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People Profile: Rickey D. Best, Editor

Against the Grain

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Back Talk -- In Your Face, Anthony (Tony) W. Ferguson

Against the Grain

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People Profile: Barbara A. Gushrowski, Mls, Editor

Against the Grain

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Atg Interviews Donald Beagle, Barbara Tierney

Against the Grain

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Book Reviews -- Monographic Musings, Debbie Vaughn

Against the Grain

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People Profile: Daniel C. Mack, Editor

Against the Grain

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Biz Of Acq -- Predicting Serials Inflation Rates In The Era Of Electronic Resources, Patricia Smith, Donnice Cochenour

Against the Grain

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Technology Left Behind -- Ebook Rollout Revisited, Cris Ferguson

Against the Grain

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Library Liasons And The Organization: An Open System View Of Collection Development In The Academic Library, Daniel C. Mack

Against the Grain

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Convictions -- Lessons For Library Benefactors, Matthew J. Bruccoli

Against the Grain

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I Hear The Train A Comin' -- An Interview With Joseph J. Esposito, Greg Tananbaum

Against the Grain

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Group Therapy -- Screening Of Donations?, Christine Fischer

Against the Grain

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From The Reference Desk, Thomas Gilson

Against the Grain

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And They Were There -- Reports Of Meetings -- 2007 Er&L Conference And More From The 2006 Charleston Conference, Editor

Against the Grain

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People Profile: Cory Tucker, Editor

Against the Grain

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Technology Left Behind -- Making Friends Online: Library Use Of Social Networking Services, Cris Ferguson

Against the Grain

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Adventures In Librarianship -- Datamaze Reviews, Ned Kraft

Against the Grain

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If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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Not Such A Big Deal, Mary Ann Liebert

Against the Grain

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

Against the Grain

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

Publications and Research

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.

Music Circulating Libraries In France: An Overview And A Preliminary List, Anita Breckbill, Carole Goebes

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

The year is 1867 in Paris during the Second Empire. A musician sets off one day from his flat in a building several centuries old situated on the north side of the city. He is mulling over finances, and he feels lucky to have the place. Though the building is six floors tall with a narrow spiral staircase, the ground floor apartment was available when he was looking, and the piano movers were just able to shoehorn in his forty-year- old Erard piano.

He has a package under his arm, and he is on a mission, but he pauses upon …

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 …

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 …

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.

Reviewing Journal Rankings And Revisiting Peer Reviews: Editorial Perspectives, Timothy Adrian Robert Clark, Mike Wright

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

In this article we respond to the key points made by Macdonald and Kam (2007) in relation to journal quality and the peer review process. Whilst we appreciate that their tone is intentionally provocative, the picture they present is one of unremitting gloom and reluctant acquiescence to a system out of control. It is as if the publication process has a series of self‐supporting logics that separate it from any notion of publishing in order to benefit the discipline through the advance of knowledge and understanding. From this perspective the publishing process and the consequent content of management journals are …

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

Publications and Research

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 …

Gis As A Web 2.0 Education Tool, Jeremy W. Donald

Library Faculty Research

This talk will present the results of a partnership between university and middle school students who will learn basic techniques for representing demographic and political boundary data with GIS software, and then create one or more projects focused on encouraging and facilitating the use of public information by the local community. GIS, in combination with Web 2.0 tools, will be used as a medium for communicating the data that serves as the basis for political representation and policy decisions.

Goals and objectives will be to increase political awareness, dialogue, and participation among both (university & middle school) groups of students. …

Most Popular Downloads -- May 2007

Institutional Repository Information

The 135 most-downloaded documents (>29 downloads) for May 2007 from the UNL institutional repository.

To highlight the popularity of theses and dissertations (e.g., 6 out of the top 11), those documents are indicated in orange.

Total downloads for May 2007 were 37,438.

“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.