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    Key Issue - How to share and discuss your research successfully online

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    When I first started working in the field of online dissemination of academic research, about four years ago, I asked a lot of questions around why it is important to share your work online. Over the years, my questions have now shifted away from ‘Is this an important thing to do?’ (Yes, it is), to ‘How can we do this important activity well?’ As I work with researchers at the University of Huddersfield across all disciplines, one of the first things I learnt was that the success of online dissemination and promotion requires different tools, methods and approaches depending on the subject area covered and the aims of the researcher. That said, there are certain central tenets that, if applied in a tailored way to your online activities, will help you to expand and engage your networks more successfully. I am going to cover five of these, and apply them broadly across a range of online platforms that you might be considering using

    Shoestring Budgets, Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration, and Corporate Sponsorship: Programming & Marketing the library in the 21st century.

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    This poster will look at the ideas of how to create programming and market the library while working on a shoe-string budget. I will provide ideas and tips while comparing the two projects Woodblock Woodstock on the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale campus in April 2011, as well as the recent event in New Brunswick, NJ, Navigating Rutgers 101: mapping your way around campus. This poster will also include a library literature review of how corporate sponsorship and cross-disciplinary collaboration can play a role in the everyday lives of libraries and librarians.Presented at the ACRL/NY Symposium Poster Session, Baruch College, December 7, 2012

    Woodblock Woodstock: The Drive By Press at Morris Library

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    The published version of this article is found at http://crln.acrl.org/content/74/2/86.ful

    Bringing life and engagement back into the classroom

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    After three years of teaching an 8 week one credit information literacy course, one librarian began feeling restless and bored in the classroom. In hopes to change this boredom and bring life back into the course this librarian attended the ACRL Immersion Teaching track in fall 2011. This poster is a reflection of how the Immersion program helped to rejuvenate a sense of play in the classroom. This poster will provide a study of evaluating, re-designing, and turning an 8 week lecture based information literacy course into a creative and dynamic interactive way of educating students about the possibilities of information and the library. This poster will look at data generated from evaluating the course including an online pre test/post test and open ended questionnaires regarding the positive and negative aspects of the course. Samples of projects will be presented from this course include a film discussion, a Wikipedia project, and an explorative visit to the Special Collections Research Center. This poster will discuss the ideas of teaching information literacy through creative and interactive lenses as well as promoting the ideas of peer to peer learning in the classroom. The presenter will provide a dynamic poster as well as interact with the viewers by sharing assignment samples from students, images from the class, and stories from the ACRL Immersion program. The presenter will also share her own stories from the classroom and how a more interactive environment brought life back into this course, the students, and the library as a whole.Poster presented at ALA 2013 Annual Conference, Chicago, Ill., June 2013

    To Build or To Buy: Understanding the Determinants of Security Privatization in Developing States

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    This code allows replication of the analysis in Becker's (2015) "To Build or To Buy: Understanding the Determinants of Security Privatization in Developing States.

    To Build or To Buy: Understanding the Determinants of Security Privatization in Developing States

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    This code allows replication of the analysis in Becker's (2015) "To Build or To Buy: Understanding the Determinants of Security Privatization in Developing States.

    On the Road, Playing with LEGO, and Learning about the Library: The Rutgers Art Library Lego Playing Station, Part Two

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    In Playing with LEGO®, Learning about the Library, & “Making” Campus Connections: The Rutgers University Art Library Lego Playing Station, Part One, the author discusses the importance of outreach, creativity, and innovation to the future of academic libraries. Low-cost making activities, can encourage creative problem-solving skills and be an innovative way to teach students, faculty, and staff more about academic libraries. In this article, the author will look more closely at the hands-on learning experiences that resulted when academic library faculty and staff were introduced to the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology by means of a mobile makerspace.Peer reviewe

    The promise of academic libraries: Turning outward to transform campus communities

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    Last fall, ALA launched a national partnership with the Harwood Institute. The Harwood Institute helps organizations “turn outward” toward their communities through the use of conversations where they gain the “public knowledge” they need to align their work more closely with their community’s aspirations. ALA’s joint initiative, “The Promise of Libraries Transforming Communities,” is developing a national plan to advance community engagement and innovation and transform the role of libraries in their communities. Although a few public libraries have previously used the Harwood framework, Rutgers has pioneered applying this approach in an academic library.This is the version of record of an article published in College & Research Libraries News. The article is also available at http://crln.acrl.org/content/75/4/182.full.Peer reviewe
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