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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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    invest themselves in the project. Most students, regardless of their grade, do not report having great

  • 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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    in the next nine years or less.2 The evidence mounted as indicated by a recent report in the

  • Describing grey literature again: a survey of collection policies

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    Lehman, Heather and Webster, Janet G.
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    At Oregon State University, we are exploring the differences between collections formed by digitizing existing materials on our shelves and those created by identifying and acquiring digital objects beyond our library. One example is the proposed Tsunami Digital Library (TDL) that would support a growing research program with users needing...
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    did not, for the most part, generate simple yes or no answers. Rather, we looked for patterns in the

  • 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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    that we used to create and maintain bibliographic data seemed to never change. This is no longer

  • 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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    requiring constant maintenance. New Review of Information Networking, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2004 ISSN 1361-4576

  • 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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    the job? SS: No, I didn’t have any serials experience other than serials acquisitions when I was at

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

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    McMillen, Paula S. and Hill, Eric
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    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...
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    encouraging finding from our evaluation (admittedly subjective since we had no pre-library collaboration data

  • 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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    bibliotherapy worked. Twelve years later, an entire issue of Library Trends (Oct 1962, no. 2) was devoted to the

  • 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 university’s Freshman Composition Program. In implementing this project, with no

  • Bibliotherapy for hospital patients

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    McMillen, Paula S. and Pehrsson, Dale Elizabeth
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    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...
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    bibliotherapy process (15). No two individuals will react in the same fashion to a given piece of literature and