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Amy Paulus

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The UI main library has created a wonderful new collaborative space and the biggest complaints we receive is that it is too loud. It is very hard to balance the varying needs of students but their ...

started by Julia Dickinson on 24 Mar 14 2 follow-ups, last by Amy Paulus on 05 Apr 14
Amy Paulus

Liaison connection - 1 views

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libraries instruction scholarly communication

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  • Amy Paulus on 02 Jan 14
     
    Everyone may have seen this article already but wanted to share! Features the University of Iowa!
Amy Paulus

Race for Relevance: 5 Radical Changes for Associations - 1 views

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relevance associations changes

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  • Amy Paulus on 02 Dec 13
     
    During the ILA Planning Day meeting, this book was recommended as it has interesting ideas on what associations such as ILA and ILA/ACRL should do to stay relevant.
Cara Stone

You Can't Get There From Here: Wayfinding in an Academic Library - 0 views

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Accessibility Customer Service Usability Wayfinding

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  • Cara Stone on 19 Nov 13
     
    "We're friendly and helpful, but sometimes we make things harder than they need to be. The thing is, even the simplest of academic libraries can be overwhelming to freshmen, so we need to do everything we can to make the library as welcoming as possible, including the signage." I liked her idea of stepping outside your silo to see how signage is done at hospitals, malls, etc.
Sara Thompson

How to read for college - Reading Well and Taking Research Notes - Gould Library Resear... - 1 views

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reading note-taking libguides research workflows digitalhabits productivity organization

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  • Sara Thompson on 08 Nov 13
     
    Great little LibGuide on how to take notes while reading and some potential apps to use for staying organized.
Amy Paulus

Customer Centricity: Focus on the Right Customers for Strategic Advantage, Second Editi... - 1 views

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  • Amy Paulus on 04 Nov 13
     
    If you attended Steven Bell's session on gatekeeping, he recommended this book. I have only read one chapter but it is an easy and thought-provoking read so far!
Sara Thompson

Presentations | Designing Libraries for the 21st Century - 0 views

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presentations libraries buildings future examples commons

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  • Sara Thompson on 17 Oct 13
     
    conference presentations from Designing Libraries at NCSU
Sara Scheib

Publishers Propose Public-Private Partnership to Support Access to Research - 0 views

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libraries open-access research

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  • Sara Scheib on 06 Jun 13
     
    Publishers have offered a solution for the federal government's new open access policy. What solutions do libraries have to offer?
  • Sara Scheib on 07 Jun 13
     
    Analysis of the CHORUS proposal: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1382.
  • Sara Scheib on 07 Jun 13
Sara Thompson

Timelapse: Landsat Satellite Images of Climate Change, via Google Earth Engine - 0 views

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maps visual webtools ideasfile

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  • Sara Thompson on 04 Jun 13
     
    Visual satellite imagery of locations over the last 20 years
Deb Robertson

Working Together: evolving value for academic libraries - 0 views

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academic library Value of academic libraries study report research

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  • Deb Robertson on 24 May 13
     
    This study investigated the value of academic libraries for teaching and research staff. The academic library community has been dealing with the issue of how best to demonstrate its value for years, especially value to students. Yet although a good deal of evidence is collected, much of this is evidence of activity rather than evidence of value and impact, especially value to and impact on teaching and research staff.
Sara Thompson

Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Multnomah County Edit-athon | Multnomah County Library Events - 0 views

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wikipedia libraries events instruction popculture ideasfile

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  • Sara Thompson on 14 Oct 12
     
    "Write, edit and improve Wikipedia's entries relating to Multnomah County, past and present. Experienced, newbie and everyone in between are welcome to this workshop."
Deb Robertson

Analyzing Your Instructional Environment: A Workbook (ACRL) - 0 views

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information literacy ACRL workbook

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  • Deb Robertson on 29 Oct 12
     
    This publication was created to serve as a practical guide for instruction coordinators and managers to use in the environmental analysis of their own unique situations. Information provided here includes nationally-established guidelines, suggestions of possible local resources to consult, questions to ask, and sources for additional reading.
  • Deb Robertson on 29 Oct 12
     
    Instruction Librarians wanting to understand how to effectively engage in their institution's instructional environment would benefit from using this workbook. The workbook guides practitioners through an environmental scan and provides information such as nationally established guidelines, possible local resources to consult, questions to ask, and sources for additional reading.
Sara Scheib

Improving subject guides with existing citation analyses data: Water resources at Orego... - 0 views

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citation analysis subject guides resources libraries

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  • Sara Scheib on 07 Dec 12
     
    Interesting article on using citation analysis data to inform the selection of resources for subject guides.
Sara Scheib

ILA/ACRL Newsletter - December 2012 - 0 views

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libraries newsletter

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  • Sara Scheib on 11 Dec 12
     
    The December issue of the ILA/ACRL Newsletter is now available. It includes the President's Piece by Rebecca Funke and news from libraries across the state.
Sara Thompson

Information Literacy Tables | Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library - 1 views

www.lib.umt.edu/informationliteracytables

info-literacy instruction instruction-design libraries teaching

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  • Sara Thompson on 16 Dec 12
     
    "The following information literacy concepts and skills provide a framework for library instructors and teaching faculty to address during each of the indicated class levels."
Sara Thompson

Open Access in Interlibrary Loan: Sources and Strategies for Locating Free Materials On... - 0 views

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openaccess resources research libraries

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  • Sara Thompson on 16 Dec 12
     
    Handout from a presentation by Tina Baich at a library conference October 2012
Sara Thompson

Why I'm not a teacher (Thoughts on ACRL Immersion) « Sense & Reference - 0 views

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libraries professional instruction instruction-design teaching

shared by Sara Thompson on 29 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • A few weeks ago, I found myself just up the road in Nashville for the ACRL Immersion Intentional Teacher program…sort of a professional retreat for instruction librarians.
  • Part way through the Immersion program, I remembered a great piece that Char Booth wrote for In the Library with the Lead Pipe in which she argued that librarians are persistently beset with similar questions of identity. That is, we have a nasty habit of trying to define our roles by appeal to something other than “librarian”; it’s the “librarian as __________” problem.
  • To put the obligatory philosophical spin on it, the “librarian as __________” issue is an issue of bad faith. In attempting to mold ourselves into the roles we think we should embody, we are only deceiving ourselves.
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  • Librarian as ________ analogies are useful in exploring our response to a critically transformative time in the trajectory of our profession, but their function as metaphor should not be overlooked lest we creep too far from our own (rather amazing) archetype.
  • our library instruction curriculum for the massive First-Year composition program where our most important learning outcome is that students understand how their librarians and their library can help them succeed.
Sara Thompson

Working with Zotero on the iPad with ZotPad - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Educ... - 0 views

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zotero ipad annotate workflows research citations

shared by Sara Thompson on 02 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • The $9.99 ZotPad app lets you access your Zotero library on an iPad.
  • I’m delighted that the newest version of ZotPad has solved these two limitations: you can now access your Zotero attachments if you use WebDAV (and also if you store your Zotero library on DropBox), and regardless of which method you use to sync your Zotero files, you can upload annotated PDFs back up to Zotero.
  • You can highlight, underline, add notes and comments to the the PDF, using whatever your preferred app is on the iPad. Then, when you’re ready, use that app’s Share… or Open In… feature to kick the document back to ZotPad. ZotPad will figure out which item that PDF belongs to, and swap out the old version for the newly annotated version.
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  • In other words, if you download a PDF directly from, say, JSTOR, while in iOS’s Safari, you cannot send that PDF into ZotPad. You still need a PC to do that.
  • My second caveat is that you will probably want to adjust ZotPad’s settings so that it doesn’t try to download every attachment in your library all at once.
  • Go to the main Settings app and scroll down to find ZotPad listed among the apps. Under the section labeled “Preemptive Cache,” change the Attachment files option to “Active items.” This ensures that ZotPad will only download an attachment when you specifically request it.
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