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Library Publications (1999-2023)

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Paws And Relax December 2016, Central Washington University

Brooks Library Events

Paws and Relax is an event to help students relieve stress during finals week. Dogs are brought in with their handlers and students are allowed to hang out with the dogs, pet them and occasionally pick them up.

Do You Have A Stapler?: Evenings At The Reference Desk, Katie Smith, Lauren Farmer

LIS Student Conference

No abstract provided.

The Invisible: Serving Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder, A Sensitivity Training, Rachel Combs

LIS Student Conference

According to the CDC, autism is the fastest-growing developmental disability (2008). In the US, the prevalence is estimated at 1 in 68 births. Academic libraries need to be aware of this growing population so that we can educate library staff and be prepared to help people who learn and communicate differently. College students with disabilities face inequity when using the academic library, including the physical space, the library website, programming or lack thereof, restrictive loan periods, and resources that aren’t available in formats that they need. Academic libraries must be proactive and learn to recognize and minimize barriers, educate library …

Physicians’ Information Needs And Information Seeking, William E. Burchfield Ii

LIS Student Conference

Physicians range in age from their early twenties to their nineties. These same physicians care for people many times, from before their birth until their end of life experiences. Physicians must provide the best possible care to these patients. In order to do this, physicians need information. This poster presentation explores the information needs of physicians as well as the information seeking behavior these physicians follow.

Community Resource Audit: Teen Users, Ashley Householder

LIS Student Conference

This poster presents the findings from my Community Resource Audit in LIS 601, which focused on teen library users. During my research, I found that teens usually seek information on the following topics: Health, Career Information, Homework Help, Reading Material, News, and General Curiosity. Along with addressing these needs, my presentation will also discuss barriers to teen access, including reasons why they might choose not to seek information. Finally, I will present my "Teen Resource Guide," which was designed to help teens conduct research on each of the aforementioned topics.

Practicum In A Medical Library, Emily Elkind

LIS Student Conference

Sharing my work that I have done during my practicum in the St. Joseph Hospital Medical library, including lists of both print and digital resources, and a potential list of helpful resources for the tentative consumer health resources center.

Community Resource Audit Of Low-Income And Poor Children, Jesse Caldwell

LIS Student Conference

Poverty is on the rise within the United States. Public Libraries located in large cities and rural communities may be seeing an increase in usage from children who identify as low-income or poor. Using national statistics from the United States and local statistics from Lawrenceburg, Indiana , I will explain how poverty is on the rise within the United States. I will then outline how to discover local poverty statistics and how those statistics can be used to directly engage the low-income and poor population within a library district.

The Teen Toolkit: Providing Reliable Resources To Students, Jaclyn Spraetz

LIS Student Conference

This poster highlights the Community Resource Audit I created on teenagers’ information seeking behaviors. By conducting a literature review as well as distributing a survey to teens, I found that while they want to be informed, they often do not seek out many different types of informational resources. To respond, I created an online guide that presents reliable open resources to help students with class projects and additional outlets to help them stay informed on current events.

The Special Collections Research Center's Education Program: A Reflection On Success, Natalie Bishop

LIS Student Conference

The Special Collections Research Center's education program offers students across all departments and disciplines the opportunity to learn from primary sources. By demystifying the research process, students are provided with powerful learning opportunities. As the Education Archivist Graduate Assistant, I plan and create activities for students visiting the SCRC to facilitate student learning and improve information literacy. This fast-growing, innovative program reached 2,038 students during the 2015-2016 academic year, and this is only one of many pieces of evidence pointing to the program's success.

Diabetes Patients: Information Needs And Seeking Behaviors, Lauren Colburn

LIS Student Conference

Diabetes is currently the seventh leading cause of death in America. Currently, 9.3% of the American population has diabetes, and self-management is a crucial step in managing the disease well. Therefore, this community resource audit focuses on the information needs and seeking behaviors of these patients as they navigate life with diabetes.

Library School: On How And Why, And Especially With Whom, One Becomes A Librarian, Karyn Hinkle

LIS Student Conference

No abstract provided.

Cuny Libraries And Open Source: Wins And Fails, Stephen Klein, Robin Davis, Junior R. Tidal, Leslie Ward, Mark Eaton, Stephen Zweibel

Publications and Research

This panel presentation will highlight free, open-source projects throughout the libraries. This includes digital display systems, web content management, collections management and more.

Physically Challenged Students And Their Information Needs, Atanda S. Sambo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study is aimed at exploring the information needs of the physically challenged students in Kwara State Library, Ilorin, Nigeria. A Survey research design was adopted. Three objectives were set for the study and the interview was used to elicit information from respondents. Findings showed that 76% were male while 24% were female. Findings also reveal that the information needs of physically challenges students covered medical (94%), academic (82%), security (78%), news/current awareness, training/conference, seminar respectively (76%), transport/travel (53%), sport (55%), politics (18%), and (4%) among others. The study revealed that (82%) used the library occasionally while (18%) regularly. The …

Applied Calculus Mth 103, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

American Sign Language I Asl 101, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

American Sign Language Ii Asl 102, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

The Library & The Consortium: Don’T Trade Away Library Agency Without Considering The Cost, Nat Gustafson-Sundell

Library Services Publications

Libraries entrust negotiating authority to consortia upon the assumption that consortia can exercise greater “buying power” than individual institutions when dealing with vendors, because of greater scale. The prevailing mythology is that consortial deals simply must be better deals than libraries could secure on their own. In this presentation, the author questions the presumption that scale necessarily leads to better deals for libraries. Rather, library agency, as exercised in direct negotiations, can be more effective than scale for the purpose of securing the best possible deals. In fact, scale can lead to detrimental effects, to the extent individual institutions are …

Linguistics And Cultural Studies Lan 220, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

Formulating A Pharmacy Collection Without A Prescription, Kristin Laughtin-Dunker, Linda Galloway

Library Articles and Research

Librarians without a background in the health sciences were tasked with building a collection to support a new pharmacy school at a traditionally liberal arts institution. Despite little subject expertise, the team assessed current holdings, conducted a review of recommended resources, and collaborated with faculty to prioritize acquisitions to support the developing program as funds became available. The hire of a health sciences librarian provided new opportunities for assessment and for continued collecting. Altogether, this process allowed for the creation of recommended best practices that can be adopted by any librarian procuring resources to support new health science programs.

Ms 019 Guide To Matilda Benyesh-Melnick, Md Papers (1956-1974), Matilda Benyesh-Melnick (1926-2020)

Manuscript Finding Aids

The Matilda Benyesh-Melnick, MD papers contain research journals, reprints, magazines, reports, symposia and an undated manuscript related to her career in virology. Materials focus on the research that she conducted and collected between 1956 and 1974. See more at MS 019.

Digging Deeper: Trends By Discipline After 4+ Years Into Winthrop’S Pda Program, Antje Mays

Winthrop Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Connections, December 2016, University Library

Library Newsletter

No abstract provided.

From Ranganathan To Amazon: Are We There Yet?, Gulcin Cribb

Research Collection Library

No abstract provided.

Free Articles And Accounting For The Timing Effect, Nursyeha Yahaya, Chee Hsien Aaron (Zheng Zhixian) Tay

Research Collection Library

Various studies have attempted to assess the amount of free full text available on the web and recent work have suggested that we are close to the 50% mark for freely available articles (Archambault et al. 2013; Bjork et al. 2010; Jamali and Nabavi 2015). It is natural to wonder if this might reduce researchers' reliance on library subscriptions for access. To do so, we need to determine not just what papers researchers are citing to that are free today, but to estimate if the papers they were citing were freely available at the time they were citing it. We …

Friends Of The Libraries Newsletter, December 2016, Carrie Anderson (Editor)

Friends of the Libraries Newsletters

December 2016 Newsletter of the Friends of the Old Dominion University Libraries

Lanthorn, Vol. 51, No. 28, December 1, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 51, July 11, 2016 - June 5, 2017

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

Training: A Strategic Tool For Boosting Up Skills Of Lis Professionals- A Case Study Of Nit Silchar, Kishor Chandra Satpathy, Krishnamati Singha

Book Chapters

Change is an inevitable part of any organization. To function efficiently and effectively, the organization has to maintain equilibrium between the external and internal environment. The forces which constantly affecting change in organization are-technology, workforce, economy, competition, social trends, political and financial, etc. Training is one of the important strategic HRD tool to enhance the skills of the workforce to maintain the equilibrium. Training helps to enhance knowledge, skills, motivation, team building, employee development and productivity of the organization. Training boots up the organization's health by managing efficiently and effectively the 8Ms i.e. Man, Machine, Material, Money, Maintenance, Methods, Measurement, …

Scholars' Mine Quick Facts December 2016, James Roger Weaver

Scholars’ Mine Statistics

Scholars' Mine statistical quick facts for December 2016.

Statistics Report Jul 16 - Dec 16, James Roger Weaver

Scholars’ Mine Statistics

The is a summary report of Scholars' Mine activity from July 2016 through December 2016 with comparisons to the prior 6 month period. The report is distributed to campus administration and other interested parties.