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Best Practices For Hiring Academic Librarians With Faculty Status And Rank, Christopher Shaffer

The Southeastern Librarian

When library school students graduate, their primary goal frequently is to find a job; they may have a preference for a position as a public librarian, academic librarian, or school media specialist, but most important is finding gainful employment in order to put food on the table. The person responsible for hiring academic librarians must attempt to discern, based on a résumé and a relatively brief personal interview whether a candidate is capable of performing the basic tasks of being a librarian, interacting with faculty, guiding students, and performing their duties as a member of the academy. To make the …

One Mississippi Library’S Experience In Opening Up The State Judiciary To Greater Access By The Library Patron, Stephen Parks

The Southeastern Librarian

Legal materials such as case reporters and case digests can be quite expensive and burdensome for libraries to acquire, due to little use for such materials. Online legal sources such as Westlaw and LexisNexis are rarely an option for these libraries because of their tremendous costs. However, most libraries face legal-related questions from patrons, and librarians lack easily accessible materials to provide the patron an answer.

The staff at Mississippi College School of Law Library decided to do something about this problem by creating a program to provide complete access to the appellate courts of the state of Mississippi freely …

Halloween Open House At The Library; Featured Free Resource "Allen Brain Atlas," Vol 9 (10), Texas Medical Center Library

Insider Express (2003-2013)

No abstract provided.

October 2011 - Digital Minute Issue 13, Brad Matthies

Digital Minute

This issue introduces Modern Languages, Literatures & Culture and also highlights IR educational resources.

Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Fall 2011, Musselman Library

Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter

Table of Contents: From the Director: Keeping the “FUN” in Reading (Robin Wagner, Meghan Kelly); Library Implements Student Suggestions: Main and 2^nd Floor Upgrades (Natalie Hinton); GettDigital: I like Ike (Ron Couchman, Karen Drickamer); Card Swipe Added; Mellon Scholars Partner with Librarians (Lauren Roedner ’13, Meggan Emler Smith ’04, Evan Singer ’12, Kerri Odess-Harnish, Janelle Wertzberger); Musselman Library Voted Best Place to Work by Students (Hannah Leone ’14, Tessa Sheridan ’13, Robert Jamieson ’11); Library Co-Sponsors Middle East Series (Amy Young Evrard); Students Offer Tips to Class of 2015 (Clint Baugess, Kerri Odess-Harnish, Mei Mei Wong ’13); Clint Baugess …

Among Friends Fall 2011 Vol 12 No 1, Friends Of The Bethel University Library

Among Friends Library Newsletter

Contents:

• In Conversation
• Transition
• Bethel Yearbooks Go Online
• Primetime for Fall
• The Next Generation
• The Library is Dead?
• Choices, Choices ..
• How We Spent Our Summer Vacation
• Footnotes

Greening Of Ill At Himmelfarb Library, Yvonne Lee, Alek Potrzebowski, Kathe Obrig

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

Traditionally, the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Department consumed the largest amount of paper from routine printing of articles/chapters before delivery. In 2010, staff examined existing processes to find ways to print only when necessary and become a greener department. This poster presentation explains the implementation and the outcomes of the "greening" initiative in the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Department of the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library.

Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 3: Two Early Publications, Charles H. Smith

DLPS Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Seeds Of Change: Farm Organizations In Depression And Post-War Utah, Robert Parson, John W. Walters, Emily Gurr-Thompson

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

As Utah continues to move further and further away from its agricultural base, it is useful to look back on the state’s agricultural heritage and how an earlier generation of farmers sought to maximize its economic security through cooperation, government support, and adoption of new methods and tools made available through the nation’s land-grant colleges. Following World War II, two competing organizations, the Utah Farm Bureau and the Utah Farmer’s Union, emerged as champions of Utah farmers. Where Utah farmers and their organization had given strong support to Franklin Roosevelt and the Democratic Party’s New Deal during the 1930s, in …

An Analysis Of Online News Comments On Children's Racial Perceptions In The U.S., Hsin-Liang Chen, Robin A. Moeller

University Libraries Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper studies how a large online community made sense of a television and online news organization's cosponsored study of children's perceptions of race in the America. 2,906 readers' comments from the CNN special report were collected in December 2010. After classifying these comments, there were four data sets: all comments, negative comments, positive comments, and popular comments (comments with "Like). Wordstat, a contentanalysis software program, was used to analyze the word/phrase frequency of four data sets. The purpose of the content analysis was to identify any similar pattern of word/phrase among the data sets. Of 2,906 comments, 1,745 comments …

Marginalia No. 30, Merrill-Cazier Library

Marginalia

Issue number 30 Autumn 2011

Feel the Magic: A Place for Physical Objects in the Modern Library … Brad Cole, Special Collections & Archives

Congratulations: USU Press receives national awards in 2011 for three new publications.

“How to Open a Book” Reprint of a long-ago primer on the proper way of opening a book.

We Welcome 3 New Librarians: Andrew Wesolek, Scholarly Communications and Institutional Repository Librarian; Clint Pumphrey, Manuscript Curator for Special Collections & Archives; Hannah Kim, Digital Services Librarian.

Graphic Novels: A Library Exhibit… Curated by Vicki Read; Andrea Hathaway, and Jennifer Duncan

Innovations & Scholarship: Contributions to …

Helping College Students Climb Onto The Lifelong Learning Scaffold And Grapple With Real Life Skills, Debbie Morrow

Presentations

College students today must “learn how to learn” – the content of their college courses will only scratch the surface of what they’ll need to know in the years following graduation, and the ocean of information is wide and deep. Teaching of information literacy skills is ideally closely tied to disciplinary and professional standards, curricular goals, course objectives, and assignment requirements. And ideally librarians can be partners with disciplinary faculty in strategically introducing IL skills into key courses and assignments at selected points in a curriculum. This session will explore a particularly fortuitous convergence of needs and opportunities leading to …

Are We There Yet? Results Of A Gap Analysis To Measure Lis Students' Prior Knowledge And Actual Learning Of Cultural Competence Concepts, Kafi D. Kumasi, Renee Franklin Hill

School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications

This paper reports on the preliminary results from a pilot study conducted to examine library and information science (LIS) students' perceptions of their level of preparation for becoming culturally competent LIS professionals. Students participated in an electronic survey, which contained a Likert Scale measuring three areas of cultural competence: self awareness, education, and interaction. A gap analysis technique was employed to detect discrepancies between students' prior knowledge and actual learning relative to cultural competence. This article discusses student-reported gaps in knowledge for the section of the questionnaire on "Education." Students indicated that all of the concepts introduced in this section …

Usa Libraries Newsletter, Fall 2011, Usa Libraries

USA Libraries Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Lister Hill Letter - October 2011, Lister Hill Library

Lister Hill Letter (2011-2015)

No abstract provided.

Directions - Fall 2011, Mervyn H. Sterne Library

Directions (Sterne Library, 1985-2015)

No abstract provided.

Friends Of The Brooks Library Newsletter, October 2011, Friends Of The Brooks Library

Friends of the Brooks Library

No abstract provided.

(The Universal Interrogative Participle) Is Going On With The Authors Guild?, Emily Ford

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

The article discusses the copyright lawsuit filed by Authors Guild Inc. against HathiTrust Digital Repository Inc., an organization that is collaboratively sharing and archiving digitized works. The lawsuit claimed that the organization is making copyright infringements as well as surpasses the rights allowed by the Fair Use and preservation of the copyright law. A brief overview of the parties involved in the lawsuit are provided.

Twitter And Facebook For User Collection Requests, Joan Petit

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Libraries are offering more services through social media Web sites like Twitter and Facebook, and this presence online is encouraging more conversation between libraries and patrons, including collection development requests. A review of popular Twitter and Facebook library profiles reveals the most successful accounts to be those where the library actively engages its users online. Through these media, libraries can have direct, immediate conversations with patrons that result in patron-initiated material requests.

The Next Page, Library And Information Technology

The Next Page

The Next Page is a semi-annual newsletter published by Bucknell University's Library and Information Technology department. The publication serves the community by providing software, project, and service updates. Regular features include a letter from the Vice President for L&IT, new staff updates, and interviews. This issue includes the following articles: "From the Vice President for Library and Information Technology," "Room to Grow," "Swimage Drives the Bus," "Making Artist and Fine Press Books," "Library and IT Student Advisory Group," "New Library and IT Staff," "Negro League Baseball."

Rrh Library Newsletter, October 2011, Libraries At Rochester Regional Health

Rochester Regional Health authored publications and proceedings

Newsletter sections include: Hospital Readmissions

Wrangling The Collections, Kathy Edwards

Presentations

No abstract provided.

Southeastern Law Librarian Fall 2011, Seaall

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

The Liaison Connection Issue 5, University Of Denver, University Libraries

The Liaison Connection

Fall 2011 issue of the Library Liaison Advisory Group newsletter from the University of Denver, Penrose Library. The newsletter provides information about library collections, services, and research instruction.

Rod Library Newsletter: Rod Notes, V4n2, October 2011, University Of Northern Iowa. Rod Library.

Rod Library newsletter: Notes for the Stalled

Contents:

-- A-TEAM Tutoring Sunday Nights
-- My Library Account
-- Lost :( and Found :)
-- Upcoming events
-- Snack Foods

2011 Fall - Friendly Correspondence Newsletter, Courtright Memorial Library

Friends of the Library

No abstract provided.

Undergraduate Research And Scholarship Conference Poster - Authorization Form, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Publications

To archive an Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Conference poster, please download and complete the authorization form. Once finished, including all required signatures, the form can be turned in at the Reference Desk at the Boise State Library. Electronic files can be sent to: [email protected]

Questions can be directed to:

ScholarWorks
208-426-2580
[email protected]

Al Sears' Saxophone At York Library, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Among the memorabilia in the York College Library's Music History Archive is a saxophone that was owned by the renowned Jazz musician Al Sears.

The Ilrc Connection Fall 2011, Liberty University

Jerry Falwell Library Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Thomas Cooper Society Newsletter - Fall 2011, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

Thomas Cooper Society Newsletter

Contents:

The Robert B. Ariail Collection of Historical Astronomy: A ‘Collection of Astonishing Proportions’..... p.1
A Very Rare Book Indeed: Researching the John Bevis Atlas..... p.2
Sudduth is New Director of Irvin Department..... p.3
Current and Upcoming Exhibits..... p.3
Special Events Held in Conjunction with English Bible Exhibit..... p.4
Department Hosts Hemingway Symposium and Exhibit..... p.4
An American Composer Explores the Work of Robert Burns..... p.5
Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections Notable Gifts and Acquisitions for 2009-2011..... p.6
Rare Items Go on the Road to Teach and Inspire..... p.6
Irvin Department Contributes Companion Exhibit at the Columbia …