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Spanning the University to Improve Information Literacy e-Instruction
(2010)In Fall 2009, the interactive information literacy module "integrity Quickstart"(iQ) was introduced to first and second-year students at Miami University. iQ, which teaches information literacy and academic integrity ... -
Contradictions and Consensus — Clusters of Opinions on E-books
(2011-03)Q methodology was used to determine attitudes and opinions about e-books among a group of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates at Miami University of Ohio. Oral interviews formed the basis for a collection of ... -
Book Lovers, Technophiles, Printers and Pragmatists: The Social and Demographic Structure of User Attitudes toward e-Books
(2012-09)Q-methodology was used to identify clusters of opinions about e-books at Miami University. The research identified four distinct opinion types among those investigated: Book Lovers, Technophiles, Pragmatists, and ... -
Contradictions and Consensus: Clusters of Opinions on E-books
(2012-09-12)Q methodology was used to determine attitudes and opinions about e-books among a group of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates at Miami University of Ohio. Oral interviews formed the basis for a collection of ... -
Creating and Supporting a Borrowable Collection of Portable Digital Technology
(HighEdWeb Conference, 2012-10-08)One University offers a collection of digital equipment, including iPads, laptops, digital cameras, digital audio recorders, microphones, networking cables, projectors and financial/graphing calculators. These items were ... -
Technical skills for new digital librarians
(2012-10-12)The purpose of this paper is to analyze the current technical skills being sought for digital librarian positions, as well as provide a basic exploration of the list of technical courses offered by major library school ... -
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 ... -
Skate to Where the Puck is Going to Be: Aligning Library Services to Faculty Teaching, Research, and Scholarship
(2012-10-26)Overview of a new library service established in response to changing dynamics in academic libraries and faculty need in the digital age. -
Copyright: Protecting Yours, Fair Use of Others
(2013-03-21)Confused about copyright? Do you know if you hold copyrights to your own work or wondering how to use copyrighted materials in your teaching? Copyright is a valuable asset for academic authors, so it benefits faculty ... -
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 ... -
The Numbers Game: Collecting, Compiling, and Utilizing Usage Data in an Academic Library
(2013-06-04)As our academic library budgets evolve, librarians have to make difficult decisions about what resources to spend that money on every year. Looking at patron usage of our resources, both tangible and electronic, can help ... -
Transfer 2.0 and Beyond! An Update
(2013-06-04)e-Journals often get transferred between publishers, whether because of change in commercial ownership (by acquisitions and disposals) or because the owner (frequently a society) takes the opportunity to partner with a ... -
Technical Services Transparency: Using a LibGuide to Expose the Mysteries of Technical Services
(2013-06-04)Technical services departments in academic libraries have long struggled to communicate effectively with other library departments, particularly public services departments. As academic libraries acquire large numbers of ... -
The Value of Purchasing E-book Collections from a Large Publisher
(2013-06-04)The academic e-book market is in the midst of rapid change and development. While e-books are still a relatively small percentage of library collections, sales are growing and libraries appear ready to ramp up their e-book ... -
Privacy and Sharing: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
(2013-08-01)Increasingly, our digital lives have moved off hard drives and into the cloud. What are the privacy implications of cloud-based services such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter? Who is watching us, and – more importantly – ... -
The choice is yours: Collections in a patron-driven climate
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11 digital publishing trends to watch this year and their potential impact on libraries
(2014-02-04)Presented at Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) National Forum, Columbus, OH. -
Boolean and Truncation
(2014-03-26)Classroom handout describing Boolean operators and truncation.