Electronic Books at Liberty University: Evaluating Our Experience with DDA...
Collection development decisions in libraries represent efforts to optimize the balance between three conflicting objectives: broad content, low cost, and minimal delay. In recent years, the Jerry...
View ArticleLibrary Research Tips for Counseling Faculty
This PowerPoint provides descriptions and links for resources available to Liberty University Counseling faculty that will be helpful as they do their own research and assist students.
View ArticleUsing Library Resources for Effective Online Teaching
This workshop from the fall of 2017 presents tips on using our vast collection of online library resources with Liberty University Online students. This workshop will be helpful in assisting students...
View ArticleUsing Data and Statistics
This handout identifies the differences between statistics and data and how to use and analyze them. It provides numerous links to data and statistic sources available for free online or as part of...
View ArticleUsing EndNote for Managing Citations
EndNote is a subscription citation manager provided without charge to Liberty students to install on their personal computers. This handout discusses installation and importing records from our...
View ArticleCreating a Comprehensive Review of the Literature
Research normally begins by doing a “review of the literature” to see what has already been written and to determine “gaps” in the literature for further research. This handout reviews ways to search...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Google Scholar
This handout discusses the pros and cons of using Google Scholar to find books and journal articles. It tells how to connect Google Scholar to our Jerry Falwell Library subscription databases. It also...
View ArticleFinding and Using Tests and Instruments for Research
This handout talks about finding and using tests, measurements and other instruments for research. It discusses Mental Measurements Yearbook which offers commercially available instruments. It also...
View ArticleRecording (in) Progress: Building a Library Podcast from the Ground Up
Podcasts have exploded in the media landscape and have become a mainstream platform for conversation. Through interviews with academic library professionals and leaders, the Librarian Lunch Break...
View ArticleChristian Librarianship: Essays on the Integration of Faith and Profession
Much of the current library literature assumes that professional library service is necessarily neutral-detached from the librarian’s philosophical or religious views. By contrast, contributors to...
View ArticlePlanning a New Library Building: The Critical Role of Data
Liberty University’s new main library is scheduled to open in 2013-14, following years of assessment, planning, and construction. Design of the building’s spaces and services relied on analysis of a...
View ArticlePlanning and the Future of the Academic Library: An Annotated Bibliography
Academic libraries have changed significantly in recent years. At least to some extent, their evolution has been the product of planning rather than passive acceptance of, or reactive response to,...
View ArticleAssessment in Academic Libraries
Academic library assessment has a rich history, its roots being traceable to a time when today’s information technologies were beyond the realm of imagination. The field has developed at an...
View ArticleCo-creating the Future: Working with Groups to Assess, Plan, and Innovate
Evolving conditions require organizations to change. Organizational leaders must engage with stakeholders to co-create their shared future; in many cases, this involves working with groups of people....
View ArticleThe RP Church and the 1918 Pandemic Over a century later, congregations are...
Quarantine. Wearing a mask. Keeping safer at home. Pandemic. No public worship. Closing and reopening. Many of us think of these far more often than we did a year ago, since we have never experienced...
View ArticleFinding and Using Tests and Instruments for Research
This handout talks about finding and using tests, measurements and other instruments for research. It discusses Mental Measurements Yearbook which offers commercially available instruments. It also...
View ArticleElectronic Books at Liberty University: Evaluating Our Experience with DDA...
Collection development decisions in libraries represent efforts to optimize the balance between three conflicting objectives: broad content, low cost, and minimal delay. In recent years, the Jerry...
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