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2. FILM CATALOG. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 1965-66.
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Audio-Visual Education Association of California, Los Angeles., University of Southern California, Los Angeles., and MCMURRY, GLENN
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THIS CATALOG, PRINTED BY COMPUTER UNDER THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AUTOMATED CATALOGING PROJECT, CONTAINS AN ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF ALL FILMS AVAILABLE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA FILM LIBRARY. (MS)
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- 2024
3. Languages without Borders: Reinforcing and Delinking English from Coloniality in a Brazilian Internationalization Program
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Clarissa Jordão and Nayara Stefanie Mandarino Silva
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Language without Borders was initiated by the Brazilian Federal Government and has undergone a series of modifications until its discontinuation as a government-sponsored program, when it was taken up by the academic community as a free enterprise. Currently, it is linked to Andifes (National Association of Directors of Federal Institutions of Higher Education). One of the main actions of Language without Borders is to offer the academic community tuition-free language courses. This article presents an interpretive content analysis of one of Language without Borders´s popular features: the catalog with information about the courses offered by the program. We engage with decolonial critiques in the process of exploring Language without Borders legislative pieces, focusing particularly on the English courses in the catalog. Our analysis looks into the uphold of English after the program became an Andifes enterprise to reflect on how the language is approached, given its discursive construction as the language of science in internationalization. Throughout the analysis, we visualize complexities and contradictions in a process permeated both by the reinforcement and delinking from modernity/coloniality.
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- 2023
4. A New Source for Historical-Educative Research: Commercial Catalogue of Educational Aids. First Methodological Reflections
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Francesca Davida Pizzigoni
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In recent years, the commercial catalogues of businesses that produce teaching aids -- which, prompted by the spread of a pedagogical vision linked to activism, first appeared in the second half of the nineteenth century in parallel with the first production of school objects -- have acquired increasing importance as a research source in the field of historical pedagogy. Their versatile nature makes them a rich, varied and precious research tool that can make a considerable contribution to the field of studies related to school materials. The aim of this article is to define the characteristics of this source to subsequently show how recent research grants have been able to offer a first instance of comparative reflection on the issue. From a review of the data that has emerged, a methodological framework for studying commercial catalogues of teaching aids as a research source is being traced out, with plans for future steps on an international level to reinforce its study.
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- 2024
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5. Liaising the Catalog: Collaborating across Library Departments to Promote Successful Discoverability through Enhanced Cataloging
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Busch, Tammie, Campbell, Debbie, Howell, Susan M., Konkel, Mary S., Krieb, Dennis, Li, Mingyan, Mayer, Cathy, and Taft, Ross
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Academic libraries are increasingly asked to articulate connections between the work of library staff and student success. This article discusses how a team of librarians participating in CARLI Counts, an immersive professional development program funded by a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Grant through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, responded to the lack of research investigating the indirect impact of the work of technical services staff on student learning. An anonymous online survey distributed to library staff of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) member institutions explored the perceived value of enhanced cataloging in supporting student research. Survey results point to opportunities for communication and collaboration among technical services and public services librarians to improve understanding of enhanced catalog functionality and user needs.
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- 2023
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6. The Contribution of Monuments to Educating about Holocaust Commemoration in Israel
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Dorot, Ruth, Ben-Ishay Shlomit, and Davidovitch, Nitza
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"After the death of the last witnesses the memory of the Holocaust must not be left to historians alone, now is the time for works of art" Aharon Appelfeld. This study focuses on the role and contribution of monuments to educating about Holocaust commemoration in Israel. Holocaust monuments are located throughout Israel, from north to south, and over the years memorial centers have been added, which contain additional monuments commemorating the story of the specific place and/or personal stories. Many of the latter have original displays from the period of the Holocaust and, according to definitions that will be presented below, these too can be defined as "monuments" and their place as a commemorative site. Commemoration of the Holocaust is an important value in the education of the young generation, as a lesson and as a call to always remember that which happened. The educational system has a very significant role in providing instruction on the memory of the Holocaust and it must teach this complex topic using interesting visual means such as monuments, which have a meaningful role in the story of the Holocaust, similar to journals, letters, films, and drawings. The study explores the role of monuments as meaningful, reliable, and historically valid sources of information, which serve as a visual text for Holocaust instruction. This is with the purpose of examining the meaning of monuments as a source of information in learning about the Holocaust. The research method: Qualitative research based on observations of a case study consisting of an educational program dealing with remembrance based on monuments and on a catalogue of monuments. The catalogue, built specifically for this study, is unique in its scope and categorizes and charts monuments from different locations throughout Israel, providing a venue for educational activities studying the memory of the Holocaust and its commemoration. The research findings show that there is at present no organized study program encouraging schoolchildren's visits to monuments in Israel, and these remain abandoned, with no visitors. In many cases they are displayed in open public spaces, and those passing by do not stop to learn their story. Hence, the contribution of the educational program based on the catalogue and on the visit to the monuments will have an effect on all learners, encouraging learning based on experience, i.e., learning outside the classroom. The program blurs the distinction between social classes and sectors and lets each and every student embark on a journey that includes touring, learning, experiencing, and leading.
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- 2021
7. Creating a Scholarly API Cookbook: Supporting Library Users with Programmatic Access to Information
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Vincent F. Scalfani, Kevin W. Walker, Lance Simpson, Avery M. Fernandez, Vishank D. Patel, Anastasia Ramig, Cyrus Gomes, Michael T. Moen, and Adam M. Nguyen
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Scholarly web-based application programming interfaces (APIs) allow users to interact with information and data programmatically. Interacting with information programmatically allows users to create advanced information query workflows and quickly access machine-readable data for downstream computations. With the growing availability of scholarly APIs from open and commercial library databases, supporting access to information via an API has become a key support area for research data services in libraries. This article describes our efforts with supporting API access through the development of an online Scholarly API Cookbook. The Cookbook contains code recipes (i.e., tutorials) for getting started with 10 different scholarly APIs, including for example, Scopus, World Bank, and PubMed. API tutorials are available in Python, Bash, Matlab, and Mathematica. A tutorial for interacting with library catalog data programmatically via Z39.50 is also included, as traditional library catalog metadata is rarely available via an API. In addition to describing the Scholarly API Cookbook content, we discuss our experiences building a student research data services programming team, challenges we encountered, and ideas to improve the Cookbook. The University of Alabama Libraries Scholarly API Cookbook is freely available and hosted on GitHub. All code within the API Cookbook is licensed with the permissive MIT license, and as a result, users are free to reuse and adapt the code in their teaching and research.
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- 2023
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8. 'Tuskegee Is Her Monument': Gender and Leadership in Early Public Black Colleges
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Soares, Leigh
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This article examines the relationship between gender and leadership in southern public Black colleges from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century. Public colleges offer a unique view of this relationship because, in an era of disfranchisement, the political stakes of leadership were more obvious than in private schools. I argue that the gap between Black women's dynamic roles on public campuses and their marginalized representations in school reports reveals the processes that have obscured their public educational leadership in the American South. Analysis of images collected from college catalogs supplements my examination of documentary evidence from archives and published reports. State educational administration was one of the few remaining spaces where Black men could wield political influence. As they worked to produce institutional images that proclaimed their capacity for and right to public leadership, however, they minimized the contributions of Black women.
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- 2023
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9. Digital Humanities and Training Students to Work with Sources: The Example of Studying Theosophical Journalism of the Russian Emigration of 1920s-1930s
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Kriazheva-Kartseva, Elena
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The article is devoted to the study of the experience of using the capabilities of Digital Humanities in the preparation of research projects in history. In particular, the article reveals the methodology for using a complex of areas of information computer technologies when working with sources, on the example of studying Russian Theosophical Journalism of Emigration of 1920s-1930s, which can be used when studying other topics by students of humanitarian orientation. The teacher can teach students to use information technology in different ways. First, get acquainted with the databases of archives and electronic libraries. Modern capabilities allow you to remotely analyze the catalogs of emigrant publications. Secondly, the researcher has access in a number of cases to already digitized sources in databases, for example, in the Consolidated Catalog of Periodicals of the Russian Emigration - Emigrantika (http://www.emigrantica.ru/), getting acquainted not only with the text, but also visual information. Thirdly, Digital Humanities allow using a variety of tools for interpreting texts, in particular, programs for creating author's databases with the introduction of hypertext, programs for conducting content analysis. It is these components that allow us to conclude that modern information computer technologies are increasingly allowing historians to conduct a source study of electronic resources, interpret the received primary data, and in the future create more and more advanced distributed systems. Acquaintance of students with the models of work of researchers using the capabilities of Digital Humanities should also contribute to the more active implementation of modern methods of working with various types of information contained in historical sources. [For "NORDSCI International Conference Proceedings (Online, October 12-14, 2020). Book 1. Volume 3," see ED616185.]
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- 2020
10. Factors Influencing Student Enrollment in Career Academy Programs
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Ketchledge, Whitney, Kosloski, Michael, and Reed, Philip
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There is considerable research demonstrating strong benefits of the career academy model to students and teachers, but there is little indicating why students enroll in academies and what methods of recruitment may work best. This study assessed factors influencing students' decisions to enroll in career academy programs by looking at factors that influence students to apply for academy programs and reasons students have for choosing not to enroll in academy programs. A survey was used to collect the necessary data with n = 401 responses from students enrolled in an academy and n = 2,421 responses from students not enrolled in an academy. A factor analysis resulted in two larger groupings linking items together based on program experience and student attitudes. A Pareto analysis indicated that counselors were the greatest influencing factors on student decisions to enroll in career academy programs. Parents, teachers, other students, the course catalog, website, and brochure also played a considerable role in how students learned about the academies. The most influential reasons students have for not applying included not knowing, not interested, and missed deadline.
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- 2021
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11. What Will They Learn? 2017-18. A Survey of Core Requirements at Our Nation's Colleges and Universities
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American Council of Trustees and Alumni, Bledsoe, Eric, Riethmiller, Megan, Kempson, Lauri, Poliakoff, Michael, Bledsoe, Eric, Riethmiller, Megan, Kempson, Lauri, Poliakoff, Michael, and American Council of Trustees and Alumni
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"What Will They Learn?"™ evaluates every four-year public university with a stated liberal arts mission as well as hundreds of private colleges and universities selected on the basis of size, mission, and regional representation. All schools in the "What Will Will They Learn"™ study are regionally-accredited, nonprofit institutions. The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) prepared this report to answer the questions that are on students' and parents' minds. Other ranking systems pit schools against each other in an effort to rank schools from "best" to "worst." Those rankings focus on external inputs, such as alumni giving and admission selectivity, rather than academic substance. In this book, over 1,100 colleges and universities individually receive grades according to whether each school requires the essential areas of a liberal arts core curriculum. This report provides information about general education and much more: tuition and fees, as well as the percentage of students who graduate in four years. [For the 2016 report, see ED581888.]
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- 2017
12. Text Genres in Information Organization
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Nahotko, Marek
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Introduction: Text genres used by so-called information organizers in the processes of information organization in information systems were explored in this research. Method: The research employed text genre socio-functional analysis. Five genre groups in information organization were distinguished. Every genre group used in information organization is described. Empirical evidence for genre group two was obtained through specific analysis of genres used by cataloguers cooperating within the Polish union catalogue. Analysis: A qualitative genre analysis concerning the choice and description of five groups of genres most important for information organization was carried out. Most attention was paid to the second group of text genres, consisting of vocabularies and rules used in cataloguing. Results: The text genre system used in information organization and showing the roles of any specified text genre group is described. The case of the Polish union catalogue database helped to present temporo-spatial dependencies appearing in the regulated genre system. Conclusions: Information organization involves the creation of representations of published texts with a variety of text tools. The creation of these texts and their use (reading) results in individual knowledge reorganization (modification) of all people involved in these processes, that is both writers (including authors of vocabularies, cataloguing rules and bibliographic records) and readers. [Paper presented at the Information Seeking in Context (ISIC): The Information Behaviour Conference, Part 1 (11th, Zadar, Croatia, September 20-23, 2016).]
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- 2016
13. A Comparison of Principles of Economics Curriculum across U.S. Colleges and Universities
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Prante, Gerald
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This paper compares principles of economics curriculum in 2015-16 academic catalogues among the Princeton Review's "The Best 380 Colleges 2016 Edition." The paper finds that 76 percent of schools on the list offer separate principles courses for microeconomics and macroeconomics, while 25 percent offer a single principles course covering both micro and macro. A few schools provide both options. Of those schools offering separate micro and macro principles courses, 28 percent require that micro be taken prior to macro, while only 5 percent require macro before micro. Large schools are more likely to offer two separate courses and are also more likely to require micro before macro. A minimum level of math proficiency prior to enrolment in principles courses is required by 16 percent of schools. The goal of this paper is to provide business and economics faculty with information on how other institutions approach the principles of economics curriculum.
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- 2016
14. What Will They Learn? 2016-17. A Survey of Core Requirements at Our Nation's Colleges and Universities
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American Council of Trustees and Alumni, Bledsoe, Eric, Kolson, Kenneth, Kempson, Lauri, Poliakoff, Michael, Bledsoe, Eric, Kolson, Kenneth, Kempson, Lauri, Poliakoff, Michael, and American Council of Trustees and Alumni
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In the fiercely competitive, global job market, solid preparation in core skills matters a lot. Will college graduates write with the clarity, grace, and accuracy that employers (and everyone else) expect? Will they have the basic mathematical and scientific skills--regardless of their majors--that equip them to navigate an increasingly technological age? Will they be prepared for active citizenship with a college-level understanding of America's history and institutions of government? The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has prepared this book to answer these questions. This book provides ratings for over 1,100 colleges and universities graded on whether each requires the courses that provide preparation in the essential areas of the liberal arts and provides notes explaining the grades assigned and noteworthy programs within schools. The results are troubling: Too many colleges and universities allow students to spend time and money on a diffuse array of courses. This book provides not only information about general education but much more: tuition and fees, as well as the percentage of students who graduate in four years. [For the 2015 report, see ED563821.]
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- 2016
15. Searching Databases without Query-Building Aids: Implications for Dyslexic Users
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Berget, Gerd and Sandnes, Frode Eika
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Introduction: Few studies document the information searching behaviour of users with cognitive impairments. This paper therefore addresses the effect of dyslexia on information searching in a database with no tolerance for spelling errors and no query-building aids. The purpose was to identify effective search interface design guidelines that benefit dyslexic users. Method: Twenty dyslexic students and twenty controls solved ten predefined search tasks in the Norwegian library catalogue Bibsys Ask. Screen-recording and eyetracking were used to observe search behaviour. Analysis: The statistical analysis software SPSS was used for quantitative analyses, SMI BeGaze was used for qualitative analysis of the search behaviour. Results: Dyslexic students took longer and formulated more queries per task than the controls. Further, they submitted shorter queries, made more misspellings and relied more upon external resources. There were no differences in problem solving approaches across the two groups except that the dyslexic students used external Websites more. Conclusions: The results of this study indicate that dyslexia has a negative impact on search performance in systems with no tolerance for errors and no query-building aids. Several guidelines are suggested based on the observed information searching behaviour to accommodate users with dyslexia.
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- 2015
16. Transforming Media 'in the' Classroom
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Hanley, Rachel
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PicDiversity, Inc. is working to solve the problems about media in the classroom. Where do teachers go to find diverse media for their students? Students deserve to feel recognized and valued, seeing themselves reflected in the lessons provided. This article presents PicDiversity and how it can transform media in the classroom. PicDiversity's goal is to bring diversity to the visuals and videos that surround students in the classroom. Through its website, PicDiversity offers an entire catalog of illustrations and videos for download and streaming, currently available for free to American school teachers.
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- 2020
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17. What Will They Learn? 2015-16. A Survey of Core Requirements at Our Nation's Colleges and Universities
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American Council of Trustees and Alumni, Kempson, Lauri, Burt, Evan, Bledsoe, Eric, and Poliakoff, Michael
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At a time when 87% of employers believe that our colleges must raise the quality of students' educations in order for the United States to remain competitive globally, and four in five Americans say they believe all graduates should have to take the key courses outlined in the study, few colleges require a real liberal arts education. "What Will They Learn?"™ provides information on over 1,100 colleges and universities that were graded on whether each requires the courses that provide preparation in the essential areas of the liberal arts. The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) assigns each school a letter grade, and provides notes that explain the grades assigned and noteworthy programs within schools. Nearly every one of the over 1,100 colleges and universities included in this 2015-16 "What Will They Learn?"™ recognizes the importance of general education, and describes its program as a central part of its educational mission. This report makes clear that cost and reputation do not predict the strength of a school's core curriculum. An encouraging finding is that public colleges and universities generally do a better job maintaining requirements in science and English composition than do private institutions, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities are noteworthy for their strong requirements. This report also provides information about tuition and fees, as well as the percentage of students who graduate in four years. [For the 2014 report, see ED553422.]
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- 2015
18. The College Readiness Data Catalog Tool: User Guide. REL 2014-042
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Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands (ED), National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (ED), Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), Rodriguez, Sheila M., and Estacion, Angela
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As the name indicates, the College Readiness Data Catalog Tool focuses on identifying data that can indicate a student's college readiness. While college readiness indicators may also signal career readiness, many states, districts, and other entities, including the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), do not systematically collect career readiness indicators. Although the College Readiness Data Catalog Tool was developed with the needs of the USVI Alliance in mind, it is flexible enough to be used by other interested parties. This tool allows states, districts, and other entities to create data catalogs to assess the availability of college readiness indicators and identify gaps that may present challenges for indicator systems. Researchers may also use data catalog tools as they work with states, districts, and other entities to determine the feasibility of studies on college readiness, including, for example, identifying the strongest indicators in a given context. The tool is meant to be used only after a research question has been identified.The College Readiness Data Catalog Tool is a flexible-use Excel workbook that provides a shell for organizing and tracking student data relevant for measuring college readiness. The shell organizes data at three levels: (1) Constructs: Concepts identified during the literature scan that are of interest for measuring. Broad and indirectly measurable, constructs identify important ideas that should be measured to answer each research question and meaningfully group the information in the catalog. College readiness constructs are overarching categories that are highly relevant for predicting success in college. (2) Indicators: Concepts that provide greater specificity than constructs. Not all constructs have associated indicators, and some have more than one. (3) Data elements: Specific data sources that describe specific and measurable concepts. Data elements include traditional sources such as measures from assessments, performance evaluations, and formal observations, as well as documents such as emails, agendas, and meeting notes. The tool also provides a list of key data element characteristics, such as years of available data, information about linking, changes to data elements across years, and specific fields or values. All three data levels (construct, indicator, and data element) and their characteristics are important for informing decisions about using college readiness data. The following are appended: (1) Sample data catalog summary report; and (2) Template for a data catalog summary report.
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- 2014
19. Implementing a Proactive Chat Widget in an Academic Library
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Pyburn, Lydia L.
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Sometimes users need to be asked if they need help. This is difficult with online users, because in-person cues cannot be used to engage when the users need assistance. Proactive chat widgets help to solve this problem as the chat box slides out onto the screen and prompts the user for help. The need for the proactive chat widget was also seen as EZproxy data revealed only 1% of online students who accessed the library's resources reached out for help through chat. This article will cover the successes and challenges of implementing a proactive chat widget on the library's Web site, catalog and databases; the review of proactive chat software; the collaboration of departments within the library to test and launch the widget; chat transcript analysis for coverage and training; and roles of the different departments staffing the chat service.
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- 2019
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20. A Delphi Study on Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Applied on Computer Science (CS) Skills
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Porta, Marcela, Mas-Machuca, Marta, Martinez-Costa, Carme, and Maillet, Katherine
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Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) is a new pedagogical domain aiming to study the usage of information and communication technologies to support teaching and learning. The following study investigated how this domain is used to increase technical skills in Computer Science (CS). A Delphi method was applied, using three-rounds of online survey questions, given to 17 TEL experts from different European countries. The results showed that these experts consider TEL an effective and interesting support to acquire CS skills. Furthermore, the findings revealed the five best tools in TEL to acquire necessary CS knowledge. Future research can provide a guideline to implement effective TEL tools in CS studies. This manuscript investigates Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) tools and its applications to learn specific skills in CS. As general content the results of a Delphi study that identifies the benefits of TEL while teaching are highlighted.
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- 2012
21. Setting up and Running a School Library. Information Collection and Exchange Publication No. ED204
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Peace Corps and Baird, Nicola
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This book explains how teachers can set up and run a successful school library. In it you will find advice and information on how to: (1) set up a small library and build bookshelves; (2) select books for your library; (3) make a written record of your school's books, pamphlets and other library stock such as newspapers, magazines, audio tapes and videos; (4) divide the library stock into subject areas; (5) choose the best method of letting students borrow library books; and (6) repair damaged books. In addition, you will find useful "teaching tips" throughout the book and, in chapter 16, the addresses of international organisations which may supply free books to your school. Appended are: (1) Junior Colour Code classification schedule; and (2) The VSO ECOE Programme. (Contains 40 figures.)
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- 2012
22. U.S. Public Libraries and the Use of Web Technologies, 2010. A Closer Look
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Colorado Department of Education, Library Research Service, Lietzau, Zeth, and Helgren, Jamie
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It's well known that technology is changing at an increasingly rapid pace and that many public libraries throughout the United States are attempting to adopt new technologies to better reach their patrons. In trade journals, blogs, and at library conferences, professionals in the field have continually discussed the best methods for using web technologies to enhance the success of the public library. In keeping with this discussion, in late 2007 the Library Research Service (LRS) designed the first iteration of the U.S. Public Libraries and the Use of Web Technologies study. In the midst of a conversation largely focused on best practices, this study was envisioned from its inception as a longitudinal study with several goals. Primarily, it attempts to record the landscape of web technology adoption by public libraries in the United States. While most of the discourse thus far has focused on what should and should not be done to better use technologies, there has not yet been much research examining how and how many libraries actually are adopting various web technologies. This study attempts to put that in perspective. Another intention of this study is to examine the characteristics of the libraries that are adopting technology in an attempt to tease out the factors that lead them to try out various tools. We are also interested in determining whether or not the adoption of specific types of technology leads to "success" as traditionally defined in public libraries. This report represents the second iteration, and refinement, of the study. In the vein of the first study, this version was conducted as a content analysis, as opposed to a survey to the field. Please see the first report for an explanation of the benefits and drawbacks to this methodology. During the spring of 2010, LRS staff members visited the web sites of 689 public libraries in the United States, searching for the presence of various technologies. The national sample was comprised of 584 libraries, while the remaining 105 were Colorado public libraries that had not been selected as part of the national sample. This report captures a changing landscape of web technology adoption by public libraries and looks further into the characteristics and successes of libraries that adopt technology. Library 2.0 survey is appended. (Contains 9 tables, 31 charts, and 3 footnotes.) [This report was produced by the Library Research Service (LRS), a unit of the Colorado State Library, Colorado Department of Education that partners with the Library and Information Science Program, Morgridge College of Education, University of Denver.]
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- 2011
23. A Consumer's Guide to Going to School
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Council for Adult and Experiential Learning
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Higher education or going back to school is a big decision that has the potential to change a person's life. A bachelor's degree will cost somewhere between $15,000 and $40,000 and take a working adult from 3 to 12 years to complete. One should do some research and ask questions. This is a tool to help individuals make good decisions as they consider attending a college or other educational program. It's organized by: (1) Questions to ask themselves; (2) How to pay for this?; (3) What school?; (4) What program?; and (5) A "returning to school" dictionary.
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- 2011
24. The Complete Learning Disabilities Resource Guide. 2019 Edition
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"The Complete Learning Disabilities Resource Guide" (formerly "The Complete Learning Disabilities Directory") has been a comprehensive and sought-after resource for professionals, families and individuals with learning disabilities since 1992. This twenty-first edition is the most comprehensive and current source of resources for the LD community available today, and a continual National Health Information Awards Winner for providing "...the Nation's Best Consumer Health Information Programs and Materials in the category of Health Promotion/Disease and Injury Prevention Information." "The Complete Learning Disabilities Resource Guide" supports the LD population, from those with a learning disability to their support network, in a number of ways. This edition starts with valuable front matter-both statistics about children and adults with learning disabilities-and a summary report from the National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLSD). The report includes: (1) Understanding Learning and Attention Issues; (2) Identifying Struggling Students; (3) Supporting Academic Success; (4) Social, Emotional and Behavioral Challenges; (5) Transitioning to Life After High School; and (6) Recommended Policy Changes. This twenty-first edition, with 4,614 listings, provides a comprehensive look at the variety of resources available for the many different types of learning disabilities, from those that occur in spoken language, to those that affect organizational skills. It includes a wide array of testing resources, crucial for early diagnosis, and is arranged in subject-specific chapters for quick, effective research. The Table of Contents is your guide to this database in print form. The Complete Learning Disabilities Resource Guide is arranged into 21 major chapters and 100 subchapters, making it easy to pinpoint the exact type of desired reference, including Associations, National/State Programs, Publications, Audio/Video, Web Sites, Products, Conferences, Schools, Learning/Testing Centers, and Summer Programs. Listings provide thousands of valuable contact points, including 4,339 key executives, web sites, fax numbers, descriptions, founding year, designed-for age products, and size of LD population for schools. With valuable information for not only those individuals with LD, but also for parents, teachers and professionals, this edition offers answers to legal and advocacy questions, as well as specially designed computer software and a full range of assistive devices. "The Complete Learning Disabilities Resource Guide" gives you the confidence that this one resource is all you need. It assures those in the LD community that this crucial information is readily available at every school and library across the country, not just at state or district level special education resource centers. Now, every special education teacher, student, and parent can have, right at their fingertips, a wealth of information on the critical resources that are available to help individuals achieve in school and in their community. Chapters included in the books: (1) Associations & Organizations; (2) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; (3) Camps & Summer Programs; (4) Classroom Resources; (5) Conferences & Workshops; (6) Computer Resources; (7) Exchange Programs; (8) Government Agencies; (9) Literacy & Learning Skills; (10) Media: Books; (11) Media: Pamphlets; (12) Media: Publishers; (13) Media: Audio & Video; (14) Web Sites & Data Bases; (15) Professional Periodicals; (16) Professional Texts; (17) Schools & Colleges; (18) Learning Centers; (19) Testing Resources; and (20) Vocational & Transitional Skills.
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- 2018
25. Copyright Renewal of U.S. Books Published in 1932: Reanalyzing Ringer's Study to Determine a More Accurate Renewal Rate for Books
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Carlstone, Jamie, Stein, Ayla, Norman, Michael, and Wilkin, John
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In 1961, Barbara Ringer published "Study No. 31: Renewal of Copyright," where she determined the renewal rate for fiscal year 1932 U.S. publications. In that study, she concludes that the renewal rate for Class A works for FY 1932 was 7 percent. This paper seeks to reassess Ringer's study by analyzing the copyright registrations for 1932 and their renewals published in the "Catalogue of Copyright Entries." This was done to determine a renewal rate specifically for books rather than Class A as a whole, which includes other materials. The analysis determines that the copyright renewal rate for books is actually 26-33 percent, significantly higher than 7 percent claimed by Ringer.
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- 2018
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26. The Gender Effect in Student Selection of Professors for Classes
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Mendez, Jeanette Morehouse and Mendez, Jesse Perez
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The purpose of this study is to examine gender preferences that students may have in hypothetical professor selection by either profile picture or catalog listing. First, we showed picture profiles of male and female professors (while controlling for attractiveness and age) to student participants and asked them to select one or the other. Second, we provided students with faculty names indicating their gender in a simulated course catalog format and asked them to select one from the pair. We found that students preferred male faculty overall, both in the photo and name experiment. When we compared male students to female students, male faculty were consistently selected in the name experiment; however in the photo experiment, female students preferred female faculty while male students preferred male faculty. Further, we found evidence of indirect racial effects. Students more often selected male faculty when the photos were White and when the names were White, Black, and Asian. Hispanic faculty pairings were the only ethnic groups where female faculty were preferred over male faculty.
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- 2018
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27. Factors Influencing Student Enrollment in Career Academy Programs
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Ketchledge, Whitney Stokes
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Career academies are small learning communities that allow high school students to learn their core content in the context of the career field they may be interested in pursuing. This type of learning environment incorporates business and industry and postsecondary institutions so academy students receive academic curricula that prepares them for higher education and allows students to have experiences in the career field. There is considerable research demonstrating strong benefits of the academy model to students and teachers, but there is little indicating why students enroll in the academy and what methods of recruitment may work best. The purpose of this study was to assess factors influencing students' decisions to enroll in career academy programs. The study investigated two research questions. The first research question looked at factors that influence students to apply for academy programs. The second research question explored reasons students have for choosing not to enroll in academy programs. A survey conducted by the school division was used to collect the necessary data with n = 401 responses from students enrolled in an academy and n = 2,421 responses from students not enrolled in an academy. To investigate factors influencing students to apply for academy programs, a factor analysis was performed. This analysis resulted in two larger groupings linking items together based on program experience and student attitudes. A Pareto analysis indicated that counselors were the greatest influencing factors on student decisions to enroll in career academy programs. Parents, teachers, other students, the course catalog, website, and brochure also played a considerable role in how students learned about the academies. To investigate reasons students have for not applying, a Pareto analysis was conducted with the reasons of not knowing, not interested, and missed deadline as most influential. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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- 2018
28. A Review of E-Learning in Canada: A Rough Sketch of the Evidence, Gaps and Promising Directions: A Commentary
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Kanuka, Heather
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The purpose of the "Review of E-Learning in Canada", conducted by Abrami and associates (which is referred to as "the team"), was to provide evidence and gaps on the topic of e-learning, and based on this data provide promising directions for e-learning. Funded by the Canadian Council on Learning, the stated objectives of the review were to: 1) identify and verify through research the most effective practices and procedures to promote learning; 2) identify major gaps in knowledge and understanding of e-learning; and 3) identify the most promising lines of inquiry for addressing those gaps. The review covers the literature from 2000 forward with an attempt to focus on Canadian literature, in both official languages. Using an Argument Catalogue codebook a number of classes were identified by the researchers upon which the review was framed. The documents were also coded to provide data on outcomes of the e-learning research from the following perspectives: general public opinion, practitioner literature, policy documents, scholarly reviews, and primary Canadian research. Did the team achieve their objectives? Do their outcomes provide promising directions for e-learning? This commentary will begin by deconstructing the activities of this review and conclude with comments on how well the objectives of this review were met.
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- 2006
29. Dublin Core: The Base for an Indigenous Culture Environment?
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Nevile, Liddy and Lissonnet, Sophie
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A day in Cape York, in the far north east of Australia, can change the life of a modern Australian. In that time, one can see hundreds of examples of rock art that are up to 36,000 years old, sharply contrasting the history of Indigenous people and the immigration of Europeans.One such visit led to a proposed collaboration between the Quinkan Culture Elders and a team of metadata researchers. The researchers proposed a Qualified Dublin Core style catalog to be used to identify and record examples of Quinkan Culture so Elders could at last gain access to information needed to manage the proliferation of unauthorized publications about Quinkan culture, and to "bring back home" cultural representations. In addition, the catalog would allow the Elders to make decisions about publishing their own representations. This paper describes the journey of members of the team developing "Matchbox," a cataloging system, as they have sought a way of using Qualified DC metadata (QDC) to describe, collect, and represent Quinkan Culture. One focus in this paper is how developing a QDC representation has led to questions of cultural definition and, simultaneously, of the use of technologies such as HTML, XML and RDF. (Author)
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- 2003
30. Report on the Successful AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway Implementation of the FRBR and INDECS Event Models, and Implications for Other FRBR Implementations.
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Ayres, Marie-Louise, Kilner, Kerry, Fitch, Kent, and Scarvell, Annette
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This paper discusses the first major implementation of two significant new cataloging models: IFLA's FRBR (International Federation of Library Associations' Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) and event modeling (INDECS and Harmony). The paper refers briefly to the decision making processes leading to the adoption of these models, and outlines the implementation process, the benefits of the implementation, the practical and conceptual difficulties encountered in this implementation, and some observations on the future of these models in the library and information worlds. FRBR was published in 1998, and was widely accepted as providing a sound conceptual model for a new generation of bibliographic records which record and present the publishing history of information resources. The 2000 LC Cataloging conference included a number of papers on the requirement to add "event models" into cataloging. FRBR and Event Modeling are powerful tools for presenting bibliographic and other information in a richly contextual environment. Implementing the models presents significant challenges but is achievable, cost effective, offers many benefits to practitioners and should be considered by a range of information providers. (Contains 21 references.) (Author)
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- 2002
31. The Basis for a Record in Major Cataloguing Codes and the Relation to FRBR.
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Jonsson, Gunilla
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A truly global supply of bibliographic records and the emergence of online publishing put new challenges on the organization of bibliographic control. Three important cataloging codes are presently under revision, the AACR, the Italian RICA and the German RAK. The basis for a record, the carrier=content dichotomy, is one fundamental issue which has been particularly observed in the AACR revision process, strongly influenced by the IFLA report Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), 1997. Is it possible to move from "Manifestation records" to "Work records"? The answer seems to be no, and the conclusion is that the Manifestation record is more needed than ever, but that information on Works and Expressions is urgently needed as well, and that authority information must be expanded considerably in order to give proper guidance to users. FRBR offers a model and a language which can help to bring about the common understanding which is the first prerequisite of information interoperability. (Contains 18 references.) (Author)
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- 2002
32. Global Collective Resources: A Study of Monographic Bibliographic Records in WorldCat.
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Perrault, Anna H.
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In 2001, WorldCat, the primary international bibliographic utility, contained 45 million records with over 750 million library location listings. These records span over 4,000 years of recorded knowledge in 377 languages. Under the auspices of an OCLC/ALISE (Online Computer Library Center/Association of Library and Information Science Educators) research grant, a bibliometric study was conducted of WorldCat. A 10% systematic random sample of the database was analyzed utilizing the OCLC iCAS product to profile the monographic bibliographic records in WorldCat by type of library, subject, language, and publication date parameters. The profile details the information commons of global publication made accessible through the OCLC international network. There were 3,378,272 usable records from the 10% systematic random sample of which 2,199,165 records had call numbers and could be analyzed by subject. Five types of library groupings were established for the study: research, academic, public, special, and school. The research libraries grouping has the largest number or records in the sample with call numbers at 1,745,034. The missions of the different types of libraries can be discerned in the subject profiles for each library grouping. Among the findings of the study are that the profile of WorldCat by time period and by subject divisions is mirrored in the profile of the grouping of research libraries. Of all of the records in the 10% sample, approximately 65% are English language materials with 35% for foreign language materials. The analysis by number of unique records and title overlap demonstrate that the universe of materials under bibliographic control in WorldCat shows a high level of diversity of resources with 53% of records having only one library location symbol. The number of records in the analysis show a sharp decline by most measures from 1992 to the last imprint year in the study. An analysis was performed of the records in the sample with ISBN numbers, finding that only 21% of the 3 million plus records in the study had ISBN numbers. This can be due to the amount of retrospective titles published before the numbering system came into use and also the number of publications that are not from mainstream publishers. But for publications since 1970, 57% of all records with call numbers have ISBN numbers, leaving an intriguing 43% of records with call numbers that do not have ISBN numbers. The findings establish that WorldCat is a rich resource for cataloging records, verification of the existence of titles, and identifying prospective materials for resources sharing. As OCLC continues to implement its Global Strategy, Extending the Cooperative, the number of international members and thus foreign language records and unique titles may continue to increase. (Contains 47 tables, 9 figures, and 30 references.) (Author)
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- 2002
33. Exploring Partnerships: What Can Producers and Vendors Provide?
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Kaplan, Michael
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This document focuses on the role of producers and vendors in the construction of bibliographic catalogs. The paper offers three issues related to cataloging that are becoming more and more significant to users: (1) aggregators and aggregations, i.e., large sets of electronic aggregations, principally of serials; (2) ancillary data, including tables of contents, book indexes, author portraits, summaries, and book reviews; and (3) metadata for electronic books. (MES)
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- 2000
34. Voices of Experience: A Catalogue of Resources from the Starting Points Sites. Starting Points: Meeting the Needs of Our Youngest Children.
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Carnegie Corp. of New York, NY., Finance Project, Washington, DC., and Hostetler, Janet
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The Starting Points State and Community Partnerships for Young Children, a grants initiative among 11 states and cities, was initiated in 1996 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to promote responsible parenthood, ensure high quality child care, provide children with good health and protection, and mobilize the public to support young children and families. This catalogue encompasses books, monographs, brochures, videotapes, curricula, and other materials produced by Starting Points sites that explain what they have accomplished, share lessons learned, and provide assistance to others with the same goals. The catalogue is organized alphabetically by site location: (1) Baltimore; (2) Boston; (3) Colorado; (4) Florida; (5) Hawaii; (6) North Carolina; (7) Pittsburgh; (8) Rhode Island; (9) San Francisco; (10) Vermont; and (11) West Virginia. Each section briefly describes the Starting Points program in place and describes each product, including cost and ordering information. (KB)
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- 2000
35. Child of the World: Essential Montessori Age 3-12+ Years. Sixteenth Edition.
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Stephenson, Susan Mayclin
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This book provides information on the basic principles of Montessori education for 3- to 12-year-olds and contains a catalog of equipment, materials, and books for use by adults living or working with children. Information and relevant materials for 3- to 6-year-olds are organized into the following areas: (1) organizing the environment; (2) family life, including care of each other, care of the environment and food preparation and serving; (3) toys and games; (4) blocks and puzzles; (5) earth science; (6) plants and animals; (7) people, including geography and history; (8) language materials; (9) music; (10) art; and (11) geometry and math. Information and materials for 6- to 12-year-olds is organized as follows: (12) cooperation and peace; (13) earth science; (14) plants and animals; (15) geography, history, and biography; (16) language; (17) art and music; and (18) geometry, mathematics, and invention. Two final sections cover parenting and teaching children from birth to 24 years, and an introduction to Montessori education is included. (KB) [An updated version can be obtained at: www.susanart.net]
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- 2000
36. Catalog of ERIC Clearinghouse Publications, 2000. A Catalog of Free and Low-Cost ERIC Clearinghouse Materials Currently in Print.
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ACCESS ERIC, Rockville, MD. and Goncalves, Silvia
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This Catalog highlights more than 1,200 available education titles produced directly by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) system. The titles are arranged by ERIC component and cover a broad range of subject areas related to education. The Catalog provides ordering information and prices (subject to change) for each title and includes a subject index to help users locate publications in their areas of interest quickly. The subject index also lists the appropriate ERIC Clearinghouse or support component from which to order each publication. Order forms are included. (AEF)
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- 2000
37. The Journal of the Imagination in Language Learning, 2000.
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Jersey City State Coll., NJ. Center for the Imagination in Language Learning., Coreil, Clyde, Coreil, Clyde, and Jersey City State Coll., NJ. Center for the Imagination in Language Learning.
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This collection of papers includes the following: "The Great Debate. Proposed: TESOL is a Science, Not an Art" (David Nunan); "Argument and Entertainment: TESOL as a Science" (Elana Shohamy); "TESOL: Art and Craft" (Henry Widdowson); "An Attitude of Inquiry: TESOL as a Science" (Diane Larsen-Freeman); "Precision, Elegance and Simplicity: Perspectives on TESOL and Art" (G. Richard Tucker); "Can I Love You? A Child's Adventure with Puppets and Play" (George Dempsie); "Magical Boxes: A Window to the Imagination" (Lora Friedman and Linda Simone); "Evolving Texts: My Students and My Writings" (Cesar Valmana Iribarren); "The Alternative Textbook and Teaching English in Ukraine" (Olga Kulchytska); "ESL Storytellers as Cultural Diplomats" (Kim Hughes Wilhelm); "Talking about the Arts in Writing Class" (Gabriel Yardley); "Story Grammars and Oral Fluency" (Dafne Gonzalez); "Student-Written Tests: An Effective Twist in Teaching Language" (Lionel M. Kaufman, Jr.); "Jargon Cells: Integrating Grammar and Lexis through Topical Focus" (Judy Hartt); "An ESL-TESL Drop-In Center that Works" (Connie Mitchell and Christine Mueller); "Junk Mail Catalogs: A Treasure-Trove for Language Teachers" (Susan L. Schwartz); and "Thirty Notes on Writing for This Journal" (Clyde Coreil). (Papers contain references.) (SM)
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- 2000
38. Catalog of ERIC Clearinghouse Publications, 1999. A Catalog of Free and Low-Cost ERIC Clearinghouse Materials Currently in Print.
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ACCESS ERIC, Rockville, MD. and Goncalves, Silvia
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This "Catalog of ERIC Clearinghouse Publications" highlights more than 1,200 education publications prepared by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) system and currently available in original copies from them. The titles are arranged by ERIC component and cover a broad range of subject areas in education. The major ERIC publication types include: parent brochures; directories and resource guides; ERIC Digests; ERIC Monographs/Reports; and searches and annotated bibliographies. The Catalog provides ordering information and prices and includes a subject index to help locate publications in specific areas of interest. The subject index also lists appropriate ERIC Clearinghouse or support component to order publications. A list of addresses, telephone numbers and Internet addresses for specific Clearinghouses is provided. (AEF)
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- 1999
39. Does It Make a Sound: Are Open Access Monographs Discoverable in Library Catalogs?
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McCollough, Aaron
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This article describes an exploratory study examining the common perception among library-based publishers that open access academic publications (especially monographs) are not readily discoverable in library catalogs. Using titles from the Michigan Publishing imprint, digital culture books, the study provides an empirical basis for evaluating these suspicions. The analysis indicates that only a small percentage of college and university library catalogs in the United States and Canada consistently enable discovery and access for the test sample. However, investigation into the varied discovery configurations of the libraries that do enable discovery and access suggests room for optimism about the future solubility of the problem.
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- 2017
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40. Increasing Teaching Productivity with EuropeMMM.
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Helic, Denis, Scherbackov, Nick, and Sheridan, Don
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EuropeMMM (Efficient Use of Remote and Online Publications of Electronic Multi-Media Materials) addresses the challenge of custom-publishing of multi-media on the Internet. A EuropeMMM catalog is designed especially for teachers and trainers who need to save time and effort in developing courses which include multi-media elements. Authors and educators can select multi-media material from such a catalog and produce their own custom instructional materials. Through the use of EuropeMMM and the World Wide Web, resource-based learning becomes widely accessible to students, while at the same time reducing the costs of production through shared intellectual capital. This paper describes how EuropeMMM allows authors and educators to select multi-media materials from a central, transnational Web site to produce their own custom material for teaching or other purposes. It also provides details on how multi-media content can be contributed to the central repository. Six figures illustrate steps in the material development process. (Author/DLS)
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- 1998
41. Catalog of ERIC Clearinghouse Publications, 1998. A Catalog of Free and Low-Cost ERIC Clearinghouse Materials Currently in Print.
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ACCESS ERIC, Rockville, MD. and Mitchell, Kevin
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This "Catalog of ERIC Clearinghouse Publications" highlights more than 1,100 education publications prepared by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) system. The titles are arranged by ERIC component and cover a broad range of subject areas in education. The major ERIC publication types include: parent brochures; directories and resource guides; ERIC Digests; ERIC Monographs/Reports; and searches and annotated bibliographies. The Catalog provides ordering information and prices and includes a subject index to help locate publications in specific areas of interest. The subject index also lists appropriate ERIC Clearinghouse or support component to order publications. A list of addresses, telephone numbers and Internet addresses for specific Clearinghouses is provided. (AEF)
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- 1998
42. Catalog of ERIC Clearinghouse Publications. 1997.
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ACCESS ERIC, Rockville, MD.
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This "Catalog of ERIC Clearinghouse Publications" highlights more than 1400 education publications prepared by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouses and currently in print and available. The titles are arranged by ERIC component and cover a broad range of subject areas in education. The major ERIC publication types include: parent brochures--short, informative articles designed for teachers, parents, and the general public; directories and resource guides--publications that direct users to primary sources of information; ERIC Digests--brief documents summarizing current information on specific education topics; ERIC Monographs/Reports--more comprehensive publications that summarize research in a particular field, analyze new teacher methods, highlight recent studies, and examine education trends; and searches and annotated bibliographies--publications that direct readers to carefully selected materials organized by topic area. The catalog provides ordering information and prices and includes a subject index to help locate publications in specific areas of interest. The subject index also has reference information to the appropriate ERIC Clearinghouse or support component to order publications. A list of addresses, telephone numbers, and Internet addresses for specific Clearinghouses is provided. (SWC)
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- 1997
43. Catalog of ERIC Clearinghouse Publications. 1996.
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ACCESS ERIC, Rockville, MD.
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This "Catalog of ERIC Clearinghouse Publications" lists approximately 1200 titles of publications prepared by the ERIC Clearinghouses and currently available in original copies from them. It is the equivalent of a "Books-in-Print" for the ERIC Clearinghouses. The titles listed range across the past several years. Titles are arranged by clearinghouse and within clearinghouse by type of publication, e.g., digests, trends and issues papers, directories, parent brochures, Q&A's, books, literature reviews, etc. Each entry provides only title, order number, and price. A comprehensive subject index provides access to the titles by subject (ERIC Descriptor). This catalog is to be distinguished from the annual "ERIC Clearinghouse Publications" which lists only the ERIC Clearinghouse publications announced in "Resources in Education (RIE)" during the year just past. (AA)
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- 1996
44. Child Care Resources Catalogue: Child Care Initiatives Fund Projects. Updated = Catalogue des ressources en services de garde a l'enfance: projects de la Caisse d'aide aux projets en matiere de garde des enfants. Mis a jour.
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Canadian Child Care Federation, Ottawa (Ontario).
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This catalog update lists over 150 end-products of projects sponsored by Human Resources Development Canada under the Child Care Initiatives Fund. These child care resources include: final reports, manuals, books, conference proceedings, videos, kits, and pamphlets. The catalog is produced in a loose-leaf format to allow for annual updates, and each resource is listed numerically by project number. Comprehensive multiple indexing allows searching by name (sponsor and author), title, and subject. Each resource entry contains the following information: title, sponsor, address, telephone, FAX, contact person, product type, language, author or editor, availability, and abstract. (AP)
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- 1995
45. Prescriptions for Success in Heterogeneous Classrooms.
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National Middle School Association, Columbus, OH., Schurr, Sandra L., Schurr, Sandra L., and National Middle School Association, Columbus, OH.
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This handbook details 28 specific learning strategies for diverse groups of middle school students, each cast as a prescription applicable for students whose diagnosis reveals certain "conditions" such as particular learning styles or high or low reading skills. Reproducible pages accompany most of the strategies. Following are the activities: (1) "Generic Skill Cards for Reading a Short Story or Novel"; (2) "Magazine Magic Ideas"; (3) "Dialogue Do's for Improving Instruction"; (4) "Ten Ways to Write a Report That Can't Fail"; (5) "Catalogs as Instructional Tools"; (6) "Language Patterns that Lend Themselves to Writing across the Content Areas"; (7) "Read and Relate"; (8) "Clues to Reconstructing the Facts"; (9) "Using Children's Literature to Review, Reinforce, and Reflect Content"; (10) "Learning Stations"; (11) "Models for Differentiating Instruction"; (12) "Taking Copying Out of Reporting"; (13) "Gaming and Simulations"; (14) "Leading Effective Discussions"; (15) "Personality Profiles"; (16) "Questions that Count"; (17) "The Magic of Numbers"; (18) "Looking at Common Things in Uncommon Ways"; (19) "Discovering the Magic of Language"; (20) "Holiday Happenings"; (21) "Response or Learning Journals"; (22) "Real World Tools: Alternatives to the Textbook"; (23) "Interdisciplinary Unit Boxes"; (24) "Interdisciplinary Units: Magazine Style"; (25) "Starter Sentence Sparklers"; (26) "Mini-Books and Maxi-Resources for Stimulating Thinking Skills"; (27) "Lists That Teach"; and (28) "Take Home Learning Kits." Contains 25 references. (KDFB)
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- 1995
46. Child Care Resources Catalogue: Child Care Initiatives Fund Projects. Updated = Catalogue des ressources en services de garde a l'enfance: Projets de la Caisse d'aide aux projets en matiere de garde des enfants. Mis a jour.
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Canadian Child Care Federation, Ottawa (Ontario).
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This catalog update lists over 150 end-products of projects sponsored by Health and Welfare of Canada under the Child Care Initiatives Fund. These child care resources include: final reports, manuals, books, conference proceedings, videos, kits, and pamphlets. The first edition of the catalog covers projects completed as of September 1992, as well as some ongoing projects that have available resources. The catalog is produced in a loose-leaf format to allow for annual updates, and each resource is listed numerically by project number. Comprehensive multiple indexing allows searching by name (sponsor and author), title, and subject. Each resource entry contains the following information: title, sponsor, address, telephone, FAX, contact person, product type, language, author or editor, availability, and abstract. (TJQ)
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- 1993
47. Harvard Graduate School of Education Catalog of K-12 Case Materials.
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Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. Graduate School of Education.
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The Roderick MacDougall Center for Case Development and Teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Education develops and encourages the use of case materials in the training of educational leaders. The materials are designed primarily for use with those preparing to enter or currently working in K-12 educational institutions. This catalog contains an annotated listing of case materials recently developed and collected. Cases are listed on separate pages in alphabetical order by title. For each case, the catalog offers information about the author, and the length and setting of the cases. Each listing also provides a detailed summary of the content of the case and information about the cases' protagonists or key actors. The catalog classifies the cases with regard to broad disciplinary categories and topics that are significant. All cases carry at least one of the descriptors commonly used in educational and managerial literature including: community and local politics, curriculum and instruction, facilities and financial management, human resources management, organizational development, personnel and labor relations, and public policy and institutional strategy. (LL)
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- 1993
48. Educating for Action: More Success Stories from Puget Sound.
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Puget Sound Water Authority, Olympia, WA., Steelquist, Robert, and Gordon, David
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Through its Public Involvement and Education (PIE) Model Projects Fund, the Puget Sound Water Quality Authority has helped local organizations provide education and public involvement programs that help solve local environmental problems. This catalog describes 96 projects successful in addressing the issue of water quality. The projects are reported in six categories: (1) Understanding Watersheds; (2) Preventing Nonpoint Pollution; (3) Preventing Stormwater Pollution; (4) Protecting Wetlands; (5) Protecting Fish, Wildlife, and Shellfish Habitat; and (6) Involving the Public in Water Quality Decisions. Each project description includes sponsors, amount of PIE funding, target audience, additional resources, area covered, purpose, products, audience responses, project coordinators, project timeline, methods uses to implement the project, and results. PIE Project selection and evaluation criteria are included in the introduction. An index is provided. (MDH)
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- 1993
49. Teaching for Change: Anti-Racist, Multicultural Curricula, Critical Teaching.
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Network of Educators on the Americas.
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This publication is a 60-item catalog listing of curricula, teaching guides, and other resources for teachers that focus on developing and promoting pedagogy, resources, and cross-cultural understanding for social and economic justice in the Americas. Many of the offerings particularly address racism and issues in Central America and South America. The selections are designed for elementary school and secondary school education, and also include newsletters, travel opportunities, and recommended professional books. Some of the topics covered are the following: (1) cooperative learning; (2) Malcolm X; (3) the labor movement; (4) Rigoberta Menchu; (5) Hispanic folktales; (6) civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala; (7) Caribbean culture and history; (8) educational activism in the United States; (9) standardized testing; and (10) battling the school choice movement. Included are an order form and an information request form. (JB)
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- 1993
50. Catalog of Selected Federal Publications on Illegal Drug and Alcohol Abuse.
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National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (DHHS), Rockville, MD.
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A concise collection of federal publications in the area of illegal drug and alcohol abuse, this catalog begins with a listing of seven federal clearinghouse, with information on services, user audience, and a contact provided for each. The main part of the document provides briefly annotated information on federal publications organized into the following areas: Reference Materials; Statistics; AIDS; Community Initiatives; Drug Testing; Education; General Treatment; Housing; Law Enforcement; Pregnancy; Spanish Publications; Racial/Ethnic Groups; Treatment Programs for Offenders; Youth, Drugs, and Crime; and Workplace. Next appears an index of publications organized by clearinghouse, followed by funding information. Finally, clearinghouse order forms are provided. (RB)
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- 1993
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