ATTENTION: The software behind KU ScholarWorks is being upgraded to a new version. Starting July 15th, users will not be able to log in to the system, add items, nor make any changes until the new version is in place at the end of July. Searching for articles and opening files will continue to work while the system is being updated.
If you have any questions, please contact Marianne Reed at mreed@ku.edu .
Libraries Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Integrated Live Help in the Information Commons
(2006-06-26)The University of Kansas implemented an "Ask a Librarian" email reference service in February 2002. With the arrival of our new dean, we were given a mandate to expand the existing email reference service to include a ... -
Institutional Repositories: An Opportunity for CIO Campus Impact
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RoMEO Green at the University of Kansas: An experiment to encourage interest and participation among faculty and jumpstart populating the KU ScholarWorks Repository
(American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2005-10)Universities around the world are beginning to develop digital repositories in order to offer new methods for the distribution and preservation of the intellectual output of their faculty. The University of Kansas (KU) is ... -
RoMEO Green at the University of Kansas: Mediated Services to Encourage Interest and Participation among Faculty in Order to Populate the KU ScholarWorks Repository
(2005-10-31)The University of Kansas is exploring ways to provide better access to and preservation of published and unpublished scholarly research created by KU faculty. The University’s institutional repository, KU ScholarWorks ... -
Instructional Improvement: Building Capacity for the Professional Development of Librarians as Teachers
(2006)The purpose of this article is to review the state of instructional improvement programs in libraries and to draw on the broader literature of instructional improvement in higher education to identify issues to which the ... -
KU ScholarWorks: Toward A Hybrid Organization for Repository Items
(2004-03-10)DSpace is fundamentally organized into discrete communities with different (though potentially overlapping) memberships. A community is an affiliated group who establishes the policies that govern who may contribute, what ... -
Instructional Outreach and Campus Diversity: Building Partnerships with Multicultural Student Services
(2005-11-04)The purpose of this study was to identify opportunities for effective collaboration between academic libraries and student services offices dedicated to providing services to students of color. An information needs survey ... -
Collaborative Planning for Collaborative Learning: Designing and Promoting New Learning Spaces on Campus
(2005-10-07)Describes the process by which a Collaborative Learning Environment was planned and promoted by a committee comprised of representatives of the KU Libraries, Information Technology, Instructional Development & Support, and ... -
No Leafcaster? No Problem! Using the suction table to fill large lacunae in an entire volume
(The Changing Book Conference: Transitions in Design, Production, and Preservation, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 2005-07-22)The poster presentation follows the treatment of a badly mold- and vermin-damaged 17th c. English herbal of roughly 600 pages. The developed treatment protocol calls for pulp fills using a vacuum suction table in place ... -
Building a new model for staffing chat: HawkHelp LIVE
(2005-06-11)In 2003, the University of Kansas (KU) Libraries designed and implemented a chat reference service (HawkHelp LIVE) to offer research assistance in real time to students and faculty. As the chat service gained popularity ... -
The Scholarly Digital Initiatives Program at the University of Kansas: A Campus-wide Collaboration
(2005-04-30)The University of Kansas Scholarly Digital Initiatives program is building a rich set of digital tools and resources accessed through a common digital library system and integrated with other campus central systems including ... -
Moving Beyond Collections: Academic Library Outreach to Multicultural Student Centers
(Emerald, 2005)This article explores the role that librarians can play in supporting campus-wide diversity initiatives. Reports on the development and dissemination of an information needs assessment instrument directed at students ... -
The Hybrid Conservator: Challenges in a Research Library Environment
(American Library Association: Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, 2004-07)As new preservation programs emerge, many research libraries can only afford to hire one conservation professional, a “hybrid conservator,” whose position description includes oversight of batched, mass-production treatments ... -
Populating the KU ScholarWorks Repository: the RoMEO Green Project
(2005-04-09)Institutional repositories have become part of a system of scholarly communication that includes faculty, librarians, and publishers. The University of Kansas is exploring ways to provide better access to and preservation ... -
Meeting the Student Learning Imperative: Building Powerful Partnerships Between Academic Libraries and Student Services
(2005-04-08)Provides an introduction to frameworks for collaboration between student services offices (e.g., Residence Life) and academic libraries based on emerging thinking about the role of student services programs in academic ... -
Improving Instruction: What Librarians Can Learn from the Study of College Teaching
(Association of College & Research Libraries, 2005)Provides an introduction to issues related to instructional improvement in academic libraries through a review of related issues from the literature of college teaching. Presents selected results from a national survey of ... -
Online Tutorials: Just in Case, Just in Time
(2005-03-30)This file contains the proposal acceptance, presentation handout, and two PowerPoint slide presentations. -
Broadening Our Reach: Collaborating for Improvement
(2005-03-25)This document contains the proposal submitted to the Association of College and Research Libraries for a poster session at the ACRL 12th. National Conference. -
Born Digital: Looking at Information Literacy Instruction through a Generational Lens
(2005-04-20)Provides an introduction to the study of generations with a focus on the Millennial generation, also referred to as Generation Y (born 1982-2002). Identifies characteristics associated with this generation, including the ...