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Food Justice Saf 383, Michael Cerbo Dec 2020

Food Justice Saf 383, Michael Cerbo

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


Introduction To Data Science Lti 110, Joanna Burkhardt Dec 2020

Introduction To Data Science Lti 110, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


Introduction To Data Science, Joanna Burkhardt Dec 2020

Introduction To Data Science, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


Research Methods, Mary Macdonald Dec 2020

Research Methods, Mary Macdonald

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


An Appeal For The Physical Book, Amanda C.R. Clark Dec 2020

An Appeal For The Physical Book, Amanda C.R. Clark

The Christian Librarian

Librarians are confronting a shift in media that is changing the structure and the collections of libraries as well as the meaning of librarianship itself. The heart of this essay suggests that the physical book maybe considered an enduring communication vessel. If the goal of the library is to offer access to the cultural record, then physical books as a social record embodying “bookness” hold a place within the library institution as a material expression of the intimate and enduring relationship between human and book.


Jazz Research Mus 423, Jim Kinnie Nov 2020

Jazz Research Mus 423, Jim Kinnie

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


Use Of Ict In Collection Management Of Public Libraries In Punjab, Pakistan, Mr. Javed Iqbal Rana, Rubina Bhatti Professor Dr. Nov 2020

Use Of Ict In Collection Management Of Public Libraries In Punjab, Pakistan, Mr. Javed Iqbal Rana, Rubina Bhatti Professor Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

Objectives of the study: This study is about the assessing of use of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) in Collection Management (CM) of Public Libraries in Punjab (PLsP), Pakistan.

Research Design:The study was conducted in seventeen PLsP. Target population was the Head Librarians(HLs) of the selected PLsP. Data regarding current status of ICT apparatus, IT staff, available ICT resources and usage of ICT in CM was collected from the concerned HLs through a comprehensive questionnaire. The questionnaire having mostly closed ended questions was constructed in the light of extensive literature review. The data collected from HLs was …


Measuring Library Subscriptions To The Availability Of Scholarly Articles Published By The Academic And Research Community Of The Institution, Ishappa C. Bandi Nov 2020

Measuring Library Subscriptions To The Availability Of Scholarly Articles Published By The Academic And Research Community Of The Institution, Ishappa C. Bandi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Any research institution needs to analyze their research output in terms of journal articles in SCI or SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR) Indicator. It is also essential at the same time to understand the library subscription quality. In this article, an attempt has been made to map the faculty and research scholarly journal publications and the library E-journals subscription. The current year articles publications by the academic staff and research scholars indexed in the SCOPUS database have been analyzed based on the full-text availability. The sources from where the academic staff refer and cite would like to publish their research articles. …


Critical Issues In Policing Ccj 480, Karen Morse Nov 2020

Critical Issues In Policing Ccj 480, Karen Morse

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


A Study Of Public Libraries In India: Pre-Independence Period, R. K. Bhatt, Kandhasamy K Nov 2020

A Study Of Public Libraries In India: Pre-Independence Period, R. K. Bhatt, Kandhasamy K

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Public libraries are plays a vital role in the society in terms of social, cultural and economic developments. Availability of public libraries in a society directly and indirectly reflects the knowledge of the people. By examining the historical movement of public libraries in different regions, we are better equipped to identify the existing gaps in the field of libraries and thereby provide valuable directions in the establishment of new libraries. The scope of this study is to give a bird’s eye view and critical analysis of age-old public libraries which existed in pre-independence India. Further it provides a detailed accounts …


Critical Information Literacy And Collections: Developing Praxis For Public Libraries, Lesley Garrett Nov 2020

Critical Information Literacy And Collections: Developing Praxis For Public Libraries, Lesley Garrett

Liberal Arts Capstones

Public libraries play an active role in building equitable, democratic communities by promoting critical information literacy, most notably in their collections development. Critical Information Literacy builds on the standard information literacy definitions by adding an analysis of political, economic, social and corporate systems that “have power and influence over information production, dissemination, access, and consumption" (Gregory and Higgins, 2013). This project includes a zine created to introduce an adaptation of Paulo Freire's banking concept of education for libraries, as well as note the continued work needed to develop a praxis for critical public librarianship.


Journal Usage Level Changes At Morehouse School Of Medicine Library 2011-2020, Joe Swanson, Roland B. Welmaker, Monica Riley, Tara Douglas-Williams Nov 2020

Journal Usage Level Changes At Morehouse School Of Medicine Library 2011-2020, Joe Swanson, Roland B. Welmaker, Monica Riley, Tara Douglas-Williams

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

OBJECTIVE: To determine faculty and researcher journal usage levels and their implications on library’s journal collection and access models for the past five years and compare to previous usage and implications.

1. The librarians would like to investigate changes made in the journal collection as we moved to fewer print based resources through a comparison of usage levels prior to the changes to usage levels after the changes. We had sought to seek optimum pathways for supporting the school’s curricula, research agendas, and health care enterprise. Our ultimate question is ‘How have changes correlated and compared to previous usage and …


Game Plan: Incorporating Games Into Libraries, Olivia Shelton Nov 2020

Game Plan: Incorporating Games Into Libraries, Olivia Shelton

Scholars Week

This article discusses the importance of gaming in all libraries. It aims to show what different libraries around the world have done to incorporate games in their circulation. It examines the different needs based on the size of the library and the community each serves to better inform other libraries interested in starting a collection. The article reviews some of the issues that arise when starting a collection and how to address those concerns when starting a new project. It also reviews what steps are needed to add games into catalogs to circulate. The article concludes with reflections for future …


Converting A Small Online Catalog - Improving Service And Satisfaction, Marilyn Teolis, Priscilla Stephenson, Andrew Brown, Ada Echols Nov 2020

Converting A Small Online Catalog - Improving Service And Satisfaction, Marilyn Teolis, Priscilla Stephenson, Andrew Brown, Ada Echols

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Converting the online catalog to a cloud-based system. The library’s software-based catalog experienced technical issues whenever the hospital’s Information Technology department performed updates, and remote access to the system was not available. The authors describe the process of successfully converting the online catalog to a cloud-based system with remote access. It was critical for the library staff to preserve data from the former system. The initial step was to download the statistics from the former system to preserve them for future use. While the library staff weeded both the collection and the online records, they checked to ensure the existing …


Reimagining A To Z Database Descriptions To Improve User Experiences: A Database Description Project, Lauren Fletcher, Sarah Adcock Nov 2020

Reimagining A To Z Database Descriptions To Improve User Experiences: A Database Description Project, Lauren Fletcher, Sarah Adcock

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: This poster examines how a Research and Instruction Librarian team at Rowland Medical Library updated and re-envisioned the library’s A to Z Database list. Methods: Two librarians worked to reimagine the format of the database descriptions provided on the A-Z Database page to include the relevant information users routinely requested. To this end, the librarians determined that each description should include alternative names, subjects, content categories, date range, icons, and vendor information. The reimagined descriptions removed extraneous vendor content that confused users and focused on information users could use to make quick determinations on which databases were best for …


Increasing Ebook Usage: The Importance Of Investing Time And Money Into Access Points, Carolyn Klatt, Kim Meeks Nov 2020

Increasing Ebook Usage: The Importance Of Investing Time And Money Into Access Points, Carolyn Klatt, Kim Meeks

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

OBJECTIVE In January 2020, the Library migrated to a new Library Management System (LMS), Ex Libris Alma and Primo, that combines the functionality of a discovery service and the features of a traditional catalog. The Library’s eBooks, which were previously only accessible via a discovery service, are now discoverable along with other library resources via one access point. The objective of this study is to measure eBook usage over the 2017-2020 period as one means of determining the effect of user access points on eBook usage.

METHODS Counter Book Report 2 (R4) eBook usage statistics from January to August for …


Visual Literacy And Global Media Lsc 559, Mary Macdonald Nov 2020

Visual Literacy And Global Media Lsc 559, Mary Macdonald

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


Openathens Odysseys: Implementation Challenges & Lessons Learned At Texas Medical Center & University Of Toledo, Joanne Romano, Nha Huynh Nov 2020

Openathens Odysseys: Implementation Challenges & Lessons Learned At Texas Medical Center & University Of Toledo, Joanne Romano, Nha Huynh

Library Staff Publications

This presentation will review the challenges encountered and lessons learned by two separate library systems in implementing OpenAthens authentication. The Texas Medical Center Library, which replaced EZproxy, serves multiple academic institutions. The University of Toledo Libraries, which replaced WAM, serves two different campuses.


Human Rights Psc 360, Michael Cerbo Nov 2020

Human Rights Psc 360, Michael Cerbo

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


Music Administration And Supervision Mus 506, Jim Kinnie Nov 2020

Music Administration And Supervision Mus 506, Jim Kinnie

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


Basics In Classical And Acoustic Guitar, Jim Kinnie Nov 2020

Basics In Classical And Acoustic Guitar, Jim Kinnie

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


Applied Data Management And Analysis Ii Nur 656, Joanna Burkhardt Nov 2020

Applied Data Management And Analysis Ii Nur 656, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


Cancer Immunotherapy Nur 316x, Joanna Burkhardt Nov 2020

Cancer Immunotherapy Nur 316x, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


Lis Online Graduate Certificate In Data Science, Joanna Burkhardt Nov 2020

Lis Online Graduate Certificate In Data Science, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


Cancer Immunotherapy Nur 316, Joanna Burkhardt Nov 2020

Cancer Immunotherapy Nur 316, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


Analyzing The Acceptance Of Digital Library System By Students And Librarians, Retno Sayekti, Mardianto Mardianto, Usiono Usiono Nov 2020

Analyzing The Acceptance Of Digital Library System By Students And Librarians, Retno Sayekti, Mardianto Mardianto, Usiono Usiono

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study investigates the acceptance of digital library system (Digilib system) by students and librarians of the State Islamic University of North Sumatera (UIN Sumatera Utara) Medan. It highlights the system’s rate of acceptance from the perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use (PEOU), behavioural intention to use (IU), and actual system usage (AU). Furthermore, the study investigates the problems in using the system and the users’ strategy in coping with the problems. Data were collected using an online survey from 186 respondents, comprising 26 librarians and 160 students. A quantitative approach was applied using a TAM model to measure …


Utilization Of Library Space In University Libraries Of Assam: A Study, Debajit Borgohain Research Scholar, Dipen Deka Assistant Professor Nov 2020

Utilization Of Library Space In University Libraries Of Assam: A Study, Debajit Borgohain Research Scholar, Dipen Deka Assistant Professor

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Objective: This study dealt with different academic library spaces like collection space, user seating space, service & staff work area space, non- assignable space etc. The main objective of the study was to identify the library spaces of four select State University libraries of Assam and how these spaces were being identified, organized and utilized by adopting different measures. It also emphasized on the weeding out policy of the University libraries as it was the key element of library space management.

Methods: For this study, both qualitative and quantitative approach for data collection had been used. A structured questionnaire was …


A Report On Preparing The Council On East Asian Libraries’S (Ceal) Statement On Collection Development And Acquisition Amid The Covid-19 Pandemic: In Collaboration With The North American Coordinating Council On Japanese Library Resources (Ncc) And The Society Of Chinese Studies Librarians (Scsl), Fabiano Takashi Rocha Oct 2020

A Report On Preparing The Council On East Asian Libraries’S (Ceal) Statement On Collection Development And Acquisition Amid The Covid-19 Pandemic: In Collaboration With The North American Coordinating Council On Japanese Library Resources (Ncc) And The Society Of Chinese Studies Librarians (Scsl), Fabiano Takashi Rocha

Journal of East Asian Libraries

The COVID-19 pandemic forced libraries to close temporarily halting the access to physical collections. As a result, many libraries started reformulating or implementing collection development policies that favour the acquisition of electronic formats. Given the low, and in some cases nonexistent, availability of resources in electronic formats in the non-English publishing realm, concerns were raised by several area studies organizations about the equity and representation in collection development and acquisition. This report provides insight on how the Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL) , along with the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC) and the Society of …


Sebuah Kajian Kolaborasi Dan Graf Komunikasi Penulsi Pada Jurnal Ijeis (Indonesian Journal Of Electronic And Instrumentation System), Universitas Gadjah Mada, Y. Rudi Kriswanto, Ella Erliyana, I Ketut Gunadi Adiguna, Indah Rachma Cahyani Oct 2020

Sebuah Kajian Kolaborasi Dan Graf Komunikasi Penulsi Pada Jurnal Ijeis (Indonesian Journal Of Electronic And Instrumentation System), Universitas Gadjah Mada, Y. Rudi Kriswanto, Ella Erliyana, I Ketut Gunadi Adiguna, Indah Rachma Cahyani

Jurnal Ilmu Informasi, Perpustakaan, dan Kearsipan

This study aims among others; to know the level of author collaboration; the most prolific writer; the amount of information on the communication graph; the synthesis point; to know the relationship between productive authors with a synthesis point. Data collection is done by taking the author of the article in the journal IJEIS UGM in the 2015-2017 edition year. To find out the level of collaboration authors required the theory written Subramanyam. Then to map the relationship of collaboration between authors required communication graph. By applying Brillouin formulation, the communication graph can be determined synthesis point the calculation results show …


Audit Informasi Pada Unit Layanan Book Carrier Perpustakaan Bank Pustaka, Kiki Fauziah Oct 2020

Audit Informasi Pada Unit Layanan Book Carrier Perpustakaan Bank Pustaka, Kiki Fauziah

Jurnal Ilmu Informasi, Perpustakaan, dan Kearsipan

This article discusses information audit process in the book carrier service unit of Bank Pustaka Library. The purpose of this study was to see flow of information on the book carrier services, to identify effectiveness of work instructions for book carrier services and to identify information needs in the book carrier service unit. This research used a qualitative approach with a case study method. The data collection was conducted by interview, observation, and document analysis. The study results found that there was miscommunication between the coordinator and staff in providing work instructions, work instructions of the book carrier service were …