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Fictional Islam: A Literary Review and Comparative Essay on Islam in Science Fiction and Fantasy
(Essex, England : North East London Polytechnic, 2010-01-07)
The Impact of Electronic Bibliographic Databases and Electronic Journal Articles on the Scholar's Information-Seeking Behavior and Personal Collection of "Reprints"
(Haworth Press, 2004)
This article examines the potential changes to the information seeking behavior of scholars and how they manage their own collection of research article “reprints”. With bibliographic databases and electronic journals ...
Meeting Our Users Where They Conference: A Texas A&M Model to Support Librarian Attendance at Subject-Specific Conferences
(Public Services Quarterly, 2009-04-01)
Today’s academic librarian is frequently called upon to function as
a subject specialist, with or without advanced degrees in other disciplines.
One method of monitoring trends within a given field is to
study its ...
Oral History, Civil Rights and the Archival Role
(Dr. Clyde Robertson; New Orleans Public Schools, 2004-07-19)
The years 2003 to 2006 will witness the anniversaries of many of the events that represent the Modern Civil Rights Movement. With the 50th anniversary celebration of the historic Brown v Board decision, the court order ...
A Tale of Two Depositories: Weeding Federal Depository Collections
(DttP: Documents to the People, 2009)
Metadata Value Chain for Open Access Journals
(Taylor and Francis, 2011)
In this session, Holly Mercer presented a case for finding global solutions to improve the metadata that is available for journals, particularly small, independent open access journals. She discussed the scholarly ...
Lessons Learned by a Standing Search Committee: Developing Better Practices
(Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2009-07)
This paper describes the reasons for establishing a standing committee for faculty searches at Texas A&M University Libraries, the committee’s practices as they have evolved over time, and the successes the committee has ...
Keeping Students Engaged with Web-Based Polling in the Library Instruction Session
(Emerald, 2012)
This research was performed with the goal of determining the potential benefit(s) of including web-based polling in the library instruction classroom. Over the course of a year, web-based polling was used in library ...
Preservation of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin in the Digital Repository
(Taylor and Francis, 2010-04-23)
To assist agricultural librarians in their new role as digital preservation and distribution specialists, this article documents the basic procedures for scanning and digitizing print agricultural serial publications and ...