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中国的民俗

This is one of the books in the series "Chinese Studies in the West: The Chinese Record," Volume 12 . This series consists of reprints of western books about China in the public domain, with Chinese introductions and translations of the books’ main…

Tags: 20th Century, Ceremonies, Chinese Studies, Chinese Studies in the West: The Chinese Record, Flokways, Social life and customs, Traditions, Volume 12, Zhongguo

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Making Sense of eBook Access and Use Limits across Multiple Collections

The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has a collection of over seven hundred thousand eBooks across numerous platforms, available to download in multiple methods, and with a variety of purchase options. This presentation explains how UIC makes…

Position: 778 (271 views)

Introduction to Linked Data

Linked Data is a powerful semantic web technology that makes knowledge and information spaces of different knowledge domains sharable, exchangeable, interoperable, and more. It is increasingly being used in libraries. This presentation is primarily…

Tags: Libraries, Linked Data, Semantic Web

Position: 662 (334 views)

Four Pedagogical Approaches in Helping Students Learn Information Literacy Skills

Rider University librarians heightened their collaboration with classroom faculty to teach students in core writing classes information literacy (IL) skills during IL instruction (ILI) sessions. This quasi-experimental study assessed four pedagogical…

Tags: Assessment, College students, Information literacy, Instruction, Pedagogy, Teaching methods

Position: 113 (558 views)

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…

Tags: Assessment, Focus Group, Information literacy, Librarian-faculty Collaboration, Multiple Correct Answer Questions, Post-tests, Pre-tests, Qualitative Analysis, Quantitative Analysis

Position: 201 (516 views)

What Five Minutes in the Classroom Can Do to Uncover the Basic Information Literacy Skills of Your College Students A Multiyear Assessment Study

Objective – Librarians at Rider University attempted to discern the basic information literacy (IL) skills of students over a two year period (2009-2011). This study aims to
explore the impact of one-session information literacy instruction on…

Tags: Identifying Information, Information Literacy (IL), Level of Information Literacy, Rider University Library, Students

Position: 449 (431 views)

The Effectiveness of a University’s Single-Session Information Literacy Instruction

Purpose – The purpose of this paper it to determine the effectiveness of “single‐session” information literacy instruction as it was integrated into the curriculum of a general education course at Monmouth University, New Jersey.

Tags: Academic Libraries, Assessment, Information literacy, Library instruction

Position: 108 (564 views)

A University Library Laptop Lending Service: An Analysis
Using Two Student Surveys

Purpose - This paper aims to report on a study of an academic library's wireless laptop lending service. The authors believed that the unexpectedly low usage level of the Monmouth University Library's Laptop Lending Service (LLS) could best be…

Tags: Computers, Laptop Lending Service, Lending services, Monmouth University, University libraries, Wireless

Position: 129 (551 views)

The State of Wireless Laptop Lending Programs: A Survey of Academic Libraries

Purpose – This paper seeks to learn, by way of a survey, what librarians at US colleges and
universities were doing and the issues they were encountering as they considered, developed, or
maintained wireless laptop computer lending programs (WLLP)

Tags: Academic Libraries, Internet, Laptops, Lending services, United States of America, Wireless

Position: 94 (578 views)

Faculty-Librarian Collaboration in Improving Information Literacy Skills of Educational Opportunity Program

Purpose – This study aims to examine the instruction of basic information literacy (IL) skills taught
to the socio-economically disadvantaged students in the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) at
Rider University in summer 2011. The study set…

Tags: Assessment, Disadvantaged groups, Faculty-librarian collaboration, Information Literacy (IL), Rider University, Socio-economically Disadvantaged Students, The Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), United States of America

Position: 191 (520 views)

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