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Item What Does That Button Do? How Instructors Can Foster Curiosity and Inquiry in Digital Literacy(Wiley, 2024-07-15) Zerrenner, EmilyThis chapter describes how instructors can foster curiosity and exploration to improve digital literacy for college students. It also details multiple inquiry-based teaching strategies that may be used in digital literacy contexts.Item Soviet Counterculture, Poison Girls, and Glue Sticks: Teaching Information Literacy with Do-It-Yourself Zines(Association of College and Research Libraries / American Library Association, 2022-06-01) Plottel, Tina; Loev Eller, ShiraItem Student-Generated Local Candidate Voter Guides: Teaching Information Literacy through Partnering Librarians and Faculty(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2022) Prichard, Angeline; Surak, Sarah M.; Hoffman, AdamEach semester the Dean of Libraries offers a course enhancement grant to encourage faculty and librarians to develop in-depth assignments to teach advanced research skills. This chapter describes a collaboration resulting from this grant among a Research & Instructional Librarian and two Political Science faculty members. Information literacy skills are essential in interrogating political information ranging from the platforms of particular candidates to the issues embedded within their communities. To support students in gaining these skills, the authors developed a candidate guide assignment spanning two Political Science classes, POSC 101: Introduction to American Politics and POSC 480: State and Local Voting. During Fall of 2018, POSC 480 students worked in groups to create candidate guides for the upcoming November elections. These guides were modeled on the Campus Election Engagement Project and focused on down-ballot races. POSC 101 students were assigned to evaluate the 480 draft guides.To assist students in both of these courses, the librarian liaison conducted multiple information literacy sessions. Student feedback indicated these assignments helped them to look at sources with a critical eye, engage with the lack of substantive issues down-ballot candidates run on, and recognize the failure of media to cover local campaigns. Many highlighted evaluating sources, in particular, as an area of personal growth. It also emphasized the difficulties inherent in becoming civically engaged, particularly for those without the necessary resources and knowledge to search out and evaluate information.Item Records, Responsibility, and Power: An Overview of Cataloging Ethics(Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 2021-01-19) Martin, Jennifer M.Ethics are principles which provide a framework for making decisions that best reflect a set of values. Cataloging carries power, so ethical decision-making is crucial. Because cataloging requires decision-making in areas that differ from other library work, cataloging ethics are a distinct subset of library ethics. Cataloging ethics draw on the primary values of serving the needs of users and providing access to materials. Cataloging ethics are not new, but they have received increased attention since the 1970s. Major current issues in cataloging ethics include the creation of a code of ethics; ongoing debate on the appropriate role of neutrality in cataloging misleading materials and in subject heading lists and classification schemes; how and to what degree considerations of privacy and self-determination should shape authority work; and whether or not our current cataloging codes are sufficiently user-focused.Item Diversity and Inclusion Planning: Fostering Culture and Community in Academic Libraries(2019-04-12) Hardy, Beatriz; Bushong, Sara; Creed-Dikeogu, Gloria; Mitchell, Phylissa; SU LibrariesThis presentation featured librarians from a range of institutions—an R1, an R2, a master’s university and a liberal arts college—who discussed the challenges, pitfalls, and successes of their diversity and inclusion planning and provided advice about developing and implementing plans. The presentation took place at the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 2019 meeting.Item Planning for Diversity and Inclusion(2017-07-25) Hardy, Beatriz; Jones, Amy; Prichard, Angeline; SU LibrariesThis presentation is a guide to planning for diversity and inclusion in academic libraries. Topics covered include why create a plan, forming a planning committee or task force, defining diversity, developing ideas for how to support diversity and inclusion, gathering feedback (meetings, surveys, focus groups), writing a plan, and issues to consider. The presentation originally was given at the Towson Conference for Academic Libraries in 2017.Item When Public Identity Meets Personal Privacy: Ethical Considerations for the Use of Dates of Birth in Name Authority Records for Living Persons(Library Juice Press, 2019-03-15) Martin, Jennifer M.This chapter tackles one long-standing aspect of authority control: the use of birth dates in personal name authority records for living persons. After explaining the boundaries of this chapter and exploring the inherent tension between authority control and privacy, the chapter provides an overview of the current use of birth dates in personal name authority records and reflects on the privacy ethics at play. The chapter concludes with recommendations for ways we as catalogers can use birth dates in a more ethical manner.Item SOAR@SU: Showcase and share your research(2018-10-25) Martin, VictoriaThis presentation was delivered to Salisbury University's faculty and staff as part of the Open Access Week event series.Item Information seeking behavior and user education in academic libraries: Research, theory, and practice. A selected list of information sources(1994) Fridie, Stephanie; SU LibrariesThe sources in this list are useful for academic reference and instruction librarians who are concerned with assisting and leaching novice or non-professional end-user searchers. The sources apply to many types of access to information and methods of information retrieval, such as online public access catalogs (OPACs), online databases, CD-ROM databases, bibliographic databases, factual-information databases, full-text databases, and remote access. Manual searching of print sources including periodical indexes, card catalogs, books and government documents is also considered. The topics covered include information needs, the research process, search stages, search vocabulary, search strategy, search outcome, evaluating and selecting relevant information sources, affective and cognitive aspects of information seeking behavior, user-intermediary interaction, human-computer interaction, individual differences, and characteristics of searchers. Topics concerning user education include implications of information technology for user education, the educational role of academic librarians, learning theories, cognitive models, instructional objectives, teaching methods, and the issues of critical thinking and information literacy as they apply to user education in the information seeking and retrieval process. The types of information sources listed include journal articles, books, conference proceedings, doctoral dissertations, and ERIC documents. Bibliographies, literature reviews, project descriptions, research reports, and explanations of theories and models are all included. Authors include professionals from the fields of computer science, education, information science, library science, and psychology. Most of the information sources were published from 1986 to 1993, although some significant items published before 1986 have been included. The main list of "COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATIONS" is arranged alphabetically by the names of the authors or editors of the publications. Subject headings which describe the information sources are listed in the "TOPICAL OUTLINE." In the "SUBJECT LISTING OF REFERENCES" brief citations which contain the authors' names, publication dates, and titles are listed for each subject heading from the "TOPICAL OUTLINE." More information for each of the brief references can be found in the list of "COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATIONS." Abstracts of many of the sources in the list can be found by searching the ERIC database.Item Theses, dissertations, and doctoral projects at SU(2018-09-29) Martin, Victoria; SU LibrariesThis presentation was delivered to Salisbury University's Master's and doctoral students as part of the Graduate Boot Camp workshop series.Item Nuts and bolts of researching library issues(2018-06-13) Martin, Victoria; Hardy, Beatriz; SU LibrariesThis joint presentation was delivered to Salisbury University's librarians and library staff as part of the Libraries' Professional Development series. Part 1 was delivered by Victoria Martin, Scholarly Communications Librarian. Part 2 was delivered by Beatriz Hardy, Dean of Libraries and Instructional Resources.Item Predatory publishing: How to avoid falling prey to predatory publishers(2018-04-12) Martin, VictoriaThis presentation was delivered to Salisbury University (SU) faculty. The goal of this presentation was to help SU faculty detect potentially predatory journals and conferences and to select legitimate high quality venues for disseminating their research.Item Predatory Publishers: How to recognize them and avoid getting scammed(2018-03-07) Martin, VictoriaThis handout was created to assist faculty, researchers, and graduate students with identifying predatory publishers and conference organizers.Item Open Educational Resources (OER): An overview(2018-01-08) Martin, VictoriaThis presentation, delivered on January 8, 2018, at the Salisbury University Libraries (Salisbury, MD), provides an introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER). It was delivered as part of OER training for Salisbury University librarians.Item Transcending Boundaries: Reflections on transdisciplinary librarianship(2018-02-10) Martin, VictoriaThis presentation, delivered on February 10, 2018, at the ALA Midwinter Meeting (Denver, CO), provides a synoptic overview of the emerging field of transdisciplinarity, explains the difference between transdisciplinarity and other types of cross-disciplinary research, describes the key library functions that are likely to be impacted by transdisciplinarity, and reflects on the ways librarians’ expertise can contribute to transdisciplinary scholarship.Item Mapping the Brain: Resources for Researchers in NeurosciencesMartin, VictoriaThis webliography annotates selected web-based resources for researchers in neuroscience and is primarily intended for librarians who assist neuroscientists engaged in research.Item Faculty of 1000(The Charleston Advisor, 2006) Martin, VictoriaThis article reviews Faculty of 1000, an online post-publication literature awareness and evaluation service for the biomedical sciences.Item Women and the Catholic Church in Maryland, 1689-1776Hardy, BeatrizThis article looks at the experiences of Catholic women in Maryland, 1689-1776, by focusing on two very different women: Jane Mathews Doyne, a gentlewoman in St. Mary's County who died in 1738, and Jenny, an enslaved woman on the Eastern Shore who died in the late 1700s. Both took their faith seriously and passed it on to their offspring, but race and class deeply affected their experience of religion.Item "The Papists. . . have shewn a laudable Care and Concern": Catholicism, Anglicanism, and Slave Religion in Colonial Maryland(2003) Hardy, BeatrizThis article addresses the longstanding historiographical debate over the conditions of slave life in the Americas, especially the treatment of slaves in Protestant Anglo America versus Catholic Latin America, by comparing the treatment of slaves by Catholics and Anglicans in colonial Maryland, an area where other factors--ethnicity, economy, climate, laws--were the same for both religious groups. It compares the attitudes of Anglican and Catholic clergy and laity about instructing the enslaved population in religion and providing access to sacraments and rites. It then looks at why slaves might have found one church more appealing than the other.Item Roman Catholics, Not Papists: Catholic Identity in Maryland, 1689-1776(1997) Hardy, BeatrizDuring the period from 1689 to 1776, Catholics in Maryland found themselves in an odd position. While Maryland had been founded by a Catholic and in part as a refuge for Catholics, during these years they faced varying levels of persecution and discrimination. Their enemies identified them as papists, but they always called themselves Roman Catholics. a religious identity that was strengthened during periods of persecution by Anglicans. At first, they were very loyal to the proprietary Calvert family and saw themselves as English Catholics, but various acts, culminating in a double tax on Catholics during the French and Indian War, caused them to lose faith in the Calverts by the late 1750s. At the same time, imperial events weakened their loyalty to England and international events--especially the worldwide suppression of the Jesuits in 1773--caused them to see themselves as Marylanders who happened to be Catholic, allying with Maryland Protestants against the Calverts and the crown.