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Getting Them There: A Small-Scale Usability Test Of A University Library Website, Jason C. Simon

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.

Modeling Information Diffusion In University Libraries: Assessing Peer Interaction Patterns As A Complex Dynamic System, W. Michael Johnson, Danuta A. Nitecki

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.

Seeing The Whole Elephant In The Room: A Holistic Approach To Ebooks, Pamela Jacobs, Robin Bergart

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.

Ithaka S+R Us Library Survey 2013, Roger C. Shonfeld

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.

Voila: Building An Assessment Tool Isn't (Always) Enough, Stephanie Margolin, Philip Swan

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

No abstract provided.

Assessment As Engagement, Assessment As Outreach: Understanding Student Learning About Research At The Trinity College Library, Kelly Dagan, Erin Valentino

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.

"I Like Being Under Those Rules Here": Students Using The College Library, Maura A. Smale, Mariana Regalado

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.

Using Process Mapping To Facilitate Positive Library Change, Emily Campbell

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.

Integration And Assessment Of Information Literacy In An Undergraduate Biology Program: A Sustainable And Transferrable Model, Brian Winterman

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.

Assessing The Design Of The Library's Discovery Interface And Online Resources: A Case Study At The University Of Maryland, Angel Dang, Chelsea Osborne, Misty Trunnel, Debby Vargas, Martha Kyrillidou

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.

The Mixed-Method Library: Qualitative Research And The Future Of Assessment In Higher Education, Donna M. Lanclos

CUNY Library Assessment Conference

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.

New Look At An Old Space: Participatory Design Research At A Liberal Arts College Library, Olivia Castello, Melissa K. Cresswell

Library Staff Research and Scholarship

Anticipating major physical renovations, Bryn Mawr College recently analyzed students’ use of space in Canaday Library. We collected both qualitative and quantitative data using an innovative mixed methods, participatory research design that included student photo diaries, interactive design workshops, a patron brainstorming board, and space-usage headcounts. Our poster will illustrate the results of our qualitative and quantitative data analyses, which showed surprising patterns in students’ usage and expressed desires for the main library space. Our project will interest colleagues from peer institutions and anyone curious about what liberal arts college students want in a 21st century academic library.

A Cross-Species Study Of Gesture And Its Role In Symbolic Development: Implications For The Gestural Theory Of Language Evolution, K. Gillespie-Lynch, P. M. Greenfield, Y. Feng, S. Savage-Rumbaugh, H. Lyn

Faculty Publications

Using a naturalistic video database, we examined whether gestures scaffold the symbolic development of a language-enculturated chimpanzee, a language-enculturated bonobo, and a human child during the second year of life. These three species constitute a complete clade: species possessing a common immediate ancestor. A basic finding was the functional and formal similarity of many gestures between chimpanzee, bonobo, and human child. The child's symbols were spoken words; the apes' symbols were lexigrams - non-iconic visual signifiers. A developmental pattern in which gestural representation of a referent preceded symbolic representation of the same referent appeared in all three species (but was …

Accessible Interlibrary Loan For Users With Disabilities: An Open Discussion, Michael Priehs

Library Scholarly Publications

At its core, interlibrary loan is about access to information. But are we succeeding for our patrons with disabilities? Are our systems, practices, and deliverables meeting the needs of all of our users? While much has been written and explored concerning obtaining special format materials, less has been written concerning the usability of our resource sharing systems for disabled persons. Assistive, or mainstream, technologies and Universal Design are popular discussions among disability and web design specialists. Likewise, in a discipline where accessibility and technology often guide our progress, resource sharing librarians should be aware of these issues in regards to …

Collections To Connections: Space Redesign At W.T. Young Library, Jennifer A. Bartlett

Library Presentations

The library is the academic center of campus, a place where students can not only access print and electronic information resources and the latest information technology, but also get the help to use them. Accommodating the ever-changing research needs of today’s students was the motivation behind the redesign of the second floor space at the William T. Young Library.

Absence Of Evidence And Evidence Of Absence In The Effects Of Same Sex Marriage Laws On Rates Of Opposite Sex Marriage, Alexis Dinno

Community Health Faculty Publications and Presentations

This presentation will explore the question of whether legal recognition of same sex marriages affects state- rates of opposite sex marriages in the U.S., with attention given to statistical methods for equivalence testing.

Empire Shared Collection Program: Preserving Legacy Print Collections Together, Nicole Colello, Jennifer L. Murray

Library Faculty Presentations & Publications

Libraries from multiple library sectors in Western New York have worked together to develop a regional collaborative “last copy” print repository – the Empire Shared Collection Repository (ESCR) – that provides continuing access to a shared collection of seldom-used serial-type materials. In this session, learn how the University at Buffalo, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, SUNY Buffalo State, and The College at Brockport have collaborated to develop the tools, standards, services, costs and policies that are needed to create and sustain a collaborative print repository.

Factors Influencing The Major Satisfaction And Leadership Aspirations Of Men And Women In Traditional And Nontraditional Fields, Jennifer Yeoward

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis reports the results of an online survey study that examined the associations of role model influences, support/guidance, and socioeconomic status (SES) with college students' major satisfaction and leadership aspirations. Of the 558 students who responded to the survey invitation, data from 494 students who had provided responses on the main variables were included in the major analyses. Contrary to hypotheses, SES and the nontraditionality of students' majors were not significantly related to leadership aspirations or major satisfaction. The results did support the hypotheses that support/guidance and inspiration/modeling would be associated with students' leadership aspirations and major satisfaction, but …

Seminar #294: Transforming Transportation Through Connectivity, Robert L. Bertini

PSU Transportation Seminars

The transportation system is the backbone of the United States' economy, and transportation is an essential part of everyday life for American citizens. It is essential that the transportation system continue to provide accessibility and connectivity to an ever-evolving global economy. A key way to do so is to embrace, develop and implement new technologies. One of the newest and most promising facets of transportation-related technology is in the field of connected mobility. The vision behind connected mobility is of a transportation system where vehicles, travelers, and infrastructure are all wirelessly connected with one another and able to transmit real-time …

Associations Between Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis System Gene Variants And Cortisol Reactivity In Preschoolers: Main Effects And Gene-Environment Interactions, Haroon I. Sheikh

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Exposure to stressful events during early development has consistently been shown to produce long lasting effects on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, which may increase vulnerability to mood and anxiety disorders. Recently reported genetic association studies indicate that these disorders may be influenced, in part, by gene-environment interactions (GxE) involving polymorphisms within the corticotrophin-releasing hormone and monoaminergic system genes. However, little is known about how genetic variants and life stress work to shape children’s neuroendocrine reactivity and emerging symptoms. Therefore, the aim of this thesis is to examine main effects of candidate genes and GxE on the neuroendocrine stress response and …

Cosine Similarity For Article Section Classification: Using Structured Abstracts As A Proxy For An Annotated Corpus, Arthur T. Bugorski

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

During the last decade, the amount of research published in biomedical journals has grown significantly and at an accelerating rate. To fully explore all of this literature, new tools and techniques are needed for both information retrieval and processing. One such tool is the identification and extraction of key claims. In an e ort to work toward claim-extraction, we aim to identify the key areas in the body of the article referred to by text in the abstract. In this project, our work is preliminary to that goal in that we attempt to match specific clauses in the abstract with …

Doughboys And Digitization: Navigating The Web For Wwi Primary Sources, Brandon Bowen

Brandon Bowen

A century has passed since the new technology of the Great War blackened Europe's skies and rumbled slowly across once-fertile farmland. World War I marked the beginning of a new technological era; the old and the new came together as no previous conflict before to decimate parts of Europe. Tanks and the telegraph were replacing more traditional tools like carrier pigeons and draft horses, but the War melded both the old and the new together in ways previously unseen. Besides the battlefield technology used for death and destruction, other new tools were also coming into widespread use. Still- and video-cameras …

Psst, You And Your Library Should Be On Twitter, John Meyerhofer

John Meyerhofer

No abstract provided.

Environmental Justice And Health: An Analysis Of Persons Of Color Injured At The Work Place, Jennifer Schoenfish-Keita, Glenn Johnson

Glenn S Johnson

Occupational and environmental hazards have a direct impact on people of color lives. People of color are disproportionately employed in the dirtiest and low-paying jobs in the United States. This study investigates workplace safety for persons of color from the analysis of three personal injury cases. These personal injury cases include two African-American females and one African American male who were killed or severely injured as a result of their job or the type of transportation they used trying to get to their place of work. The authors use the Environmental Justice Framework to examine how persons of color are …

Achieving Successful Long-Term Recovery And Safety From A Catastrophe: Recommendations For Mitigation, Shirley Laska, Earthea Nance, K.C. King, Joel Devalcourt

Earthea Nance, PhD (Stanford University, 2004)

No abstract provided.

Achieving Successful Long-Term Recovery And Safety From A Catastrophe: Recommendations From Hurricane Katrina-Executive Summary, Monica Farris, Shirley Laska, Pamela Jenkins, Robert Montjoy, Earthea Nance, Joel Devalcourt, K.C. King, Michelle Gremillion, Thomas Birkland, Branda Nowell

Earthea Nance, PhD (Stanford University, 2004)

No abstract provided.

Transportation Safety And Access: A Case Study Of The St. Claude Bridge In New Orleans, Earthea Nance

Earthea Nance, PhD (Stanford University, 2004)

The community-university collaborative model, first developed in early-1990s public health research, expands opportunities for new research partnerships and joint problem-solving. This model is ideally suited to land-grant colleges and urban research universities whose mission involves community engagement. At the University of New Orleans, this model is employed in “practicum” graduate courses offered in the Department of Planning and Urban Studies. One such practicum partnered with the Lower 9th Ward community in spring 2012 to address serious safety problems with the St. Claude Bridge. The bridge, which linked the lower and upper halves of the community and served as an essential …

Kashmiri Marsiya (Elegy) Manuscripts: The Valuable Sources For The Dissemination, Reconstruction And Safeguarding The History And Culture, Tawfeeq Nazir, Javaid Hussain Bhat

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Manuscripts are the links to the historical facts that will otherwise remain unknown to the world. They contain authentic information and facts about the social, political and cultural aspects of a nation. Therefore their intellectual value cannot be over emphasized. Many countries and nations are joining hands towards preserving such cultural assets by way of taking conservation and preservation measures including digitization and documentation.

Marsiya or Elegy has gained more importance after the Martyrdom of Imam Hussain (a.s) and his companions and household in Karbala. Marsiya has been since written and recited in order to mourning the tragic events of …

Qualitative Engagement Of Nigerian Students And Librarians In The Analysis Of Deviance In Library Utilization, Adediran D. Ikuomola, Rashidi Akanji Okunola, Samuel Olabode Fabunmi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Research on library deviance in Nigeria has largely relied on librarians’ accounts, which often portray students as ‘deviants’ and the libraries as ‘victims’, however we focus on a holistic account which incorporates both students’ and librarians’ narratives in the analysis of deviant behaviours in library utilization. Through observations and interviews the paper highlighted some common trends of deviance and the implication on library utility in selected universities. The study reveals a gap in the security of students’ personal effects, inadequate electricity supply and a wide range of deviant behaviours associated with the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in …

A Feasibility Study Of Mobile Services Implementation In National Library And Archives Of Iran: User’S Trends, Ayoob Nazi, Sakineh Ghasempour, Leyla Asgari

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: This Study seeks to reveal the opinion of the users of National Library and Archives of the Islamic Republic of Iran (NLAI) about library services based on cell Phones, to recommend new services for this library.

Design/Methodology/Approach: Descriptive survey method was used in this research and the required data were collected from 150 randomly selected samples, through a questionnaire developed by researcher.

Findings: Findings showed that 68% of respondents supported the use of mobile phone in the library and did not recognize it as being a disruptive factor. Among several proposed services, over-due day reminder (in saloon, or circulation …