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The Relationship Of Undergraduate Students’ Self-Assessment Of Library Skills To Their Opinion Of Library Instruction: A Self-Reporting Survey, Christopher A. Freeman

The Southeastern Librarian

College students, in general, are known to be lacking in their ability to effectively make use of academic library resources, yet in many previous studies these same students have estimated their library-use skills at inflated levels. Neither do college students in general often willingly take advantage of library instruction opportunities. A self-reporting survey was administered to forty first-year college students in order to investigate whether students’ tendency to over-estimate library use skills has an effect on student opinion about library instruction in general. Results from the survey not only indicate that such a relationship may exist, but also strongly support …

Filter-Tipped Libraries, Mark Y. Herring

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

Is it possible to say something positive about Internet filtering in libraries and not have everyone, including your mother, call you a wild-eyed, hidebound, neo-Nazi bashi-bazouk? No, of course not, but I'm going to try to anyway.

The Southeastern Librarian V. 52, No. 2 (Summer 2004) Complete Issue

The Southeastern Librarian

Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 52, no. 2 (Summer 2004).

Stateside News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent developments from SELA member institutions.

News From Around The Southeast

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent developments in librarianship in the southeastern United States.

Directions - Spring 2004, Mervyn H. Sterne Library

Directions (Sterne Library, 1985-2015)

No abstract provided.

Perceptions Of The Library: A Key To Planning Effective Services, Sue Alexander, William Black, Virginia Vesper

The Southeastern Librarian

such as questions answered, books cataloged, and dollars spent. Now we are called upon to measure the impact of those services on our clients. Stakeholder demand for accountability, changing accreditation standards, and state and federal concerns over student outcomes have driven a real concern for measurement from the client’s perspective. This will become increasingly important as demands for accountability and competition from other sectors increase. “Assessment and evaluation are intended as means to demonstrate institutional effectiveness, foster institutional improvement, and demonstrate accountability.” Programs such as the New Measures Initiative, from the Association of Research Libraries, have been developed to strengthen …

The Southeastern Librarian V. 52, No. 1 (Spring 2004) Complete Issue

The Southeastern Librarian

Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 52, no. 1 (Spring 2004).

Wsuls 2004 Annual Report, Wayne State University Library System

Library Publications

2004 annual report includes: A message from Dean Sandra Yee; Library System's new catalog and WILD ILL system; Impact of the US Patriot Act on WSU; In Circulation: Arts and Communication; Jeff Trzeciak appointed Associate Dean; Launch of Mathematics Emporium; Launch of Technology Resource Center; Digital Library Initiatives, Law Library Microform and Herman Miller Consortium Collection; Adaptive Technology Workstations and Wireless Access; IMLS Leadership Grants; Urban Health Partners; Statistics; Donor Spotlight: Norman McRae, Irwin T. and Shirley Holtzman, William J. and Joyce Cunningham; In Memory of Hildegard Joseph; 2004 Donors.

Information Central, David Marc

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Organizational Cultures Of Libraries As A Strategic Resource, Michelle L. Kaarst-Brown, Scott Nicholson, Gisela M. Von Dran, Jeffrey M. Stanton

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

Theorists have suggested that organizational culture is a strategic resource that has value in ensuring the continuing existence and success of organizations (Michalisin, Smith, & Kline, 1997; Barney, 1986, 1991; Hult, Ketchen, & Nichols, 2002; Gordon, 1985). This assertion is supported by various studies that have linked organizational culture to broad strategic outcomes such as an organization’s ability to manage knowledge (Davenport, Long, & Beers, 1998; Storck & Hill, 2000), innovation capability (Hauser, 1998), and strategic management of information technology (Kaarst-Brown & Robey, 1999; Reich & Benbasat, 2000; Schein, 1985). Based on this research, we suggest that there are characteristics …

Public Libraries And People In Jail, Kathleen De La Peña Mccook

School of Information Faculty Publications

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963. That detention can turn into a horror like that at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison is hard to fathom, but incarceration of any sort always seems to exist on the edge of sanity, ready to transmute into grim, even fatal, encounters.[sup1] The inhumane treatment of prisoners in Iraq or Afghanistan is emblematic of the worst sort of pendulum swing …

Stateside News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent developments from SELA member institutions.

News From Around The Southeast

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent developments in librarianship in the southeastern United States.

The Southeastern Librarian V. 51, No. 4 (Winter 2003) Complete Issue

The Southeastern Librarian

Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 51, no. 4 (Winter 2003).

Planning For The Future Of The Book: Some Longer-Term Financial Considerations In The Managemnent Of Book Stock, Patrick G. Scott

Faculty Publications

Contrasts library costs for short-term access to digital collections for a delimited group of library users with the traditional free access and loan of now-ageing and irreplaceable print collections, suggests that future access to major research collections of printed material may well be fee-based, and argues that libraries need to plan for the future of their book stock with the same imagination and financial realism that has been given to digital resources. Presented in Plenary Session 1: the Future of the Book, at the Charleston Conference on Issues in Book & Serial Acquisition, Nov. 6, 2003, and subsequently published in …

Directions - Fall 2003, Mervyn H. Sterne Library

Directions (Sterne Library, 1985-2015)

No abstract provided.

Review Of An Action Plan For Outcomes Assessment In Your Library, By Peter Hernon And Robert E. Dugan, Fred W. Jenkins

Roesch Library Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Distance Learners: Not Necessarily Distant, Rachel Viggiano

The Southeastern Librarian

The following paper was presented at the 2002 SELA/South Carolina Library Association Joint Conference in Charleston, South Carolina, as part of the “New Voices” program, sponsored by the University and College Libraries Section (UCLS) of SELA. The Southeastern Librarian is pleased to reprint the paper in its entirety.

The purpose of this paper is to examine many of the issues involved in providing library services to distance learners, and to discuss the growing overlap of services for traditional on-campus students and distance learners. Is the distinction between the two groups enough to merit a separation of services, or should libraries …

The Southeastern Librarian V. 51, No. 3 (Fall 2003) Complete Issue

The Southeastern Librarian

Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 51, no. 3 (Fall 2003).

Suppressing The Commons: Misconstrued Patriotism Vs. A Psychology Of Liberation, Kathleen De La Peña Mccook

School of Information Faculty Publications

In these affairs, no gun is needed. The victims do it all themselves. And the bullets never miss.--Bruce Jackson, CounterPunch , May 2003 Libraries play an important role in community building by supporting the public sphere to provide a commons environment that addresses the need for people to meet and interact with others. (1) Additionally, the library preserves historical and cultural memory and maintains resources for discourse and decision-making. However, since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, and the passage of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act, …

Libraries In The Cyberage, Part Iv, Mark Y. Herring

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

Is the book dead? Are libraries obsolete? Did the Internet murder both?

West Virginia Libraries 2003 Vol.56 No.3, Jennifer Soule

West Virginia Libraries Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Libraries In The Cyberage, Part Iii, Mark Y. Herring

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

The roots of librarianship have been sorely shaken by the Internet, but to what extent and how much remains to be seen.

Information Commons Issues And Trends: Voices From The Frontline, D. Russell Bailey

Library Commons

Attendees at this ACRL panel were invited to increase their understanding of Information Commons (IC) concepts, models, planning, implementation and assessment. The event was a discussion panel with IC leaders regarding models that their libraries were developing, evolutionary processes their ICs have undergone, challenges and successes in the past years, and what the future holds.

Directions - Spring 2003, Mervyn H. Sterne Library

Directions (Sterne Library, 1985-2015)

No abstract provided.

The Southeastern Librarian V. 51, No. 1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 2003) Complete Issue

The Southeastern Librarian

Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 51, no. 1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 2003).

Stateside News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent developments from SELA member institutions.

News From Around The Southeast

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent developments in librarianship in the southeastern United States.

Information Literacy For Music Librarians: Pre-Conference Workshop At Mla 2003, Monica Fazekas

Western Libraries Publications

No abstract provided.