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A User-Centered Approach To Addressing Issues Of Discoverability And Access, Nathan Hosburgh, Tess Graham

Faculty Publications

eResource access problems challenge electronic resources librari- ans and frustrate users. Challenges of using library systems can include information overload, links that do not work properly, incorrect metadata, and questionable relevance to search results. Nate Hosburgh, Electronic Resources Librarian at Montana State University, gave a presentation titled “A User-Centered Approach to Addressing Issues of Discoverability and Access” at the Mississippi State University Libraries’ eResource & Emerging Technologies Summit held in the Mitchell Memorial Library on August 2, 2013. Hosburgh spoke of lessons he and his team learned about troubleshooting eResources and his team’s approach to issues of discoverability and access.

Hot Topics And Themes In Historical Fiction, Sarah L. Johnson

Faculty & Staff Research & Creative Activity

A guide for librarians and readers, providing lists of hot topics and themes in historical fiction along with relevant titles fitting each theme. This handout accompanied a talk provided to members of the Historical Novel Society Nashville Chapter.

Hot Topics And Themes In Historical Fiction, Sarah Johnson

Faculty & Staff Research & Creative Activity

A guide for librarians and readers, providing lists of hot topics and themes in historical fiction along with relevant titles fitting each theme. This handout accompanied a talk provided to members of the Historical Novel Society Nashville Chapter.

Identifying Your Department's Collections And Communities, Innovative Scholarly Initiatives Committee

Historical Materials - LoboVault

Communities and Collections are the storage areas for content in LoboVault. Communities commonly reflect the organization of departments, offices, or people, while Collections represent the organization of items such as research papers, data sets, or conference presentations. This guide will help you locate the community and collection appropriate for you.

Accidental Map Librarian, Maps And Map Collection Management - The Basics, Katherine Rankin, Mary L. Larsgaard

Library Faculty Presentations

No abstract provided.

Where Roads Meet: Electronic Resources And The Current Information Management Climate, William M. Blick

Publications and Research

Information management is in flux. Electronic resources are now an essential aspect of Library operations. This presentation was designed to explain the role of electronic resources in an academic library. It traces the "life-cycle" of electronic resources and how the implementation of these resources is determined.

Maps: A "Must Have" Item For Genealogists, Katherine Rankin

Library Faculty Presentations

This presentation will cover the parts of a map, types of maps, especially those useful to genealogists, how maps can be used in genealogy, how to find places on maps, cartographic tools, paper versus electronic maps, online map viewers, how to locate map collections online, and where to buy maps.

Controlling Goods Or Promoting The Public Good: Choices For Special Collections In The Marketplace, Michelle Light

Library Faculty Presentations

Examines how Special Collections in the United States require permissions for publishing and assess permissions fees for commercial use of reproductions from their holdings. Advocates a review and change of policy and practice based on copyright law, ethics, and mission. .

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 …

The Secret Life Of Your Personal Information: Government Resources On Identity Theft, Washington State University

Consumer Fraud

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Washington State University.

Exploring Critical And Indigenous Research Methods With A Research Community: Part I – The Leap, Robert Schroeder

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Librarians create collections of works grounded in many western academic forms of research and they conduct research using many of these qualitative and quantitative methodologies as well. But are there perhaps research methods around the margins, ones that might help us ask different questions or let our research serve different ends? In this, the first of two articles, I describe how I discovered critical and indigenous research methods and how my research became grounded in a digital community.

Integrating E-Books: Dda, E-Approvals, And E-Firm Orders, Judith Carter, Lynn K. Whittenberger

Library Faculty Research and Publications

Learn how one library loads DDA (Demand-Driven Acquisition) ebook records (full bibs and order records) and e-book-approval / e-book -firm (full bib/order / invoice info) records into Sierra via batch processing.

Managing Pda At The Liberty University Jerry Falwell Library, Rusty Tryon

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Random Ramblings — “You Can’T Always Get What You Want”: When Academic Libraries Say No, Robert P. Holley

School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications

Does focusing on perceived needs lead to negative consequences?

Information Outlook, May/June 2014, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2014

Volume 18, Issue 3

Digitalcommons Report: 2014, Jean Bigger

DigitalCommons Documents

DigitalCommons has been fully operational for two and a half years:

• 464 works to date | 43,278 full-text downloads to date | 27,613 downloads in the past years

Practice Makes Perfect: Updating Borrowing Policies And Procedures At A Small Academic Library, Crystal Boyce

Scholarly Publications

In 2011, staff from the undergraduate libraries at the College of William & Mary came together to evaluate circulation policies related to borrowing periods and billing. In an attempt to better align the policies across each unit, and with the intention of creating a more consistent user experience, new policies were proposed and implemented in the fall of 2012. These changes were found to dramatically decrease staff time necessary for billing, while improving user satisfaction with the borrowing policies. Significantly fewer books went into billing, suggesting no adverse effects on collection maintenance.

Managing Risk With A Virtual Reading Room: Two Born Digital Projects, Michelle Light

Library Faculty Research

In March 2010, the University of California, Irvine, launched a site to provide online access to papers of Richard Rorty in the form of a virtual reading room.¹ Although we didn’t know it then, we quickly learned that we were one of the first academic repositories in the United States to risk providing remote, online access to born-digital manuscripts. The virtual reading room mitigated the risks involved in providing this kind of access to personal, archival materials with privacy and copyright issues by limiting the number of qualified users and by limiting the discoverability of full-text content on the …

Capturing Our Value: The Collection Of Instruction, Reference And Research Support Statistics, Meagan Stanley, Marisa A. Surmacz Ms.

The Workshop for Instruction in Library Use

No abstract provided.

How To Deal With Published Maps In Your Collection, Katherine Rankin

Library Faculty Presentations

This program is aimed at archivists and other special collections staff who have published maps as opposed to manuscript maps as part of their collections but do not have much expertise in map librarianship. The program includes information on kinds of maps, the basic parts of a map including those found mainly on pre-19th century maps, how to store and preserve maps, why they should be cataloged, how cataloging rare maps differs from cataloging current maps, why maps should be classified with a standard classification system, how Library of Congress call numbers can be used to locate certain kinds of …