James E. Walker Library Professional Publications and Presentations

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    Assessment of Visual Arts Projects Produced by Library Student Employees
    ( 2018-12-05) Reed, Karen Nourse
    University libraries employ students to perform a variety of entry-level tasks. With planning and commitment from library personnel, this employment can provide additional educational opportunities for students through mentoring, reinforcement of coursework, and even support of career goals post-graduation. This poster will describe the research-in-progress at one public university library employing students to complete visual arts projects in support of library marketing and teaching initiatives. The focus of this research is on the use of portfolio assessment as a means to evaluate and guide student creative works produced as a function of their library employment. Presented at the Association of Research Libraries Library Assessment Conference 2018.
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    Bringing art to the library: An undergraduate art education collaborative with the Curriculum Materials Center
    (Middle Tennessee State University, James E. Walker Library, 2017) Reed, Karen Nourse
    In 2013, one Curriculum Materials Center (CMC) located in an academic library in Tennessee began to examine ways by which to increase awareness of its collection among students, faculty, and the greater community. The CMC director initiated an art display program on a prominent wall outside the library unit. Over the past two and a half years, the program has transformed from a marketing initiative into an instructional program for the university’s College of Education students in which state K-12 standards and teaching pedagogy are emphasized. The art initiative has additionally changed from its inception by becoming a collaboration with undergraduate art education students. This case study will discuss the goals, achievements, and evolution of the art initiative. Future directions of the program will be discussed, as well as implications for assessment.
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    Create Lists
    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2016-10-11) Mangrum, Suzanne
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    Follow the Data, Find the Story: Discovery of Multidirectional Stories in the Digital Archive
    (Archive Journal, 2017) Miller, A
    What is data? How can it tell a story? Data can be represented through numbers, text, and images, and perhaps offer enough detail on its own to derive a singular story of that data. But when that data is collectively managed and preserved by a library’s publishing program, multiple collections of data sets become searchable in the digital library and on the web. This enables a way to unfold stories that may not have been explored without the interconnections among the library’s digital collections or community archives.
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    Growing an OER Program to Support Student Success
    (James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2024) Baskin, Ginelle
    Through affordability initiatives like open educational resources (OER), academic libraries play pivotal roles on campuses worldwide to support student success. These initiatives not only help shape a student-centered educational landscape, but they also drive equity and foster academic achievement. This poster explores how the James E. Walker Library in Murfreesboro, Tennessee is cultivating and leading an Open Educational Resources (OER) program on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University. The poster highlights current OER goals and projects organized by the library’s OER Task Force and documents how this OER initiative began, how it has grown, and how it positively impacts students. Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference 2024.
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    How to Find a Book on the Library Shelves
    ( 2008-10-15) Turney, Linda
    A short instructional video for students at Sam Houston State University's Library to locate a book on the library shelves. Video describes how to locate a specific title in the online catalog, write down the call number and location, and then navigate the library to retrieve the specific book.
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    Inclusive Design: A Method and Craft of Transforming Digital Humanities with User Experience
    (ACRL, 2024) Miller, A
    Project design in user experience and project design in digital humanities (DH) share many of the same motivating questions. When setting up surveys as part of your research, do you consider the language or purpose of the question? Are there leading questions? Have you considered the background or demographics of your audience? When setting up tasks for user-testing a research project, do you strategize how to recruit users with a diverse approach or just try to get as many as possible? These are just a few of the questions user experience (UX) professionals would consider when creating a digital project. These questions should also be asked by the creators of DH projects. This chapter will provide an introduction to the field of UX, an overview of the user-centered design (UCD) phases and applications in UX, an over-view of UX research and design phases, the importance of applying UX to DH, and will culminate in an inclusive design checklist that can help root the UX process in digital projects, regardless of the role of the subject specialist or reader of this book. This chapter is neither comprehensive nor definitive but is intended to be helpful to those who are new to UX and inclusive design in digital projects.
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    Loading Shelf Ready Records
    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2014-10-14) Mangrum, Suzanne ; Hansard, Larry
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    Longitudinal Journal Usage Analysis and the Development of Institutional Specific Core Journals
    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2015-11-05) Kirk, Rachel ; Hansard, Larry ; James E. Walker Library
    Presented at the Charleston Conference, November 5, 2015
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    MarcEdit
    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2016-10-11) Turney, Linda
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    Open Access, Creative Commons, and Author Rights: an Overview for Librarians
    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2013-04) York, Amy C.
    Librarians play many roles in the open access movement: as advocates, participants, and as consumers and curators of content. This is an overview of open access definitions and current issues.
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    School Librarians as Co-Teachers of Literacy: Librarian Perceptions and Knowledge in the Context of the Literacy Instruction Role
    (School Library Research, 2018-07) Reed, Karen N ; Oslund, Eric L
    The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has created additional opportunities for school librarians to collaborate with classroom teachers, reading specialists, and other educators in support of schools’ literacy goals. This potential for expanded collaboration suggests a need for increased focus on reading instruction as part of the school librarian’s workload. For a variety of reasons, school librarians may not see this role as a priority within the scope of their many other duties. This convergent mixed-methods study sought to examine the effect of a professional development series emphasizing reading comprehension strategies on school librarians’ knowledge and perceptions. Results indicated that participants experienced statistically significant knowledge gains as well as increased acceptance of an enhanced role in literacy instruction.
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    Striving for Equity: How Walker Library Supports Student Success Through Textbook Affordability Programs
    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2024) Mangrum, Suzanne ; Baskin, Ginelle
    Presentation at the 2024 TASSR Conference on September 26, 2024 in Murfreesboro, TN. Provides an overview of how Walker Library fosters a culture of student support by actively removing textbook barriers. We achieve this through "traditional" collections of print and electronic textbooks on reserve, as well as Open Educational Resources (OER). KEYWORDS: textbook affordability, open educational resources, OER, student success
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    Taking Library Instruction into the Online Classroom
    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2009-01) York, Amy C. ; Vance, Jason
    The proliferation of online courses has led librarians to adapt their instructional techniques and follow teaching faculty and students into the online environment. Moving beyond Web pages and online research guides, librarians are now becoming instructional partners in online course management systems. Through an online survey of librarians and a literature review, the authors examine best practices for these "embedded librarians."
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    ( 2015) Hansard, Larry
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    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2015) Hansard, Larry
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    ( 2014) Hansard, Larry
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    The Introverted Instructor: Tackling Library Instruction When It’s Out of Your Comfort Zone
    (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2024) Baskin, Ginelle
    This chapter examines the challenges that come with being an introverted library instructor, such as nervousness, being afraid to make a mistake, and imposter syndrome, and the author shares personal reflections about what helped her become comfortable in the library instructor role. It delves into what training helped and shares practical tips and strategies for how to prepare for teaching a library class. KEYWORDS: library instruction, introvert, training
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    Tibetan manuscript collection at the National Library of Mongolia
    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2015-03-20) Dambiinyam, Enerel ; James E. Walker Library
    Mongolia’s ties with Tibetan Buddhism date back to the 16th century. Altan Khan convened the title of Dalai Lama – Mongolian for ‘Ocean Lama,’ to Tibetan spiritual leader Sonam Gyatso in 1587. Because of this close ties, many of religious Tibetan texts had been brought into Mongolia as gifts to monasteries or to be translated into Mongolian. The most of the collection were destroyed during
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    Transforming the Library Website
    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2012-01) York, Amy C. ;
    A library website is not just a marketing tool, it is an extension of the library. The level of control that an external IT department wields over your web presence impacts how well you can respond to the needs of your remote users. Libraries should maintain as much control as possible over their websites, preferably by hosting them on their own servers.