Publications of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries faculty.
Submissions from 2018
The IR has Two Faces: Positioning Institutional Repositories for Success, John Novak and Annette Day
Submissions from 2017
Collaborating with Teaching Faculty on Transparent Assignment Design, Melissa Bowles-Terry, John C. Watts, Pat Hawthorne, and Patricia Iannuzzi
Rowing the Big Boat Together: Mixed Staffing Arrangements for Large Instruction Programs, Gregory L. Carr
ORCID @ University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries Pre-Pilot Report, A. L. Carson and Matthew Murray
Action Research as Inquiry for Education Students, Samantha Godbey
Introduction, Samantha Godbey, Susan Wainscott, and Xan Goodman
Moving Public Health Learners to the Skeptical Edge with Information Creation as a Process, Xan Goodman
Organization, Administration, Management, and Planning, Jennifer Hoffman
The Data Framework: A Collaborative Tool for Assessment at the UNLV Libraries, Starr Hoffman and Ashley Hernandez-Hall
Simulating Access Issues: Using Twine to Teach E-Resources Troubleshooting, Kate Lambaria, Heidi R. Johnson, and Nicole Helregel
Peer-Assisted Learning in Academic Libraries, Rosan Mitola
Review: Chloe E. Taft. From Steel to Slots: Capitalism in the Postindustrial City, David G. Schwartz
Creating a Virtuous Circle of Student Engagement with the Tech Corner, Brian R. Shuck, Susan B. Wainscott, Jennifer Church-Duran, and Darcy C. Del Bosque
Mining for the Best Information Value with Geoscience Students, Susan Wainscott and Joshua W. Bonde
Distributed publishers: Collaborating & Facilitating Publishing Across Campus, Andrea Wirth
Submissions from 2016
Rebuilding: Organizing and operating under new management, S Aladebumoye, N P. Ellero, and Annette Day
Serving Notice on the One-Shot: Changing Roles for Instruction Librarians, Melissa Bowles-Terry and C Donovan
Determining Organizational Readiness for an ILS Migration—A Strategic Approach, Annette Day and Carol Ou
Keeping workplace burnout at bay: Online coping and prevention resources, Darcy Del Bosque and S Skarl
Review: The Chicago guide to grammar, usage and punctuation, Priscilla J. Finley
Education, Samantha Godbey and Amanda K. Melilli
Grief in the Library: Coping with the Loss of a Colleague, Xan Y. Goodman, Susan B. Wainscott, and Samantha Godbey
Interview Preparation Gumbo, Lateka J. Grays
Visualizing Local Data: The Ithaka S+R Survey at UNLV, Jennifer Hoffman and Ashley Hernandez-Hall
Dynamic Research Support in Academic Libraries, Starr Hoffman
Moving Forward: Enhancing Preservation of and Access to Oral Histories at UNLV University Libraries, Karla Irwin
Moving Forward: Enhancing Preservation of and Access to Oral Histories at UNLV University Libraries, Karla A. Irwin
Review: Cultural Heritage Information: Access and Management, Karla A. Irwin
Foucault, the "Facts," and the Fiction of Neutrality: Neutrality in Librarianship and Peer Review, Heidi R. Johnson
Motivated Reasoning, Political Information, and Information Literacy Education, Mark N. Lenker
Contributing to the Library Student Employee Experience: Perceptions of a Student Development Program, Amanda Melilli, R Mitola, and A Hunsaker
Budgeting for an Opening Day Collection in “Born Digital” Libraries, Joanne M. Muellenbach, Debra Rand, and Bradley A. Long
Annotated Bibliography of Challenged Material Policies in Libraries, Matthew Murray
Revising the Adult Graphic Novel collection in VPL Central Branch, Matthew Murray
How do early career health sciences information professionals gain competencies?, Bethany A. Myers and Bredny Rodriguez
Assessing the scope and feasibility of first-year students' research paper topics, E Rinto, M Bowles-Terry, and A J. Santos
Donald Trump Wasn’t the Only One Who Made a Bad Bet on Atlantic City, David G. Schwartz
"Hazard All He Hath’’: Shakespeare’s Gambling World, David G. Schwartz
Personal Space: Discovery Children’s Museum, David G. Schwartz
Tales from the Pit: Casino Table Games Managers in Their Own Words, David G. Schwartz
The NHL is coming to Las Vegas because America is now a casino nation, David G. Schwartz
Say Yes to Digital Surrogates: Strengthening the Archival Record in the Post custodial Era, Cyndi Shein and Emily Lapworth
Veterans Health Administration, Susie Skarl
Preparing Controlled Vocabularies for Linked Data: Benefits and Challenges, Silvia B. Southwick, Cory K. Lampert, and Richard M. Southwick
Game On: Online Serious Gaming to Build Interprofessional Competencies, Dana E. Thimons
Executive Committee (report), Andrea Wirth
Steering Clear of Low-Quality Journals: Resources for Evaluating Journals for Publication, Andrea Wirth
Systems of Access: A Multidisciplinary Strategy for Assessing the Social Dimensions of Sustainability, Christopher Wolsko, Elizabeth Marino, Thomas J. Doherty, Steve Fisher, Amanda S. Green, Briana Goodwin, Ryan Reese, and Andrea Wirth
Submissions from 2015
Proving and improving the value of the academic library, Melissa Bowles-Terry
Classroom Assessment Techniques for Librarians, Melissa Bowles-Terry and Cassandra Kvenild
Review of the Darwin Manuscripts from the Cambridge Digital Library, Gregory L. Carr
Website Review: Charles Darwin’s Beagle library, Gregory L. Carr
LibGuides Best Practices: How Usability Testing Showed Us What Students Really Want from Subject Guides, Kristen A. Costello, Darcy Del Boque, Susie A. Skarl, and Michael Yunkin
Review of Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management, 3rd ed, by Peggy Johnson, Annette P. Day
iPads in the Music Library: Harmony or Dissonance, Kirstin Dougan and Kate Lambaria
Review of Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings, by James Fisher, Priscilla J. Finley
Embedding with Google: Using Google to optimize embedded librarian involvement, Samantha Godbey
Ethnography in Action: Active Learning in Academic Library Outreach to Middle School Students, Samantha Godbey, Nancy Fawley, Xan Goodman, and Susan Wainscott
What Is a Database?, Samantha Godbey, Susan B. Wainscott, and Xan Y. Goodman
Tracing information across time, Xan Y. Goodman
Academic Libraries as Community Resource Partners for Entrepreneurs, Patrick J. Griffis
Professional Development for Assessment: Lessons From Reflective Practice, Lisa Hinchliffe, Debra Gilchrist, April Cunningham, Carrie Donovan, Eric Resnis, and John C. Watts
Data Reference and Instruction in Journalism and the Social Sciences, Starr Hoffman
Best Practices for Cataloging Streaming Media Using RDA and MARC21, Jeannette Ho, Erminia Chao, Rebecca Culbertson, Jennifer Eustis, Cyrus Ford Zarganj, Annie Glerum, Ngoc-My Guidarelli, Mary Huismann, Stacie Traill, and Donna Viscuglia
Best Practices for Cataloging DVD-Video and Blu-ray Discs Using RDA and MARC21, Mary Huismann, Diane Robson, William Anderson, Lloyd Chittenden, Cyrus Ford Zarganj, Douglas King, John Lavalie, Peter Lisius, Nancy Lorimer, Julie Renee Moore, Lori Murphy, Laurie Neuerburg, Anchalee "Joy" Panigabutra-Roberts, Scott Piepenburg, Walter Walker, Iris Wolley, Greta De Groat, Kelley McGrath, and Jay Weitz
Review of Exhibits in Archives and Special Collections Libraries by Jessica Lacher-Feldman, Karla A. Irwin
Review of World Digital Library, Karla A. Irwin
LASR Pointers: Assessing the need for, creating, and measuring standardized training for an automated storage and retrieval system, Heather Johnson and Greg W. Voelker
Review of Richard Gilman-Opalsky's Precarious Communism: Manifest Mutations, Manifesto Detourned, Heidi R. Johnson
On the Brink of Linked Data: Evolving Workflows and Staff Expertise, Cory K. Lampert and Silvia Southwick
Controlling Goods or Promoting the Public Good: Choices for Special Collections in the Marketplace, Michelle Light
The Libraries They Are A-Changin’: How Libraries Reorganize, John Novak and Annette Day
Reorganizing through Lean Principles, John Novak and Richard J. W. Zwiercan
Library Instruction and Themed Composition Courses: An Investigation of Factors that Impact Student Learning, Erin E. Rinto and Elisa I. Cogbill-Seiders
Boardwalk Playground: The Making, Unmaking, & Remaking of Atlantic City, David G. Schwartz
Just a Passing Glance: The Kefauver Committee in Las Vegas, David G. Schwartz
Anxiety and Depression Association of America , Susie A. Skarl
A Guide for Transforming Digital Collections Metadata into Linked Data Using Open Source Technologies, Silvia B. Southwick
Practical Guidance for Integrating Data Management into Long-Term Ecological Monitoring Projects, Robert D. Sutter, Susan Wainscott, John R. Boetsch, Craig Palmer, and David J. Rugg
Using single-case research design in to assess course-embedded research consultations, John Watts
Collaborating with Faculty to Assess Research Consultations for Graduate Students, John C. Watts and Stephanie Mahfood
It Takes More than a Mandate: Factors that Contribute to Increased Rates of Article Deposit to an Institutional Repository, Hui Zhang, Michael Boock, and Andrea Wirth
Submissions from 2014
Tracking Changes: One Library's Homepage Over Time—Findings from Usability Testing and Reflections on Staffing, Jeanne M. Brown and Michael A. Yunkin
Information Literacy in Business Education Experiential Learning Programs, Patrick Griffis
Engagement of Academic Libraries and Information Science Schools in Creating Curriculum for Sustainability: An Exploratory Study, Maria A. Jankowska, Bonnie J. Smith, and Marianne A. Buehler
Managing Risk with a Virtual Reading Room: Two Born Digital Projects, Michelle Light
Submissions from 2013
Expanding Library Support of Faculty Research: Exploring Readiness, Jeanne M. Brown and J. Cory Tucker
Use of Data in Collections Work: An Exploratory Survey, Jeanne Brown and Eva Stowers
Demystifying the Institutional Repository for Success, Marianne A. Buehler
At the Nexus of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy, Marianne A. Buehler and Anne E. Zald
Mixed Methods, Mixed Results: A Study of Engagement Among Students Using iPads in Library Instruction, Kaijsa Calkins and Melissa Bowles-Terry
Will You Be My Friend? Social Networking in the Workplace, Darcy C. Del Bosque
LinkedIn as an Information Source for Human Resources, Competitive Intelligence, Nancy E. Fawley
Serving Those Who Serve: Outreach and Instruction for Student Cadets and Veterans, Nancy E. Fawley and Nikki Kyrsak
Collaboration as an essential tool in information literacy education 9-16: Context, qualities and implications, Samantha Godbey
Vendor of the Month: A Marketing Collaboration, Lateka Grays and J. Cory Tucker
Info Lit 2.0 or Deja Vu?, Patricia A. Iannuzzi
Leading to Linking: Introducing Linked Data to Academic Library Digital Collections, Cory K. Lampert and Silvia B. Southwick
Virtual Reference at UNLV Libraries: From Infancy to Popular Student Service, Sidney D. Lowe and Darcy C. Del Bosque
Engagement and Assessment in a Credit-Bearing Information Literacy Course, Jennifer Mayer and Melissa Bowles-Terry