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Nemo News, Volume 11, Issue 3, Uno Library Science Education

NEMO Newsletter

This issue of NEMO News features: Karen Pietsch named ALA Emerging Leader; Did You Know?; Student Spotlight on Justine Carmer; Important Dates; Using Box for Cloud Storage and Backup: A Cheat Sheet; Upcoming Webinars; Presenting at ALA Midwinter by Angela Kroeger; Student Resources; Scholarships; Fall Courses; Employment Opportunities; and Contact Info.

Factors That Influence Male Millennials To Become Professional Librarians, Heidi Blackburn

Criss Library Faculty Publications

This case study investigates what prompts male Millennials to join the historically stereotyped feminized library profession. The study addresses social, cultural, economic, and/or political factors that influence male Millennials to become professional librarians; the influence of technology on male Millennials currently enrolled in library and information science (LIS) graduate programs decisions to become professional librarians; and professional stereotypes male Millennials currently enrolled in LIS graduate programs encounter. To gather data, surveys were conducted with 231 participants enrolled in 37 LIS graduate programs across the United States, and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 21 volunteers who participated in the surveys. Findings …

Georgia Library Spotlight - Carnegie Branch Library, Live Oak Public Libraries, Brenda Poku

Georgia Library Quarterly

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News - Gwinnett County Public Library, Clifford Ibarrondo

Georgia Library Quarterly

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Library Education And Development Newsletter, Volume 8, Issue 4, Uno Library Science Education

Library Education and Development (L.E.A.D.)

This issue of the Library Education and Development Newsletter features Advice from the Frontlines from Lindsay Stier, Student Spotlight on JK Purtzer, Announcements and Professional Development.

Information Literacy And Instruction: Information Literacy Instruction With Primo, Elena S. Azadbakht

Faculty Publications

Discovery services are changing the way library users find and access library materials, especially electronic resources. These search tools are also impacting information literacy instruction for users at all skill levels. The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries in Hattiesburg adopted Ex Libris’s Primo discovery service during the summer of 2014. Primo has now been a prominent feature on our website’s homepage for almost a full semester and has impacted the way we teach information literacy to our students. As the reference librarian for Health Sciences, I will describe my experience incorporating Primo into our library instruction for both first-year experience …

Uni Scholarworks Readership Snapshot, April 2015, Bepress

Library Documents & Reports (entire collection)

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Possible Futures: E-Reserves, Decentralization, And Collaboration, Nora Almeida

Publications and Research

E-Reserves is a relatively young library support service that was conceived as a strategic, decentralized response to changes occurring in curricular resource formats during the 1990s. It is a service that has since become ubiquitous in academic libraries and one that is presently facing a crisis spurred by shifts in user culture, e-learning environments, and modes of scholarship production. Challenges facing E-Reserve services are compounded by a professional culture of isolation and by the absence of best practices and internal assessment measures that can serve as effective rubrics to measure changes or test the efficacy of current service models. This …

The Legal Tech Audit: Focus On Word, Rachel S. Evans, Jason Tubinis

Presentations

In addition to discussing the legal tech audit, these sessions focused on how-to skills for using Microsoft Word in the legal profession.

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letter - April 2015, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letters

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Sowing The Seeds Of Success: Community Collaboration For College Readiness, Gayle Schaub, Lindy Scripps-Hoekstra

Presentations

The challenge of creating information literate college students begins long before freshmen enter the university classroom. This poster details a unique collaboration between a university, a community foundation, and a public school to offer middle school information literacy workshops, using threshold concepts as a basis for its curriculum. This approach to community engagement offers ideas others may want to consider about moving collaborative information literacy initiatives beyond the campus.

Moocs 101, Sandra Hirsh

Faculty Publications

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Rod Library Newsletter: Rod Notes, V7n8, April 2015, University Of Northern Iowa. Rod Library.

Rod Library newsletter: Notes for the Stalled

Contents:

-- Camera Equipment
-- Learning Commons
-- Learning Express
-- Snack Machine!

Social Media Good Practices, Kai Alexis Smith

Law Library Staff & Faculty Works

It was the start of summer 2014 when the University of Notre Dame (ND)’s Kresge Law Library (KLL) started to make its entry into social media with a Twitter account@NDLawLibrary. The accountgrew a following to focus on library related topics. In Fall 2014, the KLL conducted a social media survey focusing on graduate students.Participants in the survey included 355 graduate students that completed the survey out of the 629 that received it. Of the participants that responded to the question as to whether they would follow the KLL in social media,66% (212 of 320) of participantsresponded that they would. In …

Library Director As Change Agent: Analysis Two, Implementing Change In Difficult Times, Femi Cadmus

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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A Digital Asset Management Philosophy, Adam N. Hess

Library Faculty Scholarship

Librarian Adam Hess offers good advice for budding DAM managers: Forget what you see and form your own vision for digital asset management. Part of the “Librarian Tips for DAM Managers” article series from DAM Guru Program.

Biz Of Acq: Cooperative Collection Development Among Michigan's Public Uiversities, Michelle Flinchbaugh, Joe Badics

Against the Grain

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Op Ed: Defined By Form, Michael P. Pelikan

Against the Grain

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Books Do Furnish A Room, Ann Okerson

Against the Grain

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Galter Library's Disappearing Stacks, Heidi Nickisch Duggan, Mark Berendsen, Mary Anne Zmaczynski

Against the Grain

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Curating Collective Collections: Double Dipping Using Digitization Workflows To Acquire Print Preservation Data, Bob Kieft, Amy Wood

Against the Grain

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Both Sides Now: Vendors And Librarians: Psst…I'Ve Got An Offer For Your Library That You Can't Refuse, Michael Gruenberg

Against the Grain

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Caroliniana Society Annual Gifts Report - April 2015, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

University South Caroliniana Society - Annual Report of Gifts

Contents:

Presidents - The University South Caroliniana Society..... p.1
Address by Dr. Lacy K. Ford..... p.2
Report of Gifts to the Library by Members of the Society During the Past Year..... p.12
Burn Family Papers, 1778, 1856-2011..... p.12
McColl Family Papers, 1855-2012..... p.16
William Raymond McLaws Journal, 1840-1851, 1858-1861, 1865-1873, 1877-1880..... p.44
Records of the Valley River Mining Company, 1862-1887 and the Cherokee Iron and Mining Company, 1887-1919..... p.53
Miscellaneous Items (Manuscripts, Letters, Photographs, Books, etc.)..... p.80
Selected List of Printed South Caroliniana..... p.120
Pictorial South Caroliniana..... p.122
Endowments and Funds to Benefit the South Caroliniana Library..... p.127
Members of …

Random Ramblings: Rational Individual Decisions That Lead To Irrational Global Consequences, Bob Holley

Against the Grain

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Optimizing Library Services: Academic Libraries In The 21st Century: Adapting Services To Fit Digital Resources, Jennifer Joe, Lindsay Johnston, Kristen Stauffer

Against the Grain

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Update On The Welch Medical Library, Sue Woodson, Blair Anton

Against the Grain

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Collecting To The Core: Classic Ethnographies, Anne Doherty, Janet L. Steins

Against the Grain

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Atg Interviews: Heather Joseph, Executive Director, Sparc, Bob Schatz, Tom Gilson

Against the Grain

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Atg Interviews: Jody Plank, Product Manager, Research Square, Katina Strauch, Tom Gilson

Against the Grain

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If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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