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Use Of Electronic Resources By The Academics: A Case Study From University Of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, Pradeepa Wijetunge Dr., Abhirami Sivasanthiran Ms.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of electronic resources (e-resources) by the academic staff of University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. The study aimed to determine their awareness and perceptions towards the e-resources, training, and the factors affecting the usage. Convenient sampling method was used to select a sample of 37 academics from a population of 431. The study adopted both quantitative and qualitative approaches, by using a questionnaire and a discussion. The study revealed that the majority often uses Internet to fulfill their information needs, they have learnt about the availability of the e-resources from their …

Review Of Developing And Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual, Katie Ferrante

Journal of Western Archives

Review of Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual (third edition).

Cultural Conversations October 2020, Central Washington University, Ana Tonseth

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 Ana Tonseth.

‘The Considerable Number Of Students’: A Response To W.E.B. Du Bois, Heidi Gauder, Caroline Waldron

Roesch Library Faculty Publications

The letter is brief, dated June 13, 1930, and clearly a reply to an inquiry. It is a total of four numbered paragraphs. What makes it interesting is the letter’s recipient and its explanation about the number of African American students at the University of Dayton in 1930.

In replying to W.E.B. Du Bois, editor of The Crisis, Brother Joseph Muench, S.M., notes that Jessie V. Hathcock is the only African American student at the University of Dayton, that she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in education less than a week prior, and that her academic record was “very …

Step Up Your Game With Genre Terms For Tabletop Games, Diane Robson, Catherine Sassen, Kevin Yanowski

OLAC Conferences

We created a controlled vocabulary of genre terms to enhance user access to a large college of tabletop games.

Can I Show This Video?: Making Public Performance Rights Visible To Patrons, Lynn E. Gates

OLAC Conferences

The Problem

Faculty & students ask Research Assistance Desk (RAD) staff about showing videos in class or in group settings. Faculty also asked how to search for videos that had public performance rights. Since this information is in order records and/or buried in licenses RAD staff had to ask acquisitions staff if a specific video had PPR.

The Goals

• Make PPR information readily available
• Make streaming videos with PPR searchable

Perceptions On Aboutness Of Documentary Films: Comparing Fast Headings To User-Created Imdb "Plot Keywords", Christopher S. Dieckman

OLAC Conferences

Many popular websites allow users to assign descriptive metadata to individual resources. Previous studies have analyzed user-created metadata with several comparing it to metadata created by information professionals. This study analyzed Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST) headings and IMDb “plot keywords” for the same documentary films in order to determine how much of the aboutness identified by the former was covered by the latter. A randomized list of documentary films held at the Iowa State University Library, a large academic research library, was created. Records for titles without IMDb headings were excluded from analysis. The FAST headings were compared …

Objects, Realia, And Virtual Reality For Libraries As Specialized Method For Teaching And Learning, Cyrus Ford Zarganj

OLAC Conferences

No abstract provided.

Exposing Institutional Content: Preserving Legacies And Breaking Rules, Michelle Hahn

OLAC Conferences

Indiana University recently engaged in an initiative to digitize and preserve hundreds of thousands of recording from all over the University. A significant percentage of those are recordings of performances produced by the now Jacobs School of Music. These performances feature some big names in music and the initiative spurred from 20 years of efforts to digitize and preserve recordings in volatile formats for music collections at Indiana University. My poster focuses on our efforts to make those performance recordings more discoverable in both their physical and digital surrogate formats and get all the necessary metadata to all the right …

Clearing Out Backlogs From Home: Remote Cataloging Of Posters, Nicole Smeltekop

OLAC Conferences

In 2019, the Libraries purchased a collection of about 500 leftist political posters. These posters mostly originated from Europe, but the collection has an international scope. We set up a workflow that started with the Conservation department unrolling and flattening the posters, me cataloging them, and lastly, the digitization team creating images for our digital repository. As the only graphics cataloger, the original plan was for me to catalog these by myself and have batches of posters scanned by our digital imaging team as I completed cataloging. However, COVID-related work-from-home orders changed how this could be done.

Adoption Of Koha Open Source Integrated Library Management System: A Review Of Literature, Salma M S Salma M S Salma M S, Dr, B Mini Devi Dr. B Mini Devi Dr, B Mini Devi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Most of the libraries and library professionals have a positive perception towards adoption of Koha. Koha also has Web 2.0facilities like tagging, comment, social sharing and RSS feeds.Koha software is gaining popularity because of its web based architecture, Unicode compatibility, user friendliness and extensive customization possibilities. This situation demands the need for workshops, seminars and technical supports to library professionals for successful implementation of Koha. This article provided a strong theoretical base for the present study.

Objects, Realia, And Virtual Reality For Libraries As Specialized Method For Teaching And Learning, Cyrus Ford Zarganj

Library Faculty Presentations

Cataloging Three-Dimensional Artifacts and Realia Highlights:

• Cataloger’s judgement is essential
• The Bibliographic Format is “Visual Materials”
• Usually title is the main entry and most of the time cataloger supplies a title
• For a piece of art, main entry could be the creator
• For Type (Type of record) field we usually use “r” for three-dimensional artifact or naturally occurring object and “o” for kits
• For TMat (Type of material) field we usually use “r” for realia, “g” games, “w” toys, “a” art original, “c” art reproduction, “d” diorama, “p” microscope slide, “q” model, and “b’’ for kits
• Cataloging guidelines: OLAC Best …

Will The Last Archivist In Seattle Please Turn Out The Lights: Value And The National Archives, Megan E. Llewellyn, Sarah A. Buchanan

Journal of Western Archives

With the abrupt announcement in late January 2020 that the National Archives at Seattle–placed on 10 acres in the Sand Point neighborhood since 1963–would be "eventually" closed and the records moved to facilities in Riverside, California and Kansas City, Missouri, the surprised dismay from state archivists, researchers, and Native American tribal leaders and Alaska Natives who see their ancestors and heritage directly depicted in the records was quick and loud. The facility holds one million cubic feet of federal records which are accessed by over 700 people visiting its research rooms, and which grow by about 1300 cubic feet annually. …

Racial Justice In The Time Of Pandemic, Central Washington University, Cynthia Coe, Shawnté Elbert, Carylin M. Holsey, Marwa Ghazali, David Schwan

Brooks Library Events

Poster for NEH sponsored event with panelists speaking about the historical and contemporary dimensions of racial inequities in medicine and how to overcome those inequities.

Under The Big Top: A Large-Scale, Cross-Disciplinary Research Ethics Escape Game For Student Research, Dawn N. Cannon-Rech, Jeffrey Mortimore

University Libraries: Faculty Presentations

Presented at Georgia Libraries Conference ‘Bonus Pack’ Webinars

Public Policy Origins Of U.S. Data, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

Provides detailed introduction and overview of public policy origins of U.S. data. Shows how congressional legislation and Office of Management and Budget documents influence compilation and dissemination of U.S. Government data. Stresses how Indiana General Assembly requirements influence compilation of Indiana state agency data and Indiana local government agency data. Places emphasis on roles played in data compilation and dissemination by public policy research institutions/think tanks. Concludes by stressing limitations of data collection by governmental and non-governmental entities.

A Bibliometric Analysis Of Face Anti Spoofing, Swapnil Ramesh Shinde, Shraddha Phansalkar, Sudeep D. Thepade

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Face Recognition Systems are used widely in all areas as a medium of authentication, the ease of implementation and accuracy provides it with a broader scope. The face recognition systems are vulnerable to some extent and are attacked by performing different types of attacks using a variety of techniques. The term used to describe the measures taken to prevent these types of attacks is known as face anti spoofing. Research has been carried on since decades to design systems that are robust against these attacks. The focus of the work in this paper is to explore the area of face …

Informetrics Education In Library And Information Science (Lis) Academic Department In South Africa, Nkosingiphile Zungu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this paper is to explore literature on informetrics education globally, in order to determine the relevance of informetrics education in South Africa. This paper is based on the literature review on informetrics education in the field of LIS worldwide. The paper addresses the status of informetrics education; extent and levels at which informetrics education is offered; teaching methods for informetrics education; and, challenges associated with informetrics education. The literature reveals that there are 32 countries that offer informetrics education within the field of LIS worldwide. The informetrics education is commonly offered to both under-graduate and post-graduate students. …

Library Advocacy Lsc 519, Mary Macdonald

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

A User Study Of A Wearable System To Enhance Bystanders’ Facial Privacy, Alfredo J. Perez, Sherali Zeadally, Scott Griffith, Luis Y. Matos Garcia, Jaouad A. Mouloud

Information Science Faculty Publications

The privacy of users and information are becoming increasingly important with the growth and pervasive use of mobile devices such as wearables, mobile phones, drones, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Today many of these mobile devices are equipped with cameras which enable users to take pictures and record videos anytime they need to do so. In many such cases, bystanders’ privacy is not a concern, and as a result, audio and video of bystanders are often captured without their consent. We present results from a user study in which 21 participants were asked to use a wearable system called …

Authorship Trends And Collaboration Pattern In The Neuroscience Literature In India During The Year 1989-2018: A Scientometric Study, Raghavan B K

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Background: The present paper analyses authorships trends and pattern of authorship in the field the of neuroscience

Objectives: The main objective of the study is to identify neuroscience publication form type, year wise distribution, Authorship pattern, to known the Measure of collaboration it will provide Collaborative Index (CI), Degree of Collaboration (DC), Collaboration Coefficient (CC) and Modified Collaborative Coefficient (MCC), to know the most prolific Authors in Neuroscience in India and top 20 journals and their rank based on the publication and India Collaborative with other Countries

Materials and Methods: The PubMed database has been used for obtaining required …

Scientometrics Of Indian Bioinformatics Research Output: A Study On Web Of Science, K G Sudhier Dr., Jahina S. Roselin

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper investigates Indian Bioinformatics research during 2011-2019 using Web of Science database. It attempts to quantify the national contribution to growth efforts and identify areas of citation, h-index and highly cited articles. Also highlighted the growth of Indian bioinformatics output using different scientometrics indicators. The results show the output for collaborative study, top ranked journals and authors, citation of the journals, h-index, p-index score and mapping of co-authorship and cited reference. PLOS One and Gene are the top ranked journals in bioinformatics. The study also covers for funding agencies in bioinformatics research. UGC, CSIR, DST and DBT are the …

Letter From The Co-Editors, April P. Akins, Megan Palmer

South Carolina Libraries

No abstract provided.

Making The Future More Accessible: Assistive Technology At The Ur And Rrlc, Allegra Tennis, Eileen Daly-Boas

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

No abstract provided.

Revamping Course Reserves In Light Of Covid, Samantha Dannick, Kevin Adams

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

Whether classes have moved to online delivery or the library's COVID safety procedures include quarantining returned materials, chances are regular, print-based course reserves are not feasible for the Fall 2020 semester. This short presentation will outline the process used by the Alfred University Libraries to evaluate which reserve materials needed alternative access, determine what options were available, and implement changes to preserve access for students. Challenges included limited person-power and time for library staff to devote to analyzing usage and options, limited time for faculty outreach, and limited budget for new materials. The Libraries will have to adjust and adapt …

Centralization Of The Academic Law Library: Is It Right For Your Institution?, Elizabeth G. Adelman

Contributions to Books

Published in Academic Law Libraries Within the Changing Landscape of Legal Education: A Primer for Deans and Provosts, Michelle M. Wu, Scott B. Pagel & Joan S. Howland, eds.

Anxiety And Depression: The Dimensions In Developing Prophylactic And Therapeutic Approaches, Begdache Lina

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

The rising prevalence of anxiety and depression, commonly known as mental distress, and their associated health care costs necessitate a change in disease management. To improve outcome, there is a need to move away from the one size fits all approach and personalize mental health prevention and treatment strategies. One of the major modifiable risk factors for mental distress is the diet. Nevertheless, there is a need to consider a couple of dimensions when personalizing dietary intake to support mental health. There is a clear divergence in the prevalence of mental distress among young adults (18-29 years old) and their …

Rebuilding After Mass Furloughs, Michelle Price

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

During the summer of 2020, due to COVID-19 and preventative financial measures taken by the college, 70% of the library staff at St. John Fisher College were furloughed for approximately three months. This presentation is from the viewpoint of an employee who was furloughed and returned during wave one. What did the process of rebuilding look like? What words did we even use to describe what was happening?

Employees who were furloughed returned at three different time points, creating three waves. The library developed an on-boarding process to address policy and protocol changes and revised it to address emotional issues. …

Scatter Plots And Trendlines: Meaningfully Assessing Long-Term Libguides Usage, Roman Koshykar

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

RIT Libraries implemented the LibGuides 2.0 CMS in August 2015, but patron interests change over the course of five years. How can I discover whether my guides are still capturing the interest of the students and faculty at RIT? Using some simple charting and statistical tools in Microsoft Excel, I was able to deduce patterns in usage for both my subject and non-subject guides. These usage trends have provided valuable information on what topics our library patrons are highly interested in learning, what topics are not as popular as they were five years ago, and what topics seem to generate …

Dismantling The Knowledgeopoly: An Open Research Future, K. M. Ehrig-Page

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

A library plays an integral part in the community because its doors are usually open to everyone, at least in non-pandemic times. However, access to education, to research or, more broadly, to knowledge is often siloed and hidden behind subscriptions so that knowledge monopolies start to grow. In “Dismantling the Knowledgeopoly: An Open Research Future”, and in celebration of October’s Open Access Week that promotes free, immediate access to peer reviewed scholarship, we will look at ways you can broaden the scope of Open Access and move towards Open Research.

The idea for this presentation arose through working in the …