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Sustaining and Enhancing Embedded Library Instruction in the Learning Management System
This panel will be a lively discussion of embedded librarianship in the online learning management system (LMS). Panelists will forego simply sharing the approaches of their own libraries and will instead pose a series of ... -
Making Sense: Can Makerspaces Work in Academic Libraries?
Makerspaces are a growing service area for many libraries in school, public, and academic settings. Participants, or makers, can create digital and physical items in common working spaces using shared equipment and ... -
Academic Librarians' Educational Role Revisited: Three Defining Studies
Three national studies are redefining the role academic librarians will play on campus. First, participants will receive an overview of significant findings from Project Information Literacy: “Learning the Ropes: How ... -
Copyright: Protecting Yours, Fair Use of Others
(2013-03-21)Confused about copyright? Do you know if you hold copyrights to your own work or wondering how to use copyrighted materials in your teaching? Copyright is a valuable asset for academic authors, so it benefits faculty ... -
Minding Your Ps & Qs: A Q-Methodology Workshop
Librarians are continually turning to new metrics to evaluate services, impact, and priorities. Q-methodology - a hybrid of qualitative and quantitative research techniques - is a systematic study of subjectivity that ... -
Promoting Partnership: Campus and Community Collaboration Through Cultural Events
Hosting community-inclusive cultural events do more than demonstrate a library’s commitment to diversity; they provide opportunities for forging lasting partnerships with campus and community organizations. This article ... -
Tablet Based Data Recorder for Librarians and Researchers
To promote easier and more accurate data collection, a tablet based tool was created that guides data collectors by providing color coded and textual instructions. Validation rules can be dynamically created that will ... -
Error free data collection
To improve upon paper based data collection, a new software tool was developed and is being used by Craig Williamson’s team for the Lakes as Sentinels of Climate Change project. We designed this to go beyond the typical ... -
"Ecocrítica y epistemología subalterna en Eduardo Galeano"
El presente ensayo articula un análisis ecocrítico de algunas de las narraciones breves del escritor uruguayo Eduardo Galeano seleccionadas de El libro de los abrazos (1989) y Patas arriba. La escuela del mundo al revés ... -
Privacy and Sharing: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
(2013-08-01)Increasingly, our digital lives have moved off hard drives and into the cloud. What are the privacy implications of cloud-based services such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter? Who is watching us, and – more importantly – ... -
Contradictions and Consensus — Clusters of Opinions on E-books
(2011-03)Q methodology was used to determine attitudes and opinions about e-books among a group of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates at Miami University of Ohio. Oral interviews formed the basis for a collection of ... -
Book Lovers, Technophiles, Printers and Pragmatists: The Social and Demographic Structure of User Attitudes toward e-Books
(2012-09)Q-methodology was used to identify clusters of opinions about e-books at Miami University. The research identified four distinct opinion types among those investigated: Book Lovers, Technophiles, Pragmatists, and ... -
Express yourself: engaging space and sensual experience between body, clothing, and the built environment
(2014)The inspiration of fashion development and the execution of architecture redevelopment are bound within a common motif of personality and its intended, as well as unintended, expression. A fashion designers approach in ... -
Issues concerning homelessness: as understood through the lens of architecture
(2014)Is it really possible to be home living on streets? How can architectural design be applied to create living environments for the homeless that address their wellbeing beyond pragmatic physical needs? Can we develop pragmatic ... -
Stop sit look listen relax engage interact
(2014)Faster phones, expanded use of personal computers, widespread access to digital bandwidth, and applications for the internet across multiple devices allows nearly instantaneous access to information and provides a means ... -
Healthy lifestyle communities: an innovative model of educational architecture and urban planning which promotes health and wellness
(2014)The focus of this essay is the design of Healthy K-12 Educational Facilities to promote health of the individual as well as the community. The term health can be defined as the mental and physical wellness of the individual, ... -
Social and cultural identity in and through architecture
(2014)As a human race in the 21st century we are facing critical issues which affect our continuing coexistence on this planet: to mesh the colliding cultures of the global city created by air travel and modern communications, ... -
Appalachia rising from the ruins: a design addressing cultural change in post-industrial appalachia
(2014)Ruins are expressions of tie. Their slow, almost indiscernible changes are much like our own aging and reminders of our own mortality. Ruins are not easily definable. They can be attached to personal recollection or ... -
Returning children to the core of the town: challenging conventional daycare design
(2014)The migration of families and businesses out of the urban core has been as detrimental to American small towns as American cities. Architectural solutions to blighted small towns focus on economic revival, street design, ...