Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.21061/VALIB.V62I1.1582
Keith Weimer
In this letter to colleagues working in Virginia Libraries, Keith Weimer, President of Virginia Libraries Association (VLA), 2017, discusses the year’s events and highlights.
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Pub Date : 2017-09-14DOI: 10.21061/VALIB.V62I1.1463
A. Libby, Joy L. Yaeger
In the fall of 2015, the librarians at Tidewater Community College decided use LibGuides in order to redesign the library homepage. Using LibGuides offers librarians the opportunity to quickly and easily edit the homepage and maintain control rather than outsourcing web control to an outside developer. The benefits of using LibGuides as a design platform are discussed, as well as its limitations and challenges.
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Pub Date : 2017-09-07DOI: 10.21061/VALIB.V62I1.1465
Robert Tench
Old Dominion University Library staff recently implemented a self-directed staff training program after a succesful six month pilot project by two units in the Library. Influenced by similiar programs at other libraries, the plan is voluntary and collaborative. Its primary objectives are to assist employees with developing the skill sets necessary to meet 21st century library challenges.
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Pub Date : 2017-08-31DOI: 10.21061/VALIB.V62I1.1467
Katherine A. Clevenger
This is an encouragement to all staff of Virginia Libraries to become involved in VLA. There has been a general feeling that only individuals with thier MLS/MLIS can participate in many committies of VLA. As Chair of the VLAPAF, I would like to encourage increased communication between professional and professional associate staff so that we all jointly support our libraries.
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Pub Date : 2017-08-24DOI: 10.21061/VALIB.V62I1.1577
Luke Vilelle
Libraries of all types are branching out to provide materials to their communities well beyond just books and films. This column describes examples of unique collections at Virginia libraries (musical instruments, bicycles, tools, and more), and the partnerships that make them possible.
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Pub Date : 2017-08-17DOI: 10.21061/VALIB.V62I1.1472
Liz Thompson, D. Vess
Much has been written about the academic library’s presence in Learning Management Systems (LMS). This literature mainly documents the functional design and implementation of the library tools within the parameters of a given learning management system at a given college or university. While these technology-driven articles can be helpful for institutions exploring how to connect their library to their LMS, many of the articles include limited or no reflection on user needs in the context of student learning. Those articles that do evaluate user needs often identify how well the system functions in order to make iterative functional changes, but the authors of this literature review believe user attitudes, expectations, and perceptions of library integrations are the foundation for a successful integration. In this review, the authors examine the current body of library-LMS integration literature that incorporates evaluation instruments and resulting data showing student and faculty expectations and perceptions of library integrations with the LMS.
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Pub Date : 2017-08-10DOI: 10.21061/VALIB.V62I1.1329
Katelyn Tucker Burton, Jason Burton, Alyssa Archer
Proximity Beacons, or iBeacons, use a Bluetooth signal to deliver messages to mobile devices when a user is in range. Radford University used iBeacons placed throughout the library to create an interactive game for National Library Week that helps students make connections between the library's physical and virtual spaces.
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Pub Date : 2015-05-01DOI: 10.21061/VALIB.V61I1.1324
Gene R. Springs
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are poised to alter dramatically the current and future higher education landscapes. Through various providers, ranging from university-sponsored consortia such as edX, through for-profit partnerships like Coursera, to independent ventures such as Udacity, collegelevel education has been made available to any person in the world, provided they have Internet access.
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Pub Date : 2015-05-01DOI: 10.21061/VALIB.V61I1.1326
A. Walz
Open Educational Resources (OER) have saved students millions of dollars in textbook costs and greatly expanded access to a wide variety of educational materials for countless numbers of students and life-long learners. OER have also saved teachers time and effort by allowing them to reuse, modify, and build on materials developed by other teachers. After a brief discussion of OER and foundations of open licensing, this article presents a number of opportunities for libraries, particularly those situated at research universities.
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Pub Date : 2015-05-01DOI: 10.21061/VALIB.V61I1.1325
Adelia Grabowsky
Open access (OA) is a relatively new concept in the long history of published scholarly communication. Although there were already some open access journals in 2002, many point to the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) held in that year as the beginning point of the “open access movement.” The BOAI called for freely available literature which permits “users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.” 1 Since the BOAI, the open access movement has continued to grow and change, and in 2013 David Lewis predicted that over the next ten years, OA would “become the dominant mode for scholarly journal publishing” and recommended that academic libraries “continue to support open access initiatives: institutional deposit mandates; support for open access journals; or funding of open access author fees.” 2 Collection management was also expanding in the 2000s with the addition of access management: the need to facilitate effective and efficient access to electronic materials while still managing physical collections. 3 In 2011 Emilie Delquie asked if the philosophy of collection management was evolving from just collecting information to “‘hooking’ users up with information?” 4 This article examines if and how the integration of OA materials has changed collection and/or access management activities within academic libraries.
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