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17 Interviews with Virginia Tech CALS Faculty: State of Research and How Information Professionals Can Help
(2016-12-07)In the early months of 2016, Ithaka S+R, a not-for-profit service that helps the academic community navigate economic and technological change, asked various land grant universities to be a part of a national project ... -
2013 NDLTD Survey of ETD Practices
(2013)Our intention with this survey was to overcome the lack of baseline data about ETDs. Surprisingly, while ETDs have been available for over 15 years, no one has systematically collected general data about ETDs or the graduate ... -
a proposed staffing formula for Virginia academic libraries
(ACRL Publications, 1981-03)Formulas and standards play a needed role in the allocation of library resources, but it is difficult to devise formulas that accurately reflect the various factors that shape a library's needs. This report summarizes the ... -
a reputational study of academic publishers
(ACRL Publications, 1996-05)In both selecting individual titles and designing gathering plans, collection development librarians are strongly influenced by the perceptions they have about publishers. In the near absence of data that might indicate ... -
a social history of madness or, whos buying this round - anticipating and avoiding gaps in collection development
(ACRL Publications, 1990-01)Both the internal organization of collection development and the nature of science and scholarship lead to inevitable gaps in collection development. The discussion identifies both nondisciplinary and interdisciplinary ... -
Analyzing current serials in Virginia: An application of hte Ulrich's Serials Analysis System
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2006-01)VIVA (the Virtual Library of Virginia) was one of the first subscribers to R. R. Bowker's Ulrich's Serials Analysis System (USAS). Creating a database that combined a union report of current serial subscriptions within ... -
Appendices in relation to "Information Literacy Instruction Programs: Supporting the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Community at Virginia Tech" published in Library Trends
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016-10-07)The following items in this record are the appendices that accompany an article published in the Winter 2017 issue of Library Trends. The six appendices include:
A: "Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise Information ... -
Archiving the Relaxed Consistency Web
(ACM, 2013)The historical, cultural, and intellectual importance of archiving the web has been widely recognized. Today, all countries with high Internet penetration rate have established high-profile archiving initiatives to crawl ... -
THE ART OF PROBLEM DISCOVERY: Adaptive Thinking for Innovation and Growth
(Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), 2013-04-02)What challenges do students face in the classroom? What issues do faculty encounter when applying for grants? How does the Writing Center plan to help students abroad? What keeps senior administrators up at night? We ... -
Arts Voices: Middle School Students and the Relationships of the Arts to their Motivation and Self-Efficacy
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Assessing the One-Shot Instruction Session: Leveraging Technology for Optimum Results
(Virginia Libraries, 2010-07)A case study of Virginia Tech University Libraries' transition from paper-based assessment of information literacy session outcomes to online assessment. -
Batch-Load Authority Control Cleanup Using MarcEdit and LTI
(Routledge, 2009-01)Vendor sets of bibliographic records are readily available and must be loaded into our catalogs to provide patron access to the items used most. However, batch-load authority control can be an arduous process because ... -
Boiling Down Qualitative Data to Build Personas that Inform Spaces, Services, and Technologies
(ACRL, 2017)Personas are archetypes of user needs, wants, goals, and desires that allow for empathetic design of virtual and physical spaces and services. Commonly created using assumption-based methods, this recipe focuses on in-person ... -
Book Review of Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
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Book summary: Planned Obsolescence by Kathleen Fitzpatrick
(2012-09-18)This is a 2-page summary of Kathleen Fitzpatrick's book Planned Obsolescence which was prepared for a Library Reading Group meeting on September 12, 2012. The summary also contains links to the projects and tools mentioned ... -
building a comprehensive serials decision database at Virginia Tech
(ACRL Publications, 2000-07)Although for many years academic libraries have relied on data on cost, library use, or citations to inform collection development decisions respecting serials, they have not fully exploited the possibilities for compiling ... -
Button Gwinnett Signatures: A Census
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Collaborative Batch Creation for Open Access E-Books: A Case Study
(Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 2012-09-24)When the National Academies Press announced that more than 4,000 electronic books would be made freely available for download, many academic libraries expressed interest in obtaining MARC records for them. Using cataloging ... -
Content Selection, Preparation, and Management
(Educopia Institute, 2010)Here is a set of best practices for policies regarding the selection, preparation, and management of digital content for preservation purposes. Though the authors draw upon PLNs (Private LOCKSS Networks) in their featured ... -
Creating Trust Relationships for Distributed Digital Preservation Federations
(iPRES 2008: The Fifth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects, 2008)The authors outline a model for digital preservation federation based upon several existing models including the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank regional governance model and its similarities to successful large-scale redundant ...
