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National Trends In Adoption Of Information Literacy Standards Versus Framework And Impact On Instructional Best Practices: 2005-2015, Lumarie Guth, Dianna Sachs

University Libraries Faculty & Staff Presentations

This session will present results of a national study investigating the ways in which liaison librarians are incorporating the new Framework into their information literacy curriculum, compared with early adoption of the Standards fourteen years ago. The presentation explores connections between adoption of the Framework, assessment, and collaboration with teaching faculty. Despite the controversy surrounding the Framework, data show that librarians are adopting the Framework at a significantly faster pace than they did the Standards.

Don’T Panic, It’S Organic*: Supporting Sustainable Agriculture And Hunger Relief Efforts At Mcquade Library, Catherine Wong, Kathryn Geoffrion Scannell

Faculty Publications

How can libraries support sustainability, wellness, and social justice? Concern for health and the environment has increased interest in sustainable agriculture and the local foods movement. McQuade Library at Merrimack College became a distributor of local foods by partnering with a community supported agriculture (CSA) operation to provide fresh foods to the college and surrounding community. CSAs are a way to directly support local agriculture with sustainable growing practices. Joining a CSA is entering into a relationship with a farm and farmer whereby members are directly supporting the farm by purchasing a farm share. In exchange for providing monetary or …

Ms 210 Guide To The Judson L. Taylor, Md Papers (1940-1951), Judson L. Taylor (1881-1949)

Manuscript Finding Aids

The Judson L. Taylor, MD papers consists of one oversize photograph portrait, two full sheet newspapers, and other newspapers clippings related to Judson Taylor and his brother, Dr. Martin Junius Taylor. The collection is in good condition, and all materials are stored in one oversize box. See more at MS 210.

Converting Marc To Rdf, F. Tim Knight

Librarian Publications & Presentations

5 steps to converting MARC bibliographic records to RDF Dublin Core.

Guidelines For Submission And Author Instructions

The Southeastern Librarian

Guidelines for article submission to The Southeastern Librarian.

Developing A (Boutique) Personal Librarian Program For Transfer Students And Other At-Risk Groups, Shannon Kealey, Helene Lafrance

Staff publications, research, and presentations

Transfer students, first-generation college students, those on academic probation, and other at-risk groups may benefit from a Personal Librarian Program more than the average freshman. This presentation describes the planning, implementation, and assessment of a boutique program targeting such groups. We discussed group selection, our collaboration with campus units, the involvement of librarians, marketing activities, the challenges we encountered, and the results of our assessment. We shared best practices for establishing such a program, and discussed our concerns regarding its long-term sustainability. Attendees completed an exercise to explore the viability of such a program at their institutions, and to determine …

Ebug 2016 Program, Julene L. Jones

Ex Libris Bluegrass Users Group Newsletter

Program for eBUG 2016, June 10, 2016 at University of Kentucky

James And Esther Cooper Jackson: Love And Courage In The Black Freedom Movement, Tim Dodge

The Southeastern Librarian

James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement. Sara Rzeszutek Haviland. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-8131-6625. 359 p. $45.00.

Game Night At The Brooks Library May 2106, Central Washington University

Brooks Library Events

Game night in the James E. Brooks Library with refreshments. Hosted by Nerdcore Toys and Collectibles

Rural Men’S Health, Health Information Seeking, And Gender Identities: A Conceptual Theoretical Review Of The Literature, Bradley C. Hiebert, Beverly Leipert, Sandra Regan, Jacquelyn A. Burkell

FIMS Publications

Beginning as early as 2009, recent shifts in Canadian health care delivery indicate that access to health information is essential to promote and maintain a healthy population. It is important to understand how and where various populations, such as underresourced rural populations, access health information so that public health agencies can develop and deliver appropriate information with, for, and in these contexts. There is a paucity of research that specifically examines how rural Canadian men seek health information; therefore, this review aimed to conceptualize this process based on three dynamic key constructs: health patterns of rural Canadians, health information–seeking behaviors, …

Introduction Of President Haas, Delivered At The University Club On May 11, 2016, Arend D. Lubbers

Presidential Speeches

Introduction of President Haas, delivered at the University Club on May 11, 2016 by Arend D. Lubbers, who served as President of Grand Valley from 1969-2001.

Brown V. Board And The Transformation Of American Culture: Education And The South In The Age Of Desegregation, Melinda F. Matthews

The Southeastern Librarian

Brown v. Board and the Transformation of American Culture: Education and the South in the Age of Desegregation. Ben Keppel. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-8071-6132-6. 225 p. $41.16.

E-Resources Pain Management, Athena Hoeppner

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.

A Yankee Scholar In Coastal South Carolina: William Francis Allen's Civil War Journals, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina: William Francis Allen’s Civil War Journals. Edited by James Robert Hester. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-61117-496-0. 344 p. $49.95.

Library Eds/Search Box, Kristi Lobrano

All Faculty and Staff Scholarship

This 2016 EBSCO User Group Conference presentation provides information on the Library EBSCO Discovery System (EDS) product, used by the Search Box on Library homepage. The presentation contains an overview of the Library EDS/Search Box on Library homepage implementation and customization.

Book Club: Love In The Time Of Global Warming, Central Washington University

Brooks Library Events

Discssion of the book Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block. Part of Library Book Club.

Our Rich History: Covington Ladies Home Celebrating 130th Year, Serving Senior Women With Quality Care, Bill Stolz

University Libraries' Staff Publications

2016 marks the 130th year of operation for the Covington Ladies Home located at 702 Garrard Street in the Licking Riverside Historic District. The organization, originally called the Home for Aged and Indigent Women (still visible in the stone above the main entrance today), was founded in 1886 by Covington resident Ellen B. Dietrick, an early advocate for equality and education for women, with the goal of providing care for women over the age of 60. Today, 130 years later, the mission of the Covington Ladies Home is the same, “to serve senior women, regardless of their economic circumstances, by …

Understanding Ron Rash, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Understanding Ron Rash. John Lang. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-61117-411-3. 152 p. $39.95

Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 61, May 9, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

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

Awareness And Usage Of Electronic Information Resources Among Postgraduate Students Of Library And Information Science In Southern Nigeria, Lucky O. Akpojotor

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study aims at investigating the awareness and usage of electronic information resources among postgraduate students of library and information science in Southern Nigeria. The descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The census sampling technique was adopted for this study. Thus, the entire population of three hundred and seventy-five (375) postgraduate students of library and information science in Southern Nigeria were used as the sample for this study. The questionnaire tagged: Awareness and Usage of Electronic Information Resources by Postgraduate Students of Library and Information Science Questionnaire (AUEIRPSLISQ) was used as instrument for data collection. Four research …

Understanding Pat Conroy, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Understanding Pat Conroy. Catherine Seltzer. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-61117-516-5. 160 p. $39.95.

Information Literacy Skills And Awareness Of Electronic Information Resources As Influencing Factors Of Their Use By Postgraduate Students In Two Universities In South-West Nigeria, Chukwuemeka O. Azubuike Mr, Chukwuemeka O. Azubuike

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This work focused on Information literacy skills and awareness of electronic information resources as influencing factors of their use by postgraduate students in two Universities in South-West Nigeria.

The need for this study was prompted after observing that most postgraduate students in Nigerian Universities have poor information literacy skills and awareness of electronic information resources which could be due to inadequate end user training, poor search skills, mass irrelevant information, slow internet connectivity, the need to filter the results from the search of information, failure to find information, inaccessibility of some information sources etc. This therefore raises a question of …

Final Post, John C. Hill

Blogging the Library

It’s hard to believe that my last semester at Gettysburg College is almost over. My senior year has gone by so quickly! Yesterday, I helped with the Finals Study Break. We served almost 12 gallons on ice cream to students working in the library. I also managed to win my first game of Uno with Clint, Mallory, Meghan, and Chelsea.

I have learned so much from my internship. Our library is a complex organism with various moving parts, and it takes coordination and hard work to keep things running. I am glad that I was about to focus on one …

Conversations With The Conroys: Interviews With Pat Conroy And His Family, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Conversations with the Conroys: Interviews with Pat Conroy and His Family Edited with an Introduction by Walter Edgar, Afterword by Nikky Finney. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-61117-630-8. 136 p. $27.95.

Upcycle Your Audio, Diana Finkle

Presentations

No abstract provided.

Mapping Of Digital Literacy Skills, Allison Kavanagh

Support services (Former ITT) - Other Resources

In 2013 DIT developed a set of graduate attributes known as the “Five E’s”: Engaged, Enterprising, Enquiry based, Effective and Expert in chosen subject discipline. Each of these five attributes is comprised of several additional attributes, one of which is digital literacy.

This presentation explains what digital literacy is, why it is an important attribute for our students and graduates to develop, and discusses practical ways of creating a mapping between a programme’s assessment methods and the digital literacy graduate attribute.

Ez Come, Ez Go: User-Triggered Error Reporting In Ezproxy, Alevtina Verbovetskaya

Publications and Research

Off-campus access to library resources is easy with EZproxy. But what happens when users hit broken links--which happens much more frequently with a discovery layer in place? Whom do the students contact? How do you get notified of the troublesome links?

Using Google Forms and some Javascript, you can ensure that users having problems accessing e-resources remotely have a way to report the errors, allowing you to fix problems as they are submitted. This presentation will provide a step-by-step tutorial for setting up user-triggered error reporting in EZproxy, as well as provide examples of actual user submissions. Ideas for future …

Adopting Universal Design In Libraries: Collaborating For Student Success, Stefanie Havelka, Rebecca Arzola

Publications and Research

Faculty grapple with resources such as skill (experience with accessible features and devices), time (teaching students how to navigate software and devices in the library), and expense (software, hardware, eBooks, databases). This presentation will provide an overview of accessible features in library research databases, computer technology, mobile devices, and apps. The presenters will report on their collaboration with Lehman College’s Access and Technology Center (ATC) and Student Disability Services to share how to better approach issues and challenges in order to more successfully support students’ access needs. We will also consider the following questions:

• As librarians and faculty, how can …

Lighting The Way: Testing The Limits Of New Library Services, Jason Dupree

Faculty Articles & Research

The Media Studio is a stationary, work area for media production and post-production tasks. This space supports the curricular projects undertaken by students, designed to assist the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning with recording faculty lectures, and complement the service of providing multimedia equipment that circulates.

The Manhattan Cocktail: A Modern Guide To The Whiskey Classic, Melinda F. Matthews

The Southeastern Librarian

The Manhattan Cocktail: A Modern Guide to the Whiskey Classic. Albert W.A. Schmid. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8131-6589-9 120 p. $14.95.