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'It's Got to Be Here Somewhere...': Redesigning Your Website with Your Users in Mind
Website redesigns can be overwhelming. Knowing how users interact with your website can make that project much easier. Discover how user behavior analytics (from Crazy Egg) guided one library’s website redesign project. ... -
Job sculpting in the midst of organizational change
“Job sculpting” – matching employees to job duties consistent with their professional interests and strengths — in librarian positions can be a helpful practice for enhancing employee satisfaction and ultimately retention. ... -
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. -
Keeping up with Free-Range Internet Tools
An overview of some of the lesser-known freely available reference and research tools. -
The Laptop has Left the Building: Serving Your Students with 24-hour Laptop Checkouts
Even though computer ownership in the United States has steadily increased over the last 10 years, many college students still do not have access to a computer at home. And because a lot of coursework requires using ... -
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 ... -
Lean and Mean: Re-envisioning an Outdated Area of the Collection.
Description of a large-scale deselection process for the BTE collection at Miami University Hamilton. Changes in the subjects taught and demographic/logistical changes necessitated a different approach to collection building. -
Learning Apprenticeships in the Media and Information Literacy Classroom
Inspired by the apprenticeship model of teaching and learning, two academic librarians report on their efforts to place current events at the center of a semester-long media and information literacy course. Join them as ... -
LibGuides Administration: Roadmap to Engaging Content
Libraries purchase LibGuides software in the effort to provide all users with easy access to engaging library content. Active administration of the software is a vital component in realizing this goal. In the summer of ... -
Libraries Are Not Neutral: Implementing Social Justice and Critical Information Literacy into One-Shot Instruction
The United States is finally listening to the Black Lives Matter Movement. After the tragic murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and far too many others at the hands of police, white Americans are recognizing the ... -
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 ... -
Library Service to Urban Appalachians: Opportunities and Rewards
The article presents the opportunities of incorporating the U.S. urban Appalachians literature and library service to the service itself and the librarians. It notes that by exploring the history of urban Appalachians, ... -
Library Services in Learning Management Systems
The learning management system (LMS) has become a standard part of the higher education infrastructure, both for online and face-to-face courses. Continuing growth in online course offerings and the mobility of ... -
Lights! Camera! Action! Creating a First Tier Information Service Point (with less than 30 days' notice)
Libraries are moving towards consolidating service points and cross-training staff. Due to staffing changes, one university library recently decided to consolidate first-tier information service with the circulation desk. ... -
Make the Grade: Integrating Making into the Higher Education Curriculum
Makerspaces provide an avenue for individuals and groups to independently create projects, learn how to use equipment, and tinker away. However, they can also be used by students to complete making-related assignments ...