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On Course: A Critical Assessment of a Textbook Affordability Initiative
As the need for higher education has increased in the preceding decades, so have the costs associated with it. Our institution has implemented numerous affordable learning initiatives in response, including an OER adopt/adapt ... -
Avoiding the “Axe”: Advancing Affordable and Open Education Resources at a Midsize University
INTRODUCTION To address the soaring cost of textbooks, higher education institutions have launched a number of strategies to promote the adoption of affordable and open educational resources (AOER). Although a few models ... -
“Begin with a Moment:” A Pilot Study of a Method for Supporting Information Creativity in First Year Writing Instruction
This presentation describes a pilot study conduced at the University of Illinois during the fall of 2017, which tested the effectiveness of a low-pressure early-semester information creativity session that encouraged ... -
Countries of the World: Free and Subscription Information Sources
The paper describes several free and commercial sources that can be used for conducting research on countries of the world, evaluates them and makes recommendations regarding their use and appropriateness for specific clientele. -
Issues and Advantages of Free Citation Generator Tools
The ubiquitous free citation creation tools (BibMe, EasyBib and Citation Machine) are a panacea to the confused and harried student looking to breeze through the hard work of making a Works Cited page or Reference List. ... -
Do you haiku? running an effective haiku contest in your library.
Poster session about benefits and how-tos of running a haiku contest. -
Enhance Your Chances: How to Shine Brightly in a Tough Job Market
Cover letters and interviews are two of the most important, yet neglected, components to landing a job. Both of them require a lot of preparation and study to have the desired effect – landing your dream job. Your cover ... -
Lean and Mean: Re-envisioning an Outdated Area of the Collection.
Description of a large-scale deselection process for the BTE collection at Miami University Hamilton. Changes in the subjects taught and demographic/logistical changes necessitated a different approach to collection building. -
Our Role in Retention:
Description of how libraries best reach out to students who are at-risk of dropping out. -
Appalachian Links: Libraries, Collections, Campus and Community
The migration of Appalachians to urban areas during the early and mid-20th century is having ripple effects to this day. One manifestation of this is the interest in Appalachian Studies by both academics and laypersons ... -
Hard Times and Opportunities: Lessons Learned from the Pack Horse Librarians
Libraries everywhere are feeling the pinch from the nationwide economic slowdown. Whether it is cuts in journal subscriptions or cuts in staff, the changes wrought by these extenuating circumstances will have longstanding ... -
Keeping up with Free-Range Internet Tools
An overview of some of the lesser-known freely available reference and research tools. -
Aging and Disability Business Institute: Final evaluation report
The Aging and Disability Business Institute (Business Institute), led by the National Association for Area Agencies on Aging (n4a), was established in 2016 with a mission to build and strengthen partnerships between aging ... -
Maternal Neural and Parasympathetic Regulation and Parenting Stress
We examined the relation between maternal neural (delta-beta coupling [coupling]) and autonomic (respiratory sinus arrhythmia [RSA]) regulatory processes and mothers’ parenting stress longitudinally. It was expected that ... -
The impact of general perceived self-efficacy on regret
The purpose of this study was to shed light on the relationship between perceived self-efficacy and regret. I measured regret by its two subcomponents, cognitive regret and affective regret . I hypothesized first that as ... -
Configuration of the Syrian Identity. Reconfiguring the City, Reconstructing the Memory.
Cities abandoned from a governmental standpoint, not planned and not thought through, are as serious issues as a city suffering from war. Not only two are the side effect of political decisions, both lead to destruction. ... -
Architecture for Socio-Economic Revitalization: Sustainable Reformation of Ship-Decommissioning Industry in Chittagong, Bangladesh
The current volume of global shipping stands over 1.8 billion tons per year; an enormous amount of waste is being generated from and of the old ships. The large amount of waste is created by the shipping industry is becoming ... -
Implementation of the 2018 Ohio Nursing Home and Residential Care Facility Family Satisfaction Surveys
In 2018, the Scripps Gerontology Center conducted the ninth biennial Ohio Nursing Home and the second Ohio Residential Care Facility Family Satisfaction Surveys under a contract to the Ohio Department of Aging. This report ... -
Undergraduate Student Motivation for Social Science Research Methods
The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship between the students’ reasons for taking an undergraduate research methods course (USRMC) and their course motivation regarding whether they are an applied social ...