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Soaring into the Future of Chat Reference: Assessing for Quality in Cooperative Chat Reference
Full text linkOnline reference allows for libraries to join cooperatives to provide chat reference when local librarians are not available, far extending the hours assistance is available to patrons. As the future brings more cross institutional collaboration, how do we know that cooperative chat is effective for our patrons? Librarians at one institution worked to develop a rubric to assess chat transcripts for the quality of services provided. Over one academic term, these librarians assessed chat transcripts answered by academic librarians from other libraries. This poster will share the rubric used to assess transcripts, research methods, and initial findings from collected data
Interstellar Inspiration: A Collaborative Keyword Brainstorming Activity for Your Students
No full textTeaching students to brainstorm keywords and helping them understand the precise language they will need to find research in library databases can be tricky. Help your students gather the rocket fuel they will need to blast off into the world of research by guiding them in a collaborative activity to generate keywords for database searching. In this activity students use padlet to anonymously enter information about a research question or topic and then spend time commenting on each other\u27s topics with potential keywords. Students then can use their peers\u27 ideas for keywords while searching in databases. Over time, I have discovered that creating good examples for students to follow and explaining this activity clearly can help them soar into using keywords in database searching. While I have used this lesson mostly in first year classes, it could be adapted to upper level information literacy sessions or used asynchronously. In this short video, participants will learn how to use or adapt this same lesson for their own teaching and how to effectively teach their students to help classmates develop a list of keywords for database searching
These HIPs Don’t Lie: Incorporating High Impact Practices into Student Employment for Student Success and Retention
No full textHigh Impact Practices (HIPs) have been identified as educational practices that benefit undergraduate students, especially those from traditionally underserved demographics. These practices can contribute to the success of all students. While not always recognized as a HIP, student employment has many of the characteristics of a HIP including expectations for performance, time and effort around learning, interaction and collaboration with others, feedback, and demonstration of competence among others. Many campuses are starting to emphasize student employment as a HIP and see it as one of the ways that we retain students and help them succeed.
In this presentation, I will give a quick overview of HIPs and talk about how student employment in the library can meet the characteristics of HIPs. By implementing these practices into your student employment in the library you can help your students succeed in their educational pursuits
Putting DEIA into Practice: Incorporating Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility into Student Employee Training
Full text linkAbstract Purpose
This paper describes the process of developing training for student employees at a reference desk in which students assist peers and others in the community with research help. Design/methodology/approach
This case study details the process as well as the challenges in developing training that is helpful for student employees in performing day-to-day tasks at a reference desk and incorporates diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) and high-impact practices (HIPs). Findings
Training for student employees that prepares them for library work and incorporates DEIA and HIPs can be developed. These ideas can be incorporated into training for all library employees, not just students. Practical implications
This article aims to assist others in developing training for front-line student employees that incorporates DEIA and recognizes the importance of HIPs. Originality/value
DEIA and HIPs are considered throughout the development and implementation of training for student employees. Librarians have been training student employees to assist their peers with research for many years. This approach goes beyond the training that is needed to do a job and takes DEIA and student development through HIPs into account
That\u27s a Good Question: Common Questions about Libraries from First Year College Students
No full textWorking with First Year students as a librarian, I anticipate the questions that students have about libraries and library research, but when asked what do these students really want to know? In order to answer this research question, myself and two other librarians collected first year students questions about libraries from all first year library instruction during the fall 2024 semester. The qualitative data was coded and I will be presenting a visualization of the coded data. I expect this data to help inform the outreach and instruction for First Year students at Binghamton University Libraries
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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