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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 ... -
Remaking the Makerspace: Transformational Student Training
In a library makerspace, student training can be less straightforward than traditional library environments. Students are required to be aware of a wide variety of tools, techniques, software, and patron interactions. ... -
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: ... -
Revising and rethinking asynchronous data literacy modules: Addition of practical data visualization skills for students of all abilities
Previously a group of librarians created a set of data literacy modules. These were designed to be online asynchronous, taken either in unison or separately, mostly for STEM disciplines with hopes of being useful outside ... -
Revival of a historic bibliography for a modern bibliographic analysis
Conducting a bibliographic analysis on the complete works of an individual has the potential to reveal patterns and themes that are otherwise obscured. Assembling a bibliography for contemporary authors is somewhat ... -
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. -
Roll for Initiative: cultivating and empowering student leaders through library game nights
Since implementing a monthly board game night in 2017, we have shifted from an experimental event series designed to bring foot traffic into the libraries to one that actively partners with students as leaders. This has ... -
Roll for initiative: Using library game nights to empower student leaders
Academic libraries provide valuable programming for their campus communities. This programming often springs from collaborations with other campus centers, but we sometimes overlook the fact that student organizations can ... -
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.