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Faculty-Librarian Collaboration in Improving Information Literacy Skills of Educational Opportunity Program

Purpose – This study aims to examine the instruction of basic information literacy (IL) skills taught
to the socio-economically disadvantaged students in the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) at
Rider University in summer 2011. The study set…

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The Good Immigrants: How Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority

"Conventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those who have been barred from getting in. In contrast, The Good Immigrants considers immigration from the perspective of Chinese elites-- intellectuals,…

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Finding alternatives when a major database is gone

Question: What to do when a major database ceases publication?

Setting: An urban, academic health sciences library with four campuses serves a university health sciences system, a college of medicine, and five other health sciences…

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Virtual Library Experience

The virtual library concept has been popular and likely well accepted by community hospitals and administrators in recent years. But it was not the case 6 years ago. This article covers the background of how a traditional medical library was…

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CALA: Bridges for Chinese-American Librarianship in the 21st Century

CALA has initiated and organized many workshops and conference in China to share librarianship with Chinese librarians. One of the significant programs is the CALA 21th Century Librarian Seminar series: “Sino-U.S. Forum on Library Practices”. Up…

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Automatic Subject Heading Assignment for Online Government Publications Using a Semi-Supervised Machine Learning Approach

As the dramatic expansion of online publications continues, state libraries urgently need effective tools to organize and archive the huge number of government documents published online. Automatic text categorization techniques can be applied to…

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