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Key Issue - How to share and discuss your research successfully online
No full textWhen 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
Sensitivity of isoprene emissions estimated using MEGAN to the time resolution of input climate data
No full textWe evaluate the effect of varying the temporal resolution of the input climate data on isoprene emission estimates generated by the community emissions model MEGAN (Model of Emissions of Gases and Aerosols from Nature). The estimated total global annual emissions of isoprene is reduced from 766 Tg y(-1) when using hourly input data to 746 Tg y(-1) (a reduction of 3%) for daily average input data and 711 Tg y(-1) (down 7%) for monthly average input data. The impact on a local scale can be more significant with reductions of up to 55% at some locations when using monthly average data compared with using hourly data. If the daily and monthly average temperature data are used without the imposition of a diurnal cycle the global emissions estimates fall by 27-32%, and local annual emissions by up to 77%. A similar pattern emerges if hourly isoprene fluxes are considered. In order to better simulate and predict isoprene emission rates using MEGAN, we show it is necessary to use temperature and radiation data resolved to one hour. Given the importance of land-atmosphere interactions in the Earth system and the low computational cost of the MEGAN algorithms, we recommend that chemistry-climate models and the new generation of Earth system models input biogenic emissions at the highest temporal resolution possible
Shoestring Budgets, Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration, and Corporate Sponsorship: Programming & Marketing the library in the 21st century.
No full textThis 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
No full textThe 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
No full textAfter 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
Griffiths, Gareth. Interview about the Fowler House in Brigus.
No full textMegan Webb interviews Gareth Griffiths about his knowledge of previous ownership of Fowler House as well as his own ownership and changes he made to the Fowler House in Brigus.0:00 Beginning of recording; 0:08 Hello; 0:56 Introduction; 1:26 His childhood memories of Fowler House; 2:05 Richard Fowler; 2:29 Richard and Sadie Fowler; 2:40 John Fowler (Richard’s Father); 2:55 Fowlers had foster children; 3:36 Bought house in 2010; 3:53 Terrance Burke; 4:20 Thomas Burke; 6:00 Exterior renovations conversation with current owner; 6:30 Maintenance/changes he made to house; 9:01 Changes made prior to his ownership; 10:25 Plumbing; 11:13 Rich and Sadie; 12:00 Richard Fowler; 14:00 Memories from ownership; 15:10 Fowler House iconic to Brigus; 16:48 Historic photograph; 17:56 Front deck higher than road; 19:25 Realtor photographs with Realestate Board; 24:33 End recording
On the Road, Playing with LEGO, and Learning about the Library: The Rutgers Art Library Lego Playing Station, Part Two
No full textIn 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
No full textLast 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
The Family History of Megan S. Colvin
No full textThe Family History of
Megan S. Colvin
29 April 2023
Megan S. Colvin authored this family history as part of the course requirements for HIST 550/700 Your Family in History offered online in Fall 2022 and was submitted to the Pittsburg State University Digital Commons. Please contact the author directly with any questions or comments: [email protected]
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Madden, Eileen. Interview about the Fowler House in Brigus.
No full textMegan Webb interviews Eileen Madden aboout her familial relation to a past resident of the Fowler House in Brigus, her mother, Ignatia Fowler. She discusses the family tree and knowledge of the house.0:00 Start of recording; 0:11 Hello; 1:08 Her connection to the Fowler house through her mother; 3:00 Grandparents moved to Brigus from Cupids; 3:19 Maternal grandparents Frances (nee Corbett) Fowler and Michael Fowler; 4:00 Mother born in 1921; 5:25 Mother Ignatia Fowler, father Lewis Madden; 5:48 Eileen has 5 siblings; 7:20 Sadie and Richard Fowler bought the house for $500 some time after Ignatia left; 8:50 Saw the house at some point when Rich and Sadie lived there ~1970; 9:53 How the house looked when she visited; 14:16 After Rich and Sadie, other Fowler’s bought the house that lived in the United States; 15:20 About Ignatia’s parents Frances and Michael; 15:55 Ignatia had 5 siblings, 6 kids in total; 17:45 Mother’s memories about chores they had to do as kids; 20:00 Aunt Pauline had gone back to Fowler house to stay with Frances; 20:50 Pictures of Frances and Michael Fowler, and the house over the years; 22:25 Her grandfather, Michael, used to work on his fishing nets in the twine loft; 24:17 Ignatia recalled her father mending nets in that section of the house; 27:18 Tom Fowler interviewed Ignatia twice and created a family tree document; 33:10 Sold several times after grandparents sold it; 39:00 Concluding and setting up in-person meeting; 41:36 End of recording
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