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Faculty Learning Communities are a Positive Way for Libraries to Engage Academic Staff in Scholarly Communication
(2015-01-27)The stakes and politics of research and scholarship are different depending on discipline, department, and institution, and as such, increasing awareness of scholarly communication is fraught with difficulty. Librarians ... -
Faculty-librarian partnerships within a course-based first-year research experience program
Miami University offers several avenues for undergraduates to participate in research, the First Year Research Experience (FYRE) program being one of them. Created a decade ago, the program currently takes the form of a ... -
Failure is an option! What we can learn from unsuccessful scholarly communications initiatives.
. Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge (ACRL, 2023) was conceived as an open textbook of scholarly communication librarianship, which we hope may be a vehicle to increase instruction on SC topics in LIS ... -
Fast, Free, and Functional: An Overview of Freely Available Online Citation Tools
Freely-available citation tools are popular with students because of their speed and convenience. Some offer the ability to copy and paste a URL and some only allow for manual entry of citation elements. This article offers ... -
Find it Here! Interactive Resource Location Kiosks
An overview of an interactive software and resource locator. A list of software is displayed on a touch screen along with a map of a computer lab. Clicking either a software title or computer highlights the corresponding ... -
Flexible, Scalable, and Sustainable Data Literacy Instruction: Remote Learning and Collaboration for the Future
Data literacy (DL) is an important topic that is not typically covered in-depth as part of undergraduate curricula, yet is often a skillset that faculty expect new graduate students to have. In spring 2020, librarians ... -
For Video Streaming/Delivery: Is HTML5 the Real Fix?
The general movement towards streaming or playing videos on the web has grown exponentially in the last decade. The combination of new streaming technologies and faster Internet connections continue to provide enhanced and ... -
“The Forms of Things Unknown:” Insights from a Librarian-designed Shakespeare Course
A Shakespeare and Film course taught by a librarian at Miami University was designed as a test bed for new models for supporting multimodal inforamtion creativity in academic libraries. This interactive panel conversation ... -
Free from Frenzy: Reducing Final Exam Stress for First-Year Students
Most students experience a flurry of stress and panic regarding final exams—especially first-year students. Discover how one library has helped alleviate some of that stress for students. The weekend before finals week the ... -
Free Range Databases
Overview of some of the freely-available subject-specific bibliographic databases, their features and drawbacks. -
Free Range Databases
An overview of freely-available bibliographic databases including: when to use them, their drawbacks, and how to find them. Includes short reviews of a handful of these resources and whether or not their content is indexed ... -
Future Focused Outreach with Campus and Community Collaborations
In changing times, outreach efforts play a major role in meaningfully connecting users to the academic library of the 21st century. Collaborations, both on- and off-campus, are vital to the success of such endeavors. This ... -
FYRE in Special Collections: Exploring Scientific History in a First-Year Research Experience Course
A case study discussing the use of special collections in a STEM-focused first-year research experience course. -
Garbage In, Garbage Out: Citation Generator Tools
Students may not always know how to do thorough research but they sure do find out quickly that EasyBib, BibMe and other free citation tools can supposedly make their lives easier. The citation tools in subscription ... -
Gephi - Network analysis and visualization
This set of PowerPoint slides used in a workshop for librarians gives a brief explanation of network analysis and how to use the Gephi visualization tool (version 0.9.2). -
GetMeData: A Data Purchase Program for students
This presentation describes the GetMeData! data purchase program at Miami University. The program connects undergraduate students with liaison librarians for research help including purchasing data for them to use in their ...