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Syncing Omeka With Fedora Commons, Cole Hudson

Library Scholarly Publications

This presentation is a lightning talk which covered the process in which users can batch upload content from a Fedora Commons repository over to Omeka and keep content between the two systems in sync. Code referenced was developed by Cole Hudson and Graham Hukill and can be found on Github.

Poets Of Kashmir: A Digital Library, Mudasir Khazer Rather, Bilal Gani Bhat

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

Kashmir has remained a seat of learning and knowledge, religious and philosophical discourses since centuries. Kashmir has a rich and vibrant cultural history and a tradition of learning and scholarly pursuit since times immemorial. Through the ages, it has been a melting pot of ideas, which have been distilled into the finest traditions of learning, tolerance and cultural cohesion. These ideas have been portrayed by different writers, Poets and historians from time to time. Unfortunately, very less information pertaining to these cultural icons is available. The main aim of this work is to build a Digital collection of biographies …

Health Information For The Public: Resources, Services, And Sparking Relationships, Stacey Knight-Davis, Daneen Richardson, Jacqueline Leskovec

Faculty & Staff Research & Creative Activity

Learn about resources and programs to get your health reference services blazing! Reliable health, wellness, and drug information is available free of charge in English and Spanish. Discover sources for interactive tutorials, surgery, and anatomy information, clinical trials, and more. Have a great idea for health information outreach to special populations? Funding opportunities are available! Do you need health information training? How about downloadable brochures? A way to connect with health science librarians? This session can get you going!

Health Information For The Public: Resources, Services, And Sparking Relationships, Stacey Knight-Davis, Daneen Richardson, Jacqueline Leskovec

Faculty & Staff Research & Creative Activity

Learn about resources and programs to get your health reference services blazing! Reliable health, wellness, and drug information is available free of charge in English and Spanish. Discover sources for interactive tutorials, surgery, and anatomy information, clinical trials, and more. Have a great idea for health information outreach to special populations? Funding opportunities are available! Do you need health information training? How about downloadable brochures? A way to connect with health science librarians? This session can get you going!

Cooper Library Learning Commons, Bobby Hollandsworth

Presentations

No abstract provided.

Lanthorn, Vol. 48, No. 15, October 10, 2013, Grand Valley State University

Volume 48, July 1, 2013 - June 2, 2014

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

Scholarworks At Wmu: Overview For Friends Of The Libraries, Maira Bundza

ScholarWorks Repository Information

An overview of ScholarWorks, the scholarly institutional repository for Western Michigan University begun in 2011. Faculty work, student work, journals, events and conferences, newsletters, and other projects are in the repository and have been downloaded close to half a million times.

Improving The Visibility, Promotion, And Accessibility Of Library Resources Via A Library Liaison Program : A Poster Session, Barbara M. Pope

Faculty Submissions

Your library’s online resources present a myriad of choices which faculty and students must navigate to find information, and despite instruction and reference assistance they may go unused. But a successful liaison program can greatly improve both resource usage and library relations within your academic community. Come to this poster presentation and learn about PSU Library’s implementation and continual improvement of its liaison program and see how to easily and cost-effectively market your resources so that students and faculty will use them.

Government Documents In A Nextgen Catalog, James T. Shaw

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

This presentation, defines the NextGen Catalog, the Knowledge Base in the OCLC WMS Catalog, and managing individual records.

Librarians As Advocates For Scholarly Authors: A Presentation And A Dramatization, Sue Ann Gardner

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations

Scholarly authors today are faced with unprecedented choices and, paradoxically, increasing barriers to publication. For example, the author-pays financial model of funding open access (also sometimes called Gold OA) is one of many such innovations that thwart authors who are not currently Federally funded or otherwise sponsored. As academic librarians, we need to be aware of the scholarly publishing infrastructure so we can advise authors how to make decisions about where to publish, what terms to agree to, and how to best leverage their written scholarly output.

Regarding the scholarly publishing financial market, I will describe how, effectively, the “tail …

The Life Of A Holley Intern, Stephanie Bowen

Blogging the Library

I’m Steph Bowen, this year’s Barbara Holley Library Intern. What is the Holley internship you might ask? It’s a one year, full time, paid internship for a recent college graduate interested in becoming a librarian! Thanks to a gracious endowment from Barbara Holley, I will get wide variety of library experience. [excerpt]

A New Face At The Reference Desk, Sarah Myers

Blogging the Library

Hi there! I’m Sarah and I’m a graduate reference intern this fall at the Musselman Library. I’m currently in my last semester of completing my Master of Library Science degree with Clarion University of Pennsylvania. I graduated from Susquehanna University with a degree in history. I wanted a profession that combines my love of research with my passion for teaching so that’s how I found my way to library science. My professors and librarians at Susquehanna were helpful in guiding me to this profession where I will never stop learning. [excerpt]

New Database: Educational Research Abstracts Online, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

Library Publications (1999-2023)

• New Database: Educational Research Abstracts Online

The Anchor, Volume 127.06: October 09, 2013, Hope College

The Anchor: 2013

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.

Not Just For Geeks: A Practical Approach To Linked Data For Digital Collections Managers, Silvia B. Southwick, Cory K. Lampert

Library Faculty Presentations

As digital library managers, we know our collections contain rich metadata, but data (or metadata) are encapsulated in these records and are accessible to users only when records containing them are retrieved in a search. This approach for managing data, although a common practice that extends far beyond digital collections, creates silos of data. Data associated with records is isolated and does not directly link to related data existing in other records. These silos hide valuable relationships among data, leaving to users the task of discovering these hidden connections.

Join other digital library managers at this workshop designed to provide …

Miley And Snl: They Can’T Stop Embarrassing Themselves, Megan Fox

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

No abstract provided.

Zotero, Anne E. Rauh, Linda M. Galloway

Librarian Publications

Zotero is a free, open access, citation management tool that allows users to store, manage and cite bibliographic references. Zotero can format citations in many different styles and lets users insert citations within word processing software. Zotero allows for easy collaboration between multiple authors and enables users to create private or shared reading lists. Zotero is a project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. At the completion of this class, participants will be able to:

• Install Zotero
• Collect and organize citations
• Create formatted bibliographies and insert citations into documents
• Collaborate with colleagues to create reading lists …

2013-10-08 Library Impact Statement For Minor In American Studies, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

This Library Impact Statement was submitted in response to a new program proposal for a Minor in American Studies. This proposal is supported with no new library resources required.

Open Access At Uri: Exciting Opportunities For Faculty, Researchers, And Grad Students, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides from a presentation, "Open Access at URI: Exciting Opportunities for Faculty, Researchers, and Grad Students" offered at the University of Rhode Island Libraries on October 8 and October 21, 2013.

"Open Access provides you with the opportunity to increase your readership and your scholarly impact, and also improves your access to scholarly information. The DigitalCommons@URI is part of an international effort to increase access to scholarly articles, theses, and dissertations. Come learn about the benefits of open access for your research and how to comply with URI's Open Access policies."

Part of the University Libraries' Search Savvy Seminar series.

Open Access Week: Oa Workshops And Webinars, October 21-27, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

Library Publications (1999-2023)

• Open Access Week: OA Workshops and Webinars, October 21-27

Suddenly...I'M Consulting On Data Management Plans! Data Management Plan Consultant Checklist, Kiyomi D. Deards

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations

This webinar will outline the most important questions to ask, and the best resources available, for those who "suddenly" will be consulting on data management plans.

Use Of Information And Communication Technologies (Icts) By Yam Farmers In Boluwaduro Local Government Area Of Osun State, Nigeria., Adewale Joel Sobalaje Mr., Ganiyu Ojo Adigun Mr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study focused on the use of ICTs by yam farmers in Boluwaduro Local Government Area of Osun State. The study made use of cross-sectional research design and data were collected with the aid of structured questionnaire from 150 respondents selected through random sampling technique from five towns in the local government area. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics and regression analysis in finding relationships between variables. The findings show that most of the yam farmers in Boluwaduro that use ICTs as a source of agricultural information had secondary education and they were between the average ages of …

Linked Data In Libraries: Library Of Congress’ Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative, Michelle L. Halla

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This research paper examines Library of Congress’ Biblographic Framework Transition Initiative, or BIBFRAME, through the lens of current Library and Information Science literature on introducing Linked Data principles into cataloging. This research paper aims to find whether BIBFRAME fulfills expectations of Linked Data based cataloging as well as whether BIBFRAME shows promise in overcoming drawbacks to MARC-based cataloging as expressed in the literature.

Eight Years Of Journal Of Muamalat And Islamic Finance Research (Jmifr) (2004-2011): A Way Forward, Muhammad Ridhwan, Fuadah Johari, Muhammad Mohamad Yusoff

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This article presents the result of various bibliometric patterns of articles published by Journal of Muamalat and Islamic Finance Research (JMIFR). This journal is devoted to the field of Islamic Banking and Finance studies and their application in modern times. Data from each volume of JMIFR were collected and statistically analyzed using the Statistical Product & Service Solution (SPSS) software. This study looked at variables which include authorship patterns, length of articles, number of articles published, author productivity, contributing institutions and subject area patterns. Among the significant findings are that dual authorship is prevalent and accounted for about 56.8% of …

The Ict Based Library And Information Services: A Case Study Of B-Schools In Delhi And Ncr Region, Akhtar Hussain

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study investigated the ICT based library and Information services: a case study of B-schools in Delhi and NCR region. The present study demonstrates and elaborates the primary way to learn about ICTs, the purpose of using ICT enabled library services, to assess to what extent users are utilized ICT based library services and facilities, various aspects of Internet usage, favorite search engines, and problems faced by the users in using the ICT in libraries. The papers also determine the satisfaction level of users regarding research work, online database services and infrastructure facilities. Suggestions have been given to make the …

Information Seeking In Primary Care: A Survey Of Doctors Working In Remote Government Health Facilities In Pakistan, Salman Bin Naeem Salman, Shamshad Ahmed, Amjid Khan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The objectives of this study were to describe the information-seeking pattern of primary care doctors and to examine the present position of clinical information availability at remote government health facilities in the District of Multan, Punjab, Pakistan. The participants of this study were all the medical officers working in Basic Health Units (BHUs), Rural Health Centers (RHCs) and Tehsil Headquarters (THQs), as these doctors met the established criteria. Criteria included Health Facilities run under Executive District Officer (EDO) Health, Multan. A descriptive survey was conducted for data collection. A close ended questionnaire was developed after relevant literature review and also …

Mentoring In Libraries And Information Organisation, The Catalogue Librarian Perspectives, M.A. Bello, Y. Mansor Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

All professions engage in continuous training in order to sharpen and sustain professional practice, standards as well as keep abreast with challenges and developments. Mentoring as career development model provides professional development, career growth, confidence, satisfaction as well as develops varied degrees of personal support. The present study is a survey of 48 Nigerian university catalogue librarians’ opinions on the use of mentoring in their professional practice. Questionnaire was used to collect data from 228 participants. The study explores the mentoring practices and assessment in Nigerian university libraries. Survey was conducted from April to September 2011 across Nigerian 36 states. …

Utilization Of Journal Publications By Undergraduate Students Of Babcock University, Nigeria, Itunu A. Bamidele, Saturday U. Omeluzor, Hannah U. Amadi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper appraised the utilization of journals by undergraduate students of Babcock University, Nigeria. The study population comprised 400 level students of 2012/2013 academic session totaling 1359. All 400 level students were selected because they had completed their final year research (project) work for the award of Bachelors’ degrees in different areas of study. Simple random sampling was used to select 815 respondents which was 60% from the total population. The instrument used for data collection was a structured questionnaire designed by the researchers. A total number of 815 questionnaires were administered on the respondents at one of the graduating …

Role Of Libraries & Information Centers In Promoting Culture And Architecture In Cholistan Desert, South Punjab Pakistan, Rubina Bhatti, Mazhar Hayat, Sarwat Mukhtar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

This study was conducted with purpose to explore the elapsed and hidden treasures of Cholistan dessert in South Punjab, Pakistan. It discusses the role of university libraries of South Punjab, museums, Pakistan National library, Pakistan Library Association and HEC, digitization centers and documentation centers. It suggests that grant must be provided for research activities in different aspects of Cholistani Culture including Tribal Folks, Art, Culture, loriyan and old songs. HEC and Punjab government should provide special funds to libraries to support endangered art and culture like Chunri, khusa, paintings, weaving, the famous puppet show of Cholistan, folk songs of …

Use Of Social Networking Sites (Snss): A Study Of Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India, Anil Kumar, Rajinder Kumar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper has made attempt to study the activities and reasons for using Social Networking Sites by the Post Graduate students and research scholars of Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India. A self structured questionnaire was distributed among the target population and primary data gathered through questionnaire were analysed and discussed in accordance with the objectives of the study. It was found that majority of the respondents to be aware and making use of such applications in their research work. The study also reveals that Facebook is the most popular SNSs among the all categories of students and research scholars.