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Creating an Open Educational Resource: Exploring Ways That Libraries Can Support OER Publishing
(2019-10-18)
Open Educational Resources (OER) have been gaining momentum in higher education and K-12 schools. OER are free, and often customizable, resources that can be used as textbooks or supplemental materials in the classroom. ...
Making Connections: Developing Textbook Affordability Initiatives Across Multiple Campuses
(2019-10-07)
In order to address rising textbook prices, libraries have started to create textbook affordability initiatives that include encouraging faculty to use open educational resources as well as developing stipend programs for ...
Form and Genre Access to Academic Library Digital Collections
(2020-02-17)
This paper provides an examination of how digital collections in academic libraries provide user access to items by form and/or genre. A review of the literature reveals that this is not an area that has received much ...
Rediscovering your Federal Documents
(2019-10-17)
While not all libraries contain federal documents, federal documents are everywhere and they are available for anyone and everyone to use! Often an underutilized resource, join the presenter to find out different ways that ...
Race, insurance type, and stage of presentation among lung cancer patients
(2014-04-15)
BACKGROUND: The percentage of adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients with cancer (those aged 15-39 years) diagnosed at a
distant stage of disease did not significantly change between 1975 and 2004. It has been hypothesized ...
Risk-adjusted survival after coronary artery bypass grafting: Implications for quality improvement
(2014-07-21)
Mortality represents an important outcome measure following coronary artery bypass grafting. Shorter survival times may reflect poor surgical quality and an increased number of costly postoperative complications. Quality ...
Should providers encourage realistic weight expectations and satisfaction with lost weight in commercial weight loss programs? a preliminary study
(2014)
Background
Attrition is a problem among patients who participate in commercial weight loss programs. One possible explanation is that if patients are unable to reach a weight that they expect to achieve, they may be ...
Connect with your Users: Usability Testing and How User Experience May Actually Work for You
(2016-08-15)
For a library, User Experience (UX) refers to studying the emotions and attitudes of its users regarding the library building, website, or services. This can be executed through usability testing, which allows you to truly ...