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Quality and Engaging Student Research Projects: A Student Development Theory Approach
Research projects can cause struggles for students, faculty, and librarians alike. While assumptions are made as to why these struggles occur, we propose that looking at student development theory can further assist in ... -
Reframing Liaisonship: Moving Towards Quality User Engagement
As librarianship continues to evolve, the roles of the liaison librarian have also changed considerably. So, what are the priorities for an effective liaison? This program will detail our institution's reframing of liaison ... -
Reimagining Info Lit Assessment: An Inexpensive and Easy Method for Measuring IL Skill Progression
How information literate are our students? How can we tell if their skills are improving during their college years? Standardized IL tests are available (iCriticalThinking and SAILS), but each requires a considerable ... -
Report of the ALCTS Collection Management and E-Resources Interest Group (CMERIG) Meeting (ALA 2016)
Report on individual presentations given at the ALCTS CMERIG session at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida on June 26, 2016. -
Report of the ALCTS Collection Management and E-Resources Interest Group meeting. American Library Association midwinter meeting, Atlanta, January 2017
The Collection Management and Electronic Resources Interest Group (CMERIG) held a one hour meeting at the 2017 ALA Midwinter Conference in Atlanta, Georgia on Sunday January 22, 2017, from 3-4 pm. Chair Sunshine Carter ... -
Report on Session: Sailing the Digital Seas: Charting a New Course with CONTENTdm
(2014-05-07)With the transition of government publications from print to digital over the last decade, the State Library of North Carolina saw the need to implement a content management system for the state’s digital publications. ... -
Resource Location Maps
Our librarians needed an easy way to answer the question, “Which computer has X software?” Since some software packages are expensive, or require an above average machine to operate, not every software tool is available ... -
Resource Locator Maps: Pinpointing Your Library's Software Stuff
WOULDN'T IT BE NICE IF THERE WERE A SYSTEM THAT WOULD JUST TELL US WHAT SOFTWARE HAS BEEN DEPLOYED ON EACH COMPUTER? Our librarians at multiple service points needed a simple, fast tool to answer a common question: ... -
The Rise of Content Farms
The article offers information on search engine content farms which gather and analyze web traffic to conceive topics that people are searching for over the Internet. It states that content farm articles offer little ... -
Rock, paper, scissors, COUNTER, SUSHI: Making sense of usage
(2014-06-11)Presentation at the ALAO CMIG Workshop on June 9, 2014. -
Rubrics and Decision Matricies
Designing rubrics for informed decision making How often do committees spend an inordinate amount of time nit-picking a trivial issue and fail to discuss the heart of a problem? Do you find yourself constantly busy, ... -
Scholarly Communications-Trends and Issues
Session participants learned how to develop a scholarly communications outreach program for their institution. -
Secrets to Our Success: Thoughts from the Buckeye State on Leading an Academic Library Organization
Slide for a keynote address on leadership at the MiALA annual board leadership retreat. -
Seeing the Forest by Counting the Trees
(2014-03-26)Libraries, particularly academic libraries, are swimming in a sea of data. Librarians often contribute to this by counting every possible patron interaction in an attempt to both define their current situation and to predict ... -
Seeing the Forest by Counting the Trees [slide deck]
(2014-03-26)Libraries, particularly academic libraries, are swimming in a sea of data. Librarians often contribute to this by counting every possible patron interaction in an attempt to both define their current situation and to predict ... -
Seven Steps to Help you Become More Knowledgeable About U.S. Copyright Law
As copyright law is so closely ingrained with library services, it is important for librarians to learn about it and how to balance the law with the needs of users. Unfortunately, many Library and Information Science degree ... -
Show me the Money! Or Not? Making Sense of the Fourth Factor of Fair Use.
The fair use exception, found in Section 107 of US copyright law, is frequently utilized by librarians looking to reuse the works of others to provide services and resources to patrons (e.g. digitization projects, academic ...