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Refined description vs. better user access experience: metadata creation for digital image collections

RefinedDescription.pdf
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…

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Redefining scholarly services in a research lifecycle

The shifting landscape of scholarly communication and lack of a university wide institutional repository led the University of Central Florida (UCF) Libraries to develop a unique approach to supporting faculty and student research and scholarship.…

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Reading Preferences of Suburban Library Patrons

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…

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Reaching beyond ourselves: Celebrating 40 years of CALA (1973 - 2013)

Reaching_beyond_ourselves_Celebrating_40_CALA.pdf
The CALA 40th Anniversary Issue, Reaching Beyond Ourselves: Celebrating 40 Years of CALA (1973-2013), is without doubt a unique collection of the Chinese American Librarians Association’s (CALA) history. It contains pictures, biographies, citations…

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Re-org, retreat and reach out : how we make technical services successful.

This presentation shared the experience of how University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Resource Acquisition and Management (RAM) Department adopted a project management methodology to reorganize technical services in an academic library setting. The…

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Quantitative/Qualitative Analysis of Assessing Student Information Literacy Skills: The Power of Librarian-Faculty Collaborations

Librarians at the Moore Library of Rider University conducted a focus group with 12 undergraduate students during the summer of 2011 and modified an online test
used for determining students’ information literacy (IL) skills in required composition…

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Publish or Perish: Escape Room Edition

CeOEscapeRoom_CALAMW.pdf
Slide presentation recounting Emma Bekele and Angel Tang's efforts to develop and run an escape room for undergraduate students

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Public Libraries in Bridging the Digital Divide

Presentation at the 2024 CALA Midwest Annual Conference

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