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Competitive Intelligence For Mba Students: Credit Courses, Hal P. Kirkwood Jr

Libraries Faculty and Staff Creative Materials

Poster was presented at the Business & Finance Division Poster Session at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA, 2016. Focus of the poster is on the credit-level courses taught by Prof Hal Kirkwood to MBA students in the Krannert Graduate School of Management on the topics of international business research and an introduction to competitive intelligence.

To Honor Our Past: Historical Research, Library History And The Historiographical Imperative: Conceptual Reflections And Exploratory Observations, Jean-Pierre V. M. Hérubel

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

This exploratory discussion considers history of libraries, in its broadest context; moreover, it frames the entire enterprise of pursuing history as it relates to LIS in the context of doing history and of doing history vis-à-vis LIS. Is it valuable intellectually for LIS professionals to consider their own history, writing historically oriented research, and what is the nature of this research within the professionalization of LIS itself as both practice and discipline? Necessarily conceptual and offering theoretical insight, this discussion perforce tenders the idea that historiographical innovations and other disciplinary approaches and perspectives can invigorate library history beyond its current …

Designing Rich Information Experiences To Shape Learning Outcomes, Clarence Maybee, Christine Susan Bruce, Mandy Lupton, Kristen Rebmann

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Students in higher education typically learn to use information as part of their course of study, which is intended to support ongoing academic, personal and professional growth. Informing the development of effective information literacy education, this research uses a phenomenographic approach to investigate the experiences of a teacher and students engaged in lessons focused on exploring language and gender topics by tracing and analyzing their evolution through scholarly discourse. The findings suggest that the way learners use information influences content-focused learning outcomes, and reveal how teachers may enact lessons that enable students to learn to use information in ways that …

Research Data Management, Part Two: Data Reuse, Jane Kinkus Yatcilla

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

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Use And Cost Analysis Of E-Books: Patron-Driven Acquisitions Plan Vs. Librarian-Selected Titles, Suzanne M. Ward, Rebecca A. Richardson

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Many academic libraries have experimented with e-book patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) plans as small projects to test the concept of offering users thousands of titles, yet only paying for them as they are used. At the same time, many librarians continue traditional patterns of buying e-book titles the same way they bought print books for decades – purchasing titles based on their belief that these selections will be ones that local users need. This study shows that many librarian-selected e-book titles suffer the same fate as the traditional model of librarian-selected print books: many receive little or no use. The PDA …

Developing A Practical Framework For Information Literacy Program Evaluation, Paul Bracke, Clarence Maybee, Sharon Weiner

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

This paper was presented at the Library Assessment Conference held in Arlington, VA October 31–November 2, 2016.

Purpose. The Purdue University Libraries, like many academic libraries, face increased expectations for demonstrating their value and impact. This has not only led to an expectation of the increased use of metrics to demonstrate impact, but also a more fundamental imperative that libraries more clearly articulate their contributions to educational and research outcomes of their campus communities (value). At Purdue, the Provost implemented a new program review process in July 2015, while the Libraries were simultaneously going through the process of developing …

E-Book Reading Practices In Different Subject Areas: An Exploratory Log Analysis, Robert S. Freeman, E. Stewart Saunders

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Print books pose inherent difficulties for researchers who want to observe users’ natural in-book reading patterns. With e-books and logs of their use it is now possible to track several aspects of users’ interactions inside e-books, including the number and duration of their sessions with an e-book and the order in which pages are viewed. This chapter reports on a study of one-year of EBL user log data from Purdue University to identify different reading patterns or ways in which users navigate within different types of e-books—authored monographs vs. edited collections--and in e-books in different subject areas. The analysis of …

Wandering The Web--Laws That Affect The Life Of Americans From Slavery To The 21st Century, Audrey Robinson-Nkongola

Against the Grain

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After The Ribbon-Cutting: Guerilla-Style Assessment Of Two Brand New Learning Commons, Linda Bedwell, Elaine Macinnis

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Wandering The Web--Exploring Information Of Japanese Americans' Experiences In Internment Camps During World War Ii, Tadayuki Suzuki

Against the Grain

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Wandering The Web--Libraries Gardening With Kids? A Growing Trend, Jeanine Huss, Roxanne Myers Spencer

Against the Grain

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Lucid Prose, Good Timing, Happy Authors: Steps Toward Successful Editorial Production, Jenya Weinreb

Against the Grain

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Information Literacy In The Active Learning Classroom, Clarence Maybee, Tomalee Doan, Michael Flierl

IMPACT Publications

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Measuring Usability In The Database Review Process: Results From A Pilot, Ilana Stonebraker

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

The objective of this study is to examine the impact of incorporating user experience study methods into library database purchase and renewal. Purdue University Libraries introduced a heuristic evaluation into an existing yearly database review. Commonly used in usability and human factors engineering, heuristic evaluation is an innovative and dynamic method for librarians to evaluate electronic resources and provide expert feedback to database vendors. A form was developed to streamline the process for the librarians involved. In total, eight librarians evaluated 37 databases as a pilot project. This paper describes the outcome of the pilot.

Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, And Users, Suzanne M. Ward, Robert S. Freeman, Judith M. Nixon

Purdue University Press Books

Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users provides readers with a view of the changing and emerging roles of electronic books in higher education. The three main sections contain contributions by experts in the publisher/vendor arena, as well as by librarians who report on both the challenges of offering and managing e-books and on the issues surrounding patron use of e-books. The case study section offers perspectives from seven different sizes and types of libraries whose librarians describe innovative and thought-provoking projects involving e-books.

Read about perspectives on e-books from organizations as diverse as a commercial publisher and an association press. …

Op Ed--Overcoming Inertia In Green Open Access Adoption, John G. Dove

Against the Grain

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Stemming The Tide: The Role Of Subscription Agents And Consortia In Library Communications, Lindsey Reno

Against the Grain

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Back Talk--Following Ulysses On (The) Amazon, Jim O'Donnell

Against the Grain

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Bet You Missed It--What Do Dogs And Bookstores Have In Common?, Bruce Strauch

Against the Grain

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Booklover--Asturias, Donna Jacobs

Against the Grain

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Deadlines

Against the Grain

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And They Were There--Reports Of Meetings, Ramune K. Kubilius, Anthony Watkinson

Against the Grain

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Notes From Mosier--The Silver Swan, Scott Alan Smith

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Table Of Contents

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Graphic Recordings From The 2015 Charleston Conference, Leah Hinds

Against the Grain

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Letters To The Editor, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians And Users, Michael Zeoli

Against the Grain

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From Your Editor, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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Do's And Don'ts Of Hosting Content And Service Providers At Your Library: A Few Tips For Your Next Meeting, Sarah Forzetting

Against the Grain

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Speak Up! Communications Between Academic Librarians And Scholarly Content Providers, Erin Gallagher

Against the Grain

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