Pub Date : 2020-06-02DOI: 10.21061/valib.v64i1.600
K. Vaughan, S. Warlick
Academic libraries serve a wide range of students, faculty, and staff with diverse needs for library accessibility, including people with temporary and chronic disabilities. The social model of disability frames an approach to library support for this population that is grounded in social justice and the library’s role in minimizing barriers to library access. Promoting accessible library services and spaces via the library’s website is an important component. This study analyzed the library websites of forty Virginia four-year academic institutions to identify current practices in the state for including an accessibility or disability services webpage or online policy statement. This content was found on eleven library websites. Naming conventions, location in the site architecture, and an analysis of content were explored. Based on this analysis, the authors conclude with two sets of recommendations for libraries wishing to edit or create their own accessibility services page for their website.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-10DOI: 10.21061/valib.v64i1.595
Jessica Scalph
In this letter to the Virginia Library Association membership at the end of her term as President, the author shares highlights and initiatives from the year. These include: the annual conference with the theme of Peace, Love, Libraries and its connection to libraries as a place of community discussion; the new affiliate membership model that VLA introduced this year; establishment of the Librarians of Color Forum; and the name change of the Diversity & Inclusion Forum to LGBTQIA+. The letter also describes upcoming changes to the Virginia Libraries journal; three programs by VLACRL; programming successes from the CaTS Forum; a professional associates survey project; regional programs; the New Members Round Table mentorship program; VLA manual changes regarding VALLA program requirements; and a letter from VLA countering Macmillan’s planned ebook platform changes.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-10DOI: 10.21061/valib.v63i1.596
Virginia Pannabecker, Cori Biddle, Julia Feerrar, Barbara A. Ferrara, Paige Flanagan, Susan La Paro, Sophie Rondeau, Lynda Wright
The Virginia Libraries Editorial Board is pleased to present volume 63 (Vol. 63), and with it, a transition to a new publishing platform, Ubiquity, provided by our publisher, VT Publishing of University Libraries, Virginia Tech. While Virginia Libraries journal solicits and publishes articles on all topics related to libraries and information science, a focus on communities and connections runs through the articles published in volume sixty-three. Each article includes suggestions for practical application, with programming examples or other ways to try something new to build community and connections @ Your Library.
弗吉尼亚图书馆编辑委员会很高兴地推出第63卷(第63卷)，并与它一起过渡到一个新的出版平台，Ubiquity，由我们的出版商，弗吉尼亚理工大学图书馆VT出版公司提供。虽然弗吉尼亚图书馆杂志征求和发表与图书馆和信息科学相关的所有主题的文章，但对社区和联系的关注贯穿了第63卷中发表的文章。每篇文章都包括对实际应用的建议，包括编程示例或其他尝试新事物的方法，以建立社区和连接@ Your Library。
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Pub Date : 2019-01-09DOI: 10.21061/VALIB.V63I1.1480
Jan Marry
Military families have unique, and perhaps hidden, needs that public libraries are well positioned to meet. Virginia has many military families and they live all over the state. Librarians can serve military families by considering the unique needs of military families in their regular services or by specific military family programming. For more than a decade the author has provided and observed many programs and services for military families in public libraries. This paper aims to help public librarians in Virginia design a variety of library services, programs, and collection development strategies to better serve military families. It concludes with: discussion questions to generate ideas for program planning for this audience at your library, and is followed by two appendices: (Appendix I) a sidebar with examples of the value of libraries for military families from my own military family’s experience and (Appendix II) a comprehensive list of children's and teen books featuring military children.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-14DOI: 10.21061/VALIB.V63I1.1600
Kristen Shuyler, Liz Chenevey
Libraries have long been seen as essential institutions to democracy and integral in supporting the civic life of their communities. This column explores how library workers and libraries in Virginia are supporting democracy through intentional support and promotion of civic engagement and civic literacy in their communities.
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Pub Date : 2018-11-13DOI: 10.21061/valib.v63i1.1584
Patricia R. Mars Maddatu
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Pub Date : 2018-09-27DOI: 10.21061/VALIB.V63I1.1603
Todd Elliott
I never cease to be amazed at the dedication and devotion carried on daily by my fellow library workers! As I write this, elections for the next President-Elect and Secretary for the Virginia Library Association (VLA) are underway, causing me to step back in recollection over the past year as your president. Important things are always happening in our libraries and I felt privileged to learn more about your experiences as well as how many things we have in common, regardless of what prefix rests in front of the word Library for you.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-23DOI: 10.21061/VALIB.V63I1.1474
Dora Rowe
Recent studies in a variety of disciplines have linked the reading of fiction specifically with measurable increases in empathy using both self-reported instruments and neurological examinations. Through a review of the recent studies and experimental evidence, the author contends that empathy can be trained using fiction through specific titles chosen and/or guided discussions. The act of transportation into the story and identification with the characters can lead to substantive changes in perception and world view. Therefore, fiction collections in academic libraries provide a needed resource and should be considered as such.
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Pub Date : 2018-06-22DOI: 10.21061/VALIB.V62I1.1578
Virginia Pannabecker, Renee DiPilato, Paige Flanagan, Susan LaParo, Robin Sofge, Luke Vilelle
The Virginia Libraries journal is making a change to its publication model to publish each article individually with a volume compilation on completion to make the journal’s content as accessible as possible, and to increase the efficiency of our workflow for our authors and readers.
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Pub Date : 2018-06-22DOI: 10.21061/VALIB.V62I1.1597
Luke Vilelle, Renee DiPilato, Paige Flanagan, Susan LaParo, Virginia Pannabecker
The Virginia Libraries Editorial board presents the first completed volume (Vol. 62) under its new publishing format, in which articles are published individually as they become ready for distribution. A common thread across the volume’s articles is the resourceful use of technology the well established (online professional development delivery) to the cutting edge (proximity beacons for tours).
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