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Game On! Authors, Fans Face Off in Innovative Experiment
No full textAuthors have total recall of everything in their books, right? Or would an avid fan kick their butt in a trivia match? This ingenious concept—conceived in the early days of the pandemic by three-time National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin and Stacey Rattner, librarian at Castleton Elementary School in upstate New York—was only supposed to be a temporary virtual offering
Maximizing the Discovery of Data Sets in the Yale University Library Catalog
No full textIn response to the desire to include data set holdings in the Yale University Library (YUL) catalog, the Dataset Cataloging Task Force was formed in spring 2019 to assess the existing cataloging practices and current integrated library system environment. This paper describes the process of developing cataloging guidelines in the absence of authoritative resources while implementing best practices for cataloging data sets with the goal of optimizing the discoverability and accessibility of data sets in the online library catalog. The authors recommend the establishment of a national group to discuss, establish, and document national guidelines for cataloging data sets so that these increasingly important resources are treated in a consistent manner in institutional, consortial, and global catalogs
Book Review: Compact Copyright: Quick Answers to Common Questions
No full textAnyone working in libraries, museums, or other similar organizations has more than likely encountered a scenario involving copyright. Knowing how to deal with these situations when they occur is key in today’s library landscape of electronic resources, emergency access to copyrighted materials, and online teaching and learning. This new publication provides a basic introduction to copyright in the United States to help address these questions
Chapter 1. Design Trends and Approaches
No full textChapter 1 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 58, no. 5), “Design Trends and Approaches,” looks at changing approaches to how we design tutorials, what we teach, and how we teach it. It first looks at two newer instructional design models and how these models help us design better tutorials. Next, we look at how the Association of College and Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education has changed what we teach from discrete skills to more conceptual information literacy topics. How librarians teach is then explored
Emerging Leaders: Welcoming Students to ALSC
No full textThe American Library Association (ALA) Emerging Leaders (EL) program enables newer library workers from across the country to participate in problem-solving work groups, network with peers, gain an inside look into ALA structure, and have an opportunity to serve the profession in a leadership capacity. As a part of the program, participants work in groups on a research project and display the result of their work during the ALA Annual Conference
Documenting the Surge
No full textWhen the Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy (JIFP) first started publishing in 2016, the United States was in a radically different political environment. Barack Obama was president and there was little thought given to a pandemic. The publication of this seventh volume comes after the election of Donald Trump, the first time the US has not had a peaceful transfer of executive power, and a pandemic that has killed more than 6.42 million people worldwide and more than 1 million in the US. Along with these huge shifts in our political and social structures, we have seen an incredible increase in the number of book challenges and bannings across the states
