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Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Dylan Girodat, Lutishoor Salisbury, Fardy Faustin, Jeremy Smith

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

This poster was compiled to highlight Dr. Girodat’s research as a new faculty in the Department of the Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arkansas. It provides a summary of his research achievements and his scholarly impact.

Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Shang Jia, Lutishoor Salisbury, Fardy Faustin, Jeremy Smith

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

This poster was compiled to highlight Dr. Jia’s research as a new research faculty in the Department of the Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arkansas. It provides a summary of his research achievements and his scholarly impact.

Faculty Promotion Research Profile: Chenguang Fan, Lutishoor Salisbury, Fardy Faustin, Jeremy Smith

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

This poster was compiled to commemorate Dr. Fan’s promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure in the Department of the Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arkansas, July 1, 2022. It provides a summary of his research achievements and his scholarly impact.

Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Vincent F. Chevrier, Lutishoor Salisbury, Jeremy Smith, Yang Tian

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

This poster was compiled to commemorate the promotion of Dr. Dr. Vincent F. Chevrier to Associate Research Professor in the Department of the Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arkansas, July 2020. It provides a summary of his research achievements and scholarly impact.

Faculty Research Profile: Bin Dong, Lutishoor Salisbury, Yang Tian, Jeremy Smith

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

This poster was compiled to commemorate the hiring of Dr. Bin Dong as Assistant Professor to the Department of the Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arkansas from August 2021. It provides a summary of his research achievements and scholarly impact.

Faculty Research Profile: Paul Adams, Lutishoor Salisbury, Yang Tian, Jeremy Smith

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

This poster was compiled to commemorate the promotion of Dr. Paul Adams to full professor in the Department of the Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arkansas in July 2021. It provides a summary of his research achievements and scholarly impact.

Faculty Research Profile: Nan Zheng, Lutishoor Salisbury, Yang Tian, Jeremy Smith

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

This poster was compiled to commemorate the promotion of Dr. Nan Zheng to full professor in the Department of the Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arkansas in July 2021. It provides a summary of his research achievements and scholarly impact.

Faculty Research Profile: Colin Heyes, Lutishoor Salisbury, Yang Tian, Jeremy Smith

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

This poster was compiled to commemorate the promotion of Dr Colin Heyes to full professor in the Department of the Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arkansas in July 2021. It provides a summary of his research achievements and scholarly impact.

Using University Research In Food Science To Study Their Characteristics And To Model The Research And Information Needs Of Researchers, Lutishoor Salisbury, Jeremy Smith, Abayomi Omotola Omolewu

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

Using University Research in Food Science to Study their Characteristics and to Model the Research and Information Needs of Researchers.

Making collection management decisions of resources is important and challenging. The challenges arise from finding the balance between the mission of libraries to meet the needs of a wide range of users; the high cost of subscription to journals and databases; the escalating annual increases imposed by publishers, and limited budget for collection management activities.

By identifying and analyzing the research output from faculty and graduate students from the Food Science Department to determine where they published and the sources …

Faculty Research Profile: Jingyi Chen, Lutishoor Salisbury, Yang Tian, Jeremy Smith

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

This poster was compiled to commemorate the promotion of Dr. Jingyi Chen to full professor in the Department of the Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arkansas in July 2020. It provides a summary of her research achievements and their scholarly impact.

Faculty Research Profile: Stefan M. Kilyanek, Lutishoor Salisbury, Yang Tian, Jeremy Smith

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

This poster was compiled to commemorate the promotion of Dr. Stefan M. Kilyanek to associate professor with tenure in the Department of the Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arkansas in July 2020. It provides a summary of his research achievements and their scholarly impact.

Hosting Inspec On Engineering Village Or Web Science: A Case Study In Comparing Database Platforms, Jay Mcallister Iii, Nancy Diaz

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

Purpose – As library budgets continue to constrict, librarians will need to become more familiar with comparing database host platforms. This paper aims to compare Inspec on Elsevier’s Engineering Village (EV) and Clarivate’s Web of Science (WOS) from a novice user experience. The main objectives are to identify some R1 institutions that subscribe to Inspec and highlight some of the key differences between the two platforms. Design/methodology/approach – Information on Inspec was gathered from various sources as well as the home website, IET, and the host platform websites of Elsevier and Clarivate Analytics. Data was also collected from brochures and …

Technology Use For Extra-Curricular Activities And Academic Performance In Library Instruction Sessions, Lutishoor Salisbury, Abayomi Omotola Omolew, Jeremy J. Smith

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

This poster reports on a study that investigated:

a. The impact of students’ use of technology for extracurricular purposes during instruction sessions and its effects on their learning and retention of information.

b. Whether attendance at a previous library instruction session provided the students with the advantage of scoring higher in the assessment, and

c. Whether the use of these technologies in class sessions was disruptive to other students.

The Library Rally, Michelle Gibeault

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

Course instructors are a teaching librarian’s closest partners. This assessment focuses on gathering their responses to the most critical questions anonymously and offers the opportunity to include additional written feedback. If you’re not doing any assessment presently, this might be a good method to get responses in a quantifiable format, and it creates a medium for fellow educators to offer suggestions for improvement.

Always Be Teaching: Reading Room Exhibits And Displays As Instructional Tools, Joshua Youngblood

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

A university's special collections is often a featured stop on campus tours, whether for visiting dignitaries, prospective students, or guest lecturers. This poster presentation highlights successful planning that has allowed a special collections without dedicated classrooms or galleries to utilize limited exhibit spaces in the reading room for rotating and long-term exhibits that align with library-wide initiatives while also focusing student and visitor attention on curatorial strengths, cross-disciplinary opportunities, emerging research trends, and hidden collections.

This study outlines the exhibiting of the University of Arkansas Libraries Special Collections. Founded in 1967, the department is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. …

Freedom Is Everybody's Business: Using Multi-Faceted Outreach To Draw Student Attention To Local Archival Collections On The Civil Rights Movement Of The 1960s, Joshua Youngblood

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

As the recent celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington demonstrated, numerous digital projects and numerous scholarly and popular print publications have made the grander stories and lessons of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s widely available. But what about the lesser known heroes and the local and regional episodes that have not received the same level of interest? Manuscript collections that capture those hidden stories, integral to the achievements—and setbacks—of the Civil Rights Movement, can provide students access to richer understandings of the social and political watersheds of the era. By utilizing select …

A Tale Of Two Counties: How Two School Libraries In Rural Western China Serve Local Needs, Wei Zhipeng, Jiang Guodong, Niu Tuowen, Tim Zou, Elaine Dong

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

This report presents a case study of school library programs in two rural counties in Western China. Since 2002, the libraries of Tianzhu and Tongwei high schools have undertaken a series of outreach initiatives to improve local residents’ access to information and to address their cultural and educational needs. Over the past decade, both school libraries have played a leading role in improving the quality of life and enhancing the information literacy of local residents. Tianzhu No. 1 High School Library 天祝一中图书馆—which serves a large Tibetan and other minority populations—has gained a reputation for its oral history of local culture …

Library Consortia In China, Elaine Xiaofen Dong, Tim Jiping Zou

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper traces the history and development of library consortia in China from 1980 to the present. It also gives examples and descriptions of various types of library consortia in China, including academic, public, special, multi-type library consortia at the regional and national level.

A Parliament Of Urls: Medieval Resources On The Web, Beth Juhl

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

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