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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, ... -
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. -
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. ... -
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. -
Camels, Contests, and Coffee: Getting First Year Students Through the Doors
Find where we hid the “Hump Daaaaaay!” camel. Stop in for free coffee and donuts. Submit an original haiku for our annual haiku contest. These are just a few of the ways staff at Miami University Hamilton’s Rentschler ... -
Campus-wide partnerships to improve students’ academic integrity iQ
Miami University’s iQ (short for integrity Quickstart) is a newly created online tutorial that guides students through different scenarios about academic integrity and research issues. Each scenario introduces the student ... -
Capitalizing on University Resources for Easy and Economical Information Literacy Assessment
ePortfolios continue to gain strength in higher education as a viable and relatively quick method for assessment of student work. Miami University (Oxford, OH) recently implemented Chalk & Wire as its ePortfolio system ... -
Capitalizing on University Resources for Easy and Economical Information Literacy Assessment
ePortfolios continue to gain strength in higher education as a viable and relatively quick method for assessment of student work. Miami University (Oxford, OH) recently implemented Chalk & Wire as its ePortfolio system ... -
Change as Opportunity: Re-Vamping LibGuides to Better Engage Students
(2014-11-17)Change can be a positive opportunity to evaluate how we engage students with our services and contribute to their success. We will share our experiences surrounding our migration to LibGuides 2.0 and how it presented an ...