Browse Items (40 total)

Care to be aware! Stop by this session and get a brief introduction about information security and what role we all have in keeping information safe. Remember, Control + Alt + Delete when you leave your seat!

The Agile and DevOps are terms emerging for the software development and delivery processes in the software industry. But the elements of Agile and DevOps and principles have been adopted for operational development in various organizations. Agile…

Linked Data is a powerful semantic web technology that makes knowledge and information spaces of different knowledge domains sharable, exchangeable, interoperable, and more. It is increasingly being used in libraries. This presentation is primarily…

Through innovation and adaptation, the Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI) Library has enhanced its capabilities to serve users, expanded its collection of digital resources across various types, and extended its reach to more individuals and…

This poster is based on the presenter’s course-related field trip to Costa Rica during the 2018 spring break. This trip is part of the first iSchool study abroad program that was made possible through two-year collaborative efforts among several…

Paper Presentation overview: From fall 2015 to spring 2017, librarians at the IU Kokomo Library collaborated with program directors in speech communication and writing programs to assess information literacy in the general education curriculum in…

The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has a collection of over seven hundred thousand eBooks across numerous platforms, available to download in multiple methods, and with a variety of purchase options. This presentation explains how UIC makes…

Open educational resources (OER) have become more and more popular among academic institutions and libraries across America. They are usually referred to as freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, as well as other digital assets that are…

This is the first part of an on-going study examining the reading behaviors of adult library patrons. Using multiple years’ circulation statistics from four public libraries in the north suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, we try to identify the trends in…

Paper presentation overview: One of the most work-intensive tasks for digital image collections is creating the image metadata. At UIC, this work was traditionally done by the archivists. We've recently expanded that workflow to engage catalogers…