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"Wouldn't it be cool if we could...?"
This is a formative evaluation report, completed for Butler Tech (a public-school district in Southwest Ohio) in relation to their Fifth Day Experience (FDE) pilot during the 2019-20 school year. -
Putting a Place to a Name: Connecting Sophomores to Campus
With campus offices closed to visitors and students studying remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, some first-year students ended the 2020-21 academic year without having ever set foot in the physical locations for important ... -
Pandemic Proof Partnerships
An academic librarian discusses campus partnerships that continued despite the unexpected changes that have characterized the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as a new partnership established during this time. Presentation details ... -
Data archive for "Guest-driven control of folding in a crown-ether-functionalized ortho-phenylene"
A crown-ether-functionalized o-phenylene tetramer has been synthesized and coassembled with monotopic and ditopic, achiral and chiral secondary ammonium ion guests. NMR spectroscopy shows that the o-phenylene forms both ... -
Raw data for "A General Model for the Ideal Chain Length Distributions of Polymers Made with Reversible Deactivation"
Raw data for the manuscript "A General Model for the Ideal Chain Length Distributions of Polymers Made with Reversible Deactivation" -
Raw data for "Tailoring Lifetimes and Properties of Carbodiimide-Fueled Covalently Cross-linked Polymer Networks"
Raw data for the paper "Tailoring Lifetimes and Properties of Carbodiimide-Fueled Covalently Cross-linked Polymer Networks" -
Raw Data for "Tuning Dual Dynamic Network Materials through Polymer Architectural Features"
Raw Data for the manuscript "Tuning Dual Dynamic Network Materials through Polymer Architectural Features" -
Promoting Transparency and collaboration with a new database A-Z audit and new ER acquisitions workflow
A collaborative project with electronic resources (ER) and subject librarians focused on our A-Z resource list, which needed attention as descriptions and links were outdated and/or inaccurate. This was a two-phase project. ... -
Flexible, Scalable, and Sustainable Data Literacy Instruction: Remote Learning and Collaboration for the Future
Data literacy (DL) is an important topic that is not typically covered in-depth as part of undergraduate curricula, yet is often a skillset that faculty expect new graduate students to have. In spring 2020, librarians ... -
Data Literacy on Demand: Creating a Set of Data Literacy Modules for Remote Instruction
The case study presented here, from Miami University, demonstrates one approach to designing and implementing a series of online modules covering data management skills. Through collaboration with the Miami Ecological Big ... -
Job sculpting in the midst of organizational change
“Job sculpting” – matching employees to job duties consistent with their professional interests and strengths — in librarian positions can be a helpful practice for enhancing employee satisfaction and ultimately retention. ... -
Analysis and Assessment of the 'Get it Now' Service, Five Years after Implementation - is it Fulfilling its Purpose Sustainably?
The 'Get it Now' service, from the Copyright Clearance Center, is a rapid document delivery program for journal articles which we implemented in 2014. With five years of data, our analysis addressed questions including: ... -
Growing Beyond A Loss: Reassigning Tasks, Reassessing Workflows, and Carrying on after an Employee Death or Growing Beyond A Loss: Carrying on and Reevaluating Library Procedures and Services after an Employee Death
One library recently experienced the deaths of several staff members in a short period of time. This program will share our experiences in piecing together our response to these deaths. Issues we have addressed have included: ... -
Nurturing collaboration while weeding collections: A new interdepartmental workflow
Reviewing, transferring, and withdrawing materials is normally a hands-on and collaborative interdepartmental process. Last spring, our institution decided to expedite a closure of a branch library and consolidate holdings ... -
FYRE in Special Collections: Exploring Scientific History in a First-Year Research Experience Course
A case study discussing the use of special collections in a STEM-focused first-year research experience course. -
Raw data for "Are RAFT and ATRP Universally Interchangeable Polymerization Methods in Network Formation?"
Raw experimental data for the Article "Are RAFT and ATRP Universally Interchangeable Polymerization Methods in Network Formation?" -
Raw data for "Tuning the molecular weight distributions of vinylketone-based polymers using RAFT photopolymerization and UV photodegradation"
All raw data for "Tuning the molecular weight distributions of vinylketone-based polymers using RAFT photopolymerization and UV photodegradation" -
Raw data for "Are RAFT and ATRP Universally Interchangeable Polymerization Methods in Network Formation?"
All experimental raw data for the project: "Are RAFT and ATRP Universally Interchangeable Polymerization Methods in Network Formation?" -
Raw data for "Ubiquitous Nature of Rate Retardation in Reversible Addition–Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization"
Raw Data for the article "Ubiquitous Nature of Rate Retardation in Reversible Addition–Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization"