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  • 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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    addresses: janet.webster@oregonstate.edu (J. Webster), loretta.rielly@oregonstate.edu (L. Rielly). J

  • The face of Oregon's library community

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    Webster, Janet G. and Cole, Maureen
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    One goal of the Oregon Library Association's Vision 2010 is to promote a strong and diverse workforce throughout all of the state's libraries. The forecasted shortage of librarians in the next decade prompted the OLA Board to request a demographic study of Oregon's libraries. A simple survey was adminstered at...
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  • Bibliographic freedom and the future direction of map cataloging

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    Reese, Terry
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    With more and more cartographic data being created and released only as GIS datasets, map catalogers will eventually find themselves moving away from Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC) as their primary bibliographic description schema and moving towards the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). This move will be necessitated in large part...
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    by a tourism information provider (Norgueras-Iso, J., Zarazaga-Soria, F.J., Lacasta, R. Béjar, Muro

  • 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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    systems , edited by I.R. Katz, R. Mack, L., Marks, M.B. Rosson and J. Nielsen, New York, NY: ACM Press

  • Planning for an institutional repository: lessons learned at Oregon State University

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    Webster, Janet G.
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    The Oregon State University Libraries began working on implementation of an institutional repository through a five month planning process. The Task Force responsible for the planning identified campus needs for such a service, examined persistent issues and challenges, and made recommendations for a pilot project. These steps are summarized and...
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    [Accessed: 29 July 2004] Barton, M. R. & Walker, J. H. 2002. MIT Libraries’ DSpace Business Plan Project

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

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    Pehrsson, Dale Elizabeth and McMillen, Paula S.
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    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...
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    ., & Lyman, R. D. (1998). Cognitive bibliotherapy for mild and moderate adolescent depressive symptomatology

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

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    McMillen, Paula S., Miyagishima, Bryan, and Maughan, Laurel S.
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    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...
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    collaboration with the Freshman Composition Program. Background The Reference & Instruction (R & I) Department

  • A day in the life : my job is changing

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    Gilmont, Susan
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    This article is part of a collection of articles dealing with the endeavors and projects of support staff in Oregon libraries. Describes an ordinary workday at a specialized academic branch library.
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    in the Life”: My Job is Changing Susan R. Gilmont “Change is inevitable, except from vending

  • Non-parametric habitat models with automatic interactions

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    McCune, Bruce
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    Questions: Can a statistical model be designed to represent more directly the nature of organismal response to multiple interacting factors? Can multiplicative ernel smoothers be used for this purpose? What advantages does this approach have over more traditional habitat modelling methods? Methods: Non-parametric multiplicative regression (NPMR)was developed from the premises...
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    includes the entire distribution of L. occidentalis in the U.S. Similar climatic data were not available

  • 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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    search Seikyung Jung a,*, Jonathan L. Herlocker a, Janet Webster b a School of Electrical Engineering