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From The Gas: Congratulations, Publications, Presentations, Teresa S. Welsh Ph.D. Aug 2021

From The Gas: Congratulations, Publications, Presentations, Teresa S. Welsh Ph.D.

SLIS Connecting

News and congratulations from SLIS Director and Graduate Assistants for student, alumni, and faculty accomplishments, publications, and presentations.


Spotlights: Faculty, Alumna, Kaigler Children's Book Festival, Stacy Creel, Ph.D. Aug 2021

Spotlights: Faculty, Alumna, Kaigler Children's Book Festival, Stacy Creel, Ph.D.

SLIS Connecting

Spotlighting SLIS Faculty Dr. Laura Clark Hunt, SLIS alum Floyce Thomas, and the Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival.


Slis Director's Report, Teresa S. Welsh Ph.D. Aug 2021

Slis Director's Report, Teresa S. Welsh Ph.D.

SLIS Connecting

News and updates from Southern Miss School of Library and Information Science Director, Dr. Teresa Welsh.


A Study And Analysis Of Manuscript Publications In The Open Access Journals, Subaveerapandiyan A, Supriya Pradhan, R Nandhakumar‌ Aug 2021

A Study And Analysis Of Manuscript Publications In The Open Access Journals, Subaveerapandiyan A, Supriya Pradhan, R Nandhakumar‌

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this study is to analyze the research article publishing with special reference to preparing to publish and peer-reviewing. Peer reviewing is the process required for standardizing any publications. Manuscript writing is an art. Though it appears to be simple there is a lot of effort required. Peer-reviewing is the process that eliminates articles that do not meet the standard of the journals and the scope of the journals. The study investigated authors' views on manuscript submissions to the publishing process. There are 375 samples selected for this study who have experienced publishing journals listed in refereed journals. …


The Element Of Uncertainty In Information Seeking, Dr. Muhammad Tufail Khan Aug 2021

The Element Of Uncertainty In Information Seeking, Dr. Muhammad Tufail Khan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Information is the basic need of every society. Accurate and reliable information plays an important role in the development of society; however, misinformation or unreliable information leads towards misguidance/destruction of society. Also, misinformation generates uncertainty among society members. So, each member of the society must identify the level of uncertainty to accept or reject the information. Although less uncertainty in information may lead information seekers towards decision making. This research paper explores uncertainty, elements of uncertainty, and levels of uncertainty during information seeking by reviewing the relevant literature. Also, make suggestions for information seekers' guidance on how to meet their …


Faculty Research Profile: Bin Dong, Lutishoor Salisbury, Yang Tian, Jeremy Smith Aug 2021

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.


Role Of Information And Communication Technologies (Icts) In Repackaging Indigenous Knowledge: A 21st Century Perspective, Franklyn Chibuike Azubuike (Cln), Theodora Chidera Aji Cln Jul 2021

Role Of Information And Communication Technologies (Icts) In Repackaging Indigenous Knowledge: A 21st Century Perspective, Franklyn Chibuike Azubuike (Cln), Theodora Chidera Aji Cln

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role ICTs can play in repackaging of indigenous knowledge. An exploratory approach through extensive review of related literature was adopted for this study. Conceptual framework was developed to understand indigenous knowledge and the ways it can be documented and communicated by packaging and repackaging it for preservation and consequent dissemination from generation to generation. This paper found out that ICT tools and techniques can be leveraged on for the efficient acquisition, documentation/preservation, transmission or communication of age long customs and traditions summed up as indigenous knowledge in order to impact decision …


Just A Few Miles South: Timeless Recipes From Our Favorite Places, J. W. Mcree Jul 2021

Just A Few Miles South: Timeless Recipes From Our Favorite Places, J. W. Mcree

The Southeastern Librarian

Just a Few Miles South: Timeless Recipes from Our Favorite Places. Ouita Michel. Edited by Sara Gibbs and Genie Graf. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2021. ISBN: 9781950564095 200 p. $24.95 (Hbk)


Making Music In Music City: Conversations With Nashville Music Industry Professionals, Carol Walker Jordan Jul 2021

Making Music In Music City: Conversations With Nashville Music Industry Professionals, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Making Music in Music City: Conversations with Nashville Music Industry Professionals. John Markert Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2021 ISBN: 9781621906445 218 p. $34.95 (Hbk)


Margaret Murray Washington: The Life And Times Of A Career Clubwoman, Carol Walker Jordan Jul 2021

Margaret Murray Washington: The Life And Times Of A Career Clubwoman, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Margaret Murray Washington: The life and Times of a Career Clubwoman. Sheena Harris. Knoxville: University of Tennessee. Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781621906193. 210 p. $55.00 (Hbk)


Patriots In Exile: Charleston Rebels In St. Augustine During The American Revolution, Carol Walker Jordan Jul 2021

Patriots In Exile: Charleston Rebels In St. Augustine During The American Revolution, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Patriots in Exile: Charleston Rebels in St. Augustine during the American Revolution. James Waring McCrady and C.L. Bragg. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2020 ISBN: 9781643360799 248 p. $29.99 (Hbk)


Roadside Americans: The Rise And Fall Of Hitchhiking In A Changing Nation, A. Blake Denton Jul 2021

Roadside Americans: The Rise And Fall Of Hitchhiking In A Changing Nation, A. Blake Denton

The Southeastern Librarian

Roadside Americans: The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing Nation. Jack Reid. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020 ISBN: 9781469655000 264 p. $29.95 (Hbk


Sharks In The Shallows: Attacks On The Carolina Coast, Carol Walker Jordan Jul 2021

Sharks In The Shallows: Attacks On The Carolina Coast, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Sharks in the Shallows: Attacks on the Carolina Coast. W. Clay Creswell. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2021 ISBN: 9781643361802 184 p. $19.99 (Pbk)


They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement Of New Orleans, Carol Walker Jordan Jul 2021

They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement Of New Orleans, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans. Macon Fry. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021 ISBN: 9781496833075 232 p. $25.00 (Hbk)


Roles Of Librarians In Combating Misinformation On Corona Virus Disease (Covid-19), Grace D. Pelemo Mrs., Millie Horsfall Phd, Onyinye Alexander Osedo Jul 2021

Roles Of Librarians In Combating Misinformation On Corona Virus Disease (Covid-19), Grace D. Pelemo Mrs., Millie Horsfall Phd, Onyinye Alexander Osedo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The outbreak of the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China and the attendant explosion of “fake news” brings to the fore the need for Librarians and Libraries as well as other information providers to offer access to dependable information resources for the consumption of their patrons and users. Giving access to reliable sources of information and resources with minimal barriers comprises cooperation among Librarians and Libraries. This article surveyed the roles of Librarians and Libraries in response to the problems of fake news and misinformation arising from the outbreak of COVID-19 focusing on how librarians and other information professionals …


Faculty Research Profile: Colin Heyes, Lutishoor Salisbury, Yang Tian, Jeremy Smith Jul 2021

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.


Faculty Research Profile: Nan Zheng, Lutishoor Salisbury, Yang Tian, Jeremy Smith Jul 2021

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: Paul Adams, Lutishoor Salisbury, Yang Tian, Jeremy Smith Jul 2021

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.


Awareness And Utilization Of Electronic Databases For Scholarly Research By Faculty Of Education Lecturers In Federal Universities In South East, Nigeria, Franklyn Chibuike Azubuike (Cln), Felix C. Ekere, Nkem Orsu May 2021

Awareness And Utilization Of Electronic Databases For Scholarly Research By Faculty Of Education Lecturers In Federal Universities In South East, Nigeria, Franklyn Chibuike Azubuike (Cln), Felix C. Ekere, Nkem Orsu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study was designed to investigate the awareness and utilization of electronic databases for scholarly research by faculty of education lecturers in federal universities in South East, Nigeria. Six (6) research questions were formulated to guide the study. In conducting this research, the researcher used descriptive survey design which was considered most appropriate for this study. The study was conducted in the South East zone with a population of five hundred and ninety-one (591) lecturers in faculties of education from three selected federal universities. The instruments used for data collection was the questionnaire and interview schedule. The validity of the …


Student Research Journal: A Decade Of Building A Global Community Of Scholars, Ruth Huard May 2021

Student Research Journal: A Decade Of Building A Global Community Of Scholars, Ruth Huard

School of Information Student Research Journal

No abstract provided.


Trend Of Research Visualization Of Learning, Classroom, And Class Participation In Higher Education Institutions: A Bibliometric Analysis From 2001 To 2020, Dr. Muhammad Shoaib, Dr. Akhlaq Ahmad, Mr. Nusrat Ali, Mr. Farooq Abdullah May 2021

Trend Of Research Visualization Of Learning, Classroom, And Class Participation In Higher Education Institutions: A Bibliometric Analysis From 2001 To 2020, Dr. Muhammad Shoaib, Dr. Akhlaq Ahmad, Mr. Nusrat Ali, Mr. Farooq Abdullah

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The main objective of this research is to inspect the classroom environment, student learning, interactive learning, class participation, higher education institutions using bibliometric analysis from 2001 to 2020. For the scientometric analysis, we extracted data from the Science Citation Index database, Web of Science (Core Collection) using a searched query. The data was extracted on February 27, 2021 (GMT-4:29 AM). Further, the period was 2001 to 2020. There were 6340 published documents were found. The study findings illustrate that the topic of higher education institutions was on top of the topic list and a major proportion of published documents was …


Library Publishing Curriculum Textbook, Katherine Skinner, Melanie Schlosser, Peter Berkery, Meredith Baab, Jasmine Mulliken, Friederike Sundaram, Dennis Lloyd, Mary Rose Muccie, Brenna Mclaughlin, John W. Warren, Laurie N. Taylor, Brian W. Keith, Sara Benson, Harriet Green, Merinda Hensley, Janet Swatcheno, Nancy Maron, Sarah Lippincott Apr 2021

Library Publishing Curriculum Textbook, Katherine Skinner, Melanie Schlosser, Peter Berkery, Meredith Baab, Jasmine Mulliken, Friederike Sundaram, Dennis Lloyd, Mary Rose Muccie, Brenna Mclaughlin, John W. Warren, Laurie N. Taylor, Brian W. Keith, Sara Benson, Harriet Green, Merinda Hensley, Janet Swatcheno, Nancy Maron, Sarah Lippincott

Library Publishing Curriculum

In the original, modular curriculum (2018) on which this textbook is based, each unit of the Library Publishing Curriculum contained an instructor’s guide, narrative, a slideshow with talking notes, bibliographies, supplemental material, and activities for use in a physical or virtual classroom for workshops and courses. This textbook version, produced in 2021, adapts the original narrative as the primary content (with very little additional editing) and incorporates the bibliographies, appendices, and images from the slideshow into a linear reading and learning experience for use by librarians or students learning on their own or as part of a classroom learning experience. …


An Analysis Of The Patents Granted To The University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 2010-2019, Lutishoor Salisbury, Jeremy S. Smith, Tian Yang Apr 2021

An Analysis Of The Patents Granted To The University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 2010-2019, Lutishoor Salisbury, Jeremy S. Smith, Tian Yang

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

This report provides an analysis of the patents were granted for ten years (2010-2019) where at least one of the inventors is affiliated with a department or college from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. It identifies the number of patents with inventors from the various departments; the number of unique inventors in each department; and the college affiliations of the inventors; their inter- and extra-collegiate collaborators from campus and their off-campus campus collaborators.


Research Is A Scientific Capital: The Role Of University Libraries In Higher Education Institutions, Nusrat Ali, Muhammad Shoaib, Dr. Iqbal Hussain Asad Feb 2021

Research Is A Scientific Capital: The Role Of University Libraries In Higher Education Institutions, Nusrat Ali, Muhammad Shoaib, Dr. Iqbal Hussain Asad

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper attempts to examine the research support services in university libraries of higher education institutions in the Punjab, Pakistan. University libraries are providing traditional and as well as modern facilitation to scholars, students, and teachers for face to face and online learning in the globe generally and in Pakistan specifically. A quantitative study design opted and a sample of 90 university libraries was taken out of 116 libraries including sub-campuses libraries from the Punjab Province. A well-structured questionnaire was administered and pretested to conduct a representative survey. The study findings indicated that there was a significant difference in research …


Volume 9, Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2020/21, Stacy Creel Ph.D., Teresa S. Welsh Ph.D. Jan 2021

Volume 9, Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2020/21, Stacy Creel Ph.D., Teresa S. Welsh Ph.D.

SLIS Connecting

SLIS Connecting refereed open-access e-journal, Volume 9, Issue 2 (Fall/Winter 2020/21)


The Value Of Local Authors: A Survey Of The Mission Statements And Submission Guidelines Of Local Author Collections, Rachel Mcmullen Jan 2021

The Value Of Local Authors: A Survey Of The Mission Statements And Submission Guidelines Of Local Author Collections, Rachel Mcmullen

SLIS Connecting

This research examines the mission statements and submission guidelines of local author collections in public libraries to determine in what ways these collections emphasize the communities they represent, the extent to which all members of the community are represented by the collection, and how these collections are accessed by the community.


The Natchez Museum Of African American History And Culture, Danielle A. Terrell Jan 2021

The Natchez Museum Of African American History And Culture, Danielle A. Terrell

SLIS Connecting

The Natchez Association for the Preservation of African American History and Culture (NAPAC) is a repository of local history that spotlights the life of black citizens from the turn of the century to the modern-day. What makes the NAPAC Museum unique is that it collects history that is only native to Natchez, Mississippi. The rich heritage of the African American culture is interpreted through artifacts and other relics that allow one to focus on what was then and what is now. The purpose of this study is to document the collections, organization, events, and degree of digitization of the museum.


Exploring Data Mining Research In West Africa: A Bibliometric Analysis, Oladosu O. Oladimeji, Olayanju O. Oladimeji Jan 2021

Exploring Data Mining Research In West Africa: A Bibliometric Analysis, Oladosu O. Oladimeji, Olayanju O. Oladimeji

SLIS Connecting

This research paper's main objective is to quantify and analyze the research output of data mining in West Africa, including (1) growth in publications as measured by the Relative Growth Rate (RGR) and Doubling Time (Dt), (2) productivity and quantification of research output for different institutions of the region (West Africa).


A De Grummond Primer: Highlights Of The Children’S Literature Collection, Ellen Hunter Ruffin Jan 2021

A De Grummond Primer: Highlights Of The Children’S Literature Collection, Ellen Hunter Ruffin

SLIS Connecting

The first book-length project on the Collection, edited by Carolyn J. Brown, Ellen Hunter Ruffin, and Eric L. Tribunella, includes unique aspects of the holdings in scholarly essays written by children’s literature “notables.” Along with over ninety full-color images, the book examines the Collection’s strengths: Fairy tales, 19th Century periodicals, African American children’s literature, the Golden Age of illustrated books, early books for children, and many more.


From The Gas: Congratulations, Publications, Presentations, The University Of Southern Mississippi Jan 2021

From The Gas: Congratulations, Publications, Presentations, The University Of Southern Mississippi

SLIS Connecting

News and congratulations from SLIS Graduate Assistants for student, alumni, and faculty accomplishments, publications, and presentations.