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Eportfolios: Good For The Student, Good For The Institution , Jennifer Vincent, Sarah Faye Cohen

Library Scholarship

Presentation on the possibilities and pitfalls of an ePortfolio assessment system. Uses our course-embedded, information literacy rubrics as an example of how ePorts can make a difference in teaching and in gaining faculty buy-in.

Ferpa And Student Work: Considerations For Electronic Theses And Dissertations, Marisa Ramirez, Gail Mcmillan

Library Scholarship

Information privacy is an important consideration when transitioning university collections from paper to electronic access. Yet the protection of -- and limits to -- student privacy regulations have rarely been addressed in the literature for online electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and its relevance to student work should be a consideration when widely distributing scholarship like e-portfolios, ETDs, and senior capstone projects. In this article, we share several campus approaches to FERPA and electronic student work.

Don Juan, Brett B. Bodemer

Library Scholarship

2010 American translation of Jean Baptiste Poquelin’s Dom Juan ou Le Festin de Pierre. Some liberties taken to convey the sense of metaphors , and to transform exclamatory oaths into something less alien to American speech patterns of the early twenty-first century.

The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System, Brett B. Bodemer

Library Scholarship

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Even An Ocean Away: Developing Skype-Based Reference For Students Studying Abroad, Sarah Faye Cohen, Andy Burkhardt

Library Scholarship

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline the development of a Skype-based, study abroad reference service.

Design/methodology/approach – The paper discusses the criteria used for technology and situates the project in the literature on study abroad reference services.

Findings – Using Skype, a free video-conferencing software, allows librarians to offer reference services to study abroad students effectively, easily, and without new technologies or significant cost.

Originality/value – The paper offers other librarians strategies for developing and launching similar programs and shares challenges encountered to prepare librarians for success in their own projects.

Coding Into The Great Unknown: Analyzing Instant Messaging Session Transcripts To Identify User Behaviors And Measure Quality Of Service, Sarah Maximiek, Elizabeth Brown, Erin Rushton

Library Scholarship

After one year of providing virtual reference service through an instant messaging (IM) service, Binghamton University (BU) Libraries, under the purview of its Digital Reference Committee (DRC), undertook a study of collected session transcripts. The goals of this work were to determine who was using the IM service and why; if staffing for the service was adequate and met our in-person reference standards; and if improvements to the Libraries' existing reference services were needed. The findings revealed that 31% of identifiable users were students and 5% of users were campus community members. The analyses also revealed that many used the …

Review Of Felix Lembersky, 1913-1970: Paintings And Drawings, Jesse Vestermark

Library Scholarship

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Social Media: What Is It Good For?, Sarah Faye Cohen

Library Scholarship

On the power of 2.0 tools in communication.

Before It’S Too Late: A Digital Game Preservation White Paper, Henry Lowood, Devin Monnens, Zach Vowell, Judd Ethan Ruggill, Ken S. Mcallister, Andrew Armstrong

Library Scholarship

Over the last four decades, electronic games have profoundly changed the way people play, learn, and connect with each other. Despite the tremendous impact of electronic games, however, until recently, relatively few programs existed to preserve them for future generations of players and researchers. Recognizing the need to save the original content and intellectual property of electronic games from media rot, obsolescence, and loss, the Game Preservation Special Interest Group of the International Game Developers Association has issued a white paper summarizing why electronic games should be preserved, problems that must be solved to do so, some potential solutions, and …

Rocket Science Can Be Understood: Librarians As Stem Faculty Outreach Partners, Melanie Sellar, Jeanine Marie Scaramozzino

Library Scholarship

Librarians can play an active role in faculty research and enhancing public understanding of science. Now more than ever before, the nation’s scientists are engaging in outreach activities focused on the pre-college pipeline in order to ensure that a continuing supply of students enter college-level science disciplines and education programs, and ensure that schools graduate an informed citizenry appreciative of the sciences. Increased participation in these types of activities can be attributed in large part to funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) focused grant programs, which now require that …

Redefining Library Partnerships: Sharing Physical And Digital Space With The Campus Community, Jeanine Marie Scaramozzino, Marisa Ramirez

Library Scholarship

Cal Poly State University librarians are engaging faculty, staff and students by transforming physical and digital library spaces to better support teaching and learning. A Science Café program hosted in the Learning Commons Library Café provides informal opportunities to come together over coffee, share current faculty research, and make salient the connections that exist between the numerous and seemingly unrelated areas of study on campus: science, humanities and the social sciences. The campus institutional repository (IR), DigitalCommons@CalPoly, is an ever-growing digital archive of faculty research, student work and campus documents which has facilitated new collaborations between faculty, campus constituents and …

Of Bytes And Books: Keeping It All Together And Still Calling It A Library, Adriana Popescu, Patricia Gaspari-Bridges

Library Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Beyond Access: The Added Value Of Electronic Thesis Implementation, Marisa Ramirez

Library Scholarship

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Engaging That Other Audience: Encouraging Faculty Involvement In Information Literacy Using New Technology, Jennifer Kelley

Library Scholarship

Literature on the subject shows that information literacy programs truly thrive when they receive support and involvement from teaching faculty. While efforts to integrate information literacy instruction into the curriculum and collaborating with faculty are not new, many of the opportunities and tools for doing so are.

Whether you have full-support from all faculty (lucky you!) or varying levels of involvement from isolated departments or instructors here and there, we all have access to the tools we need to spark interest, take conversations to the next level, engage individuals, and create collaborative environments for designing information literacy sessions and programs.

Percolating The Power Of Play, Sarah Faye Cohen, Timothy Miner, Lauren Nishikawa

Library Scholarship

The Champlain College Library asked students from our Electronic Game Design Program and the Emergent Media Center to create a game to complement our Information Literacy (IL) program. Little did we know that this collaboration would lead us to question and re-envision what we mean by information literacy. Through the library-student collaboration, it became clear to the Library that words like authority, credibility, reliability, and currency were being used superficially. Clearly, our information literacy efforts needed to focus more on which factors were needed rather than prescribed. In a more abstract environment, like a game, the focus shifts from filling …

Transparency Ratings For Spanish–English Cognate Words, José A. Montelongo, Anita C. Hernández, Roberta J. Herter

Library Scholarship

Cognates are words that are orthographically, semantically, and syntactically similar in two languages. There are over 20,000 Spanish-English cognates in the Spanish and English languages. Empirical research has shown that cognates facilitate vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension for language learners when compared to noncognate words. In this study, transparency ratings for over two thousand nouns and adjectives drawn from the Juilland and Chang-Rodríguez’ Spanish Word Frequency Dictionary were collected. The purpose for collecting the ratings was to provide researchers with calibrated materials to study the effects of cognate words on learning.

Science Cafe: Conversation And Coffee At The Library, Leanne Hindmarch, Jeanine Marie Scaramozzino

Library Scholarship

In 2007 a task force was convened by Cal Poly's Provost to envision The Future of the Library. One of the top recommendations of this report was that the Kennedy Library should foster the concept of “the library as place.” The report stated that “the library needs to be an active space that meets a multitude of academic and social needs,” and recommended that Cal Poly “renovate and expand the library as a multi-use, social and academic center of campus”. This poster will explore the ways that the Kennedy Library has accomplished this, focusing in particular on its Science Café …

Rabelais Unsheathes The Book: The Linguistic Critique Offered By The Catalog Of Saint-Victor's, Brett Bodemer

Library Scholarship

In the seventh chapter of Pantagruel, written in 1532, François Rabelais seized on the relationship between titles and books to pose a serious linguistic challenge to the stability of the book and its tenuous role in supporting an architectonic system of knowledge. The chapter consists primarily of a disordered catalog of invented titles, and the author assures us elsewhere that if we wish to grasp his deeper meaning we should examine these titles closely. A first look shows us that he is mocking particular authors and titling conventions, while further exploration reveals the catalog as a whole to serve as …

A User-Centered And Evidence-Based Approach For Digital Library Projects, Mary M. Somerville, Navjit Brar

Library Scholarship

Purpose–Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) processes fortified by collaborative evidence-based librarianship (EBL) principles can guide end-user involvement in digital library project design and development. User-generated research examples reveal the efficacy of this inclusive human-focused approach for building systems.

Design/Methodology/Approach– From 2003 to 2006, user-centered interaction design guided increasingly complex human-computer interaction (HCI) projects at California Polytechnic State University. Toward that end, project planners invited polytechnic students, supervised by computer science professors, to assess peers’ information seeking needs. This student-generated evidence informed creation of paper prototypes and implementation of usability tests. Sustained relationships between planners and beneficiaries permitted iterative evaluation …

An Undergraduate Science Information Literacy Tutorial In A Web 2.0 World, Jeanine Marie Scaramozzino

Library Scholarship

The development of an interactive web-based science information literacy tutorial that introduces undergraduate science majors to basic components of scientific literature is described. The tutorial introduces concepts, vocabulary and resources necessary for understanding and accessing information. The tutorial content is based on the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education and the Information Literacy Standards for Science and Engineering/Technology (American Library Association (ALA) /Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)/Science and Technology Section (STS) Task Force on Information Literacy for Science and Technology). In order to engage students in a Web 2.0 world, …

Taking 2.0 To The Faculty: Why, Who, And How, Sarah Faye Cohen

Library Scholarship

No abstract provided.

An Undergraduate Science Information Literacy Tutorial In A Web 2.0 World, Jeanine Marie Scaramozzino

Library Scholarship

No abstract provided.

It Takes A Village: Role Of Librarians In The First Year Experience (Fye), Jeanine Marie Scaramozzino

Library Scholarship

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Taking 2.0 To The Faculty, Sarah Faye Cohen

Library Scholarship

Presented at Computers in Libraries 2008 about ways to present and discuss 2.0 with your faculty.

The Deconstruction Of A Study: Toward More Effective Evaluation Of Research Studies In Cognitive Social Psychology, Jose A. Montelongo

Library Scholarship

Information literacy modules produced by academic libraries to facilitate the research process typically use the criteria of relevance, timeliness, reliability, coverage and accuracy to assess the various information resources undergraduate students use to write research reports. These same criteria are applied to the wide spectrum of research sources that may range from popular magazines to research journal articles.

In the field of Cognitive Social Psychology, many research questions necessitate the use of psycholinguistic stimuli (word lists, paired-associates, sentences, stories, etc.) as their treatments. This paper investigates the ability of information literacy modules based on the standards set forth by the …

A Sentence Completion Task To Familiarize Students With Word Problem Structures, Jose A. Montelongo, Roberta Herter

Library Scholarship

Marshall (1995) provided a classification scheme for arithmetic word problems. The most frequent types of word problems are the change, group, compare, restate, and vary situations. Change situations tell a story in which there is a change in a measurable quantity of a particular thing. Group word problems ask the solver to use combine members of the same classification before performing a mathematical calculation upon these. Compare situations require a student to complete mathematical calculations upon two or more things and to contrast their quantities for a conclusion. Restate word problems include both a relational statement between two or more …

Champlain College's Miller Information Commons, Sarah Faye Cohen

Library Scholarship

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Human Resource Administration In The Academic Library, Dennis R. Defa

Library Scholarship

Libraries at colleges and universities provide a challenging environment for the practice of human resource (HR) administration. The dynamics and structure of the academic library within the higher education community create complex environments for the library administrator attempting to navigate the myriad rules and regulations (state, federal, and institutional) that affect staff recruiting, hiring, processing, compensating, and related functions for library personnel. Depending upon the complexities of the HR function in any academic library, the organization may be best served by designating an HR expert as a member of the library’s administrative team. This article will review the HR function …

Review Of La Biblilothèque Parisienne De Gabriel Naudé En 1630: Les Lectures D'Un Libertin Èrudit By Estelle Boeuf, Brett B. Bodemer

Library Scholarship

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Toward Co-Creation Of Knowledge In The Interaction Age: An Organizational Case Study, Mary M. Somerville, Navjit Brar

Library Scholarship

Converging information, communication, and computing technologies create new opportunities for university librarians to contribute to knowledge creation activities. At California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, USA, authors partner with academic colleagues to develop student learning experiences which reflect the dynamic engagement with information that characterizes the Interaction Age.