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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 ... -
Layer City: Redesign Skyscrapers
(2014-05-22)My thesis is dealing with the urban construction---skyscrapers,nowadays, the urban fabric is pronominally skyscraper driven in major cities. I started my paper from my own city experience. While the skyscraper in New York ... -
Leading by Example: Instructional shadowing as a professional development tool
As instructors, we each have a style and specific strategies for engaging students and communicating information effectively. Continued engagement, development, and improvement as instructors can be difficult when we ... -
Lean and Mean: Re-envisioning an Outdated Area of the Collection.
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. -
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 ... -
Leveraging Resources Between the Senior Community Service Employment Program and the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program
(2014-02-13)This report describes a project that sought to determine the role the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) might play in supporting the Long-Term Care Ombudsman in their expanded role in the HOME Choice ... -
LibGuides Administration: Roadmap to Engaging Content
Libraries purchase LibGuides software in the effort to provide all users with easy access to engaging library content. Active administration of the software is a vital component in realizing this goal. In the summer of ... -
Librarian A Multi-User License Manager
(1992-08-01)A common problem in network administration is that there are often more workstations on a network than there are available licensed copies of the various software products. The purpose of the software described herein is ... -
Libraries Are Not Neutral: Implementing Social Justice and Critical Information Literacy into One-Shot Instruction
The United States is finally listening to the Black Lives Matter Movement. After the tragic murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and far too many others at the hands of police, white Americans are recognizing the ... -
Libraries as a facilitator of community engagement in the urban environment
Libraries are essential elements to the life of our communities as they provide many assets to community members and act as catalysts for civic engagement. Tightened government budgets in the United States have threatened ... -
The Library and the Campus Visit: Communicating Value to Prospective Students and Parents
(2012-10-12)Successful undergraduate admission and recruitment efforts are vital to every university. A strong student body improves the quality of academic programs and the prestige of the institution. Since most colleges depend ... -
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, ... -
Library Services in Learning Management Systems
The learning management system (LMS) has become a standard part of the higher education infrastructure, both for online and face-to-face courses. Continuing growth in online course offerings and the mobility of ... -
Lifetime sexual violence and alexithymia: the meditating role of dissociation, thought suppression, and shame
One in four women report experiences of lifetime sexual victimization (LSV), which includes unwanted sexual experiences in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood (Fisher, Cullen, & Turner, 2000). Furthermore, college-aged ... -
Lifting the Veil: How Networks Form, Operate, Struggle, and Succeed
Organizational networks have become an increasingly prominent approach to the provision of services for complex, multi-dimensional needs such as behavioral and mental health needs, HIV/AIDS, substance use disorders, and ... -
Lifting the Veil: How Networks Form, Operate, Struggle, and Succeed
Organizational networks have become an increasingly prominent approach to the provision of services for complex, multi-dimensional needs such as behavioral and mental health needs, HIV/AIDS, substance use disorders, and ... -
Lights! Camera! Action! Creating a First Tier Information Service Point (with less than 30 days' notice)
Libraries are moving towards consolidating service points and cross-training staff. Due to staffing changes, one university library recently decided to consolidate first-tier information service with the circulation desk. ... -
Limnology of Lakes Lacawac, Giles, and Waynewood 1989-93: An Introduction to the Core Lakes of the Pocono Comparative Lakes Program
Summary report of lake conditions for the 5 years of the Pocono Comparative Lakes program, Lakes Giles, Lacawac, and Waynewood (1989-1993)