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Patterns and Plurality: Analyzing Modes of Student Wellbeing Through Library Space Utilization

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The university library is traditionally seen as a place solely for research assistance and study space. While these services are necessary, the modern university library can provide more pathways for student success beyond the scope of academia.…

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Path to Leadership: National Forum on Advancing Asian/Pacific Islander American Librarianship - A White Paper

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This IMLS funded project aimed to bridge two major associations focused on supporting Asian American and Pacific Islander library workers to identify collaborative opportunities to engage with the larger community of APIA library workers and their…

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Partnership beyond CALA: Training Leaders of Color for Action

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CALA Annual Program – Partnership beyond CALA: Training Leaders of Color for Action
Location: MCC - 2010 (W)
Time: Sunday June 28, 2015. 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Keynote speaker: Barbara Kay Stripling
Panel speakers: Eileen K. Bosch; Isabel Espinal;…

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Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist

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Wong Geng Yeo traveled over a vast ocean from China to America as a paper son. He became Tyrus Wong, an artist who changed the animation world through his background art in Bambi. Though he did not get proper credit for this hard work, his story…

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Panel discussion – Institutional Repositories – the joys and challenges with Q&A

This invited panel was an overview of the landscape of IRs in health science libraries – platform options, migrations, and the “nuts and bolts” of implementing and maintaining.

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Overview of Development and Recent Trends in Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation

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This paper is an overview of bibliometrics, a subfield of library and information science. It briefly explains what bibliometrics is and why it is important in research evaluation and impact analysis. It summarizes the latest development and trends…

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Outreach to Peer Advisors in the STEM Disciplines to Increase Awareness of Library Resources

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Improve STEM student success by increasing engagement with library resources through the use of a train the trainer model with peer advisors (mentors/tutors). This project is aimed at assessing whether or not the train the trainer model can lead to…

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Our missing hearts

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"From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence…

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Orphan bachelors: a Memoir

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In pre-Communist China, Fae Myenne Ng’s father memorized a book of lies and gained entry to the United States as a stranger’s son, evading the Exclusion Act, an immigration law which he believed was meant to extinguish the Chinese American family.…

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