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  • Subject Analysis Training for Cataloging Paraprofessionals: A Model for Ongoing Learning and Support

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    Sapon-White, Richard
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    Oregon State University has trained paraprofessionals to assign subject headings to theses and dissertations. This article describes the training program for the paraprofessionals and the ongoing support provided by weekly meetings to discuss works that are difficult to analyze. The transition from copy cataloging to subject analysis is a major...
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    Services, 42, no. 4 (1998):282-291. � Claire-Lise Benaud, “The Academic Paraprofessional Cataloger

  • Unethical Numbers? A Meta-analysis of Library Learning Analytics Studies

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    Robertshaw, M. Brooke
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    Following trends in higher education that emphasize quantitative analytical approaches to assess educational outcomes, academic libraries are increasingly attempting to quantify their impacts on student learning and demonstrate their value to the university’s educational mission. By applying learning analytics techniques to library use and instructional data, libraries have especially focused...
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    overall effect size for these studies. The null hypothesis that there is no effect in these studies was

  • 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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    percent (45 of 82) of the students participated in the study; in W2001, 86 percent participated (63 of 73

  • Unethical numbers? A meta-analysis of library impact studies (pre-print)

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    Robertshaw, M. Brooke and Asher, A.
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    Following trends in higher education that emphasize quantitative analytical approaches to learn about educational outcomes, academic libraries are increasingly attempting to quantify their impacts on student learning and demonstrate their value to the university’s educational mission. By applying learning analytics techniques to library use and instructional data, libraries have especially...
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    used are shown in column 1 of Tables 3, 4, and 5. (An r-value of 0-0.2 should be interpreted as no

  • Involving the users remotely : an exploratory study using asynchronous usability testing

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    Filar Williams, Beth and Valla, Sara
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    Open Educational Resources (OER) are increasingly used in the higher education landscape as a solution for a variety of copyright, publishing and cost-prohibiting issues. While OERs are becoming more common, reports of usability tests that evaluate how well learners can use them to accomplish their learning tasks have lagged behind....
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    lagged behind. Because both the researchers and the learners in this study use resources and tools

  • Life History of Ralph W. Spitzer

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    Petersen, Chris
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    A detailed biographical sketch of Ralph W. Spitzer (b. 1918), a graduate student of Linus Pauling's and promising academic who joined the Oregon State College chemistry department in 1946. Promoted to Assistant Professor in 1947, Spitzer was nonetheless fired from the OSC faculty in 1949 by President August L. Strand,...
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    energy in bent bonds. One year into his graduate career, Ralph decided that he could no longer bear

  • Statewide Spatial Data Clearinghouses: an Oregon Case Study

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    Wirth, Andrea A., Avery, Bonnie E., Walsh, Kuuipo, and Rempel, Marc
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    Collaborative planning to streamline as well as to provide citizens with easier access to geospatial data has a long history in Oregon. A milestone in this process was the launch of the Oregon Spatial Data Library (OSDL) in November 2009. The Oregon Spatial Data Library is a joint effort between...
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    Case Study. 4 of 14 In 1990 a revision to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular No. A–16

  • Peer Review of Research Data Submissions to ScholarsArchive@OSU: How can we improve the curation of research datasets to enhance reusability?

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    Llebot, Clara and Van Tuyl, Steven
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    Objective: Best practices such as the FAIR Principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability) were developed to ensure that published datasets are reusable. While we employ best practices in the curation of datasets, we want to learn how domain experts view the reusability of datasets in our institutional repository, ScholarsArchive@OSU. Curation workflows...
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    (Merson et al. 2016), but very few studies have investigated it. A notable exception is the study by

  • Author preferences for open access in Portugal : survey findings

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    Carvalho, Milena, Boock, Michael, Martins, Susana, Braga, Inês, Pinto, Cláudia, and Todorova, Tania
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    In its relatively short existence, open access—the free, online, and immediate availability of scientific outputs in journals and repositories—has contributed to the availability and impact of scientific knowledge across the globe. As a result, the authors hypothesize that researchers and students increasingly prefer that their work appears in open access...
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    Sciences Studies Department and Deputy Head of UNESCO Interfaculty Chair ‘ICT in Library Studies

  • Bibliographic Management Tool Adoption and Use: A Qualitative Research Study Using the UTAUT Model

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    Rempel, Hannah Gascho and Mellinger, Margaret
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    This study explores how researchers choose a bibliographic management tool and what makes them continue using this tool. This exploratory, observational study combined a naturalistic work-practice method, interviews, and journal reflections to collect qualitative research data from researchers actively using a bibliographic management tool. The unified theory of acceptance and...
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    & User Services Quarterly, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 43–53 © 2015 American Library Association. All rights