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  • The Laptop has Left the Building: Serving Your Students with 24-hour Laptop Checkouts 

    Shores, Mark
    Even though computer ownership in the United States has steadily increased over the last 10 years, many college students still do not have access to a computer at home. And because a lot of coursework requires using ...
  • Lean and Mean: Re-envisioning an Outdated Area of the Collection. 

    Shores, Mark
    Description of a large-scale deselection process for the BTE collection at Miami University Hamilton. Changes in the subjects taught and demographic/logistical changes necessitated a different approach to collection building.
  • Library Service to Urban Appalachians: Opportunities and Rewards 

    Shores, Mark
    The article presents the opportunities of incorporating the U.S. urban Appalachians literature and library service to the service itself and the librarians. It notes that by exploring the history of urban Appalachians, ...
  • Mind the Sharks: Guiding Faculty Through the Sometimes Perilous Waters of Open Access Publishing 

    Shores, Mark
    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 ...
  • Our Role in Retention: 

    Pickens-French, Kathleen; McDonald, Krista; Whitaker, Polly; Shores, Mark
    Description of how libraries best reach out to students who are at-risk of dropping out.
  • Phrases for the Front Line: What to Say When the Going Gets Tough 

    Ritchie, April; Shores, Mark
    Whether you work the front lines of customer service, or manage those who do, knowing what to say during difficult times is critical. This session will explore the idea of keeping a mental toolbox from which we can quickly ...
  • The Promise and Peril of Free Citation Tools 

    Shores, Mark
    The article provides an overview of free citation tools. Topics include one-off bibliographies and smaller research projects; importance of avoiding too-numerous citation generator tools that are part of a suite of services ...
  • The Rise of Content Farms 

    Shores, Mark
    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 ...