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  • The high cost of textbooks: a convergence of academic libraries, campus bookstores, publishers?

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    Pollitz, John H. and Christie, Anne
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    Recent publications about the rising cost of college textbooks by the Public Interest Research and the US Government Accountability Office have caused student groups across the country to explore novel ways to address the problem. Students, publishers, bookstores and academic libraries, because of their role of managing course reserves, are...
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    ACADEMIC LIBRARIES, CAMPUS BOOKSTORES, PUBLISHERS? While the attention of Oregon State University

  • Organizing for Digitization: a Survey

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    Boock, Michael and Vondracek, Ruth
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    How are academic libraries organizing themselves in order to engage in the content selection and digitization of local collections? Are libraries creating new positions or units, assigning responsibilities to existing departments, setting up cross-functional collaboration among existing departments, or using a combination of these strategies? Who holds responsibility for the...
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    Oregon State University Libraries 121 The Valley Library Corvallis, Or 97331-4501 ruth.vondracek

  • A library instruction case study: measuring success from multiple perspectives

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    Webster, Janet G. and Rielly, Loretta
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    Measuring the effectiveness of library instruction poses many challenges, yet is essential to validating the time and energy dedicated to it. Over two years, how subject specific library instruction addressed the needs of the students, the instructor and the librarians was studied. Students were surveyed; librarians analyzed their research paper...
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    –32 A library instruction case study: measuring success from multiple perspectives Janet Webstera

  • A Faculty Led Response to the Crisis in Scholarly Communications

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    Boock, Michael
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    Oregon State University’s recent response to the crisis in scholarly communications recognizes that teaching faculty must be involved in communicating an appropriate response to their faculty colleagues. As authors, editors, and peer reviewers, direct faculty action can encourage publishers to lower costs and can enhance the availability of research. The...
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    State University Libraries in Corvallis, Oregon USA. He is a member of the Scholarly Communication

  • Click data as implicit feedback in web search

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    Jung, Seikyung, Herlocker, Jonathan L., and Webster, Janet G.
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    Search sessions consist of a person presenting a query to a search engine, followed by that person examining the search results, selecting some of those search results for further review, possibly following some series of hyperlinks, and perhaps backtracking to previously viewed pages in the session. The series of pages...
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    -5501, USA b Oregon State University Libraries, The Guin Library, Hatfield Marine Science Center

  • Continuing the Quest for the Quick Search Holy Grail: Oregon State University Libraries’ Federated Search Implementation

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    Boock, Michael, Nichols, Jane, and Kristick, Laurel
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    This article describes the selection, implementation, configuration, and assessment of a proprietary federated search product. The decisions made and processes used to facilitate the implementation are outlined. Users' perception of the product based on a usability study and survey responses are presented. Also described are unique and innovative implementations of...
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    they require it” (Oregon State University Libraries 2004). A key action plan in the first year

  • Threats to and Opportunities for Technical Services Departments: Report of the ALCTS Technical Services Administrators of Medium-Sized Research Libraries Discussion Group, ALA Annual 2006

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    Boock, Michael
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    The ALCTS Technical Services Administrators of Medium-Sized Research Libraries Discussion Group discussed several topics within an overarching theme at the 2006 annual conference in New Orleans: “Threats to and Opportunities for Technical Services Departments”. Topics discussed within that general theme included: Future of the Catalog, Future of Cataloging as a...
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    Professor Oregon State University Libraries Corvallis, OR 97331 Michael.Boock@oregonstate.edu 1

  • Collaborative Filtering: A New Approach to Searching Digital Libraries

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    Webster, Janet G., Jung, Seikyung, and Herlocker, Jonathan L.
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    At Oregon State University (OSU), the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and the OSU Libraries are working together on a project to improve the effectiveness and accessibility of digital information created and collected by academic libraries. This project focuses on making digital resources more accessible through an...
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    APPROACH TO SEARCHING DIGITAL LIBRARIES Janet Webster, Seikyung Jung and Jon Herlocker At Oregon State

  • The Use of Value Engineering in the Evaluation and Selection of Digitization Projects

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    Boock, Michael and Chau, May
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    Objective ‐ The authors describe a simple and effective tool for selecting digitization projects from competing alternatives, providing decision makers with objective, quantitative data. Methods ‐ The paper adopts the value engineering methodology for the selection, evaluation and ranking of digitization project proposals. Project selection steps are described. Selection criteria...
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     Boock  Assistant Professor  Head of Technical Services  Oregon State University Libraries  121 The

  • An interview with Steve Shadle

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    Parks, Bonnie
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    Bonnie Parks interviewed Steve Shadle, serials cataloger for University of Washington Libraries, in August 2002. In this interview Shadle provides a cataloger's perspective on the challenges he and other serials catalogers face in the organization and management of electronic and print serial titles. Serials Review 2002; 28:321–326.
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    cataloging in a large, academic library was a natural progression from ISSN cataloging. At the time I left