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Age-Friendly Oxford Community Needs Assessment: Report to the Age-Friendly Oxford Leadership Advisory Group
In November 2017, Oxford, Ohio formally joined the AARP Network of Age-Friendly States and Communities, a national network committed to the design and implementation of community-level actions to enhanced age-friendliness. ... -
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 ... -
Library Service to Urban Appalachians: Opportunities and Rewards
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, ... -
Capturing Appalachia: Building a Collection of Photographers' Work
The article offers information on the collection of books of Appalachian photography in the Appalachian region. The collected works of Appalachian photographers were published in book form by university presses and publishers ... -
Free Range Databases
An overview of freely-available bibliographic databases including: when to use them, their drawbacks, and how to find them. Includes short reviews of a handful of these resources and whether or not their content is indexed ... -
Biological Data QAQC Module Instructions
This document provides detailed instructions on using the Biological Data QAQC Module app, which was created through R Shiny. This app facilitates quality assurance and quality control of large, scientific data sets. A ... -
The case of #NeverAgainMSD: When proceduralist civics becomes public work by way of political emotion
Civic culture is a term for how citizens actively live out, perform, and create public life through our habits, actions, words, and public work. A vital civic culture, with an engaged citizenry, is one of the measures of ... -
Free Range Databases
Overview of some of the freely-available subject-specific bibliographic databases, their features and drawbacks. -
I Saw it on YouTube: Representations of Libraries and What We Can Learn From Them
Free video hosting services like YouTube are a popular platform for libraries to post their online tutorials and promotional videos, but are also venues for fictionalized satirical depictions of situations at public service ... -
The Laptop has Left the Building: Serving Your Students with 24-hour Laptop Checkouts
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 ... -
Garbage In, Garbage Out: Citation Generator Tools
Students may not always know how to do thorough research but they sure do find out quickly that EasyBib, BibMe and other free citation tools can supposedly make their lives easier. The citation tools in subscription ... -
Phrases for the Front Line: What to Say When the Going Gets Tough
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 ... -
Mind the Sharks: Guiding Faculty Through the Sometimes Perilous Waters of Open Access Publishing
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 ... -
Reconsidering the Unreliability and Treatment of Mentally Ill Narrators
Throughout her memoir, Girl, Interrupted (1993), Susanna Kaysen includes the images of several pieces of official medical documentation from just before and throughout her stay at McLean mental hospital. Each note is ... -
An Exploration of Socio-political Themes Represented in Strauss'
From Saint-Saen’s Carnival of the Animals to Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherezade to Gershwin’s American in Paris, tone poems often recall stories of specific people or events. One key figure in the the development of tone ... -
Native Hawai'ian and French Polynesian Participation in Organic Agriculture
I began research on the Big Island of Hawaii in May of 2016 and completed this ethnography in December of 2016 by examining the overarching aspects of food sovereignty, including the accessibility of organic agriculture ... -
Behind the Man, the Kneel, and the Protest
Pictures are apparently worth a thousand words, and for the picture Michael Zargaris captured during the 2016 football season of a sole player kneeling justly before an NFL game, one could say that this photo is not only ... -
On Course: A Critical Assessment of a Textbook Affordability Initiative
As the need for higher education has increased in the preceding decades, so have the costs associated with it. Our institution has implemented numerous affordable learning initiatives in response, including an OER adopt/adapt ... -
Avoiding the “Axe”: Advancing Affordable and Open Education Resources at a Midsize University
INTRODUCTION To address the soaring cost of textbooks, higher education institutions have launched a number of strategies to promote the adoption of affordable and open educational resources (AOER). Although a few models ... -
“Begin with a Moment:” A Pilot Study of a Method for Supporting Information Creativity in First Year Writing Instruction
This presentation describes a pilot study conduced at the University of Illinois during the fall of 2017, which tested the effectiveness of a low-pressure early-semester information creativity session that encouraged ...