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Charles Walters: The Director Who Made Hollywood Dance, Melinda F. Matthews

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.

The British Gentry, The Southern Planter And The Northern Family Farmer: Agriculture And Sectional Antagonism In North America, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Review of the book The British Gentry, The Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer: Agriculture and Sectional Antagonism in North America by James L. Huston.

Siue Spring Symposium: Documenting Ferguson, Shannon Davis, Makiba Foster

WashU Libraries Presentations

A presentation on Documenting Ferguson for Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (SIUE)'s annual Spring Symposium, outlining how the project was started, project team members and roles, how to contribute to the collection, how the collection is being used, and next steps for the initiative.

Linking To Our Future: Cataloging & Metadata In Transition, Sherry L. Vellucci

University Library Scholarship

This slide presentation gives a very brief overview of the development of the Web from its inception as ARPANET to the Semantic Web. The presentation then discusses Linked Data and its uses on the Web. It also gives a scenario of how linked data would work in libraries and its potential to expand access to library resources by making them discoverable through Web search engines such as Google. The presentation focuses on the metadata transition necessary to accomplish this type of global access.

Library Website Review, Amy Vecchione, Beth Allen, Deana Brown, Amanda Baschnagel

General Library Events

No abstract provided.

The Anchor, Volume 128.21: April 8, 2015, Hope College

The Anchor: 2015

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.

Collection Engagement With Create Lists And Excel: Tips For A Perfect Match, Richard Wisneski

Michael Schwartz Library Publications

Presentation creating queries, basic Excel setup and best practices, and functionality within Excel for collection development investigation

Randall Munroe’S What If As A Test Case For Open Access In Popular Culture, Nancy M. Foasberg

Publications and Research

Open access to scholarly research benefits not only the academic world but also the general public. Questions have been raised about the popularity of academic materials for nonacademic readers. However, when scholarly materials are available, they are also available to popularizers who can recontextualize them in unexpected and more accessible ways. Randall Munroe’s blog/comic What If uses open access scholarly and governmental documents to answer bizarre hypothetical questions submitted by his readers. His work is engaging, informative, and reaches a large audience. While members of the public may not rush to read open access scientific journals, their availability to writers …

The Political Career Of W. Kerr Scott: The Squire From Haw River, Keith Gorman

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.

Voice Of The Wildcats: Claude Sullivan And The Rise Of Modern Sportscasting, Karen J. Cook

The Southeastern Librarian

Review of the book Voice of the Wildcats: Claude Sullivan and the Rise of Modern Sportscasting by Alan Sullivan with Joe Cox.

Wanting To Do More But Bound To Do Less: A Law Librarian's Dilemma, Paul Jerome Mclaughlin Jr.

Library Faculty Publications

The role of the law librarian has changed from managing the contents of a library’s collection of books to knowing how to find information sources located around the world contained in a variety of formats, taking part in instruction, and participating in networking activities. Law librarians are constrained by legal and professional codes. If they are cautious, law librarians can assist, instruct, and reach out to public patrons and students while operating within the professional guidelines that govern them.

Orland Park Public Library Had A $10,000, Megan Fox

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

No abstract provided.

2015-04 Library Impact Statement For Nur 243 Pharmacotherapeutics, Robin Devin

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal NUR 243 Pharmacotherapeutics. The class was supported with no need for additional resources. Responding library faculty member: Robin Devin. Requesting faculty member: Carolyn Hames.

Refugitta Of Richmond The Wartime Recollections, Grave And Gay, Of Constance Cary Harrison, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.

The Prince Of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood, Melanie J. Dunn

The Southeastern Librarian

Review of the book The Prince of Los Cocuvos: A Miami Childhood by Richard Blanco.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 039, Number 27, April 06, 2015, Grand Valley State University

2014-2015, Volume 39

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

Lanthorn, Vol. 49, No. 56, April 6, 2015, Grand Valley State University

Volume 49, July 7, 2014 - June 1, 2015

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

The Data Information Literacy Toolkit, Jake Carlson, Megan R. Sapp Nelson, Marianne S. Bracke, Sarah J. Wright

Data Information Literacy Symposium

The Data Information Literacy Toolkit was the interview instrument developed and used by the Data Information Literacy project to better understand the educational needs of graduate students in managing, working with and curating their data sets. Results from the interviews conducted at Purdue University, Cornell University, the University of Minnesota and the University of Oregon were used to inform the educational programs offered by librarians at each institution in 2012 or 2013. The interview is based in part on the 12 data information literacy competencies as defined by Carlson, Fosmire, Miller and Sapp Nelson in an article that appeared in …

Collections And Space: An Update On Syracuse University Libraries' Journals Migration Project, K. Matthew Dames, Roberta B. Gwilt, Scott A. Warren, T. C. Carrier

Librarian Publications

To date, the Libraries have transferred to The Facility more than 100,000 volumes, including 7,000 journal titles, across all disciplines. By migrating these journals from Bird Library to The Facility, the Libraries will save the University more than $1.9 million within five years. Continued strategic use of The Facility helps the Libraries manage principal collections whose aggregate value exceeds $200 million. This paper reports on the progress of the Libraries’ journals migration project, provides additional context and data that led to the spring 2014 approval for the project from the provost.

Personnel News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent professional developments from SELA members.

Personnel News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent professional developments from SELA members.

Library News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent developments from SELA member institutions.

Library News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent developments from SELA member institutions.

Sela/General News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent Activities from the Southeastern Library Association. Details on SELA/COMO Joint Conference, SELA mentoring program, and list of winners from the ALLA/SELA 2015 free give away.

Sela/General News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent Activities from the Southeastern Library Association. Details on SELA/COMO Joint Conference, SELA Summer Conference and Informed Librarian Online.

Criss Chronicles, Volume 5, Issue 1

Criss Chronicles Newsletter

This edition of Criss Chronicles features From the Dean's Desk, First Annual Pi Day, New Spaces in the Criss Library, Conversation with Amy Schindler, Conversation with Jackie Skarda, Focus on Resources: Historical Databases Replace and Displace Microfilm, From the Archives: Mary E. Williamson Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Collection, Copyright Corner, Kaneko, and an Events Calendar.

Written In Light: Creating Access To Photographic Collections, Suellyn Lathrop, Nancy Richey

The Southeastern Librarian

The value in photographs is noted "in our culture because they are inexpensive, easy to acquire, and serve as accurate, detailed records of our environment and activities" (Schmidle, 1996). But, many challenges are presented to the archivist and librarian by the discovered or donated collection of photographs because in their abundance and variety, they can surpass all other forms of information housed in institutions. For a university archives, holdings include photographs culled from manuscript collections, from individual photographers and alumni, but the majority come from in-house production. For the librarian, the provenance of the photographs will be as varied as …

The Embedded Library: Beyond The Course Connection, Sims Kline

The Southeastern Librarian

Several hundred articles have been published in the last few years on the role of the “embedded librarian” and the nature of “embedded librarianship” as well as books on the subject, e.g. Embedded Librarianship: What Every Academic Librarian Should Know (Daughtery & Russo, 2013). “The Art and Environment of Embedded Librarianship” (Saunders & Taylor, 2014) is a good example of an article examining the librarian’s role in a specific course. “Embedded librarianship” has been established as a subject heading in Library and Information Science Abstracts.

Wroclaw University Of Technology Knowledge Repository: Project Objectives, Anna Walek

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Knowledge Repository is a project created in the Library and Scientific Information Centre of Wroclaw University of Technology (WrUT). Its main task will be collecting, sharing, and promoting scientific publications of researchers, postgraduates and students of WrUT. It will be also used for bibliometric analysis and reporting research output of WrUT scientific community.Knowledge Repository will closely cooperate with other databases and information services created in WrUT, for example: Research offer, Key equipment, Projects and Inventions.

The repository will also be a solution supporting communication between researchers and a platform for cooperation between science and business, based on the formula of …

Designing A Test, Megan E. Fowle

Blogging the Library

Over the past couple of weeks, I have been developing a new History Research Guide. I have spent time digging through all of the databases that Musselman Library subscribes to in order to categorize them on the new site. I was hoping to make the site as easy to navigate as possible so that students can easily find the right sources. I finally feel that I have reached a point where the new guide is ready to be tested. [excerpt]