James E. Walker Library

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Welcome to MTSU and the James E. Walker Library. This building, one of the most attractive on campus, was built in 1999 and was named after the 8th president of MTSU, Dr. James E. Walker. The library does have a lot of services, and does have a collection of well over a million volumes on the shelves and at least that much online, but we are dedicated to helping students feel successful and help break down any feelings of being overwhelmed by the size and scope of not only the library, but the whole college experience.

The Walker Library has over 1 million volumes, 33,134 serials and annual expenditures of $7,547,687. There are 26 faculty, 7 professional administrative staff and 34 classified staff working for the library.

In addition to our many services in the building and electronically, we also have this repository collection that provides free, open access to educational resources, research done in the library, and other library information.

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    A Biographical Sketch of Julian Wehr (1898-1970): American Master of the Movable Book
    (James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2024-02-27) Boehm, Alan ; Ziegler, Roy
    In the emerging popular and scholarly attention given to movable books, the name Julian Wehr often figures as an outstanding illustrator and paper engineer who in the 1940s and early 1950s published over 40 children's books notable for their appealing illustrations, but remarkable for their innovative pull-tab animations. Cleverly simple in design and widely imitated at the time, Wehr's approach to animated illustration revived a children's book format that had all but vanished from publishers' trade lists after the First World War because of production impracticalities. For although animated books had enjoyed considerable popularity in the late 1800s and early 1900s, they were typically lavish and expensive novelties that involved the manual assembly of an elaborate array of paper parts and minuscule hardware. By contrast, Wehr's animation technique--yielding pictorial movement as complex as any achieved by earlier methods--relied on only one or two pieces of paper and, moreover, his animated books were easily adapted to low-cost mass production. And mass-produced they were, for it is likely that upwards of nine million copies of Wehr's various titles--some translated into Spanish, French, German, and Icelandic--were sold in the United States, Canada, France, Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Iceland, and elsewhere. Accordingly, we offer in this essay a brief biographical sketch of Wehr's life and career. It is based chiefly on interviews conducted across the spring, summer, and autumn of 2001 with his four children, Camilla West Molinari (Wehr's daughter from his first marriage), David Wehr, Paul Wehr, and Jeanine Wehr Jones (Wehr's sons and daughter from his second marriage). The Wehr children also have made available to us their father's art work, letters, and other materials.
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    A foundational study in the pedagogy of arithmetic
    (James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1914) Howell, Henry Budd
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    A history of Amherst College during the administrations of its first five presidents, from 1821 to 1891
    (James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1895) Tyler, W. S. (William Seymour)
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    A history of education in Virginia
    (James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1916) Heatwole, Cornelius Jacob
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    A history of Japanese mathematics
    (James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1914) Smith, David Eugene; Mikami, Yoshio
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    Accessibility Guide for Institutional Repository Deposits
    ( 2024) Digital Scholarship Initiatives
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    All Aboard the STEAM Bus! Mobile Learning Labs Expand Math & Science Horizons
    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2015) Reed, Karen Nourse ; Carlton, Jennifer "Megan"
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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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    Attention and interest; a study in psychology and education
    (James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1910) Arnold, Felix
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    Book Tile: This Is Just An Example (full text)
    (Digital Scholarship Initaitives, Middle Tennessee State University, 2023)
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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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    Chapter Tile of Specific Topic (Chapter 5)
    (Digital Scholarship Initaitives, Middle Tennessee State University, 2023) Name Name
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    Circulation
    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2014-10-14) Damaschun, Amanda
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    Create Lists
    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2016-10-11) Mangrum, Suzanne
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    Criteria for Digital Scholarship
    (James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2015) Miller, A.
    To read the Criteria for Digital Scholarship, click the "View/Open" link below.
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    Digital Project Preservation Plan: A Guide for Preserving Digital Humanities / Scholarship Projects
    ( 2019-02) Miller, A. ; Molly Taylor-Poleskey, Department of History, Middle Tennessee State University ; Amy Harris-Aber, Department of English, Middle Tennessee State University ; Susan W. Knowles, Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University
    A Digital Project Preservation Plan is designed to help with organizing preservation efforts for digital projects. Initially drafted as a companion guide meant to fill the gap on best methods for preserving digital scholarship or digital humanities projects, it can also be applied to digital projects outside the humanities. This preservation plan is most beneficial to those digital humanities (DH) project creators who need guidance on how to start a digital project with preservation in mind. Although the DH community has shared resources and case studies, the examples available tend to focus on DH development, and less on DH preservation. These resources are also located in disparate locations. The Digital Project Preservation Plan is a singular guide, focusing on DH preservation, as a starting point with references to more resources and related DH practices. This is a working document, available to practitioners in whole or part; ideally, it will be used in the early stages of project planning and consulted and revised regularly. The preservation infrastructure should be designed and built as a collaborative effort from the beginning of the project. As priorities, methods and technologies change, the preservation plan will need to be updated and modified accordingly.
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    Digital Scholarship Initaitives Infographic
    (Digital Scholarship Initaitives, Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2017) Digital Scholarship Initiatives
    Digital scholarship is scholarship enhanced by the design of digital projects, incorporation of digital tools, collaboration among digital partners, and dissemination through digital platforms. This infographic is an introduction to the Digital Scholarship Initiatives at Middle Tennessee State University's Walker Library. Read about our mission, collaboration with campus, and digital scholarship and digital humanities opportunities such as the digital seed, tools, and the seminar and workshop series.
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    Digital Scholarship Initiatives Highlights 2014-2015: A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment
    (Digital Scholarship Initiatives, Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2015-06) Digital Scholarship Initiatives
    A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment. Digital Scholarship Initiatives began at Walker Library several years ago as a way to build out the library’s collections digitally. More recently, other initiatives have been added including JEWLScholar; Journal Hosting services; the creation of a collaborative Digital Partners group; and a Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) dedicated to faculty and advanced students who enhance research by using digital tools, collaborating on digital projects, and disseminating research through digital platforms. What follows is an assessment of the past year's development.