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Libraries Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Coaching Copyright: Rules and Strategies for the Game
(American Library Association, 2019-09)This essay is intended to help librarians who are confronted with copyright issues and questions for which they may feel unprepared. A framework of five questions is presented that offers a structured way to think about ... -
Legislative History Story Map
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2019-10-01)The 1862 Homestead Act Legislative History Story Map--see http://arcg.is/WDz9z--serves a crucial pedagogical need: Students in EVRN 332, Environmental Law, a required course for the KU Program in Environmental Studies, ... -
How Do I Know If They Learned Anything? Evidence-Based Learning and Reflective Teaching in a First-Year Learning Community
(American Library Association, 2019)This case study illustrates the application of O’Brien’s (2008) Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Compass in the revision of curriculum to improve student learning in a first-year student Learning Community at ... -
ERM + Workflow
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Romani Language Dictionaries: (1755-2019): An Annotated Critical Bibliography
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2019-07-24)The purpose of this work is to present an up-to-date bibliography of monographic dictionaries and selected wordlists that record the lexicological wealth of the many varieties of the Romani language. While salient features ... -
White Paper to the National Endowment for the Humanities: PF-20161213: Improving the Physical Environment in Spencer Research Library, October 2017-March 2019
(2019-06)The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the University of Kansas Libraries a grant of $50,000 under the Sustaining Cultural Collections program to engage consultants from Image Permanence Institute (IPI), Rochester ... -
Choosing Slow
(2019-07-11)Drawing on concepts of Slow and Fast articulated in popular and scholarly literature, the presentation discusses Slow as an issue of workplace equity in the context of academic libraries. The event included several modes ... -
Assessing First-Year Student Understanding of "Authority is Constructed and Contextual"
(Association of College & Research Libraries, 2019-04-11)This poster shares the findings of a pilot assessment project that utilized the Threshold Achievement Test for Information Literacy (TATIL) Module 1: Evaluating Process & Authority. This assessment was administered to a ... -
BUS 305 Information Literacy Session Teacher’s Guide
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Against Relevance: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Spencer Research Library
(2018-11-08)Much of the discourse about and around higher education focuses on relevance as a central value. But because we cannot know the future, we have only the past to compare to the present. Repositories like the Spencer Research ... -
ERM + Workflow
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"Big Deals” and Squeaky Wheels: Taking Stock of Your Stats
(2015-05)This article describes a half-day pre-conference focused on the ins and outs of assessing “Big Deals.” The presenters gave an overview of issues related to “Big Deals,” and engaged the attendees in ... -
Hacking Acq: Tools and Apps for Better Acquisitions Workflows
(2018-06)Curious about what tools peers are using in their acquisitions units to automate and improve processes? Think there should be a better way to manage searching and order input or to analyze and report data? Need a tool ... -
Rethinking Service in Technical Services
(2018)Roles in technical services have always operated with the end-user in mind. But as this work continues to evolve from print to online, technical service professionals are assisting more and more with public facing services. ... -
To Meet or Not to Meet: Questioning the Effectiveness of Meetings for Organizational Knowledge Management
(2019)Meetings represent a substantial portion of library professionals’ workday. How do organizations create efficient meetings that consider employee time and responsibility, while most effectively utilizing and applying human ... -
A comparison of standard practice treatments in research library book conservation, 2007 to 2017
(American Library Association: Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, 2019-04)In 2007, a web-based survey of book conservation practices was conducted in order to document standard-practice, moderate-use, and low-use book conservation treatments for general and special collections in research libraries ... -
Information Literacy Assignment: COMS496
(2019-03)These assignments were developed for Communication Studies (COMS) 496: Capstone in Digital Rhetoric, but can be adapted to any subject area. The first is a discussion guide meant to introduce students to the concept of a ... -
Information Literacy Assignment: FMS302/702
(2019-03)This assignment was developed for a cross-listed Film & Media Studies and Indigenous Studies course called Indigenous Film & Media (FMS302/702). This is a group project that asks students to reconcile visual and rhetorical ... -
Information Literacy Assignment: FMS316/716 & LAA315/702
(2019-03)This assignment was developed for a cross-listed Film & Media Studies and Latin American and Caribbean Studies course called "Cinema of the Southern Cone," but can be adapted to any subject area. It is intended to be ... -
Review of "Well, What Came Next? Selections from ArchivesNext , 2007–2017"
(Society of American Archivists, 2018-12)