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Henson, Jo Ann J.; King, Karen Marsh; Bennett, Kelly(Ticker: The Academic Business Librarianship Review, 2021)
In spring 2020, the pandemic caused many universities to move abruptly to online instruction mid-semester. This article is about the partnership of a core team of two librarians and a business professor and their efforts ...
The University Libraries at Mason has developed a new portal that provides discovery and access to geospatial data and digitized historical maps. It allows researchers and students to search and retrieve not only Mason’s ...
Calcagno, Theresa M; Bowdoin, Jessica(American Association for Engineering Education (ASEE), 2012-06)
In early 2009, the Head of Interlibrary Loan (ILL) at George Mason University analyzed ILL
borrowing statistics from the previous academic year and found that 90% of the fifty most
borrowed titles had been requested ...
13 Things in Blackboard is a self-paced extended learning opportunity designed to encourage library staff to experiment with unfamiliar learning technologies and foster understanding of best practices in online pedagogy ...
Most master's programs in music include a required seminar in music research that must broadly introduce a variety of investigatory areas. One such area is the scholarly study of musical iconography, visual works which ...
The International Music Score Library Project (“IMSLP;” imslp.org) is an open-access digital repository of downloadable public-domain music. Its holdings, uploaded primarily by volunteer librarians, include high-quality ...
Mann, Wendy; Calcagno, Theresa; Kermer, Deborah Ann(126th Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, 2019-06)
In the last decade, the number of graduate programs in Data Analytics has grown exponentially. Academic libraries have had to, or will need to, determine how to support the growing student population in this new area of ...
Kirker, Maoria J.; Stonebraker, Ilana(The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2019-01)
The transition from high school to college is fraught with academic, social, and emotional changes for first-year students. This year long qualitative study uses cognitive dissonance theory to examine first-year students' ...
Bibliometric methods, using citations as data, are an alternate way to learn from the literature of science and technology. These statistical methods are used, with visualization tools, to determine the relationship between ...
Fairclough, Ian(Bridging the Spectrum Symposium, 2019-02-08)
Name authority work is integral to documenting and properly identifying scholarly activity. Often thought about as merely an aspect of cataloging, name authority records are increasingly of value to researchers. Scholars ...
McManus, Helen(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2018)
This chapter offers a lesson plan for teaching the "Scholarship as Conversation" frame in ACRL's Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education.
During the 2016-2017 academic year, George Mason University Libraries' Science and Technology Team began a project with an end goal of capturing trends in faculty research by creating visual representations of faculty ...
Collection Development for academic libraries face many challenges in assessing use of electronic resources. Establishing a national measuring standard COUNTER, evolves as budgets are impacted by ever increasing costs. ...
From surveying the literature, most chat transcript analysis for academic libraries has been based on sampling. This project departs from that approach. Three years of raw data (15,441 chat transcripts) from LibraryH3lp ...
Although information seems but just a click away, when libraries embraced licensing as a means of acquisition, the choice had far reaching implications. The hard hit to academic library budgets is well documented, but the ...
Unknown author(Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship, 2018)
The Affordable Course Materials Initiative (ACMI) is a library-driven program established by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), designed to leverage existing library resources, encourage open educational ...