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Libraries Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Assessment of KU Libraries’ Slavic & Eurasian Collection: Purpose, Process, and Potential
(Slavic & East European Information Resources (Taylor and Francis), 2017-05-16)This paper discusses collection-related assessment projects that were conducted in 2013-2014 by the University of Kansas (KU) Libraries’ International Collections librarians in cooperation with librarians for assessment ... -
“You Need to Have a Street Beat”: A Qualitative Study of Faculty Research Needs and Challenges
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017)In the spring of 2015, 14 faculty members in social science or in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) spoke with a working group from the University of Kansas (KU) Libraries regarding their research ... -
Maintaining Collections with a Flat Budget
(United Kingdom Serials Group, 2017-03-10)This paper focuses on the various processes, methods and tough decisions made by the University of Kansas Libraries to provide library materials while maintaining a flat collections budget for over eight years. During this ... -
Collaboration Made It Happen! The Kansas Archive-It Consortium
(Utah State University, 2017-03-31)This case study explores the formation, current membership, and future goals of the Kansas Archive-It Consortium (KAIC), one of the larger consortia contracting with the Web archiving service Archive-It. KAIC, which is ... -
If They See Them, They Will Come: Improving Visibility and Re-use of Library-Published Journals
(Library Publishing Coalition, 2018-05-23)Library-published journals all need visibility in order to survive and thrive. Visibility increases the journal’s standing in the scholarly community and attracts readers, submissions, reviewers, and editors. It’s especially ... -
Breaking it Down: Flipping Library Instruction for Non-Traditional Undergraduate Engineers
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La investigación en los Estados Unidos: cómo preparar a los estudiantes a cumplir con las expectativas
(Universidad de Guadalajara, 2017)Los Estados Unidos de América recibieron, en el otoño del 2015, más de 80,000 estudiantes internacionales de posgrado. De estos, la mayoría son estudiantes doctorales. Más de 3,000 de los estudiantes matriculados provienen ... -
Frank Burnett Dains and his History of Chemistry Collections at the University of Kansas
(2001-08-28)The history of chemistry collections that Frank Burnett Dains (1869-1948) amassed before and during his thirty plus years as Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Kansas have and continue to influence the ... -
Shaping Student Learning through Embedded Librarianship in Area Studies
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Area Studies Librarianship
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Supplementary Files in Theses and Dissertations
(2018-03-15)When students submit their born-digital theses and dissertations to universities as a condition of graduation, they sometimes include supplementary files in a variety of formats other than PDFs. This presentation outlines ... -
Thesis/Dissertation Formatting & Copyright workshop
(2018-03-06)This workshop is for graduate students at any stage of the thesis or dissertation process. If you're just starting out, you can build your own template for future use. If you’re nearing the end, come join us for some quick ... -
Expanding Scholarly Communication Instruction for the Next Generation of LIS Leaders
(2018-02-06)Anyone who keeps an eye on job openings in academic libraries will have noticed the growing demand for library support for scholarly communication, the communication that is at the very core of the scholarly purpose. ... -
“Scholarly Communications at Duke” Blog, December 2006-April 2016
(2017-01-25)The "Scholarly Communications at Duke" blog addressed current issues in scholarly communications, and also tried to provide information, from the most basic to complex issues, about how copyright law impacted higher education ... -
Examining publishing practices: moving beyond the idea of predatory open access
(Ubiquity Press, 2017-11-08)The word ‘predatory’ has become an obstacle to a serious discussion of publishing practices. Its use has been both overinclusive, encompassing practices that, while undesirable, are not malicious, and underinclusive, missing ... -
Using OCLC WorldCat Language Indexes to Quantify Slavic and Eurasian Language Collections and Answer Complex Bibliographic Questions
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-12-15)The author presents strategies any librarian or researcher with access to OCLC WorldCat may use to answer many kinds of questions concerning foreign-language materials in their own or other libraries. These advanced ... -
Sprinting Toward Faculty Engagement: Adopting Project Management Approaches to Build Library-Faculty Relationships
(Emerald Publishing, 2017)Purpose – In the spring of 2016, the University of Kansas Libraries piloted Research Sprints: One Week, One Project, a program aimed at cultivating relationships with faculty through deep project-based engagement. Met ... -
Channeling Janus: Past, Present, and Future in the RBMS Membership Survey
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2016-03-24)In 2015, the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) surveyed its membership for the first time in 18 years.1 At roughly the span of a generation, 18 years is a long time in the rapidly changing world of libraries. ... -
“But How Do I Know It’s a Good Source?” Authority is Constructed in Social Work Practice
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The Role of Open in Higher Education: Are we ready for a revolution?
(2017-10-17)Nearly 150 ago, frustrated by how little American institutions of higher learning prepared students for the world of their day, Charles Eliot called for a revolution in higher education. As president of Harvard, he brought ...