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Analyzing Workflows And Improving Communication Across Departments: A Simple Project Using Rapid Contextual Design, Rachel S. Evans

Articles, Chapters and Online Publications

Conference program review of a session from the 2020 NASIG (North American Serials Interest Group) Conference.

Library 3.0: Using Ux To Create The Library Space Of The Future, Rachel S. Evans

Articles, Chapters and Online Publications

Conference program report on a session from the 2020 American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting & Conference.

Georgia Library Association Technical Services Interest Group, Linh Uong, Rachel S. Evans, Rebecca Hunnicutt, Kelly Ansley, Bernard Bulemu

Articles, Chapters and Online Publications

News from the Georgia Library Association's Technical Interest Group from Fall 2020.

A Practical Workflow For Ocr Telework, Rachel S. Evans, Stephen Wolfson, Tj Striepe

Articles, Chapters and Online Publications

The article informs about the strategy librarians at the University of Georgia's Alexander Campbell King Law Library used for applying Optical character recognition (OCR) to hundreds of documents during their multi-month COVID-19 pandemic lockdown; presenting a new opportunity for their OCR project because they needed work that staffers could do remotely; and how some staffers had duties that could only be performed in the building and were greatly limited after.

Georgia Librarians Working From Home During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Rachel S. Evans, Stephanie Bennett, Maxine Hines Chriszt, Jolene Cole, Marie Day, Chelsee Dickson, Karen Doster-Greenleaf, Susan Foster, Sarah Grace Glover, Kristy Greene, Karen J. Harris, Gail Morton, Scott Pieper, Shannon Plummer, Judy Reardon, Sala Shierling, Gail A. Spears, Stephanie Summers, Gina Viarruel, Virginia Feher

Articles, Chapters and Online Publications

In Mid-March of 2020, libraries across the United States began closing in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, sending employees home. To document this period in time, Georgia library employees contributed short essays on their experiences with working from home, including how they continued to provide library services and resources to their users.

Georgia Library Association - Technical Services Interest Group, Linh Uong, Rachel S. Evans, Rebecca Hunnicutt

Articles, Chapters and Online Publications

News article highlighting the activities of the Georgia Library Association Technical Services Interest Group in spring 2020.

Smith County Colored Teachers’ Institute, 1920, Vicki Betts

Presentations and Publications

A look at early schools for African Americans in Smith County, Texas, with a reprint of the minutes and roster of the 1920 Smith County Colored Teachers’ Institute.

Mapping Marshall Notables, Sara Kaparos

Summer Community of Scholars Posters (RCEU and HCR Combined Programs)

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Supporting Interests And Sharing Power: Insights From A Scottish Youth Program, Daniela Kruel Digiacomo

Information Science Faculty Publications

Light Up Learning (LUL) is a youth program in Scotland that supports young people in pursuing their curiosities and exploring their interests in a school-based informal learning setting. This article draws on interview and participant observation data to examine the social organization of teaching and learning activity within LUL. As a school-based program focused on supporting youth in pursuing their interests through the cultivation of a caring adult–youth relationship, LUL offers an empirical case that brings together insights from youth development and interest-driven learning research. Examination into the verbal and material interactions that shape adult–youth interactions yields insight into how …

Southeastern Law Librarian Winter 2020, Seaall

Newsletters

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Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 19, No. 3, Winter 2020, Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Magazine

Grand Valley Magazine is a quarterly publication about Grand Valley State University produced by University Communications since 2001.

Benefits, Drawbacks, And Risks Of Ai, James M. Donovan

Law Faculty Books and Chapters

The specter of the impact of artificial intelligence [AI] on law and legal education casts a long and uncertain shadow. Its mix of enthusiasm and trepidation can arise from a thin idea of what the label refers to. Four components differentiate AI from even high-end automation: Big data and predictive analytics, deep learning software, cloud computing, and natural language process. From the perspective of the person on the street though, is captured as “the art of creating machines that perform functions that require intelligence when performed by people,” centering on the ability to make independent choices. While that gloss may …

Copley Library Annual Report 2019-2020, Helen K. And James S. Copley Library, University Of San Diego

Copley Library Annual Reports

Message from the Dean; Students go to the library; The Collection, Access, and Discovery Department Succeeds when Students Do; Roy and Marian Holleman Copley Library Student Assistant Scholarship Winners; Access and Outreach Services and Student Success; Access Services Staff Contributes to Student Success; Copley Library and Undergraduate Student Success; Social Media and Student Success; Student Employees Boost Copley's Social Media; Embedded Education Librarian SOLES and Graduate Student Success; Embedded Nursing Librarian Hahn School of Nursing and Graduate Student Success; Copley Library Renovation Photos; Behind the Scenes in Digitization; Digital Initiatives and Student Success; Hidden Collections: Archives, Special Collections, Digital Initiatives …

Evolving Library Space & Services: Applied Nexus Learning, Anthony J. Frisby, Les Sztandera

Academic Commons and Scott Memorial Library Staff Papers and Presentations

Academic library designs evolve to match the educational philosophy and practices of their home institutions. Nexus Learning – our university’s signature pedagogy – actively engages all learners in a collaborative approach to solving real-world problems and uses a humanistic approach to designing effective solutions. Three student teams used this methodology to assess the current use of a large, primarily undergraduate library and propose a re-imagined library space that meets the needs of the current academic community.

Portraits Of Professional Collaboration: Faculty-Librarian Teaching Partnerships, Carrie L. Forbes

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Many regional accrediting organizations for higher education have embraced information literacy as a key component for both student success and student learning outcomes. Through embedded librarianship practices, librarians are now taking a leading role in developing and promoting users’ information literacy skills and in adopting an active classroom teaching approach. Faculty-librarian team teaching is a best practice for integrating information literacy into the higher education curricula, but the extant research has largely focused on the barriers to collaboration. Using Walsh and Kahn’s (2010) model of “collaborative working” as a conceptual framework, this dissertation explores the qualities and characteristics of four …

Boundaries And Infomediaries: A Qualitative Study Of The Information Practices Of Community Health Workers, Robert M. Shapiro Ii

Theses and Dissertations--Communication

Despite successful efforts to treat and manage diseases, public health officials have recently begun a campaign to refocus efforts toward initiatives to alleviate the pressures that are often referred to as social determinants of health. In eastern Kentucky, and in other geographical regions labeled as health professional shortage areas or medically underserved areas, issues stemming from social determinants are compounded with health care systems that are often lacking the human resources to meet basic medical needs. One strategy has been to utilize volunteers and paraprofessionals such as community health workers to lessen the burden on the primary care and hospital …

Passions Read And Hearts Fed: Science Fiction Orients Library Science To The Anthropocene - A Review Of "I Met A Traveler In An Antique Land.", Wendy Highby, Katherine Shull, Emory Jay Trask

University Libraries Publications

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Making Disciplinary Research Audible, Andrew Smith, Meghan L. Cook, Matt Torrence

Tampa Library Faculty and Staff Publications

Academic libraries have long consulted with faculty and graduate students on ways to measure the impact of their published research, which now include altmetrics. Podcasting is becoming a more viable method of publicizing academic research to a broad audience. Because individual academic departments may lack the ability to produce podcasts, the library can serve as the most appropriate academic unit to undertake podcast production on behalf of researchers. The article identifies what library staff and equipment are required, describes the process needed to produce and market the published episodes, and offers preliminary assessments of the podcast impact.

Research On The Influencing Factors Of Open Data Policy Implemen-Tation In China: Based On The Comprehensive Model Of Policy Implementation, Jian Tu

Journal of Scientific Information Research

Based on the review of relevant literature and the analysis of the present situation of open data policy of Chinese government.This paper introduces a comprehensive model of policy implementation to analyze the influencing factors in the implementation of open data policy of our government.From the point of view of policy implementation model，this paper explores the problems from three aspects:the treat ability of the problem，the regulatory ability of the policy itself and the problems other than the policy itself，and puts forward some corresponding suggestions.

Educating For Whiteness: Applying Critical Race Theory’S Revisionist History In Library & Information Science Research, Suzanne Marie Stauffer

Faculty Publications

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Determining Shelving Accuracy Via Sampling In A Community College Library, John P. Delooper, Devika Gonsalves

Publications and Research

During the Fall 2017 semester, staff at the Hudson County Community College (HCCC), Library began to notice that many books listed as available in the catalog were often not being found on the shelves when patrons attempted to retrieve them. This situation puzzled library leadership because HCCC had recently conducted an inventory and removed all missing items from its holdings. To determine the cause of this discrepancy, HCCC staff decided to sample the library’s collection to determine if books were available at the expected locations. From this, the library found that a high percentage of its books were not present …

Completing The Cycle: Creating A Data Management Services Program, Scott Bacon, Eric Resnis, Ariana Baker

Library Faculty Presentations

The implementation of Coastal Carolina University’s Data Management Services program is explored in this presentation. Our library continued to see growth in data management support requests from researchers, so we felt the need to programmatically develop data management services to serve those needs. We assembled a Data Management Services Working Group to examine what types of services were being offered at other M1 institutions. A research data management life cycle was then developed to serve as a standard framework. The services we currently offer were then integrated with those we knew our faculty wanted. We also explored services apart from …

Discovering Diamonds In Your Survey Data, Jessica De Perio Wittman, Katie Brown

Faculty Articles and Papers

Library surveys enable us to open up a dialogue with our patron base in order to uncover areas of improvement and to facilitate a better user experience for all of our patrons. Traditional survey creation has innate challenges, such as asking the right questions, properly coding the data, and addressing the proper audience. All of these challenges must be considered when drafting and designing surveys to ensure the collection of useful data for outcome-driven decision-making at your library. Additionally, librarians can also redesign their own or other open-sourced surveys to enable library administration to plan for, manage, and achieve outcomes …

A Comparative Study On Process Optimization And The Modern Law Library’S Involvement In Achieving Efficiency At The Law School In Times Of Change, Jessica De Perio Wittman, Kathleen (Katie) Brown

Faculty Articles and Papers

Law firms have been utilizing process optimization tools, such as Lean Six Sigma, to improve internal processes and build efficiencies. Successful outcomes require leadership teams that believe that process improvement is more than just a tool kit to solve problems or a collection of methodologies and processes. Through collection development practices, continuous learning opportunities, and the use of cross-functional teams, the modern law library has effectively demonstrated its ability to meet the dynamic needs of the law school community. Similarly, law librarians find themselves uniquely positioned to collaborate with law school administration on continual process improvement strategies in times of …

Be Empowered! Take The 'Scary' Out Of Linked Data, Angela Yon, April K. Anderson-Zorn

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

The archives and library community has implemented linked data in recent years. Linked data empowers archivists to connect local data to a global audience using common identifiers and standards. However, due to the high level of institutional requirements that projects typically need with the high barrier of time and resources, many archivists have difficulty incorporating linked data practices into their daily descriptive work.

The Dr. Jo Ann Rayfield Archives at Illinois State University’s Milner Library received the opportunity to digitize a segment of the expansive Ken-Way Studio Photograph Collection. The collection encompasses 120 linear feet and documents the history of …

Relocating, Downsizing, And Merging: Inventory Projects To Manage Change In A Digital Environment, Gail Perkins Barton, Rachel E. Scott

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

With a new library location and newly created librarian position, the Health Sciences Library (HSL) of the University Libraries at the University of Memphis needed a comprehensive inventory. Having previously completed a small-scale inventory, technical services librarians led the project to assess the HSL collection before the newly hired librarian arrived. Beyond ensuring that all materials were in the collection and reflected properly in the integrated library system (ILS), an up-to- date inventory asserts the value of the physical collections to a variety of campus stakeholders. This chapter offers ideas for working collaboratively with personnel across library departments to conduct …

Double Live Gonzo! Double Your Impact With A Flipped Classroom, Bo Baker, Beverly Simmons Kutz, Lane Wilkinson

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2013

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I Hear The Train A Comin’: Common Core Is Rollin’ 'Round The Bend, Susann Devries, Sarah Fabian

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2013

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I Want My Nyt! Using Apps And News Databases To Help Students Gain News Literacy, Julie Piacentine, Rebecca Starkey, John Kimbrough

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2013

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Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go: Using Unlikely Examples To Engage Students In Information Literacy, Jean Cook

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2013

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