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Indexes: The Heart Of Research, Laura M. Ladwig, Jamey M. Wilkes, Lori Thornton, Sarah Wessel

The Christian Librarian

This article, originally a presentation at ACL’s 2023 conference, will delineate the enduring value of indexes for librarians and researchers alike, giving some examples of how indexes have evolved in a technology-driven age.

Electronic Resource Usage Data: An Introduction And Data Dashboard Template, Kelly Bilz

The Christian Librarian

This article provides an overview of COUNTER5 metrics and reports, describes the Usage Data Dashboard template, and provides several takeaways for designing data collection workflows. Drawing from research data management (RDM) principles surrounding documentation, the Usage Data Dashboard template can support library workers and improve processes of collecting and interpreting electronic usage data.

The Winter Issue 2023, Grace Neeley, Emily Watson, Andy D. Sims, Jeffery Hirschy

Fonds and Feathers

This 2023 winter issue features stories of the first female archivist of the United States, Dr. Coleen Shogun and the new SLIS faculty, Kaeli Gretter. In the spotlights section, the pioneer library service with the WPA pack horse library project is retold. In addition, miscellaneous events and activities of SMSA are covered including the past and incoming archival conferences and a list of recipients of the graduate archival certificate.

High Throughput Phenotyping: Field Based Triticale Breeding And Educational Resource Impact, Catherine Kay Mick

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Triticale (Triticosecale) is a multifunctional hybrid cereal crop that adopted the hardiness of rye and wheat's high-yielding and nutritional qualities. Plant breeding programs work to improve the quality and number of varieties available to producers through multiple rounds of evaluation and selection. However, traditional phenotyping methods are labor-intensive, time-consuming, and destructive, creating a phenotyping bottleneck. Remote sensing using unmanned aerial systems has the potential to alleviate this issue and change the evaluation of phenotypes in a breeding. Demand for educational resources to advance public awareness and prepare the workforce has increased with the utilization of more technology in …

United States Social Security Administration Response To The Office Of Science And Technology Policy Memo, 2022: Public Access Plan (December 2023)

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SSA response to OSTP memo, 2022: Public Access Plan (December 2023)

Impact Of Remuneration On Staff Productivity In Imo State University, Owerri Library And Coal City University, Enugu Library, Chinedu Egbuchu, Heman Uchechukwu Osuagwu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study is on the impact of remuneration on staff productivity in Imo State University, Owerri library and Coal City University, Enugu library. The study aims to ascertain the impact of remuneration in university libraries. Three research objectives and three research questions were adopted for this study. A total of twenty five (25) library staff formed the population of the study which emanated from twenty (20) library staff of Imo State University Owerri and five (5) library staff of Coal City University Enugu. The study was carried out using questionnaire (e-copy) as instrument for data collection. The data collected were …

The Journal Of Open Educational Resources In Higher Education, Volume Two Release

OER & Beyond - Blog Archive

The Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education, (JOERHE) is a diamond open-access journal, that publishes once a year and offers librarians, instructors and other OER experts a platform for their scholarship on OER, open pedagogy, open access and similar topics focused speci cally within the context of higher education. Published annually, the second volume is available as of October 16th here.

Speaking Volumes: Books With Histories, Timothy Daniels

The Southeastern Librarian

David Pearson Bodleian Library: University of Oxford, 2022 ISBN: 9781851245628 240 p. $65.00 (Hbk)

Sela Officers And Executive Committee, Sela State Representatives

The Southeastern Librarian

Current SELA officers and representatives.

Sela News & News From The States

The Southeastern Librarian

News from participating Southeastern states.

The Preventorium: A Memoir, Peter R. Dean

The Southeastern Librarian

Susan Annah Currie Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2022 ISBN: 9781496842763 232 p. $25.00 (Hbk)

Government Documents For All, Tim Dodge

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.

Academic Librarianship Reflection: Promoting Intellectual Freedom, Rebecca Rose

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.

Southeastern Librarian 71(3) Fall 2023 (Full Issue)

The Southeastern Librarian

Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian Volume 71 Number 3

Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study Of Caste And Class, Chris Andrews

The Southeastern Librarian

Allison Davis, Burleigh B. Gardner, & Mary R. Gardner Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022 ISBN: 9780226817989 328 p. $20.00 (Pbk)

Carnival In Alabama: Marked Bodies And Invented Traditions In Mobile, Tim Dodge

The Southeastern Librarian

Isabel Machado Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2023 ISBN: 9781496842596 262 p. $30.00 (Pbk)

Freedom’S Dominion: A Saga Of White Resistance To Federal Power, Kristine Stilwell

The Southeastern Librarian

Jefferson Cowie New York: Basic Books, 2023 ISBN: 9781541672802 512 p. $35.00 (Hbk)

Cataloging Electronic Theses And Dissertations: Updates And Perspectives From The Mississippi State University Libraries, Meg C. Wang

The Southeastern Librarian

Over the last two decades, electronic submission of theses and dissertations has become more common, and cataloging processes have evolved as well. At the same time, the Resource Description and Access (RDA) cataloging guidelines, which are better designed to describe digital resources, were widely imple-mented in 2013 in order to replace the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR2), which emphasize the description of a physical item. These changes have brought unceasing challenges into cataloging work-flows. Especially with the development of linked data and the semantic web, catalogers consistently need to adapt measures to local conditions. This paper describes the recent issues that …

The President’S Column, Crystal Gates

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.

Grain And Fire: A History Of Baking In The American South, A. Blake Denton

The Southeastern Librarian

Rebecca Sharpless Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022 ISBN: 9781469668369 344 p. $30.00 (Hbk)

Copyright For Graduate Works: Do I Need Permission To Use This?, Stephanie Wiegand

Bear GRADS

When writing a graduate work, you may come across other excellent works that elevate your own work – a diagram explaining a process, a survey instrument for collecting data, an artwork that illustrates a concept, a piece of sheet music for analysis, and more. How can you ethically and legally incorporate these works into your research and writing? This session will discuss the basics of using portions of copyrighted works in your graduate work and provide real-life examples.

Gray Literature In The Institutional Repository: Partnership Between The University Of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries And Two Textile Societies, Sue Ann Gardner, Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Gray literature (GL) often contains valuable, unique knowledge but is sometimes difficult to source, collect, and preserve. Institutional repositories can serve as excellent platforms for such material due to their open accessibility for anyone with an internet connection. This chapter includes a brief discussion about gray literature as a material type in libraries generally and covers the partnership of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries with the Textile Society of America and the Centre for Textile Research that has resulted in the publishing of the groups’ conference papers. Together, as of mid-2022, these materials have been full-text downloaded nearly 1,500,000 times …

Navigating Risk In Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis Of Elsevier's Sciencedirect, Becky Yoose, Nick Shockey

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Executive Summary

As libraries transitioned from buying materials to licensing content, serious threats to privacy followed. This change shifted more control over library user data (and whether it is collected or kept at all) from the local library to third-party vendors, including personal data about what people search for and what they read. This transition has further reinforced the move by some of the largest academic publishers to move beyond content and become data analytics businesses that provide platforms of tools used throughout the research lifecycle that can collect user data at each stage. These companies have an increasing incentive …

Report To The U. S. Congress On Financing Mechanisms For Open Access Publishing Of Federally Funded Research, White House Office Of Science And Technology Policy

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Executive Summary The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) submits this report to the Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the House in fulfillment of the requirement in the Committee Report accompanying the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (P.L. 117-328) for financing mechanisms for open access publishing of federally funded research.1 According to that Report, “The Committee recognizes the considerable progress made by OSTP” and “encourages OSTP to continue its efforts to coordinate the implementation of public access policies across Federal departments and agencies and to identify additional opportunities to enhance access to the results of Federally funded …

Making Publishing Less Painful: Shifting To A Relational Peer-Review Process, Sajni Lacey, Kristina Clement, Lalitha Nataraj, Nicole Pagowsky

Urban Library Journal

Navigating confusing peer-review structures in publishing can be daunting for librarians at all stages of their career. In this paper, the authors will differentiate peer-review models and reflect on their experiences with these formats in the context of the [redacted] special issue of [redacted]. Additional discussion will include the hidden curriculum of publishing; areas for growth in peer-review related to diversity, equity, and inclusion; and peer-review as an individual and collective form of professional development that shapes how we engage with scholarship in LIS.

Short History Of The Unl Digital Commons, Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations

From 2005 through 2023, the UNL Digital Commons grew to be a leading example of an institutional repository. This presentation reports on personnel, history, strategy, and outstanding examples of series or contributors.

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UNL Digital Commons began in 2005 and grew into America’s 3rd-largest and most-trafficked institutional repository. Approaching 100 million downloads and spreading UNL scholarship and branding across the globe, the UNL Digital Commons boasts works from a wide variety of affiliated faculty, researchers, and students. Their participation is opening the dissemination of scholarship in radical and fundamental ways. In this session, Paul Royster traces this …

Executive Order On The Safe, Secure, And Trustworthy Development And Use Of Artificial Intelligence, Joseph R. Biden

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Section 1. Purpose. Artificial intelligence (AI) holds extraordinary potential for both promise and peril. Responsible AI use has the potential to help solve urgent challenges while making our world more prosperous, productive, innovative, and secure. At the same time, irresponsible use could exacerbate societal harms such as fraud, discrimination, bias, and disinformation; displace and disempower workers; stifle competition; and pose risks to national security. Harnessing AI for good and realizing its myriad benefits requires mitigating its substantial risks. This endeavor demands a society-wide effort that includes government, the private sector, academia, and civil society.

My Administration places the highest urgency …

Undervalued Resources For Building More Specialized Oer, Justin Kani

OER & Beyond - Blog Archive

As a librarian, and someone who has been a steadfast advocate of open educational resources (OER) for many years now, I nd myself frequently approached by fellow faculty seeking information on where to locate quality OER materials.

Spark Digital Commons, Kari Jagusch, Lyndi Fabbrini, Kimberly Werner, Ann Gannon

Day of Scholarship

SPARK: Scholarship, Publishing, Arts, Research, and Knowledge Institutional Repositories (IRs) like SPARK showcase and preserve a university's scholarship and creative work under one umbrella. Because SPARK is search optimized as well as open access, its works are easily discoverable and viewed on the web, “extending Bethel’s reach and reputation” on a global scale, as the map dashboard dynamically illustrates. And with each download, citation count, and pageview, Bethel’s scholarship rises higher within Google’s rankings. Authors receive monthly statistical reports of these interactions. SPARK provides a stable web address and improved management of scholarly resources for Bethel departments. Today we are …

Alabama’S Death Row Archive: Amplifying Marginalized Voices, Jennifer Pate, Katie Owens-Murphy Phd

All Things Open

In 2019 Collier Library hosted an exhibit, Ghosts Over the Boiler, as part of the University of North Alabama’s common read program. This exhibit, developed by English professor Dr. Katie Owens-Murphy and curated by librarian Jennifer Pate, led to the development of both a physical Alabama Death Row Archive and a digital archive housed in the library’s institutional repository, the Repository of Open Access Research (RoOAR). This archive aims to preserve and amplify the work of Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty (PHADP), the nation’s only 501(c)(3) organization founded and run by people on death row. The archive …