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Library Spaces Designed With Students In Mind: An Evaluation Study Of University Of Queensland Libraries At St Lucia Campus, Neda Abbasi, Richard Tucker, Kenn Fisher, Robert Gerrity

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This paper identifies the design qualities of library spaces that matter the most for university students. Drawing upon the data from an online survey made available to students from the University of Queensland, Australia, a number of design-related considerations are examined including: acoustics, furniture, interior architecture, lighting, and thermal comfort. 1505 students completed the survey, which aimed to assess how effective and responsive library spaces are in meeting students’ needs and supporting their learning experiences. The survey included ‘Likert scale questions’ requiring students to rate their levels of satisfaction with different aspects of library spaces and ‘open-ended questions’ asking students …

Using Citation Data For Purchase Decisions: Analysing Citing Patterns And Journal Holdings At The Royal Institute Of Technology, Cecilia Heyman Widmark

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This paper describes how citation data can be used for identifying gaps in journal holdings and in that way form a foundation for acquisitions. Citation data was matched against e-journal holdings using Web of Science™ and export files from a central knowledge base. Data for three years (2010-2012) was used, in total from 6 246 publications containing 130 090 references to 5 216 journals.

Furthermore, impact factors from Journal Citation Reports™ were added as well as information about publisher and if the journal was open access or not. The journals were also enriched with subject headings. The latter information was …

Minimal Resources With Maximum Impact: Low-Cost And Sustainable Means For Library Promotions, Karryl Kim A. Sagun

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

While it is a generally shared fact around the globe that funding for library promotion (and in most cases, libraries in general) be rendered as a pressing concern, the fact remains that this challenge is truer in developing countries such as the Philippines. Librarians in charge of promoting the library can either choose to fight--defend their “rights” for a slice of the budget pie, or take flight--just do away with library promotion altogether. However, results of a low-cost and sustainable marketing strategy employed by the Rizal Library of the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines prove that there is …

Reorganizing The Relationship Of Digital Library Resources And Physical Learning Environments, Antti M. Rousi, Michael Fosmire, Risto Maijala, Benjamin D. Branch, Nicole Kong

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Introduction. This study examines the theoretical variance of user experience generated by linking digital library resources via QR codes into library learning environments. Methods. A heuristic evaluation was done about the theoretical variance of user experience created by the QR code linking procedure. This evaluation was based on Garrett’s (2003) framework of user experience. The targets of the evaluation were two existing QR code portals of both Aalto and Purdue University Libraries. Results. The existing QR code portals generate variation of varying degrees into all of the elements of user experience. Conclusion. Despite the breadth of variance created, perhaps the …

Library Assistant - Improving The Student Experience Of Oxford Libraries Through A Mobile Library Induction, Oliver Bridle, Angela Carritt

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

A student’s first week at University is an overwhelming experience with important information being delivered by many different parts of the institution. High student numbers and severe time constraints on contact time between librarians and students means that libraries struggle to effectively communicate advice about services and resources. This issue is further compounded at the University of Oxford by the complexity of the local library system; the second largest in the UK. Research undertaken with Oxford students to ascertain their views on library inductions revealed that, although inductions were valued, they could be poorly timed and leave students overloaded with …

Access To Research Data: Addressing The Problem Through Journal Data Sharing Policies, Paul Sturges, Marianne Bamkin, Jane Anders, Azhar Hussain

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

There is a growing consensus in the broader research community, including libraries and other information repositories, that sharing of research data is vital both for transparency and possible reuse. Logically the sharing should be in the form of data held in suitable repositories which is linked to effective access points such as library catalogues. The journals in which the research appears have a central role in this process. The JoRD Project atNottinghamUniversityinvestigated the current state of journal data sharing policies through a survey of sample titles, and explored the views and practices of stakeholders including the research community and its …

Measures For Success: Measures Of Quality, Dom Mitchell

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

DOAJ indexes a huge variety of Open Access publishers: from open access megajournals to groundbreaking OA journals to the single journal, operated by one person with limited funding. There is a long-tail of small, single journals publishers indexed in the Directory and they make up the majority. DOAJ's day-to-day processes include considering new journals for inclusion and screening existing journals to ensure compliance to a set of quality indicators and that DOAJ remains a Directory of quality open access journals. To meet this goal, DOAJ uses its own universally applicable list of Quality Indicators. DOAJ will present the list and …

Changes In The Acquisition Process At Ntnu University Library, Rune Brandshaug

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

During the last 2-3 years there have been changes implemented in the acquisition processes at the NTNU university library. These changes have been implemented on different levels in the organization and in many areas.

Selection of vendors for delivery of information resources is conducted through tenders. The library has currently an agreement with 4 vendors, one for journals, databases and e-books, and 3 for printed books. These vendors give the university library access to large online collections of books and journals, often with high quality metadata.

To make the acquisition process more effective, the university library has started to use …

From Hub To Beacon: Evolution And Evaluation Of Spaces In The Learning Commons, Barbara Paton, Belinda Moore

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Learning spaces in academic libraries have changed over the last 15-20 years, emerging initially as spaces labelled as ‘information commons’ and transforming into a variety of spaces described as learning spaces, student hubs, and so on. The financial investment in the development of learning spaces in libraries has been significant. As these spaces have evolved, the evaluation of their impact and success has also emerged as an important issue, from the perspectives of judicious use of financial resources as well as contribution to the student experience and student learning outcomes. The need to undertake formal evaluation of such investments in …

Introducing Agile Principles And Management To A Library Organization, Daniel Forsman, Peter Hansson

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Libraries are pressured to adapt to changing conditions due to user demands, behavior, emerging technologies and a need for cost-efficient solutions. Software companies have turned to agile development to stay competitive and to deliver working solutions in a short timeframe. Agile processes are built upon co-operation, iterative workflows and delivering working solutions with a high business value. Agile development and management in an agile organization constitutes a controlled framework of principles with a promise to ensure that the organization focuses on the right things and is able to adapt to new needs.

The Library at Chalmers University of Technology in …

Assessing Data Linking In Transportation Technical Reports, Lisa Zilinski, Paul Bracke, David Scherer

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In 2013, the Purdue Libraries partnered with the Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP), a collaboration between Purdue University and the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT), to incorporate the publication of research data sets into the technical report publication process. This project extended an existing process, developed in partnership between the Purdue Libraries, Purdue University Press, and JTRP, which leveraged Purdue's institutional repository to replace artisanal production processes with a more professional approach (Zilinski, Scherer, Bullock, Horton, & Matthews, forthcoming; Newton, Bullock, Watkinson, Bracke, & Horton, 2012). The existing workflow focused on production of textual documents, but did not address opportunities …

Navigating Shifting Sands: Library Redesign In A Time Of Uncertainty, Jennifer Peasley

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

La Trobe University is undergoing transformative change. A new strategic plan with goals to double research income and increase technology-enabled online and blended learning provides the context for a new University operating model; reduced government funding is challenging us to work in a much more cost effective way. The Library’s challenge in this time of change is to develop a flexible model for service delivery which closely aligns with the University’s strategies and meets changing student needs, and a cost-effective operating model which enables us to be agile, resilient and respond rapidly and proactively to change. The University’s change process …

Harnessing Open Internet Media Resources, Dorothea J. Coiffe

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Academic librarians support the efforts of teaching and learning at our institutions. Media librarians select and acquire media that support and enhance an instructors’ mission to accomplish their goals. Though the use of moving images for pedagogy is not new, wading through the myriad of online moving image websites is a daunting task. This paper will explore how one altruistic institution and a hard working librarian produced a shareable global open resource of a moving image/hypermedia hub. This community college media librarian’s hypermedia resource of moving image websites, which uses SpringShare’s Content Management System (CMS) as a platform, has continued …

Open Versus Closed: Private Versus Public - A Library And Research Perspective, Tom Cochrane

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This keynote presentation starts with a consideration of the privacy and security obligations of libraries in their universities and moves on to an assessment of choices to be made in the policy and practice of optimising access. It proposes a view of a “threaded” principle underlying professional responses to censorship, to the invasion of the privacy of users, and on to interacting with the open agendas that have developed in the digital age. These agendas include open source, open content licensing, open access and open data. It reviews how these agendas mesh with rapid changes in the techniques and capabilities …

Information Security, Mikko H. Hyppönen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The online threat landscape does not stand still. One of the best ways to understand the threats is to understand the attackers and their motives. Who are the attackers? What makes them tic? Where are they going? And what's going to happen next?

The Stick Or The Carrot? An Approach To Open Access, Randi Tyse Eriksen, Jorunn Alstad

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In Norway, as internationally, Open Access (OA) policy states that officially funded research should be open to the public. This paper touches upon the EU’s new OA-initiative (Horizon 2020) before giving a short description of the guidelines from the Norwegian Government and the National Research Council of Norway, as well as NTNU’s and other Norwegian Universities’ OA policies. Through the Norwegian CRIStin database, which was established in 2010, Norway has a national system for registration of academic publishing. Reporting these and other data concerning academic activities to the government partially dictates funding. Together with institutional archives for realizing green OA …

Library Learning Spaces In The Digital Age, Anne Horn, Bernadette Lingham, Sue Owen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Students describe the Library as being central to their learning, offering focus and inspiration, enabling access to information and technologies, and collaboration with peers. Deakin University Library’s building redevelopment program has been integral to the Library’s re-imagined value proposition for students learning in the digital age. The introduction of new generation library and learning spaces strengthens the University’s offer to students for a brilliant education where you are and where you want to go through premium cloud and located learning experiences that are personal, engaging and relevant.

The Library’s building projects are distinctive in terms of location and the built …

Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing To Support Performance Measurement In Estonian University Libraries: A Case Study For Acquisition Process, Kate-Riin Kont

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Libraries today are included in the general demand for cost transparency and effective cost management. In the current socio-economic situation, it is challenging to cope with the same or reduced resources in managing the same processes and activities, so that the quality of the result would not be affected. The need of library managers to justify their costs to their parent organizations has become particularly important, perhaps even more important than ever in the history. With the data they have traditionally collected, libraries can assess details about the costs of collection building; what they need now are reliable data about …

Integrated Communication - And Service-Infrastructure For Libraries, Christoph Mitscherling

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In terms of research support, Technische Universität München (TUM) University Library strikes out in new directions. The eRIC (eResearch – Communication and Infrastructure) initiative aims to develop an integrated communication and data management infrastructure for accompanying the complete life cycle of scientific knowledge generation and transfer.

eRIC attaches particular importance to the analysis and development of models and tools for communication between researchers and libraries, both among eRIC project partners and within research teams. In cooperation with an international team of scientists and library staff, we will develop suitable communication and decision-making structures, establish a research accompanying consultation infrastructure as …

To Get Or Not To Get The Kaust Library E-Resources Acquisition Experience, Rindra M. Ramli, Ola A. Kabli

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In the challenging times of budget cuts and reviews, libraries are faced with issues such as justifying acquisition, negotiating deals and reviewing current subscriptions (pertaining to electronic resources) among others. With the rapid growth of electronic resources, libraries have to continuously assess their acquisition models and policies to constantly ensure that they are balancing their budget and users’ needs as well. This paper highlights the role played by Technical and Digital Services (TADS) section of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) library (Saudi Arabia) in acquiring the electronic resources (electronic books, electronic journals, databases, image and reference) for …

Teaching The Digital Divide: Connecting Students To Community, Knowledge, And Service Learning., Rebecca M. Marrall

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This article addresses the purpose, the organization, and results of an experimental credit-bearing upper division service-learning course at a Master’s granting university, entitled LIBR 397: The Digital Divide. In addition to reviewing collegiate efforts on teaching the Digital Divide within the United States, this article also provides an overview of the challenges and successes associated with teaching such a course. In conclusion, the unique nature of the LIBR 397 course prompted students to see firsthand the complexities inherent in the Digital Divide phenomenon within the United States. Incorporation of service learning projects into a college course takes additional effort, primarily …

The 360° Of Information Fluency Delivery To Freshman Engineering Students, Marian G. Armour-Gemmen, Robin A.M. Hensel, Mary L. Strife

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

For three years, engineering librarians from West Virginia University (WVU) have been teaching information fluency skills to 700-1000 freshman engineering students per year, using a specific information fluency cycle. The librarians’ responsibilities in the Fall 2013 course syllabus included teaching once in each section, providing a two-hour, in-library group sessions to accommodate almost 700 students, delivering an intellectual property Blackboard™ module for students to complete over a specific period of time, and requiring students to complete a Plagiarism Avoidance Tutorial with quiz. Some of these components are similar to those of past semesters. However, past collection of the data was …

Growing Ink: The Curious Case Of The Institutional Repository At Smu, Yeo, Pin Pin

Research Collection Library

InK, the institutional repository of the Singapore Management University (SMU) was officially launched in January 2011 with 7,000 metadata records for SMU research publications, only 600 of which was full text. The Library uses a variety of strategies to increase the number of full text papers and to raise awareness about Open Access amongst the faculty. SMU’s Open Access policy was approved by the University’s Research Council and promulgated by the Vice-Provost, Research to the community a year ago. The Library pulls the data from the University’s Research Publications System, an in-house platform, to capture faculty publications. This ensures that …

Ala Schedule Place Poster Announcement, Place Project Group

PLACE Project

Page from the ALA Conference Schedule announcing the PLACE Poster Session.

The Thinker 2.06, Amy Thompson

Library Newsletters

The Thinker newsletter for June 2014.

Accessibility: Opening Windows To Digital Collections, Wendy Walker, Teressa M. Keenan

Mansfield Library Faculty Publications

Accessibility is a growing concern for universities and academic libraries as they create and provide more digital resources for their communities. The development of best practices for accessible web pages and documents is well underway. To date, no in-depth study of digital content management systems has been done. This poster summarizes the authors' initial research into the accessibility provided to visually-impaired users by two of the most used digital collections platforms in libraries: CONTENTdm and Digital Commons.

An accessible transcript of the poster content is available below.

Random Ramblings — “You Can’T Always Get What You Want”: When Academic Libraries Say No, Robert P. Holley

School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications

Does focusing on perceived needs lead to negative consequences?

Information Outlook, May/June 2014, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2014

Volume 18, Issue 3

Lister Hill Letter - June 2014, Lister Hill Library

Lister Hill Letter (2011-2015)

No abstract provided.

Pragmatic And Cultural Considerations For Deception Detection In Asian Languages, Victoria L. Rubin

FIMS Publications

In hopes of sparking a discussion, I argue for much needed research on automated deception detection in Asian languages. The task of discerning truthful texts from deceptive ones is challenging, but a logical sequel to opinion mining. I suggest that applied computational linguists pursue broader interdisciplinary research on cultural differences and pragmatic use of language in Asian cultures, before turning to detection methods based on a primarily Western (English-centric) worldview. Deception is fundamentally human, but how do various cultures interpret and judge deceptive behavior?