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Roll for Initiative: cultivating and empowering student leaders through library game nights
Since implementing a monthly board game night in 2017, we have shifted from an experimental event series designed to bring foot traffic into the libraries to one that actively partners with students as leaders. This has ... -
Roll for initiative: Using library game nights to empower student leaders
Academic libraries provide valuable programming for their campus communities. This programming often springs from collaborations with other campus centers, but we sometimes overlook the fact that student organizations can ... -
Rubrics and Decision Matricies
Designing rubrics for informed decision making How often do committees spend an inordinate amount of time nit-picking a trivial issue and fail to discuss the heart of a problem? Do you find yourself constantly busy, ... -
Rush of regret: a longitudinal analysis of naturalistic regrets
(2011-04-07)The current research examines immediate regrets occurring at the time of a meaningful life outcome to better understand influences on real-life regrets. This research used a longitudinal approach to examine both initial ... -
Rust belt revitilization: retrofitting communities through transit oriented development
The American Railway system increased rapidly in the late and early 19th century altering the dynamics of surrounding cities and their role in urbanism. Railways, a product of the Industrial Revolution, fundamentally ... -
Sampling Protocols (1988-1993) of the Pocono Comparative Lakes Program
Details on the methods and protocols by which samples were collected for the 5 years (1989-1993) of the Pocono Comparative Lakes Program in Lakes Giles, Lacawac, and Waynewood -
Sanctuary for the gadget freaks: re-conceptualization of urban spaces in the age of IoT
The increasing number of gadget ownership and people’s dependence on the Internet of things (IoT) in everyday life, encourages us to reassess the concepts of ‘Placemaking’ of the digital era. If historically considered, ... -
Scholarly Communications-Trends and Issues
Session participants learned how to develop a scholarly communications outreach program for their institution. -
The school principal as democratic leader: A critique of the Wallace Foundation’s vision of the principalship
What is the role of the public school principal in the contemporary era? As conceived by many in educational policy-making and research today, the duty of the US school leader is to ensure that the district is, above all ... -
A search for identity: how to re-invent the post-industrial past to lead towards a vibrant future
The grand architecture of Wheeling, West Virginia has long been forgotten. Constructed in the late 19th century by wealthy factory owners, the Victorian and Gothic Revival buildings have remained abandoned ever since wealthy ... -
Seasonal variation in the hepatoproteome of the dehydration- and freeze-tolerant wood frog, Rana sylvatica
Winter’s advent invokes physiological adjustments that permit temperate ectotherms to cope with stresses such as food shortage, water deprivation, hypoxia, and hypothermia. We used liquid chromatography (LC) in combination ... -
Seasonality of Freeze Tolerance in a Subarctic Population of the Wood Frog, Rana sylvatica
We compared physiological characteristics and responses to experimental freezing and thawing in winter and spring samples of the wood frog, Rana sylvatica, indigenous to Interior Alaska, USA. Whereas winter frogs can survive ... -
Secrets to Our Success: Thoughts from the Buckeye State on Leading an Academic Library Organization
Slide for a keynote address on leadership at the MiALA annual board leadership retreat. -
Seeing the Complex Person Within: Changing Caregiver Perceptions of Memory Care Residents
I spent 42 hours as a volunteer visitor with memory care assisted living at The Lutheran Home in Wauwatosa, WI. I took detailed notes on my observations and interactions with caregivers and staff. This led me to the ... -
Seeing the Forest by Counting the Trees
(2014-03-26)Libraries, particularly academic libraries, are swimming in a sea of data. Librarians often contribute to this by counting every possible patron interaction in an attempt to both define their current situation and to predict ... -
Seeing the Forest by Counting the Trees [slide deck]
(2014-03-26)Libraries, particularly academic libraries, are swimming in a sea of data. Librarians often contribute to this by counting every possible patron interaction in an attempt to both define their current situation and to predict ... -
Seeking congruity between goals and roles: A new look at why women opt out of STEM careers
Although women have nearly attained equality with men in several formerly male-dominated fields, they remain underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). We argue that one important factor ... -
Seeking public space: Architecture, democracy and citizenship in Turkey
Architecture is fundamentally a political activity. What makes living interesting is the environment that changes constantly, and politics is not only the essence of this alternating environment, but also it is the ... -
Seeking Sustainable Urban Renewal: an anthropological study of neighborhood change
Urban restructuring in Cincinnati has primarily been enacted as corporate-led gentrification, widening socio-economic disparities and displacing lower-income populations. One Cincinnati community is challenging this process ... -
Self-Efficacy in Introductory Physics in Students at Single-Sex and Coeducational Colleges
We surveyed 88 students at four colleges: one men’s college, two women’s colleges, and one coeducational college. The questions, modified from Reid (2007), asked about in-class participation, how fulfilled they were by ...