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Felder, D. L. & Camp, D. K (Eds.). (2009). Gulf Of Mexico Origin, Waters, And Biota: Volume 1, Biodiversity. College Station, Tx: Texas A&M Press [Book Review], Kevin Mcdonough

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Hodge, J. & Radick, G. (Eds.). (2009). The Cambridge Companion To Darwin (2nd Ed.). New York, Ny: Cambridge University Press, Kevin Mcdonough

Publication

No abstract provided.

Ruse M. (2009). Evolution Wars: A Guide To The Debates. Millerton, Ny: Grey House Publishing [Book Review], Kevin Mcdonough

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Burden, P. R. (2010). A Subject Guide To Quality Web Sites. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow, Kevin Mcdonough

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Perrin, W. F., Würsig, B., And Thewissen, J. G. M. (Eds.). (2009). Encyclopedia Of Marine Mammals. London: Elsevier [Book Review], Kevin Mcdonough

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University Of Utah, Libraries. (2007). Western Soundscape Archives. Retreived November, 2009 From Http://Westernsoundscape.Org/., Kevin Mcdonough

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Review Of Working Together: Collaborative Information Practices For Organizational Learning, Minna Sellers

Collaborative Librarianship

A review of:

Mary M. Somerville, "Working Together: Collaborative Information Practices for Organizational Learning." American Library Association, 2009.

The Application Of Drupal To Website Development In Academic Libraries, Cristina Tofan

Library Faculty and Staff Papers and Presentations

Drupal is one of top tech topics in libraries right now. Academic libraries think very carefully about how they design their websites, and more and more libraries look at Drupal as a framework for their website development, as well as a cohesive interface for gathering content coming from different silos. In this paper we highlight the high degree of similarity that we observed across the websites of academic libraries in the United States, and we analyze the use of open source content management systems, with an emphasis on Drupal, in the development of these websites.

West Virginia Libraries 2010 Vol.63 No.1, Pamela Coyle

West Virginia Libraries Newsletter

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A Very Brief Introduction To Open Access, Peter Suber

Advancing Your Research Skills for the Digital Age

Handout on Open Access for Open Access Week.

Ua100/2/2 Training School & College High Departments, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Training School / College High departments which inlude Athletics, Classes, English, Library, Music and Theatre.

Ua60/2 Library Science, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the department of Library Science.

Digital Commons Annual Report: Year Two 2009-2010, Heather Leary

Digital Commons Reports

This report shows the progress for Utah State University's Digital Commons repository during it's second year, from Noveber 1, 2009 through October 31, 2010.

Marginalia No. 28, Merrill-Cazier Library

Marginalia

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Embedded Information Literacy: An Arts And Humanities Model, Marni R. Harrington, Christy Sich, Fran Gray

Western Libraries Presentations

This material was presented at Spring Perspectives 2010. The presentation highlights the collaboration between the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and The D.B. Weldon Library to embed information literacy skills directly into a Classical Studies course.

Library School Curricula In The Us Should Address Liaison Responsibilities For Students Interested In Academic Librarianship, Nazi Torabi

Western Libraries Publications

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Are Bibliographic Management Software Search Interfaces Reliable?: A Comparison Between Search Results Obtained Using Database Interfaces And The Endnote Online Search Function, Megan Fitzgibbons, Deborah Meert

Western Libraries Publications

The use of bibliographic management software and its internal search interfaces is now pervasive among researchers. This study compares the results between searches conducted in academic databases' search interfaces versus the EndNote search interface. The results show mixed search reliability, depending on the database and type of search performed.

Inquiring Into The Real: A Realist Phenomenological Approach, John M. Budd, Heather Hill, Brooke Shannon

FIMS Publications

The need for postpositivist or antipositivist methods in the social sciences, including library and information science, is well documented. A promising alternative synthesizes critical realism and phenomenology. This method embraces ontological reality in all things, including human and social action. The ontology underlying the realist phenomenological approach recognizes, following Bhaskar, intransitive and transitive objects of knowledge (mind‐independent reality and individual and social perceptions of that reality). The synthesis encompasses some particular elements, including perceptions of parts and wholes, the reconciliation of presence and absence, and the essential character of intentionality. Withholding judgment (exercising a particular kind of skepticism) enables inquirers …

Procrustean Motherhood: The Good Mother During Depression (1930s), War (1940s), And Prosperity (1950s), Romayne Smith Fullerton, M J. Patterson

FIMS Publications

Women have long considered home making, parenting, and fashion magazines, addressed directly to them, to be a trusted source for advice and for models of behavior. This trust is problematic given that sample magazine articles from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s show cultural portrayals of motherhood that appear more proscriptive than descriptive. They changed little, although real women’s roles in both the domestic and public realms were undergoing significant shifts. During these decades of Great Depression, World War II, and unprecedented post-war prosperity, women went to school and entered the workplace in growing numbers, changed their reproductive choices, and shifted …

Informing Traces: The Social Practices Of Collaborative Informing In The Midwifery Clinic, Pamela J. Mckenzie

FIMS Publications

The concept of “traces” is useful for understanding the collaborative practices of informing. Readers of documents leave traces of their use, and institutional talk embeds traces of collaborative work, including work done and elsewhere and at other times. This chapter employs a multifaceted qualitative strategy of analytic bracketing to analyze traces in midwives’ and clients’ discussions of clinical results. Results are used to identify and evaluate trends in relation to the current case or to universal norms. Conflicting forms of evidence may need to be negotiated. Barriers may arise when results or sources are inadequate or unavailable. Midwives and women …

Primitive Accumulation, The Social Common, And The Contractual Lockdown Of Recording Artists At The Threshold Of Digitalization, Matt Stahl

FIMS Publications

This article examines the apparent paradox of the persistence of long-term employment contracts for cultural industry ‘talent’ in the context of broader trends toward short-term, flexible employment. While aspirants are numberless, bankable talent is in short supply. Long-term talent contracts appear to embody a durable, perhaps inherent, axiom in employment: labour shortage favours employees. The article approaches this axiom through the lens of recent reconsiderations of the concept of ‘primitive accumulation’. In the case of employment, this concept highlights employers’ impetus to transcend legal and customary barriers to and limits on their capacity to capture and compel labour. The article …

Putting The Pieces Together: Endometriosis Blogs, Cognitive Authority, And Collaborative Information Behaviour, Diane M. Neal, Pamela J. Mckenzie

FIMS Presentations

Abstract: Endometriosis causes female pelvic pain and infertility. This study examines blogs written by endometriosis patients in the context of collaborative information sharing. Preliminary discourse analysis supported previous studies that found patients questioning medical professionals’ cognitive authority. Additionally, the blogger’s affective authority may play a role in readers’ information judgements. Résumé : L'endométriose cause chez les femmes des douleurs au pelvis et l'infertilité. Cette étude examine les blogues rédigés par les patientes souffrant d'endométriose dans un contexte d'échange d'information collaborative. L'analyse préliminaire du discours corrobore des études antérieures qui ont démontré que les patientes remettent en question l'autorité cognitive des …

Methodological Strategies For Studying Documentary Planning Work., Pamela J. Mckenzie, Elizabeth Davies, Lola Wong

FIMS Presentations

This paper reports on the pilot testing of data collection strategies for a study of the complex and idiosyncratic document work involved in everyday life planning and time management. We describe two iterations of two data collection strategies, in-depth semi-structured interviews and photography of individual documents and document collections.

Cette communication prente un projet pilote de straties de collecte de donns pour l'ude du travail documentaire complexe et idiosyncratique nessaire la planification et la gestion du temps au quotidien. Seront prents deux itations de deux straties de collecte de donns : les entrevues en profondeur semi-structurs et la photographie de …

A New Model For Semantic Photograph Description Combining Basic Levels And User-Assigned Descriptors, Hyuk-Jin Lee, Diane M. Neal

FIMS Publications

Few studies have been conducted to identify users’ desired semantic levels of image access when describing, searching, and retrieving photographs online. The basic level, or the level of abstraction most commonly used to describe an item, is a cognitive theory currently under consideration in image retrieval research. This study investigates potential basic levels of description for online photographs by testing the Hierarchy for Online Photograph Representation (HOPR) model, which is based on a need for a model that addresses users’ basic levels of photograph description and retrieval. We developed the HOPR model using the following three elements as guides: the …

Persistence And Change In Social Media, Bernie Hogan, Anabel Quan-Haase

FIMS Publications

In ―Star Trek‖, Scotty suggests that Transwarp beaming is ―like trying to hit a bullet with a smaller bullet, whilst wearing a blindfold, riding a horse‖ (Abrams, 2009). The study of social media faces similar challenges because new tools are developed at a rapid pace and existing tools are constantly being updated with new features, policies, and applications. Users tend to migrate, in often unpredictable ways, to new tools as well as to adopt multiple tools simultaneously, without showing consistent media preferences and habits (Quan-Haase, 2008). As a result, for scholars it sometimes feels as if the social media landscape …

Beyond A Signpost For Resistance: The Promise Of Michel De Certeau's Practices Of Everyday Life For Lis Scholarship, Paulette Rothbauer

Data and Test Instruments

No abstract provided.

Back Matter, Brian Wilson

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.

Lyrasis Product News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent news from Lyrasis. Highlights include: new members of the Lyrasis Preservation Services Team, the Lyrasis Member Outreach Team, and a newly hired Director of Information Technology.

Using Teaching Faculty Focus Groups To Assess Information Literacy Core Competencies At University Level, Jodi Tyron, Emily Elizabeth Frigo, Mary Kathleen O'Kelly

Scholarly Papers and Articles

Grand Valley State University librarians designed and conducted teaching faculty1 focus groups to gauge their response to a new information literacy (IL) core student competencies document created to support a developing library IL programme. Although the competencies were inspired by existing, widely known information literacy standards and guidelines the University Libraries’ Information Literacy Competencies document (ILCC) is unique and written specifically to address the university’s culture and curriculum. The authors of this paper formed a research team to assemble two groups of teaching faculty from various disciplines and to analyse focus group transcripts using a content analysis approach. The resulting …

Connections, Winter, 2010; Issue Fourteen, John Fobert, Veronica Maher

Library Newsletter

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