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Door-In-The-Face: Understandings Of Scholarship For Academic Instruction Librarians, Shilpa Shanbhag Jun 2007

Door-In-The-Face: Understandings Of Scholarship For Academic Instruction Librarians, Shilpa Shanbhag

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

As academic librarians, we prescribe an intellectual framework to students by referring to the ‘family of terms scholar-scholarly-scholarship ' and by touching upon the mechanics of peer-review in our instruction. While there are rich and varied perceptions of scholarship underlying information literacy literature, there have been no reports of attempts to make them visible to students. In this article I present the door-in-the-face technique to enable instruction librarians to reflect on the ideals of scholarship underlying instruction. In psychology, the door-in-the-face technique is a method of persuasion whereby asking a big outrageous request to be rejected and following it with …

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Faculty-Librarian Collaboration On Developing Reading Skills In Tertiary Institutions, Isabella Idomu Awale-Ale Jun 2007

Faculty-Librarian Collaboration On Developing Reading Skills In Tertiary Institutions, Isabella Idomu Awale-Ale

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

A quiet revolution is taking place in the Nigerian higher education system. Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), prevailing unemployment, and competition by graduates for limited employment spaces are forcing faculty to rethink the curriculum in most academic disciplines, in terms of content and teaching for functional education and nation building. This paper looks at higher education in Nigeria and the role of academic librarians as partners in promoting skills for entrepreneurial education in Nigeria. It reviews the state of ICT in some Nigerian universities and hindrances to the effective use of university libraries in Nigeria for instructional purposes. The paper concludes …

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Developing Students' Awareness Of Plagiarism: Crisis And Opportunities, Amrita Madray Jun 2007

Developing Students' Awareness Of Plagiarism: Crisis And Opportunities, Amrita Madray

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Plagiarism is an important issue for higher education. Research shows that college students do not always understand the the process of research and writing. This misapprehension of the research and writing process can lead students to plagiarize without intending to do so. The library can be a leader in raising students' awareness, and can partner with teaching departments in developing ways to educate students about plagiarism. This study examines students' understanding of plagiarism as it relates to their ability to write research papers. Freshmen were given a pre-test, followed by instruction on plagiarism and how to avoid it, and then …

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Skeptical Medical Reference: Helping Patrons Find Critical Resources For Consumer Health Issues, Samantha Hypatia Thompson, Ambrose A. Thompson Jun 2007

Skeptical Medical Reference: Helping Patrons Find Critical Resources For Consumer Health Issues, Samantha Hypatia Thompson, Ambrose A. Thompson

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

With the popularization of the Internet, there has been a vast proliferation of consumer health material available to the public. Unfortunately, this has only accelerated a pre-existing trend- the fact that much of the material made available is unproven, unreliable, or outright fraud. This requires librarians to make a choice: are they passive and uncritical dispensers of information or are they critical educators who help patrons choose the best information available? In this article we examine the issues facing librarians in this matter and presents skeptical materials that may help librarians to answer critical health questions.

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No Shhing: Giving Voice To The Silenced: An Essay In Support Of Critical Information Literacy, John J. Doherty Jun 2007

No Shhing: Giving Voice To The Silenced: An Essay In Support Of Critical Information Literacy, John J. Doherty

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The Information Literacy agenda of academic libraries has recently been critically examined to uncover some of its inherent problems. This paper frames these discussions in the critical theoretical perspective present in educational research, suggesting that the emergence of critical information literacy is long overdue and in need of serious examination by library practitioners who wish to empower student learning.

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Bridging The Lis-Practitioner Gap: Some Frames For Research, Felix T. Chu Jun 2007

Bridging The Lis-Practitioner Gap: Some Frames For Research, Felix T. Chu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

There is a divide between published research from library school (LIS) faculty and the use of these publications by practitioners in the field. This article suggests ways to bridge the gap between theory and practice. The suggestions are ways to frame the analyses of useful research areas that can help us improve the practice of librarianship. The first two, structural secrecy and improvisation, are operational in nature and deal with the day-to-day procedures. The third, naturalistic decision making, concerns making choices in the performance of duties. The fourth area, tacit knowledge, is the assumptions rooted in our knowledge of professional …

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Library Delivery 2.0: Delivering Library Materials In The Age Of Netflix, Lori Bowen Ayre Jun 2007

Library Delivery 2.0: Delivering Library Materials In The Age Of Netflix, Lori Bowen Ayre

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This article discusses how Netflix and similar services are shaping expectations about product delivery, which in turn are driving libraries to rethink how items are delivered to their patrons. Library Delivery 2.0 refers to the idea of delivering library materials into the user's hands in a way that is personalized, convenient, and fast. Library Delivery 2.0 builds on the concept of Library 2.0, a new model of library service that operates according to the expectations of today's library users. Library Delivery 2.0 is a new model of library delivery service that operates according to the expectations of today's users. In …

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Research Authority In The Age Of Google: Equilibrium Sought, Mariana Regalado Jun 2007

Research Authority In The Age Of Google: Equilibrium Sought, Mariana Regalado

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The development of the web caused a major shift in the relationship of students, instructors, and librarians to information. Students gained newfound authority as savvy, experienced users of technology, and the web in particular. Students often perceived any results as search success. Librarians' role as gate-keepers to information is more vital than ever. Though the academic value of user-authenticated information is still a topic of some debate, there is a growing acceptance of these resources. Academic librarians in particular serve as the counterweight in the new research equilibrium. Librarians continue to do what they have long done, that is, provide …

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Digg.Com And Socially-Driven Authority, Steven Ovadia Jun 2007

Digg.Com And Socially-Driven Authority, Steven Ovadia

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

For years, librarians have been able to distill the notion of authority, in its purest form, to two simple questions: Who said it? and Under whose auspices? Now, as more content migrates online, understanding authority is a more complex process. Social news sites, like Digg.com allow these traditional authority structures to be bypassed, creating a new, socially-driven authority, based upon an author expertise that is not necessarily recognized by academia. In order for researchers, especially student researchers, to evaluate these sources, they must learn to construct their own authority.

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“Have You Searched Google Yet?” Using Google As A Discovery Tool For Cataloging, Jennifer Lang Jun 2007

“Have You Searched Google Yet?” Using Google As A Discovery Tool For Cataloging, Jennifer Lang

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper demonstrates how some of Google's search functionalities can be used to locate information to assist in the cataloging process. In addition, the results of an informal survey of catalogers shows that while some respondents never considered using Google or prefer different methods for finding information, others find Google to be a good supplement to "traditional" cataloging tools.

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Standing Up For Open Source, Lee David Jaffe, Greg Careaga Jun 2007

Standing Up For Open Source, Lee David Jaffe, Greg Careaga

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The open source movement is a vital and innovative challenger to commercial channels for software and publishing. Interests and values shared between libraries and open source communities, along with significant functional advantages to the open source model, should lead librarians to adopt open source tools and become more engaged with open source developers and their projects. Instead, there is a significant gap between the potential of open source and the adoption of these tools in libraries. The authors address the causes and potential consequences, and suggest strategies that can be adopted by advocates for open source in libraries.

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Information Outlook, June 2007, Special Libraries Association Jun 2007

Information Outlook, June 2007, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2007

Volume 11, Issue 6

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Editorial: Shape Shifters: Librarians Evolve Yet Again In The Age Of Google, Mariana Regalado, Jill Cirasella Jun 2007

Editorial: Shape Shifters: Librarians Evolve Yet Again In The Age Of Google, Mariana Regalado, Jill Cirasella

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Like all organisms and organizations, librarians and libraries evolve by adapting to changes and pressures in their environments. From scroll to codex to online text: every upgrade in technology is matched by an adaptation in librarianship. Nevertheless, despite centuries of evolution, the activities of librarians and the mission of libraries have remained essentially constant and are still recognizable. The pace of change in libraries has been especially rapid since the introduction of computers, and an important recent change is the advent of the “age of Google.” Heralded by the arrival in 1998 of the Google search engine, with its clean …

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Using Google Analytics For Improving Library Website Content And Design: A Case Study, Wei Fang Jun 2007

Using Google Analytics For Improving Library Website Content And Design: A Case Study, Wei Fang

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Google Analytics is a free web analytics solution that provides webmasters with insightful information about how visitors find and interact with their websites. In this case study, we have experimented in using Google Analytics to analyze two of our websites: The Rutgers-Newark Law Library main website and The New Jersey Digital Legal Library website. It was used to monitor our visitors' browsing activities and viewing behaviors for three months. Based on our findings from Google Analytics reports, we have redesigned our website. Subsequent data collected by Google Analytics have confirmed that our new design better fits the information needs of …

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You And Me And Google Makes Three: Welcoming Google Into The Reference Interview, Jill Cirasella Jun 2007

You And Me And Google Makes Three: Welcoming Google Into The Reference Interview, Jill Cirasella

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Library patrons often approach the reference desk with indirect, incomplete, or misleading questions, known as "ill-formed" questions. Transforming ill-formed questions into well-formed ones is a crucial part of the reference interview, and Google can be an active participant in that process. This paper discusses how Google can help librarians and patrons deal with incomplete citations, incorrect citations, incorrect spellings, tip-of-the-tongue questions, and forgotten searches.

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Library Resource Sharing In The Early Age Of Google, Beth Posner Jun 2007

Library Resource Sharing In The Early Age Of Google, Beth Posner

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Library information resource sharing has traditionally been organized around the physical transfer of loans and copies from one location to another. Such interlibrary loan activities have become successively easier and more efficient because of the use of various technologies. Some of the latest and most successful of these include various web-based information services, such as Google, which help to facilitate both physical delivery and online access to information resources. The challenge now facing ILL librarians is to evaluate how to best incorporate these services into their existing operations and to determine whether these constitute additional ways to help patrons access …

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What About The Book? Google-Izing The Catalog With Tables Of Contents, Angi Faiks, Amy Radermacher, Amy Sheehan Jun 2007

What About The Book? Google-Izing The Catalog With Tables Of Contents, Angi Faiks, Amy Radermacher, Amy Sheehan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

One of the many ways to meet the challenge of offering users a better search experience—and to continue the library's existence as a “growing organism” (Ranganathan)—in the current information atmosphere is to provide more text to search against, just as Google's Book Search does. One method for achieving this is to add tables of contents (TOC) and summary notes into a catalog's bibliographic records for books, thereby offering additional, highly relevant search terms into a library's database. While adding access points is not a new notion, libraries can start to meet users' expectations by providing them with more information about …

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Google 'Til They Goggle: Trawling Electronic Databases To Build Your Collection And Better Serve Your Client Base, Carol Ottolenghi Jun 2007

Google 'Til They Goggle: Trawling Electronic Databases To Build Your Collection And Better Serve Your Client Base, Carol Ottolenghi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Too often, organizations and the public consider properly trained Library staff as “overhead,” or even "dead weight." Budget crunches and the “I’ll just Google it” attitude prevalent today can mean a shrinking – or completely eliminated – library. This paper discusses how the Library staff at the Ohio Attorney General’s Office paired the power of traditional librarian skills with Google, electronic data bases, and a variety of online “alert” systems for greatly increased outreach, effectiveness, and visibility within their organization.

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Unclear On The Context: Refocusing On Information Literacy's Evaluative Component In The Age Of Google, Genevieve Williams Jun 2007

Unclear On The Context: Refocusing On Information Literacy's Evaluative Component In The Age Of Google, Genevieve Williams

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In an era of information decontextualization, the evaluative component of information literacy is more important than ever. College students believe themselves to be expert researchers, due to their familiarity with Google; yet they also value the library and know to be critical about information resources. Previous theoretical work, including Marcia Bates's "berrypicking" model and Christine Pawley's analysis of the discourse of information literacy, provides a ground for developing a proactive response to the age of Google. Far from being made redundant by ease of access to information, our task of developing information literacy in college students is more critical than …

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The View From An Elder: Closing Essay, Joellen Broome Jun 2007

The View From An Elder: Closing Essay, Joellen Broome

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The author explores the shapeshifting of Wart, the young King Arthur in T.H. White's The Once and Future King, as a metaphor for professional and personal transformation as a librarian. The shape shift has been an attitude shift, a mental reshaping, of a librarian come lately to the field. Concerns about the staying power of new technology coexist with the magical gift of connection from tools like Google.

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Use Statistics For Electronic Government Publications, Susan Kendall, Celia Bakke May 2007

Use Statistics For Electronic Government Publications, Susan Kendall, Celia Bakke

Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

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Who Moved My Desk? The Future Reference Platforms, Anamika Dasgupta, Steven Ovadia May 2007

Who Moved My Desk? The Future Reference Platforms, Anamika Dasgupta, Steven Ovadia

Faculty and Staff Publications

New communication platforms such as Wikis, Bots, MySpace, Webex, Podcasts, Text-to-speech programs and community-based reference sites offer a means to share information in different formats, supporting specific learning styles, and instruction environments. The effectiveness of these communication platforms in providing reference services depends on many factors: the nature of information being shared, the attitudes of the information seeker and sharer, and the environment and context in which the information is being shared. This presentation will include an introduction and overview of these communication platforms.

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"Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow: San Jose University 150 Years, 1857-2007, Danelle L. Moon May 2007

"Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow: San Jose University 150 Years, 1857-2007, Danelle L. Moon

Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

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Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow: San Jose University 150 Years, 1857-2007, Danelle L. Moon May 2007

Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow: San Jose University 150 Years, 1857-2007, Danelle L. Moon

Faculty and Staff Publications

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Information Outlook, May 2007, Special Libraries Association May 2007

Information Outlook, May 2007, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2007

Volume 11, Issue 5

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Work Motivation, Job Satisfaction, And Organisational Commitment Of Library Personnel In Academic And Research Libraries In Oyo State, Nigeria, Adeyinka Tella, C.O. Ayeni, S.O. Popoola Apr 2007

Work Motivation, Job Satisfaction, And Organisational Commitment Of Library Personnel In Academic And Research Libraries In Oyo State, Nigeria, Adeyinka Tella, C.O. Ayeni, S.O. Popoola

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

A well-managed organization sees employees as the source of quality and productivity. This study examines the perception of work motivation in relation to job satisfaction and organizational commitment of library personnel in academic and research libraries in Oyo state, Nigeria. Two hundred library personnel (41% female, 59% male) were selected through a total enumeration sampling from five research and four academic libraries. A questionnaire called Work Motivation, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Commitment Scale (WMJSCS) with the overall co-efficient of r = 0.83 cronbach alpha was adapted from Organization Commitment Questionnaire by Mooday et al. (1979), Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire by Weiss, …

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Users' Perceptions Of The Use Of Academic Libraries And Online Facilities For Research Purposes In Nigeria, S. Chiemeke, O.B. Longe, S.S. Umar, I.O. Shaib Apr 2007

Users' Perceptions Of The Use Of Academic Libraries And Online Facilities For Research Purposes In Nigeria, S. Chiemeke, O.B. Longe, S.S. Umar, I.O. Shaib

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The migration from print to digital media for the storage, retrieval, and communication of all types of data has influenced the way people source for research materials. A questionnaire was administered to evaluate users' views of the use of libraries and online resources for research. Hypotheses tested using chi square to at the 0.05 level of significance revealed that there is no perceived significant difference in staff efficiency and ease of use of facilities in academic libraries and the online environment. However, there is a significant difference in users' perception of speed of access to needed research materials, availability of …

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Games For Teaching Information Literacy Skills, Felicia A. Smith Apr 2007

Games For Teaching Information Literacy Skills, Felicia A. Smith

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

A didactic approach to teaching database research skills has proven to be dreadfully dull and ineffective for many students. One possible solution to this problem is to incorporate educational games with predetermined learning objectives into the curriculum. Chemistry/Biochemistry majors at the University of Notre Dame take a required information literacy skills course that introduces chemistry database search techniques. The course features several databases – highlighting the distinct nuances of each database and the different search strategies required to access information. This paper describes active learning activities as a method for creating a higher level of engagement while maintaining the objectives …

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Library News, Spring 2007, San Jose State University Library Apr 2007

Library News, Spring 2007, San Jose State University Library

Library News

No abstract provided.

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Information Outlook, April 2007, Special Libraries Association Apr 2007

Information Outlook, April 2007, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2007

Volume 11, Issue 4

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