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Deciding, Documenting, and Disseminating Library Policies: A Case Study from a Newly Created Library Unit
taff turnover, varying practices across service points, and consolidation of previously independent units are three starter reasons to document common practices. This session will address the development of central ... -
Dedicated Technology Facilities: Impacts, Success, and Implications
Miami University’s Assessment in Action project examined the effectiveness of two high-end digital media facilities. The first study of the project compared the technological self-efficacy of students who used the facilities ... -
Delivering Library Services With (And For) Google Glass
(2014-04-11)Google Glass is Google’s latest consumer technology and is a wearable, head-mounted computer that acts like a voice-activated, hands-free smartphone. Hailed by some and reviled by others, Glass provides a peek into the ... -
Demystifying the Opaque: Train Faculty and Others to Assess Open Access Resources
Since the invent of the Open Access (OA) publishing model, research has focused on evaluating OA journals with the goal of identifying quality sources for the purposes of publication. However, more research must be completed ... -
Desire to Listen: One Learning Management System-Based Solution to Providing Copyright Compliant Streaming Audio Reserves
In 2008, the Performing Arts Librarian and the Bierce Library Course Reserves Manager at the Bierce Library at the University of Akron were charged by library administration to explore possible solutions for providing ... -
Detailed search stats from DSpace Solr
The DSpace institutional repository platform has several methods for extracting usage statistics. This brief case study gives an overview 3 methods and shows some of the advanced details available using the Solr API. -
Developing Digital Scholarship Collaboration - Source Notes
Our library has a unit dedicated to providing project consultations and technical support for faculty, students and other campus units. Many of our projects have strong pedagogical components with hands-on student learning. ... -
Digitizing Vinegar Syndrome Film
Step-by-step equipment build procedure for digitizing damaged 16 mm film stock. -
Do They Really Know? Collaborating with Faculty on Information Literacy Assessment
This poster will recount the experience of Miami University's Faculty Learning Community for Improving Student Research Literacy, a group of professors and librarians who work together on incorporating information literacy ... -
Do you haiku? running an effective haiku contest in your library.
Poster session about benefits and how-tos of running a haiku contest. -
DSpace solr activity extractor
This quick tool is designed for DSpace administrators who want to extract usage statistics from their DSpace IR. You will need to be able to log into the server that is hosting your DSpace instance. This is not the same ... -
E-Books in Ohio: What's a Librarian To Do?
(2014-05-13)Presentation about managing PDA e-books given at the ALAO CMIG Workshop on March 22, 2013. -
E-Resource Management at Miami University (Great Expectations: Maximizing Efficiency and Value in Collection Management and Discovery)
(2014-05-13)Presentation given as part of panel at Charleston Annual Conference on November 4, 2010. Managing e-resources. -
E-Resources, E-Reality
(2014-05-13)Presentation given at E-Resources & Libraries (ER&L) on March 18th, 2013. Managing e-resources with free and proprietary tools. -
Engagement, Effectiveness & Efficiency: Energize Your Personal Librarian Program
Miami University Libraries created a Personal Librarian program to supplement our liaison system in support of student success and information literacy advancement. Our program was designed to integrate into university ... -
Engaging Faculty in Scholarly Communication Change: A Learning Community Approach
(Pacific University Libraries, 2014-08-01)INTRODUCTION As the landscape of scholarly communication and open access continues to shift, it remains important for academic librarians to continue educating campus stakeholders about these issues, as well as to create ... -
Engaging with Wikipedia via Article Creation
The dichotomy of Wikipedia: many love it, and many others love to hate it. While students may not entirely understand the process behind Wikipedia, they do know that they can get information fast (and generally of high ... -
Engrossed, Enraged, Engaged: Empowering Faculty in Transforming Scholarly Communication
(2014-11-10)Librarians are deeply invested in the scholarly publishing lifecycle. This investment, in tandem with an evolving scholarly communication system, has encouraged librarians to become advocates for transformation in this ...