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Bibliography For "A Display Of Books Honoring Children's Authors And Illustrators Week", Isabella Piechota, Kalea Brown, Arianna Tillman

Library Displays and Bibliographies

A bibliography to accompany a display of children's books at the Leatherby Libraries at Chapman University in February 2023, in honor of Children's Authors and Illustrators Week.

Nih Data Management And Sharing, Alice Sherwood

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

NIH has issued the Data Management and Sharing (DMS) policy (effective January 25, 2023) to promote the sharing of scientific data. Sharing scientific data accelerates biomedical research discovery, in part, by enabling the validation of research results.

Do you need to find more information on data management and sharing policies?
Visit the library's NIH Data Management and Sharing LibGuide.

Are Open Access Journals Cited More Often?, Joanne Romano

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

Open Access content is freely accessible to all, with no access fees charged to the user. This means that scholars and researchers whose institutions lack a subscription, or researchers who lack institutional affiliation, can access the book or article online without paying a fee.

Digital Library Of Georgia (December 2022), Mandy L. Mastrovita

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.

One Button Recording Studio, Katie Prentice

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

The TMC Library One Button Studio is available to practice or create high quality conference/class presentation recordings.

Psychotherapy Library: New Ebook Collection, Joanne Romano

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

The Psychotherapy Library is a robust list of curated psychotherapy titles. This collection covers a multitude of topics including cognitive behavior therapy, psychoanalysis, mentalizing, and more—all within a single search and navigation interface that integrates journals and books.

Browse over 20 ebooks from the Psychotherapy Library at Psychiatry Online. Many titles include vignette videos that illustrate key clinical problems, techniques, and more!

Bibliography For "César Chavez Day: A Display Of Books Honoring César Chavez", Arianna Tillman, Isabella Piechota, Kalea Brown

Library Displays and Bibliographies

A bibliography created to accompany a display about César Chavez Day in February-March 2023 at the Leatherby Libraries at Chapman University.

Evaluation Of Information Sources And Services Of B-School Libraries In Greater Hyderabad: A User Study, Dr.Annavarapu Mallikarjuna Prefex

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In the present period, School Libraries are playing vital role in the electronic resources. All changes demand development of modern skills to both library professionals as well as users. Today, all information available in digital form requires new and modern methods for its handling. The present study deals with Evaluation of Information Sources and Services in Business School Libraries.

Student Voices: Publications From The Archives, Christian D. Nøkkentved

Archives Exhibits

Here we see, among others, copies of The Rice Bowl, The Gender Reader, Minority Report, RYE (a student satire magazine), and, of course The Acronym, in fact the very first issue. Some only had short runs, others lasted for years and the oldest continuing publication is our school student newspaper, which is appearing in hard copy again after years of being on-line. These publications cover a wide range of topics and with so many others are all housed in the Archives.

U.S. Energy Information Administration Information Resources, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

Provides information about the resources produced by U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration. These resources cover energy statistics for U.S., states, the United States, and foreign countries. They also cover energy products as varied as coal, natural gas, nuclear energy, petroleum, and renewable energy.

If Not A Transformative Agreement, Then What? Nine Questions And Answers About An Alternative, Arthur J. Boston

Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity

Librarians are increasingly coming to agree that the scholarly record should be open and available to anyone who seeks it without financial barriers. But the topic gets murkier when we ask the question: how. How do we open the full scholarly record? One of the swiftest ways to get a mass amount of scholarly articles opened up in a short period of time is through Transformative Agreements (TA). TAs can be attractive offerings to institutions with a need or a desire to make their scholarly output open.

It is likely someone in your library has been asked by a …

Haitian Immigrants' Information Needs And Behaviors: Libraries, Information Professionals And Haitians In The United States, Natasha Finnegan

School of Information Student Research Journal

Haitian immigrants are a socially excluded growing demographic in the United States that deals with racism, anti-immigrant sentiment, anti-Haiti rhetoric, and language barriers. Information professionals need to understand Haitian information behavior, their cultural preferences, and barriers in order to successfully fulfill their information needs. This article examines other disciplines’ relevant and scholarly research literature on Haitian immigrants in the United States to discover their trends of information behavior and barriers so that the Library and Information Science field can create effective information pathways to support their community. Haitian immigrants turn to their families and trusted individuals for their information needs, …

Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990 Display, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Civil Rights

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Applications Of Diversity Language To Descriptions Of Collection Development Activities At Academic Libraries: An Exploratory Analysis Of Strategic Plans And Diversity Information Webpages, David Macaulay

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Diversity is commonly invoked as a goal for libraries in a variety of domains, including collections. This study explores how diversity language is used to characterize collection development efforts at a sample of large North American academic libraries, through content analysis of strategic planning documents as well as library webpages providing information about diversity efforts. The topic of collection diversity was found to be not consistently addressed in these documents. While 90% of the institutions whose strategic plans were examined mentioned diversity in some way, less than half of these did so in relation to collections; about one-third of the …

Dataset: Plays Or E-Plays? Informing A Theatre Collection Strategy Using Student Input, Natalie Haber, Whitney Jordan

Research and Data

This is a dataset from a survey given to UTC Theatre students in fall 2023 regarding their preferences for formats of plays. IRB##22-087.

Bibliography, Jack G. Montgomery Jr.

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Bibliography of publications by Jack Montgomery.

Student-Led Collection Development For Diversifying Collections And Making Connections, Kate Blinn, Jennifer Coval, Camilla Mackay

Library Staff Presentations and Conference Papers

Poster presented at the Association of College & Research Libraries conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 16 March, 2023.

Librarians at Bryn Mawr College established an annual paid spring break internship for undergraduate students focused on collection development. The goal was to promote diversity in library collections by providing the students with the knowledge and budget to purchase popular reading material from Philadelphia independent bookstores who collections reflect diverse voices.

Diversity In Collections Utilizing Accelerated Reader Programs, Leah Cahill

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this study was to compare current Accelerated Reader YA book lists to YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults lists from 2019 to 2022 to examine the number of current YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults titles included on the AR list and determine whether there is a discrepancy between the percent of YALSA books overall and the percent of YALSA AR books that meet the diversity definition (We Need Diverse Books, 2022). Data was collected by looking at 314 titles from the 2019-2022 YALSA Best of the Best List and then comparing two review sources to determine …

Schedule A Class Or An Orientation, Beatriz Varman

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

It is the beginning of the semester and the perfect time to schedule a class or a library orientation for your students. Let us know what you need: a library orientation or a class on how to search medical or nursing databases.

Staff Training Indices For Effective Library Services In Donald E.U. Ekong Library, University Of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria., Nkiruka Blessing Wali, Jeremiah Emeka Ugwulebo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study was designed to examine the staff training indices for effective library services in Donald E. U. Ekong Library, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. The indices in the study relates to the challenges and strategies to enhance staff training in the library. The study was guided by three objectives and research questions respectively. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population for this study was 104 staff comprising both professional and para-professional staff of the library. Data was collected using questionnaire and analysed using mean scores. Findings of the study revealed that key staff …