Preservation Perspectives: Continuing Education
The author encourages public librarian in Kentucky to attend one-day conferences focused on archives, preservation, and historical research. Topics discussed include this year's spring conference...
View ArticlePreservation Perspectives: New Year & New Goals
The article discusses the importance of making realistic goals for 2017 such as reappraising existing archival library collections, addressing preservation concerns and creating new or updated finding...
View ArticlePreservation Perspectives: The Magic of Outreach
The article discusses the importance of outreach programs among collectors and archivists. It mentions the hurdles of being a collector as his collection is often kept and that the challenge is in...
View ArticlePreservation Perspectives: Disaster Planning
Summer is here, bringing the potential for storms, heavy rain, flooding, high winds, and more. However, it is not only summer storms we must be concerned with, as disaster can strike at any time,...
View ArticlePreservation Perspectives: The Disaster Plan
The winter and spring of 2018 certainly delivered a reminder to librarians and archivists about potential weather-related disasters in the workplace, and within our home collections. My last column...
View ArticlePreservation Perspectives: Exhibits in Libraries and Archives
Exhibits are wonderful tools for highlighting your collections and connecting with the community you serve. They also enable potential collaborations between donors, departments, authors, and...
View ArticleExhibits in Libraries and Archives: The Nuts and Bolts
You have an exhibit theme, photographs selected, and an opening date, now you just need to plan and build the actual exhibit. This can be a daunting challenge for the first-time exhibit builder, but...
View ArticleCreating Faculty Champions with Library Services
Successful scholarly communications services thrive because of relationships and communication with faculty and departments across campus. Open, targeted communication helps create repository and...
View ArticleHooligans in the Archives: Easing Restrictions and Partnering with the Users
Archival reference has changed dramatically with the advent of the web which challenged archivists to rethink their role as gatekeepers of archival materials. Traditionally, archival reference tools...
View ArticleMothers' Reasons for Early Breastfeeding Cessation
Purpose: The purpose of this review is to assess maternal explanations for early breastfeeding cessation in economically developed countries. Study Design and Methods: The electromic databases EBSCO,...
View ArticleShrink your Sierra System
Although our Sierra system runs well, periodic maintenance helps us recognize trends that determine when to grow and when to shrink our system. Changes on campus and in our community indicated it was...
View ArticleLibrary Use by College
Using Sierra and other library systems, we prepared reports for each of the colleges at Wright State University to show how they are using library services. This presentation demonstrates how to tie...
View ArticleStudent Research Skills: Challenges, Myths, and Solutions
This is a presentation prepared by Mandy Shannon to discuss the Research Toolkit as a means to address various challenges to students on campus. It discusses the strengths of the toolkit, and shows...
View ArticleRefreshing Your Sierra System
Although our Sierra system runs well day to day, looking closely at usage trends helped us determine what areas needed extra attention and where we could improve customer service (new circulation...
View ArticleNavigating the News: Responsible News Consumption Through Media Literacy
This presentation was prepared by Mandy Shannon for the annual Friends of the Libraries Luncheon. It focuses on seeking to hone skills of information literacy as it has become increasingly important...
View ArticleLeague of Women Voters Empowering You Navigating the News
Host David Bodary talks with Mandy Shannon, MA, MSLS - Head of Instruction & Research Services at Wright State University. The program will focus on responsible news consumption through media...
View ArticleDatabase Maintenance from the Central Catalog to Your Local System
As we start to anticipate next year's ILS Migration, one thing is certain: Clean data will make the migration easier--at the local and consortium levels. This presentation will provide ideas and...
View ArticleRemember: Building Displays to Promote a Prominent Collection in the Community
Poster presentation discussing some of the Wright State University Libraries' displays and programs to educate and mark Holocaust Remembrance Month.
View ArticleWoody Plants of Kentucky and Tennessee: The Complete Winter Guide to Their...
Review of Jones, R. L. & Wofford. B. E (2013). Woody Plants of Kentucky and Tennessee: The Complete Winter Guide to Their Identification and Use. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky....
View ArticleThe Last Billion Years: A Geologic History of Tennessee
Review of Byerly, D. W. (2013). The Last Billion Years: A Geologic History of Tennessee. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 212 pages. ISBN: 9781572339743
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