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Gettin' Hot in Here: Using Global Warming to Connect the Library with the Community
Who knew that a topic as controversial as global warming could bring people together? GAIA (Global Awareness and Information Access), a year-long series of events, with global warming as the central theme, provided students ... -
How Much!? Estimating the cost of an assignment in an organic chemistry class.
Objective: To estimate the library costs of completing an assignment in an organic chemistry class. Methods: Students in Chemistry 254: Organic Chemistry for Majors were required to write a paper on an organic name reaction ... -
Impact of a Library Instruction Session on Bibliographies of Organic Chemistry Students
(2014-06-16)Students in Chemistry 254: Organic Chemistry for Majors were required to write a paper about an organic name reaction (a reaction named after the chemist who discovered it). Before turning in this assignment, students had ... -
Implementing an Open Source Room Reservation System
Miami University opted to implement an open source solution for its heavily used study rooms. This session will outline the evaluation criteria used to select a product, the wish-list of features, technical skills and ... -
Improving the Effectiveness of LibGuides through Usability Testing
As information professionals, one of our primary responsibilities is to make information findable. As the amount of information continues to grow exponentially, the need to organize content and simplify the search process ... -
Information literacy assessment: a case study at Miami University
The purpose of this case study, created by a faculty learning community (FLC) on research fluency, is to investigate students’ information literacy practices at Miami University, including information search process, ... -
Information Literacy Through Site-Specific Installation: The Library Project
This article describes how a collaborative, multifaceted, site-specific installation helped to develop information literacy in studio art students. Through the process of planning, creating, and installing the project, ... -
The Innovative Library Classroom (TILC) 2016
Short Abstract: Skillful search savvy can be intimidating to beginning researchers, and, much to my chagrin, most of my students don’t prefer to wax philosophical about controlled vocabularies. How, then, can I stay ... -
Integrated Information Literacy Assessment using ePortfolios
ePortfolios continue to gain strength in higher education as a viable and relatively quick method for assessment of student work. Miami University recently implemented Chalk & Wire as its ePortfolio system for the entire ... -
Interactive data entry and validation tool: A collaboration between librarians and researchers
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to share a case study process of collaboration with faculty, highlight some design considerations when creating data entry forms and describe some considerations when planning ... -
Joining forces with Faculty to Foster Information Literacy Best Practices in the Classroom
Faculty often are frustrated by the quality of student research, including low scholarly resource use and lack of evaluation skills. Miami University (Oxford, OH) has created a faculty learning community (comprised of both ... -
Keep the Change: Clusters of Faculty Opinion on Open Access
(2013-04-08)The authors discovered faculty opinions about open access by employing Q methodology, a research method combining qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze subjects' attitudes about a given topic. Q methodology, using ... -
Keep the Change: Faculty Roles in the Scholarly Communications System and Their Impact on Open Access Promotion
(2014-05-13)Presentation given at the Academic Library Association of Ohio Annual Conference on October 29, 2010. Educating faculty about open access choices and scholarly communication issues. -
Leading by Example: Instructional shadowing as a professional development tool
As instructors, we each have a style and specific strategies for engaging students and communicating information effectively. Continued engagement, development, and improvement as instructors can be difficult when we ... -
The Library and the Campus Visit: Communicating Value to Prospective Students and Parents
(2012-10-12)Successful undergraduate admission and recruitment efforts are vital to every university. A strong student body improves the quality of academic programs and the prestige of the institution. Since most colleges depend ... -
Making It Real: Why a Makerspace Might Make Sense for Your Library
Makerspaces are a growing area of service for all types of libraries. People with varying skill levels create projects in these collaborative environments with support from one another and access to equipment and materials. ...