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The Mississippi State University Exploration, Research, and Learning Environment (ERLE)
No full textThe Mitchell Memorial Library is located in the heart of the campus of Mississippi State University (MSU), a large land grant university in the southeastern United States. As part of a new strategic plan to transform the university, the role of the library will become even more important to the university community, including its 22,649 students and 1,520 faculty members (fall 2022 data). The institution's mission of being the educational and economic engine to the state is focused on improving student retention and success; offering outreach to the community of young children through adult learners; maintaining excellent undergraduate and graduate programs, while growing new interdisciplinary pathways to badges, credentials, and certificates; and providing for hands-on, innovative, technologically focused design and capstone projects. Several examples and success stories will be presented in this venue. These include, but are not limited to, collaborative work areas, incubator spaces, student success initiatives, a digital lab for Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) projects, programming and displays for building a culture of books/reading, and flexible environments for community connection. These unique spaces and services will enhance interdisciplinarity at MSU as well as increase institutional diversity and inclusion
Rethinking the Neoliberal University: Critical Library Pedagogy in an Age of Transition
Full text linkIn the chapter we wrote 10 years ago for Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods we asked instructors to free themselves from the stifling heritage of positivism that privileged tools and instrumentality above meaning. Drawing on Henry Giroux and Oscar Wilde, we urged our peers to embrace dialogue that respects the individual and draws connections between information literacy and the students’ authentic goals and experiences. In this essay we describe numerous changes over that past decade that embrace the central themes of our chapter. We then explain that these examples coexist within a vast edifice of antithetical, neoliberal institutions. We summarize Giroux’s recent work decrying the influence of neoliberalism on universities, describe how pressures to deliver instruction economically while demonstrating wide impacts are affecting the adoption of critical approaches, and discuss how the trend toward increasing specialization is giving new life to traditional, non-critical instruction. We conclude by repeating our call for library instructors to use dialog to help learners become more reflective and capable
The Mississippi State University Exploration, Research, and Learning Environment (ERLE)
No full textThe Mitchell Memorial Library is located in the heart of the campus of Mississippi State University (MSU), a large land grant university in the southeastern United States. As part of a new strategic plan to transform the university, the role of the library will become even more important to the university community, including its 22,649 students and 1,520 faculty members (fall 2022 data). The institution's mission of being the educational and economic engine to the state is focused on improving student retention and success; offering outreach to the community of young children through adult learners; maintaining excellent undergraduate and graduate programs, while growing new interdisciplinary pathways to badges, credentials, and certificates; and providing for hands-on, innovative, technologically focused design and capstone projects. Several examples and success stories will be presented in this venue. These include, but are not limited to, collaborative work areas, incubator spaces, student success initiatives, a digital lab for Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) projects, programming and displays for building a culture of books/reading, and flexible environments for community connection. These unique spaces and services will enhance interdisciplinarity at MSU as well as increase institutional diversity and inclusion
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
The Career Choices We Make: Balancing Ambition, Personal Fulfillment, and Life as an Academic Librarian
Full text linkThis chapter is for those among us who reach the midpoint of our careers and contemplate taking a higher-level position or doing the opposite and moving to positions that involve less leadership responsibility. We suspect that the ideas we express will apply to many in the profession. However, we acknowledge that gender, race, and identity play a strong role in career paths and opportunities. Yet, who among us has not felt that we could make significant improvements, if only we were in charge? And who among those who are in charge has not once yearned for a release from feeling responsible for the performance of others? Our advice will not apply to everyone; however, we feel that our combined experience is likely to ensure that it is relevant to the majority of professionals in librarianship. We begin by describing our career paths, both of which are quite nonlinear. Our exposition includes reflection on our motivations for the twists and turns we have navigated. We then describe the nature of the work as well as the ways this work has impacted us in the many positions we have had, which collectively span the gamut from library liaison to unit head to department head to dean. Given our diverse experience, we expect that these narratives will resonate with many of you and thereby serve to provide insights relevant to your own situation. Additionally, the contrasting approaches we offer may create opportunities for those who are undecided. After sharing our experiences in academic libraries, we provide practical advice based on the lessons we have learned from our journeys and conversations with many colleagues. Here we present guidance for deciding whether to pursue a position with more or less leadership responsibility. This takes the form of actionable strategies and motivational mindsets. We end with tips for successfully transitioning into a new position and taking full advantage of the opportunities it can provide for growth and fulfillment. Through our explorations and conversations, we conclude that career trajectories depend on highly personal and situational factors for everyone
Collaborating Across Academic Units: The Mississippi State University ERLE Project
Full text linkMississippi State University (MSU), a public land-grant institution with Very High Research Activity (R1) as classified by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, is developing and implementing a new transformative strategic plan to further emphasize collaborative, experiential learning to prepare students for relevant careers upon graduation. As an institution located in a rural part of the southeastern United States in an underserved state, first-to-second year student retention rates and six-year graduation rates have been lower than those of peer and peer-plus universities. As such, the university administration has challenged its faculty and academic leaders to think creatively for preparing tomorrow’s workforce. This charge led to a transformative and unique collaboration between the Bagley College of Engineering dean and the MSU Libraries dean to reimagine library space and services with the ERLE (Exploration, Research and Learning Environment) project. ERLE not only promotes hands-on interactions in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEM), but also creates and fosters a community hub for First Year Experience (FYE) and Supplemental Instruction (SI) in courses with low persistence rates, academic advising, career counseling, and overall student well-being and socialization. In mapping out this plan, significant challenges include entrenched legacy practices, organizational stagnation and historic limited library engagement with students and faculty. With an eye towards innovation, entrepreneurship and technology, several new faculty and staff positions in MSU Libraries will allow for this advancement to occur. In this article we outline the steps taken, barriers encountered, and successes achieved
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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