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Early Career Issues In Academic Librarianship, Katherine O'Clair

Library Scholarship

Are you early in your career (< 5 years) as an academic librarian or a library school student thinking about pursuing a career in academic librarianship? Do you have questions or concerns about how to plan your career and stay on track (RPT, anyone?) or even how to land that first job as an academic librarian? Bring your questions, concerns, thoughts, and more and let’s talk! We’ll get out that “elephant in the living room” and have a discussion about the issues that matter most to early career librarians and library school students. Are you an experienced librarian with some advice and suggestions for those early in their careers or just starting out? Please join us and share your thoughts on how to navigate successfully through the bends and turns of the first few years as an academic librarian.

Staff Users And Overdue Fines In Nigerian Polytechnic Libraries, Nelson Edewor

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study investigates the attitudes of staff users toward the payment of overdue fines in Nigerian Polytechnic libraries. A survey was applied to staff users of the libraries of the Delta State Polytechnic Oghara-Otefe, and Delta State Polytechnic. A total of 87 staff participated in the study. A questionnaire and oral interview were used in data collection. Findings reveal that staff users rarely pay overdue fines and would like the system discontinued. The study affirmed the fact that fines are a means of generating funds for the library and a measure to compel users to return books on time. The …

Mobile Phones For Library Services: Prospects For Delta State University Library, Abraka, Basil Enemute Iwhiwhu, Josiah Oghenero Ruteyan, Aroghene Eghwubare

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

A survey of staff and students at Delta State University, Abraka showed that nearly all staff and students have a personal mobile phone, but that GSM technology has not been implemented in the library. Staff and students see potential for GSM use in library services, although there are problams with infrastructure, cost, and service interruption. Recommendations are made for improving the situation and implementing GSM.

The Anchor, Volume 123.19: April 7, 2010, Hope College

The Anchor: 2010

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

Condensed Social Media Presentation, Barry Bailey

Library Papers and Presentations

This is a short presentation illustrating some of the different ways that libraries (specifically academic libraries) can use social media to better connect with their user base. Presented as part of a technology panel from the Kansas Library Association's 2010 Preconference.

Lanthorn, Vol. 44, No. 54, April 5, 2010, Grand Valley State University

Volume 44, July 8, 2009 - June 10, 2010

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present. The Lanthorn, Vol. 44 No. 55 is missing.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 034, Number 28, April 5, 2010, Grand Valley State University

2009-2010, Volume 34

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Data Curation And Libraries: Short-Term Developments, Long-Term Prospects, Anna Gold

Robert E. Kennedy Library

This paper was prepared as background for a talk given at AGU 2009 on “Data & Libraries.” It summarizes the developments and events from late 2006 through early 2010 that are shaping library roles in scientific data curation while underscoring the range, complexity, and varying granularity of systems, actions, and efforts involved. The main conclusions are: (1) leaders of major research libraries have committed their institutions to support data curation. (2) The library profession has demonstrated significant conceptual progress in characterizing and understanding data curation both in theory and in practice. (3) There has been progress since 2006 in legitimizing …

Wikipedia And The Making Of A (Wo)Man: Biographical Construction In The Digital Age, Christopher Sweet

Scholarly Publications

Did you know that according to their Wikipedia biography entries, Senators Edward Kennedy and Robert Byrd both died on January, 20, 2009? In reality, neither Senator died on that date. Robert Byrd is still very much alive and Edward Kennedy lived through August of last year. In a few short years, Wikipedia has come to dominate the field of easy-to-access information on just about any topic. Due to prominent placing in search engine results, the first stop for biographical information is often Wikipedia. Since Wikipedia entries are user-generated, errors and blatant smear campaigns are commonplace. Political hopefuls now carefully craft …

Database Trial And Evaluation: American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

Library Publications (1999-2023)

• Database trial and evaluation: American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection

04-2010 Newsletter, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Library Services

Library Services Newsletters

Minnesota State University, Mankato, Library Services Newsletter for April 2010.

Inside Information Spring 2010

Inside Information

No abstract provided.

Learning Abstracts: Scholarspace @ Jccc, Barry J. Bailey

Library Reports

Even as budgets are reduced, many large publishers are increasing the cost of access to their databases. Institutional repositories are creating a strong and necessary interconnected community of researchers interested in open access to legitimate scholarly publications. Learn how Johnson County Community College is preserving the institution's intellectual output. Copyright 2010 by the League for Innovation in the Community College. All rights reserved.

The final published version is available here. Your institution must have a League for Innovation in the Community College membership, which allows you to create a username and password.

Tutorials On The Fly: Directing Students From A Distance, Marisa Walstrum

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Among Friends Spring 2010 Vol 10 No 2, Friends Of The Bethel University Library

Among Friends Library Newsletter

Contents:

• First (and Second) Impressions
• Growing Up Can Be Hard to Do (Part 2)
• Preserving Bethel University Digitally
• Copyright Mashed Up and Remixed
• And the Winner Is...
• Library Footnotes

April 2010: South Carolina 2009 Notable State Documents, Dacus Library

Dacus Docs News

No abstract provided.

Spring 2010: David Vs. Goliath, Dacus Library

Dacus Focus

No abstract provided.

Library Ledger, University Of Southern Maine Libraries

Library Ledger

Spring 2010

Nota Bene; Volume Xxv, Number I, Yale University Library

Nota Bene

Nota Bene is published during the academic year to acquaint the Yale community and others with the resources of the Yale Library.

Who Moved My Intranet? The Human Side Of Introducing Collaborative Technologies To Library Staff, Keven Jeffery, Ellie Dworak

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

In the Fall of 2007, the San Diego State University (SDSU) Library changed from an HTML intranet to a Wiki intranet (Dworak & Jeffery, 2009) using the MediaWiki software. This change was carried out by a group of three people (two librarians and an IT staff person who was the intranet webmaster). In doing so, the group shifted the responsibility for content development and maintenance from a single webmaster (with several backups) to all library employees. This change was made in the hopes that this would lead to a more dynamic, relevant, and current intranet. In order for such a …

Reference By Any Other Name, Ellie Dworak

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Librarians have been doing long-distance reference work for a very long time. Libraries have used telephones since sometime in the late 1800s or early 1900s and email since before I began my career in 1996. Even chat reference can hardly be called an "emerging reference service"--I first remember hearing about it at a Southern California Online Users Group conference a decade ago. Though reference via machines is not new, we seem to be at a pivotal time. There are currently so many possibilities for reaching out to our patrons that it can be hard to make sense of which options …

What Are Mobile Friendly Library Sites Offering? A Survey, Chee Hsien Aaron (Zheng Zhixian) Tay

Research Collection Library

Everyone knows mobile is hot now, and many libraries are scrambling to add mobile friendly pages. Currently themost complete listing of libraries with mobile sites can be found at the Library Success Wiki site , which lists over40 such sites.I thought it would be helpful to look at these 40+ sites to see what are the common services that have beingoffered to mobile users. To that end, I have created a google doc of the 40 sites comparing their common features.I grouped each feature below according to whether it exists in a mobile site and then choose representativeexamples with images …

What Are Mobile Friendly Library Sites Offering? A Survey, Chee Hsien Aaron (Zheng Zhixian) Tay

Research Collection Library

Everyone knows mobile is hot now, and many libraries are scrambling to add mobile friendly pages. Currently themost complete listing of libraries with mobile sites can be found at the Library Success Wiki site , which lists over40 such sites.I thought it would be helpful to look at these 40+ sites to see what are the common services that have beingoffered to mobile users. To that end, I have created a google doc of the 40 sites comparing their common features.I grouped each feature below according to whether it exists in a mobile site and then choose representativeexamples with images …

Changing Our Service Interface To Support Learning: Information Literacy In The Virtual Environment At The City University Of Hong Kong Library, Bethany Wilkes, Hsianghoo Steve Ching, Shun-Wa Lee, Joanna Pong, Anna Ryan

Research Collection Library

No abstract provided.

Friends Newsletter, Spring, 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Edward Bennett Williams Law Library Friends Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Academic Gateway, Spring 2010, San Jose State University Library

Library Gateway

No abstract provided.

Between The Columns Newsletter: Spring 2010, Eastern Kentucky University Libraries

Between the Columns Newsletter

Table of Contents

• More than Walls: Building the Noel Studio Team (p. 1)
• Message from the Dean (p. 2)
• Kindles and iPods: Your On-the-Go Reading Alternatives (p. 2)
• LibStart: Library Tour Program (p. 2)
• Txt Ur Lib (p. 2)
• An Evening on the Quilt Trail with Friends (p. 3)
• EKU Libraries 2010 Board Members (p. 3)
• New Resources (p. 4)
• SGA Popular DVD Collection (p. 5)
• Staff Highlights (p. 5)
• Adventures in Copyright: Movies and Public Viewing Rights (p. 5)
• Getting to Noah Webster? (p. 6)
• Experience the Studio...Be the Difference (p. 6)
• Spring Library Hours (p. 6)
• Between the …

Friends Of The Brooks Library Newsletter, April 2010, Friends Of The Brooks Library

Friends of the Brooks Library

No abstract provided.

A Longitudinal Study Of Language And Ideology In Congress, Bei Yu, Daniel Diermeier

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

This paper presents an analysis of the legislative speech records from the 101st-108th U.S. Congresses using machine learning and natural language processing methods. We use word vectors to represent the speeches in both the Senate and the House, and then use text categorization methods to classify the speakers by their ideological positions. The classification accuracy indicates the level of distinction between the liberal and the conservative ideologies. Our experiment results demonstrate an increasing partisanship in the Congress between 1989 and 2006. Ideology classifiers trained on the House speeches can predict the Senators' ideological positions well (House-to-Senate prediction), however the Senate-to-House …

Lanthorn, Vol. 44, No. 53, April 1, 2010, Grand Valley State University

Volume 44, July 8, 2009 - June 10, 2010

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.