literature, Emily Ford

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Changes in scholarly publishing have resulted in a move toward openness. To this end, new, open models of peer review are emerging. While the scholarly literature has examined and discussed open peer review, no established definition of it exists, nor are there uniform implementations of open peer review processes. This article examines the literature discussing open peer review, identifies common open peer review definitions, and describes eight common characteristics of open peer review: signed review, disclosed review, editor-mediated review, transparent review, crowdsourced review, prepublication review, synchronous review, and post-publication review. This article further discusses benefits and challenges to the scholarly …

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Returning To Learn: Research And The Prodigal Student, Emily Ford, Meredith G. Farkas, Molly Blalock-Koral Jun 2013

Returning To Learn: Research And The Prodigal Student, Emily Ford, Meredith G. Farkas, Molly Blalock-Koral

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Returning students - those with a significant lapse in time during their formal education - make up a large and growing percentage of the student population at Portland State University (PSU). Over 40% of PSU undergraduates are over 26 years of age and 21% of graduate students over 39. Given returning students’ experiences in the work force, motivations for learning, and the lapse of time since conducting academic research, returning students may approach research differently than traditional students. Despite the size of this student population at PSU and the growth of the returning student demographic in higher education, very little …

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Marketing To Individuals: Insights From The Library, Jill Emery Jun 2013

Marketing To Individuals: Insights From The Library, Jill Emery

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

This presentation focuses on how library systems support user purchases and which sales channels are involved.

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Discovery Is In The Eye Of The Beholder: Next Generation Integrated Library Systems, Jill Emery Jun 2013

Discovery Is In The Eye Of The Beholder: Next Generation Integrated Library Systems, Jill Emery

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

This presentation examines the increasing need for clear metadata production targets for publishers and their partners to produce and deliver descriptive data required by new discovery platforms.

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Beyond A Box Of Documents: The Collaborative Partnership Behind The Oregon Chinese Disinterment Documents Collection, Natalia M. Fernández, Cristine Paschild Jun 2013

Beyond A Box Of Documents: The Collaborative Partnership Behind The Oregon Chinese Disinterment Documents Collection, Natalia M. Fernández, Cristine Paschild

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

This article is a case study of a collaboration between the Oregon Multicultural Archives of Oregon State University, Portland State University Library's Special Collections, the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA), and the Northwest News Network to preserve and make accessible a recovered box of Oregon Chinese disinterment documents. By examining what influenced and engaged each partner, this case study offers an opportunity to better understand the motivations of diverse stakeholders in a "post-custodial era" project that challenges traditional practices of custody, control, and access.

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Becoming A Writer-Librarian, Emily Ford May 2013

Becoming A Writer-Librarian, Emily Ford

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

This article offers a reflection on my pursuit to become a writer-librarian. In addition to participating in a professional writing program at my institution, in November of 2012 I participated in Academic Writing Month and Digital Writing Month. Through these immersive experiences I worked to figure out who is my writerly librarian self and discovered some tools and techniques to help me along the way. This article begins with an explanation of Academic Writing Month and Digital Writing Month, discusses writing in Library and Information Science, and then offers more reflection on my discoveries as I tried to become a …

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Keeping Your Copyrights Is Easier Than You May Think, Emily Ford May 2013

Keeping Your Copyrights Is Easier Than You May Think, Emily Ford

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

This article presents the author's recent successful experience negotiating a copyright agreement and suggest some reflective questions for you to consider regarding your personal values in publishing and copyright transfer. It also lists tools that will assist authors in understanding and negotiating copyrights.

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Is Digital Better Than Analog? Considerations For Online Card Sort Studies, Emily Ford May 2013

Is Digital Better Than Analog? Considerations For Online Card Sort Studies, Emily Ford

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

The article discusses the author's experience conducting a Web-based card sorting activity, and outlines the advantages and disadvantages for libraries adopting and using Web-based card sorting tools in an attempt to answer the question: Is digital card sorting better than analog? Screenshots described in the article are available here: http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/9246

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The Changing Roles Of Repositories: Where We Are And Where We Are Headed, Karen Bjork, David Isaak, Kay Vyhnanek Apr 2013

The Changing Roles Of Repositories: Where We Are And Where We Are Headed, Karen Bjork, David Isaak, Kay Vyhnanek

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

This presentation examines the past, present, and future role of institutional repositories (IRs). IRs rapidly rose to prominence in libraries, but failed to live up to the promise of transforming scholarly communication. A decade since the debut of DSpace, IRs today look very different in their content and services. We will present the results of an in‐depth survey of repository managers. The role of IRs is now evolving to include support for data curation, e‐research, and scholarly networks. The session concluded with a discussion of how repository managers can better network and share expertise. Files ending in .csv are plain-text, …

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Halfway Open Or Halfway Shut?: Oa Hybrid Journals In Academia, Robin Champieux, Jill Emery, Kasia Stasik Apr 2013

Halfway Open Or Halfway Shut?: Oa Hybrid Journals In Academia, Robin Champieux, Jill Emery, Kasia Stasik

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

This panel session asks why is hybrid open access important? Scholarly publishers have responded to the OA movement by offering authors the choice of publishing their articles as Open Access (using an author pays funding mechanism) in subscription journals. The study surveys eight publishers to explore a number of questions about the mechanics, implementation, price impacts, and author tracking of this model; and investigates the uptake at two research institutions, with one operating in a NIH Public Access Policy environment.

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Terms And Conditions Apply: Refining Best Practice For Electronic Resource Management, Graham Stone, Jill Emery Apr 2013

Terms And Conditions Apply: Refining Best Practice For Electronic Resource Management, Graham Stone, Jill Emery

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Two decades after the advent of e-journals and databases, librarians are still grappling with ways to best manage these resources. In addition, economic pressures are resulting in librarians having to justify their spending on collections. Techniques in E-Resource Management (TERMS) is a project to encourage crowd sourcing of areas of best practice for each of the stages of the E-resources lifecycle. (1). Investigating New Content for purchase (2). Acquire New Content (3). Implementation (4). Evaluation and Ongoing Access (5). Annual Review (6). Cancellation and Replacement. This session aims to encourage further review and comment. Tell us about your areas of …

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Mining For Gold: Identifying The Librarian's Toolkit For Managing Hybrid Oa, Jill Emery Apr 2013

Mining For Gold: Identifying The Librarian's Toolkit For Managing Hybrid Oa, Jill Emery

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

This plenary presentation was given on April 8 at UKSG Conference 2013 and discusses the following points: (1.) Open access provision does not mean that access is provided with absolutely no cost associated with it. Management of open access publishing is an investment that libraries are making (2.) Open access publishing whether it is done in your library or outside of it still needs to be organized and managed. (3.) Open access within your institution is an enterprise-wide endeavor and this is especially true within the library itself. Whatever you do, do not create another silo of management. The video …

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Assessing Through Reflection: Valuing Our Wisdom And Trusting Our Gut, Robert Schroeder Apr 2013

Assessing Through Reflection: Valuing Our Wisdom And Trusting Our Gut, Robert Schroeder

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Reflection on teaching and learning of information literacy

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Mapping Standards To Content: Creating Research Guides Using Acrl’S Psychology Information Literacy Standards, Annie Armstrong, Kimberly D. Pendell Apr 2013

Mapping Standards To Content: Creating Research Guides Using Acrl’S Psychology Information Literacy Standards, Annie Armstrong, Kimberly D. Pendell

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Although librarians have embraced online research guides (typically SpringShare’s LibGuides) as a mechanism for informing students of key resources across the disciplines, to what degree have they leveraged the full potential of these guides for delivering and supporting instruction? Guided by disciplinary information literacy standards, how could librarians create more instructionally robust guides which both promote and support the development of disciplinary research competencies?

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Is Digital Better Than Analog? Considerations For Online Card Sort Studies : Screenshots, Emily Ford Mar 2013

Is Digital Better Than Analog? Considerations For Online Card Sort Studies : Screenshots, Emily Ford

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

The following are screenshots captured from Optimalsort.com. These screenshots display visualizations compiled by OptimalSort.com based on data collected using OptimalSort, an online card sort study tool. These images serve as supplemental material to Emily Ford's article, Is Digital better than analog? Considerations for online card sort studies, published in College & Research Libraries News. Volume 74 Number 5 and is available here: http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/9417

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Developing Terms: Techniques For Electronic Resource Management, Graham Stone, Jill Emery Mar 2013

Developing Terms: Techniques For Electronic Resource Management, Graham Stone, Jill Emery

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

TERMS (techniques for electronic resource management) began five years ago as a project to try to draft best practices for electronic resource management in today's library's environment. As libraries have changed and resources have expanded and grown, the project has taken on new aspects. Come learn what is new.

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Using Fun To Teach Rigorous Content, Mary Francis Feb 2013

Using Fun To Teach Rigorous Content, Mary Francis

Communications in Information Literacy

This paper will offer a position on the place of fun within education and learning. It will place fun as an important component of learning. The intent is not to espouse the belief that it is the duty of teachers and instructors to entertain students. Unlike a movie or TV show that provides passive entertainment, fun in this context relates to actions and techniques that aid students in learning new material. So rather than fun being associated with ease, fun is associated with rigor. In drawing together research on the successful impact of fun in education, this paper hopes to …

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Student Use Of Library Research Guides Following Library Instruction, Mardi Mahaffy Feb 2013

Student Use Of Library Research Guides Following Library Instruction, Mardi Mahaffy

Communications in Information Literacy

Librarians often provide students who attend one-shot library instruction sessions with research guides they can refer to once class is over. These guides, whether in paper or electronic form, serve to remind the students of key points and resources addressed during the session. It is unclear, though, if and how students refer to these guides once leaving the classroom. This article reports on the results of two focus groups made up of students who attended a basic library instruction session as part of a survey art course. The students shared how they used a paper and electronic research guide, delivered …

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Teaching Matters: Reshaping The Role Of Information Literacy Instructional Services, Patrick P. Ragains Feb 2013

Teaching Matters: Reshaping The Role Of Information Literacy Instructional Services, Patrick P. Ragains

Communications in Information Literacy

This column provides an overview of emerging trends in information literacy instruction.

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Adapting And Using Instruction Proficiencies To Encourage Reflection, Goal Setting And Professional Development, Uta Hussong-Christian Feb 2013

Adapting And Using Instruction Proficiencies To Encourage Reflection, Goal Setting And Professional Development, Uta Hussong-Christian

Communications in Information Literacy

Librarians at Oregon State University undertook a teaching competency project to lay the foundation for practices that improve teaching by adapting the core teaching proficiencies in the ACRL Standards for Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians and Coordinators. This article describes one model for locally adapting those proficiencies, the Oregon State University Libraries (OSUL) Framework for Teaching Excellence. This framework promotes reflection on, goal setting for, and professional development around teaching. The project team utilized a survey to determine the proficiency categories most valued by OSUL instruction librarians. The development and inclusion of context material for each proficiency category included in the …

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Information Evaluation Instruction: A Three Term Project With A First Year Experience Course, Steve Borrelli, Corey M. Johnson Feb 2013

Information Evaluation Instruction: A Three Term Project With A First Year Experience Course, Steve Borrelli, Corey M. Johnson

Communications in Information Literacy

In response to the recognition that work world success is dependent on locating and effectively utilizing information, the academy has acknowledged the need to produce information literate graduates. There needs to be more focus on how to develop the most effective collaborative programs with teaching faculty and benchmark the progress toward research skill mastery. This paper outlines a multiple term collaborative effort targeting student evaluation skill development. Librarians taught hybrid (mostly online with some in-person interaction) lessons to groups of lower undergraduates enrolled in a first year experience seminar. A pre-test/post-test assessment package revealed that students' strongest area of proficiency …

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Information Literacy Instruction For An Honors Program First-Year Orientation: Lessons Learned Over 15 Years Of A Sustainable Partnership, Anna Marie Johnson Feb 2013

Information Literacy Instruction For An Honors Program First-Year Orientation: Lessons Learned Over 15 Years Of A Sustainable Partnership, Anna Marie Johnson

Communications in Information Literacy

The information literacy literature contains many articles highlighting new instruction initiatives but few articles documenting sustainable ones. This article examines the literature on library partnerships in general and Honors Programs specifically and reports on the evolution of an ongoing fifteen year partnership between the University of Louisville Honors Program and the Ekstrom Library. It then discusses the development of this partnership and the changes in the information literacy program engendered by this partnership. It ends by defining some of the elements that made the partnership sustainable, ones that could potentially be transferred to other such partnerships.

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"Turn Your Cell Phones On": Mobile Phone Polling As A Tool For Teaching Information Literacy, Andy Burkhardt, Sarah Faye Cohen Feb 2013

"Turn Your Cell Phones On": Mobile Phone Polling As A Tool For Teaching Information Literacy, Andy Burkhardt, Sarah Faye Cohen

Communications in Information Literacy

While mobile technologies are ubiquitous among students and increasingly used in many aspects of libraries, they have yet to gain traction in information literacy instruction. Librarians at Champlain College piloted mobile phone polling in a first-year classroom as a less expensive and more versatile alternative to clickers. By utilizing a technology that virtually all students have in their pockets librarians found that it increased engagement from previous iterations of the session. In addition, by asking poll questions about students' experiences, librarians were able to facilitate in-depth inquiry into information literacy topics. Ultimately, from direct experience in over 30 different classes, …

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From 3x5 To Lcd: Considerations And How-Tos For Conducting Online Card Sort Studies, Emily Ford Feb 2013

From 3x5 To Lcd: Considerations And How-Tos For Conducting Online Card Sort Studies, Emily Ford

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

What is an online card sort and why use it? Why not? What should libraries consider when designing usability studies that incorporate online card sort methods? Using a recent experience conducting an online card sort study as a framework, the pros and cons of conducting online card sort studies will be examined, and practical tips and how-to knowledge will be offered.

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Creating New Partnerships: Strategies For Growing Your Repository, Karen Bjork, Sue Kunda, David Isaak, Kay Vyhnanek Feb 2013

Creating New Partnerships: Strategies For Growing Your Repository, Karen Bjork, Sue Kunda, David Isaak, Kay Vyhnanek

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

This presentation was given February 8 at Online NW 2013 in Corvallis, OR. Academic institutions, as well as private corporations, have taken on the responsibility of building institutional repositories in order to collect, manage, archive and provide access to the intellectual work taking place on their respective campuses. Over the years, building or procuring a repository has become fairly straightforward. Filling it hasn't. Convincing faculty and academic units to contribute their research and scholarship is still a struggle for most repository owners and requires equal parts determination, imagination and perspiration. Join four repository managers from OSU, PSU, WSU and Kaiser …

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Flipping The Distance Classroom, Amy R. Hofer Feb 2013

Flipping The Distance Classroom, Amy R. Hofer

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

A "flipped classroom" assigns lecture learning for homework and uses in-person class time for hands-on practice with the instructor's support. It's an exciting model, but how can it work for distance students? Portland State University's Senior Inquiry program offers high school seniors a PSU Freshman Inquiry course at their schools for college credit. This lightning talk outlines how the Distance Learning Librarian at PSU used LibGuides, Google Docs, YouTube, and lots of friendly reminders to help teachers flip information literacy instruction for these distance students.

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The Role Of The Modern Intermediary And What Constitutes Value In The Library Of 2012, Jill Emery Feb 2013

The Role Of The Modern Intermediary And What Constitutes Value In The Library Of 2012, Jill Emery

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

The article discusses how subscription services for electronic publications can add value to academic libraries. The author looks at the subscription agent for academic periodicals called JSTOR and its platform offered by the ITHAKA subscription service. Additional topics include the June 2011 decision by the American Institute of Physics to discontinue its use of its Scitation electronic publication platform in 2012, as well as the electronic publication platform of the publisher Taylor and Francis. Also discussed are academic libraries' strategies for data management in their work with intermediary subscription providers and intermediary vendors.

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Accountability Vs. Improvement: Seeking Balance In The Value Of Academic Libraries Initiative, Meredith G. Farkas Jan 2013

Accountability Vs. Improvement: Seeking Balance In The Value Of Academic Libraries Initiative, Meredith G. Farkas

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

The article focuses on a program by the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) which focused on finding ways for libraries to show value and create a research agenda on the subject of value. The initiative produced "The Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report" focused on demonstrating correlations between library collections, instructions and student success. It notes the importance of libraries showing value to those who determine funding levels.

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