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Customize your search box for your patron

The presentation showcases how to use OPAC search box builder to create and customize your own search box to serve specific group of audience or specific information needs. This approach will improve the accuracy and efficiency of information…

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Customize Your Search for Your Patron

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Customized Mapping and Metadata Transfer from Dspace to OCLC to Improve ETD Work Flow

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present methods for customized mapping and metadata transfer from DSpace to Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), which aims to improve Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) work flow at libraries using…

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Deciphering the Myth: Where to Publish

Handout created for the CALA Membership Meeting at the ALA Annual Conference 2014, Las Vegas, NV. June 29, 2014.

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Decoded

"In his gripping debut novel, Mai Jia reveals the mysterious world of Unit 701, a top-secret Chinese intelligence agency whose sole purpose is counterespionage and code breaking. Rong Jinzhen, an autistic math genius with a past shrouded in myth, is…

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Delivering reference services on the Web: An investigation into the current practice by academic libraries

This article describes a study on web-based reference services in academic libraries. A random sample of 362 institutions was taken from Peterson's Four-Year Colleges 2013. The authors scanned each library's website for reference-related activities,…

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Designing an Honors Thesis Deposit Workflow: Balancing Student Agency, Metadata Quality, and Library Capacity

This presentation describes the development of a three-stage honors thesis deposit workflow at a small liberal arts institution, guiding students through manuscript preparation, metadata creation, and submission. By involving students in the creation…

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Designing flipped information literacy sessions with the Assessment-as-Learning Model

This presentation will focus on how an information literacy librarian teamed up with a Biochemistry professor and designed two flipped information literacy sessions to teach undergraduates how to read and find primary literature. We used the…

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