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Introduction And Welcoming Remarks, Julie Garrison, Maira Bundza

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group 2019 Meeting

Dean Garrison will welcome us to our user group meeting and ScholarWorks librarian Maira Bundza will provide and introduction to the day and ask all present to share something about their repository and what they would most like to discuss at this meeting.

Applied Capstone Project Spc 589, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

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Developmental Neurobiology Neu 201, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

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Applied Capstone Project Spc 589, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

Increasing Faculty-Librarian Collaboration Through Critical Librarianship, Adrienne Gosselin, Mandi Goodsett

Michael Schwartz Library Publications

Through the lens of critical librarianship, librarians are becoming increasingly involved in social justice, civic engagement, and human rights issues. This paper examines the collaboration between a subject librarian and a faculty member in an assignment that engaged in Public Sphere Pedagogy (PSP), a teaching strategy with the goal of increasing students’ sense of civic agency and personal and social responsibility by connecting their classwork to public arenas; and project-based learning, wherein students develop a question to research and create projects that reflect their knowledge, which they share with a select audience.

Neuroscience Professional Development Neu 230, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

Open Access Computer Science Journals In The Doaj: An Analytical Study, Midhat Mehraj, Ikhlaq Ur Rehman, Shabir Ahmad Ganaie

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Open Access movement has shown tremendous growth over the years throughout the world in various regions, countries and disciplines. This paper aims to evaluate the publishing trends of the open access journals in the computer science discipline registered in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The data collected after the in-depth examination of the directory was analysed and tabulated using simple techniques to fulfil the set objectives. The study evaluates the highest number of contributions country wise, language wise and other factors associated with journals found in DOAJ

Cloud Computing And Libraries: A Best Choice For Effective Service: A Review Note., Anwar Muhammad Muhammad Mr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Libraries are always in transition mode and the libraries incapable of doing or adopting new technologies to the libraries. The present global publishing trends are making things easy for libraries to adopt or apply new technology to boost up their services. The current scenario of world library service is totally changed from traditional to technological trends. These trends sometimes called cloud computing that is making library users connected in the virtual environment. Cloud computing is the new technology to the library where its end-user can access the library without any problem at remote locations. However using or application of this …

Millennial Moms : Social Media As The Preferred Source Of Information About Parenting In Indonesia, Yuanita Setyastuti, Jenny Ratna Suminar, Purwanti Hadisiwi, Feliza Zubair

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to know about how social media is the preferred source of information about parenting on millennial moms or young mothers in Indonesia. This research was conducted using a quantitative approach through survey. The survey was conducted by using a questionnaire distributed online to the respondents via Facebook. The measuring is clarified by six dimensions: rejection, punishment, support, responsiveness, autonomy, and warmth. The sampling technique is done by accidental sampling techniques with strict criteria. The sample size were 443 social media users that meet the research criteria. Research criteria are a mother that born in 1980-2000s and actively …

Influence Of Leadership Style On Conflict Management In Private University Libraries In South West And South-South, Nigeria, Susan Udoaku Ogbuiyi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study investigated the influence of leadership style on conflict management in private university libraries in South-West and South-South Nigeria. The study employed the descriptive research design. Total enumeration was adopted because of few numbers of librarians in private and structured questionnaire were used to collect data. The instrument was validated using Cronbach’s Alpha. Data analysis involved both descriptive and inferential statistics such as percentage distributions, mean and standard deviation as well as regression analysis. The finding revealed that conflict management techniques used in the university libraries studied were collaborating and accommodating, followed by sharing. Avoidance and competing techniques were …

Successful Management Of An Outsourced Large-Scale Digitization Newspaper Project, Marina Georgieva

Library Faculty Research

This article uses the case study of the Nevada Digital Newspaper Project (https://nvdnp.wordpress.com/), an extension of the National Digital Newspaper Program (https://www.loc.gov/ndnp/), to introduce proven strategies on how to successfully manage a large-scale digitization project. It provides tips on how to stay within the timeline and deliver products with outstanding quality, leveraging limited human resources, and engaging an external digitization vendor. It discusses practical project management techniques and tools, strategies for establishing collaborative vendor partnerships, and strategies for efficient communication with stakeholders.

Impact Of Micro Finance On Decision Making Empowerment Of Shgs Women Members In Tirunelveli District, Sivasubramanian Subbiah

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study attempts to analyze the impact of micro finance on decision making empowerment of SHGs women members in Tirunelveli District of Tamil Nadu, India. It is found that the important decision making empowerment variables among the SHGs women members having primary education are ‘repayment decision’ and ‘health of children’. Among the SHGs women members having middle school education, the important decision making empowerment variables are ‘repayment decision’ and ‘health of children’. It is concluded from this study that micro finance, micro credit through SHGs has reached the people. There is steady growth in SHGs among women and millions …

Availability And Access Of Electronic Information Resources To Medical Library Users In Universities In South-South, Nigeria, Ogwo Uzoamaka, Nwachukwu Ndubuisi Victor Professor

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper examined the extent of availability and accessibility of electronic information resources to medical library users in south-South, Nigeria universities. The study adopted descriptive survey design to assess the availability of different types of electronic information resources and their accessibility to different categories of medical library users. The total population of the study comprised 226 medical library users of four federal universities in the south-South, Nigerian universities. Four (4) research questions guided the study. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire instrument. The Data were analysed using descriptive statistics of percentages, mean and standard deviations. The criterion mean of …

Assessment Of Legal Depository Practices Of The National Library Of Nigeria And Compliance Of Publishers And Authors With Legal Deposit Obligations, Juliana O. Akidi Phd, Cln, Charles O. Omekwu Phd, Cln

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study assessed the legal depository practices of the National Library Nigeria (NLN) and compliance of publishers and authors with legal deposit obligations. Three objectives guided the study. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The instruments for data collection comprised questionnaire and checklist. A combination of purposive and complete census sampling techniques were used for data collection. For data analysis, the study adopted descriptive and inferential statistics, using mean and standard deviation, simple percentage was used for the observation checklist, while the null hypothesis was tested at 0.05 degree of significance using ANOVA. The findings revealed 15 available …

Community Engagement As Collaboration, Michael Levine-Clark, Jill Emery

Collaborative Librarianship

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What Collaboration Means To Us: We Are More Powerful When We Work Together As A Community To Solve Problems, Jonathan P. Tennant, Bruce Becker, Tanja De Bie, Julien Colomb, Valentina Goglio, Ivo Grigorov, Chris Hartgerink, Ricardo Hartley, Johanna Havemann, Bianca Kramer, Christopher R. Madan, Paola Masuzzo, Lisa Matthias, Monika Schlatter, Tobias Steiner, Rutger Vos

Collaborative Librarianship

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Improving The Enhanced Journal Access Through An Academic Library And Publisher Collaboration, Laura I. Spears, Robert V. Phillips, Letitia Mukherjee, Judith C. Russell

Collaborative Librarianship

In May 2017, the George A. Smathers Libraries (Libraries) at the University of Florida (UF) andElsevier delivered the Phase I findings of a pilot project that aimed to maximize visibility, impact and dissemination of articles by UF researchers who have published in Elsevier journals. Beginning April 2016, the collaboration provided metadata with article links automatically delivered toUF’s Institutional Repository, the IR@UF, in theIR@UF-Elsevier Collection. As of December 31, 2018, links to over 42,000 articles by UF authors published between 1949 and 2018 are available through integration of the IR@UF with theScienceDirect application programming interfaces (APIs) …

An Exploration Of Partnerships Between Disability Service Units And Academic Libraries, Susan Murphy, Dale Amerud, Chloe Corcoran

Collaborative Librarianship

The University of Saskatchewan’s University Library has been partnering with its institution’s Disability Services unit for almost twenty-five years to provide space and equipment for students with disabilities in some of its library locations. This partnership has grown from piloting a Kurzweil reader, to the development of multiple assistive technology and exam writing rooms, to the recent creation of a multi-purpose room. These library spaces complement spaces Disability Services has within its own office suite and reflect the growth in the number of students registered with them, a widening spectrum of disabilities, and a collaborative desire to make disability services …

Getting Beyond "Both Sides": A Faculty-Librarian Pilot To Explore Critical Approaches To Curriculum And Assessment, Nicole Branch, Julia Voss, Loring Pfeiffer

Staff publications, research, and presentations

Existing research (Howard, Serviss, & Rodrigue 2010; Serviss & Jamieson 2015) and initiatives like the Citation Project and Learning Information Literacy Across the Curriculum describe how students access and use sources, focusing on 1) scholarly sources and 2) instruction by writing faculty. The current "fake news" moment (Skinnell et al. 2018) highlights the need for 1) critical approaches to source use, 2) pedagogy informed by librarians as research experts, and 3) assessment practices rooted in critical approaches. We report preliminary findings from an FYC/library collaboration that supported research-based analytical writing by using information-literacy instruction modules based on the ACRL Framework …

Exhibit: The Moon & Mars: Exploration Fascination, Georgia Southern University

Library Publications (1999-2023)

• Exhibit: The Moon & Mars: Exploration Fascination

Open Access, Sarah A. Norris

Camp COMPASS

No abstract provided.

Copyright, Sarah A. Norris

Camp COMPASS

No abstract provided.

The Ultimate Survey: Asking One Question At A Time To Get Feedback From Library Users, Leticia Camacho, Brian Wages, Taylor Harris

Faculty Publications

Libraries use surveys and other instruments to gather feedback from their users. However, with competition from many other campus entities requesting input, how can survey fatigue be avoided? To gather this feedback, the Social Sciences Reference Desk utilized a short, fun and easy method. Each week for 10 weeks during the fall semester of 2017, the reference assistants wrote a survey question on a whiteboard and provided sticky notes for patrons to write their answers. The survey provided valuable information about patrons’ needs and expectations. It also fostered changes that were easily implemented to improve the delivery of library services.

A Scientometric Analysis Of Drone Technology Publications, Lakshminarasimhappa Mc, Kemparaju Td

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study focus on the growth and development of drone technology research in forms of publications reflected in Web of Science database, during the span of 1998-2017. A total 3433 publications were found and the highest 1040 (30.29%) publications published in 2017. The average number of 343.3 publications were published per year in the study field and there was a variation in Annual Growth, because there is no constant growth of publications every year in the area of study. Out of total publications, 3123 (90.97%) contributed by collaboration of multiple authors and 310 (9.03%) by single authors. Authors from United …

Librarians Do That? Three Applications Of Business Information Literacy Outside Of The Library, Ilana Stonebraker

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

In this short talk I will describe some of the work I am doing with the non-profit supporting immigrant owned-businesses, the work I do with government involving quality of life, work in leadership development and supporting entrepreneurship.

Technical Standards Literacy In Management Education, Heather A. Howard, Margaret Phillips

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

Industry standards have a significant impact on business as a means to eliminate waste, reduce costs, market products (e.g., for quality, safety, interoperability) and lessen liability (Thompson, 2011). Consequently, an understanding of and ability to use standards, agreed upon practices among interested or vested parties, is a critical workplace competency for those engaged in business and industry. To have a workforce competent in the use of standards, higher education curricula must be developed to integrate standards education at appropriate points within the curriculum. Despite the importance of standards, they are not universally integrated into the college and university curricula. Given …

Business Librarians Confronting Predatory Publishing, Marydee Ojala

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

Predatory publishing is a scourge on the information/library landscape. They waste time, spread spurious information, diminish the power of scholarly research, and damage reputations. Cabell’s lists over 12,000 titles in its Blacklist, most of them in the sciences. Should business librarians be concerned about predatory journals? How can we help our faculty and grad students avoid publishing in fake titles, dissuade them from accepting invitations to be on editorial boards of shoddy journals, and warn them about deceptive conferences?

I'Ll Take Business Databases For 500, Christine Kickels

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

Has your library struggled with how to roll out or sunset a new database? Ours has. We use emails, blog posts and peer to peer training, but haven't really been happy with the results. In a culture of assessment and gaming, it was time to try something else. This year we incorporated Quizizz and Kahoot into our rollouts with much success. I'll share our assessments as well as things we learned about the process.

A Lightning Introduction To Wrds, Ash Faulkner

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

Wharton Research Data Services (commonly known as 'WRDS') is an essential data platform on many university campuses with a research-intensive business program. The platform can host a wide range of data subscriptions including BoardEx, Compustat, CRSP, IBES, Option Metrics, Thompson Reuters data and much more. Often a WRDS subscription is funded through the business program, rather than through the library, but it is essential that business librarians are familiar with this source and if at all possible are able to access and efficiently work through some of the more common data pull requests. As data literacy becomes an increasingly important …

Keeping Your Library Relevant For Your Users- Engine Parts Petting Zoo, Gabriele Hysong

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

As corporate libraries are downsized or even closed how do information professionals keep their libraries relevant?