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Late Night Services at the University of Maryland Libraries
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ETDs in Lock-Down: Trends, Analyses and Faculty Perspectives on ETD Embargoes
(2009-06-10)Since September 2006, graduate students at the University of Maryland have had the option of restricting access to their ETD in the university’s digital repository (DRUM) for either a one- or six-year period. Embargo ... -
Looking for Genres on the World Wide Web: Content Analysis of American Author Web Sites
(2009-07-11)This project entails content analysis of 200 websites for authors commonly taught in university-level American literature survey courses. Using a faceted classification scheme to categorize site content, the researchers ... -
Speaking of Books... Connecting with Faculty through a Campus Author Series
(2009-07-12)Academic librarians are continually seeking new and effective ways to work more closely with teaching faculty. Despite our best efforts, there often remains a gap between the two. Since 2006, librarians at the University ... -
E-Book Use and Opinions at UMD
(2015-06-04)Initial report on e-book survey conducted at University of Maryland, fall 2014 -
Microassessments of Public Services Usability: Improving Holds at UMD
(2016-06-25)Results of a survey to assess and improve the effectiveness of patron-placed holds at the University of Maryland Libraries. -
Making Change, Increasing Value: Reorganizing Your Access Services Department
(2016-11-18)In 2015 the department of Resource Sharing & Access Services at the University of Maryland Libraries undertook a major reorganization with the goals of increasing efficiency, staff engagement, and user satisfaction. Seeking ... -
Breaking Down Barriers: Co-Managing and Transforming Public Services
(2018-01-09)Since mid-2012, the division of Public Services at the University of Maryland Libraries has been involved in an ongoing experiment in the way the Libraries’ primary services are led and managed. The speakers, representing ... -
Speaking of Books… Connecting with Faculty through a Campus Author Series
(Southern Librarianship, 2009-03)A faculty author speaker series is an effective way to build bridges between academic librarians and the teaching faculty, as well as raise the profile of the university library. To explore the challenges and rewards of ... -
What’s the opposite of a pyrrhic victory?1: Lessons learned from an open access defeat
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E-Book Use and Attitudes in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education
(Project Muse, 2014-04)A survey of more than 1,300 faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students in the humanities and social sciences at the University of Maryland generated a wealth of data on use and opinions of e-books among those ... -
Evidence for Development and Enhancement of a Popular Reading Collection in an Academic Library
(University of Alberta, 2014-12-12) -
E-Book Perceptions and Use in STEM and Non-STEM Disciplines: A Comparative Follow-Up Study
(Project Muse, 2016-01)This article describes the results of a survey that gathered data on perceptions and use of e-books from undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and staff. The investigators analyzed the results based on user ... -
Leading Change in Action: Reorganizing an Academic Library Department Using Kotter’s Eight Stage Change Model
(American Library Association, 2017)This article presents a management case study of a project to reorganize the Resource Sharing and Access Services department in the main library at the University of Maryland in 2015. The case study uses John Kotter’s ... -
Accidental Project Management in a New Library Storage Facility
(Emerald Publishing, 2018-06-01)Purpose – This chapter will discuss the project to investigate, recommend, and create user-focused solutions for opening and operating Severn Library, a high-density storage facility, at the University of Maryland in College ... -
Reunited and It Feels So Good?: Reunifying the Baltimore News American Collection
(2021-10-08)The Baltimore News American was a newspaper that operated in Baltimore for nearly two hundred years and closed in 1986. After closing the Hearst Corporation donated the photographs, and clippings morgue to the University ... -
An Analysis of the Impact of Introducing Video Lottery Terminals in Maryland
(Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research, 2008-10-14) -
Partnering with Peer Mentors to Engage First Year Composition Students
(Roman and Littlefield, 2021) -
A Pandemic Silver Lining: Helping Former Students Finish Degrees Online
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Developing and Growing a New Repository Service: Part 1 Getting Started
(Charleston Hub, 2019-06)After implementing a new repository platform, several questions arose. Where to begin? What would work for adding materials to the repository and what wouldn’t? What kind of support and service would the library need to offer?
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