American Library Association Annual Conference
June 28- 30, 2008
2008
Poster Session Committee:
Jody
Condit Fagan, Chair,
Candace Benefiel, Review Panel Chair,
Charlotte Dugan, Abstracts Editor,
Reviewers:
Julie Banks,
Jeff Barber,
Nan Butkovich,
Christina Desai,
Mollie Dinwiddie,
Stephanie Graves, Southern
Christine Hagar,
Stefanie Hunker,
Andrea Imre, Southern
Steven Johns,
Candice Kail,
Wendi Arant Kaspar,
Deborah O. Lee,
Barbara Lewis,
Meris Mandernach,
Sarah
Pixey Mosley,
Carl Pracht,
Jodi Shepherd,
Melissa Van Vuuren,
2007 International Poster Session Committee:
Maureen Morris,
Reviewers for Session III, Global Solutions, International Projects In Libraries
Inger Krueger, Paul Smith's
College
Maureen Morris, Cornell University (Chair)
Patrick P. McGuire, Ed.D., C.W. Post, Long
Island University School of Lib. Science
Nonny Schlotzhauer, Pennsylvania State
University
Frank Xu, Brooklyn Public Library
Floor Managers:
Emily Blankenship,
Howard Carter, Southern
Yu-Hui Chen, University at
Kristen Costello,
Leanne Hillery, Regent University Library
Sarah
Pixey Mosley,
Michael C. Witt, Purdue Libraries
Anne Weglewski
2009 Annual Poster
Session Application Information
Applications for presenting poster sessions at the 2009
American Library Association Annual Conference in
http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/ala/
Applications will be accepted between November 1, 2008 and January 31, 2009
An application form, guidelines for applying, helpful hints, and photos of sample poster sessions can be found at the website. If you don’t have access to the World Wide Web or to email, please contact Jody Condit Fagan, Chair, at 540-568-4265 (telephone) for instructions on how to apply.
Applicants will be notified by March 31, 2009 whether their poster sessions have been accepted for presentation at the conference. Poster sessions will be presented on July 11, 12, and 13th at the conference.
History:
Poster sessions were introduced to the American Library Association at its
1982 Annual Conference in
Poster sessions may present any of the following:
Ø a report of a research study
Ø an analysis of a practical problem-solving effort
Ø a description of an innovative library program
Poster sessions cover a broad range of subjects grouped according to such areas as management, collection development, technology, reference, and library services to special groups.
Poster session participants place materials such as pictures, data, graphs, diagrams and narrative text on bulletin boards. During their assigned time periods, participants informally discuss their presentations with conference attendees. Participants are selected through a double-blind peer review process.
Session I: The
Collectors: Posters on Acquisitions, Cataloging and Classification, Collection
Development and Management, History, Serials, and Special Collections
Saturday, June 28, 2008, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Session II: The
Educators: Posters on Distance Learning, Continuing Education, Library Education,
Literacy, and Research Methodology
Saturday, June 28,
2008, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Session III: Global
Solutions, International Projects in Libraries
Sunday, June 29,
2008, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Session IV: Outreach:
Posters on Interlibrary Cooperation, Library Services to Special Groups, and
Reference and Information Services
Sunday, June 29,
2008, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Session V:
Connections: Posters on Cooperation with Non-Library Institutions and Agencies,
Interlibrary Loan, Library Use Instruction, and Public Awareness
Monday, June 30,
2008, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Session VI:
Infrastructure: Posters on Buildings and Equipment, Management, and Technology
Monday, June 30,
2008, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Saturday, June 28, 2008, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
I - 1 Where
Libraries and Special Collections Meet Web 2.0: Building Next-generation
Archival Tools
Alan Cornish, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA (cornish at wsu.edu)
Alex Merrill, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA (merrilla at wsu.edu)
With the launch of large-scale book
digitization projects, libraries will increasingly be distinguished by their
special and archival collections, and by the services that they offer to
provide access to these collections. This presentation describes some of the
innovative tools being created to enhance access to resources of the Northwest
Digital Archives, a consortium of libraries and archival facilities in
I - 2 Connecting Print Titles with Their Electronic Alter Egos in the Catalog: Analysis and Full Disclosure
We have made a heavy investment in a variety of electronic resources, many bundled or with name changes distancing them from their print origins. Can our patrons even find/discover these resources in our catalog? A task force was formed to explore how to enhance catalog records to fully associate print titles with their related electronic titles. The task force goal was to develop a cooperative process and cataloging guidelines for electronic resource catalog records that: enhance patron access to electronic resources and publication subsets, develop a cooperative process between liaison and catalog librarians, develop a maintenance process for tracking the changes, and develop an exit plan if a resource is cancelled. The scope of the investigation focused on the electronic resources listed on the Libraries’ E-resources webpage that are not connected or linked automatically through the cataloging process. The review process took into consideration parent and child relationships, along with title changes that occur when print migrates to an electronic format. The task force looked specifically for electronic resources with publication subsets that were not cataloged and for related print and electronic records that are not linked in the catalog. The electronic resource cataloging recommendations that were proposed were multifaceted and included a focus on interdepartmental cooperation and a method of tracking the resource catalog record enhancements using the electronic resource management (ERM) system. I - 3 Video on
Demand: Streaming Media in Distance Education When the I - 4 The Web-at-Risk:
Preserving our Nation's Digital Cultural Heritage The Web is increasingly the only source for
born-digital government publications, in spite of the fact that web content is
known to be unstable and fleeting. Government information specialists are
struggling to capture and preserve publications they once collected in print,
particularly state and local government publications. Librarians also have a
new opportunity to capture political organization websites, blog postings and
other ephemera to provide future researchers with a unique window into
historical events such as elections or Hurricane Katrina. This session will provide
an update on the Web-at-Risk project, a four and a half year effort to build
tools to capture, curate and preserve web-based political and government
information. Funded by the National Digital Information Infrastructure
Preservation Program and led by the California Digital Library, this project is
well underway. The poster will include screen images of the Web Archiving
Service currently under development, as well as images from the web archives
being created by the project’s curators. I - 5 The Transgender Resource
Collection: When Collection Development Leads to Staff Development Oak Park Public Library has created the first
distinct, focused transgender collection in a I - 6 Taking Control of
Electronic Resources: An Environmental Impact Study of the First Two Years of
Electronic Resources Management System (ERMS) Implementation Librarians have powerful new Electronic
Resources Management Systems (ERMS), but, as with early adoption of any new
technology, the implementation and integration presented many challenges in the
first 2-1/2 years. What should a fully populated ERMS contain? What functions
in the library does it support? The University of Illinois at Chicago Library’s
home grown system was retired in 2005 in favor of a commercial ERMS (Serials
Solutions 360 Resource Manager), adopted in January, 2006. After two years of
populating it, and periods of trial and error, the Library set out to assess
the true capability of the ERMS with an environmental impact study. The
variables studied included key issues of workflow; resistance to change and
creative adaptations were factors as well. In addition to the study results,
the poster also presents illustrations of full, complete records; selected
comments on the ERMS by the staff; and samples of programming PERL scripts to
retrieve data through the XML API portal. I - 7 Measuring the Impact of
Change: A Case Study Exploring the Impact of Integrating Non-MARC Metadata
Production into the Duties of Traditional Catalogers While there is a growing body of literature
addressing metadata integration in technical services departments, the impact
of this integration on catalogers has yet to be explored. The poster addresses
this gap in the literature, measuring the impact of metadata integration on
Technical Services team members at the I - 8 Me and My Shadow: Observing
and Documenting Serials Workflow in a Cataloging Department When staff turnover and incomplete
documentation have left a gap in institutional memory, librarians may have a
hard time achieving a full and accurate understanding of workflow. The
Cataloging Department at North Carolina State University Libraries addressed
managers’ incomplete grasp of the workings of its serials unit by engaging in a
comprehensive shadowing project. By observing each member of the serials unit
for a full workday, the department came to a clearer understanding of the way
work really got done and identified troubled areas of the workflow. After the
shadowing was complete, the department began using the data collected for
organizational evaluation, problem solving, and enhancement of intra- and
interdepartmental communication. The poster session will examine the use of
shadowing, a technique common in the corporate sector, but less frequently used
in libraries. It will showcase improvements made to the departmental workflow
based on the shadowing project, using staff feedback and productivity as
evidence of success. Visual documentation such as organizational charts and
workflow diagrams will complement the presentation. I - 9 Matching Courses to
Resources: Automating the Integration of Discipline-Specific Library Resources
in Blackboard Courses. The I - 10 Library-a-Go-Go Never
Fear, Your Library Is Here! LIBRARY-a-GO-GO Program is the first in the
nation to offer book lending machines. I - 11 Learning to Swim:
Streaming Video from Zero to One Hundred The demand for online video has grown rapidly
in recent years, and libraries are challenged to keep up with new developments
and make informed decisions. This poster session describes the I - 12 Indigenous Information
Ecology: Vanishing Indians Throwing Off Our Invisibility Cloaks As We Rush into
the 21st Century The vibrant growth of indigenous information
environments is reflected in this Google Earth-Based mapping project of the
more than 300 tribal libraries, archives and museums in the I - 13 Dewey to LC: Planning a
Reclassification Project In the summer of 2007, we began relabeling
and reshelving the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries’ existing book
collections in order to change them from Dewey to Library of Congress
Classification. This poster session will focus on the planning and organizing
that occurred before those tasks began. We will describe the responsibilities
of the task force appointed to plan the entire project and the role of working
groups formed to handle detailed assignments such as providing publicity. We
will provide specifics about many aspects of the project including: selecting
vendors, hiring and training workers for the project, ordering supplies and
equipment, establishing workflows for relabeling and reshelving, and
identifying and solving problems. In addition, we will describe how the
expertise of cataloging department staff expedited various aspects of the
project. I - 14 Controversy, Code Names,
and Cultural Memory: Building the Nevada Test Site Oral History Digital
Collection This poster highlights the Nevada Test Site
Oral History Project (NTSOHP); which is dedicated to documenting, preserving,
and disseminating the stories of persons affiliated with and impacted by forty
years of U.S. Cold War nuclear weapons testing. The project is a collaboration
between the UNLV University Libraries, the director of the NTSOHP, and campus
partners to create an online, fully searchable, digital research collection
from the collected oral history research. Project participants include
scientists, miners, military officers, contractors and corporate executives.
Also presented are the voices of native tribal leaders, peace activists and
communities downwind of the test site. Working with controversial material, deciphering
military code names, and negotiating government acronyms were all unique
challenges to the project. This poster also presents practical digital projects
solutions (such as managing cross-campus communication, quality control for
complex metadata creation, troubleshooting online document display, and
tackling project marketing), with a focus on issues in converting oral history
research for the online environment. I - 15 Children of the
Territories: A Community College Interdisciplinary Resource Collection for
Student Study and Research This poster will focus on how faculty and the
librarian at a community college developed a unique interdisciplinary resource
collection for student research and study. The foundation of the collection is
an historic photography exhibit featuring 50 framed historic photographs which
are representative of the diversity of children and families who settled in
Indian and I - 16 Catch the Wave: Building
a Digital Image Library without Wiping Out Before you hang ten, create the necessary
workflow and efficiency through collaboration. Western Michigan University
Libraries has launched a system to build a robust and workable digital image
library and image catalog without creating new staff positions. The system
required creating a workflow using the talent, knowledge, and skills of human
resources already on staff. The goal of this project is to create a digital
image database and catalog for the Visual Resources Library. This database
serves as a finding aid for slides and digital images as well as a presentation
tool for the latter. Building the image library requires comprehensive planning
and the execution of three distinct phases. Phase I includes extracting and
migrating data, mapping the metadata from MARC to VRA Core 3, loading digital
images into the new system, and linking images with the records; Phase II
entails enhancing and expanding records fashioned using AACR2 to comply with
CCO and users’ needs; and Phase III involves adding new images and records. At
this time Phase I is in full operation. Using a flow chart and text, this
poster session demonstrates to other libraries how to design a digital library
project by drawing on resources already at hand. At I - 17 Assessing How Scholars
Use Cultural Materials: The Planning Phase In 2007, the Mellon Foundation awarded the
Digital Library Federation a grant to develop American Social History Online
and assess how various ways of exposing collections impact their use by scholars
(through Google, an aggregated portal, federated search, course management
system and citation management software). American Social History
(http://www.dlfaquifer.org) aggregates digital collections from Digital Library
Federation member institutions including the Library of Congress’ “Making of
America,” Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Emory, Harvard, Columbia
University, and the California Digital Library. I - 18 An Intricate Tapestry of
Cultures: Examining the Representation of the Diverse Guatemalan Subcultures in
Children’s Fiction
Dana W. R. Boden, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE (dboden1@unl.edu)
Joan Konecky, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE (jkonecky1@unl.edu)
Judith A. Wolfe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Love Library, Lincoln, NE (jwolf1@unlnotes.unl.edu)
Sue Parks,
Kim Stanton,
Tracy Seneca, California Digital Library, Oakland, CA (tracy.seneca
at ucop.edu)
Mike Wooldridge, California Digital Library, Oakland, CA (Michael.Wooldridge
at ucop.edu)
Bleue Benton, Oak Park Public Library, Oak Park, IL (bbenton at oppl.org)
Sara Blaszczak, University of Illinois at Chicago Library, Chicago, IL (thorburn at uic.edu)
Marielle Veve, Catalog Librarian - University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (mveve at utk.edu)
Melanie Feltner-Reichert, Metadata Librarian - University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, TN (mfeltner at utk.edu)
Kristen Blake, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC (kristen_blake
at ncsu.edu)
Erin Stalberg, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC (erin_stalberg
at ncsu.edu)
Sian Meikle, University of Toronto Libraries, Toronto, Canada (sian.meikle
at utoronto.ca)
Rita Vine, University of Toronto Libraries, Toronto, Canada (rita.vine at
utoronto.ca)
Greta Galindo, Contra Costa County Library, Pleasant Hill, CA (ggalindo at ccclib.org)
Jon Solomon, Contra Costa County Library, Pleasant Hill, CA (jsolomon at ccclib.org)
Johan Oberg,
Laurel Haycock,
Nancy Herther,
Allison (Ally) Krebs, Knowledge River Scholar, University of Arizona School of
Information Resources and Library Science, Tucson, AZ (akrebs at
email.arizona.edu)
Linda Dujmic,
Terry Hurlbert,
Cory Lampert, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV (cory.lampert
at unlv.edu)
Carla Goble, Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, OK (cgoble at tulsacc.edu)
Anne Phillips, Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, OK (aphillip at tulsacc.edu)
Paula Eggert, Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, OK (peggert at tulsacc.edu)
Sheila Bair,
Paul Howell,
Miranda Howard,
Deborah Holmes-Wong,
Dr. Jamie Naidoo, University of South Carolina - School of Lib & Info
Science, Columbia, SC (jnaidoo at gwm.sc.edu)
Clayton Copeland
While there has been little research on Latino
children’s literature, fewer studies have examined the depiction of Guatemalan
subcultures in children’s books available in the
I - 19 A New Look at the
Significance of the Regional Novels of Lois Lenski
Carla Goble, Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, OK (cgoble at tulsacc.edu)
This poster will explore the significance of
the regional novels of children’s author and illustrator Lois Lenski. After
World War I book publishers began to add children’s book departments and
editors. This was an important period of growth for children’s literature. It
was during this time that Lois Lenski began to write and illustrate children’s
books. She became interested in the everyday lives of children and how their
lives were impacted by the sociocultural context of the different regions of
the
I - 20 “I don’t live here but…”:
Library Experiences of Hurricane Katrina Displacees
Donna Braquet,
Over one million people evacuated the
Saturday, June 28, 2008, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
II -
1 A Click Away: Student Response to Clickers
Zhonghong Wang, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY (iwang@liu.edu)
Trish Keogh, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY (patricia.keogh@liu.edu)
As institutions of higher education increasingly focus on outcomes assessment, educators are turning to tools such as “clickers” to attract student interest and facilitate evaluation of student outcomes. Academic librarians interested in exploring new ways to teach information literacy could also utilize this technology.
The Brooklyn Campus Library of Long Island University recently purchased a set of 25 radio frequency clickers. The authors explore how these interactive devices may impact student learning.
In order to gauge initial student interest in the devices, the authors set up an interface, featuring the Personal Response System (PRS) from InterWrite, outside the busy entrance to the library. They observed student reaction to the clickers by inviting students to compete for prizes while taking a quiz on basic knowledge of the library using the clickers.
This poster presentation, which analyzes comments and results gathered from students in the course of the quiz, provides an opportunity for librarians to assess possible implementation of tools such as clickers to enhance instruction and student learning. As a tool for outcomes assessment and teaching, clickers have the potential to both attract interest and maintain attention during instruction sessions.
II - 2 "Intrigue,
Conspiracy and Kidnapping: The New Face of Information Literacy
Instruction?"
Kristin Boyett,
The
II - 3 "They're Not in
David Oberhelman, Oklahoma State University Library, Stillwater, OK (d.oberhelman
at okstate.edu)
Helen Clements, Oklahoma State University Library, Stillwater, OK (helen.clements
at okstate.edu)
Barbara Miller, Oklahoma State University Library, Stillwater, OK (barbara.miller
at okstate.edu)
Librarians at the Oklahoma State University
Library have developed an in-service training presentation, our
"Information Literacy Roadshow," aimed at high school faculty to
outline how teachers, school media specialists, and public and academic
librarians can help prepare secondary school students for college-level
research. This poster presentation will describe the approach we take to
develop cooperation and introduce information literacy concepts in the high
school curriculum to help them transition to college-level research, and the
successful marketing strategies we have used bring this presentation to schools
across
II - 4 A Star Is Born --
Engaging Title V Students in Library Video Project
Ying Zhong,
As a Hispanic service institution,
II - 5 Connecting 24/5 to
Millennials: Providing Academic Support Services from a Learning Commons
Anne C. Moore,
Kimberly Wells,
In response to the seamless academic and personal
behavior of Millennial college students, libraries are creating a learning
commons in which campus academic support services are integrated with library
services to provide everything students need to succeed in a single facility 24
hours a day with food. Roving may be an effective way to satisfy the immediate
support needs of students collaborating in these bustling environments. A
survey conducted on March 16, 2006 of users of the UMass Amherst Learning
Commons (opened in the W.E.B. Du Bois Library in September 2005) provided
detailed insight into who they are, how often they visit, what services they
use, how they want to receive reference and technology assistance, and what
enhancements they want. Results indicated a preference for face-to-face research
and technology assistance: 40% of respondents wanted library and technology
staff to rove the Learning Commons to offer assistance. To remain vital to
today’s library users, academic libraries need to become a value-added and
convenient resource to solve their research dilemmas. Librarians need to not
only keep current with and integrate emerging technologies embraced by current
students into their services, but also move out from behind the desk to assist
today’s users with evaluating and managing information. Color figures and
photographs reveal activity trends along with suggested innovations.
II - 6 Designing for Synergy:
Online Information Literacy Modules at the University of Central Florida
Corinne Bishop, University of Central Florida Library, Orlando, FL (cbishop at mail.ucf.edu)
This poster highlights a set of online
information literacy modules developed as a collaborative project between the
Library and Course Development and Web Services at the
II - 7 Do Libraries
Contribute to Gains in
Stephen Krashen, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (skrashen at yahoo.com)
Syying Lee, National Taipei University, Taipei, Taiwan (syying.lee
at msa.hinet.net)
Jeff McQuillan, Center for Educational Development, Los Angeles, CA (jeff at learningexperts.com)
The goal of this study is determine whether
access to books in libraries contributes to gains in reading between grades 4
and 8. For school libraries, we used the number of books per child in school
libraries in each state and for public libraries; we used book holdings per
capita in each state. We performed a multiple regression analysis to determine
if these access variables are significant predictors of scores on the NAEP
grade 8 reading test, controlling for performance on the grade 4 test. Using
recent (2005) fourth and eighth grade NAEP scores, both library factors were
significant predictors of grade eight NAEP scores. Fourth grade NAEP alone was,
as expected, a significant predictor of grade 8 scores (r 2 = .87) and adding
the two library predictors added four percent (.04) to the r2. An attempt was
made to replicate these results with quasi-longitudinal data, using grade 4
NAEP from 1998 and grade 8 NAEP from 2002. Access was positively related to
gains from grade 4 to grade 8, but this time it did not achieve statistical
significance. Additional analyses suggested that school library holdings only
impact scores when they are above a certain minimum (20 books per student).
II - 8 From Beowulf to Virginia
Woolf in 50 Min. Any Questions?
Mary Claire Vandenburg, Queen's University,
What’s doable, what’s desirable, and how do I
assess that? This poster session will present the results of a liaison
librarians completed contact with all 600 students registered for English 100
at a four year university. The poster will showcase the economy used in
deciding what the students need to know, and how best to present that to
multiple small groups. The challenge in meeting so many students with varying
levels of readiness will be addressed and presented will be the self assessment
tool used to pre and post test students to ultimately measure the significant
improvement in awareness of library resources which was the result of attending
the English 110 Library Research Tools class. The comments of students received
will be offered as insight to the needs of this community of researchers. A
consideration of what worked best and areas for improvement will be included.
Excel spreadsheets, a Self Test Evaluation Tool, use of multimedia and handout
will complement the poster itself.
II - 9 Growing Our Own:
Developing Community Based Librarians in Philadelphia and Southeast
Pennsylvania
Hedra Packman, Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA (packmanh
at freelibrary.org)
Library trainees, student librarians and
program administrators from
II - 10 Helping Librarians Help:
An Outcome-Based Evaluation of the University of Michigan's Instructor College
Maura Seale, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI (sealem at gvsu.edu)
Emily Mazure, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (emily_mazure
at ncsu.edu)
Nicole Scholtz, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (nscholtz at umich.edu)
II - 11 Mentoring Interactively
(MIing): New Tools for Librarian Recruitment and Retention or How to Build Bridges
between Boomers and Next-Gen Librarians
Lisa Gieskes, ECPI College of Technology Library, Columbia, SC (lisagieskes
at yahoo.com)
Emerging technologies such as social
networking software enable new and unique opportunities for the recruitment and
retention of librarians. A review of the literature reveals that generational
differences may be an obstacle to librarian recruitment and retention. Social
networking software can bridge the generational divide that exists between current
library and information science graduates and library professionals. Boomer
librarians, Bridge generation librarians and Next-Gen librarians all have
things in common that may not be readily apparent when meeting face to face,
however, in a virtual setting, a more egalitarian environment can be achieved.
This poster session will cover the
II - 12 Promoting Accessibility
in and of LIS Education
Ellen Perlow, Texas Woman's University,
Diversity is a fundamental value of the
library and information science [LIS] profession. Within the diversity
spectrum, people with access needs account for more than 20% of the
II - 13 Raising the 2.0
Reference Librarian
Jill Sodt,
Technology is changing the way we work with
library users, whether they are faculty, the millennial students, or others.
Reference librarians are using things like social networking software, blogs,
IM services, wikis, and much more in addition to the typical online catalog and
databases. It is imperative that the training of new reference librarians
address the variety of resources and delivery methods that are being utilized.
Additionally, reference librarians are being called upon to provide more
bibliographic instruction and education in information literacy in a variety of
delivery methods including such things as Blackboard and WebCT. So how do we
being to address an area of librarianship that has already faced major changes
and provide new and old librarians with the tools to successfully meet the
challenges they face on a daily basis? This poster will offer suggestions of
courses that MLS students should explore while attending library school and
within the first five years of their new careers. Different programs,
conferences, and other training opportunities will be examined with suggestions
of the benefit to future and current reference librarians. A sample plan will
be presented that can be adjusted to meet the individual’s needs and interests.
II - 14 Researching Climate
Change: Trends in
Laura Sare, Texas A&M University Libraries,
Kari A Kozak, Texas A&M University Libraries,
Data from government publications are a major
information source for Americans. How scientific issues such as climate change
are portrayed in federal documents affect how Americans are educated about science.
This study looks at government publications on climate change and explores
trends of publishing by types of publications, which agencies are publishing
information on climate change, and how these trends have changed over time. The
scope of the project will examine publications by eight federal agencies and
the U.S. Congress in various formats from 1970 to 2007 and documents found on
current and historical agency web sites are included in the coverage of the
study. Preliminary results of the study show a greater concentration of works
on climate change in the 1990s followed by a period of decline at the turn of
the century, with a dramatic increase in the past couple of years. The study
analyzes how climate change has been treated by various federal agencies over
several decades. Publications are analyzed by agency, author, and publishing
dates. More in depth evaluation of publications involves how the issue of
climate change is addressed in the publication, by looking at subject matter
such as the causes of or solutions for climate change. This study will provide
information on climate change research by examining the different focuses of
federal agencies.
II - 15 Studying Students
Studying: Ethnography on a Shoestring
Kendall Hobbs, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (khobbs at wesleyan.edu)
Diane Klare, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (dklare at wesleyan.edu)
Under the guidance of an anthropologist,
II - 16 Teachers' Views of
Library Service
Keith Swigger, Texas Woman's University SLIS,
APLUS is a cooperative program for
alternative certification of school librarians through a partnership between
Dallas (TX)
II - 17 Balancing Both Lives: Issues
Facing Librarians Working in Second Life and Real Life Worlds
Emily Blankenship, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC (blankenshipe
at ecu.edu)
This colorful, interactive, and engaging
poster session looks at the dual roles performed by traditional librarians and
their avatar (graphical representation) librarians in virtual libraries.
Depicted are real life scenarios vs. Second Life (Internet-based virtual world)
situations where librarians struggle to maintain their sense of balance between
the physical and virtual work spaces. Included are current hot points of debate
concerning the virtual librarians’ everyday dilemmas regarding devotion of
adequate time to work in virtual libraries to warrant the virtual library’s
existence and the necessity for virtual librarians to automate many of their
virtual library services due to lack of volunteer coverage and the need to
continue to devote adequate time to their physical libraries. Not only do
virtual librarians need foundational knowledge of the most popular resources
found in real life such as in Proquest, EBSCO and OCLC databases, the same
librarians must be able to maneuver through cyberspace and link the real life
knowledge bases to the virtual libraries in order to provide the same high
levels of service traditionally found in physical libraries. Cyber-savvy
librarians must command the communication skills required to guide their users;
sell their services; and create dynamic virtual learning spaces for targeted
users.
II - 18 Operation Resurrection:
Breathing New Life into Graduate Student Researchers and Instruction Librarians
by Developing a New Suite of Services
Anne Armstrong, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL (annie at uic.edu)
Steve Brantley, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL (jbrant1 at uic.edu)
La Verne Gray, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL (lagray at uic.edu)
Elizabeth Pickard, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL (epickard at uic.edu)
Not unlike many academic libraries that focus
a large part of their time and energy on instruction for undergraduate
students, the
II - 19 Read Alouds in English
as a Foreign Language: The Path to Establishing a Pleasure Reading Habit?
Fei-yu Wang,
Sy-ying Lee,
A number of studies have found that reading
aloud facilitates young learners’ first language acquisition and literacy
development, but few studies have investigated the effects of read-alouds in
the foreign or second language context (Elley, 1989, Mason, 2007). The purpose
of this poster is to show the profound impact of reading aloud on children in
an EFL (English as a foreign language) situation. We first present the results
of a descriptive study of the impact of read-alouds on young EFL students. The
students were read to for more than three years and as a result developed an
enthusiasm for in-class self-selected reading (sustained silent reading),
confirming Trelease’s suggestion (2001) that reading aloud and sustained silent
reading are “natural partners.” Interviews were conducted with ten of the
students from our study, now in grade four, and with six teachers with
experience teaching EFL to young children. The children perceived read-alouds
to be a fun activity and felt that it made a contribution to their acquisition
of English. The teachers realized that their students enjoyed read-alouds, but
felt that it could not be an effective teaching technique, apparently believing
that if an activity is pleasant, it cannot be beneficial.
II - 20 The Chemistry Between
Library Services and Web 2.0: Providing “Traditional” Library Services via New
Technologies to USC Chemistry Users
Norah Xiao, USC Libraries: Science & Engineering Interdisciplinary Team,
Los Angeles, CA (nxiao at usc.edu)
Sara Tompson, USC Libraries: Science & Engineering Interdisciplinary Team,
Los Angeles, CA (sarat at usc.edu)
As academic libraries continue providing
seamless access to information in electronic format, fewer users step into the
physical library for their research and study. More and more tend to study
online and use our electronic services and electronic resources. As subject
liaison librarians, we need to explore all kinds of possibilities to connect,
communicate and serve users in the digital age. This poster session will
provide an academic library case study in applying new technologies to library
services for the chemical sciences disciplines
(http://www.usc.edu/libraries/subjects/chemistry/). The selected Web 2.0
applications we have implemented and will showcase include a blog
(http://chemusc.wordpress.com/), tags, RSS feeds and instant messaging. We implemented
these various new technology approaches based upon analyses of the information
needs as well as the information-seeking behaviors of chemistry students and
faculty. Rationale for the technology choices will be presented, as will
statistical results of how the users have adopted these innovative library
services. We will also suggest future explorations into how these services can
be further improved to better accommodate users’ information needs.
Session III: Global Solutions, International Projects in Libraries
Sunday, June 29, 2008, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
III -
1 Lubuto: Excellent Libraries for African Street
Children
Jane Kinney Meyers, Lubuto Library Project, Inc.,
The Lubuto Library Project is a Washington,
DC-based organization that provides literacy skills and basic education for
sub-Saharan
III - 2 Libraries Flourish amidst
War and Conflict: A Case Study of
Antonia Neubauer, READ Global,
Kate Fenner, READ Global,
Despite thirteen years of warfare in
III - 3 The Web Presence and
Capacity of Human Rights NGOs in Central Africa: A Case Study of Six Countries
Natalia Poppeliers, University of South Carolina -- Aiken, Aiken, SC (nataliap at usca.edu)
Recent international events have demonstrated
that the internet is a vital resource for researchers, activists, and observers
of human rights abuses. In some cases, such as in
III - 4 Riyad Nassar Library
(RNL): A Library for the Future
Houeida Kammourié-Charara,
The Lebanese American University (LAU) Beirut
Library was established in 1934 as a single room library serving about 150
women. The Library went through many stages of growth as its mother
institution. The new library, namely Riyad Nassar Library (RNL), serves now
approximately 5000 co-educational campus. Moving a collection of 225,000
volumes to an 8000 square foot library during a war period was a tremendous
challenge. The poster session will demonstrate our agony and ultimate pride in
accomplishing the most modern and high-tech library in
III - 5 Good ideas Cross the
Atlantic – the International Library in Frankfurt am Main
Birgit Lotz, Stadtbuecherei Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (birgit.lotz
at stadt-frankfurt.de)
This poster will describe the development of
a library program for foreign residents, a project of Frankfurt City Library
Service in Gallus Branch Library. In 2001, Birgit Lotz, Head of Department
responsible for the branch libraries of the Frankfurt City Library Service, was
selected to take part in the Librarians Abroad Programme of the Bertelsmann
Foundation. She went on a study trip to
III - 6 Building International
Sister Libraries Partnerships
Paraskeva Dimova-Angelov, Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn, NY (pdimova
at brooklyn.cuny.edu)
Karen Jessee, Jacksonville Public Library, Jacksonville, FL (KJessee at coj.net)
Holly Murten, American Corners, U.S. Department of State (MurtenHT at state.gov)
Organizations such as the International
Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) and the American Library Association
(ALA) encourage libraries to be part of the global library community and to
build international, mutually beneficial partnerships. Many libraries from
different countries around the world are looking for sister library
relationships as a way to participate in the global community, but finding a
suitable partner can be challenging. The ALA International Relations Round
Table Sister Library Committee (IRRT SLC) provides information on how to
arrange such partnerships on its webpage
http://wikis.ala.org/sisterlibraries/index.php/Main_Page . The IRRT SLC also promotes
sister library relationships between libraries and librarians around the world.
The Committee identifies and works with other non-library organizations such as
Sister Cities International, Rotary International, and the Peace Corps to help
build international sister library relationships. Additionally, the U.S. State
Department supports American Corners and
III - 7 Growing English Language
Libraries in China: The Apple Tree Library Foundation
Deana Groves, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY (deana.groves
at wku.edu)
Cathy Hsiao, Apple Tree Library Foundation, Sunnyvale, CA (cathy.hsiao
at appletreelibrary.org)
Harriet Ying, , Beltsville, MD (hying4 at gmail.com)
Established in 2002, Apple Tree Library
Foundation (ATLF) is a
III - 8 Innovation Project of
Library Marketing:
Chang Chilung, Ching Yun University Library, Taiwan (R.O.C.) (chilung at cyu.edu.tw)
An innovative project was conceived by the
Ching Yun University Library to exploit the integrated marketing strategy to
enhance the dynamic role of the library in supporting academic activities and
promoting a climate for reading through the business management program and the
general education center of the University cooperating with the renowned
picture books publisher the Grimm Press. With unique merits of picture books,
including an abundance of creativity, fewer pages, simple verbal expression, brief
writing style, and interesting pictorial representation, this project is
intended to market library service by holding two theme activities: Book Lovers
Wanted contest designed for students to practice their knowledge and expertise
in writing proposals and competing for customers for marketing picture books.
Beyond the bounds of children books, entering the Reading Salon. A conference
held to broaden reading interest of the University faculty and students by
disseminating information and sharing reading experience associated with
picture books. This project has successfully established a library marketing
model with which the University library can demonstrate its versatile
integration capability by incorporating interdisciplinary academic activities with
university-wide reading promotion.
III - 9 IRRT Free Links: An
Emerging Leaders Project Providing Access to Free Professional Development
Opportunities for ALA Members around the World
Katherine Artzner, Ernst & Young, LLP, Chicago, IL (kartzner at hotmail.com)
Kodjo Atiso, Animal Research Institute, Achimota, Ghana (eltiso at yahoo.com)
Paloma Celis-Carbajal, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI (pcarbajal
at library.wisc.edu)
LaVerne Gray, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL (lagray at uic.edu)
Robin Kear, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (rlk25 at pitt.edu)
Laura Park, Pierce County Library System, Tacoma, WA (lpark
at piercecountylibrary.org)
Susan Schnuer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL (schnuer at uiuc.edu)
The American Library Association (ALA)
International Relations Round Table (IRRT) has a large number of members from
other countries. Due to logistics and costs, many of these librarians are never
able to make it to an
III - 10 A Showcase of
International Collaboration Successes: Asian Libraries With Other Libraries
Around the World In previous decades, many libraries in III - 11 Globalizing Academic
Library Resources and Services Initiatives, however well intended and
worthwhile, bring challenges. Numerous academic libraries face institutional
proposals to “internationalize the curriculum” or “globalize the university.”
As much as librarians may welcome increases in international students, study
abroad, and courses which examine countries beyond the III - 12 Capacity Building for
School Librarians in the Arabian Gulf Research has indicated that school libraries
matter in students academic achievement in schools (Lance Wellborn &
Hamilton-Pennell, 1993), especially with input from trained, well skilled and
informed librarians (Lance 1994, Lance, Hamilton-Pennell, Rodney 2000). If
librarians in schools are not trained in the profession as teacher librarians,
it is highly unlikely that many students will be successful. Majority of
teacher librarians in schools in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have no
academic training in the profession. In the absence of formal library schools
in UAE, librarians at III - 13 From the The 2007 Germany Library study tour was
coordinated by the Initiative for Continuing Education in Academic and
Research-Oriented Special Libraries and Related Institutions
(www.initiativefortbildung.de) with generous support from the Checkpoint
Charlie Foundation (www.cc-stiftung.de) and took place from October 2-14. The
program’s aim is to acquaint German and American librarians with their
counterparts and to open a dialogue of exchange and cooperation. Ten American librarians
were selected for the study tour representing the Wisconsin Legislative
Reference Bureau, Arizona State Library, U.S. Department of State, Louisiana
Senate Law Library, North Carolina General Assembly Legislative Library, South
Carolina State Library, Library of Congress Law Library and Congressional
Research Services, and The Brookings Institution. In III - 14 Sharing and Reusing
Book Resources: The Book Exchange Day Activity of Public Libraries in Taiwan In order to popularize the habit of reading
and encourage residents in III - 15 Is It Worth It? Online
Learning in the There is common acknowledgement of the
perceived value of online information literacy tutorials worldwide. There are
extensive examples of the development of web-based information literacy courses
in many countries, and at any conference, a bevy of teachers and librarians
still wishing that their institution would support such a direction. But is it
worth it? The development of online tutorials and course web sites require a
substantial commitment of time, expertise and resources both for their
development and ongoing maintenance. Good instructional design models include
an evaluation phase which is easy to overlook and time consuming to implement.
More academic research, however, concentrates on determining the usability of
web tutorials, how to create relevant tutorials, or the comparative value of
online vs. face-to-face instruction, than on the extent to which students use
and learn from these online resources. At III - 16 Designing a Collection
Development Policy for Digital Libraries: South Korean Experiences This poster highlights the procedures and
issues of designing a digital collection development policy (CDP) portrayed by
the experiences of III - 17 An Integrative Model
Utilizing Multi-Disciplinary Resources Needed for the Advancement in Asian
Studies: Special Collections in National Taiwan Normal University III - 18 Establishment of the
First Interactive Website and Updated Directory of National Libraries of the
World: www.nationallibraries.org The world has currently 216 countries of
which 122 have national libraries with identified and accessible websites. The
purpose of the www.nationallibraries.org website was to establish the first
interactive site on one platform, update the directory of worldwide National
Libraries, and increase participation close to 100% by 2009. The researcher
gathered, extended and updated national libraries’ directory data from various
earlier published or online resources. The website was organized by continents
and then countries. When a user clicked on a given continent or country’s map
or name, the hyperlinked website of the national library of that country
appeared. In addition, an interactive template has been prepared to allow all
national libraries which do not yet have an accessible website or a formal
library to participate in the ongoing project. E-mails were sent to the
directors or contact persons of the national libraries and requested their
participation, comments, feedbacks, corrections and future recommendations of
www.nationallibraries.org site. The researcher kept all comments, feedbacks,
and recommendations confidential then revised the website and directory
quarterly. III - 19 800 Million Reasons Why
eIFL.net Is a Good Idea This poster will present each of the major
program areas of eIFL, highlighting a few key successes in each. eIFL.net
consists of six main program areas, including negotiations with publishers to
enable access to scholarly electronic content at affordable prices and fair terms,
development and support of local library consortia in developing and transition
countries, advocacy for fair copyright laws for libraries (eIFL IP), open
access promotion and institutional repositories initiative (eIFL OA), support
of free and Open Source software for libraries (eIFL FOSS) and knowledge
sharing. The poster aims to give examples on how eIFL.net is bridging the
digital divide in access to knowledge and information in its network through
all its programs. III - 20 Central American Lending
Libraries Are a Growing Reality – Collaboration Is the Key Beginning with its roots as supporter of the
first public lending library in Nicaragua in 2001, the Hester J. Hodgdon
Libraries For All program has become a potent catalyst for the development of
lending library and mobile lending library services in Sunday, June 29, 2008, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm IV -
1 Empowering Survivors: A Model for Outreach
Programs to Domestic Violence Service Organizations As information portals, libraries are a
jumping ground for outreach programs to domestic violence survivors and the
service organizations these survivors use. Using a mixed-method approach, a
best practices model was created for libraries to institute outreach programs
to domestic violence service organizations. The model is a compilation of past
research on domestic violence issues, interviews with front-line workers, and
evaluation of an online toolkit. Outreach initiatives to domestic violence
survivors within the context of the library were also created with a focus on
considerations for the special population. The poster will include a list of
outreach initiatives for practical library use, a best practices model with an
emphasis on ways to apply the model in different library settings, and a
preview of a free online tool kit to personalize this outreach program for your
library. IV - 2 The Chat Reference
Interview: Seeking Evidence Based on RUSA’s Guidelines The reference interview is the communication
between library user and librarian that is designed to determine or to verify
the precise information needs of the user. It is most often initiated by the
librarian and frequently reveals a question that is different from the one
originally stated. The advent of remote reference services, such as e-mail and
real time chat reference, have resulted in the need to conduct the reference
interview via these remote modes. Missing, however, are the visual and other
non-verbal cues that helped to facilitate the traditional face-to-face
interview process. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the reference
service provided via chat at Texas A&M University Libraries. Since RUSA’s
guidelines for the behavioral performance of reference providers, which
includes the reference interview, are a widely accepted standard against which
to evaluate reference performance, evidence of adherence to these guidelines
was used to evaluate the reference service provided via chat. To determine
adherence, chat transcripts over a four-month period were analyzed against the
RUSA guidelines and evidence of adherence recorded. Implications for staffing,
training, user satisfaction and realistic expectations of chat as an integral
part of reference service at a large research university will be examined. IV - 3 Stepping Outside the Box
for BIO5: An Interdisciplinary Research Community at the University of Arizona BIO5 is an interdisciplinary research program
at the IV - 4 Step into My (Virtual)
Office: Local Subject-Based Chat This poster session will describe the
“Subject Based Chat” virtual reference pilot project at the University of
Southern California (USC) Libraries. USC contributes to the QuestionPoint
Academic Reference Cooperative by answering questions from both local patrons
in the USC queue and non-USC patrons from outside partner queues. Statistical
analysis revealed the popularity of live chat at USC, and the need for
increased chat coverage by USC librarians in order to pull their weight in the
collaborative. Subject-based chat emerged as a way to simultaneously increase
local chat coverage within the consortium while offering customized chat
service for selected disciplines. In 2007, subject librarians in Anthropology,
Communication, Gerontology, Psychology, Sociology, and all areas of Science and
Engineering launched subject-based chat. Librarians advertised the service to
their departments and constituencies as weekly online “office hours.” During
the scheduled hours they monitored only the local “USC” queue in QuestionPoint,
picking up both their subject clientele and any general questions from a USC
patron. The pilot successfully increased local chat support for general and
discipline specific USC research, and was particularly useful for distance
education students in the fields of study covered. Service will continue in
2008 with additional hours and greater subject representation. IV - 5 Serving Survivors of
Domestic Abuse Survivors of interpersonal violence (IPV)
have special information needs. Sometimes their home situations make it
impossible to use conventional information channels in the ways that they need,
perhaps to find out about women’s shelters, police assistance, or other
services. Many IPV services take extra steps to extend information without
inviting risk to their patrons. This endeavor got a boost from Internet
technology where anonymity can be maintained and IPV survivors are able to
access many resources and connect with services and other survivors. This study
explores one such online communication tool. This message board brings together
survivors from all over the world to share their stories, ask for help,
exchange ideas, and support one another. I performed content analysis of
transcripts of some of the message boards to understand the purpose of the
information delivery, and how visitors to the message boards are using the
information in the forums. This poster will present the findings of the
research study as well as implications for libraries. By understanding this
aspect of survivor information-seeking behavior, information professionals are
better able to serve this population. IV - 6 Reference Transactions to
the Rescue: Using Libstats to Enhance Library Instruction, Direct Staff
Continuing Education, and Make Effective Management Decisions This poster provides an overview of how and
why Kansas State Libraries uses Libstats, a simple, open source, Web-based
system for documenting reference transactions. Libraries began using Libstats
at the beginning of 2007. There are many benefits to using this software, and
several additional uses beyond simply tracking how many reference questions are
asked, when they are asked, and who asks them. In particular, the wealth of
data recorded in Libstats about the substance of patrons' inquiries and the
answers delivered by staff can be useful for librarians who want to make
evidence-based decisions about library instruction, staff training, continuing
education for staff, and reference management. The poster will consist of
Libstats’ screen shots, a survey conducted to assess the staff's response to
Libstats, a description of a library instruction research project with results
in the form of graphs, graphs showing data that influenced decisions about
staffing and services, and screen-shots showing the administrative side of
Libstats, including its customizable field settings and report functions.
Libraries' uses of Libstats for staff training and continuing education,
instruction, and management decisions will be highlighted in a chapter of the
upcoming book, Library Data: Empowering Practice and Persuasion (publication
forthcoming). IV - 7 Paying Faculty to Use
Library Resources: Course Enhancement Grants at The The Ohio State University Libraries initiated a
program in Fall 2005 to provide grants to faculty members to enhance their
courses with the library’s electronic resources. The purpose of this program
was twofold: to maximize use of electronic resources for which the library was
already paying and to encourage collaboration between faculty and librarians in
course development. Instructors received $2000 (as income or in a research
fund) for a successful proposal and the associated librarian received $1000
(paid into a research fund). The grant is an incentive and there is no
requirement to use the money for a purpose related to the course. Twenty-six
grants have been given out in three rounds of competition from Spring 2006 to
Fall 2007 in subject areas including city planning, mathematics, geology,
chemistry, English, history, nursing, and theatre. The program has been very
successful and has also resulted in changes to the library organization,
including moving responsibility for electronic reserves to the Serials,
Electronic Resources, and Rights Management department which has developed an
efficient process of accepting requests, digitizing material, obtaining
copyright clearance, and making the material available by adding links directly
into the course management system. IV - 8 Guides 2.0: Supporting
Campus Programming and Current Events IV - 9 Foreign Affairs: Academic
Libraries as Ambassadors This poster will show an interesting project
between two academic librarians at California State University Dominguez Hills
(CSUDH) and CSU Long Beach (CSULB) addressing the diversity needs of
international students. The presence of international students in the IV - 10 This presentation outlines the results of a
study conducted to determine best practices for building cooperative and collaborative
relationships between academic libraries, archives or special collections
units, and humanities departments at a number of large public research
universities in the IV - 11 Bring Health Information
to Their Fingertips: Empower the Community Do people know where to find reliable,
authenticated health information? Quality information that addresses the
public’s health concerns is in high demand. To address this need the Pacific
College of Oriental Medicine’s Library (PCOM) developed a Community Outreach
Health Information Literacy program to bring information to the fingertips of
the community through hands-on computer workshops. The project was reviewed and
funded by the Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library (PSRML) of the
National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), for implementation in 2006-7
as a collaborative effort of the PCOM library and annual symposium, two
community based institutions and two local public libraries in IV - 12 Better than Breadcrumbs:
Current Trends in Subject Guides The pathfinder, or subject guide, has been
utilized for decades to help users find and use local library resources. As
technology has progressed libraries have adapted their services, but has the
pathfinder kept up with the transformation? Previous studies have documented
the integration of internet resources into subject guides, but the current literature
has not determined if and how Web 2.0 aspects of library services have been
embraced for this purpose. For example, blogs, wikis, and chat are frequently
incorporated into library Web sites, but may not be included on Web sites at
the subject guide level. This study used a matrix to review subject guides on
the Web sites of the twenty-one Mountain West and Big 12 academic libraries to
find out where subject guides are located, what they are called, and how often
and which Web 2.0 technologies they incorporated into the content of their
guides. Learn about the current state of subject guides and get tips discovered
from this study that can improve the use of subject guides at your own
institution. Graphical representation of the findings as well as various
examples of pathfinders will be displayed. IV - 13 Barriers Were Meant to Be
Broken: Building Programs for Adults with Developmental Disabilities Adults with developmental disabilities feel
comfortable and welcome using the Antioch Public Library, and that’s by
design—the result of setting out to break any attitudinal barriers to
accessibility. The plan is simple and the rewards are immeasurable. Goals
stemmed from the desire to: 1) Encourage adults with developmental disabilities
to feel comfortable and confident in using all resources in the library, 2)
Present monthly programs that provided a variety of opportunities for lifelong
learning, and 3) Encourage reading or viewing of library materials, according
to ability. Prior to starting the program, ARC Inroads, a community-based
organization working with adults with disabilities, brought groups into the
library regularly. Groups sat quietly with books, rarely leaving their small
comfort zone. Since implementing a series of fun and informative programs on
library use, nature, animals and safety, along with a customized summer reading
program, participants now fully explore their library as evidenced by the
materials on display and the smiling faces in the photos. Recipient of the 2008
ASCLA/NOD (Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies/National
Organization on Disabilities) Award, IV - 14 "Wii Would Like to
Play" -- Gaming for Seniors Nintendo's Wii is taking the gaming world by
storm, and libraries can take advantage of this growing interest by
incorporating gaming into both onsite and outreach programming. Seniors -- or
"Wii-niors," as some have termed them -- are an ideal target audience
for this type of interactive programming. Standard Wii video games, like
bowling and tennis, offer seniors a physical activity that is very accessible
as well as a great hand-eye coordination workout. The simplicity of the games
introduces seniors to a technology they might not typically experience. The
affordability of the system makes it a very real option for libraries of all
sizes and budgets. The Lexington Public Library has recently incorporated Wii
gaming into its programming for all ages at all locations. This poster session
focuses specifically on the library's outreach programming with Wii gaming in
senior residential facilities. It will include photos, success stories, tips
for starting a gaming program, and an extensive bibliography of resources,
research, and links to other successful library gaming programs. While it is
mid-year in the pilot project, evaluative measures are already in place. These
include tracking program participation, audience surveys, media coverage, and
collaborative work with colleagues in other libraries. IV - 15 Get the Word Out... Marketing
Strategies to Help Staff Keep Up with Tech Issues in Your Library Library personnel face the daunting task of
having to find time in an already busy work day to become familiar with, or at
least be aware of, the many technology changes that are likely going on in
their library at any given time. Technology departments have the responsibility
to make sure they don’t skip the all-important step of communicating. Penn
State Libraries have developed strategies to create a consistent approach which
they use to help spread the technology message to their colleagues. Libraries
technology initiatives, current technology processes and emerging technology
topics all provide fodder for communication. Initially, staff were surveyed to
help determine what information they were most interested in hearing about, and
in what mediums. A number of the strategies developed were based on feedback
received. A follow-up survey is now in the works. This presentation
demonstrates that getting the word out is easier, and more likely to happen,
when there is a communication plan in place. IV - 16 The Golden Age Meets the
Digital Age: Notes from the Trenches What does it take to build an effective
information literary program for people who are aged 80 and above? How do
elders relate to digital information? What are their learning styles? What are
their information needs? For the past three years instruction librarians at
Indiana State University (ISU) have taught information literacy at a local
retirement community as part of ISU’s Bits & Bytes outreach program. We
created a course of study structured around educational modules to first teach
the rudiments of computer literacy and then the fundamentals of internet
research. In teaching these elders we realized that they did not behave like
the adult learners we were used to teaching at the university. We had to adopt
new, experiential teaching techniques in order to reach them. As we progressed
in our instruction we continuously reevaluated the program, streamlining it to
fit our users’ needs. Bits & Bytes, which is still going strong, has proven
to be a rewarding and enriching experience for all participants. This poster
will describe the history of the program paying particular attention to what
worked and what didn’t work in terms of teaching methods, program content, and
program structure. Graphic representations of lesson plans, course syllabi,
equipment setup and student feedback will be included. IV - 17 Web Accessibility,
Section 508, and Academic Libraries. Growing numbers of individuals with
disabilities are attending colleges and universities. Academic libraries are
relying on the use of internet communication to serve the information needs of
all users. Many online resources may not be accessible to individuals with
disabilities. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 has been the
backbone for accommodating individuals with disabilities. It states: "no
otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the United States . . .
shall, solely by reason of his disability, be excluded from the participation
in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any
program or activity receiving federal financial assistance . . ." The
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 echoes the prohibition of state
and local governments from discriminating based on disability status. “Web
accessibility and academic libraries” provides exposure to Section 508 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Section 508 brings earlier legislation (ADA Section
504) into the 21st Century by providing standards that will allow web access to
users with disabilities. How does Section 508 apply to university and college
libraries? How can academic libraries use these standards? This presentation
provides answers to these questions. IV - 18 Wellness Education:
Bridging the Consumer Health Information Gap WE Search is an IMLS grant-funded
collaboration between health sciences information professionals, Knowledge
River Scholars from the IV - 19 What Are They Thinking?
Using Focus Groups to Discover Student Perceptions of the Library, Staff,
Resources, and Services Blog. Wiki. Social network. Chat reference.
Podcasting. Was all that time, energy, and money spent on that last project
worth it? Wouldn’t you like to know if your efforts made a difference to your
students? The staff at our small university library decided we wanted answers!
What are we doing right? What are we doing wrong? What are we not doing that we
should? What sacred cows do we need to make into hamburger? Rather than
continue to make decisions based on our assumptions about what our students
want and need, we decided to ask them by using focus groups. Although focus
groups aren't new, they remain the best tool for obtaining detailed information
that help us be more responsive to customer needs. With the purpose of our
study in mind—to find out student perceptions of the library, staff, resources,
and services—we will develop a questioning route, select participants, conduct
focus groups, analyze the results, and report our findings. Using a flow chart
and photos, our poster will document the process of conducting a focus group,
as well as highlight the questions we chose and the responses of the focus
group members. Penn State University's Department of Library Learning Services has an active outreach program that has grown increasingly over the past four years. Utilizing data charts and photography from the events and programs to show growth achieved, this poster will highlight best practices that have been developed as a result of this program. Highlights will include the planning process and strategies for developing partnerships with campus collaborators, in addition to the statistics for the number of programs and attendees each year. The presenters will also give examples of potential target groups for collaboration and programs, orientations, and events offered to students, faculty, and the community.
Monday, June 30, 2008, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm V -
1 Providing Library Instruction for New
International Graduate Students: A Collaborative Program Between Librarians,
Graduate Students, and Staff International students often "fall
between the cracks" in receiving library instruction. They come from a
wide range of backgrounds with extremely varied skill sets. Merging smoothly
with the research life of the campus is not easy. To begin to address this
issue, our library launched a pilot program to provide instruction to incoming
international graduate students. Building the program involved two
faculty-status librarians, a graduate student participating in V - 2 Tell Your Patrons to Take A
Hike! This poster session will present a new and
entertaining way for libraries to introduce patrons to local history files
through the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. The library’s
local history collection is made more accessible by circulating hiking kits
consisting of a backpack, handheld GPS unit, binoculars, local history stories,
rare photos, brain-teasing clues, GPS coordinates, and an audio book version of
the hikes on a portable CD player. Text, clues, and photos are also posted on
the library’s web page. History hikes range from two-tenths of a mile to over
two miles and all are wheelchair and stroller friendly. This collaborative
project between the Rolling Meadows Library and the Historical Society is the
first of its kind to combine dusty history files, cutting edge technology, and everyone’s
love of a treasure hunt to explore local history. We’ll discuss the logistics
involved as well as patrons’ surprise at the historic significance of places
they pass virtually every day. Kids love the technology, parents love the
family time together, and everyone learns a bit of local history in the
bargain. Tell your patrons to take a hike – they’ll love it! V - 3 A Library in Cyberspace:
Developing a Town Library on a Virtual World This poster describes the planning,
development, and operation of a new library in the virtual town of V - 4 Come to the Library: The
Dynamics of Creative Promotion Millennial generation students who are now in
college often view the library as a museum, and librarians as relics from the
past. They have grown up using the Web and think that “everything is found on
the Internet, right?” These students view the library from a consumer point of
view; they want service 24/7, coffee shops, and research information available
on their computer screen a few minutes ago. In order to transform their current
view of the library, the V - 5 McCain Library’s Item of the Month: Bringing
Special Collections to the University of Southern Mississippi One Item at a
Time Publicizing
activities and collections can be a challenge for libraries. In February 2007,
the McCain Library and Archives at the V - 6 Getting It Together:
Faculty Librarian Collaboration Faculty and librarians are concerned about the
quality of student research papers that students submit. To help address this
concern the library established the O’K Fellows Institute. The O’K Fellows
Institute is a new program intended to establish new collaborations and enhance
existing collaborations between librarians and faculty with the primary goal of
strengthening students’ ability to effectively access, evaluate, and use
information. By participating in this program, we hope to increase the number
and type of information literacy classes as well as student knowledge of the
research process. In order to do this effectively there must be a strong
working relationship between faculty and librarians. The institute included
workshops on creating effective library assignments, using web 2.0
technologies, and expectations of college graduates in the workplace. V - 7 Getting Them in the Door:
Information Literacy and Research Skills for Nontraditional Graduate Students The nontraditional graduate students served by
Schaffner Library at V - 8 Improving Children's
Reading Levels through the Use of Reading Education Assistance Dogs in Public
Libraries Washington County Public Library in V - 9 Info2Go -- Campus
Vodcasting The Info2Go project is developing and
disseminating Vodcasts (video podcasts) for immediate use by undergraduate
students. Beginning at orientation students have access to short videos about
obtaining an ID card, using the library catalog, dorm life and their first days
on campus, virtual campus tour, core college skills, etc. Students in physics,
biology, and information sciences can also view short, 2-5 minute review video
lessons. Vodcast production is easy to learn, inexpensive and fast. The videos
are concise, succinct, and easy to show (iPods are quite portable), and
students are already familiar with this media for entertainment. Campus and
university interest is running high and the next step will be to develop ways
to incorporate these new media into the mainstream catalog. V - 10 Integrating Library's GIS
Skills into Undergraduate Courses: The Power of Online Tutorial. As numeric and geospatial data migrates
online, students need to develop specialized electronic tools for research.
Collaborating with the University's Technology Across Curriculum (TAC) and the
Department of Social Work at George Mason University (GMU), the Government
Documents/Maps unit in the Libraries developed an electronic tutorial to teach
these fundamental skills: how to access, select, join, and analyze U.S. Census
data and how to download census tract boundary files and create thematic maps
using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). This unique multimedia tutorial
provided a valuable tool for students in a social work class as they undertook
the assignment for small area estimation for social service planning. This
poster session illustrates the collaborative work steps taken to develop this
tutorial. It also offers step by step procedures of the tutorial and an assessment
report. It also addresses various issues associated with implementing this tool
in classroom environment to enhance library instruction for the use of
technology. A laptop computer will be available for conference attendees to
display this steaming video tutorial. V - 11 It’s Your Library Too:
Reaching Out to Diverse Populations The University of Kansas (KU) Libraries
engages in partner programs that outreach to the non-academic departments
within, and organizations outside, the KU community. Included in these outreach
efforts is one to the Haskell Indian Nations University (HINU) located nearby.
This poster presentation will discuss the grassroots and word of mouth outreach
efforts to this national Native American university. The author will show how
contacts from KU departments and HINU student interactions allowed for
introductions and recommendations of the KU Libraries as a vital and open
resource to HINU students. The poster will show the progression of
communication from a few instructors and faculty at HINU to working with many
faculties. The poster will provide information of types of resources available
to HINU students and faculty. The author will also elaborate on the types of
services offered to HINU classes including library tours, instruction and
individual student and faculty research appointments. The author will explain the
steps taken to connect with students and faculty alike and the challenges
involved with persuading HINU students to consider KU Libraries as their
library too. V - 12 Librarians in the Hall There is an old proverb, “If the mountain will
not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.” Without a
university mandate for information literacy instruction, it is a challenge to
engage incoming undergraduates who are often overwhelmed by the higher
expectations of scholarship at the college level and the complexities of the
college information environment. Unique and creative approaches are needed to
reach millennial learners where they are, both physically in terms of where
they reside on campus and pedagogically by employing new teaching methods that
they can appreciate and understand. This poster presents a highly collaborative
project that was developed by librarians, faculty, and students at V - 13 Look What’s under Our
Tent: A Fresh Approach to Library Orientations Auburn University Libraries is exploring new
ways to reach users by rethinking and redefining traditional library
orientations and open houses. Last year’s “Tailgate at the Library” event, held
at the beginning of fall semester, attracted 1,800 participants, who enjoyed
hot dogs, popcorn, and guest appearances by the V - 14 Prepared to Partner? A
Survey of New Teacher Preparedness to Utilize School Librarians and Media
Centers This survey captures the perceptions of V - 15 One Size Does Not Fit All:
Library Sessions for First Year Seminar Students The first year experience for college students
is a critical time for introducing library staff, resources, and information
literacy concepts. When constructing one-shot library instruction for first
year classes, one type of presentation is not necessarily the best approach for
all the classes. The Schreyer Business Library in the Penn State University
Libraries supports the V - 16 Preparing the
Underprepared: Developmental Education and Academic Libraries Thirty percent of all incoming freshmen are
in some way inadequately prepared for college-level work, according to the V - 17 Smooth Your Moves around
the Library! Active Learning Style Orientation for Freshman Students Do your freshman students have a tendency to
fall asleep during your library’s orientation? Are they likely to describe your
library’s orientation as serious and overall boring? Not anymore! Research
shows that the Net Generation prefers to be interactive and want to be
users--not just viewers or listeners. This graphic presentation features a new
and unconventional approach to library orientation for freshmen students at the
John B. Cade Library titled, The Amazing Library Race 2007: Stomp the Yard
Edition (ALR’07). Loosely based on the television reality show The Amazing
Race, ALR’07 was designed to introduce students to the library building, its
faculty/staff, and services using a cooperative/active learning style. Students
were separated into teams and competed against each other to complete all
library tasks and to reach the final destination. This poster visually presents
the ALR’07 routes using a 3-D library building model. This graphic presentation
also features a brief overview of the ALR’07 program, its budget and
promotional items used. Evaluative data tables of student participant surveys
will show the effectiveness of the program. The poster session aims to serve as
a forum for library faculty to share their experiences regarding interactive
library orientation programs. V - 18 Summers Are Spectacular:
How One Academic Library Supports a Summer Children's Education Program The Troy University/Dothan Library aids both
its community and the University's education students by supporting
"Summer Spectacular," a student-teacher program serving 150-200
community children, K-6. The philosophy of the program is based on
constructivism, using a project approach to teach the integrated curriculum --
children apply what they learn in fun arts-and-crafts projects. Education
students traditionally have flocked to the library for information to prepare
for their classes. Frequently however, they lacked information literacy skills.
The library itself lacked enough children's non-fiction books. Working with the
Education faculty responsible for the program, the Library developed a
bibliographic instruction class tailored to the student teachers, and began
ongoing collection development in children's non-fiction. In this poster
session, photographs, circulation-statistic graphs, faculty evaluations,
colorful pathfinders, and book jackets will vividly illustrate the
student-teacher program, the bibliographic instruction program, and a larger,
heavily-used children's non-fiction collection. Handouts will include
pathfinders developed for the program. V - 19 The Thrill of the Hunt:
Enabling Students to Find and Use Historical Primary Sources in Your Community
and Beyond Students and researchers of all ages
experience history differently when using original documents, photographs,
diaries and other historical materials left by past generations. Primary
sources personalize the historical experience. School, public or academic
libraries often do not have primary source materials available in-house. Most
communities have untapped resources. Burgeoning websites now have a vast array
of primary documents that are digitally available and free for use.
Subscription databases provide an additional assortment of primary source
materials of all formats. How to connect students and researchers with
resources beyond their own library is the focus of this poster presentation.
Where to start? How to develop a list of resources and people for referral? How
to network with faculty on papers that require original document research? Tips
and hints to accomplish these processes will be graphically displayed along
with photographs of various types of materials and the institutions that house
them. History does not have to be dry and boring. Reference librarians can help
stimulate the use and research into primary source documents by passing on the
thrill of the hunt. V - 20 They Can Save Lives, but
Can They Conduct a Lit Review? Online Library Instruction for Distance
Education Doctoral Nursing Students At Oakland University (OU), the School of
Nursing (SON) maintains a number of active and popular online degree programs,
the newest of which is the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree. Many
students in the DNP program completed their earlier degrees well before the proliferation
of online library databases; in addition, some of these students do not possess
the basic technology literacy of younger students. Both of these issues put
them at a stark disadvantage when it comes to conducting effective library
research. During the program’s inaugural semester, the librarian liaison to the
SON was flooded with requests by DNP students for research assistance. Due to
students’ far-flung locations across the state, the librarian was unable to
conduct a traditional information literacy session with the entire group;
therefore, the librarian created an all-online DNP library instruction course
in OU’s Moodle Course Management System. With the support of the program’s
director in SON, this online course was required content for all incoming DNP
students in the Fall 2007 semester. In addition to exhibiting select course
modules, this presentation reports the results of the pre- and post-test
assessment from Fall 2007 and explores some notable findings. Session
VI: Infrastructure: Posters on Buildings and Equipment, Management, and
Technology Monday, June 30, 2008, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm VI -
1 Synergy: Fusing Student Assistants with the Student assistants are an established
component of the workforce in academic libraries. However, even a well-managed
student workforce may not be taking full advantage of what student workers can offer
to a library. Synergy, Joyner Library’s student assistants’ organization,
provides a built-in focus group for library initiatives such as the new
information commons, and creates community among students who work across many
different library areas. It also serves as an informal link to VI - 2 No Travel Required: Planning a Regional Conference for Local and New Librarians The planning, development, and organization of a one-day or multiple-day conference is time consuming, challenging, and requires a well prepared framework. This poster session highlights guidelines and strategies developed by the Southeast Florida Library and Information Network (SEFLIN) Reference Committee for the organization of a successful local conference. As budgets continue to tighten, organizing a local conference has become more important in order to provide professional development opportunities. These guidelines also serve as a collaborative model for what a regional network can achieve towards promoting and providing professional development and leadership opportunities for its libraries, librarians and library staff. Samples of surveys, evaluation tools and timelines will be provided.
This project has been submitted for publication in the journal “The Reference Librarian”.
VI - 3 Supervising while Away:
Tools for Online Student Supervision Training students and volunteers is an
ongoing process in most libraries, and many people in these positions work
hours when regular library staff members are unable to answer questions. This
poster will explain a student management system deployed at VI - 4 Sayonara Party Girl,
Aloha Real World: Surfing into Library Technology Positions Everywhere you look in today’s libraries, the
wave of technology is breaking. As new librarians search for positions that
make use of their technology skills, where do they start to scope the swells?
Employers trying to fill specific needs for their organization may call very
unrelated jobs by the same job title. What exactly is a web services or digital
projects librarian and can you figure this out from the job ad? Job searchers
must monitor variable conditions, both in print and online, and be prepared to
weather choppy seas to successfully land a great gig. To identify patterns, we
performed an initial four month analysis of technology job ads in six major
library career ad sources. Each source was tracked daily for listings matching
the keywords "web", "digital", and "systems", and
data was collected on several additional components: job title, type of
library, skills required, geographic location, and salary. This poster presents
the results of the research and highlights trends to aid librarians on the job
hunt to break entry-level barriers and surf confidently into killer library
technology positions. VI - 5 Overlooked, Over-hyped or
Just Right? What Specialized Accreditation Organizations Are Saying about the
Academic Library’s Role in the Accreditation Process. Preparing reports for an
accreditation/reaccreditation process can be time consuming and sometimes
confusing. The procedures may be vague or the information that is requested may
not be readily available or may seem irrelevant. Guidelines for library
collections and services are often, but not always, included in specialized
accreditation standards. A survey of specialized accreditation organizations
reveals guidelines that range from vague to specific and also reveal variations
and similarities in accreditation standards for library collections and
services. Additionally, interviews with specialized accreditation organizations
reveal their views on the challenges academic libraries currently face as well
as positive attributes. Also included are outlooks for the future, what kind of
impact libraries have on the accreditation process and what this means for
academic libraries. Posters and handouts will illustrate these current
accreditation standards and organization responses. VI - 6 Online & For-Profit:
How We Handle Permissions in Our Academic Library As an online, for-profit institution, VI - 7 One Person, Many Jobs:
The Modern Academic Librarian Currently, in a typical job description for a
academic librarian position, there are at least twenty different
responsibilities listed. Some of these can be grouped into similar tasks, such
as reference, information literacy, and collection development, but now there
are also a host of additional duties in other areas, such as outreach,
marketing, instructional design, web development and virtual services. There
also exist “other duties as assigned,” changes in job roles after hiring, and
filling in during vacancies in other positions. This “blended” librarian role
is the result of increased workloads and sharing of work among teams in the
contemporary library. This poster will visually display the many job duties of
one librarian as color shaded components of a life-size person’s body. An
example academic librarian will be used, representing all these new trends in
job descriptions, including responsibility for multiple services for
interdisciplinary institutes and laboratories. For each group of
responsibilities (as listed above) the poster will also how the frequency of
that role from job postings of similar positions. In these broad categories,
specific responsibilities will also be enumerated in order to truly show how
many different tasks the contemporary librarian is responsible for in their
day-to-day work. VI - 8 Me? A Filmmaker? A No
Nonsense Approach for Non-Techie Librarians As Web 2.0 technologies merge with library
services, librarians are being called on to market and demonstrate services in
visual ways. It is becoming increasing important to reach out to the Millennial
generation and younger learners in ways that are relevant and entertaining.
Short videos can be used for a number of ways to support and enhance libraries,
including promotion, training, and library instruction. Filmmaking is certainly
not a class that is offered in library school and libraries do not always have
tech savvy staff members. As always, time and money are resources that
libraries struggle with in their everyday existence. These obstacles can be
overcome with planning and collaboration. Videos can be made easily and
inexpensively utilizing readily available resources, even by a relative novice.
In this poster, strategies and techniques will be demonstrated to get a video
from an idea to a reality. Attendees will see an example evolve from the storyboard
to a finished product posted on YouTube. VI - 9 Live Well at the Library:
Mayo Clinic Arizona Boosts Health and Wellness for Employees Realizing the importance of a healthy
workforce and the need to provide reliable, up to date, and relevant health
care information to employees, the Patient and Health Education Library at Mayo
Clinic Arizona sponsored a week long open house, in conjunction with the 10th
anniversary of the library, to promote circulation of the collection and
utilization of other library resources to employees within the organization.
Collaborating with the organization's Live Well Task Force, the library worked
to market services among the employees across a geographically diverse campus.
Building bridges and collaboration with a wide variety of groups within the
organization, a concrete plan evolved to share the holdings and services of the
library in a variety of innovative ways. Included were linkages with the
organization's volunteers, food service area, educators, the American Cancer
Society navigator, public affairs, department chairs, nursing and allied health
groups, registration, and desk area personnel. A brief survey will be
administered to randomly selected employees in the next several months to
determine if the library promotion has been instrumental in helping them make
decisions to “Live Well”. These results will be reported in the poster
presentation. Focusing on the needs of the patient and in our case, the health
of our most important asset, the employees, allowed the Patient and Health
Education Library at Mayo Clinic VI - 10 Creating Change from
Within: Empower the Library with Your Own Student Organization! Have you wondered how to reach your college
and university students in a more innovative way? This poster session will show
you how to establish a recognized student organization on your campus, hosted
by your library. ESULA (Empowered Students for University Libraries and
Archives) was approved in 2006 at Emporia (KS) VI - 11 Communicating Our Value:
How Librarians Achieve Promotion and Tenure The prospect of achieving promotion and
tenure (p/t) can be frightening, not only for those deciding on academic
librarianship as a career but for those already in a tenure-track position. How
do librarians portray their unique skills and communicate their value to the
academic community? This poster session will describe the research methodology
and results of a nationwide survey of tenure-track librarians at Carnegie
research institutions, exploring their research, teaching, and service
activities. The presentation will also highlight a contextual analysis of
actual p/t applications conveying the importance of today’s academic librarian.
Graphs, color, and images will be utilized to visually represent the results of
the study. This research will be valuable not only to tenure track librarians,
but also to supervisors and administrators mentoring their library faculty and
library school graduates considering career options in academic libraries. This
information is also being presented at the twenty-third annual North American
Serials Interest Group (NASIG) conference in VI - 12 Evaluating Post-Masters
Diversity Residency Programs: Model for Assessment Academic library diversity residency programs
require a significant investment of resources including funding for training
and professional development. The proper evaluation of the residency program
and its participants' activities is vital to ensuring the enrichment of not
only the individuals and organizations involved, but librarianship as a whole.
The limited number of assessments for evaluating diversity residency programs
in libraries calls for the successive evaluation of such programming from the
resident point of view. Utilizing survey methodology, we will analyze diversity
residency program outcomes including factors such as completion rate, scholarly
publication record, career advancement, professional association memberships,
and the development of transferable skills. The goal of this project is to
provide auxiliary methods of assessment giving academic libraries a way to
measure return on investment with regards to their diversity residency
programs. VI - 13 Are Staff Classification
Systems Reflecting Current and Future Library Competencies? A New Model at the
University of Arizona Over the past several years the work of
classified staff at the VI - 14 The Library Channel:
Syndicating News, Views, and Collections to the World In the Library 2.0 era libraries are using
many new means to communicate to our communities. The Arizona State University
Libraries launched the “Library Channel” in the summer of 2005 which plays
pivotal role in our marketing and outreach efforts, both to internal and
external customers. The Library Channel incorporates a variety of multimedia
approaches including audio podcasts, video podcasts, cable television
broadcasts and a system of in-house plasma television screens communicating the
library’s message. This poster session will illustrate how we’ve leveraged this
technology to highlight our collections, services and special events, spotlight
our collaborations with faculty and the community, and bring attention to our
new partnerships with libraries in VI - 15 Unlocking the Mystery:
What Academic Library Search Committees Look for in Filling Faculty Positions? Job hunting may be perceived as match-making,
based on the information gained through face-to-face interviews. People on both
sides of the interview process have different expectations and goals. So, what
are the key factors that determine the outcome of an interview? As academic
library faculty search committees look for the right candidate for a particular
position, candidates compete for the limited number of appointments in
academia. To new library school graduates and experienced librarians seeking
their first faculty position, the process may seem daunting. As co-chairs of a
faculty search committee of a private mid-sized urban campus library, the
authors have first-hand experience in working with the committee to fill
multiple full-time and adjunct faculty positions. This presentation features
insights into the interview process and examines the focus of the search
committee regarding the skill-sets and important traits required for various
positions. The authors aim to unlock the mystery involving library faculty
searches through surveys and discussions with those deeply involved in the
process—committee members and successful candidates. VI - 16 Training for the
Information Commons Sims Memorial Library at VI - 17 Using a Wiki in
Collaborative Strategic Planning This poster session examines the use of a wiki
to facilitate open communication among King Library staff during the strategic
planning process at VI - 18 We Got the Building - Now
What? VI - 19 Web Site Statistics 2.0:
Using Google Analytics to Measure Library Web Site Effectiveness Library web sites, as well as those
representing businesses or other similar organizations, need to be able to
demonstrate value to the organization and effectiveness through measurable
achievements and empirical data. Broad questions such as “is our web site
achieving its specified goals?” need to be quantitatively and accurately
measured along with more specific questions like “are we driving patrons to the
resources we want them to find” and “are the changes we make to the web site
actually making it more effective and usable?” It is not enough to gather
anecdotal or qualitative answers to these questions; instead, libraries really
need to know if their web site designs and structures are really making a
difference in user behavior patterns. Google Analytics, a free, web-based
software suite of web traffic analysis and reporting tools from Google, offers
the web site administrator a comprehensive and detailed look at a given web
site’s traffic and user behavior patterns. This poster session will explore how
the University of Southern Mississippi Libraries uses Google Analytics to
measure user behavior and answer general questions about the effectiveness of
its library web site using Google’s web site traffic Goals tool; how USM
defined web traffic funnels to measure desired web paths versus actual user
paths to specific site pages and resource to measure navigation effectiveness;
and how USM libraries used Google’s Conversion tools to measure how effective
the library web site is in converting activity to desired behaviors. The poster
will also show how libraries can use Google Analytics to answer their own
questions as well as explore library usage of other Google Analytics tools such
as the click-through overlay map, the user path tool and others. VI - 20 Web Usability: A Large but
Worthwhile Task The advent of web technology has significantly
affected information organization and retrieval. The manner in which documents
are arranged, labeled, and presented on the Web (the site's "information
architecture") can have a major influence on how users effectively
navigate Web sites and accurately access information. Implementation of proper
usability guidelines/policies/standards (GPSs) contributes to user satisfaction
and thus strongly affects a Web site's success. Usability GPSs are crucial for
library Web developers to create user-friendly and functional sites. For this research
initiative, the researchers surveyed the academic libraries of the Association
of Research Libraries (ARL) to investigate specific issues such as usability
testing, staffing, and oversight. While initial results indicate a strong
acknowledgement in the importance of Web usability, the data also reveals
difficulties with developing, implementing, and maintaining GPSs; getting
content-creators to follow GPSs; and the lack of resources, including staffing,
training, and time. In addition, the researchers compared GPSs provided by the
study’s participants; the results of this review and a series of graphs will
illustrate the survey outcome in this poster presentation. Little research has
been conducted on library Web GPSs; this research provides insight into
creating, applying, and upholding good usability procedures and practices.
Dr. (Ms.) Malivan Praditteera, Rangsit University Library Director, Thailand
Ms. Kolap Mao, Pannasastra University Library Director, Cambodia
Mr. Hor Chan Rotha, Cambodia Mekong University, Director of Administration & Public Relations, Cambodia
Dr. (Ms.) Teresita G.Hernandez, Centro Escolar University Library Director, Philippines
Ms. Susan O. Pador, Ateneo de Manila University Reference Librarian, Philippines
Ms. Teresita C. Moran, Ateneo Professional Schools Chief Librarian, Philippines
Dr. (Mr.) Bat-Erdene Dash, Cultural Institute of Mongolia Director, Mongolia
Ms. Urelmaa Tseren, Cultural Institute of Mongolia Information Science Dean, Mongolia
John Hickok, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA (jhickok at fullerton.edu
Kathryn Millis, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN (millisk at depauw.edu)
Tiffany Hebb, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN (thebb at depauw.edu)
Mary Sengati-Zimba, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Mary.Sengati-Zimba
at zu.ac.ae)
Shaikha Al Muhairi, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Shaikha.Al-Muhairi
at zu.ac.ae)
Curtis Rogers, South Carolina State Library,
Shiuan-chyn Yang, National Taichung Library, Taichung City, Taiwan (y101 at ntl.gov.tw)
Yuan-chung Wang, National Taichung Library, Taichung City, Taiwan (p201 at ntl.gov.tw)
Janet Martin, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (janet.martin
at zu.ac.ae)
Jane Birks, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (jane.birks at zu.ac.ae)
Fiona Hunt, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (fiona.hunt at zu.ac.ae)
Durk Chang,
Chao-Chen Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan (cc4073 at ntnu.edu.tw)
Ming-Jane Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan (e53012 at ntnu.edu.tw)
Suzanne Gyeszly,
Rima Kupryte, eIFL.net,
Jane Mirandette, The Hester J. Hodgdon Libraries For ALL Program, Loveland, CO
(janem101
at aol.com)
John Furlong, Brentwood Public Library, Brentwood, MO (jtfurlong
at sbcglobal.net)
Athena Michael, MLIS, John Wiley & Sons , Inc., Winchester, VA (amichael at wiley.com)
Ann Serrano, University of Texas at Austin, School of Information, Austin, TX (annms at ischool.utexas.edu)
Lynn Westbrook, University of Texas at Austin, School of Information, Austin,
TX (lynnwest at ischool.utexas.edu)
Wyoma vanDuinkerken, Texas A&M University Libraries, College Station, TX (wvanduin
at lib-gw.tamu.edu)
Jane Stephens, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (jstephen
at lib-gw.tamu.edu)
Karen MacDonald, Georgia State University Library, Atlanta, GA (libkim at langate.gsu.edu)
Ricardo Andrade, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ (andrader
at u.library.arizona.edu)
Elizabeth Kline, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ (klinee
at u.library.arizona.edu)
Jim Martin, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ (martinj
at u.library.arizona.edu)
Mari Stoddard, Arizona Health Sciences Library, Tucson, AZ (stoddard
at ahsl.arizona.edu)
Shahla Bahavar, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (bahavar at usc.edu)
Susan Gardner, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (susangar at usc.edu)
Carolyn Cunningham, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX (carolynlouise
at gmail.com)
Lynn Westbrook, University of Texas at Austin, TX (lynnwest
at ischool.utexas.edu)
Danielle Theiss-White, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (dtheiss at ksu.edu)
Jason Coleman, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (coleman at ksu.edu)
Kristin Whitehair, KU Medical School, KS (kwhitehair at kumc.edu)
Nancy Courtney, Ohio State University Libraries, Columbus, OH (courtney.24 at osu.edu)
Jessica Page, Ohio State University Libraries, Columbus, OH (page.84 at osu.edu)
Tiffany Hebb,
Kathryn Millis,
Academic librarians have long maintained general pathfinders for subjects like
art, biology, and sociology, and course-specific guides to support instruction.
While we value our role in supporting curricular and research needs, academic
librarians should also support their students’ needs for extracurricular,
recreational, health, and other information, just as a public library does. We
can and should provide resources about current and campus events, such as
visiting speakers, colloquia, festivals, and exhibits.
Eileen Bosch, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA (ebosch at csulb.edu)
Valeria Molteni, California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA (vmolteni at csudh.edu)
Adam Knowles,
Naomi Broering, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, San Diego, CA (nbroering at gmail.com)
Gregory Chauncey, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, San Diego, CA (gchaunce at san.rr.com)
Stacy Gomes, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, San Diego, CA (sgomes
at pacificcollege.edu)
Jack Miller, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, San Diego, CA (jmiller
at pacificcollege.edu)
Thomas Haines, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, Sa Diego, CA (thaines
at pacificcollege.edu)
Darcy Del Bosque, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV (darcy.delbosque
at unlv.edu)
Sara Morris, University of Kansas (mbcbulldog at yahoo.com)
Kathy Middleton, Contra Costa County Library, Antioch Public Library, Antioch,
CA (kmiddlet
at ccclib.org)
Kelli Dean, Lexington Public Library, Lexington, KY (kdean at lexpublib.org)
Ruthie Maslin, Lexington Public Library, Lexington, KY (rmaslin at lexpublib.org)
Sylvia MacKinnon, The Pennsylvania State University,
Susan Frey,
Jim Blansett, M.Ed., MLIS, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (jim.blansett at
ua.edu)
Catherine Blansett, Ph.D., Education Consultant, Tuscaloosa, AL (catherine.blansett at infocentraldata.org)
Adrianna Rendon, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (rendon517 at yahoo.com)
Paula Maez, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (paulamaez at yahoo.com)
Cecilia Tovar, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (cecytovar at yahoo.com)
Aaron Valdivia, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (ajvaldivia at
gmail.com)
Dora Irene Morales, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (dimorale
at email.arizona.edu)
William Weare,
Rebecca Byrum,
Mona Florea, University of Rhode Island Libraries, Kingston, RI (mflorea at mail.uri.edu)
Peter Larsen, University of Rhodes Island Library, Kingston, RI (plarsen at uri.edu)
Diptiben Mehta
David Ruff, Rolling Meadows Library,
Jean Hewlett,
Emaly Conerly, Carson-Newman College Library,
Kelli Williams, Carson-Newman College Library,
Jennifer Brannock, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS (jennifer.brannock at usm.edu)
Cotina Jones, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC (jonescm at wssu.edu)
Julie Dornberger, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC (dornbergerj at
wssu.edu)
Carl Leak, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC (leakca at wssu.edu)
Qiana Johnson, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL (q-johnson
at northwestern.edu)
Emily Blankenship, Washington County Public Library / East Carolina University,
Greenville, NC (blankenshipe at ecu.edu)
Patrice Clemson, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State
University- Beaver Campus, Monaca, PA (pac20 at psu.edu)
Martin Goldberg, Associate Librarian, Penn State University-Beaver Campus,
Monaca, PA (mxg35 at psu.edu)
Joy Suh,
Nikhat Ghouse,
Catherine Fraser Riehle, Purdue University Libraries, West Lafayette, IN (cfriehle at purdue.edu)
Michael Witt, Purdue University Libraries, West Lafayette, IN (mwitt at purdue.edu)
Juliet Rumble, Auburn University Libraries,
Nancy Noe, Auburn University Libraries,
Julie Murphy, Illinois State University, Normal, IL (jamurph at ilstu.edu)
Julia Derden, Illinois State University, Normal, IL (jmderde at ilstu.edu)
Cheryl McCallips, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA (cam42 at psu.edu)
Ann Roselle,
Vitalija Svencionyte, Southern University Library, Baton Rouge, LA (vitalija_svencionyte
at subr.edu)
Maya Banks, Southern University Library, Baton Rouge, LA (maya_banks at subr.edu)
Robbin Glaser, Troy University, Dothan, AL (rglaser at troy.edu)
Nancy A. Bunker, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA (nbunker at whitworth.edu)
Elizabeth W. Kraemer,
Misty Joyner, Joyner Library at
Christianne Casper, Broward Community College, Pembroke Pines, FL (ccasper@broward.edu)
Rachael Cathcart, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL (cathcart@fau.edu)
Valerie Boulos, Florida International University, Miami, FL (Valerie.Boulos@fiu.edu)
Larry Treadwell IV, Saint Thomas University, Miami Gardens, FL (ltreadwell@stu.edu)
Lauren Pressley,
Cory Lampert, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV (cory.lampert
at unlv.edu)
Darcy Del Bosque, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV (Darcy.DelBosque
at unlv.edu)
Kristen Costello, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV (kristen.costello
at unlv.edu)
Tammy Bobrowsky, Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN (tbobrowsky
at bemidjistate.edu) Dianne Narum, Bemidji State University,
Bemidji, MN (ddnarum at bemidjistate.edu)
Kristianne Buechler, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN (kristianne.buechler
at capella.edu)
Julie Pohlman, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN (julie.pohlman
at capella.edu)
John Meier,
Alisa Gonzalez,
Carol Ann Attwood, Mayo Clinic Patient and Health Education Library,
Scottsdale, AZ (attwood.carol at mayo.edu)
Kay E. Wellik, Mayo Clinic Arizona - Director of Libraries, Scottsdale, AZ (attwood.carol
at mayo.edu)
Cynthia Akers, University Libraries and Archives, Emporia State University,
Emporia, KS (cakers at emporia.edu)
Jill Sodt, University Libraries and Archives, Emporia State University,
Emporia, KS (jsodt at emporia.edu)
Karen Davidson, Mississippi State University Library, Maben, MS (kdavidson
at library.msstate.edu)
June Garner, Mississippi State University Library, Mississippi State, MS (jgarner
at library.msstate.edu)
Thura Mack,
Shantrie Collins,
Damon Campbell,
Robyn Huff-Eibl, University of Arizona Library, Tucson, AZ (huffr
at u.library.arizona.edu)
Michael Ray, University of Arizona Library, Tucson, AZ (raym at
u.library.arizona.edu)
Jeanne Voyles, University of Arizona Library, Tucson, AZ (voylesj
at u.library.arizona.edu)
Matthew Harp, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (matthew.harp
at asu.edu)
Jennifer Duvernay, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (jennifer.duvernay
at asu.edu)
Fred McIlvain, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (fred.mcilvain
at asu.edu)
Tammy Allgood, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (tammy.allgood
at asu.edu)
Philip Konomos, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (philip.konomos
at asu.edu)
Zhonghong Wang, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY (iwang at liu.edu)
Charles Guarria, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY (charles.guarria
at liu.edu)
Kathryn Munson, Sims Memorial Library, Hammond, LA (kmunson at selu.edu)
Shannon Staley, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA (Shannon.Staley
at sjsu.edu)
Susan Kendall, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA (Susan.Kendall
at sjsu.edu)
Mary Nino, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA (Mary.Nino at sjsu.edu)
Aaron Collier, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, CA (acolllier at
csufresno.edu)
Glenda Harada, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, CA (gharada at csufresno.edu)
Donna Taylor, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, CA (donnat at csufresno.edu)
Steven Turner, The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries,
Yu-Hui Chen, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY (ychen at uamail.albany.edu)
Carol Anne Germain, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany,
NY (cg219
at albany.edu)
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Session |
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academic libraries |
Yes, You Can Afford an ERMS! An Open Source Solution to Managing
Your Library's Electronic Resources. |
I |
2 |
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Academic Libraries |
Video on Demand: Streaming Media in Distance Education |
I |
3 |
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Academic libraries |
Measuring the Impact of Change:
A Case Study Exploring the Impact of Integrating Non-MARC Metadata
Production into the Duties of Traditional Catalogers |
I |
7 |
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academic libraries |
Me and My Shadow: Observing and Documenting Serials Workflow in
a Cataloging Department |
I |
8 |
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Academic Libraries |
"Intrigue, Conspiracy and Kidnapping: The New Face of
Information Literacy Instruction?" |
II |
2 |
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Academic Libraries |
"They're Not in Kansas Anymore!": Information Literacy
Programming for High School Faculty to Help Students Transition to
College" |
II |
3 |
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Academic libraries |
Connecting 24/5 to Millennials: Providing Academic Support
Services From a Learning Commons |
II |
5 |
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academic libraries |
Helping Librarians Help: An Outcome-Based Evaluation of the |
II |
10 |
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academic libraries |
Studying Students Studying: Ethnography on a Shoestring |
II |
15 |
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academic libraries |
The Chemistry Between Library Services and Web 2.0: Providing
“Traditional” Library Services via New Technologies to USC Chemistry Users |
II |
20 |
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Academic libraries |
Riyad Nassar Library (RNL): A library for the future |
III |
4 |
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academic libraries |
Globalizing Academic Library Resources and Services |
III |
11 |
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academic libraries |
McCain Library’s Item of the Month: Bringing Special Collections to the
University of Southern Mississippi One Item at a Time |
IV |
5 |
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academic libraries |
Paying Faculty to Use Library Resources: Course Enhancement
Grants at The |
IV |
7 |
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academic libraries |
Guides 2.0: Supporting Campus Programming and Current Events |
IV |
8 |
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academic libraries |
Foreign Affairs: Academic Libraries as Ambassadors |
IV |
9 |
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academic libraries |
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IV |
10 |
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academic libraries |
Better than Breadcrumbs: Current Trends in Subject Guides |
IV |
12 |
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academic libraries |
Web Accessibility, Section 508, and Academic Libraries. |
IV |
17 |
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academic libraries |
Preparing the Underprepared:
Developmental Education and Academic Libraries |
V |
16 |
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Academic Libraries |
Summers are Spectacular: How One Academic Library Supports a
Summer Children's Education Program |
V |
18 |
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academic libraries |
Overlooked, Over-hyped or Just Right? What Specialized Accreditation
Organizations are Saying about the Academic Library’s Role in the
Accreditation Process. |
VI |
5 |
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academic libraries |
One Person, Many Jobs: The Modern Academic Librarian |
VI |
7 |
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academic libraries |
Communicating Our Value: How Librarians Achieve Promotion and
Tenure |
VI |
11 |
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Academic Libraries |
Evaluating Post-Masters Diversity Residency Programs: Model for
Assessment |
VI |
12 |
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Academic Libraries |
Unlocking the Mystery: What Academic Library Search Committees
Look for in Filling Faculty Positions? |
VI |
15 |
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academic library |
Learning to Swim: Streaming Video from Zero to One Hundred |
I |
11 |
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academic library |
Online & For-Profit: How we Handle Permissions in our
Academic Library |
VI |
6 |
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access services |
Training for the Information Commons |
VI |
16 |
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access to books |
Do Libraries Contribute to Gains in |
II |
7 |
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access to knowledge through libraries |
800 million reasons why eIFL.net is a good idea |
III |
19 |
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accessibility |
Promoting Accessibility in and of LIS Education |
II |
12 |
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active learning |
Smooth Your Moves Around the Library! Active Learning Style
Orientation for Freshman Students |
V |
17 |
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adults with disabilities |
Barriers Were Meant to be Broken: Building Programs for Adults
with Developmental Disabilities |
IV |
13 |
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Lubuto: Excellent
Libraries for |
III |
1 |
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alternative certification |
Teachers' Views of Library Service |
II |
16 |
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Amazing Library Race |
Smooth Your Moves Around the Library! Active Learning Style
Orientation for Freshman Students |
V |
17 |
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American history |
Children of the Territories: A Community College
Interdisciplinary Resource Collection for Student Study and Research |
I |
15 |
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and Eastern European immigrants |
Children of the Territories: A Community College
Interdisciplinary Resource Collection for Student Study and Research |
I |
15 |
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Arab countries |
Capacity building for school librarians in the |
III |
12 |
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Arabic students |
Is it worth it?: Online
learning in the |
III |
15 |
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archives |
Where Libraries and Special Collections Meet Web 2.0: Building Next-generation Archival Tools |
I |
1 |
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art |
Children of the Territories: A Community College
Interdisciplinary Resource Collection for Student Study and Research |
I |
15 |
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articles |
Children of the Territories: A Community College
Interdisciplinary Resource Collection for Student Study and Research |
I |
15 |
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Asian collections |
An Integrative Model Utilizing Multi-Disciplinary Resources
Needed for the Advancement in Asian Studies: Special Collections in |
III |
17 |
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Asian studies |
An Integrative Model Utilizing Multi-Disciplinary Resources
Needed for the Advancement in Asian Studies: Special Collections in |
III |
17 |
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assessment |
Assessing how scholars use cultural materials: the planning
phase |
I |
17 |
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assessment |
Designing for Synergy: Online Information Literacy Modules at
the |
II |
6 |
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assessment |
Teachers' Views of Library Service |
II |
16 |
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|
assessment |
They Can Save Lives, But Can They Conduct a Lit Review? Online
Library Instruction for Distance Education Doctoral Nursing Students |
V |
20 |
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Assessment |
Evaluating Post-Masters Diversity Residency Programs: Model for
Assessment |
VI |
12 |
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attitudinal barriers |
Barriers Were Meant to be Broken: Building Programs for Adults
with Developmental Disabilities |
IV |
13 |
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Beginning Teachers |
Prepared to Partner?: A Survey of New Teacher Preparedness to
Utilize School Librarians and |
V |
14 |
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best practice model |
Empowering Survivors: A Model for Outreach Programs to Domestic
Violence Service Organizations |
IV |
1 |
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best practice research in the |
Good ideas Cross the |
III |
5 |
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best practices |
From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf in 50 min. Any questions? |
II |
8 |
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|
bibliographies |
Guides 2.0: Supporting Campus Programming and Current Events |
IV |
8 |
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|
bilingual education. |
Foreign Affairs: Academic Libraries as Ambassadors |
IV |
9 |
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|
BIO5 |
Stepping Outside the Box for BIO5: An Interdisciplinary Research Community at
the |
IV |
3 |
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|
Blackboard |
Matching courses to resources: automating the integration of
discipline-specific library resources in Blackboard courses. |
I |
9 |
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|
blogs |
Mentoring Interactively (MIing): New Tools for Librarian
Recruitment and Retention or How to Build Bridges Between Boomers and
Next-gen Librarians |
II |
11 |
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|
blogs |
A Library In Cyberspace: Developing a Town Library on a Virtual
World |
V |
3 |
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|
book exchange |
Sharing and Reusing Book Resources: The Book Exchange Day
Activity of Public Libraries in |
III |
14 |
||
|
book groups |
A Library In Cyberspace: Developing a Town Library on a Virtual
World |
V |
3 |
||
|
books |
Children of the Territories: A Community College
Interdisciplinary Resource Collection for Student Study and Research |
I |
15 |
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|
books |
Lubuto: Excellent
Libraries for |
III |
1 |
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|
Boomer librarians |
Mentoring Interactively (MIing): New Tools for Librarian
Recruitment and Retention or How to Build Bridges Between Boomers and
Next-gen Librarians |
II |
11 |
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|
campus community |
Synergy: Fusing Student Assistants with the |
VI |
1 |
||
|
captivate |
Designing for Synergy: Online Information Literacy Modules at
the |
II |
6 |
||
|
Case Study |
The Chat Reference Interview: Seeking Evidence based on RUSA’s
Guidelines |
IV |
2 |
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|
case study |
Using a Wiki in Collaborative Strategic Planning |
VI |
17 |
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|
Catalogers--Attitudes--Case studies |
Measuring the Impact of Change:
A Case Study Exploring the Impact of Integrating Non-MARC Metadata
Production into the Duties of Traditional Catalogers |
I |
7 |
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|
cataloging |
Me and My Shadow: Observing and Documenting Serials Workflow in
a Cataloging Department |
I |
8 |
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|
|
The Web Presence and Capacity of Human Rights NGOs in |
III |
3 |
||
|
Central American Libraries |
Central American Lending Libraries Are a Growing
Reality-Collaboration is the Key |
III |
20 |
||
|
change |
Creating Change from Within:
Empower the Library with Your Own Student Organization! |
VI |
10 |
||
|
changing responsibilities |
Are Staff Classification Systems Reflecting Current and Future
Library Competencies? A New Model at the |
VI |
13 |
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changing roles |
Are Staff Classification Systems Reflecting Current and Future
Library Competencies? A New Model at the |
VI |
13 |
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|
child development |
Children of the Territories: A Community College
Interdisciplinary Resource Collection for Student Study and Research |
I |
15 |
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|
children’s literature |
A New Look at the Significance of the Regional Novels of Lois
Lenski |
I |
19 |
||
|
Children's Literature |
Summers are Spectacular: How One Academic Library Supports a
Summer Children's Education Program |
V |
18 |
||
|
childrens' programming |
Improving Children's |
V |
8 |
||
|
|
Growing English Language Libraries in |
III |
7 |
||
|
climate change |
Researching Climate Change: Trends in |
II |
14 |
||
|
Co-Lab |
Stepping Outside the Box for BIO5: An Interdisciplinary Research Community at
the |
IV |
3 |
||
|
Cold War history |
Controversy, Code Names, and Cultural Memory: Building the |
I |
14 |
||
|
collaboration |
Catch the Wave: Building a Digital Image Library without Wiping
Out |
I |
16 |
||
|
collaboration |
A Showcase of International Collaboration Successes: Asian
Libraries With Other Libraries Around the World |
III |
10 |
||
|
Collaboration |
Central American Lending Libraries Are a Growing
Reality-Collaboration is the Key |
III |
20 |
||
|
Collaboration |
The Virtue of Virtuality: Evaluating the Second Life Library |
IV |
20 |
||
|
Collaboration |
Providing Library Instruction for New International Graduate
Students: A Collaborative Program Between Librarians, Graduate Students, and
Staff |
V |
1 |
||
|
collaboration |
Getting it Together:
Faculty Librarian Collaboration |
V |
6 |
||
|
Collaboration |
Summers are Spectacular: How One Academic Library Supports a
Summer Children's Education Program |
V |
18 |
||
|
collaboration |
Live Well at the Library: Mayo Clinic |
VI |
9 |
||
|
collaboration |
Using a Wiki in Collaborative Strategic Planning |
VI |
17 |
||
|
collaboration |
We Got the Building - Now What? |
VI |
18 |
||
|
collaborative projects |
Assessing how scholars use cultural materials: the planning
phase |
I |
17 |
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|
collaborative tools |
Where Libraries and Special Collections Meet Web 2.0: Building Next-generation Archival Tools |
I |
1 |
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|
collection development |
The Transgender Resource Collection: When Collection Development
Leads to Staff Development |
I |
5 |
||
|
collection development |
Learning to Swim: Streaming Video from Zero to One Hundred |
I |
11 |
||
|
Collection Development |
Designing a Collection Development Policy for Digital Libraries:
South Korean Experiences |
III |
16 |
||
|
collection development |
|
IV |
10 |
||
|
Collection Development |
Summers are Spectacular: How One Academic Library Supports a
Summer Children's Education Program |
V |
18 |
||
|
collection development |
One Person, Many Jobs: The Modern Academic Librarian |
VI |
7 |
||
|
Collection Development Policy |
Designing a Collection Development Policy for Digital Libraries:
South Korean Experiences |
III |
16 |
||
|
collection publicity |
McCain Library’s Item of the Month: Bringing Special Collections to the
University of Southern Mississippi One Item at a Time |
IV |
5 |
||
|
college and university libraries |
Using a Wiki in Collaborative Strategic Planning |
VI |
17 |
||
|
college library |
Come to the Library: The Dynamics of Creative Promotion |
V |
4 |
||
|
college students |
Children of the Territories: A Community College
Interdisciplinary Resource Collection for Student Study and Research |
I |
15 |
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college students |
Studying Students Studying: Ethnography on a Shoestring |
II |
15 |
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Communication |
Get the Word Out... Marketing Strategies to Help Staff Keep Up
with Tech Issues in Your Library |
IV |
15 |
||
|
communication |
Using a Wiki in Collaborative Strategic Planning |
VI |
17 |
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|
communication skills |
Balancing Both Lives:
Issues Facing Librarians Working in Second Life and Real Life Worlds |
II |
17 |
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|
community |
Sustainable Development, Design, and Practices in Libraries |
VI |
2 |
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|
community college |
Children of the Territories: A Community College
Interdisciplinary Resource Collection for Student Study and Research |
I |
15 |
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community networking |
The Thrill of the Hunt:
Enabling Students to Find and Use Historical Primary Sources in Your
Community and Beyond |
V |
19 |
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|
Community Outreach |
Bring Health Information to Their Fingertips: Empower the
Community |
IV |
11 |
||
|
competency-based job descriptions |
Are Staff Classification Systems Reflecting Current and Future
Library Competencies? A New Model at the |
VI |
13 |
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computer labs |
Training for the Information Commons |
VI |
16 |
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|
consumer health |
Bring Health Information to Their Fingertips: Empower the
Community |
IV |
11 |
||
|
consumer health |
Live Well at the Library: Mayo Clinic |
VI |
9 |
||
|
content analysis |
Communicating Our Value: How Librarians Achieve Promotion and
Tenure |
VI |
11 |
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|
continuing education |
Reference Transactions to the Rescue: Using Libstats to Enhance
Library Instruction, Direct Staff Continuing Education, and Make Effective
Management Decisions |
IV |
6 |
||
|
copyright permission |
Online & For-Profit: How we Handle Permissions in our
Academic Library |
VI |
6 |
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|
course management system |
Matching courses to resources: automating the integration of
discipline-specific library resources in Blackboard courses. |
I |
9 |
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course management system |
They Can Save Lives, But Can They Conduct a Lit Review? Online
Library Instruction for Distance Education Doctoral Nursing Students |
V |
20 |
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cultural differences |
Foreign Affairs: Academic Libraries as Ambassadors |
IV |
9 |
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|
cultural materials |
Assessing how scholars use cultural materials: the planning
phase |
I |
17 |
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current events |
Guides 2.0: Supporting Campus Programming and Current Events |
IV |
8 |
||
|
customer satisfaction |
What Are They Thinking? Using Focus Groups to Discover Student
Perceptions of the Library, Staff, Resources, and Services |
IV |
19 |
||
|
development |
We Got the Building - Now What? |
VI |
18 |
||
|
developmental education |
Preparing the Underprepared:
Developmental Education and Academic Libraries |
V |
16 |
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|
diaries |
Children of the Territories: A Community College
Interdisciplinary Resource Collection for Student Study and Research |
I |
15 |
||
|
Digital Delivery |
Video on Demand: Streaming Media in Distance Education |
I |
3 |
||
|
digital libraries |
Catch the Wave: Building a Digital Image Library without Wiping
Out |
I |
16 |
||
|
digital libraries |
Assessing how scholars use cultural materials: the planning
phase |
I |
17 |
||
|
digital media |
The Library Channel: Syndicating News, Views, and Collections to
the World |
VI |
14 |
||
|
Digital Preservation |
The Web-at-Risk: Preserving our Nation's Digital Cultural
Heritage |
I |
4 |
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|
digitization projects |
Controversy, Code Names, and Cultural Memory: Building the |
I |
14 |
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|
directory |
Establishment of the First Interactive Website and Updated
Directory of National Libraries of the World:
www.nationallibraries.org |
III |
18 |
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|
disasters |
“I don’t live here but…”: Library Experiences of Hurricane
Katrina Displacees |
I |
20 |
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|
Distance Education |
Video on Demand: Streaming Media in Distance Education |
I |
3 |
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|
distance education |
"Intrigue, Conspiracy and Kidnapping: The New Face of
Information Literacy Instruction?" |
II |
2 |
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|
distance education |
They Can Save Lives, But Can They Conduct a Lit Review? Online
Library Instruction for Distance Education Doctoral Nursing Students |
V |
20 |
||
|
diverse populations |
It’s Your Library Too: Reaching Out to Diverse Populations |
V |
11 |
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diversity |
The Transgender Resource Collection: When Collection Development
Leads to Staff Development |
I |
5 |
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diversity |
Promoting Accessibility in and of LIS Education |
II |
12 |
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diversity |
Foreign Affairs: Academic Libraries as Ambassadors |
IV |
9 |
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Diversity Residency |
Evaluating Post-Masters Diversity Residency Programs: Model for
Assessment |
VI |
12 |
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domestic violence |
Empowering Survivors: A Model for Outreach Programs to Domestic
Violence Service Organizations |
IV |
1 |
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|
economic |
Libraries Flourish Amidst War and Conflict: A Case Study of |
III |
2 |
||
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education |
Children of the Territories: A Community College
Interdisciplinary Resource Collection for Student Study and Research |
I |
15 |
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education for teens |
Wellness Education: Bridging the Consumer Health Information Gap |
IV |
18 |
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educational |
Libraries Flourish Amidst War and Conflict: A Case Study of |
III |
2 |
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|
EFL situation |
Read Alouds in English as a Foreign Language: The Path to
Establishing a Pleasure |
II |
19 |
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|
elders |
The Golden Age Meets the Digital Age: Notes from the Trenches |
IV |
16 |
||
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electronic information for libraries |
800 million reasons why eIFL.net is a good idea |
III |
19 |
||
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Electronic resources management systems |
Taking Control of Electronic Resources: An Environmental Impact
Study of the First Two Years of Electronic Resources Management System (ERMS)
Implementation |
I |
6 |
||
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elementary school |
Improving Children's |
V |
8 |
||
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employment |
Sayonara Party Girl, Aloha Real World: Surfing into Library
Technology Positions |
VI |
4 |
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energy efficiency |
Sustainable Development, Design, and Practices in Libraries |
VI |
2 |
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|
English |
Children of the Territories: A Community College
Interdisciplinary Resource Collection for Student Study and Research |
I |
15 |
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|
English literature |
From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf in 50 min. Any questions? |
II |
8 |
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equity of access |
Connecting the Dots to Leadership in LIS: The |
II |
1 |
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e-reserves |
Online & For-Profit: How we Handle Permissions in our
Academic Library |
VI |
6 |
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ERMS |
Yes, You Can Afford an ERMS! An Open Source Solution to Managing
Your Library's Electronic Resources. |
I |
2 |
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ethnography |
Studying Students Studying: Ethnography on a Shoestring |
II |
15 |
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|
evaluation |
Helping Librarians Help: An Outcome-Based Evaluation of the |
II |
10 |
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everyday lives of children |
A New Look at the Significance of the Regional Novels of Lois
Lenski |
I |
19 |
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evidence-based decision making |
Reference Transactions to the Rescue: Using Libstats to Enhance
Library Instruction, Direct Staff Continuing Education, and Make Effective
Management Decisions |
IV |
6 |
||
|
expansion |
Libraries Flourish Amidst War and Conflict: A Case Study of |
III |
2 |
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exposure to librarianship |
Wellness Education: Bridging the Consumer Health Information Gap |
IV |
18 |
||
|
fair copyright laws for libraries |
800 million reasons why eIFL.net is a good idea |
III |
19 |
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|
federal agencies |
Researching Climate Change: Trends in |
II |
14 |
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filmmaking |
Me? A Filmmaker? : A No
Nonsense Approach For Non-techie Librarians |
VI |
8 |
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First Year Experience |
One Size Does Not Fit All: Library Sessions for First Year
Seminar Students |
V |
15 |
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fiscal accountability |
Promoting Accessibility in and of LIS Education |
II |
12 |
||
|
Focus groups |
What Are They Thinking? Using Focus Groups to Discover Student Perceptions
of the Library, Staff, Resources, and Services |
IV |
19 |
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|
focus groups |
Synergy: Fusing Student Assistants with the |
VI |
1 |
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for-profit |
Online & For-Profit: How we Handle Permissions in our
Academic Library |
VI |
6 |
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freedman |
Children of the Territories: A Community College
Interdisciplinary Resource Collection for Student Study and Research |
I |
15 |
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|
freeware |
Yes, You Can Afford an ERMS! An Open Source Solution to Managing
Your Library's Electronic Resources. |
I |
2 |
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freshman students |
Smooth Your Moves Around the Library! Active Learning Style
Orientation for Freshman Students |
V |
17 |
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|
future |
We Got the Building - Now What? |
VI |
18 |
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Gaming |
"Intrigue, Conspiracy and Kidnapping: The New Face of
Information Literacy Instruction?" |
II |
2 |
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|
gaming |
"Wii Would Like to Play" -- Gaming for Seniors" |
IV |
14 |
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german |
From the |
III |
13 |
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|
From the |
III |
13 |
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global advocate for knowledge sharing and exchange |
800 million reasons why eIFL.net is a good idea |
III |
19 |
||
|
global poverty |
Libraries Flourish Amidst War and Conflict: A Case Study of |
III |
2 |
||
|
global warming |
Researching Climate Change: Trends in |
II |
14 |
||
|
Google Analytics |
Web Site Statistics 2.0: Using Google Analytics To Measure
Library Web Site Effectiveness |
VI |
19 |
||
|
google earth |
Indigenous Information Ecology: Vanishing Indians Throwing Off
Our Invisibility Cloaks As We Rush Into the 21st Century |
I |
12 |
||
|
government |
From the |
III |
13 |
||
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government information |
Researching Climate Change: Trends in |
II |
14 |
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governmental |
From the |
III |
13 |
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gps |
Tell Your Patrons To Take A Hike! |
V |
2 |
||
|
graduate students |
Operation Resurrection:
Breathing New Life into Graduate Student Researchers and Instruction
Librarians by Developing a New Suite of Services |
II |
18 |
||
|
graduate students |
Getting Them in the Door: Information Literacy and Research
Skills for Nontraditional Graduate Students |
V |
7 |
||
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graduate students |
They Can Save Lives, But Can They Conduct a Lit Review? Online
Library Instruction for Distance Education Doctoral Nursing Students |
V |
20 |
||
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graduate teas |
Stepping Outside the Box for BIO5: An Interdisciplinary Research Community at
the |
IV |
3 |
||
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grants |
Paying Faculty to Use Library Resources: Course Enhancement
Grants at The |
IV |
7 |
||
|
Guatemalans in literature |
An Intricate Tapestry of Cultures: Examining the Representation
of the Diverse Guatemalan Subcultures in Children’s Fiction |
I |
18 |
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hands-on computer classes |
Bring Health Information to Their Fingertips: Empower the Community |
IV |
11 |
||
|
health information |
Wellness Education: Bridging the Consumer Health Information Gap |
IV |
18 |
||
|
Health Information Literacy |
Bring Health Information to Their Fingertips: Empower the
Community |
IV |
11 |
||
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hikes |
Tell Your Patrons To Take A Hike! |
V |
2 |
||
|
Hispanic children's literature |
An Intricate Tapestry of Cultures: Examining the Representation
of the Diverse Guatemalan Subcultures in Children’s Fiction |
I |
18 |
||
|
historians |
Assessing how scholars use cultural materials: the planning
phase |
I |
17 |
||
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historic photography of Native Americans |
Children of the Territories: A Community College
Interdisciplinary Resource Collection for Student Study and Research |
I |
15 |
||
|
History |
The Thrill of the Hunt:
Enabling Students to Find and Use Historical Primary Sources in Your
Community and Beyond |
V |
19 |
||
|
history of childhood in first half of the 20th century |
A New Look at the Significance of the Regional Novels of Lois
Lenski |
I |
19 |
||
|
HIV/AIDS |
Lubuto: Excellent
Libraries for |
III |
1 |
||
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human rights |
The Web Presence and Capacity of Human Rights NGOs in |
III |
3 |
||
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humanities |
|
IV |
10 |
||
|
hurricane katrina |
“I don’t live here but…”: Library Experiences of Hurricane
Katrina Displacees |
I |
20 |
||
|
illustrations |
A New Look at the Significance of the Regional Novels of Lois
Lenski |
I |
19 |
||
|
IM |
Mentoring Interactively (MIing): New Tools for Librarian
Recruitment and Retention or How to Build Bridges Between Boomers and
Next-gen Librarians |
II |
11 |
||
|
image databases |
Catch the Wave: Building a Digital Image Library without Wiping
Out |
I |
16 |
||
|
IMLS |
Growing Our Own: Developing Community Based Librarians in |
II |
9 |
||
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indigenous |
Indigenous Information Ecology: Vanishing Indians Throwing Off
Our Invisibility Cloaks As We Rush Into the 21st Century |
I |
12 |
||
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indigenous architecture |
Lubuto: Excellent
Libraries for |
III |
1 |
||
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information architecture |
Web Usability: A Large But Worthwhile Task |
VI |
20 |
||
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information commons |
Training for the Information Commons |
VI |
16 |
||
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information environments |
Indigenous Information Ecology: Vanishing Indians Throwing Off
Our Invisibility Cloaks As We Rush Into the 21st Century |
I |
12 |
||
|
Information Literacy |
"Intrigue, Conspiracy and Kidnapping: The New Face of
Information Literacy Instruction?" |
II |
2 |
||
|
Information Literacy |
"They're Not in Kansas Anymore!": Information Literacy
Programming for High School Faculty to Help Students Transition to
College" |
II |
3 |
||
|
information literacy |
Designing for Synergy: Online Information Literacy Modules at
the |
II |
6 |
||
|
information literacy |
Is it worth it?: Online
learning in the |
III |
15 |
||
|
information literacy |
The Golden Age Meets the Digital Age: Notes from the Trenches |
IV |
16 |
||
|
information literacy |
Getting it Together:
Faculty Librarian Collaboration |
V |
6 |
||
|
information literacy |
Getting Them in the Door: Information Literacy and Research
Skills for Nontraditional Graduate Students |
V |
7 |
||
|
Information literacy |
Librarians in the Hall |
V |
12 |
||
|
information literacy |
They Can Save Lives, But Can They Conduct a Lit Review? Online
Library Instruction for Distance Education Doctoral Nursing Students |
V |
20 |
||
|
information literacy |
One Person, Many Jobs: The Modern Academic Librarian |
VI |
7 |
||
|
information literacy instruction |
|
IV |
10 |
||
|
information services |
The Chemistry Between Library Services and Web 2.0: Providing
“Traditional” Library Services via New Technologies to USC Chemistry Users |
II |
20 |
||
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information-seeking behavior |
Serving Survivors of Domestic Abuse |
IV |
5 |
||
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initiatives |
We Got the Building - Now What? |
VI |
18 |
||
|
innovation |
Creating Change from Within:
Empower the Library with Your Own Student Organization! |
VI |
10 |
||
|
institutional memory |
Me and My Shadow: Observing and Documenting Serials Workflow in
a Cataloging Department |
I |
8 |
||
|
instruction |
From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf in 50 min. Any questions? |
II |
8 |
||
|
instruction |
Helping Librarians Help: An Outcome-Based Evaluation of the |
II |
10 |
||
|
Instruction |
Raising the 2.0 Reference Librarian |
II |
13 |
||
|
instruction |
Operation Resurrection:
Breathing New Life into Graduate Student Researchers and Instruction
Librarians by Developing a New Suite of Services |
II |
18 |
||
|
instruction |
Reference Transactions to the Rescue: Using Libstats to Enhance
Library Instruction, Direct Staff Continuing Education, and Make Effective
Management Decisions |
IV |
6 |
||
|
instruction |
Foreign Affairs: Academic Libraries as Ambassadors |
IV |
9 |
||
|
Instruction |
The Virtue of Virtuality: Evaluating the Second Life Library |
IV |
20 |
||
|
Instruction |
Librarians in the Hall |
V |
12 |
||
|
Instruction |
One Size Does Not Fit All: Library Sessions for First Year
Seminar Students |
V |
15 |
||
|
instructional design |
Designing for Synergy: Online Information Literacy Modules at
the |
II |
6 |
||
|
integration |
Matching courses to resources: automating the integration of
discipline-specific library resources in Blackboard courses. |
I |
9 |
||
|
interdisciplinary |
Stepping Outside the Box for BIO5: An Interdisciplinary Research Community at
the |
IV |
3 |
||
|
interdisciplinary resource collection |
Children of the Territories: A Community College
Interdisciplinary Resource Collection for Student Study and Research |
I |
15 |
||
|
Interlibrary Cooperation |
"They're Not in Kansas Anymore!": Information Literacy
Programming for High School Faculty to Help Students Transition to
College" |
II |
3 |
||
|
international |
A Showcase of International Collaboration Successes: Asian
Libraries With Other Libraries Around the World |
III |
10 |
||
|
international |
From the |
III |
13 |
||
|
international development |
Libraries Flourish Amidst War and Conflict: A Case Study of |
III |
2 |
||
|
international librarian's relationships |
Building International Sister Libraries Partnerships |
III |
6 |
||
|
international librarianship |
IRRT Free Links: An Emerging Leaders Project Providing Access to
Free Professional Development Opportunities for |
III |
9 |
||
|
international library relationships |
Building International Sister Libraries Partnerships |
III |
6 |
||
|
international programs |
Foreign Affairs: Academic Libraries as Ambassadors |
IV |
9 |
||
|
international students |
Foreign Affairs: Academic Libraries as Ambassadors |
IV |
9 |
||
|
International Students |
Providing Library Instruction for New International Graduate
Students: A Collaborative Program Between Librarians, Graduate Students, and
Staff |
V |
1 |
||
|
internationaliz* |
Globalizing Academic Library Resources and Services |
III |
11 |
||
|
Internet |
Serving Survivors of Domestic Abuse |
IV |
5 |
||
|
internet capacity |
The Web Presence and Capacity of Human Rights NGOs in |
III |
3 |
||
|
Internet video |
Learning to Swim: Streaming Video from Zero to One Hundred |
I |
11 |
||
|
Interview |
Unlocking the Mystery: What Academic Library Search Committees
Look for in Filling Faculty Positions? |
VI |
15 |
||
|
intimate partner violence |
Serving Survivors of Domestic Abuse |
IV |
5 |
||
|
job description alignment |
Are Staff Classification Systems Reflecting Current and Future
Library Competencies? A New Model at the |
VI |
13 |
||
|
job duties |
One Person, Many Jobs: The Modern Academic Librarian |
VI |
7 |
||
|
Job Hunting |
Unlocking the Mystery: What Academic Library Search Committees
Look for in Filling Faculty Positions? |
VI |
15 |
||
|
juvenile collections |
Growing English Language Libraries in |
III |
7 |
||
|
Juvenile literature |
Summers are Spectacular: How One Academic Library Supports a
Summer Children's Education Program |
V |
18 |
||
|
large academic libraries |
Matching courses to resources: automating the integration of
discipline-specific library resources in Blackboard courses. |
I |
9 |
||
|
Latino children's literature |
An Intricate Tapestry of Cultures: Examining the Representation
of the Diverse Guatemalan Subcultures in Children’s Fiction |
I |
18 |
||
|
Learning Commons |
Connecting 24/5 to Millennials: Providing Academic Support
Services From a Learning Commons |
II |
5 |
||
|
Learning management system |
Matching courses to resources: automating the integration of
discipline-specific library resources in Blackboard courses. |
I |
9 |
||
|
Learning Resources Centers |
Prepared to Partner?: A Survey of New Teacher Preparedness to
Utilize School Librarians and |
V |
14 |
||
|
|
Riyad Nassar Library (RNL): A library for the future |
III |
4 |
||
|
|
Riyad Nassar Library (RNL): A library for the future |
III |
4 |
||
|
LEED |
Sustainable Development, Design, and Practices in Libraries |
VI |
2 |
||
|
Lending Facility providing Access |
Central American Lending Libraries Are a Growing
Reality-Collaboration is the Key |
III |
20 |
||
|
LGBT |
The Transgender Resource Collection: When Collection Development
Leads to Staff Development |
I |
5 |
||
|
Librarian Teacher Cooperation |
Prepared to Partner?: A Survey of New Teacher Preparedness to
Utilize School Librarians and |
V |
14 |
||
|
Librarians |
Prepared to Partner?: A Survey of New Teacher Preparedness to Utilize
School Librarians and |
V |
14 |
||
|
librarianship |
Sayonara Party Girl, Aloha Real World: Surfing into Library
Technology Positions |
VI |
4 |
||
|
libraries |
Lubuto: Excellent
Libraries for |
III |
1 |
||
|
libraries |
Libraries Flourish Amidst War and Conflict: A Case Study of |
III |
2 |
||
|
library |
From the |
III |
13 |
||
|
Library 2.0 |
Raising the 2.0 Reference Librarian |
II |
13 |
||
|
library 2.0 |
The Chemistry Between Library Services and Web 2.0: Providing
“Traditional” Library Services via New Technologies to USC Chemistry Users |
II |
20 |
||
|
Library 2.0 |
A Library In Cyberspace: Developing a Town Library on a Virtual
World |
V |
3 |
||
|
library 2.0 |
Supervising While Away: Tools For Online Student Supervision |
VI |
3 |
||
|
library administration |
One Person, Many Jobs: The Modern Academic Librarian |
VI |
7 |
||
|
library architecture |
Sustainable Development, Design, and Practices in Libraries |
VI |
2 |
||
|
library assignments |
Getting it Together:
Faculty Librarian Collaboration |
V |
6 |
||
|
library automation |
Balancing Both Lives:
Issues Facing Librarians Working in Second Life and Real Life Worlds |
II |
17 |
||
|
library collections |
Overlooked, Over-hyped or Just Right? What Specialized Accreditation
Organizations are Saying about the Academic Library’s Role in the
Accreditation Process. |
VI |
5 |
||
|
library instruction |
Operation Resurrection:
Breathing New Life into Graduate Student Researchers and Instruction
Librarians by Developing a New Suite of Services |
II |
18 |
||
|
Library Instruction |
Providing Library Instruction for New International Graduate
Students: A Collaborative Program Between Librarians, Graduate Students, and
Staff |
V |
1 |
||
|
Library Instruction |
Summers are Spectacular: How One Academic Library Supports a
Summer Children's Education Program |
V |
18 |
||
|
library instruction |
They Can Save Lives, But Can They Conduct a Lit Review? Online
Library Instruction for Distance Education Doctoral Nursing Students |
V |
20 |
||
|
library instruction |
Creating Change from Within:
Empower the Library with Your Own Student Organization! |
VI |
10 |
||
|
library job classifications |
Are Staff Classification Systems Reflecting Current and Future
Library Competencies? A New Model at the |
VI |
13 |
||
|
library marketing |
Innovation project of library marketing: Reading salon is opening¡ |
III |
8 |
||
|
Library of Congress classification |
Dewey to LC: Planning a Reclassification Project |
I |
13 |
||
|
library open houses |
Look What’s under Our Tent: A Fresh Approach to Library
Orientations |
V |
13 |
||
|
Library orientation |
Smooth Your Moves Around the Library! Active Learning Style
Orientation for Freshman Students |
V |
17 |
||
|
library orientations |
Look What’s under Our Tent: A Fresh Approach to Library
Orientations |
V |
13 |
||
|
library promotion |
Come to the Library: The Dynamics of Creative Promotion |
V |
4 |
||
|
library promotion |
Me? A Filmmaker? : A No
Nonsense Approach For Non-techie Librarians |
VI |
8 |
||
|
library services |
Synergy: Fusing Student Assistants with the |
VI |
1 |
||
|
library services |
Overlooked, Over-hyped or Just Right? What Specialized Accreditation Organizations
are Saying about the Academic Library’s Role in the Accreditation Process. |
VI |
5 |
||
|
library services |
Me? A Filmmaker? : A No
Nonsense Approach For Non-techie Librarians |
VI |
8 |
||
|
library statisitics |
Web Site Statistics 2.0: Using Google Analytics To Measure
Library Web Site Effectiveness |
VI |
19 |
||
|
library tour |
A Star Is Born -- Engaging Title V Students in Library Video
Project |
II |
4 |
||
|
library trainees |
Growing Our Own: Developing Community Based Librarians in |
II |
9 |
||
|
library videos |
A Star Is Born -- Engaging Title V Students in Library Video
Project |
II |
4 |
||
|
Library's GIS skills |
Integrating Library's GIS Skills into Undergraduate Courses: The
Power of Online Tutorial. |
V |
10 |
||
|
Libstats |
Reference Transactions to the Rescue: Using Libstats to Enhance
Library Instruction, Direct Staff Continuing Education, and Make Effective
Management Decisions |
IV |
6 |
||
|
LIS education |
Promoting Accessibility in and of LIS Education |
II |
12 |
||
|
literacy |
Lubuto: Excellent
Libraries for |
III |
1 |
||
|
literacy |
Improving Children's |
V |
8 |
||
|
literature review |
Operation Resurrection:
Breathing New Life into Graduate Student Researchers and Instruction
Librarians by Developing a New Suite of Services |
II |
18 |
||
|
local chat |
Step Into My (Virtual) Office: Local Subject-Based Chat |
IV |
4 |
||
|
local history |
Tell Your Patrons To Take A Hike! |
V |
2 |
||
|
Lois Lenski |
A New Look at the Significance of the Regional Novels of Lois
Lenski |
I |
19 |
||
|
management |
Reference Transactions to the Rescue: Using Libstats to Enhance
Library Instruction, Direct Staff Continuing Education, and Make Effective
Management Decisions |
IV |
6 |
||
|
management |
Supervising While Away: Tools For Online Student Supervision |
VI |
3 |
||
|
Marketing |
Get the Word Out... Marketing Strategies to Help Staff Keep Up
with Tech Issues in Your Library |
IV |
15 |
||
|
marketing |
The Library Channel: Syndicating News, Views, and Collections to
the World |
VI |
14 |
||
|
marketing services |
Live Well at the Library: Mayo Clinic |
VI |
9 |
||
|
media |
Learning to Swim: Streaming Video from Zero to One Hundred |
I |
11 |
||
|
Media Libraries |
Video on Demand: Streaming Media in Distance Education |
I |
3 |
||
|
Media Specialists |
Prepared to Partner?: A Survey of New Teacher Preparedness to
Utilize School Librarians and |
V |
14 |
||
|
mentoring |
Growing Our Own: Developing Community Based Librarians in |
II |
9 |
||
|
mentoring |
Mentoring Interactively (MIing): New Tools for Librarian
Recruitment and Retention or How to Build Bridges Between Boomers and
Next-gen Librarians |
II |
11 |
||
|
mentorship |
Connecting the Dots to Leadership in LIS: The |
||||