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Cross-Generational Valuing Among Peer Academic Librarians
(2015)
This study addresses a gap in the research concerning generational roles in the academic library workforce, particularly with regard to Millennials.
The Joint-Use Library in Carrboro: Bringing Together Orange County Public Library and Chapel-Hill/Carrboro City Schools
(2015)
Joint-use libraries have been created to share resources, reduce facilities costs, and more efficiently serve patrons. There have been several notable examples in the news. In the summer of 2013, a joint-use facility opened ...
Making a List and Checking it Twice: Creating a Sustainable Future in User Experience
(2015-03-27)
A ten-person task force assessed staffing responsibilities, guidelines, processes, and data gathering procedures for user experience (UX) for a library system. Multiple models for carrying out UX in a library were tested ...
Our Experience with User Experience: Exploring Staffing Configurations to Conduct UX in an Academic Library
(2015-10-13)
A research project was undertaken by a university library system to develop a sustainable user experience strategy. A task force was convened to conduct a pilot project with members from both libraries in the system to ...
Author Impact Measures in Communication Sciences and Disorders
(2015-11-13)
Author impact metrics were collected from approximately 2000 academic research faculty in 257 accredited universities in the US and Canada. Three databases (Scopus, Google Scholar, and ResearchGate) were utilized. Indices ...
A Place in the Sun: Cleaning up Online Content with the LibGuides Summer Project
(2015-10-21)
ECU Libraries have attempted to address issues with out-of-date content in LibGuides by conducting an annual group cleanup project during the lull over the summer. Librarians are provided with a brief weekly instruction ...
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in the Academic Library: A Methodology for Mapping Multiple Means of Representation in Library Tutorials
(2015-05)
Librarians designed a biology tutorial not only to address an assignment, but also to make tutorials more accessible to students with various learning styles. The Science Librarian created the content by using aspects of ...
Cross-generational Valuing Among Peer Academic Librarians: A Preliminary Report Following Up with Millennials
(2015-03-26)
Paper presents a preliminary analysis of survey research designed to elicit information about Millennial academic librarians, their most valued colleagues at work, and reasons why they value these colleagues, and compares ...
Scholarly Communication Boot Camp: Getting Liaisons Up to Speed
(2015-11-06)
Liaison librarians everywhere are being asked to share more and more in the work of scholarly communication. In many cases they need extensive training to be prepared to talk about these topics with faculty and students. ...
Alzheimer’s Care: Getting Better
(2015)
As I was growing up, I still remember going to my grandparents’ house every day after
elementary school and eating orange sherbet, riding bikes around the neighborhood, and going to
the library to get books to read. I ...