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Gift Books Received At Uri July 2016 To June 2017, Michael C. Vocino

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Gift books, DVDs, and sewing patterns received by the University of Rhode Island Libraries from 2016-2017. Information includes date of donation, name of donor, and number of titles donated. During the year a total of 3,423 books, 18 DVDs, and 2,479 patterns were received.

Reference Database Usage Statistics 2015-2016, Sarah Bannister

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Statistics on the use of online reference databases at the University of Rhode Island during the period from July 2015 through June 2016. Includes COUNTER and non-COUNTER compliant data on sessions, searches, and other metrics.

Gift Books Received At Uri July 2015 To June 2016, Michael C. Vocino

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Gift books, DVDs, and sewing patterns received by the University of Rhode Island Libraries from 2015-2016. Information includes date of donation, name of donor, and number of titles donated. During the year a total of 4,355 books, 0 DVDs, and 2,566 patterns were received.

Nasig Core Competencies For Scholarly Communication Librarians, Andrew Wesolek, Wm. Joseph Thomas, Angela Dresselhaus, Julie Fielding, Char Simser, Sarah Sutton, Jason Boczar, Rachel Miles, Stephanie Spratt, Wendy Robertson, Betsy Appleton

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

The following Core Competencies for Scholarly Communication Librarians were developed out of research and discussion conducted by the NASIG Scholarly Communication Core Competencies Task Force. Scholarly communication is defined by ACRL as “the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use. The system includes both formal means of communication, such as publication in peer-reviewed journals, and informal channels, such as electronic listservs (Association of College & Research Libraries, “Principles and Strategies for the Reform of Scholarly Communication 1,” 2003). The specific duties of the scholarly …

Reaching Additional Users With Proactive Chat, Linda Rich, Vera J. Lux

University Libraries Faculty Publications

Despite a general decline in recent years in academic libraries’ reference desk statistics, research indicates that library users continue to have complex research questions but are largely unaware that librarians are waiting and ready to assist them. The challenge for librarians is to connect with users at their point of need. At Bowling Green State University, we are making a move in this direction with proactive (pop-up) chat widgets embedded within our library Web pages, catalog, and databases. Since implementation, the number of chat reference questions received has more than doubled, helping us reach additional users from on-and off-campus.

Current Issues Only Newsletter, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

Library Publications (1999-2023)

• George- Anne Now Available on Digital Commons!

Barriers To Oer Adoption (And Possible Solutions), Amanda Hovious

Texas Conference on Institutional Repositories

Type of presentation: Full Session

ABSTRACT

In 2012, at the World Open Educational Resources Congress in Paris, UNESCO declared that governments within their powers should develop strategies and policies that promote open educational resources (OER) as an avenue toward the universal right of equity of access to education. Though OER has increased exponentially in availability since that time, there remain confounding factors that act as barriers to OER adoption, such as ease of discovery, ease of adaptability and re-use, and uncertainty regarding quality and sustainability. Numerous studies have examined these barriers, and these studies should be of concern to librarians …

Deciphering Signatures For Improved Discoverability Of Etds, Stacey Wolf, Kevin Yanowski

Texas Conference on Institutional Repositories

Ever look at a signature and realize you can’t read the name, even though the letters look almost legible? Now imagine there is not a printed name near that signature. Multiply this issue by 2-4 names per item in a collection of thousands. The University of North Texas Libraries recently ran into this problem when adding metadata to recently-digitized theses and dissertations (ETDs) from the 1930s to 1990s. Deciphering the signatures proved difficult and time-consuming because centralized employee rosters do not exist for every year spanning the scope of the ETDs. Without these rosters, the UNT Library catalogers could not …

We Need To Talk: Educating Internal Stakeholders On Repository Needs, James Williamson, Felicia Williamson

Texas Conference on Institutional Repositories

In creating, managing, and adapting digital collections, managers often face hurdles of technical misunderstanding and sometimes, intimidation. By educating internal stakeholders and creating allies, information managers can facilitate institutional change and are much more able to request and receive funding to pursue innovative programs requiring technical infrastructure.

Felicia Williamson, Archivist at the Dallas Holocaust Museum, will discuss the ongoing efforts to build a more robust technical infrastructure at a small non-profit Museum. Former efforts did not employ metadata standards. Moreover, online access to collections seemed a far off goal. Two main needs emerged: to create and maintain robust metadata and …

2017 Annual Report Of The Work In Imsa’S Archives, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved

Archives' Annual Report

The IMSA Archives, housed in the Leto M. Furnas Information Resource Center, serves to collect and preserve materials relating to the history and ethos of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy and the activities of its students, faculty and staff. Our collection includes materials about IMSA’s establishment, led by Dr. Leon Lederman and Governor James Thompson; the Academy's development since 1986; its ideas and programs; partnership programs for educators and schools state- and nationwide; and the lives of its students, alumni, and staff.

Inspiring Innovation In Library Services, Erin Johnson, Alison Wetheral

Western Libraries Presentations

Our interactive session will focus on how to build a culture of innovation at your organization. We will provide an overview of frameworks that support innovation and will look at their applications to libraries. We will share some of the proven strategies we have used at Western Libraries in our goal to provide relevant, user-centred library services to our community. We will also discuss practical approaches that you can implement in your pursuit of inspiring innovation at your organization.

In the second half of the session, we will be taking a deeper look at one strategy in inspiring innovation: using …

Improving The Performance Of Librarians Through Mentoring: The Case Of Academic Libraries In South-East And South-South Zones Of Nigeria, Ifeoma Stella Njoku

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The objective of this study is to determine the extent to which mentoring programmes can encourage job task output of librarians which improves productivity. The study provides a conceptual and theoretical framework based on previous researches. The study adopted the survey method of research to sample opinion of respondents for the study. The population of the study is made up of 661 from 53 academic libraries consisting of federal and state owned universities, polytechnics and colleges of education libraries in South-East and South-South zones of Nigeria. Since the population of the study is small, census method was adopted. Data collection …

Technology, Information Literacy And Social Work Education, Laura Trull, David Vess

Libraries

This poster will demonstrate a unique series of interactive lessons, designed and implemented collaboratively by Social Work and Library faculty to support student information literacy skill development. This series of six lessons was implemented with junior-level social work students and focused on topics such as determining quality of sources, constructing citations, identifying research methodology, utilizing technology, research ethics and search techniques. Lesson outlines will be made available to participants and future research and evaluation plans will be discussed.

Current Issues Only Newsletter, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

Library Publications (1999-2023)

• Explore the New and Improved GIL-Find Catalog

Disaster Management And Preparedness: A Case Study Of University Of Jos Library, Grace Iyabo Nwokedi Mrs, Paul Patrick Panle Mr, Naomi Samuel Mrs

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this study was to examine the level of staff preparedness towards fire disaster in University of Jos Library. Survey research method was adopted for the study. The measuring instrument comprised of questionnaire and interview. Out of the 106 copies of questionnaire distributed 104 (98.11%) were filled, returned and found suitable for use. After-which simple frequency tables, percentages, means and weighted averages were used to analyse the results. For the interview, a face-to-face interactive session was held between the researchers and the University Librarian on issues of Disaster Management Plan in the Library. Results obtained from the analyses …

Academic Performances By The Faculty Members Of Mother Teresa Women’S University And Its Affiliated Colleges: An Evaluative Study, Vellaichamy Alagarsamy, Jeyshankar Ramalingam

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study was undertaken to assess academic performances of faculty members of Mother Teresa Women’s University and its Affiliated Colleges. Simple random sampling method has been applied in order to assess the faculty members’ perception about the academic performances. Questionnaire was a data collection tool. A total of 290 questionnaires were distributed among users and 254 duly filled in questionnaires were received, thus resulting into a response rate of 87.59 per cent. Out of 12 institutions, 5 are government, 5 are self-financing and 2 are aided educational institutions. While there are 92 (36.2%) respondents from self-financing colleges, 88 (34.6%) …

A Pilot "Big Data" Education Modular Curriculum For Engineering Graduate Education: Development And Implmentation, Megan R. Sapp Nelson, Line C. Pouchard

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Engineering higher education increasingly produces data in the volume, variety, velocity, and need for veracity such that the output of the research is considered “Big Data”. While engineering faculty members do conceive of and direct the research producing this data, there may be gaps in faculty members’ knowledge in training graduate and undergraduate research assistants in the management of Big Data. The project described herein details the development of a Big Data education module for a group of graduate researchers and undergraduate research assistants in Electrical and Computer Engineering. This project has the following objectives: to document and describe current …

An Empirical Study On The Traits Of Information Literacy Level Among Senior Secondary Students In Ilorin, Nigeria., Ismail Olatunji Adeyemi Mr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

This study examined the information literacy level among secondary school students in Ilorin. This study adopted the disproportionate stratified random sampling techniques. The total population for this study 1958 students. The data for the study was collected through structured questionnaires which were distributed randomly to 210 students. However, only 192 copies of the questionnaire were properly filled and returned for analysis and thus form the basis as sample for this study (N=192). The findings of the study revealed that more than half of the respondents can identify lack of knowledge in a subject area. The study also revealed that …

A Brief Introduction, Kayla Morrow

Blogging the Library

I’m a 2017 graduate of a small liberal-arts college named Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland. I double majored in English and Philosophy and was fortunate to have two archival internships at the Mount during my senior year. I had never considered a career in archival science before this point—in fact, I don’t think I knew what archival science even was—but I fell in love with my work at the Mount’s library. Nearing graduation, I decided that I wanted to pursue either a general MLIS or a library science degree with a specialization. But, as I soon realized, picking …

Inlp Newsletter, August 2017, Indigenous Nations Library Program

Monthly Newsletters

Contents:

--University Libraries Hours

--Upcoming INLP Events

--INLP Computer Lab Upgrades

--INLP Student Employee Spotlight

• Hope Johnson
• Teressa Llanes

--Leitner System

Instruction Assessment Following The Acrl Webinar Fighting Fake News With The Acrl Framework, Kristi L. Smith

University Libraries: Faculty Presentations

Workshop Overview:

Participants will work collaboratively to discuss ways to incorporate the ACRL Framework into their current information literacy instruction, which includes differentiating fake news from real news.

Workshop Structure:

After the webinar concludes, the six frames comprising the ACRL Framework will be displayed on the screen. The audience will be asked if they want a brief overview explaining the frames (this will be done for the benefit of media specialists, public librarians, etc.).

Next, participants will be asked to take five minutes to write down their current information literacy instruction activities/methods that are applicable to fake news. Then, participants …

Libguides Assessment Following The Acrl Webinar Essentials Of Usability Design For Library Research Guides, Kristi L. Smith

University Libraries: Faculty Presentations

Workshop Overview:

Participants will discuss major takeaways from webinar, and work collaboratively to assess their own institutions’ LibGuides.

Workshop Structure:

After the webinar, the host will thank everyone for attending, and invite people to stay for a hands-on workshop. The host will lead the class into a discussion of the webinar by posing the question, “What stood out to you most from the webinar?” After this brief discussion, the host will ask people to gather into groups; depending on the number of attendees, groups will be comprised of 2-3 or 4-5 people.

The groups will be tasked with assessing a …

Journals Analysis In The Field Of Literature On Vascular Diseases In Children, Kotti Thavamani

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper presents the analysis of core journals and subject-wise coverage of journals in the field of Vascular Diseases in Children for the period from 2012 to 2016 in the MEDLINE data which are covered in the Pubmed. The purpose of this study is to ascertain the core journals and its subject-wise coverage of journals in the field of Vascular Diseases in Children. It is found that the maximum number of records (6223) was published during the year 2015. The majority of the records were journal articles. 43 journals grouped in zone-1 published 4122 journal articles. In the second zone …

Unm Law Library Annual Report 2016-2017, Michelle Rigual

Annual Reports -- Law Library (1970-2017)

The annual report for The University of New Mexico Law Library & Student-edited Law Journals for the period July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017.

Connecting Information Literacy Instruction With Transfer Student Success, Mark Robison

Library Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Scholarworks Annual Report 2016-17, Maira Bundza

ScholarWorks Repository Information

The fiscal year report on WMU's institutional repository ScholarWorks includes statistics, projects, status of journals published in the IR, colleges served, usage statistics, staffing, decision making, connection to university and library strategic plans.

The State Of Diversity And Inclusion Initiatives In Small College Libraries, Pete Gilbert, Gretchen Revie

Diversity Conference 2017

Libraries have always been about diversity—of thought, expression, content – and inclusion. This up-to-the-minute report will highlight the current state of initiatives at Lawrence University and our peer institutions.

You Have One Hour: Developing A Standardized Library Orientation And Evaluating Student Learning, Elizabeth Brown

Library Scholarship

Library orientations continue to excite, or plague, instruction librarians everywhere. Reaching first year students early can preempt academic heartache and research woes, yet the question of “what students really need” continues to evolve. This article presents a case study of a large-scale implementation of library orientations. The main issue addressed in this article involves a systematic review of students’ post-instruction responses and assessment of their learning. Related elements mentioned in this article include: interdepartmental participation; curriculum design; and instructional technology. While this implementation may not be appropriate for all academic libraries, its components may offer ideas for augmenting existing programs …

Information Outlook, July/August 2017, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2017

Volume 21, Issue 4

Scholars' Mine Quick Facts August 2017, James Roger Weaver

Scholars’ Mine Statistics

Scholars' Mine statistical quick facts for August 2017.