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Making Changes: Sustaining Innovative Services During a Pandemic
Many libraries across the country are faced with the challenge of re-opening our doors in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some might encounter budget cuts, while at the same time the pressure to meet our universities’ ... -
Making Connections: Multidisciplinary Makerspace Curriculum Integrations
By partnering with faculty to incorporate maker learning into the curriculum, academic makerspace organizers have a unique opportunity to impact scholarship across their institutions. Maker-centered learning is beneficial ... -
Making Ends Meet: What Library Makerspaces Need to Succeed
Makerspaces can be easy to start in academic libraries: just buy a 3D printer and you’re in business, right? But before you start collecting tools and technologies, what questions should you ask, and what possibilities ... -
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. ... -
Making Sense: Can Makerspaces Work in Academic Libraries?
Makerspaces are a growing service area for many libraries in school, public, and academic settings. Participants, or makers, can create digital and physical items in common working spaces using shared equipment and ... -
Managing and Implementing License Agreements for Electronic Resources Part II
This ALCTS Webinar was part 3 of the six-part series, Licensing Electronic Resources to Serve the Library's Mission. This webinar (part two of two) covers the following topics: Coordinating licensing with collection ... -
Managing and Utilizing Usage Statistics
OhioNET webinar presented April 2018. Now that you’ve got your usage data, what can you *do* with it? This session takes the next step in this series by exploring options for storing their usage data and guiding attendees ... -
Marketing Plans Made Easy(er): Creating a Marketing Plan with Little/No Marketing Experience
Marketing is not one of the skills often associated with librarians, but marketing is a very important piece to connecting users to the library, the staff, and the resources available at the library. Because most libraries ... -
Marketing Plans Made Easy(er): Creating a Marketing Plan with Little/No Marketing Experience
Have you been asked to work on marketing for your library, but aren’t sure where or how to even start? Marketing is not one of the skills often associated with librarians, but marketing is a very important piece to connect ... -
Mentoring in Academic Libraries.
The authors, who have each engaged in mentoring in higher education, surveyed academic librarians in 2017 on their mentoring experiences. Those findings are placed alongside best practices drawn from the literature to ... -
Metadata Obscura: Refocusing digital collections through the lens of art history
Art librarians often rely on generalists in metadata and digital collections departments to accurately describe visual collections. When these partnerships are successful, students and researchers in art disciplines can ... -
Migration and Update to CONTENTdm 6.1
(2014-03-26)Slides from presentation given on experiences in migrating from DSpace to CONTENTdm and importing the CONTENTdm viewer into an Omeka exhibit. -
Mind the Sharks: Guiding Faculty Through the Sometimes Perilous Waters of Open Access Publishing
Open access, predatory journals and conferences can ensnare unwary tenure-track faculty trying to complete their scholarship responsibilities. Articles and proposals accepted by these entities can hinder instructors from ... -
Minding Your Ps & Qs: A Q-Methodology Workshop
Librarians are continually turning to new metrics to evaluate services, impact, and priorities. Q-methodology - a hybrid of qualitative and quantitative research techniques - is a systematic study of subjectivity that ... -
Mineral identification numbers for librarians, explained through a short history of Dana's classification scheme
Many chemistry librarians are likely familiar with chemical identifiers, such as CAS Registry Numbers or InChI strings, that serve as unique IDs for chemicals, which attempts to overcome the challenges in searching the ...