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A Picture Book Is Worth a Thousand Words: Building a Character Literacy Library
No full textAccording to the U.S. Department of Education, character education refers to teaching “the habits of thought and deed that help people live and work together as families, friends, neighbors, communities, and nations.”Character education has long been viewed as an essential part of the mission of schools, and some have even suggested that it may be the primary purpose of education in the future. In addition, meta-analytic studies have linked character education to decreased risk behaviors, increased prosocial behaviors, favorable school outcomes, and healthy social-emotional functioning
A Bibliometric Study of LIS Literature Trends of Mindfulness within Libraries
No full textThis study examined the publication patterns of Library and Information Science literature related to mindfulness between 2010 and 2020. Questions answered include the number of articles published each year on this topic, the journals publishing these articles, the number of authors publishing and their countries of origin, and the specific subject of the articles. The results of this study show whether there has been a growth or decline of interest in the publication of journal articles related to this topic, how this topic has evolved, and where the interest is growing
Library Service to Underserved Children and Their Caregivers Committee: It Takes Two (Or More): Developing Partnerships to Serve Marginalized Populations
No full textAs our name suggests, the Library Service to Underserved Children and Their Caregivers (LSUCTC) committee seeks to help library staff better serve children and families who are often marginalized and overlooked by traditional library programs and services. A significant part of our committee’s work is focused on developing toolkits that provide resources and ideas for assisting a variety of these overlooked demographics, and we encourage readers to visit our toolkits here: tinyurl.com/lsuctctoolkit
Branching Out: Promoting Genre Diversity in Storytime
No full textHow often do you consider genre when planning your storytimes? What percentage of the time do you think you’re sharing informational, or nonfiction books, with the families that attend your programs?If you answered only a little or not much to these questions, you are not alone. A recent study found that across all storytime age groups, informational books were being shared at a much lower rate than any other genre, both in the number shared per storytime and the time spent interacting with them
Estimating the Value of a Depository Collection
No full textIn the fall of 2018, I was asked to calculate the value of Grand Valley State University’s (GVSU) general collection (defined as everything except Special Collections and University Archives) as part of risk mitigation planning and updating insurance coverage. Records indicated that our collection’s value was last calculated 11 years earlier, and we lacked both written documentation and institutional memory regarding the process used to calculate that value. While there is a fairly significant body of knowledge around calculating the value of monographs, I struggled to find guidance on calculating the monetary value FDLP collections. There is a robust body of scholarship on promoting the intrinsic value of being a member of the FDLP to library administration and other stakeholders, but very few of them focus on detailed financial benefits of tangible collections
“I’ve Already Googled It, and I Can’t Understand It”: User’s Perceptions of Virtual Reference and Social Question-Answering Sites
No full textFor librarians to continually demonstrate superior and high-quality service, they must meet the needs of current and potential users. One way that librarians have met the needs of users is by expanding their service offerings online via virtual reference services (VRS). This expansion is particularly critical in the current time of COVID-19. To provide high-quality VRS service, librarians can learn from social question-answering (SQA) sites, whose popularity reflect changing user expectations, motivations, use, and assessment of information. Informed by interviews with 51 users and potential users of both platforms this research examines how strengths from SQA can be leveraged in VRS, and what can be learned from SQA practices to reach potential library users. This study represents one of the few comparisons between VRS and SQA that exist in the literature
The Alert Collector: Universal Design for Learning
No full textWhether it is an Instruction Services Librarian revising her one-shot lesson plan or a programming librarian designing computer classes for public library clientele, universal design for learning offers a great way to create an inclusive learning environment. Arising out of the field of architecture, UDL offers a variety of teaching methods to eliminate barriers to learning and give all users, students, and patrons the chance to gain new skills. To that end, Catherine Baldwin has selected a range of books, journals and websites that should go in your library’s professional development collection, and/or for the circulating collection of your institution.—Edito
Exploring the Impact of Digitization on Print Usage
No full textLibrarians and administrators speculate that the digitization and access of items through the HathiTrust Digital Library may reduce or eliminate demand for the corresponding print content. This belief feeds into a perception that monographs housed in academic libraries and delivered via such services are ripe for deduplication or outright withdrawal, yet other institutions may remain dependent upon those holding titles to provide print-based access for their patrons. Embracing HathiTrust’s emerging Shared Print Monograph Program, more than seventy-nine member institutions committed to retain print monographs that correspond to those digitized from their collections. Putting aside concerns expressed by some about the meaningfulness of those commitments, not all members made such commitments. Moreover, retention commitments are not always publicly displayed, leading to scenarios in which such commitments may be used by other institutions to withdraw from their collections, based on these holdings. This paper provides a data-driven examination of the use of one research library’s print items that correspond to the digital materials deposited into the HathiTrust, detailing both the results and the process by which data was gathered, managed, and digested to yield the results
Chapter 1. The Rationale for a Digital Repository in the Cloud
No full textThe process of building a digital repository can be a large and potentially difficult undertaking for libraries. A digital repository can be a valuable resource for patrons and community members but may require significant technology resources to successfully implement. Cloud resources can be used to create digital repositories that meet the needs of different institutions
Chapter 3. Transitioning to Digital Services
No full textMany crises involve interruptions of access to physical spaces and materials. Chapter 3 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 57, no. 7), “Transitioning to Digital Services,” discusses how library IT departments can help their libraries transition to digital services to serve patrons and preserve as much resource availability as possible