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Effective Use of "Guest Lecturers" in Online Instruction

Rogers, Emily; Carrier, Howard S. (University of West Georgia Distance & Distributed Education Center, 2018-06)

“Guest lecturers” can share insight and experiences, especially in classes that support professional programs, but how can they be best utilized in the online teaching environment? In presenting this paper at DLA 2018, the ...
Academic Rejection and Libraries

Rogers, Emily (Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), 2017-08)

This chapter investigates the author's experience of socialization into workplace culture, tenure denial, and ultimately career success in an academic library. It employs autoethnographic research methods to create an ...
Libraries Achieve Equilibrium Between Digital And Print As Budgets Flounder The Library Resource Guide Benchmark Study On 2016 Special, Corporate, Professional, And Government Agency Library Spending Plans

McKendrick, Joseph (Unisphere Research, 2016)

This new study of 120 special, corporate, professional, and government agency library managers and librarians was conducted by the Library Resource Guide (LRG)— in conjunction with Unisphere Research, the market research ...
Libraries Achieve Equilibrium Between Digital And Print As Budgets Advance

McKendrick, Joseph (Unisphere Research, 2016)

This new study of 284 community public library managers and librarians was conducted by the Library Resource Guide (LRG)—in conjunction with Unisphere Research, the market research division of Information Today, Inc. (ITI). ...
Libraries Achieve Equilibrium Between Digital And Print As Budgets Flounder The Library Resource Guide Benchmark Study On 2016 Academic Library Spending Plans

McKendrick, Joseph (Unisphere Research, 2016)

Academic library budgets have been either stagnant or declining in recent years, as institutions seek to redefine and re-orient the roles of their on-campus libraries. Half of all spending now goes to digital materials and ...
Planning for Iteration-Focused User Experience Testing in an Academic Library

Gallant, Jeffrey; Wright, Laura (Taylor and Francis, 2014-05-16)

Many case studies and literature reviews focus on usability or user experience testing in libraries, but most are focused on testing before a planned website redesign, and often only include formal usability tests. This ...
Library Instruction and Ludonarrative Dissonance: Making Our Rules Fit Our Narrative

Gallant, Jeffrey (2013-08-27)

In 2007, a video game designer wrote about a trend he recognized among some of the biggest games being released: the rules of how a game was played and the actions a player was allowed to take often contradicted the story ...
Library blogs and user participation: a survey about comment spam in library blogs

Oguz, Fatih; Holt, Michael (Emerald, 2011-03-01)

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to identify and describe the impact of comment spam in library blogs. Three research questions guided the study: current level of commenting in library blogs; librarians' perception ...
Read Fest: Academic Library Programming for PreKindergarten Students

Wright, Laura; Holt, Michael (Southeastern Library Association, 2012-10-01)

Three factors influence an academic library’s decision to interact with the community; a need expressed from the community, the mission of the library, and a response to a specific problem (Schneider 2003). Odum Library ...
A Case Analysis of Olivia: Applying Gilligan’s Theory of Women’s Moral Development

Williams, Ginger (South Carolina College Personnel Association, 2013)

This article examines the case of “Olivia,” a young woman studying at a regional state university, to examine how one woman experienced the stages of Gilligan’s theory of women’s moral development. It begins with an ...
Evaluating Reference Customer Service With Secret Shoppers

Wright, Laura; Williams, Ginger; Byl, Lisa (2012-10-15)

Learn how reference librarians partnered with the Employee & Organizational Development Department at Valdosta State Univ. to conduct secret-shopper-style qualitative evaluations of reference transactions.
A History of the Embedded Librarian Program at Valdosta State University

Williams, Ginger H.; Wright, Laura B. (2011-08)

Reference librarians at Valdosta State University’s Odum Library serve as embedded librarians in many online classes. Librarians enroll in courses through the university’s learning management system (LMS) to interact ...
Georgia Library Quarterly: Off the Shelf

Williams, Ginger (2011-01-01)
My Own Private Library: A peek inside the personal library of a librarian

Williams, Ginger (2011-01-01)
Friending our Users: Social Networking and Reference Services

Landis, Cliff (2008)

Social networking sites are changing the way that libraries engage their users. Sometimes called social networking software or social networking services, these Web sites are designed to let users share their lives with ...

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