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Determining Data Information Literacy Needs: A Study Of Students And Research Faculty, Jake R. Carlson, Michael Fosmire, Chris Miller, Megan R. Sapp Nelson Jan 2011

Determining Data Information Literacy Needs: A Study Of Students And Research Faculty, Jake R. Carlson, Michael Fosmire, Chris Miller, Megan R. Sapp Nelson

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Researchers increasingly need to integrate the disposition, management and curation of their data into their current workflows. However, it is not yet clear to what extent faculty and students are sufficiently prepared to take on these responsibilities. This paper articulates the need for a data information literacy program (DIL) to prepare students to engage in such an “e-research” environment. Assessments of faculty interviews and student performance in a geoinformatics course provide complementary sources of information, which are then filtered through the perspective of ACRL’s information literacy competency standards to produce a draft set of outcomes for a data information literacy …


How Information Literacy Becomes Policy: An Analysis Using The Multiple Streams Framework, Sharon A. Weiner Jan 2011

How Information Literacy Becomes Policy: An Analysis Using The Multiple Streams Framework, Sharon A. Weiner

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

There is growing recognition that information literacy is a critical skill for educational and workplace success, engagement in lifelong learning, and civic participation. To be considered for allocations of financial and human resources, information literacy must become a policy priority for institutions and societies. There is no published examination of factors that may influence the adoption of information literacy as a policy priority. This article explores aspects of the policy process from a U.S. perspective that can favor or impede the inclusion of information literacy on political agendas. It examines these questions through the multiple streams framework of policy processes. …


The Investment Model Of Commitment Processes, Caryl E. Rusbult, Christopher Agnew, Ximena Arriaga Jan 2011

The Investment Model Of Commitment Processes, Caryl E. Rusbult, Christopher Agnew, Ximena Arriaga

Department of Psychological Sciences Faculty Publications

The investment model of commitment processes is rooted in interdependence theory and emerged from the broader scientific zeitgeist of the 1960s and 1970s that sought to understand seemingly irrational persistence in social behavior. The investment model was developed originally to move social psychology beyond focusing only on positive affect in predicting persistence in a close interpersonal relationship. As originally tested, the investment model holds that commitment to a target is influenced by three independent factors: satisfaction level, quality of alternatives, and investment size. Commitment, in turn, is posited to mediate the effects of these three bases of dependence on behavior, …


Do Students Gather Information To Inform Design Decisions? Assessment With An Authentic Design Task In First-Year Engineering, Ruth Eh Wertz, Meagan Ross, Michael Fosmire, Monica Cardella, Senay Purzer Jan 2011

Do Students Gather Information To Inform Design Decisions? Assessment With An Authentic Design Task In First-Year Engineering, Ruth Eh Wertz, Meagan Ross, Michael Fosmire, Monica Cardella, Senay Purzer

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Information gathering is a very important aspect of the design process, one that is used continuously throughout the project to make informed design decisions. This study reports the development of an authentic instrument used to assess skills related to information gathering in first-year engineering students. Existing assessment tools, such as the scenario-based Self- Knowledge Inventory of Lifelong Learning (SKILLS), developed by Conti & Fellenz, or the Self- Directed Learning Readiness Scale (SDLRS), developed by Guglielmino, were evaluated. While these have the advantage of being very easy to administer and analyze, one significant disadvantage is that they are self-reported and thus …


The Effects Of Electricity Pring On Phev Competitiveness, Shisheng Huang, Bri-Mathias S. Hodge, Farzad Taheripour, Joseph F. Pekny, Gintaras V. Reklaitis, Wallace E. Tyner Dec 2010

The Effects Of Electricity Pring On Phev Competitiveness, Shisheng Huang, Bri-Mathias S. Hodge, Farzad Taheripour, Joseph F. Pekny, Gintaras V. Reklaitis, Wallace E. Tyner

PPRI Digital Library

Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) will soon start to be introduced into the transportation sector, thereby raising a host of issues related to their use, adoption and effects on the electricity sector. Their introduction has the potential to significantly reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector, which has led to government policies aimed at easing their introduction. If their wide-spread adoption is set as a target it is imperative to consider the effects of existing policies that may increase or decrease their adoption rate. In this study, we present a micro level electricity demand model that can gauge the effects …


A Description Of Data Citation Instructions In Style Guides, Mark P. Newton, Hailey Mooney, Michael Witt Dec 2010

A Description Of Data Citation Instructions In Style Guides, Mark P. Newton, Hailey Mooney, Michael Witt

Libraries Research Publications

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Introduction To Ambiguity In Culture And Literature, Paolo Bartoloni, Anthony Stephens Dec 2010

Introduction To Ambiguity In Culture And Literature, Paolo Bartoloni, Anthony Stephens

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Ambiguity Now, Martin Harrison Dec 2010

Ambiguity Now, Martin Harrison

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Ambiguity Now" Martin Harrison focuses on the pivotal place which modernist critical theory ascribed to ambiguity in the definition of meaning and structure in poetry. In particular, Harrison considers the way in which the category of experience is deployed in the discourse of ambiguity but is limited to only certain narratives of so-called experience. Harrison argues for a contemporary practice less focused on ambiguity and more on notation and provisional structure, demonstrating key elements of such practice in the work of modern poets Leslie Scalapino and Frank Bidart and the poet-artist Alex Selenitsch.


Ambiguity, The Artist, The Masses, And The "Double Nature" Of Language, Elizabeth Rechniewski Dec 2010

Ambiguity, The Artist, The Masses, And The "Double Nature" Of Language, Elizabeth Rechniewski

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Ambiguity, the Artist, the Masses, and the 'Double Nature' of Language" Elizabeth Rechniewski discusses the function of the European intellectual elite through a close reading of two very different yet related books, John Carey's The Intellectuals and the Masses, and Pierre Bourdieu's Les Règles de l'art. Through a contrapuntal reading of the arguments of these two critics, she argues that Symbolist experiments may actually be read as reactionist; in celebrating art's supposed conquest of independence and refinement, they are replete with nostalgia for a time when the artist and the intellectual were able to ignore the pressure …


Papa Abel Remembers-The Tale Of A Band Of Booksellers, Fasicle 12: What's Your Role? Executive Or Staff?, Richard Abel Dec 2010

Papa Abel Remembers-The Tale Of A Band Of Booksellers, Fasicle 12: What's Your Role? Executive Or Staff?, Richard Abel

Against the Grain

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And They Were There-Reports Of Meetings-Salalm 2010 And The Final Installment Of Reports From The 2009 Charleston Conference, Sever Bordeianu Dec 2010

And They Were There-Reports Of Meetings-Salalm 2010 And The Final Installment Of Reports From The 2009 Charleston Conference, Sever Bordeianu

Against the Grain

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Table Of Contents Dec 2010

Table Of Contents

Against the Grain

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Standards Column-Taming The World Of Data: Pressures To Improve Data Management In Scholarly Communications, Todd Carpenter Dec 2010

Standards Column-Taming The World Of Data: Pressures To Improve Data Management In Scholarly Communications, Todd Carpenter

Against the Grain

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Atg Special Report-The Future Of The Textbook, Sara Killingsworth, Martin Marlow Dec 2010

Atg Special Report-The Future Of The Textbook, Sara Killingsworth, Martin Marlow

Against the Grain

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Something To Think About-Anything Goes, Mary E. Massey Dec 2010

Something To Think About-Anything Goes, Mary E. Massey

Against the Grain

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Lost In Austin-Wandering The Stacks, Tom Leonhardt Dec 2010

Lost In Austin-Wandering The Stacks, Tom Leonhardt

Against the Grain

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Letters To The Editor, Katina Strauch Dec 2010

Letters To The Editor, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch Dec 2010

If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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Getting There From Here: Changing The Ecological And Social Footprint Of Our Professional Conferences, Michael Smith Dec 2010

Getting There From Here: Changing The Ecological And Social Footprint Of Our Professional Conferences, Michael Smith

Against the Grain

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Collection Development And Sustainability At The University Of Florida, Merliyn Burke Dec 2010

Collection Development And Sustainability At The University Of Florida, Merliyn Burke

Against the Grain

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Sustainability In Collection Development: Seeing The Forrest And The Trees, Karen Christensen Dec 2010

Sustainability In Collection Development: Seeing The Forrest And The Trees, Karen Christensen

Against the Grain

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Practicing Sustainable Environmental Solutions: A Call For Green Policy In Academic Libraries, Maria A. Jankowska Dec 2010

Practicing Sustainable Environmental Solutions: A Call For Green Policy In Academic Libraries, Maria A. Jankowska

Against the Grain

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Profile-Moshe Pritsker Dec 2010

Profile-Moshe Pritsker

Against the Grain

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Collection Management And Sistainability In The Digital Age: Chasing The Holy Grail, Tony Horava Dec 2010

Collection Management And Sistainability In The Digital Age: Chasing The Holy Grail, Tony Horava

Against the Grain

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K-12 Environmental Education Resources, Roxanne Myers Spencer Dec 2010

K-12 Environmental Education Resources, Roxanne Myers Spencer

Against the Grain

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Atg Interviews Jud Dunham, Senior Product Manager Science And Technology, Elsevier, Katina Strauch Dec 2010

Atg Interviews Jud Dunham, Senior Product Manager Science And Technology, Elsevier, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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Atg Interviews Moshe Pritsker, Ceo And Co-Founder, Jove, Katina Strauch Dec 2010

Atg Interviews Moshe Pritsker, Ceo And Co-Founder, Jove, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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At Brunning: People And Technology-At The Only Edge That Means Anything/How We Understand What We Do, Dennis Brunning Dec 2010

At Brunning: People And Technology-At The Only Edge That Means Anything/How We Understand What We Do, Dennis Brunning

Against the Grain

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Booklover-Writing, Donna Jacobs Dec 2010

Booklover-Writing, Donna Jacobs

Against the Grain

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Atg Special Report-The Dual Mission Paradigm: A Ranganathian Critique, Patrick L. Carr Dec 2010

Atg Special Report-The Dual Mission Paradigm: A Ranganathian Critique, Patrick L. Carr

Against the Grain

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