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A"I Never Knew I Could Be a Teacher": A Student-Centered MLIS Fellowship for Future Teacher-Librarians
(portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2018-04) Gammons, Rachel W.; Carroll, Alexander J.; Inge Carpenter, Lindsay
The Research and Teaching Fellowship (RTF) of the University of Maryland Libraries in College Park is a three-semester teacher training program for students seeking a master's of library and information science (MLIS) degree. This article provides details of the program's content, organization, administration, and assessment. It also includes results from a mixed methods and longitudinal study identifying the successful components of RTF and charting the development of teacher efficacy and identity among participants. Findings indicate that a strong sense of community, sustained engagement with teaching, and the integration of evidenced-based practice prepare MLIS students to succeed in a competitive job market. The authors provide a list of best practices in the development of mentorship and training programs, including considerations for librarians and administrators.
CHOOSING THE RIGHT CITATION MANAGEMENT TOOL: ENDNOTE, MENDELEY, REFWORKS, OR ZOTERO
(Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2018-07) Ivey, Camille
Cleaning out the Roach Motel: Transforming the Neglected IR into a Five-Star Scholarship Resort
(2018-06-05) Shook, Elisabeth
In 2008, Dorothea Salo published the memorable article, Innkeeper at the Roach Motel, in which she writes that libraries have consistently understaffed and undervalued repositories, hoping faculty will deposit their work without any incentive. When faculty refuse, libraries have thrown “open the repository to any sort of content in order to justify its existence” (Salo, 2008). Nearly ten years later, and this article still rings painfully true. How does an established repository correct the course, especially when the topic of deleting items and creating tombstones is so taboo? Elisabeth Shook, Scholarly Communications Librarian at Vanderbilt University, will discuss measures she’s taken to transform the roach motel IR into a clean resort for quality scholarship produced at VU, thus enabling the Vanderbilt Libraries to continue to advocate for sustainable open access.
Copyright Law Mindmap Review
(Public Services Quarterly, 2018) Shook, Elisabeth
Review of William Fisher's Copyright Law Mindmaps as an ad hoc tool for learning copyright law.
Customer Service and the First Year Student
(Vanderbilt University, 2008-09-17T18:39:09Z) Walker, Celia; Erickson, Sue
In 2004, Vanderbilt University announced that it would change the way its first year students live on campus. A major capital campaign was launched to create ten new or refurbished college halls on Peabody College campus to house all first year students as of fall 2008. As the University prepares for its first class of students to live together on campus, the Jean and Alexander Heard Library has been working to address the needs of this group. How do residence and proximity affect library usage? Will user needs change within the eight campus libraries? This article explores the service recommendations prepared by the library's system-wide project team tasked with exploring how the creation of a new living space can offer new opportunities and challenges in the provision of quality services. Recommendations were based on a literature review, focus groups, and interviews with stakeholders on campus
Darwin Core as a Vocabulary for Expressing Biodiversity Data as RDF
(IOS Press, 2018-07) Baskauf, Steven J.; Sachs, Joel
Darwin Core is a glossary of terms intended to facilitate the sharing of biodiversity occurrence data and related information, such as specimen metadata, checklists, determination histories, and taxonomy. It is widely used by museums and herbaria to share specimen data with aggregators through fielded text files. This chapter discusses efforts to use Darwin Core terms to express these data as RDF. It describes the history and motivation of the Darwin Core RDF Guide, presents some of the difficulties involved in using Darwin Core in RDF, and gives examples that demonstrate the challenges that still remain for the community to address.
Data Management: Streamlining Your Research and Publication Pipeline
(Edge for Scholars, 2017-09-09) Ikeshoji-Orlati, Veronica; Shook, Elisabeth
In February 2013, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a memorandum stating that United States’ taxpayers deserved to have access to all publicly funded research, including the underlying data. How can you respond to federal mandates - and increasing calls for research reproducibility - in your research and data management practices?
Data-first manifesto: Shifting priorities in scholarly communications
(Information Services and Use, 2017-02) Anderson, Cliffod B.
This paper introduces and exegetes the Data-First Manifesto, which calls for prioritizing data curation over interface design in digital scholarship projects as well as for rethinking how to foster scholarly communication in the performance of digital scholarship. The origins of the manifesto are discussed and its four sets of ordered preferences are detailed together with a discussion of how the implementation of these shifts in priorities might transform scholarly communications in the field of digital scholarship.
Database Scavenger Hunt and Analysis for Accounting Students
(Association of College & Research Libraries, 2022) DePeri, Robbi
Developing Data Curation Protocols for Digital Projects at Vanderbilt: Une Micro-Histoire
(International Journal of Digital Curation, 2018-05-08) Ikeshoji-Orlati, Veronica A.; Anderson, Clifford B.
This paper examines the intersection of legacy digital humanities projects and the ongoing development of research data management services at Vanderbilt University’s Jean and Alexander Heard Library. Future directions for data management and curation protocols are explored through the lens of a case study: the (re)curation of data from an early 2000s e-edition of Raymond Poggenburg’s Charles Baudelaire: Une Micro-histoire. The vagaries of applying the Library of Congress Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) to the data and metadata of theMicro-histoirewill be addressed. In addition, the balance between curating data and metadata for preservation vs. curating it for (re)use by future researchers is considered in order to suggest future avenues for holistic research data management services at Vanderbilt.
Digital Humanities and the Future of Theology
(Cursur_: Zeitschrift für explorative Theologie, 2018-07-20) Anderson, Clifford
Embedding the Framework: Using Embedded Librarian Techniques to Facilitate Music Information Literacy
(A-R Editions, Inc., 2018) Manus, Sara J. Beutter
Embedded librarianship moves librarians beyond the traditional confines of library spaces and into user spaces. Initial forays into embedded librarianship focused on moving librarians into their users’ physical spaces such as classrooms and departments, but the practice has evolved to include the Internet and social media as mechanisms for embedding. While music librarians often enjoy closer proximity to their users by virtue of divisional libraries located within their schools of music, embedded librarianship offers another way to better integrate information literacy into music curricula. Indeed, as we begin the process of adapting to the new ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (Framework),1 embedded librarianship can facilitate the faculty-librarian collaboration necessary for students to effectively engage with “the core ideas about information and scholarship within their disciplines.” This chapter will discuss various techniques for embedding as a music librarian, including physical embedding into a course, studio instruction, Twitter, virtual reference, and mobile apps for education. Successful embedded music librarian initiatives will be detailed, as will the specific challenges posed by this technique.
Exposing the Null Curriculum in Graduate Religious Studies Education
(American Theological Library Association, 2019) Osinski, Keegan
Flipping one-shot library instruction: using Canvas and Pecha Kucha for peer teaching
(Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA), 2016-04) Carroll, Alexander J.; Tchangalova, Nedelina; Harrington, Eileen G.
Objective: This study sought to determine whether a flipped classroom that facilitated peer learning would improve undergraduate health sciences students’ abilities to find, evaluate, and use appropriate evidence for research assignments. Methods: Students completed online modules in a learning management system, with librarians facilitating subsequent student-directed, in-person sessions. Mixed methods assessment was used to evaluate program outcomes. Results: Students learned information literacy concepts but did not consistently apply them in research assignments. Faculty interviews revealed strengthened partnerships between librarians and teaching faculty. Conclusion: This pedagogy shows promise for implementing and evaluating a successful flipped information literacy program.
How to Embed a Librarian
(LOEX Press, 2008) Foutch, Leslie J; Griffith, Brian; Lannom, Lee Ann; Sommer, Deborah; Weiner, Sharon
Librarians were embedded in two Vanderbilt University courses in 2006. As part of an integrated approach, the librarians proposed an "embedded librarian" for a freshmen course of 106 students offered at Peabody College of Education and Development. A librarian audited the course and attended all lectures. As a member of the class, she was informed about the assignments and learned about the instructor's expectations and idiosyncrasies. She scheduled optional workshops that were tailored to the students needs. At the Owen Graduate School of Management, an embedded librarian worked with undergraduate students from a variety of non-business majors at Vanderbilt. They participated in the intensive 4-week "Accelerator" summer program. The purpose of embedding a librarian was to instill business information fluency and to stress the value of information in academic and real-world situations. Highlighting their experiences, the embedded librarians and a course professor will present their observations and discuss expected outcomes. They will give advice for those who want to institute this program in their own institutions.
"How to Embed a Librarian" Reflections Paper
(Jean and Alexander Heard Library, 2007-05) Foutch, Leslie J.
Implementing an Open News and Information System in the Vanderbilt University Libraries
(2020-01) Byrd, Sara; Stringer-Hye, Richard; Gambill, Jodie
The change process described in this chapter consisted of a complete re-engineering of the internal communication system and an innovation in the platform and tools that were chosen to implement the new system. The result of the change was a new resource, called Heard Alert, a substantial revitalization of internal communication in the library, and the implementation of a clean, secure, and flexible intranet platform.
Introduction: "Information Literacy and Theological Librarianship: Theory & Praxis"
(American Theological Library Association, 2019-10-07) Smiley, Bobby
Synopsis For librarians working in research, reference, and instruction, information literacy (IL) is foundational to their work. Since the advent of the Association of College and Research Libraries' Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, IL has been substantially reimagined both theoretically and in professional practice. While much attention and scholarship has focused on broad-based, undergraduate education, there has been less work on information literacy for specific disciplines, such as theological and religious studies, or in library settings with unique curricular and professional needs. Information Literacy and Theological Librarianship: Theory & Praxis gathers together reflective practices and theoretical explorations from librarians across a range of theological libraries, including research universities with divinity schools, seminaries, religious universities, and small liberal arts colleges. This volume engages key concepts and concerns in information literacy pedagogy for theological libraries, and furnishes applied examples drawn from instructional experience. Placing the Framework in conversation with the study of religion and theological education, Information Literacy and Theological Librarianship provides theological and religious studies librarians working in different academic environments with concrete and practical ways to extend their own work on information literacy that is grounded in pedagogy and applicable to the unique features of theological librarianship.
JUL Central
(Vanderbilt University, 2005-06-06) Conkin, Paul Keith
Lab-Integrated Librarians: A Model for Research Engagement
(College & Research Libraries, 2020-01) Carroll, Alexander J.; Eskridge, Honora N.; Chang, Bertha P.
To gain firsthand insights into the daily workflows of researchers and to create opportunities to engage in the full research life cycle, engineering librarians at North Carolina State (NC State) University launched a pilot project to embed themselves into campus research groups by attending weekly lab meetings. This article provides details on the program's implementation, the ethnographic assessment methods used to capture the activities of researchers during weekly lab meetings, and an analysis of the data collected. Based on these findings, the authors provide potential implications for professional practice, offering suggestions for how this pilot program could be expanded into an enterprise-level service as well as areas for further research.

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