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Scaffolds: Experimenting with student-driven digital badging in an iSchool context
(2015-03-24)
Digital badge systems can be contentious to start and challenging to implement. In this project, we examine the development of an open, student-led, peer-to-peer badging framework within an iSchool context. Scaffolds ...
Open Access as Feminist Praxis
(2016-11-11)
Provides a definition of open access, concrete steps scholars can take to make their work more open, and a justification for open access rooted in the work of bell hooks.
Synergism between a teacher and academic librarians in a high school setting
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2012-12)
Manually Classifying User Search Queries on an Academic Library Web Site
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-12-04)
The University of Michigan Library wanted to learn more about the kinds of searches its users were conducting through the “one search” search box on the Library Web site. Library staff conducted two investigations. A ...
Long-term Preservation of Deprecated Media: How Can Libraries Provide Information From Today’s CD-ROMs in the Future?
(American Society for Engineering Education, 2018-06-23)
New data storage media advances in the 1990s brought changes to publishing practices. Storage media had gone through a series of progressions, and with falling costs of digital media, publishers now had new and affordable ...
Filling the Gap: Digital Scholarship, Graduate Students, and the Role of the Subject Specialist
(IGI Global, 2015)
Graduate students in the humanities increasingly view training in the use of digital tools and methodologies as critical to their success. Graduate students’ interest in becoming familiar with digital tools often accompanies ...
Using onsite office hours to connect with healthcare professionals
(Taylor & Francis, 2011)
Four librarians at the A. Alfred Taubman Health Sciences Library recently began offering on-site office hours to four distinct units within the University of Michigan Health System and academic health sciences environment: ...
The Scholarly Communication Process within the University Research Corridor (Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, and Wayne State University)
(Taylor & Francis, 2009-10-19)
The growth of open access publishing, the development of institutional repositories, and the availability of millions of digitized monographs and journals are rapidly changing scholarly communication. This case study looks ...
Patterns of Undergraduates' Use of Scholarly Databases in a Large Research University
(Elsevier, 2012-12-23)
Authentication data was utilized to explore undergraduate usage of subscription electronic databases. These usage patterns were linked to the information literacy curriculum of the library. The data showed that out of the ...
Health Literacy: A Survey of the Issues and Solutions
(Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2011)
Health literacy has been recognized as a pressing issue in providing good health care and holding down health care costs. This article presents various definitions of health literacy, enumerates the statistics and ...