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(Vanderbilt University, 2005-06-06) Conkin, Paul Keith
A Survey of Art Resources in Tennessee's Libraries, Museums and Repositories
(Art Libraries Society of North America, 2006) Walker, Celia
This article is based on the first comprehensive survey of primary visual arts resources in Tennessee. Conducted in 2004 for the completion of a master's degree at the University of Tennessee's School of Information Sciences, the project provides a baseline evaluation of the state's arts resources, the types of institutions that maintain art collections, the number of art-related files that are available, and the access options for scholars to find the resources. It also examines the existing relationships between Tennessee's artists and archives and suggests methods for improving communication between them
"How to Embed a Librarian" Reflections Paper
(Jean and Alexander Heard Library, 2007-05) Foutch, Leslie J.
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.
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
The Peabody School of Library Science: Contributions to Librarianship in Tennessee
(Tennessee Libraries, 2009) Walker, Celia
A review of the contributions of the Peabody School of Library Science (1928-1988)to librarianship in Tennessee.
LOEX 2013 Conference Report: Nashville, TN
(LOEX Quarterly, 2013) Lilton, Deborah; Poremski, Molly
On Teaching XQuery to Digital Humanists
(Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference, 2014) Anderson, Clifford B.
XQuery provides an excellent means for teaching programming to digital humanists because it works seamlessly with their existing XML data, has an elegant and simple core with a well-structured standard library, and can be used in conjunction with XML databases to develop end-to-end web applications. However, current teaching materials for XQuery do not address the needs of digital humanists, presupposing implicit knowledge of programming concepts that they frequently lack. Based on experience teaching XQuery to digital humanists (including alt-ac professionals, archivists, faculty members, graduate students, and librarians) in three distinct settings: a weekly training session for librarians, a graduate seminar on digital humanities, and a two week NEH- supported Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities, I suggest how the XML community might develop resources to widen the appeal and accessibility of XQuery.
There is Nothing New Under the Sun?: “New Librarianship” and the Theological Library
(Theological Librarianship, 2015-01-16) Osinski, Keegan
The entirety of R. David Lankes’s model of “New Librarianship” rests on his expression of its mission: “The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities.” The present essay defines and expand upon the facets of “facilitating,” “knowledge creation,” and “communities,” and explores the shapes these may take in theological libraries in particular. Regarding “community”, the essay considers the challenge of serving both academics and ministers and how it might be possible to foster a less disjointed community. The question of what “knowledge creation” looks like in the fields of religious studies and pastoral training, and what this uniqueness means for the library are also considered. Finally, the author offers some preliminary ideas of what facilitating this knowledge creation might look like in the context of a theological library. Current shifts within academe and its libraries require a shift in the way librarians (particularly theological librarians) think about service, resources, and their role in the education process as a whole.
A New Partner in the Process: The Role of a Librarian on a Faculty Research Team
(2016) Foutch, Leslie J.
Academic librarians have tremendous opportunity to demonstrate their worth to the institutions they serve. One successful approach is for faculty and librarians to collaborate on a research project; however the frequency of such partnerships has not been readily documented in academic library literature. This paper shows how the addition of an academic librarian to a faculty research team led to a better understanding of how faculty projects operate, and how the process can lead the way for librarians to be seen as valuable research partners in the academic landscape.
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.
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.
Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Religious Studies Scholars
(Ithaka S+R, 2017-02-08) Benda, Chris; Hook, Bill; Kohut, Michael; Romero, Ramona
Ithaka S+R’s Research Support Services Program is a series of projects that investigate the research support needs of scholars by their discipline. In 2016 Ithaka S+R examined the changing research methods and practices of academic religious studies scholars in the United States, with the goal of identifying services to better support them. The project was undertaken collaboratively with research teams at 18 academic libraries and the American Theological Library Association with guidance from an advisory committee. The goal of this report is to provide actionable findings for the organizations, institutions and professionals who support the research process of religious studies. One hundred and ninety eight scholars were interviewed during the project and Ithaka S+R sampled 102 of the resulting transcripts towards the analysis for this report. Ithaka S+R identified three major thematic areas in which religious studies would benefit from improved or new services: Discovering and accessing information. When available, digital discovery and access have greatly improved these scholars’ research experiences with relatively few challenges. Scholars located in some seminaries and those conducting research on religions and religious cultures beyond the West experience greater challenges when conducting primary and secondary source research. Information management. Scholars contend with the challenge of managing vast arrays of information that they produce and collect in the process of conducting their research and engage in idiosyncratic practices for organizing and storing their information. They struggle with digital approaches to citation management and information storage and experience uncertainty around destroying and preserving information following their personal use. Audience, output and credit. Scholars’ primary focus remains on traditional scholarly outputs due to the expectations associated with tenure and promotion. Overall awareness and engagement with open access is low but the perceived importance of more freely sharing work as enabled by social media platforms is high. The report concludes by highlighting key issues and providing recommendations from across the findings that have wider implications for how religious studies research support is conceptualized and prioritized. Religious studies scholars’ ongoing lack of awareness of and engagement with digital research methods, including those associated with the digital humanities, reflects major structural barriers to methodological innovation within the discipline necessitating intervention at various levels. While religious studies scholars continue to rely on their institutional libraries, particularly for access to secondary materials, their use of the library is placed among many other strategies for finding and accessing information. Supporting religious studies scholars in their capacities as collectors is one entryway for re-thinking how research support can be cohesively defined and delineated.
TDWG Standards Documentation Specification
(Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG), 2017-04-25) Baskauf, Steve; Hyam, Roger; Blum, Stanley; Morris, Robert A.; Rees, Jonathan; Sachs, Joel; Whitbread, Greg; Wieczorek, John
This document defines how TDWG standards are to be presented. It provides details about the hierarchical structure of standards and versioning of standards components. It specifies how the properties of standards and their components are to be described in human-readable and machine-readable terms.
TDWG Vocabulary Maintenance Specification
(Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG), 2017-04-25) Baskauf, Steve; Wieczorek, John; Blum, Stan; Morris, Robert A.; Rees, Jonathan; Sachs, Joel; Whitbread, Greg
This document describes the processes used to modify TDWG vocabularies and their associated documents.
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?
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.
There's an App for That: Collaborative Publishing with Overleaf
(Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2018) Qin, Na
How can our users streamline the writing, editing and publishing of their scientific documents? Traditional tools such as Microsoft Word Online or Google Docs have been used for some time now in multidisciplinary collaborative writing. But challenges such as format compatibility mean that scientists and engineers have continued to turn to specialized programming languages such as LaTeX, which have been developed to address the particular needs of writing in sciences. Tools such as Overleaf are empowering scientific collaborative writing and publication by offering both LaTeX and a more user-friendly Rich Text mode in one enhanced, cloud-based platform.
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.
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.

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