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Experiments into plasma physics

Creator:: Smith, Christopher S.
Abstract:: Our research was focused mainly on the field of plasma physics and the creation of plasmas in a laboratory environment. We first began our project with the goal to develop a tabletop Tokamak, a doughnut shaped device that magnetically confines plasmas at pressures greater than one atmosphere. After researching this...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: Christopher S. Smith for the degree of Honors Baccalaureate of Science in Physics presented on June 6th, 2006

The utility of playfulness in terms of innovation and productivity for business and a life of learning

Creator:: Adams, Jason S.
Abstract:: The purpose of this project was to investigate play and our cultural assumptions as to its usefulness or lack there of. The concepts of hard work versus hard play were explored in order to discover when human beings are operating at their best. In terms of innovation and productivity in...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: get paid to play for a living,” when s/he is captivated by their vocation. As noted earlier in our

The bibliotherapy education project: a collaborative teaching effort goes to the Web OR a tale for travelers

Creator:: McMillen, Paula S.
Abstract:: This narrative details the evolution of a collaborative teaching project into an educational Website about Bibliotherapy, which is the process of facilitating personal development or problem resolution through books. Working with a Counselor Education colleague, the Education librarian at Oregon State University helped develop a tool to evaluate books for...
Resource Type:: Article and Preprint
Full Text:: to the Web OR A Tale for Travelers Paula S. McMillen Abstract This narrative details the evolution

Lessons learned about developing and coordinating an instruction program with freshman composition

Creator:: McMillen, Paula S., Miyagishima, Bryan, and Maughan, Laurel S.
Abstract:: In the Spring of 2001, the Oregon State University Libraries began planning for a collaboration with the university’s Freshman Composition Program. In implementing this project, with no additional library resources, and with the majority of library faculty less experienced in working with freshman students, the coordinators of the program learned...
Resource Type:: Article and Preprint
Full Text:: instruction program in a large academic library The Authors Paula S. McMillen, Ph.D. (Paula.McMillen@orst.edu

It takes a village to manage the 21st century reference department

Creator:: McMillen, Paula S. and Rielly, Loretta
Abstract:: Reference services at Oregon State University’s Valley Library have undergone several reoganizations in response to institutional changes, shifting service needs and patron demands. Part of this history includes training for and functioning in team-based management. We have now evolved to a management model which utilizes workgroups and an advisory and...
Resource Type:: Preprint
Full Text:: local community college. In the mid-1990’s, while still retaining department heads and library-wide

Metaconversations : ongoing discussions about teaching research writing

Creator:: McMillen, Paula S. and Hill, Eric
Abstract:: This article is a follow up to an earlier publication that developed the rationale for using conversation as a metaphor to teach research writing. We presented this proposed teaching approach at several conferences, including WILU in May 2005 at Guelph, Canada. The discussions with participants in these presentations validated the...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: instructors develop a shared model. Research Strategies (in press). McMillen, P. S., Miyagishima, B. & Maughan

Why teach "Research as a conversation" in freshman composition courses?: A metaphor to help librarians and composition instructors develop a shared model.

Creator:: McMillen, Paula S. and Hill, Eric
Abstract:: Ongoing discussion between the Oregon State University libraries' instruction program and the English composition program focuses on improving collaboration between our programs and more effectively integrating the research process into the English composition curriculum. The authors, formerly the library instruction coordinator and the Assistant Composition Coordinator, briefly describe a qualitative...
Resource Type:: Preprint and Article
Full Text:: . Paula S. McMillen Oregon State University Paula.McMillen@oregonstate.edu Eric Hill University

Complex questions, evolving answers: Creating a multidimensional assessment strategy to build support for the “teaching library”

Creator:: McMillen, Paula S. and Deitering, Anne-Marie
Abstract:: Since 2001, librarians at Oregon State University’s Valley Library have been working to build a “teaching library” supported by a clearly articulated instruction program. From the start, we believed that we needed to assess the “teaching library’s” impact, not only to determine the success or failure of our efforts but...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: resources were adequate, then learning would happen. This assumption started to break down in the 1980’s

Bibliotherapy for hospital patients

Creator:: McMillen, Paula S. and Pehrsson, Dale Elizabeth
Abstract:: The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of bibliotherapy in relation to hospital patients. It includes a brief history as well as discussion of practitioners, patients and problems, methodology and effectiveness. It also offers recommendations for those who provide bibliotherapy within the hospital context. The focus is...
Resource Type:: Article and Preprint
Full Text:: /or further therapeutic interactions (8). HISTORY In the early 1800’s, reading became one of the

A bibliotherapy evaluation tool: grounding counselors in the therapeutic use of literature

Creator:: Pehrsson, Dale Elizabeth and McMillen, Paula S.
Abstract:: Discusses the development and evolution of the Bibliotherapy Evaluation Tool to help graduate counseling students use literature in therapy ethically and appropriately. A survey of bibliotherapeutic practice in the helping professions is provided. Graduate students showed greater knowledge of and comfort with bibliotherapy after exposure to a teaching module and...
Resource Type:: Article and Preprint
Full Text:: professions.’ In the early 1900’s the American Library Association was active in establishing libraries for

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Experiments into plasma physics

The utility of playfulness in terms of innovation and productivity for business and a life of learning

The bibliotherapy education project: a collaborative teaching effort goes to the Web OR a tale for travelers

Lessons learned about developing and coordinating an instruction program with freshman composition

It takes a village to manage the 21st century reference department

Metaconversations : ongoing discussions about teaching research writing

Why teach "Research as a conversation" in freshman composition courses?: A metaphor to help librarians and composition instructors develop a shared model.

Complex questions, evolving answers: Creating a multidimensional assessment strategy to build support for the “teaching library”

Bibliotherapy for hospital patients

A bibliotherapy evaluation tool: grounding counselors in the therapeutic use of literature

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