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How Much Do Faculty Think Students Should Pay for Course Materials? Understanding Faculty Cost Tolerance and Selection Authority
(2023-05-18)Campus OER initiatives promote the adoption of open educational materials but first, there needs to be an understanding of campus practices, policies, and norms that may impact or even obstruct the adoption of new course ... -
Scholarly Communication Services: From an Island, You Can Build Bridges
(2023)In 2012, my library reorganized to align with a new strategic plan. As a result, my position changed and I needed a new job title. My dean suggested scholarly communication librarian, to which I had a strong reaction. ... -
Knowledge is Power: The Rise and Fall of the Libraries of the United Automobile Workers’ Union
(2019)This article traces the history of libraries run by local unions of the International United Automobile Workers' union (UAW) from the mid-1930s through the 1950s. Using the records of the UAW it examines the purpose of its ... -
Doing the Donor Dance: Lessons Learned from Talking to Donors and Working with Donor Relations Staff [Conference presentation]
(2022-09-29)MI-OER Summit 2022 - presentation. Recording available. https://youtu.be/s-ln4JIN4Y0 -
Work in progress: Promoting the use of standards by faculty through improved access
(2022-03-18)Technical standards can provide an effective instructional scaffold for undergraduate engineering coursework, and exposing engineering students to appropriate standards is one of the requirements for program accreditation ... -
Datasets for submitted article titled "A Health Education Partnership Between an Academic Medical Library and Public Library: Lessons Learned Before & During a Pandemic"
(2021)Three datasets for submitted article (see article abstract below): Background: Public libraries serve as community centers for accessing free, trustworthy health information. As such, they provide an ideal setting to teach ... -
Quality evaluation of data management plans at a research university
(2017-03-01)With the emergence of the National Science Foundation (NSF) requirement for data management plans (DMPs), academic librarians have increasingly aided researchers in developing DMPs and disseminating research data. To ... -
Examination of Academic Library Websites Regarding COVID-19 Responsiveness
(2021)The COVID pandemic has affected all aspects of life including academic libraries. While many are now open, services have changed to accommodate social distancing such as limiting guests to those within the university ... -
Strategies for Staying Sane While Providing Research Support and Instruction in High Enrollment or Research-Intensive Programs
(2020-01-28)Managing the duties of an academic liaison librarian can be a challenge, especially when the liaison departments have high student enrollments. Two librarians from separate comprehensive Michigan universities assigned to ... -
Designing for engagement: Using the ADDIE model to integrate high-impact practices into an online information literacy course
(2016)In this article, the authors share how a team of librarians used the ADDIE instructional design model to incorporate best practices in teaching and learning into an online, fourcredit information literacy course. In this ... -
Advancing research data management in the social sciences: Implementing instruction for education graduate students into a doctoral curriculum.
(2017)Research data management (RDM) skills are vital yet often untaught in graduate programs, especially in the social sciences. In this article, my co-author and I presented a case study of how a Research Data Librarian and ... -
Academic librarians’ educational factors and perceptions of teaching transformation: An exploratory examination
(2019)Objective – As information literacy instruction is an increasingly important function of academic librarianship, it is relevant to consider librarians’ attitudes about their teaching. More specifically, it can be instructive ... -
From information experts to expert educators? Academic librarians' experiences with perspective transformation and their teaching identities
(2017)As information formats, needs, and access change, post-secondary students need to be prepared to make sense of the morass of content they encounter – for academic, professional, and personal purposes. Academic librarians ... -
Academic librarians’ teaching identities and work experiences: Exploring relationships to support perspective transformation in information literacy instruction
(2020-01)Academic library leaders have a vested interest in quality library instruction, but strategies to ensure this happens can vary across environments. In this study, the author analyzed data collected using King’s Learning ... -
Instructional modalities and perspective transformation: How academic librarians’ experiences in blended/hybrid, and online instruction influence their teaching identities
(2020-01)As librarians’ instructional responsibilities diversify, it is useful to consider what factors influence how they see themselves as educators. In this research, the author used a survey instrument grounded in transformative ... -
OER Readiness and Environmental Scan of Departments with High-Enrollment Courses - SPARC OER Fellowship Final Report
(2019-05-12)For my SPARC OER Fellowship capstone project I conducted an open educational resources (OER) readiness and environmental scan of three departments with the high enrollment courses (HEC) to gather data about current practices, ... -
Survey instrument and dataset for article entitled "Faculty Knowledge & Attitudes Regarding Predatory Open Access Journals: A Needs Assessment Study"
(2019)Survey instrument and dataset for published article (see article's abstract below) Objective: Predatory open access (OA) journals’ purpose is to make a profit, not disseminate quality, peer-reviewed research. Publishing ... -
Dataset from: Research Forum: Creating and Sustaining an Intra-library Venue to Share Library Faculty Research
(2019)This data corresponds to the article "Research Forum: Creating and Sustaining an Intra-library Venue to Share Library Faculty Research" -
Interpreting American Ethnic Experiences: The Development of the Balch Library Collections
(2016-10)The Balch Institute was a library and museum dedicated to immigration and ethnic history, based in Philadelphia. This article analyzes the development of its print and manuscript collections, from its first accessions in ... -
"The mail never stops. It just keeps coming and coming and coming...” Providing Research Support and Instruction to High-enrollment Programs
(2018-05-17)Managing the duties of an academic liaison librarian can be a challenge especially when the liaison departments have high student enrollments. Two librarians from separate comprehensive Michigan universities assigned to ...