Recent uclalib_oapdeposits items

Las galeras de Tierra Firme (1578–1612). Fiscalidad, comercio, abastecimiento y proyección del poder naval castellano en el Caribe Sur, written by Sebastián Amaya Palacios

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Las galeras de Tierra Firme (1578–1612). Fiscalidad, comercio, abastecimiento y proyección del poder naval castellano en el Caribe Sur, written by Sebastián Amaya Palacios

Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia by Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper (review)

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia by Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper (review)

Improving Open Access Discovery for Academic Library Users

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Improving Open Access Discovery for Academic Library Users

Many Pathways for Discovery: Describing Music Resources Using Faceted Vocabularies

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Many Pathways for Discovery: Describing Music Resources Using Faceted Vocabularies

Developing Open Access Resource Management Principles in a Consortial Environment: A University of California Model

Wed, 9 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Developing Open Access Resource Management Principles in a Consortial Environment: A University of California Model

Metadata Librarians for Open Access

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Support by academic libraries for open access (OA) over the past three-plus decades has largely focused on the development of digital infrastructure, promotion of open access publishing, support of policy-driven access mandates, and more recently, adoption of transformative agreements. Libraries have correspondingly created a broad array of scholarly communication roles to support these varied approaches. Surprisingly, one area of open access support that has received less attention from libraries is the facilitation of description and discovery of open access resources through the creation of robust original metadata. Expertise in Organization of Recorded Knowledge and Information represents a core competency of librarianship, yet the current academic library landscape shows few positions that specifically apply this expertise towards support for OA resources. Efforts to describe OA resources typically fall below those dedicated to licensed resources and pale in comparison to...

Reflections on the PCC Wikidata Pilot at UCLA Library: Undertaking the PCC Learning Objectives

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In 2020, the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Task Group on Identity Management in NACO sponsored a 14-month PCC Wikidata Pilot, complete with learning objectives, for participants to experiment with Wikidata, an open linked data platform. UCLA Library joined the Pilot to create and edit Wikidata items related to UCLA Library’s collections and UCLA Library entities. With the Pilot’s conclusion, the UCLA Library Pilot team reflected on lessons learned. By assessing UCLA Library’s experience against the Pilot’s learning objectives, the authors hope to contribute on-the-ground insights that may be relevant to PCC’s progress toward identity management, and the role Wikidata may play in this transition.

Editing and Printing the Arabic Book: Perspectives from South Asia

Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In the first decades of the nineteenth century, British Calcutta stood as one of the most important cities in the world for the editing, printing, and selling of Arabic books. Before the famous Bulaq Press in Cairo was established in 1820, from 1801–19, European Orientalists and Indian munshis (scribes and clerks) and maulvis (Arabic, mawlanas), alongside one Yemeni scholar, had already printed 22 Arabic titles in movable type—many for the first time—at Fort William College in Calcutta (alongside 18 in Persian and 24 in Sanskrit).1 By 1831, a published “List of Oriental Works for Sale at the Government Education Depository, near the Hindu College, Potoldanga, Calcutta,” advertised 27 Arabic, 31 Sanskrit, 36 English, 16 Hindi and Urdu, 30 Persian, and 29 Bengali books.2 Far from a marginal undertaking, Arabic books represented a sizeable proportion of printing in Bengal at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Authority Control of Arabic Personal Names: RDA and Beyond

Mon, 3 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Authority Control of Arabic Personal Names: RDA and Beyond

Online Index to the UCLA Library's Henry J. Bruman Topographic Map Collection

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The interactive site indexes topographical map series available at the UCLA Henry J. Bruman Map Collection. Only the color grid cells indicate that a paper or digital map is available in the Library. Each individual grid cell contains basic information about its respective topographic map as well as the link to an image of the map. All maps represented by the index numbers have a scale of 1:250,000. The UCLA Library has in its possession maps at other scales, but at this time it is recommended that the user contacts the Library staff to access those maps. Also, note that this is not a finalized project but a work in progress; more regions will be added in the future, so please check in regularly for updates.

300 Years of Bamberg Settlers in Greater Poland: The Importance of a Historical Landscape

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This story map employs the historical landscape of the city of Poznań from the medieval era up to modern times. It presents story of the 300 years of the settlement of Bambrzy migrants in Greater Poland, especially in villages near Poznań in the 18th century. From the trails of migration to the blending of cultures, the story of the Bambrzy is one that greatly defines the city of Poznań today. Therefore, this story map by using historical maps, photos, archival documents, and interactive mapping is illustrating peaceful and successful historically important migration (displacement) of people in Europe. In the history of European migration this is one of the few cases when a large-scale, transboundary movement of people happened almost without friction and led to lasting benefits of both the migrants and the host nation.

The remarkable story of 100 years in creating the UCLA Campus

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The UCLA Centennial 2019 story map uses words, historical pictures, maps, archival documents, and graphical mapping tools to tell an interactive story about changes that have taken place at the UCLA Campus during first 100 years. It explores collections that span a variety of resources and formats presenting the UCLA Campus from 1919 to 2019. Most maps presented in this story are part of the UCLA Henry J. Bruman Map Collection.

The books are alive with biological data: an introduction to the field of biocodicology and its implications for historical health sciences collections

Mon, 2 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Recent global events have underscored the need for broad access to digitized library special collections. At the same time, a burgeoning field of scientific and historical inquiry is finding a goldmine of data in the physical old books and manuscripts stored for centuries on library shelves. This article gives an overview of some of the interesting studies employing library materials in the new field of biocodicology, which expands the field of codicology (learning about book history through studying a copy's physical attributes, sometimes referred to as "archaeology of the book") to interrogate physical books with proteomic, genomic, and microbiomic tools. Historical health sciences collections provide rich, new research avenues for budding biocodicologists, and biocodicology and other interdisciplinary fields focused on material culture present an unforeseen justification for institutions' continued preservation and access to individual physical copies.

The Social Aspects of Identity Management Work

Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The Social Aspects of Identity Management Work

What Is Our Place in the Metadata Ecosystem?

Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

What Is Our Place in the Metadata Ecosystem?

Editorial to the Special Issue: Commemorating Environmental Writing of Ryder W. Miller

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Special Issue: In honor of Ryder W. Miller

What we talk about when we talk about medical librarianship: an analysis of Medical Library Association annual meeting abstracts, 2001–2019

Mon, 7 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

OBJECTIVE: This study seeks to gain initial insight into what is talked about and whose voices are heard at Medical Library Association (MLA) annual meetings. METHODS: Meeting abstracts were downloaded from the MLA website and converted to comma-separated values (CSV) format. Descriptive analysis in Python identified the number of presentations, disambiguated authors, author collaboration, institutional affiliation type, and geographic affiliation. Topics were generated using Mallet's Latent Dirichlet Allocation algorithm for topic modeling. RESULTS: There were 5,781 presentations at MLA annual meetings from 2001-2019. Author disambiguation resulted in approximately 5,680 unique authors. One thousand ninety-three records included a hospital-related keyword in the author field, and 4,517 records included an academic-related keyword. There were 438 presentations with at least 1 international author. The topic model identified 16 topics in the MLA abstract corpus: events, electronic...

Introducing a health information literacy competencies map: connecting the Association of American Medical Colleges Core Entrustable Professional Activities and Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Common Program Requirements to the Association of College & Research Libraries Framework

Tue, 1 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Background:

Librarians teach evidence-based medicine (EBM) and information-seeking principles in undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate medical education. These curricula are informed by medical education standards, medical education competencies, information literacy frameworks, and background literature on EBM and teaching. As this multidimensional body of knowledge evolves, librarians must adapt their teaching and involvement with medical education. Identifying explicit connections between the information literacy discipline and the field of medical education requires ongoing attention to multiple guideposts but offers the potential to leverage information literacy skills in the larger health sciences education sphere.

Methods:

A subgroup of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Competency-Based Medical Education Task Force cross-referenced medical education documents (Core Entrustable Professional Activities and 2017–2018 Liaison Committee on Medical...

6 Compositions for Piano

Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The second score in the UCLA Music Library, Hugo Davise Fund's Contemporary Score Edition. Composed by Elaine Radoff Barkin. 6 Compositions for piano.

Librarianship and the Fulbright Fellowship: Challenges and Opportunities for American Librarians and Polish Libraries

Tue, 9 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

This article reports on personal observations and experiences gathered while teaching, working and consulting with librarians, students, and faculty during the author’s Fulbright Senior Fellowship in Poland. It discusses multiple opportunities and rewards for American librarians willing to serve as Fulbright Fellows including professional growth, knowledge sharing, meeting new people, experiencing new library cultures, traveling, and increasing the appreciation and visibility of librarians to the academic world. Additionally, it presents a short history of Polish academic libraries and the challenges they are currently facing.

Guidelines for Efficient Archival Processing in the University of California Libraries (Version 4)

Mon, 18 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Guidelines for Efficient Archival Processing in the University of California Libraries (Version 4)

The Game of Open Access

Fri, 1 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Instructional board game created by UCLA Library in support of International Open Access Week 2019.

Scholarly Snakes and Ladders

Fri, 1 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Instructional game created by UCLA Library in support of International Open Access Week 2019. Modeled after the public domain "Snakes and Ladders" boardgame.

User Engagement - A Matrix Reorganization

Thu, 9 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The User Engagement division was established during a recent reorganization aimed at bringing together public-facing library services under one associate university librarian (AUL). This affected thirty-five academic and career staff across several libraries, including the Arts Library, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld Management Library, Music Library, Powell Library, Science and Engineering Library, and the Charles E. Young Library Humanities and Social Sciences Division; each of these libraries had differing existing administrative structures and norms. The establishment of User Engagement required those staff to combine and divide units as well as workflow processes in order to successfully integrate and scale public services for patrons. A year later, John Kotter’s eight-step model of change provides an excellent framework to analyze the successes and ongoing challenges of the reorganization.

Data Lake: Promoting a Mega-Tool for the Assessment Lifecycle

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

A recently created Library Strategic Plan at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) identified the need to integrate a culture of assessment throughout the organization in order to encourage more data informed decision-making processes. Our Assessment for Change Team (ACT) was formed and charged with spearheading this cultural evolution. This case study will discuss the development of a home-grown tool that assists with assessment brainstorming, and acts as a central repository for assessment products – the Data Lake.

The UCLA Library consistently ranks among the top academic libraries in the United States serving 45,000 students in125 majors. It employs approximately 100 librarians and 350 full-time staff working in more than a dozen library locations all over campus. Library units report to the University Librarian through her four Associate University Librarians and management staff.

Data Lake is an enterprise wide collaboration platform used for managing...

Promoting a Culture of Assessment throughout the UCLA Library Organization

Fri, 1 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

A recently created Library Strategic Plan at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) developed by all staff, identified the need to integrate a culture of assessment throughout all levels organization to encourage data informed decision- making. The Assessment for Change Team (ACT) was formed to spearhead this cultural evolution. This case study discusses how we create an assessment culture in a large, complex institution. The UCLA Library ranks among the top academic libraries in the United States serving 45,000 students in 125 majors. It employs over 100 librarians and approximately 350 full-time staff working in more than a dozen library across campus. Library units report to the University Librarian through four Associate University Librarians and management staff. ACT reaches out to the campus community units close to the university administration whose primary jobs employed assessment. We make campus ties to create an environment that influences and is influenced...

Broadcasting Science Writing: Media Translations in Liberal Arts Pedagogy

Fri, 4 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Our case study discusses an assignment that asks students to translate a specialist scientific article into a short broadcast segment: in our case, a podcast in the style of National Public Radio’s A Moment of Science(http://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/). The small environment of a liberal arts college facilitates this project through encouraging collaborations between classroom instruction, technology workshops, and information literacy sessions.

The assignment challenges students to not only communicate specialist information at an appropriately broad level but also to do so in an audio-only format. Also, the students work with the familiar, popular, and public outlet of radio or podcast, but in an unfamiliar way: as an academic endeavor. So, while students translate specialist texts to non-expert audiences, they also begin to consider the...

Relieving Libraries’ Culture-Data Tension with a Data Lake

Wed, 12 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Discusses how to create a data-informed, decision-making culture in a large, complex academic library by sharing strategies to obtain administrative support, promote data-savvy and staff buy-in, and translate assessment into action using centralized insights from an enterprise wiki, which supplies performance metrics, tools, reports, dashboards, and user stories.

Unburying Treasures: Teaching Archival Methods to Music Students

Wed, 12 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Unburying Treasures: Teaching Archival Methods to Music Students

The Other Asian: Reflections of South Asian Americans in Libraryland

Thu, 1 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The Other Asian: Reflections of South Asian Americans in Libraryland

Describing Digital: The Design and Creation of a Born-Digital Archival Description Standard at the University of California Libraries

Mon, 10 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This case study outlines the process of creating a set of standards to guide description of born-digital archival collections materials in an archival context across the University of California (UC) system. The authors outline the need for such a standard, including the research methodology that helped establish this need, and the procedures by which these new guidelines were created, refined, and accepted across the UC. The paper goes into detail about the processes, considerations, and discussions that went into drafting rules for each descriptive element included in the standards. The authors argue that much of the specific guidance for describing born-digital materials that is present in these new standards does not exist elsewhere, and that existing archival description standards could benefit from consideration or incorporation of these new descriptive rules. This is identified as an area for future work.

Awake 3.0

Mon, 10 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The first score in the UCLA Music Library, Hugo Davise Fund's Contemporary Score Edition. Composed by Tomàs Peire Serrate. Awake 3.0 is for mixed quintet.

Research and Publication Practices of Asian Studies Faculty at UCLA

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

In early 2017, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Library joined 11 other institutions in the United States to participate in a qualitative study, led by Ithaka S+R, of the research and publication practices of Asian Studies faculty. This report summarizes the findings from the interviews of 34 ladder faculty in Asian Studies at UCLA and focuses on common and critical themes that emerged from the responses. It culminates with recommendations for the UCLA Library to implement in order to support the needs of these scholars and mitigate some of the challenges they face during the research and publication cycle.

Taking the Carpentry Model to Librarians

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Library Carpentry is a growing community of instructors and lesson developers whose mission is to teach librarians the tools, techniques and best practices around working with data and using software to automate repetitive tasks. Using the pedagogical practices of live coding, pair programming, discussion and exercises, Library Carpentry creates a safe and collaborative space for important concepts in computing and data, including data manipulation and organization, using the computer to repeat things and the importance of text pattern matching. We teach these concepts using the Unix shell to repeat commands over text and data, regular expressions to match and operate on text strings, and OpenRefine to clean and standardize datasets. Not only do these skills help librarians create reproducible workflows and repeated operations for data-centric tasks, they give librarians a common language with researchers that can lead to a better mutual understanding of data issues and it paves...

Data and Software Skills Training for Librarians

Wed, 28 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Library Carpentry is an open education volunteer network and lesson organization dedicated to teaching librarians data and software skills. The goal is to help librarians better engage with constituents and improve how they do their work. This talk will serve as an introduction on how Library Carpentry formed in 2015, evolved as a global community of library professionals and will continue as a future sibling of the Carpentries, an umbrella organization of distinct lesson organizations, such as Data and Software Carpentry. We’ll cover existing collaborative lesson development, curricula coverage, workshop activities and the global instructor community. We’ll then talk about the future coordinating activities led by the UC system to align and prepare for a merging with Data and Software Carpentry.

Unpacking the Meaning of “NACO Lite”

Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Unpacking the Meaning of “NACO Lite”

Give Library Functions their Data: visualized, transparent & embraced KPIs in Confluence

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

A key performance indicator (KPI) is a metric used to evaluate factors that are crucial to the success of the Library and should be owned by the library function. Confluence templates provide a central, collaborative, and transparent environment for reports and analytics to be embraced by data driven decision makers. Use of APIs make it possible to gather dynamic data from external sources like Google Analytics and Tableau while it is also possible to supply contextual qualitative metrics to deliver a complete analysis. The process of identifying needs and building the site for a large academic library will be shared with opportunity for discussion.

Syphilis in the Americas: a protocol for a systematic review of syphilis prevalence and incidence in four high-risk groups, 1980–2016

Tue, 24 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

BackgroundSyphilis infection has recently resurfaced as a significant public health problem. Although there has been a tremendous amount of research on the epidemiology of syphilis, there has been limited work done to synthesize the extensive body of research and systematically estimate patterns of disease within high-risk groups in the Americas. The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to (1) summarize recent patterns of syphilis infection in North and South America among four high-risk groups (MSM, transgender women, sex workers, and incarcerated individuals) from 1980 to 2016, (2) identify and differentiate regional geographic epidemiologic characteristics, and (3) compare the epidemics of the economically developed countries of North America from the developing countries and public health systems of Latin America and the Caribbean.Methods/designPrimary studies reporting syphilis prevalence and/or incidence in at least one of the four high-risk groups will...

Digital humanities curriculum support inside the library

Mon, 18 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Digital Humanities, Libraries, Subject Specialists

Community Collections: Nurturing Student Curators (in Students lead the library : the importance of student contributions to the academic library)

Mon, 18 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

With peer-assisted learning flourishing at many academic libraries, student involvement in reference and even instruction is becoming increasingly common in higher education. But can students play a similar role in collection development? Can undergraduate circulating collections benefit from the involvement of student curators?

A snapshot of early adopters of e-journals: Challenges to the library

Fri, 17 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Studies documenting the usage patterns of electronic journals have compared print and e-journal characteristics, surveyed faculty for their perceptions and expectations, and analyzed the impact on library practices. This study, a qualitative exploration of a wide array of issues related to the research and teaching habits of early adopters of e-journals in a research setting, was conducted in the spring of 2001 with faculty in the basic and health sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Open-ended questionnaires provided a framework to wide-ranging discussions of perceptions, expectations, and changing practices pertaining to e-journals and other electronic resources. The results were analyzed with a specific focus on shared behaviors and values, discipline-dependent variations, and changing research and teaching habits. Several challenges for library resources and services are identified and discussed.

The Gravitational Pull Away from Pre-Coordinated Subject Headings

Mon, 24 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

The Gravitational Pull Away from Pre-Coordinated Subject Headings

How do early career health sciences information professionals gain competencies?

Tue, 2 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to describe early career health sciences information professionals' self-reported attainment of the Medical Library Association (MLA) Competencies for Lifelong Learning and Professional Success and to investigate the various methods by which participants developed these competencies. METHODS: A SurveyMonkey survey was designed to ascertain participants' demographic information and their competency attainment. "Early career" health information professionals were defined as those with less than five years of professional experience. Participants were asked to rate each of the seven competencies on a five-point Likert scale regarding their level of agreement with the statement, "I have demonstrated this competency." Participants who responded positively were then asked to indicate how they acquired the competency on a multiple-choice, multiple-answer list. Free-text fields were provided for general comments and for participants to elaborate...

Restrategizing Bibliographic Services and the One Good Record

Tue, 21 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Restrategizing Bibliographic Services and the One Good Record

A Snapshot of Early Adopters of E-journals: Challenges to the Library

Tue, 2 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000

A Snapshot of Early Adopters of E-journals: Challenges to the Library

Three Nex-Generation Catalog Projects. A report on Presentations and a Discussion Hosted by the LITA Next Generation Catalog Interest Group. American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, Philadelphia, January 2008

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The meeting held presentations and discussion about three locally developed and/or open source catalog projects. Ross Shanley-Roberts, Miami University, Ohio, gave a detailed history, technical overview and description of SolrPac (http://beta.lib.muohio.edu). Bess Sadler, University of Virginia, gave a detailed history, technical overview and presentation on the open source OPAC known as Blacklight. Chris Barr and Andrew Nagy of Villanova discussed the VuFind (http://www.Vufind.org/demo) project.

NEXT STEPS IN NEXT GENERATION CATALOGS. A REPORT ON PRESENTATIONS AND A DISCUSSION HOSTED BY THE LITA NEXT GENERATION CATALOG INTEREST GROUP. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE, ANAHEIM, JULY 2008

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Sharon Shafer, Chair-Elect of NGCIG, launched the discussion by giving historical context to the third ever meeting of the Next Generation Catalog Interest Group. The first meeting of NGCIG addressed commercial alternatives to the traditional library catalog, the second meeting focused on non-commercial, open source endeavors while the third meeting was dedicated to next steps in next-generation catalogs. The meeting held presentations and discussion about two examples of recent next generation catalog endeavors. Karen Schneider (Evangelist for Equinox’s Evergreen support) shared what she does as an Evangelist by giving some real world, grounded information on the pluses and minuses of open source software as compared to proprietary software. Sara Davidson and Amy Kautzman (Members of the UC/OCLC Pilot Implementation Team) presented insights in to the benefits and challenges encountered while launching a next-generation consortial catalog (Melvyl) pilot using WCAT Local.

Development of an Online Library of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Gastroenterology: The GI-PRO Database

Sun, 12 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Objectives

Because gastrointestinal (GI) illnesses can cause physical, emotional, and social distress, patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are used to guide clinical decision making, conduct research, and seek drug approval. It is important to develop a mechanism for identifying, categorizing, and evaluating the over 100 GI PROs that exist. Here we describe a new, National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported, online PRO clearinghouse-the GI-PRO database.

Methods

Using a protocol developed by the NIH Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS(®)), we performed a systematic review to identify English-language GI PROs. We abstracted PRO items and developed an online searchable item database. We categorized symptoms into content "bins" to evaluate a framework for GI symptom reporting. Finally, we assigned a score for the methodological quality of each PRO represented in the published literature (0-20 range; higher indicates better).

Results

We...

Engagement of Academic Libraries and Information Science Schools in Creating Curriculum for Sustainability: An Exploratory Study

Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

In 2010, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education released, “Sustainability curriculum in higher education: A call to action,” encouraging infusion of sustainability topics into universities' teaching and research. Since then, academic programs and research related to social, economic, and environmental sustainability have enriched university curricula. An exploratory study was conducted to determine the position and engagements of academic libraries and information science schools in their contributions to scholarly sustainability activities and curricular initiatives. This article presents the results of the study which reveals a number of engagements by library professionals in the areas of sustainability, such as increasing open access to research, building sustainability-related collections and research guides, and incorporating sustainability content into information literacy. While academic libraries and information science schools are engaged...

Book Review: Oral History and Communities of Color

Mon, 19 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Brief summary and review of Oral Histories and Communities of Color by Teresa Barnett and Chon Noriega.

Going beyond Environmental Programs and Green Practices at the American Library Association

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The intent of this editorial is to provide a starting point for a more comprehensive assessment of libraries’ progress towards environmental sustainability, and consequently contribute to a discourse on pathways that can enable sustainable development of libraries in the future.

Review: Slow Reading by John Miedema

Thu, 27 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Review: Slow Reading by John Miedema

Agro-Librex; Agro-Agen; Agro-Konf: Bibliographic Database

Tue, 9 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Agro-Librex; Agro-Agen; Agro-Konf: Bibliographic Database

Review: Theories of Information Behavior edited by Karen E. Fisher, Sanda Erdelez, and Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie

Mon, 9 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Review: Theories of Information Behavior edited by Karen E. Fisher, Sanda Erdelez, and Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie