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Scholarly Communication Education in ALA-Accredited Library & Information Science Programs: A Brief Communication of Results
No full textThe increasingly common addition of the scholarly communication librarian to academic library faculty requires that library schools adjust their curricula to reflect present demands of the job market. Finlay, Tsou and Sugimoto1 surveyed every posting to the American Library Association lob list and found that the percentage of scholarly communication jobs in academic libraries more than doubled between 2006 and 2014. In 2015, 11% of all academic library jobs contained a reference to scholarly communication, either as a job responsibility or, at least, asking for a good working knowledge of the field. Given that the number of scholarly communication librarian jobs ha
Takeaways from a Funded Campus OER Initiative at One Year
No full textThe author describes an open educational resources initiative at Indiana University South Bend. This initiative, named Affordable Educational Resources Course Redesign Workshop, brought twenty-four faculty and instructors together for five Friday sessions in which they learned about OERs, IU eTexts, and identified materials for integration into their courses
Fundamentals of Business
No full textFundamentals of Business (2016) is an openly licensed (CC BY NC SA 3.0) textbook designed for use in Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business introductory level business course, MGT1104 Foundations of Business.
A new version of this book was released in August 2018. See http://hdl.handle.net/10919/84848 for more details.
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This work is a project of University Libraries and the Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech.
Lead: Stephen J. Skripak (adapter)
Contributors: Richard Parsons, Anastasia Cortes, Anita Walz
Layout: Anastasia Cortes
Selected graphics: Brian Craig http://bcraigdesign.com
Cover design: Trevor Finney
Student Reviewers: Jonathan De Pena, Nina Lindsay, Sachi Soni
Project Manager: Anita Walz
Editable files are available in MSWord in the .zip folder. Please view the README.txt file within this zipped collection.
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Selected graphics produced by Brian Craig are available CC BY 4.0 via WikimediaCommons.
ISBN: (B&W): 978-0-9979201-1-6
ISBN: (Color): 978-0-9979201-0-9
Table of Contents
Preface: Teamwork in Business
Chapter 1: The Foundations of Business
Chapter 2: Economics and Business
Chapter 3: Ethics and Social Responsibility
Chapter 4: Business in a Global Environment
Chapter 5: Forms of Business Ownership
Chapter 6: Entrepreneurship: Starting a Business
Chapter 7: Management and Leadership
Chapter 8: Structuring Organizations
Chapter 9: Operations Management
Chapter 10: Motivating Employees
Chapter 11: Managing Human Resources
Chapter 12: Union/Management Issues
Chapter 13: Marketing: Providing Value to Customers
Chapter 14: Pricing Strategy
Chapter 15: Hospitality and Tourism
Chapter 16: Accounting and Financial Information
Chapter 17: Personal Finances
To request access to the permissions files, please contact [email protected] OF CONTENTS Preface: Teamwork in Business Chapter 1: The Foundations of Business Chapter 2: Economics and Business Chapter 3: Ethics and Social Responsibility Chapter 4: Business in a Global Environment Chapter 5: Forms of Business Ownership Chapter 6: Entrepreneurship: Starting a Business Chapter 7: Management and Leadership Chapter 8: Structuring Organizations Chapter 9: Operations Management Chapter 10: Motivating Employees Chapter 11: Managing Human Resources Chapter 12: Union/Management Issues Chapter 13: Marketing: Providing Value to Customers Chapter 14: Pricing Strategy Chapter 15: Hospitality and Tourism Chapter 16: Accounting and Financial Information Chapter 17: Personal FinancesChapter 15 is licensed CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 and was adapted by Richard Parsons from https://opentextbc.ca/introtourism Introduction to Tourism and Hospitality in BC.
All other chapters are licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 and were adapted by Stephen J. Skripak from
http://www.saylor.org/site/textbooks/Exploring%20Business.pdf.
Lead Author: Stephen J. Skripak with Richard Parsons
Project Manager: Anita Walz
Graphic Design: Brian Craig http://bcraigdesign.com
Layout: Anastasia Cortes
Student Reviewers: Jonathan De Pena, Sachi Soni, Nina Lindsay
This work is a project of University Libraries and the Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech
May 2016
This book is dedicated to reducing the cost of education in business. – S. SkripakContains front cover (PDF/A and MS Word), full text (PDF/A and MS Word), and compressed PDF (which contains the front cover and the full text).Included are both the final published version of this textbook, as well as an editable version of the textbook that can be downloaded as a Word document
Statistical analysis plan for the second INTEnsive blood pressure Reduction in Acute Cerebral hemorrhage Trial (INTERACT2): a large-scale investigation to solve longstanding controversy over the most appropriate management of elevated blood pressure in the hyperacute phase of intracerebral hemorrhage
No full textCraig Anderson, Emma Heeley, Stephane Heritier, Hisatomi Arima, Mark Woodward, Richard Lindley, Bruce Neal, Yining Huang, Ji-Guang Wang, Mark Parsons, Christian Stapf, Tom Robinson, Pablo Lavados, Candice Delcourt, Stephen Davis, and John Chalmers for the INTERACT2 Investigator
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The Auditioning Percussionist's Unique Problem: an Approach to Adjusting to Unfamiliar Instruments
No full textAuditions have become an inescapable reality in all realms of music for students with aspirations of becoming professional performers. Percussionists and timpanists must adapt to instruments unfamiliar to them, owned by the ensemble, during the audition itself. Through interviews of five current professional percussionists and timpanists (Braham Dembar, Stephen Kehner, Erich Rieppel, Matt Strauss, and Greg Zuber), this study began a documentation of approaches to overcoming this challenge. The interviews were summarized into results, and organized by the four instrument groups deemed relevant to the topic: mallet percussion, cymbals, bass drum, and timpani. The results were summarized into one cohesive table, and any contradicting approaches given by the interviewees were discussed. The author hopes this study will provide a basic framework for any student or pedagogue hoping to mitigate issues caused by performance on unfamiliar instruments at auditions.</p
Designing Assistive Technology
No full textDesign Now: A Panel Discussion with Dr. Donald Norman, Author, Living with Complexity; Dr. Craig Zimring, Georgia Tech College of Architecture; Dr. Thad Starner, Georgia Tech College of Computing; Dr. Stephen Sprigle, Georgia Tech School of Industrial Design.
Discussions of assistive technology, evidence-based and human-centered design, usability, and more.Presented at the College of Architecture Auditorium, October 4, 2013 from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm.Runtime: 59:10 minutes.Based on the 2013 First Year Common Reading book: Living with Complexity by Donald A. Norman, MIT Press (October 29, 2010)Panel discussion at College of Architecture on technology, evidence-based design, assistive technology, human-centered design. The primary audience
will include Industrial Design, Architecture, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Science, and the local ID/HCI community
EastLife: An Anthology of Life Writing
No full textEastLife: An Anthology of Life Writing. Edited by Tessa McWatt, Sam Dodd, and Stephen Maddison.© 2015 All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the author
Staffing and Workflow for Institutional Repositories
No full textAs we enter the 2020s Open Access Institutional Repositories have graduated from being “well established components of many academic libraries,” as Madsen and Oleen wrote in 2013, to being standard among universities. The Directory of Open Access Repositories lists over 5,200 IRs, all types, as of December 2019, while the Registry of Open Access Repositories lists over 4,100. The growth in repositories is sufficient that a conversation has started about whether the preponderance of IRs has the potential for confusion and diminishing returns (Arlitsch & Grant, 2018). For those universities and colleges who have not yet developed an IR, or are running a small IR with only part-time staff, this means that the problem of developing workflows and staffing policies for a has largely been solved, standardized and documented in the literature by the many, many librarians who have come before. This is good news those librarians and staff at smaller universities and colleges either in the process of starting an IR or who have been slowly populating their dSPACE collection with a few items here and there as time permits. There is no shortage of literature on which to rely for wisdom and advice
Streaming Availability and Library Circulation: An Exploratory Study.
No full textThe contents of a popular film and television video collection at a mid-sized university totaling 2,242 items were examined for availability and total number of checkouts on three major streaming services: Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime. A total of 1026 titles were coded for availability on Netflix and Hulu. Then, 454 items were coded for availability on Amazon Instant. It was found that total circulation counts changed depending on the streaming services used. Specifically only Hulu was found to correlate negatively. Library titles available on Netflix Streaming had more charges on average then titles not available on Netflix streaming. Titles available on Amazon Instant were twice as likely to circulate then items not available on Amazon Instant. This leads to the possibility that Amazon Instant might be used as collection development tool in order to gauge how often certain DVD title could circulate. In addition it can be concluded that availability over subscription streaming services, such as Netflix and Amazon Instant, actually points to items that may circulate more frequently
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