Auburn University Libraries: Recent submissions
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Librarian's Role in General Education: Authentically Assessing Information Literacy Skills via English Composition Classes
(2014-04-12)
This poster reports on a method used at Auburn University Libraries to assess information literacy skills of students that incorporates both formative and summative authentic assessment.
Information and Interaction Needs of Distance Students: Are Academic Libraries Meeting the Challenge?
(2014-03-31)
One of the trends currently affecting academic libraries is higher education’s expanding use of online instruction and a rising number of totally online degree programs. As libraries have transitioned from primarily print ...
Recruiting and Retaining a Diverse Faculty Body: The Role of Microaggressions & Incivility
(2014-02-18)
Are we doing enough to recruit and retain a diverse faculty body? Despite a variety of efforts to increase underrepresented populations within the professoriate, diversity gains remain minimal. Presenters will introduce ...
Data Management Tools
(2013-09-17)
A brief overview of online data management tools for university-based researchers. Includes DataONE, DMPTool, and Databib.
The Power of Observation: How Librarians can Benefit from the Peer Review of Teaching--Even Without a Formal Program
(2013-08-27)
Many academic librarians who provide library instruction have never received formal training in pedagogical theories and methods. In an effort to improve the teaching skills of instruction librarians, some libraries have ...
Open Access Publishing, AUrora, and You
(2013-05-07)
Jaena Alabi (Libraries), Jo Mackiewicz (Technical & Professional Communication), and Aaron Trehub (Libraries) discuss the benefits of open-access publishing through AUrora, Auburn’s institutional repository. Among the ...
Academic Librarians' Experiences & Observations of Microaggressions
(2013-04-25)
In this poster, the researcher will present results from a survey of academic librarians about their experiences of racial microaggressions. The research presented in this poster—results from a survey of minority and ...
Racial Microaggressions and Academic Libraries
(2013-04-25)
The abundance of articles, books, and conference papers on diversity in librarianship tend to focus on a few recurring themes: depictions of minorities in children’s literature, developing multicultural collections, or ...
Do You See What I See? Academic Librarians' Experiences of Racism
(2013-04-25)
This research project uses the framework of racial microaggressions to investigate academic librarians’ experiences and observations of racism in the profession.
The poster presents preliminary findings of a survey of ...
Libraries in the Digital Age: A View from the United States
(2013-04-05)
An overview of technology-related trends affecting academic libraries in the United States and elsewhere. Includes digital repositories, virtual libraries, Web-scale discovery, open-source library systems, digital preservation, ...
RDA Intro Session 1
(2013-04-02)
A brief introduction to the new cataloging code Resource Description and Access (RDA) which was implemented nationally on March 31, 2013.
"Slavic Studies and Slavic Librarianship" Revisited: Notes of a Former Slavic Librarian
(2013-04-02)
This article revisits the author’s essay in Solanus on the state of
Slavic librarianship at the turn of the twenty-first century in order to assess how the profession has changed in the interim. Trehub
notes that the ...
William March (William Edward Campbell)
(2013-03-28)
Entry on the Alabama-born author William March (1893-1954) for the Web-based Encyclopedia of Alabama (http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/)
Applications of Digital Technology to Slavic Librarianship
(2013-03-25)
The purpose of this article is to examine recent developments in information technology and suggest some ways they might be applied to the practice of Slavic librarianship. I have qualifications in both fields: originally ...
William March and Eugene B. Sledge: Mobilians, Marines, and Writers
(2013-03-06)
This article discusses the lives and literary works of William March and Eugene B. Sledge, southern identity, and the southern military tradition. March and Sledge were born in Mobile, Alabama, served in the U.S. Marine ...
Safety in Numbers: Distributed Digital Preservation Networks
(2013-01-11)
It has long been recognized that there is safety in numbers and that redundancy enhances
survivability. This principle has been applied in many spheres of human activity, from
engineering to military science. It is now ...
The Dark Side of the Web: Online Resources, Learning, and Scholarship
(2012-11-12)
This conference paper was presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) in Denver, Colorado in November 2000. It examines possible effects of the World-Wide Web ...
Economic Sustainability and Economic Alignment: Examples from North America
(2012-08)
Much of the literature on digital preservation focuses on
technical solutions. However, recent experience from North
America suggests that questions of governance and economic
sustainability are equally if not more ...
To Tag or Not To Tag
(2012-10-16)
Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide a quantitative analysis of the extent to which folksonomies replicate the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) to see if folksonomies would successfully complement ...