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ERM Ideas & Innovations: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Use of Library-Licensed Electronic Resources: Using Data to Challenge Core Assumptions and Leveraging Disruption to Initiate Meaningful Strategic Change
(2022-09-26)Academic libraries are engaged in the process of assessing the impacts the COVID-19 health pandemic has had on the use of the electronic resources their institutions provide. Trends related to e-resource use prior to and ... -
ERM Ideas & Innovations: Learning to Think Like a Patron: Improving User Experience, E-Resources Management, and Departmental Outcomes Beyond COVID-19
(2022-05-02)Two years after the onset of the COVID-19 health pandemic, electronic resources librarians are assessing how the work in their libraries has changed and determining if certain modifications made to services and workflow ... -
GM Never Surrendered: Antiunion Politics on Auto Industry Shop Floors during the 1960s
The organizing victories of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) in the automobile factories of the 1930s and 1940s heralded major working-class wins over employers’ antiunion practices during the early-to-mid twentieth ... -
Educational Toolkit: Learning Activities to Better understand and assist individuals living with mental illness
(2021)Developed as part of the capstone requirements of the Doctor of Social Work Degree at Capella University. Capstone Title: Using Social Work Students' Perceptions to impact individuals living with mental illness. This ... -
ERM Ideas & Innovations: Electronic Resources Management in the Time of COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunities Experienced by Six Academic Libraries
(2021-09-08)Librarians from six diverse public and private higher education institutions describe the challenges their libraries have experienced, as well as the operational opportunities that have arisen, in managing electronic ... -
Psychology Statistics Course Based Completely on Open Source Materials and Statistical Analysis Applications
(2021-06)Package is a course cartridge from Canvas of a course on statistics for psychology students using only open-source materials. The course includes two forms for each of 3 exams, 3 student projects, and 8 chapter homework ... -
ERM Ideas & Innovations: Operationalizing a Consortial E-Resources Assessment and Reporting Plan
(2021-03-10)The authors detail the operationalization of a library consortium’s electronic resources assessment and reporting plan, including the implementation of procedures to collect and archive usage data, as well as the development ... -
ERM Ideas & Innovations: How to Evaluate and License an E-Resource During a Pandemic (Without Scheduling a Meeting)
(2020-12-02)The COVID-19 virus pandemic of 2020 thrust libraries into managing situations many never imagined they would have to face. The author details one academic library’s experience in successfully evaluating, trialing and ... -
ERM Ideas & Innovations: The Evolution of E-Resources Management in a Small Academic library – Paraprofessional Staff and Librarian Perspectives
(2020-09-04)Two paraprofessional staff members and their supervising librarian provide perspectives on the effect that a major shift in operational focus had on a small academic library’s acquisitions department. Staff members detail ... -
Darrell Rushton Application for Regent’s Faculty Award for Creative Activity
(2018)Darrell Rushton award nomination for Frostburg State University Regent's Faculty Award for Creative Activity. Fall, 2018 semester. -
Darrell Rushton Report on Sabbatical Leave
(2018)Sabbatical Leave Report for Darrell Rushton, Associate Professor of Theatre. Spring, 2018 semester. -
“A Lot of Flexibility within the Structure”: Academic Library Collection Development & E-Resources Management from an Athletics Perspective
(2019-11-27)There is an established history of academic libraries collaborating with their institutions’ athletics departments to provide learning and research support to student-athletes in order to achieve positive educational ... -
Coal Mine Map Collection: All-Library Staff Meeting
(2017-01-26)This presentation gives the background of the Coal Mine Mapping Project at the Lewis J. Ort Library. -
2016 Federal Employee Orientation Programs Best Practices Research Project
(2016-10-19)New employee orientation is rapidly becoming a focus of organizational success within the literature as noted by LinkedIn efforts, a noted leader in employee engagement, and recommendations for training processes in various ... -
The Inquiry Oriented Classroom - A Reflection
(2016-01-14)This PowerPoint presentation, supplemented by the accompanying videos, focuses on inquiry oriented learning used in mathematics classes. The presenter discusses pedagogical methods, techniques, and research regarding the ... -
A Retrospective Exploration of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Students' Perceptions of Teacher Support
(2015)The need for teachers to provide social-emotional support to students in order to promote learning is well documented. Although teacher support is important for all students, studies show that students who identify as ... -
Teachers as Leaders: Enhancing the Quality of the Learning Environment
(2016-04-29)Classroom leadership skills are particularly important in institutions of higher education, because most college students are at a crucial stage of their lives when independence can become a distraction if not handled ... -
Start. Stop. Continue. Formative Midterm Student Evaluations of Teaching
(2016-01-14)This PowerPoint presentation focuses on student evaluations of faculty with the goals of improving teaching and providing feedback for faculty evaluations. The presenter discusses research regarding this subject and Frostburg ... -
Han Solo and Kermit in the Classroom: Using Alter-Egos and Interactive Technology for Class Participation and Formative Assessment
(2016-01-14)This PowerPoint presentation explains how classroom participation can be improved by employing fictional characters as alter-egos for students. The presenter shares her experience and research regarding student engagement ... -
Index for J. William Hunt's "Across the Desk"
(2002-02)The index is for the articles written by J. William Hunt (1892-1968) and included in the Sunday edition of the Cumberland newspaper. Each entry includes all the dates for the column(s) on that subject. There may be multiple ...