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With Plenty of Elbow Room: Planning New and Upgraded Spaces for Library and Archives Conservation and Audiovisual Preservation
(Sage, 2021-12)In 2018, the University of Kansas (KU) Libraries upgraded from a tired, twenty-year-old basement space to a new, purpose-built conservation lab for library and archives collections. The new conservation lab, which is housed ... -
OER+ScholComm Summer 2023
(2023-08-10)This report provides background and present status on a collaboration that has resulted in an open textbook and a corpus of additional open teaching and learning materials scoped to scholarly communication topics. It ... -
Improving Energy Efficiency in Collection Storage in Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas, PF-271970-20.
(2023-07-28)The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the University of Kansas (KU) Libraries a Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections Implementation Grant to complete the second phase of a multi-phased approach to ... -
The Language of Type 1 Diabetes: Why It Matters in Online Patient Education
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023-03-07)This article discusses online patient education materials (PEMs) in the context of type 1 diabetes and the language used to describe the condition. The role of healthcare providers and health information professionals in ... -
Recommended by Librarians: A Computational Citation Analysis Methodology for Identifying and Examining Books Promoted in LibGuides (Dataset and Scripts)
(2023-05)Dataset and Jupyter notebooks (Python) created as the basis for an article aiming to expand current approaches to studying library guides as published on Springshare’s LibGuides platform. Library guides are curated web-based ... -
Wikipedia and Large Language Models: Perfect Pairing or Perfect Storm?
(Emerald, 2023)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential benefits and challenges of using large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT to edit Wikipedia. Approach: The first portion of this paper provides background ... -
Investigating NIBS for language rehabilitation in aphasia
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2022-07-04)Purpose The purpose of this scoping review was to identify and synthesize research on interventions in which noninvasive brain stimulation (NIBS) was used to improve linguistic abilities in individuals with aphasia. NIBS ... -
Research sprints: A new model of support
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A Comprehensive Survey of Research Library Organizational Structure
(American Library Association, 2022-03-14)Research library structures have grown in size and complexity over the past several decades. There is no single template for how to organize a library in the 21st century, but it is unclear how much variance in structure ... -
“A Supernova that Sparks in Every Direction”: A Long-Term Assessment of the Research Sprints Faculty Engagement Program
(American Library Association, 2024-03)PREPRINT: Article to be published in College & Research Libraries in March 2024. This is the accepted version of the manuscript prior to copyediting. The Research Sprints program offers faculty partners the opportunity to ... -
Systematic Review Workshop
(2023-04-06)In this workshop we will provide an introduction to systematic review with an emphasis on using Covidence, a systematic review management software platform licensed by KU Libraries. Covidence helps researchers to manage ... -
Finding your way in academic librarianship: Introducing the Scholarly Communication Notebook
(American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, 2022-11)Scholarly communication, often called “scholcomm,” is one of the fastest growing and most rapidly changing fields in librarianship. Scholcomm jobs are increasingly prevalent at all types of institutions, and there is ... -
The Faces of Haiti: Resolute in Reform, Resistance and Recovery
(University of Kansas, 2020-10-25)This report describes the activities and findings of the University of Kansas Haitian Research Initiative team that travelled to Haiti in July 2011. The purpose of the visit was to assess the current research and educational ... -
Diversity in Monographs: Selectors, Acquisitions, Publishers, and Vendors
(2023-01-02)In 2020 the University of Kansas Libraries began a year-long diversity audit of the circulating monograph collection. The study, which utilized the checklist method evaluated the Libraries’ holdings based on a curated list ... -
Finding Our Way: A Snapshot of Scholarly Communication Practitioners' Duties & Training
(Iowa State University Digital Press, 2020-04-28)INTRODUCTION: Scholarly communication has arisen as a core academic librarianship competency, but formal training on scholarly communication topics in LIS is rare, leaving many early career practitioners underprepared for ... -
Open Access is Broken: What Can Be Done?
(Ghana Library Journal, 2022)The idea of “Open Access” (hereafter OA) emerged in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s with a noble goal: to provide comprehensive access to the scholarly literature for everyone around the world by making the results of ... -
Multifaceted interventions for supporting community participation among adults with disabilities: A systematic review
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Collective and Creative Learning to Enhance Interlibrary Loan
(Taylor & Francis, 2022-08-02)The Resource Sharing Community has a proud history of sharing knowledge through conferences, workshops, and online resources in support of training and development. People have enjoyed these opportunities and received ... -
Exploring the Land of Ooo: An Unofficial Overview and Production History of Cartoon Network's Adventure Time (Supplemental Materials)
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2020-07-10)Exploring the Land of Ooo is a detailed consideration of Adventure Time, the colorful and exuberant animated television series that initially aired from 2010–18 on Cartoon Network. Created by visionary artist Pendleton ... -
Tools for Determining Equitable Representation of Women in LIS Publications
(Association of Research Libraries, 2021)Librarianship has long been viewed as a “pink collar” profession, meaning a predominantly female profession. Such a gendered distinction still holds true when it is broken down into sub-fields such as academic and public ...
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