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Free from Frenzy: Reducing Final Exam Stress for First-Year Students
Most students experience a flurry of stress and panic regarding final exams—especially first-year students. Discover how one library has helped alleviate some of that stress for students. The weekend before finals week the ... -
'It's Got to Be Here Somewhere...': Redesigning Your Website with Your Users in Mind
Website redesigns can be overwhelming. Knowing how users interact with your website can make that project much easier. Discover how user behavior analytics (from Crazy Egg) guided one library’s website redesign project. ... -
The New Face of Textbooks: Guiding Faculty Toward Alternatives
Are students at your institution complaining about the high costs of textbooks? Do they continually ask if your library has copies of textbooks that can be checked out? Is it even possible for faculty to require course ... -
Camels, Contests, and Coffee: Getting First Year Students Through the Doors
Find where we hid the “Hump Daaaaaay!” camel. Stop in for free coffee and donuts. Submit an original haiku for our annual haiku contest. These are just a few of the ways staff at Miami University Hamilton’s Rentschler ... -
SOAP and the Web of Science: how to bulk download query results
Recently, we had a faculty member ask to download thousands of citation records from Web of Science (WOS). With modern tasks such as data mining for research, this bulk “nonconsumptive” use of textual data is increasing. ... -
Resource Locator Maps: Pinpointing Your Library's Software Stuff
WOULDN'T IT BE NICE IF THERE WERE A SYSTEM THAT WOULD JUST TELL US WHAT SOFTWARE HAS BEEN DEPLOYED ON EACH COMPUTER? Our librarians at multiple service points needed a simple, fast tool to answer a common question: ... -
Analytics Review of Digital Collections Websites in Ohio in 2015
Report compiled for the Ohio Digitization Interest Group on digital collections analytics across the state of Ohio. -
Transfer Code of Practice
Presentation given for the ALA ALCTS CRS Standards Forum at ALA Midwinter 2017 on January 22, 2017. The Transfer Code of Practice responds to the expressed needs of the scholarly journal community for consistent guidelines ... -
Transfer Today: Updates on the Transfer Code of Practice
Webinar presented on May 20, 2016 as part of the NISO Working Group Connections LIVE! series. What is the Transfer Code of Practice? Why was it developed? How does it benefit librarians? The Transfer Code of Practice is ... -
Reframing Liaisonship: Moving Towards Quality User Engagement
As librarianship continues to evolve, the roles of the liaison librarian have also changed considerably. So, what are the priorities for an effective liaison? This program will detail our institution's reframing of liaison ... -
Capitalizing on University Resources for Easy and Economical Information Literacy Assessment
ePortfolios continue to gain strength in higher education as a viable and relatively quick method for assessment of student work. Miami University (Oxford, OH) recently implemented Chalk & Wire as its ePortfolio system ... -
Source Notes: A collaboration between C.D.S., Faculty, campus I.T., and the Humanities Center
Finding, retrieving and annotating digital news items is almost as important as their generation and storage. Our university is developing new tools for digital news research. To aid in the collection and close reading ... -
Detailed search stats from DSpace Solr
The DSpace institutional repository platform has several methods for extracting usage statistics. This brief case study gives an overview 3 methods and shows some of the advanced details available using the Solr API.