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

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letters

No abstract provided.

Do Stress Levels Differ Between First Semester Nursing Student Early In The Semester Vs. The End Of The Semester?, Alissy Heisey

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This study intends to determine how stress levels change over time in nursing students in the Baccalaureate program at East Tennessee State University. The instrument utilized for this survey was the Perceived Stress Scale by Mind Garden, Inc. This survey was passed at the beginning of the semester and at the end of the semester. There was no-significant difference found between the two time spots, leading us to conclude that the level of stress perceived by nursing students is a steady factor during their school semester.

A Phenomenological Study Of Conservative Academic Librarians, Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, Ione Damasco

Roesch Library Faculty Publications

Librarianship posits itself as a profession that strives for neutrality, particularly within customer service and information provision; however, factors such as political activity, conference programming, and disproportionate representations of specific viewpoints in the literature indicate that neutrality may be compromised. These factors may alienate librarians who do not subscribe to majority political opinions within librarianship.

A phenomenological study was conducted to understand the career experiences of academic librarians who identify as socially or politically conservative. Themes linking service provision, ethics, workplace relationships, and professional engagement emerged that demonstrate the professional impact politicized activity has on practicing librarians in all specialties.

Freshman Summer Reading Display, Maggie Mason Smith

Presentations

Karen Joy Fowler’s latest work, We are all Completely beside Ourselves, is this year’s Freshman Summer Reading selection.

Using this work as a foundation, a display of further research and leisure reading material has been set up in Cooper Library.

The display will be up throughout the month of August and everything on display is available for checkout.

Awake, Maggie Mason Smith

Publications

No abstract provided.

E.L. Doctorow Display, Maggie Mason Smith

Presentations

On July 15th, author, editor, and professor Edgar Lawrence Doctorow died at the age of 84.

With awards and honors spanning nearly four decades, Doctorow was described as one of the most important American novelists of the 20th century.

A display of items by or based on works by Doctorow is currently located atop the New Books shelving on the 4th floor of Cooper Library; the items will be on display throughout the month and are available for checkout at the Information Services Desk.

Creativity In Information Literacy Teaching: Part Two – Applying Creativity To Teaching, Anthony Stamatoplos

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Cross-Border Implementation Of Institutional Repository: A Case Of Aga Khan University, Mary Ngure, Ashraf Sharif, Peter Gatiti

Libraries

Institutions globally have increasingly embraced Institutional Repositories (IRs) to collect, showcase, archive, and preserve their intellectual and scholarly output. Many benefits are gained from implementation of the platform including: the institution’s visibility, status and reputation is increased; authors get wider public access and visibility thus more citations for their work; long-term preservation of research; and the library benefits from its new role in information creation and distribution thus the opportunity to re-assert its importance in the face of declining user dependence on libraries for simple access to information (Sharif 2013).

Despite the high uptake of IRs to manage institutions’ digital …

Your Professional Brand, Jennifer A. Bartlett

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

This column discusses recent publications in the library literature on the topic of professional marketing and promotion in the context of defining and establishing personal brands.

Rrh Library Newsletter, August 2015, Libraries At Rochester Regional Health

Rochester Regional Health authored publications and proceedings

Newsletter sections include: Health Literacy; Sign up for New Issue Alerts in ClinicalKey®; Used Book Sale

A Letter From Your Library Liaisons, Zach S. Henderson Library

Library Publications (1999-2023)

New Opt-in Library Approval for Monographs

Help Build the Library Collections

New Library Faculty Profile: Jeff Mortimore, Discovery Services and Data Curation Librarian

Psychiatryonline.Org (Pol) Trial Is Extended Until August 31st!, Beatriz Varman

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

No abstract provided.

Uni Scholarworks Readership Snapshot, August 2015, Bepress

Library Documents & Reports (entire collection)

No abstract provided.

Need Help? Contact Your Bcm Liaison Librarians!, Beatriz Varman

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

No abstract provided.

Jove: Journal Of Visualized Experiments, Joanne Romano

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

JoVE is a peer-reviewed scientific video journal. It is published in sections, of which the library subscribes to four: Biology, Clinical and Translational Medicine, Immunology and Infection, and Neuroscience. Videos are accompanied by text.

Esl Conversation Group, Nha Huynh

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

Learning English? Join us and practice speaking with others in a friendly environment. Open to all students, faculty, and staff in the TMC!

Upcoming Classes, Nha Huynh

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

PubMed Basic - August 25

Systematic Review - September 9

Searching the Nursing Literature - September 17

What Is Consulting Services? Our Approach To Supporting The Needs Of The Scholarly Community, Allen Sprague

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

An outline of the thought and approach behind bepress's Consulting Services model.

Evaluating Scholarly Communication Services And Programs To Plan For Sustained Success, Jacklyn Rander, Matt Ruen

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

The scholarly communications program and institutional repository at Grand Valley State University began in 2008, and in its first seven years, grew rapidly. Our team, recently-expanded, now includes three full time positions, and through our repository we host open textbooks, open-access journals, and thousands of documents. Our initial growth was organic and opportunistic, which enabled this initiative to successfully take root in the University Libraries. The next challenge for our scholarly communications program is to make sure those early roots are strong and healthy, so that we can sustain our initial success through the next seven years and beyond.

In …

Beyond Assessment: Using Metrics To Make Institutional Repositories Indispensable, Harrison W. Inefuku, Todd A. Bruns

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

The collection, analysis, and reporting of metrics is a valuable tool for repository managers in measuring and assessing the growth and usage of their institutional repositories. These metrics are varied in nature and purpose, and can include download counts to measure readership of repository materials, numbers of uploaded items to measure repository growth, sources of inbound visitors to determine the success of search engine optimization, and names and numbers of contributing authors to measure faculty uptake.

The stakeholders in an institutional repository extend beyond the library to include university administration, academic departments, research centers, professors, staff, students, and alumni. These …

Pampering Uploaders: Easing The Metadata Upload Process, Craighton T. Hippenhammer

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

Impromptu Lightning Talk, listing five tips for configuring submission forms to ease the process of item upload for users.

Using Built-In Features, Stephanie Gaskins, Elizabeth Richardson

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

At Kent State, we work on Digital Commons all times of day so communication is important. We utilize many of bepress’s built-in features to facilitate this. Based on our conversations with other Digital Commons institutional repository managers, many of Digital Commons’ built-in features are not used or not used to their fullest potential. We are moving toward taking full advantage of built-in features in our workflow and hope to push beyond what is available and to suggest enhancements from bepress. We aim to use built-in features for training, internal communication within our team, external communication with authors and rights holders, …

"Make It Work": Patching Together A New Ir Workflow To Sustain Growth, Teresa Schultz

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

Growing an institutional repository at a small university library with limited resources brings a number of challenges, and VU is no different. The Christopher Center Library has no dedicated employees who work solely with its IR, ValpoScholar, and instead relies on a mix of interns and other employees to create records and upload works in their spare time. VU has had some success in finding faculty works for ValpoScholar through self-submissions for an annual celebration of faculty research and by searching databases but wanted to see if there was still a better way. In Fall 2014, the library began to …

Scat Table And Call Numbers Not In Scat, Ping Fu

Library Scholarship

This presentation provides an example to help analyze SCAT table in Millennium system.

Harvesting A Local Digital Repository: Experiences And Lessons Learned, Ping Fu

Library Scholarship

This presentation is particularly for new Primo users or those institutions who would like to move to Primo. This presentation will elaborate what configuration and steps should be set up in Primo Back Office in order to harvest local digital repositories such as bepress Digital commons, and talk about what lessons and experiences we have learned through the process. As a member of the Orbis Cascade Alliance, CWU moved to Alma/Primo from III’s Millennium on Dec 18, 2014. After a short-term Primo certificate training, we are able to successfuly harvest our local digital repository ScholarWorks to Primo so that our …

From Millennium To Alma/Primo: Pre-Migration Preparation,Testing And Cutover, Ping Fu

Library Scholarship

This presentation describes how we prepared pre-migration clean up, how we organized and conducted testing, and how we prepared for cutover. This presentation will also share how we worked collaboratively with the vendors, the Orbis Cascade Alliance Implementation Team, and the university IT. The key elements to make the migration successful such as project management, team work, proactive participation, and communication will be addressed.

Hot Docs: Georgia Tax Free Weekend!, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

Library Publications (1999-2023)

• Hot Docs: Georgia Tax Free Weekend!

Cataloging Online Usage Statistics F/Y 2015, Michael A. Cerbo Ii

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Monthly productivity and collection statistics for the Cataloging Unit, University Libraries, University of Rhode Island. Data for fiscal year includes the number of exported records, authority work and number of searches that were performed using OCLC's WorldCat online service.

Intellectual Capital At Risk: Data Management Practices And Data Loss By Faculty Members At Five American Universities, Jaime Schumacher, Drew Vandecreek

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

A study of 56 professors at five American universities found that a majority had little understanding of principles, well-known in the field of data curation, informing the ongoing administration of digital materials and chose to manage and store work-related data by relying on the use of their own storage devices and cloud accounts. It also found that a majority of them had experienced the loss of at least one work-related digital object that they considered to be important in the course of their professional career. Despite such a rate of loss, a majority of respondents expressed at least a moderate …

Managing Disasters In University Libraries In South East Nigeria: Preventive, Technological And Coping Measures, Richard N. C. Ugwuanyi Dr., Mercy Ebere Ugwu, Kelechi Chukwunonso Ezema

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

This study examined the types of disasters that occur in university libraries and the extent of application of preventive, technological and coping measures in managing these disasters. The study adopted descriptive survey design and the major instrument for data collection was questionnaire. Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation. The results showed that university libraries in South East, Nigeria had experienced disasters which resulted in adoption of some preventive measures. It was however found that no significant technological and coping measures were applied in managing disasters in the university libraries. The study recommended that policy framework or …