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Use Of Library And Library Resources In University Libraries Of Northern India: A Comparative Study Between Research Scholars And Faculty Members, Har Singh, Preeti Mahajan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of the study was to investigate research scholars (RS) and faculty members (FM) involvement in use of library, library resources, purpose behind using them and satisfaction from the resources in five university libraries of Northern India. The representative samples were selected based on sample size given by Krejcie and Morgan (1970). The representative sample was formed by taking 15% of respondents from each category from each university. The ‘Proportionate Stratified Random Sampling Technique’ was used. The data collected was analyzed with the help of statistical software package called SPSS and hypotheses were tested using Chi-Square test. The study …

Library Building: My Experience, Bolanle Clifford Ishola

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

This opinion paper is the product of narrating the practical experiences of the author during the construction of Oduduwa University library complex. In the study, who should be on the planning team, visitation of other libraries to see their brief and architectural design before the University librarian write the Architectural brief was emphasized. Other areas that the work looked into included deriving estimation for projected years, points that should be kept in mind in planning the building, Choosing Suitable Site, need for the building to be tropical architecture, space allocated within the new library building, commissioning and problems encountered. …

Marketing Of Library And Information Products And Services During Covid -19 Pandemic: A Study, Bala Mandrekar, Maya Carvalho E Rodrigues

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The Social networking sites play a major role in promoting library services and products to its user community. In this Covid-19 Pandemic and lockdown period, physical communication was locked and online web communication technology proved a powerful tool to bridge the gap between the library and users. The users were unable to reach the libraries during this pandemic period. The librarians used social networking tools to provide information during this pandemic period. The libraries provided a variety of services to its user community. The purpose of this paper is to show how effectively the libraries used Social Networking Sites for …

The Covid-19 Pandemic And Religious Travel: Present And Future Trends, Daniel H. Olsen, Dallen Timothy

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has had dramatic effects on both the health and economic stability of countries around the world. While several scholars and media commentators have suggested that the pandemic would be a good time to reset an unsustainable tourism system, left out of these discussions has been the impacts on religion and religious travel. The purpose of this paper is to review the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on religion and religious travel, including the tensions that have arisen between religious communities, governments and health officials. The paper then discusses potential futures regarding religious travel in a …

Padre Pio, Pandemic Saint: The Effects Of The Spanish Flu And Covid-19 On Pilgrimage And Devotion To The World’S Most Popular Saint, Michael A. Di Giovine

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

In the Catholic world, pilgrimages and other devotional rituals are often undertaken to foster healing and well-being. Thus, shrines dedicated to saints are particularly relevant in times of pandemic. Pilgrimage to the shrines associated with 20th century Italian stigmatic, St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, known as one of the Catholic world’s most popular saints, is particularly informed by this notion, as Pio is understood as a healing saint thanks to the spiritual and corporal works of mercy that marked his ministry during his lifetime, as well as belief in the miraculous nature of his relics. Pio’s hometown of Pietrelcina and …

Virtual Dss: Don't Be Satisficed! Survey Writing, Part 1, Kelley Rowan

Digital Scholar Studio Resources

Part one of a two-part webinar on using social science to write better surveys. Presented Wednesday, November 18, 2020 by Kelley Rowan.The workshop shares best practices in survey construction including consent forms, types of questions, and question creation. Information regarding data preservation and IRB policies are also covered and resources are provided.

Cyberchondria And Health Anxiety During The Covid19 Pandemic, Macey Grisso

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an increase in mental health issues/problems. This research sought to assess whether cyberchondria during the pandemic resulted in an increase in health anxiety levels. A total of 45 participants from Longwood University completed either survey A, which contained a 6 item cyberchondria measure and the 18 item Short Health Anxiety Inventory (SHAI), or survey B which contained a modified version of the cyberchondria measure and the SHAI. Survey B was modified to explicitly mention COVID-19 in the items. Our results found no difference in health anxiety levels between the two participants and an additional …

The Effect Of Covid-19 Related Stress On Self Perceived Level Of Health Behaviors, Holly Carper, Jacob Auerbach, Meghan Griffin

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

In our presentation, we looked to answer if Covid-19 related stress impacted health behaviors. In past research, any disruption in ones everyday routine can cause stress, thus changing their behavior. We looked to see how significantly the pandemic's stress has impacted people's health behaviors. We hypothesize that the pandemic will have had a negative impact on health behaviors in individuals.

The Risk Of The Pandemic: Covid-19s Effect On Risk And Protective Factors, Stephanie Willis

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

Depression and Anxiety are mental health problems that affect the way a person thinks or feels. 36.4% of college students are affected by depression in their time at university and 41.6% of students are affected by anxiety. There are a variety of risk and protective factors that can contribute to higher or lower levels of mental health problems. Two of the more common factors are the amount of social interaction and financial stability. Covid 19 is a virus that has affected the health of many individuals. The virus has caused a global pandemic and in itself is an uncontrollable event. …

The Effects Of Different Living Environments On Anxiety During Covid-19, Nicole Copeland, Italy Gayles

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

Because COVID-19 is such a new topic, we wanted to study how the virus impacted students' education by forcing students to learn via an online learning environment and how the change in learning environments affected students' anxiety levels. We chose to create a study where participants completed a survey that asked them to recall their thoughts and feelings from six months ago about taking online courses during the Spring 2020 semester. Most students were sent home for the last two months of the Spring 2020 semester. In the same survey, participants stated their thoughts and feelings about taking online courses …

Making Your Ir Work For Your Context - Cct College Dublin: A Case Study, Marie O'Neill, Justin Smyth

Faculty Presentations

A small team at CCT College Dublin was given a very big goal. A new IR and faculty profiling tool from Digital Commons was provided to enable strategic developments pertaining to institutional scholarly activity. In the span of little more than a year – and in the midst of COVID - Team CCT has made quick strides in using their IR to underpin and showcase teaching and learning activities, student achievement, quality and enhancement projects, research activity (including student research), and sectoral engagement. Although in the relatively early stages of development, the IR is now successfully embedded across many institutional …

The Effects Of Covid-19 Social Isolation On Binge-Drinking Behaviors In College Students, Grace Walton, Abigail Goldberg, Liam Mullen

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

Alcohol sales have increased drastically during the COVID-19 quarantine (Rehm et al 2020) and people have begun drinking 2-3 more drinks on average, than they did prior to COVID-19 (Lechner et al 2020). We predicted that social isolation due to COVID-19 would negatively correlate with a person's number of binge-drinking episodes. 40 participants completed a survey and answered questions about the number of social contacts they maintain and their drinking habits. Participants took both the AUDIT-C and CAGE-4 questionnaires, which provide an accurate quantifiable value of a person's likelihood to engage in binge-drinking. There was no significant correlation present between …

An Exploration In Health Behavior: Conformity And Mask Usage, Kathryn Bates, Robert J. Rodenbaugh, Autumn Wiesner

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

Since the COVID-19 pandemic has started, preventative health behaviors have been encouraged as the way to beat this virus. In addition to increasing handwashing, face coverings or masks have become a part of our daily lives. It is important to understand when people are most likely to wear a mask in order to be able to help encourage everyone to partake in this behavior. We looked at the effects conformity had on mask usage. In a survey, we described a scenario with different numbers of people in a group wearing a mask and asked the participants to decide if they …

Overworked Essential Healthcare And Patient Satisfaction, Angel Rowlett, Mariah Snoddy

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

Since Covid-19 has made its devastating impact on the world, patient care and adequate treatment has negatively affected the medical community and has caused a major shift in the way patients perceive healthcare providers. Adding long and stressful hours to an already jarring relationship can lead to an even more bleak or obstructive outcome.

The Impact Of Personality Traits On Panic Buying Behavior, Andrew Larsen, Genevieve Mcalexander, Kinsey Pomeroy

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

We are interested in panic buying behavior during a pandemic within an undergraduate population. Since there is minimal research on COVID-19, we hope that our research will contribute to further investigations on this pandemic and other related psychological concepts and issues within the field. This is important because previous research has studied the relationship between buying behavior and natural disasters; however, there is a small amount of literature on COVID-19 because this is a new and rising topic that is changing day by day. Preparedness and risk perception are in tandem. We want to increase people’s knowledge about how to …

Relationship Between Big 5 Personality Traits And Covid-19 Health-Related Behaviors, Kelly Higgins, Alyssa Martin

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

The Big 5 personality traits are typically assessed in order to understand the behavior of individuals. The major traits are extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience (McCrae & John, 1991). Health-related behaviors regarding COVID-19 include wearing masks and properly social distancing (CDC, 2020a, CDC, 2020b). Previous research examined the relationship between the Big 5 personality traits and either mask use or social distancing and concluded that there were correlations between personality and the likelihood that participants would engage in COVID-19 precautionary behaviors (Zajenkowski, Jonason, Leniarska, & Kozakiewicz, 2020, Aschwanden et al., 2020, Carvalho, Pianowski, & Goncalves, 2020, Abdelrahman, …

Viewers Duty To Know The Difference Between Opinion Journalism And Assertion Articles, Heather Waldo, Cade Kinzel

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

The purpose of this presentation is to differentiate between opinion journalism and assertion articles. Our topic of early voting within a presidential election is important because people need to know the difference between reliable and unreliable information in order to stay accurately informed. This is crucial in viewers sharing only reliable and credible content instead of spreading false information. Sharing false or inaccurate information is detrimental to society because viewers have a false sense of a topic. Throughout this presentation, we will demonstrate the differences between opinion journalism and assertion articles through the deconstruction process of evaluating reliability we learned …

Relationship Among Routine Preference And Openness To Experience, During Covid-19, With Rates Of Psychological Distress, Meghan Petrocelli, Haley Schultz, Morgan Thomas

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

This study will examine the relationship between preference for routine and psychological distress, and the personality trait openness to experience and psychological distress. Through research, we found that during the Covid-19 pandemic there has been a rise in rates of psychological distress. Psychological distress can be caused by a variety of different elements; however, in this case, we wanted to study how preference for routine and openness to experience relate to undergraduates students psychological distress. Our overall research question is “ Does routine preference and openness to experience have a relationship to rates of psychological distress? ” We predict that …

Mental Health During Winter

St. Norbert Times

News

• Mental Health During Winter
• A Conversation with Heather Bruegl
• The Girl Child Art Foundation
• Maria Sherman Talks Feminism, Boy Bands

Opinion

• The Lasting Effects of the Trump Presidency
• Learning In School
• Being Thankful in 2020 is Possible
• Issue With Modern-Day Feminism

Features

• Knight Theatre Goes Virtual
• New Club: Green Knight Donations
• Tribute for Dr. Ray Zurawaski

Entertainment

• Student Spotlight
• Weekly Review of “The Bachelorette:” Episode 3
• Four of the Most Anticipated November Book Releases
• Weeb Corner: Jujutsu Kaisen
• Coming Soon to Netflix
• Junk Drawer: The Last Show We Binge-Watched

Sports

• College Football and COVID
• NFL Proposes New Affirmative Action …

A Time To Be Thankful: Parkinson’S Surgery Brings Back Life For College Professor, Mark D. Weinstein

News Releases

After years of debilitating tremors and muscle spasms from Parkinson’s disease, one Cedarville University professor found life-changing relief this summer that has him playing guitar again for the first time in seven years.

Sustainability And The Evolution Of The Academic Library Ecosystem: Pressing Forward With The Greening Of Wcu's Presser And F.H. Green Libraries, Walt Cressler

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

No abstract provided.

Advanced Placement Course-Taking And Act Test Outcomes In Arkansas, Sarah Mckenzie, Josh B. Mcgee, Charlene A. Reid, Jessica S. Goldstein

Policy Briefs

Since 2008, Arkansas has sought to dramatically increase the number of students participating in Advanced Placement (AP) classes. This program, which allows students to access college -level content while still enrolled in high school, has been linked to higher student achievement and attainment. This brief shares recent research from the Office for Education Policy investigating whether students who take AP courses demonstrate better college readiness and examines how these trends vary for different demographic and socioeconomic groups in the state.

Advanced Placement Course-Taking And Act Testing Outcomes In Arkansas, Jessica S. Goldstein, Sarah C. Mckenzie

Arkansas Education Reports

This report examines trends in Advanced Placement (AP) course-taking in Arkansas. The AP program allows students to access college-level content while still enrolled in high school. Using de-identified student-level data from 2015-16 to 2017-18 from the Arkansas Department of Education, this research investigates whether students who take AP courses demonstrate better college readiness and examines how these trends vary for different demographic and socioeconomic groups throughout the state. While we cannot estimate the causal effect of AP coursework on student outcomes, this study presents key findings related to the Advanced Placement program which are relevant to policymakers and educators in …

Spartan Daily, November 18, 2020, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2020

Volume 155, Issue 38

Ouachita Faculty, Staff Honored For Combined 780 Years Of Service, Rachel Gaddis, Ouachita News Bureau

Press Releases

Ouachita Baptist University recently recognized 36 faculty and staff members in celebration of their milestone anniversaries working for the university. Together they have served a total of 780 years at the start of the 2020-2021 academic year, with six faculty and staff members celebrating 35 years or more.

This year’s longest-serving honorees are Janice Ford and Kevin Sullivan. Ford, professor and government documents librarian, celebrated 45 years of service and Sullivan, facilities management, was recognized for 40 years.

The Child Care Crisis And Its Impact On Hispanic Families, Katie Bogle, Abby M. Foreman

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

While the child care crisis has touched nearly every corner of America, impacting families of diverse racial, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, this report will examine its impact on the Hispanic community. With a population of 59.9 million, Hispanics are the largest minority population in the United States and contribute to the rich and diverse fabric of American life. The U.S. Office of Management and Budget defines Hispanic as “a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race.” Hispanic families in the United States, made up of both immigrants and …

2020 Nebraska Ballot Issues – Election Results, J. David Aiken

Cornhusker Economics

This publication provides educational information regarding the two constitutional amendments recommended by the Unicameral to Nebraska voters and the four citizen ballot initiatives on the November 2020 general election ballot.

Finding Thankfulness During Covid Recovery And Quarantine, Mark D. Weinstein

News Releases

During this Thanksgiving season, students at Cedarville University are thankful for a rather strange experience: quarantine and isolation due to COVID-19. While these experiences are extremely hard, William Imfeld, a sophomore allied health major from Danville, Kentucky, and Chantel Smithers, a junior Christian education and youth ministries major from Zanesfield, Ohio, look back at this difficult season with gratitude.

Research Outputs Of The Older Indian Institutes Of Technology (Iits) During Last 50 Years – Analysis With Reference To Web Of Science, Tapas Kumar Ghosh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper attempts to study the publication trend of research articles of the Indian Institutes of Technology – IITs, the elite institutions of India established during 1950-60s (more than 50 years old) and continued to play a leading role in extending quality education and pioneering innovative research in science, engineering and technology almost up to the end of 20^th century till new institutions added to this brand. The study intends to measure and analyze the research outputs of the older IITs on the basis of the research articles indexed in Web of Science during last 50 years (1970-2019) with …

A Cross National Comparison Of Family Friendly Work Policies: The Potential Influence Of Cultural Values, Adeline Grace Hardten

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Around the world people must work for a living, but also must raise their families. To balance these obligations, parents need high levels of support. But the existence of family friendly work policies, defined as paid parental leave and affordable, high-quality childcare, vary significantly across nations, making it difficult for many to obtain the necessary support. Research indicates that countries providing supportive family friendly policies see economic benefits, increases in profitability, and stronger overall youth development. Even though research reveals strong positive outcomes, there is a deficiency of exploration into why more countries still lack comprehensive policies that support working …