Scholarly Commons @ MU
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A geospatial analysis of the role of lead exposure in substance use disorders.
This project investigates how the disproportionate exposure to lead (Pb), a hazardous neurotoxin, may result in the development of substance use disorders (SUDs) through a geospatial analysis of: 1. Discriminatory ... -
Demarcated: Scholastic Journalism, Collegiate Journalism and the Fight to Define Journalism Education
From 1920 to 1939, university journalism educators engaged in boundary work to establish authority over journalism education. They sought to differentiate themselves from high school journalism, which challenged their ... -
Streaming media literacy: A theoretical solution to a practical problem
Two university instructors present a media literacy lesson for college students, inspired by Gerbner and Gross’s cultivation theory. Despite reduced live TV viewership, moving images remain influential. The session teaches ... -
Copyright offices: Best practices in academic libraries
Copyright offices and their staff and those either assigned to respond to copyright questions or who have that role by default are generally library based. The responsibilities, credentials, reporting structure, staffing, ... -
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means...Copyright myths, misnomers, and misconceptions
Copyright law permeates almost every aspect of librarianship and does much to help academic libraries offer a wide variety of services and resources to patrons. Unfortunately, there are many myths and misconceptions about ... -
Failure is an option! What we can learn from unsuccessful scholarly communications initiatives.
. Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge (ACRL, 2023) was conceived as an open textbook of scholarly communication librarianship, which we hope may be a vehicle to increase instruction on SC topics in LIS ... -
Copyright considerations: Creation & sharing
Scholarship in the Sandbox provides multiple ways that the library can support experimentation, productive failure, and amazing successes outside of our traditional roles of teaching and providing access to resources. This ... -
Harnessing Pandora's Box: At the Intersection of Information Literacy and AI (IFLA WLIC 2023 Proceedings)
A group of four librarians from varied disciplinary backgrounds came together to examine issues of artificial intelligence and large language models. We are of the opinion that Pandora's box has been opened. Students will ... -
Uncovering the protest paradigm through visual framing: A media literacy lesson for college students
Much is made of the proliferation of fake news in media literacy education. With good reason, we worry about unreliable news reporting and its effect on political participation. However, instruction that focuses on the ... -
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 ...