1,298 research outputs found
Wikipedia and undergraduate research trajectories
No full textPurpose
This study analyses undergraduate students’ use of Wikipedia bibliographies. The study has implications for Wikipedia as a “discovery tool” of library collections, library instructional practices, and understanding the complex ecology of students’ research processes.
Design/methodology/approach
30 undergraduate students were recruited from introductory English writing classes. A controlled survey was conducted in Qualtrics®, including the following sections: 1) pre and post test of students’ understanding of authority/quality of sources, 2) tasks analyzing participants’ choices for further research after reading a Wikipedia article, and 3) students’ determination of the authority/quality of sources in Wikipedia reference pages, using an adapted version of the Turnitin® Source Educational Evaluation Rubric (SEER).
Findings
The investigator found that students were unlikely to follow references they found in bibliographies of Wikipedia pages. This was expressed most clearly in their comments, which revealed that Wikipedia’s reference sections are found to be too overwhelming and numerous. These entries are depicted by order of appearance in the text and are not ranked, or presented in an order students considered useful. Participants were not likely use Wikipedia as a discovery tool of library content because they perceived Wikipedia as being markedly different, even in opposition to, library resources. Students disclosed being warned by their faculty and instructors not to use the online encyclopedia at all in their research process. However, paradoxically, after reading a Wikipedia article, students were most likely to go to Google, or revisit Wikipedia, for more information, as opposed to using the library. Study participants reported that “ease of access” is the most important consideration when choosing sources to include in research papers, followed by the actual authority/quality of these sources. Students also greatly benefited from having a structured rubric available at the point of their research process when they are asked to determine the authority/quality of sources, and especially within Wikipedia bibliographies.
Practical Implications
The findings of the study offer suggestions for both the design aspect of Wikipedia and the instructional methods of academic librarians. This study also informs library practices and emerging collaborations with Wikipedia, specifically the “Wikipedian in Residence” program and the concept of using Wikipedia as one type of a discovery tool.
Originality/Value
There is a lack of empirical evidence showing how or if students use Wikipedia bibliographies to continue their research. The possibility of the online encyclopedia as a discovery tool for library collections is relatively unknown and unexplored. The topic of collaboration between Wikipedia and libraries is new and emerging in the field.
Research Limitations
This is a small-scale study of students’ use of Wikipedia in one university campus, but its results can spark a discussion of the larger question of undergraduates’ research trajectories. The findings of the study suggest that these trajectories are extremely influenced by two conflicting issues: faculty influence and resource convenience. The researchers plan to extend the study to include faculty’s perceptions of the value of Wikipedia to undergraduate students’ research, including faculty’s own involvement as Wikipedia editors and contributors. Future research of undergraduate’s use of Wikipedia could benefit from a greater recruitment of participants across a diverse pool of academic institutions, as well as a mixed research method of observation, task analysis, and interviews.Peer reviewe
Author and poet Lily Brett at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 18 October 2012 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author and poet Lily Brett at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 18 October 2012.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
The water lily (song lyrics)
No full textNotes with lyrics of a song, "The water lily," from Susan Tallmon school years, Grinnell, Iow
The Undergraduate Experience: Is it Enhanced Through Employment as a Library Student Worker?
No full textStudent employment on campus can be one of the best predictors of academic success. There are many implied benefits for students working in the libraries, including greater understanding of library resources, as well as proximity to services and people with expertise.
This poster will present the findings of a study about undergraduate student workers employed at a major university Research Library. The authors surveyed approximately 350 student workers, and received 120 responses and 64 completed surveys. The survey gathered information about undergraduate student workers, including who they are and how they engage with university clubs, organizations, and partnering units, such as residence halls and tutoring centers.
The authors will investigate the library contribution to the undergraduate experience of student workers. They will investigate if there is a correlation between academic success (perceived or real) and working in an academic research library. Further the authors will address whether working in an academic research library helps students form community or provides them with valuable peer networking opportunities. This project’s raw data was evaluated using Qualtrics. The results of this survey will inform new programs and activities to enhance the experience of the undergraduate library student worker and provide additional mentorship and professional development.Peer reviewe
Figurative language in alan walker’s song “lily”
No full textThis study aims to analyse the types of figurative language and contextual meaning contained in Alan Walker’s song Lily. The researcher used Perrine's (1992) figurative language theory with 12 types: simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, symbol, paradox, metonymy, synecdoche, hyperbole/overstatement, irony, allegory, and litotes/understatement. Dash's (2008) context and word contextual meaning theory are used to analyze the contextual meaning with local context and sentential context. Literally, Lily’s song tells of a little girl who lives behind the castle walls and is afraid of the big, wide world. Therefore, this study will answer the formulation of the problem in this research, namely (1) what figurative languages are found in Alan Walker’s song lyrics (2) what are the meanings in the context described in the figurative language in Alan Walker’s song lyric
Lily Braun Collection undated, 1903-1907
No full textThe collection contains one undated letter from Georg Gradnauer to Lily Braun; and 13 letters and postcards (1903-1907)
from Werner Sombart to Lily Braun.Born Lily von Kretschman in Halberstadt on July 2, 1865, Lily Braun was a social worker and author, active in the
German feminist movement and the SPD. She was married to Heinrich Braun until her death in Berlin-Zehlendorf on August 9,
1916.Correspondence kept at the German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv) under Kleine Erwerbung 129 until August 2011, when it
was transferred to the LBI Archives.Processed for digitizatio
Lily Buchwald Collection 1999
No full textThe collection contains a questionnaire filled out by Lily Buchwald regarding her life in Austria before World War II, emigration from Austria to the United States, and
life in the United States. Also included are birth certificates, school certificiates, employment certificates and letters of recommendation, marriage certificates, citizenship
certificates, emigration certificates, identity certificates, and photographs.Lily Buchwald (née Rattner) was born in Vienna 1915, the second of Hersh Ber and Ryfcia Rattner's four children. After school, she worked as a secretary at a
law office in Vienna. In 1937, she married businessman/artist Julius Buchwald. She escaped to England in June 1938. Her husband (and later her mother and sister Trude) followed in fall
1938. In 1945, Lily and Julius Buchwald emigrated to the United States. She worked as an office manager, secretary, and bookkeeper in New York until 1975. Julius Buchwald was a
specialist for chess problems (he won the Chess-Problem-World-Championships of 1946 and 1948) and was also known as a composer and artist. Lily Buchwald's sister-in-law was
author and composer Mimi Grossberg, Julius Buchwald's sister.An inventory is available in the folderAustrian Heritage Collection;Processed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize
ALAN WALKER’S “LILY” SONG LYRICS TO DEPICT SATANIC TRICKS: A GENERIC STRUCTURE ANALYSIS AS RHETORIC
No full textThe current study investigated a song lyric entitled “Lily” in terms of its generic structure to come up with the rhetorical strategies—how satanic tricks influence people through human greed. Lily belongs to a lyric considered a narrative poem. It is theorized that a narrative poem is a poem or possibly a lyric which consists of orientation, complication and resolution. In other words, a lyric is structured as such to produce rhetorical strategies (goals) which were analyzed employing Aristotle’s ethos, logos and pathos. Meanwhile, in the complication analysis of Lily, not only did the study employ psychological theory but was also supported by social contexts to describe how satanic tricks were made use through human greed engineering in achieving the goal of negative thoughts generating. The findings indicate that human minds are in fact guided by both angels and satans. Angels guide any individual (Lily) to stay in track of the positive values while Satan whispers tricks to divert from the positive path toward the negative values by means of human greed. To confirm the findings, a survey was administered to 90 purposefully-selected teenagers in Semarang Municipality only to find that “Lily“ song lyrics failed to give any answer to the question whether or not she (Lily) can be saved despite her frequent calls for help
Making Decisions: Using Electronic Data Collection to Re-Envision Reference Services at the USF Tampa Libraries
No full textDeclining reference statistics, diminishing human resources, and the desire to be more proactive and embedded in academic departments, prompted the University of South Florida Library to create a taskforce for re-envisioning reference services. The taskforce was charged with examining the staffing patterns at the desk and developing recommendations to give librarians greater flexibility and to better respond to the information-seeking needs of users.These recommendations were based on statistics of desk usage, collected with the newly adapted online tool Desk Tracker, and structured interviews with library administrators. The taskforce was interested in how these stakeholders use quantitative data in decision-making.Peer reviewe
From Business Intelligence to Location Intelligence with the Lily Library
No full textLocation intelligence is a set of tools and techniques to integrate spatial features into BI platforms, aimed at better monitoring and interpreting business events related to the territory. In this demonstration we present Lily, a geo-enhanced library that relies on a spatial data warehouse to add real location intelligence capabilities to existing BI platforms. Lily provides end-users with a highly-interactive interface that seamlessly achieves a bidirectional integration between the BI and the geospatial worlds, so as to enable advanced analytical, prediction, and simulation features taking into account the spatial dimension. In particular we focus on the impact of Lily on the user experience with reference to three case studies in the domain of healthcare, telco, and school services respectively
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