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Successful Libraries Survey, The Tcl Editorial Team

The Christian Librarian

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A Generation Of Information Anxiety: Refinements And Recommendations, Paul Hartog

The Christian Librarian

Richard Saul Wurman’s groundbreaking Information Anxiety (1989) was published exactly one generation ago. The passage of time has allowed information specialists to reflect further upon the notion of information anxiety and such related concepts as “info-glut,” “techno-stress,” and “infoaddiction.” The interval has also allowed librarians to develop best practices to inoculate against information anxiety and to alleviate the symptoms of information overload. This essay will address definitional concerns regarding information anxiety and related phenomena; investigate the causes and effects of information anxiety; discuss specific difficulties in relationship to the reception, processing, and application of information; and consider the role of …

Adulting 101 Virtual Display, Maggie Mason Smith

Presentations

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Holocaust Remembrance Display, Maggie Mason Smith

Presentations

In remembrance of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising a display of materials focused on the Holocaust has been set up on the 4th floor of Cooper Library. The display contains a range of items but is centered on Nazi-era ghettos, concentration camps and their liberation, Holocaust-centered art and literature, and memoirs of Holocaust survivors. The display will be up throughout the month of April and all items are available for checkout.

World Intellectual Property Day Display, Maggie Mason Smith

Presentations

World Intellectual Property Day 2017 celebrates creativity through a theme of Innovation: Improving Lives.

A library book display has been created with this theme in mind and it includes a range of titles on innovation, innovation in various disciplines, intellectual property, and patents. The display will be up through mid-May and can be found on the 4th floor of Cooper Library.

The Current State Of Meta-Repositories For Data, Cynthia Hudson-Vitale

WashU Libraries Publications

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Social Justice Through Collaboration, Miranda Rectenwald

WashU Libraries Presentations

Presented at Midwest Archives Conference, spring 2017 Annual Meeting. This talk briefly outlines two collaborative projects (Documenting Ferguson, and Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis) going on at Washington University Libraries. These projects aim to both preserve and provide access to primary source (archival materials) of under-represented people in our (collective) historic record. These collaborative projects include archive staff working actively with members of the community, leveraging technology, and being open to new ways of approaching traditional archive tasks such as outreach, collection acquisition, and reference.

From The President, Terry Dwain Robertson

Faculty Publications

Reflects on the terms "sociality" and "social glue" as they describe the experience of participating in a library association.

Fulcrum, Newsletter Of The Furman University Libraries. Issue 10, Jenny Colvin

Libraries Institutional Records

Learn about the BrowZine Web version, changes to music searching and RefWorks, and a new subscription to Newspapers.com. Stay up-to-date with upcoming events such as the WWI exhibit and the brand new Faculty Scholarship Reception. Read about the first recipient of the Library's Open Access Fund and how you can apply. Opportunities for students include summer research and creative fellowships, graduate scholarships and internships, and new tools for collaborative research in the library.

The issue also includes an alumni profile, professional activities from Furman Library staff and faculty, and updates from the Digital Collections Center, Special Collections and Archives, and …

Letter From The Editor, Garrett Trott

The Christian Librarian

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The “Genius” Of Reference Service: A Threefold Framework As A Simple Assessment Tool, Paul Hartog

The Christian Librarian

No abstract provided.

A Survey Of Church Libraries, Ellen Bosman

The Christian Librarian

This article reports the results of a survey of congregational libraries, documents the current state of congregational libraries, and updates previous statistical studies. A survey was conducted to collect demographic statistics, information on collection size and composition, budgets and acquisitions methods, staffing characteristics, automation, and circulation.

Open Educational Resources: Expanding The Conversation Regarding Adoption And Use On A College Campus, Erin Mccoy

The Christian Librarian

As more institutions explore Open Educational Resource (OER) initiatives, librarians should be involved in the campus-wide conversation. Also, OER means more than free online textbooks; a broader conversation needs to be prioritized as institutions step into the OER movement. This article is an adaptation of the author’s presentation at the 2016 Annual Conference of the Association of Christian Librarians, titled “Out of Bounds: Exploring Open Educational Resources.”

Cassell And Hiremath's "Reference And Information Services: An Introduction (3rd Ed.)" (Book Review), Paul Hartog

The Christian Librarian

A review of Cassell, K. A., & Hiremath, U. (2013). Reference and information services: An introduction (3rd ed.). Chicago: Neal-Schuman. 510 pp. $88.00. ISBN 9781555708597

Developing Web Archiving Metadata Best Practices To Meet User Needs, Jackie M. Dooley, Karen Stoll Farrell, Tammi Kim, Jessica Venlet

Journal of Western Archives

The OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group was established to meet a widely recognized need for best practices for descriptive metadata for archived websites. The Working Group recognizes that development of successful best practices intended to ensure discoverability requires an understanding of user needs and behavior. We have therefore conducted an extensive literature review to build our knowledge and will issue a white paper summarizing what we have learned. We are also studying existing and emerging approaches to descriptive metadata in this realm and will publish a second report recommending best practices. We will seek broad community …

Collaboration Made It Happen! The Kansas Archive-It Consortium, Cliff Hight, Ashley Todd-Diaz, Rebecca Schulte, Michael Church

Journal of Western Archives

This case study explores the formation, current membership, and future goals of the Kansas Archive-It Consortium (KAIC), one of the larger consortia contracting with the Web archiving service Archive-It. KAIC, which is composed of the state historical society and five public universities, has its foundation in a statewide culture of collaboration, and participants have agreed on an informal governance structure with a strong commitment to broadening accessible web resources for researchers. After establishing consortial consistency during its first two years, members have shared documentation with partners and are beginning to do collaborative collecting. In the future, the consortium will seek …

Using Rss To Improve Web Harvest Results For News Web Sites, Gina M. Jones, Michael Neubert

Journal of Western Archives

In the last several years, the Library of Congress Web archiving program has grown to include large sites that publish news–over more than a year we learned they present serious challenges. After thinking through the use cases for archived online news sites, we realized that completeness of harvest was paramount. As we developed our understanding of deficiencies in the completeness of these kinds of sites we began to test use of RSS feeds to build customized seed lists for shallow crawls as the primary way these sites are crawled. Over time we discovered that while completeness of harvest was greatly …

Case Study: Washington And Lee's First Year Using Archive-It, Alston B. Cobourn

Journal of Western Archives

This case study reviews the planning, methodology, and lessons learned during the first year of Washington and Lee University Library's web archiving program.

Introduction To The Special Issue On Web Archiving, Nicholas Taylor

Journal of Western Archives

This article serves as an introduction to the Journal of Western Archives Special Issue on Web Archiving. It provides a snapshot of and reflections on the state of the field, as well as an overview of the works that constitute the issue.

Space Upgrades: Review, Plan And Implement, Susan Fink

TCLC Program Proceedings

Library administrators need to be able to demonstrate their department’s impact and value. An initial step in this assessment process is conducting space and usage studies. Rowan University Campbell Library’s study has helped influence decisions that impacted building renovations and services and began quantitatively demonstrating the library’s value.

Unknown And Underused, Sad! Making The Curriculum Lab Great Again, Melissa Correll

TCLC Program Proceedings

Arcadia University’s Landman Library hosts a Curriculum Lab to support students in the School of Education, but the space and its collection are underused. This poster details the current project to revitalize the space, in direct collaboration with faculty and students in the School of Education.

Beam It!, Amanda Adams, Sharon Whitfield

TCLC Program Proceedings

The Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU) Library is using BluuBeam technology, a proximity beacon, to engage patrons and push information to them. CMSRU librarians send “beams” to supplement the curriculum and provide resource assistance virtually. The CMSRU Library received the Health Sciences Librarian Project grant funding award from the Middle Atlantic Region (MAR) of NLM, National Institutes of Health (NIH) to engage in this research. The goal, which is not yet complete, is to assess whether students’ use of library resources during case-based sessions changes when libraries send supplemental material, library tutorials, and reminders of resources that pertain …

Open Educational Resources: An Initiative At Bucks County Community College, Mary Ellen Bornak, Jacqueline Burger, Linda Mccann, Bill Hemmig

TCLC Program Proceedings

Bucks is engaged in a two-year strategic initiative to transition sections of 10 gateway courses to the exclusive use of resources that are free to students. Librarians play a key role in guiding the identification, evaluation and promotion of OER and library resources and in the interpretation of licensing.

Leading Change, Debbie Gaspar

TCLC Program Proceedings

Leading change draws on soft skills, technical skills, and organization acumen. Implementing change is challenging as planning must address existing practices and the web of interpersonal relationships. How can leaders anticipate and plan for the impact on staff members as they guide them through the three steps of organizational change?

Methods, Effect And Challenges Of Library Instruction In Academic Libraries, Saturday U. Omeluzor, Alarape Asimi Akibu Ph.D, Sunday Ikhimeakhu Dika, Clement Chinemerem Ukangwa

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study investigated library instruction methods, effect and the challenges in academic libraries using the Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun (FUPRE) students as the target population. Library instruction is a core activity of academic libraries that entails educating, enlightening, guiding and helping the library users to identify, understand and utilize library information resources effectively. A survey research design was adopted for the study. The population is consisted of seven hundred and seventy-three 100 level students who registered for Use of Library (GSE 112) course in the first semester of 2015/2016 academic session. Questionnaire was the instrument used for data …

Citation Analysis Of Doctoral Theses References As A Tool For Collection Management In History: A Study Of Panjab University, Chandigarh (India), Preeti Mahajan, Anil Kumar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

A citation analysis study was carried out on the citations appended in the end of History discipline Ph.D. dissertations to ascertain what types of documents are the most frequently used in the research process, the most commonly consulted core journals and obsolescence rate of the journals and books. The study analysed 8488 citations appended in the 36 Ph.D. theses of History discipline submitted to Panjab University, Chandigarh, for the award of doctoral degree during 2002-2012. The results obtained from the 8488 citations revealed that the most frequently used documents were books, which accounted for 54.16 percent of the total citations …

An Evidence-Based Review Of Academic Web Search Engines, 2014-2016: Implications For Librarians’ Practice And Research Agenda, Jody C. Fagan

Libraries

Academic web search engines have become central to scholarly research. While the fitness of Google Scholar for research purposes has been examined repeatedly, Microsoft Academic and Google Books have not received much attention. Recent studies have much to tell us about the coverage and utility of Google Scholar, its coverage of the sciences, and its utility for evaluating researcher impact. But other aspects have been understudied, such as coverage of the arts and humanities, books, and non-Western, non-English publications. User research has also tapered off. A small number of articles hint at the opportunity for librarians to become expert advisors …

Collecting With A Plan: The Arthur S. Obermayer Personal Library, Alison M. Greenlee, Sarah J. Andrus

Library Scholarly Publications

This presentation describes the acquisition, conservation, cataloging, and classification of a personal library that was donated to The Henry Ford in 2016. The size of the collection, as well as the decision to preserve the donor’s numbering scheme, produced unexpected challenges.

Perceived Emotions In The Information Seeking Behaviour Of Manchester Metropolitan University Students., Aondoana Daniel Orlu, Hajaratu Mafo Ilo, Nwafornso Theresa Tochukwu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Emotions form a part of the individual variables that play a key role in the determination of information seeking behaviour of an individual. Anxiety and uncertainty characterize the initial phases of the process of searching for information. The affective indications of uncertainty, frustration, and confusion lead to vague and imprecise thoughts regarding a problem or topic. However, a shift to focused knowledge leads to a decline in uncertainty and increase in confidence. The current study relies on a single holistic case study in which students of Manchester Metropolitan University are the case and their emotional response to search.Consequently, the study …

Nea Big Read Film Series: The Most Dangerous Man In America, Central Washington University, Cynthia Mitchell

Brooks Library Events

NEA Big Read is an event held througout the country in which many book clubs read the same book. The book for 2017 is The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. This poster is for a film screening of The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsburg and the Pentagon Papers.