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Claflin University Implements Successful Information Literacy Program, Shanesha R. F. Brooks-Tatum

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Virginia State University Preserves Black History With Digital Collections, Shanesha R. F. Brooks-Tatum

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If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch

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Booklover -- Poetry, Donna Jacobs

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Publisher Profile: Sustainable Collection Services

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Charleston Conference

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I Hear The Train A Comin' -- The Research Works Act, Greg Tananbaum

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From Your (Seweing) Editor, Katina Strauch

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Collectiing To The Core -- Physics, Michael Fosmire, Debra Kolah, Anne Doherty

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Preserving History And Demonstrating Library Excellence At Historically Black College And Universities, Shanesha R. F. Brooks-Tatum

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Table Of Contents

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In Memory -- Donald Grant Stave, Scott A. Smith

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Delaware State University Guides Patrons Into More Effective Research With Standardized Lib Guides, Shanesha R. F. Brooks-Tatum

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University Of Maryland Eastern Shore Creates Collaborative Spaces For Student Study Groups, Shanesha R. F. Brooks-Tatum

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Questions & Answers -- Copyright Column, Laura N. Gasaway

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Little Red Herring -- Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin, Mark Y. Herring

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Oregon Trails -- Book People I Have Known, Thomas W. Leonhardt

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Future Dates

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Under The Hood -- E-Textbooks And The Library, Xan Arch

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Full Page Ads

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Legally Speaking -- Ebooks Price-Fixing Lawsuits Skimming Along, Bill Hannay, Bryan M. Carson J.D., M.I.L.S.

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Are Mls Graduates Being Prepared For The Changing And Emerging Roles That Librarians Must Now Assume Within Research Libraries?, James L. Mullins

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

The focus of research libraries is changing to include digital resources, improving the information literacy level of patrons, and creating new partnerships on and off campus, among other things. This creates a need to recruit librarians trained in these areas and open to these changes. Library science training is a necessary foundation for preparing graduates to qualify for and excel in changing and emerging new roles. This article explores current recruitment efforts to articulate new roles and to successfully hire graduates with the skills and aptitude to fill them.

Science Librarians Analysis Of The 2011 Nobel Prize In Physics: The Work Of Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, And Adam G. Riess, Michael Fosmire, Debra Kolah

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 was awarded to scientists from two different research collaborations that independently and contemporaneously discovered from observations of distant supernovae that the universe's expansion is accelerating. One half of the prize was awarded to Saul Perlmutter and the other half jointly to Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess. The findings, first reported in 1998, shocked the cosmology community, as the prevailing theory at the time favored a “closed” or “steady-state” universe, rather than one wherein the universe expands faster and faster, ultimately ending as a cold, dark, (largely) empty space. It was, perhaps, fortuitous …

Data Under Construction: Data Profiling For A Water Quality Lab, Jake R. Carlson, Marianne S. Bracke

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

This case study describes an investigation into the data management and sharing practices within an interdisciplinary research lab. The Purdue Water Quality Field Station (WQFS) consists of researchers and graduate students generating data on a range of topics including: water quality, water flow, chemical composition of water, soil composition, soil moisture, and plant biomass. Many of these data are of interest beyond the lab, to other researchers, policy makers, and companies. Most of the data are gathered, processed and analyzed by graduate students from several different departments. The data gathered by one graduate student may be useful to others, but …

Reconceptualizing And Renovating An Academic Business Library: The Parrish Library Of Management & Economics, Hal P. Kirkwood Jr, Tomalee Doan

Libraries Faculty and Staff Creative Materials

Poster was presented at the International Internet Librarian Conference, 2012. Focus of the poster is an overview and timeline of the Parrish Library Renovation.

Criteria For Evaluating Journals In The Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning In Agriculture, Natural Resources, And The Life Sciences, Marianne S. Bracke, Sharon A. Weiner, Judith M. Nixon, Scott Deatherage

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

The purpose of this paper was to identify existing criteria that may be considered in evaluating journals in the scholarship of teaching and learning in agriculture, natural resources, and the life sciences. This can assist faculty authors and evaluators of promotion and tenure cases to explain indicators of the quality of the publications. The commonly accepted criteria are: peer review; acceptance rate; longevity; open access availability; inclusion in indexing/abstracting services; citation analysis; and expert opinion. These data were collected for a representative set of journals which indicated that: acceptance rates for the journals varied widely; most of the journals existed …

Middle Managers And Major Gifts: Fundraising For Academic Librarians, Tomalee Doan

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

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Purpose: Share successful strategies for mid-level management academic librarians and archivists for raising major gifts from individual donors

Design: Demonstrate growing need for fundraising in university libraries and participating in fundraising activities as an increasing expectation of librarians; provide case studies of successful fundraising by librarian and archivist including their work with donors and collaboration with development professionals; conclude with suggestions for maintaining donor relations

Findings: Fundraising is increasingly rapidly as an expected activity of librarians but a slowly growing part of their education. More literature is also needed on the topic. Successful fundraising is dependent …

The Changing Definition And Role Of Collections And Services In The University Research Library, James L. Mullins

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

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Knowledge-Enabled Engineering Design: Toward An Integrated Model, Michael Fosmire, David Radcliffe

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Librarians and engineering faculty have long understood that design is one of the defining processes of the engineering profession. In an increasingly knowledge-driven society, students need to efficiently locate, assess and integrate relevant information into their design process so that they can develop innovation solutions to emerging complex, global grand challenges. Increasingly, engineering curricula are incorporating design as early as the first year, but a question remains as to how effectively information literacy is being integrated into these early experiences of design. For example, the Engineering Change study found there has been very little improvement to lifelong learning skills in …

The Librarian And The Designer: Working Together To Create A Showcase For Contemporary Learning, Tomalee Doan

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Many institutions of higher education are designing spaces that reflect the established correlation between learning spaces and student achievement, mastery, and retention (Hunley & Schaller, 2006). In this case study of a renovation of an 18,327 square foot business library space into a dynamic learning environment, Melinda McGee, the Interior Designer for the project, and Tomalee Doan, the Associate Professor and Head Librarian of the business library, share the experience of their successful partnership that required a creative and an in-depth collaboration with each other and with several other stakeholders not usually found in an academic setting. Their goal is …