was high (95.3%), it was not perfect. We were unable to obtainthree books. Of these, two were different editions of Moran et al., which we substituted using the6th edition. The final unobtained book was a textbook on combustion by Turns (ISBN:9781260477696). Given the small fraction of the corpus that this single book represents, thisomission does not seriously threaten the external validity of our findings.While reserve lists reflect an important aspect of curricula, textbooks are only an approximationof the curriculum as-taught and as-intended. Textbooks are often only partly aligned with theteaching goals of a particular class; in some cases, there is no textbook that reflects the content ofa course. Given this approximate alignment, our
necessarily adisciplinary norm but could be seen because of lack of policy that provides clear guidelines onwhat is required of the individual researcher or research team.Considering the Tri-Agency’s Research Data Management policy and as [18] concludes in hisreport based on the 2015 UBC survey, “understanding the particular needs or habits withinspecific research areas can provide insight into how disciplines think about and work with data[18, p. 14].” This study’s focus on engineering is intended to consider the research data sharingpractices since the 2015 UBC study and provide further insight to assist the subject librarian’sunderstanding of the data sharing behaviour of engineers while reflecting on what supports couldbe adopted into their
modules developed to support different levels of researcher and student atUMD. The presentation was well received and, some faculty in the CEE department wish toexplore ways to further integrate equitable citation practice into their graduate curriculum.Assignment ProposalAfter the presentation on citational justice, faculty in the CEE department became interested inintegrating critical citation practice into their graduate student’s research requirements. One ofthe faculty members developed a short reflective assignment for the graduate students theyadvise to complete. Included in this assignment was identifying who is most cited in the field,analyzing their identities, and reflecting on identities that were underrepresented or missing.After
of fourteen undergraduate College of Engineering and College of Sciences and Arts students’ answers to Q1: What do you think are 3-5 hard things about searching? And Q2: Which ones are cognitively complex? (star) Why? To create this study’s task diagram shown in Fig. 1, we first systematically workedthrough the answers to Q1 and sorted the data into categories. Although the words used todescribe the challenging aspects of search differed slightly among participants, the top-levelcategories reflect the common themes as analyzed by the author. Following best practices for thistechnique, we made multiple passes through the data in case new insights popped out [6]. Wethen placed the final categories at the top level of the
. Mueller-Alexander and H. J. Seaton, “Researching Native Americans: Tips on vocabulary, search strategies and internet resources.” Database, 17(2), 45, Apr. 1994.[2] A. Soto, A. B. H. Sanchez, J. M. Mueller-Alexander, and J. Martin. “Researching Native Americans: Reflections on Vocabulary, Search Strategies, and Technology.” Online Searcher, 45(5), 10–19, Sep./Oct. 2021.[3] D. Thomas, “Reflections on Inclusive Language and Indexing.” Key Words, 28(4), 14–18, Win. 2020.[4] D. Thomas, “Another Look in the Mirror: Correction to Reflections on Inclusive Language and Indexing.” Key Words, 29(2), 26, Sum. 2021.[5] S. Ullstrom, “Decolonizing the index.” Indexer, 34(3), 110–112, Sep. 2016, doi: 10.3828/indexer
and survey findings indicated that students were looking for a natural feel in thespace, with plants and more neutral tones. Students wanted to be able to have some privacy whenthey work but they also want to feel the comfort and energy of having other users around them.The ideal space would “feel more authentic” or, in design terms, reflect a use of natural lighting,more live plants, natural materials used in décor and lighting that can be managed by the studentin the space (dimmers, lamps, windows with blinds). This was a theme that prior research hadfound in the MSL, but our work further explored and revealed how important this element is.The results from this study were used in the MSL fourth and fifth floor renovations which beganin
conference papers, rather than including manydifferent types of sources. The rubric scoring criteria were revised to reflect this emphasis, andall scores for that outcome were updated to reflect the updated rubric (see Appendix A).The final ratings were then combined into a total rubric score. Course scores for each report, as apercentage of the total possible score, and the percentage of graduate students on each team werecomputed as well in order to compare the final data from the two semesters in the sample. Two-sample t-tests assuming unequal variances were used to look for statistical differences betweenoutcomes for the Summer 2021 and Summer 2022 data. As no significant differences wereidentified, average scores for each rubric outcome were
departments, but also included other STEM related institutes and departments. Itbecame clear through campus interactions, tech and industry conferences, and demand for suchanalysis that stakeholders across campus are hungry for data-driven expertise.Virginia Tech is an R1 (Carnegie Classification-Very High Research Activity), land grantinstitution with a large engineering program and has maintained a dedicated engineering subjectlibrarian position for more than two decades. When the previous engineering librarian retired twoyears ago, administrators decided to reimagine the position to incorporate engineering researchintelligence work into the liaison role and rename the title to reflect the engineering analyst role.This new liaison role allows the
Manuscript Library CMS Deaccession/Withdraw CMS Oak Street LibraryFigure 1. Items in the mathematics collection are evaluated for damage and decay. If an item requirestreatment, it will be processed and sent through the illustrated channels above to receive care. In theend, an item’s final destination depends on its circumstance. Items can be returned to the mathematicscollection or removed from the collection in a variety of ways.Discussion & ConclusionUltimately, the procedures used by the Math Library to process and preserve its collectiondistinctly reflect the resources and relationships unique to UIUC University Libraries.Institutions of varying sizes and with their own unique resources and strengths can still
file (102,206 records). Since there were inconsistent spellings or errorsin journal titles, spellings were cleaned up. Corresponding CiteScore was added to thepublication records as a new column. Since 36 journal titles that were not on the list wereretrieved because of a loose phrase (quotation marks around the words to allow for wildcards andlemmatization) in the search, 8,224 records of these journal titles were removed, resulting in93,982 records.Next, EIDs (Scopus assigned unique academic work identifiers) of records were uploaded toSciVal for generating research topics. SciVal defined that a publication belongs to only one“topic” [6] which is composed of three controlled terms. The author separated the "topic” intothree terms to reflect