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News - Kennesaw State University, Rita J. Spisak

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.

News - University Of West Georgia, E. Lorene Flanders

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Book Review - Cecelia And Fanny: The Remarkable Friendship Between An Escaped Slave And Her Former Mistress, Laura M. Sinclair

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Book Review - ‘I Have Been So Many People’: A Study Of Lee Smith’S Fiction, Thomas Weeks

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Book Review - Signposts: New Directions In Southern Legal History, Pamela C. Brannon

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.

A Black Art: Ontology, Data, And The Tower Of Babel Problem, Andrew J. Iliadis

Open Access Dissertations

Computational ontologies are a new type of emerging scientific media (Smith, 2016) that process large quantities of heterogeneous data about portions of reality. Applied computational ontologies are used for semantically integrating (Heiler, 1995; Pileggi & Fernandez-Llatas, 2012) divergent data to represent reality and in so doing applied computational ontologies alter conceptions of materiality and produce new realities based on levels of informational granularity and abstraction (Floridi, 2011), resulting in a new type of informational ontology (Iliadis, 2013) the critical analysis of which requires new methods and frameworks. Currently, there is a lack of literature addressing the theoretical, social, and critical …

Caroliniana Columns - Spring 2016, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

University South Caroliniana Society Newsletter - Columns

Contents:

Library's 175^th Anniversary Celebration Culminates with Visit from Cokie Roberts..... p.1
Funeral Homes and Celebrations of Community Life..... p.2
Report from the Director..... p.6
Society's Eightieth Annual Meeting Welcomes Speaker Vernon Burton..... p.7
Oral History Symposium..... p.8
Visual Materials at the South Caroliniana Library: Documenting South Carolina Design and Philosophy..... p.9
University Libraries Select New Director of Development..... p.15
Two Centuries of Living and Working on the Historic Horseshoe..... p.16
"Citizens Under the American Flag:" African-American Newspapers at the South Caroliniana Library..... p.20
In Memoriam: Sloan Hungerpiller Brittain..... p.24
In Memoriam: Harold "Hal" Brunton..... p.25
In Memoriam: Dr. …

New Journals For Publishing Medical Case Reports, Katherine G. Akers Phd

Library Scholarly Publications

Because they do not rank highly in the hierarchy of evidence and are not frequently cited, case reports describing the clinical circumstances of single patients are seldom published by medical journals. However, many clinicians argue that case reports have significant educational value, advance medical knowledge, and complement evidence-based medicine. Over the last several years, a vast number (~160) of new peer-reviewed journals have emerged that focus on publishing case reports. These journals are typically open access and have relatively high acceptance rates. However, approximately half of the publishers of case reports journals engage in questionable or "predatory" publishing practices. Authors …

One-To-Many: Building A Single-Search Interface For Disparate Resources, Cole Hudson, Graham Hukill

Library Scholarly Publications

Libraries provide access to a complex array of resources, but it comes as little surprise that many struggle with this task. The ubiquity of Google in modern research has placed libraries in the position of trying to emulate or set themselves apart from the search engine, regardless of how appropriate it is to compare libraries to Google. There are numerous ways in which libraries can improve the search and discovery experience for patrons, and for many, this improvement currently comes in the form of custom-built or commercial discovery systems—which aggregate disparate library content into a single results display. But, regardless …

Georgia Library Spotlight - Map And Government Information Library, University Of Georgia Libraries, Hallie Pritchett

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Henderson News 4.3, Ashley Lowery, Paolo P. Gujilde

Library Publications (1999-2023)

In This Issue:

• Annual Employee Appreciation and Donors' Reception
• Feeling Nostalgic? You Can Now Browse the Reflector
• 8,000 Items Donated by the Late Orion Harrison
• Ashley Lowery Is Awarded Staff Merit Award of Excellence

Preservation Perspectives: Family Photographs Part Ii - Labeling And Preservation, Bill Stolz

University Libraries' Staff Publications

The article offers tips for preserving family photographs for the next generation. Tips include finding a space where humidity and temperature remain constant and away from the light, contacting an expert when in doubt about photograph preservation and purchasing photograph storage supplies and enclosures from reputable national suppliers like Gaylord Archival and Hollinger Metal Edge.

Book Review: Encyclopedia Of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, And Amending Issues, 1979–2015, Todd J. Wiebe

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Personal Communication Networks And Their Positive Effects On Online Collaboration And Outcome Quality On Wikipedia, Michail Tsikerdekis

Information Science Faculty Publications

Online collaborative projects have been utilized in a variety of ways over the past decade, such as bringing people together to build open source software or developing the world's largest free encyclopedia. Personal communication networks as a feature do not exist in all collaborative projects. It is currently unclear if a designer's decision to include a personal communication network in a collaborative project's structure affects outcome quality. In this study, I investigated Wikipedia's personal communication network and analyzed which Wikipedia editors are utilizing it and how they are connected to outcome quality. Evidence suggests that people who utilize these networks …

Intellectual Freedom And Freedom Of Speech: Three Theoretical Perspectives, Shannon M. Oltmann

Information Science Faculty Publications

Freedom of speech encompasses not only a right to express oneself but also a right to access information. This right is particularly pertinent to libraries, whose mission is often focused on enabling and expanding access to information. Libraries can support this activity with a theoretical background that draws upon the three predominant jurisprudential theories of freedom of speech: the marketplace of ideas, democratic ideals, and individual autonomy. In this article, each of these theories is explained and then applied to the library context, creating a starting place for further investigation and application of these judicial theories to information access.

Inlp Newsletter, April 2016, Indigenous Nations Library Program

Monthly Newsletters

Contents:

- INLP Outreach Mission

- Upcoming Events

- INLP Hosts CSVANW

- New Face at INLP

- Resource Highlights

- Strategies for Finishing the Semester

University Libraries - Spring 2016, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

University Libraries Minizine

University Libraries is a magazine published biannually by the University of South Carolina Libraries.

Contents:

Around the Libraries... p.4

The Time is Right... p.6

First Folio!... p.8

The Case of the Cased Photographs... p.9

How To Find A Particular Article Or Journal In A Library Database: Using The E-Journal Portal, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

In most cases, the research process begins with a topic: one types some keywords into a database or search engine, gets a result list, selects appropriate/reliable/useful articles, and is (hopefully) satisfied. But what happens if you already know what you’re looking for, because you have an exact citation? Or if you are looking for a specific journal that you would like to browse? How do you know which journal is included in which database? The author discusses the York College Library's e-journal portal, a subscription product from Serials Solutions.

Exploring How Problem Solving In Technology-Rich Environments Can Be Used To Design Responsive Programming, Jill Castek, Amy Honisett

Presentations and Publications

This session explored a project that assesses community members’ digital skills using Education and Skills Online (ESO) – a valid and reliable assessment tool based on PIAAC that addresses Literacy, Numeracy, and Problem Solving in Technology Rich Environments (PS-TRE). The project will use these data to determine how the abilities of patrons map to the common library tasks that libraries assume patrons are able to access and use in a meaningful way.

News - Emory University And Georgia Institute Of Technology

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Georgia Library Spotlight - Ruth Holder Public Library - Temple, West Georgia Regional Library System, John Mack Freeman

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Georgia Library Spotlight - St. Simons Island Public Library, Geri Mullis

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.

News - Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System, Cheryl Corbin

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Library Newsletter Volume 12, Issue 1, Sacred Heart University

Library Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Frontmatter (The Christian Librarian 59:1)

The Christian Librarian

No abstract provided.

Data Information Literacy: Librarians, Data, And The Education Of A New Generation Of Researchers, Darren Sweeper

University Libraries Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letter - April 2016, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letters

No abstract provided.

Introduction, Emily Drabinski, Patrick Keilty

Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications

This article introduces a Library Trends special issue about gender, race, and sexuality in information studies. The papers are drawn from the 2014 Gender & Sexuality in Information Studies colloquium held at the University of Toronto, and represents the first special issue of a scholarly LIS journal dedicated to this theme.

Understanding Academic Patrons’ Data Needs Through Virtual Reference Transcripts: Preliminary Findings From New York University Libraries, Margaret Smith, Jill Conte, Samantha Guss

University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

New York University (NYU) Libraries has an extremely high-volume chat reference service. This popularity presents a unique opportunity for gaining insight into library patrons’ conceptualizations of their data reference needs and how these needs are changing. Through analysis of three years’ worth of chat transcripts, we began to explore user needs and familiarity related to locating secondary data and statistics, performing data analysis, and using existing data services. Ultimately, we focused our analysis on requests for census data. This article discusses, in detail, the methods, preliminary results, limitations, and proposed next steps of our investigation. Our final goal is to …

Rrh Library Newsletter, April 2016, Libraries At Rochester Regional Health

Rochester Regional Health authored publications and proceedings

Newsletter sections include: Mindfulness; Harrison's Internal Medicine Online or Print?; Vaccine 101 -- Discovery to Licensure; Used Book Sale