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Academic Librarians' Educational Role Revisited: Three Defining Studies
Three national studies are redefining the role academic librarians will play on campus. First, participants will receive an overview of significant findings from Project Information Literacy: “Learning the Ropes: How ... -
Access and Use in the Digital Age: A Case Study of a Digital Postcard Collection
This article reflects on the first eighteen months of a long-term project to digitize a large and still-growing postcard collection. The project is notable for its use of student workers, developing an active donor base, ... -
Affordable Learning: Tips & Opportunities
Affordable Learning (AL) initiatives allow faculty to identify ways they can reduce or eliminate textbooks costs for students. Session attendees will learn about these initiatives and how they can begin to implement them ... -
Affordable Learning: Tips and Opportunities
Presentation for 2018 Plugin Reboot event at Miami University. Learn about affordable learning initiatives and the ways they can help you eliminate textbook costs. -
Analytics Review of Digital Collections Websites in Ohio in 2015
Report compiled for the Ohio Digitization Interest Group on digital collections analytics across the state of Ohio. -
Answering Copyright Questions at the Reference Desk: a Guide for Academic Librarians
Copyright compliance is a major issue in higher education, and academic librarians are being approached more frequently by students and instructors with questions as to how copyrighted works can be legally used for teaching ... -
Are E-Book Big Deal Bundles Still Valuable?
The academic e‐book market has undergone significant change in the last five years. E‐book availability has greatly increased as library demand has grown, with an increasing percentage of library acquisitions preferring ... -
Are E-book Big Deal Bundles Still Valuable? [slide deck]
(2014-11-18)The academic e-book market has undergone significant change in the last five years. E-book availability has greatly increased as library demand has grown, with an increasing percentage of library acquisitions preferring ... -
Assessing Technological Self-Efficacy to Support Student Learning
Technology usage is a vital, and often expected, prerequisite for student engagement and learning. Knowledge of various technologies is assumed, but is that really the case? One way to examine this is by surveying Technological ... -
Assessment of a Broad-Based CCC “Get It Now” Program Implementation
We conducted a year-long pilot of the Copyright Clearance Center’s “Get It Now” rapid document delivery program. Get It Now is intended to supplement traditional library journal collections by providing rapid on-request ... -
Automated Bulk Uploading of Images and Metadata to Flickr
(2014-03-26)The Digital Initiatives department at Miami University, like most Digital Initiatives and Special Collections, has a large amount of rich digital image collections, stored primarily in a third-party database. ... -
Be a Force For Affordable Learning!
In this session the presenters will provide an overview of Affordable Learning (AL) initiatives that can help address student textbook costs, including the use of Open Educational Resources (OER), also known as Freely ... -
Between the Sheets: a Library-wide Inventory with Google
When it comes to taking an inventory of physical items, libraries often rely on their traditional integrated library system’s (ILS) à la carte add ons; outside vendors; or other possibly outdated, complex, and often expensive ... -
Book Lovers, Technophiles, Printers and Pragmatists: The Social and Demographic Structure of User Attitudes toward e-Books
(2012-09)Q-methodology was used to identify clusters of opinions about e-books at Miami University. The research identified four distinct opinion types among those investigated: Book Lovers, Technophiles, Pragmatists, and ... -
Boolean and Truncation
(2014-03-26)Classroom handout describing Boolean operators and truncation. -
Bridging Services: A University Library Engages With Chinese Students
Provides an overview for a mixed methods study involving Chinese students on campus and their library and research experiences.