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The Initiatives And Role Of Librarians Towards Open Access, Sankha Subhra Das, Arpita Roy Chowdhury

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Open Access is the free online availability of digital contents, scholarly journal articles, research results that authors publish without expectation of payment and is based on an ethical argument that research funded by the public should be available to the public. Open Access operates within the legal framework and owns the original copyrights for their work. Authors can transfer the rights to publishers to post the work on the web or else can retain the right to post their work on the archives. This article talks about the influence of open access in the present era. The objectives of the …

Organisation Of Indigenous African Knowledge: A Case Of Some Selected Indigenous African Musical Performances In Edina Bakatue Festival Of Ghana, Charles Koufie

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

No abstract provided.

Technology Acceptance Models And Theories In Library And Information Science Research, Muhamad Prabu Wibowo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

There is a growing interest of studying technology implementation, acceptance, and adoption as there are a lot of new innovations regarding potential technologies that can be implemented in information institutions. This study tries to explore the application of theories and models of acceptance models in library and information science research. This study employs a systematic literature review to discuss the historical development of theories and models of technological acceptance and their potential use in the library and information science research. Models and theories of acceptance models have been continuously developed to accommodate reasons explaining users would accept and adopt new …

Friends Of The Library Newsletter Autumn 2019, Michael J. Paulus Jr.

Library Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Reframing Library Student Employment As A High-Impact Practice: Implications From Case Studies, Erin Rinto, Rosan Mitola, Kate Otto

Library Faculty Research

The purpose of this paper is to discuss how academic libraries can directly contribute to campus student success initiatives through student employment programs. Case studies from the perspectives of two supervisors demonstrate how library student employment programs can intentionally incorporate the characteristics of High-Impact Practices. This paper builds upon a previously published systematic review of the academic library literature on student employment, which found a significant gap in the discussion of employment as a mechanism for learning and retention. This paper aims to address this gap by focusing on practical applications for creating more learner-centered student employment programs.

Beyond Fact-Checking: 5 Things Schools Should Do To Foster News Literacy, Seth Ashley

Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations

When it comes to news literacy, schools often emphasize fact-checking and hoax-spotting. But as I argue in my new book, schools must go deeper with how they teach the subject if they want to help students thrive in a democratic society.

As a new poll shows that Americans struggle to know if the information they find online is true, news literacy remains essential in student education.

Separating fact from fiction is a vital skill for civic engagement, but students can be good fact-checkers only if they have a broader understanding of how news and information are produced and consumed in …

Filling The Cabinets With Nutritious Information, Neyda V. Gilman

Library Scholarship

A chapter in the The Sustainable Library’s Cookbook. It discusses a two-part educational approach using newsletters and a series of lunch-and-learn presentations, which also promote and advance the sustainability of the library.

Cultural Conversations November 2019, Central Washington University, Andreina Delgado

Brooks Library Events

Cultural storytelling event sponsored by Ellensburg Public Library, Brooks Library, and Office of Interational Studies and Programs. Held in the Hal Holmes Community Center. The speaker for this event is Andreina Delgado.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 044, Number 07, November 19, 2019, Grand Valley State University

2019-2020, Volume 44

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Open Access: Could Defeat Be Snatched From The Jaws Of Victory?, Richard Poynder

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

When news broke early in 2019 that the University of California had walked away from licensing negotiations with the world’s largest scholarly publisher (Elsevier), a wave of triumphalism spread through the OA Twittersphere. The talks had collapsed because of Elsevier’s failure to offer UC what it demanded: a new-style Big Deal in which the university got access to all of Elsevier’s paywalled content plus OA publishing rights for all UC authors – what UC refers to as a “Read and Publish” agreement. In addition, UC wanted Elsevier to provide this at a reduced cost.1 Given its size and influence, UC’s …

Information Seeking Behavior In Academic Assignments Using Smartphone Among Elementary School Students, Rahma Sugihartati

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This article discusses information seeking behavior developed by elementary school students in completing academic assignments, their reasons for using smartphone to find information related to academic assignments, and students' opinions about the role of school libraries. All data presented in this article are the results of a study on 500 elementary school students in four major cities in East Java Province, Indonesia, namely Surabaya, Malang, Madiun and Malang. This study found that there has been a change in information seeking behavior among elementary students who no longer rely solely on information from textbooks in the libraries. The students have become …

Book Review: Fact Vs. Fiction: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills In The Age Of Fake News, Morgan Carter

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Fact vs. Fiction: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Fake News, is a book full of resources and instructional strategies to help educators teach media literacy skills in today’s fake news environment. Arguably, media literacy skills are needed now more than ever, and this review provides a brief overview and key takeaways from each chapter.

News Literacy And Fake News Curriculum: School Librarians’ Perceptions Of Pedagogical Practices, Lesley Farmer

Journal of Media Literacy Education

The high profile of fake news reveals underlying trends in the production and consumption of news. While news literacy is a lifelong skill, the logical time to start teaching such literacy is in K-12 educational settings, so that all people have the opportunity to learn and practice news literacy. School librarians can play a critical role in helping students gain news literacy competence. This study investigated the needs for K-12 students to be news literate and their current level of skills as perceived by in-service teachers and school librarians in California. Respondents thought that their students were most competent at …

Lanthorn, Vol. 54, No. 15, November 18, 2019, Grand Valley State University

Volume 54, July 15, 2019 - April 27, 2020

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

Reflection Toolkit: Strategies For Facilitating Reflection In The Classroom, Meghmala Tarafdar, Elizabeth Digiorgio, Alison Cimino, Sebastian Murolo, Miseon Kim, Ilse Schrynemakers

Open Educational Resources

This Reflection Toolkit, compiled by the faculty inquiry group (FIG), includes classroom strategies for integrating reflection into one's existing syllabi. The lesson plans highlight how to encourage effective student reflections.The toolkit includes best practices to facilitate reflection in classes across the disciplines in the context of a variety of student-centered activities (including group-work, online learning, and interactive modules).

Affordability Of Course Materials In Higher Education: Exploring An Equity Issue, Grace Allbaugh, Anne Shelley

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

The ever-increasing cost of textbooks is making it more challenging for college students to afford necessary class resources. While all students pursuing a college degree are affected by textbook costs, the impact is greatest on students from low-income families. Milner Library staff, who work to provide affordable academic resources and support learning on campus through many collaborations, are in a unique position to assist in addressing this problem.

Representatives from Milner Library will discuss the ways in which textbook affordability became a problem and how it impacts different groups on ISU’s campus; steps the library is taking to increase access …

My Library, My Story: Walt, Walter Cressler

University Libraries Personnel and Library History

No abstract provided.

Research Trends In Knowledge Management Seen Through Web Of Science: A Bibliometric Analysis, Sankha Subhra Das, Arpita Roy Chowdhury, P Balasubramanian

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study presents the trends of research in Knowledge Management during 2014-2018. The data has been extracted from the Web of Science database on the affiliation of basic search. The research output has been derived on the basis of 963 publications receiving 4148 citations with a 4.87 percent average citation per paper. The authorship pattern was dominated by two authors securing 35.099% and collaboration co-efficient of 0.488. The country-wise publication was dominated by the United States contributing 159 papers. Out of the total 963 publications, 881(91.5%) are article which seems to top the list. The Journal of Knowledge Management seems …

Impact Of Public Libraries With Reference To Public Library At Tenkasi, Dr.P.Balasubramanian Subramanian Bala Subramanian, K Poolpandian

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study deals with impact of public library at Tenkasi. It will have a strategic role in knowledge-intensive industries like digital media. They will also be mainstays of community-based cultural planning and development. The amount of information available will grow, and much of it will be of questionable value and accuracy. Public libraries will play an increasingly significant role in the literacies of the twenty-first century that enable people to select, assess and use the information that will best meet their needs public libraries are increasingly seeing themselves as playing an important role in community development.

Inclusive Lgbtqia+ Education: Why It’S Important And How To Be An Advocate For Change, Amanda Melilli

Library Faculty Presentations

No abstract provided.

Electric Car: A Research Impact By Means Of Scientometric Analysis, Sivasekaran Kamatch Dr., Prabakar Stanleay Dr., Chithiraivel Subramanian Dr., Ashok Kumar P Dr., Thirumagal Arumugam Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The day-to-day increasing costs of petrol and diesel and to control the air pollution makes an impact to do a scientometric analysis on the research ouput on “Electric Car”. Therefore, the research publications indexed in Web of Science for 28 years have been downloaded from 1991 to 2018 for the analysis. The research reveals that a total of 2424 publications is published during the above-mentioned year. The regression test proves that the deviation among the data is low and has possibility to calculate the doubling time on the basis the last 14 years. The doubling time proves that the growth …

A Public Health Approach To Uncovering The Health-Related Needs Of Library Patrons, Jennifer R. Banas, Michelle Oh

Faculty Research and Creative Activities Symposium

As libraries are re-envisioned and reborn as community centers and resource providers, what is their role in understanding and positively contributing to a given neighborhood’s social determinants of health (SDOH), particularly among vulnerable populations? To answer this question the Teen Services department of Chicago Public Library, a licensed professional counselor, and a NEIU team made up of a faculty researcher, an academic librarian, undergraduate students majoring in community health, collaborated to conduct a needs assessment. The aims of the needs assessment was as follows: 1) To uncover the most common health-related needs among community teens as perceived by Teen Services …

Incentivizing Oer Adoption With Course Development Mini-Grants, M. H. Albro, Aaron W. Dobbs, Michelle T. Foreman

Publications

Open Educational Resources (OER) are one form of digital scholarship used across the country to make education more accessible to students by removing barriers to essential course materials (such as textbooks and supplementary readings). This case shows how one university has taken steps to increase the prominence of OER in classrooms on campus while engaging in a statewide pilot project.

Identifying Faculty And Peer Interaction Patterns Of First-Year Biology Doctoral Students: A Latent Class Analysis, Soojeong Jeong, Jennifer M. Blaney, David F. Feldon

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications

Faculty and peer interactions play a key role in shaping graduate student socialization. Yet, within the literature on graduate student socialization, researchers have primarily focused on understanding the nature and impact of faculty alone, and much less is known about how peer interactions also contribute to graduate student outcomes. Using a national sample of first-year biology doctoral students, this study reveals distinct categories that classify patterns of faculty and peer interaction. Further, we document inequities such that certain groups (e.g., underrepresented minority students) report constrained types of interactions with faculty and peers. Finally, we connect faculty and peer interaction patterns …

“That’S Not Real Reading”: Making The Case For Graphic Novel Inclusion In Every Classroom, Amanda Melilli, Kate Covintree, Alicia Abdul

Library Faculty Presentations

No abstract provided.

Library Automation To Resource Sharing: Prospects In Kerala State, Vimal Kumar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Comprehensive library automation is a prerequisite for resource sharing initiatives like Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery services in a cooperative environment. Shared library management system and a union catalogue enhance visibility to information resources available at networked libraries. Availability of IT infrastructure, skilled persons, the popularity of Koha and statewide mobile and Internet connectivity are favourable factors to build an ecosystem for resource sharing among academic libraries in Kerala state. A regional cooperative network for libraries ensures optimum utilisation of fund and maximum availability of resources. This article proposes a statewide ILL system for universities and colleges in Kerala state.

Diversifying Collections, Jessica Schomberg

Library Services Publications

Hands-on activity to help participants find a diversity of materials to support their communities and expand their collections. This will range from identifying relevant book and media awards to finding ways to promote these materials. We will also include discussion of how to advocate for policy statements expressing the value of diverse, accessible collections as well as ways to advocate for funds to support these collections. Participants will be encouraged to share their insights.

Image Analysis For Cultural Heritage Digitization, Naomi Langer, Stephanie Becker

Researchers, Instructors, & Staff Scholarship

While digitization is not a digital preservation plan, methods used to execute digitization work can support future preservation efforts. Our approach in supporting digital preservation work is to conduct image analysis of the camera and resulting images to ensure FADGI compliance. Ensuring the quality of our preservation files increases the reliability of their survival in a digital preservation storage environment. This presentation covers how to use device and object level targets during the imaging process, what the importance of those targets are, and how exactly they're used to analyze the quality and accuracy of a camera's output. Running images through …

Availability And Utilization Of Reference Sources In Academic Libraries, Boma Torukwein David-West

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study investigates availability and utilization of reference sources in academic libraries in Nigeria. It is undertaken as a descriptive survey research design. The population of the study is post graduate students in University of Port Harcourt, totalling 1,264. The simple random sampling technique was used to select the sample. The sample size is (118) post graduate students. Validation of the instrument was done by experts in guidance and counselling department. The reliability was done using cronbach alpha with reliability coefficient of 0.80. The researcher and two trained research assistants distributed the instruments. Mean (x) and standard deviation was used …

Torrential Impact Of Discursive Digitalized Repositories In The University Libraries Of Tamil Nadu – Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Dr.P.Balasubramanian Subramanian Bala Subramanian, E Santhana Kumar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The major focus of the present research is to analyze the relationship between the availability of the digitized repositories in the library combined with the library staff service and the academic performance of the library users. The students, scholars and staff awareness about the digitized repositories, their satisfaction level towards the e-resources availability and the library staff service and the major problems faced by the users in accessing the digitalized repositories.