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Holt Zaugg - Assessing Academic Library Performance

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Assessing Academic Library Performance

2021

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Ch16. Communication Networks Within an Academic Library S. 163-172

„… T E R S I X T E E NCommunication Networks Within an Academic LibraryHolt Zaugg164 • Chapter …” „… Academic Library • 165Given the advancement in communications and the roles some employ-ees have with …” „… the Deep Level. ZauggCommunication Networks Within an Academic Library • 167munication level. On the …”

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„… Assessing Academic Library PerformanceMedical Library Association BooksThe Medical Library …” „… to Promotion to Evaluation by Mary Grace FlahertyAssessing Academic Library PerformanceA …” „… , Holt, 1959- editor. Title: Assessing academic library performance : a handbook / Holt Zaugg …”

Ch12. Facilitating Innovative Research, Creative Thinking, and Problem-Solving S. 119-134

„… questions of great importance to academic libraries. The MSL team explored how library spaces facilitate …” „… learning-centered environ-ments with group study areas (Bennett, 2007). Students primarily perceive the academic …” „… in-formation, computer use, reference services, meetings, and socializing. They perceive their academic library …”

Ch04. Learning from Our Users S. 33-46

„… 33The academic library website also serves as the main gateway for users to access an array …” „… , 2006, p. 251). This chapter discusses a usability study conducted on an academic library website and …” „… what was learned as users navigated the virtual site.Academic librarians have actively contributed to …”

Ch05. Assessing and Evaluating the Maryland Shared Open Access Repository S. 47-58

„… most academic libraries nearly two de-cades ago. U.S. and international advocacy groups promoted IRs as …” „… the service portfolios offered by academic libraries. They differ among institutions in their scope …” „… Microsoft Academic APIs made available through the Project Academic Knowledge initiative.FindingsQualitative …”

Ch01. Assessment Framework S. 1-14

„… universal across disciplines and assessment formats, the types of assessment are specific to each academic …” „… can be completed, typically within a semester or a school year at an academic library. Cost refers to …” „… that these per-sonas were found at another academic library (Zaugg and Ziegenfuss, 2018), indicating …”

Ch03. Case Study S. 25-32

„… staff members. To bring about a better understanding of trends and changes in academic libraries, task …” „… force members did exploratory reading about the landscape for academic libraries in the twenty-first …” „… century. Current trends indicate that academic libraries are operating in an envi-ronment where digital …”

Ch02. Service Assessments S. 15-24

„… academic library or an assessment of all national librar-ies, data collection should include a variety of …” „… may survey all or most academic librar-ies to see a broader perspective of what is happening. Anna and …” „… institutional priorities: A study of student academic performance and use of five library services. College and …”

Ch10. Creating Space with Our Community in Mind S. 95-106

„… challenging. This chapter demonstrates how academic libraries with minimal resources can build a cus-tomizable …” „… learning. This renovated space is now called the Academic C H A P T E R T E NCreating Space with Our …” „… Academic Commons within the library. The assessment committee provided the reports of all studies …”

Ch09. Space Assessments S. 87-94

„… the spaces and what is in them. It is also helpful to develop or use academic library personas to …” „… assuming that you know what is best.ReferencesBauer, M. (2020). Commuter students and the academic library …” „… reflection on experiential space assessment in an academic library. Serials Review, 44(3), 221–27. Moore, A …”

About the Contributors S. 189-196

„… Rowman and Littlefield and has published articles in Journal of Academic Librarianship, Colleges …” „… and Academic Services Departments of the Kansas State Uni-About the Contributors • 193versity …” „… examines library value in funding advocacy and values assessment in academic libraries. Recent publications …”

Ch08. A Playbook for Journal License Negotiations S. 75-86

„… print to electronic journals has transformed the academic journal licensing business. In the print world …” „… could be added and can-celed, and this allowed for changes in academic priorities, usage patterns, and …” „… the institution’s academic priorities, and other institutional relations are addressed below …”

Ch17. What’s Next? S. 173-182

„… university-level analysts, helps identify students with academic needs so that actions can be taken to help them …” „… the academic community because they lack the rigor of peer-review. Library assessment should also …” „… . The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 44(1), 140–44.Washburn, A., and Bibb, S. (2011). Students …”

Ch07. Weeding Decisions for a Science and Engineering Print Collection S. 65-74

„… deselection: A survey of North Ameri-can academic libraries. Serials Librarian, 21(1), 29–45. Lee, H. L. (1993 …” „… ). Collection weeding: Innovative processes and tools to ease the burden. Journal of Academic Librarianship …” „… deselection at an academic library. Reference and User Services Quarterly, 56(2), 108–15. https://doi.org …”

Ch06. Resources Assessments S. 59-64

„… reference and PDF man-agement software: An exploratory study. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 44(6 …” „… ). Closing the loop: Students, academic libraries, and textbook affordability. Journal of Academic …” „… this: Prototyping in an academic library. Journal of Library Administration, 60(2), 197–213. …”

Ch11. Space Assessment Pre-Op S. 107-118

„… materials accessibility and increased use (Weiner, 2005). The impact of the digital era on academic …” „… these shifts, as academic libraries consider their changing roles as facilitators of self-directed …” „… /why-colleges-are-bor-rowing-billions/542352/.Nitecki, D. (2011). Space assessment as a venue for defining the academic library. Library …”

Ch14. A Deep Bench S. 143-152

„… Deep BenchStaff Enrich Library Assessment Activities in an Academic LibraryJoshua Tijerino, James …” „… library service provision in academic librar-ies” (Ibegbulam and Eze, 2016, p. 483). Association of …” „… option, was the best visualization for the curbside dataset as it allowed data visualization by academic …”

Ch13. Personnel Relationship Assessments S. 135-142

„… private and public ARL libraries. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 44(1), 75–80.Silva, E., and …” „… Galbraith, Q. (2018). Salary negotiation patterns between women and men in academic libraries. College and …”

Index S. 183-186

„… 183academic library, 4, 5, 8, 12, 18, 21, 27, 33. 88, 104, 143, 163, 165, 167, 169anonymity, 10, 36 …”

Ch15. Sorting Out Library Programs, Services, and Tasks S. 153-162

„… academic programs and research. Through the process, DLG determined that it was a high-priority need …”

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Kathleen G. Velsor - Re-Engaging Students for Success

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Re-Engaging Students for Success

2015

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Glossary of Academic Language S. 97-100

„… 97Glossary of Academic LanguageAcademic language: The language of the discipline; the vocabulary …” „… and writing, fluent reading and writing.98 Glossary of Academic LanguageFormative assessments …” „… strategy to complete the learning tasks. Glossary of Academic Language 99Tier II: Students who are in the …”

Preface

„… planning—United States. 4. Academic language—United States. I. Title. LB2838.V45 2015 371.1020973—dc23 …” „… Jessica Spero 69Appendix A 93Appendix B 95Glossary of Academic Language 97Index 101ContentsixThis …” „… academic language has been modified to correspond with the academic language used in the edTPA, but the …”

Ch02. Instructional Planning for the edTPA S. 13-26

„… learner needs to remember the academic lan-guage used: verse, rhythm, and meter. The learner needs to …” „… academic language as it relates to limericks. The learner 24 Chapter 2needs to apply this to an example of …” „… limerick.Use the Academic Language of the Standards with StudentsIn both scenarios, the candidate needs to …”

Ch05. Assessment S. 51-68

„… four corre-sponding assessments that each candidate needs to address. The first is the academic …” „… that provide information during the learning segment.HOW CAN THE CANDIDATE IMPROVE THE USE OF ACADEMIC …” „… LANGUAGE IN THE ASSESSMENTS?There are some useful academic terms that may assist the candidate to …”

Ch01. Instructional Planning S. 1-12

„… York City. On the district website, the school mission reads: “to support students’ academic, social …” „… reading levels and tiers I, II, and III provide the academic language that the candidate is expected to …” „… be used to describe the reading levels of their students. Using the correct academic language …”

Ch06. edTPA Response by Jessica Spero S. 69-92

„… those with gaps in academic knowledge, and/or gifted students needing greater support or …” „… determine or clarify meaning. L.5.6: Ac-quire and use general academic and domain-specific words and …” „… classroom. Use academic lan-guage to support the descriptions of the reading levels and other English …”

Index S. 101-102

„… 101Academic language, xvi–xvii, 2, 3, 19, 23, 25, 43, 53–54, 56, 62, 91, 97–99Alternative …”

Ch04. Unit Planning S. 37-50

„… different?” The first lesson should address key words (academic language) that the students need to remember …”

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Marian Döhler, Jochen Franzke, Kai Wegrich - Der gut organisierte Staat

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Der gut organisierte Staat

Series: Modernisierung des öffentlichen Sektors ("Gelbe Reihe")

Volume 45 2015

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Christopher Pollitt The Seven Secular Sins of Academic Public Administration S. 30-53

„… academic social science combine to push public administration academics in a variety of directions. In the …” „… that some academics cannot pursue ‘pure’ academic research, without much, if any, thought for its …” „… latter – especially now – and more for the former). As indicated earlier, the academic/practice links …”

Erik Albæk (Absence of) Experts in Political Science S. 476-491

„… the way of itself as an academic discipline contributing with expertise, namely by isolating policy …” „… from the academic study of politics. This is odd, considering that the content side of politics, i.e …” „… teaching. 485 As an academic discipline, political science instead emphasized the descriptive: the aim …”

Geert Bouckaert The Future of the Field of Public Administration S. 72-91

„… gathered in the academic field of Public Administration (with capitals). To the extent that the field of …” „… . This knowledge is clustered and scientifically organized in the academic field of Public Administration …” „… academic to more hands-on. There are also shifting mechanisms of PA knowledge demand. The public sector …”

Walter Kickert The roles of politics and institutions in Dutch cutback decision-making S. 134-145

„… , which happens to be Werner Jann’s main theme of academic interest. From incrementalism to political …” „… academic interest of Werner Jann. Note For a less essayistic and more academic and therefore a maybe more …”

Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid A Norwegian tradition of studying public administration Bounded rationality and institutional features combined S. 54-71

„… entrepreneur used by Kingdon (1984), meaning an academic actor who utilizes opportunities or ‘windows …” „… academic institutions. His influence was of course evident at the University of Bergen, but he also had a …” „… through interaction with and learning from international academic institutions and networks. Dahl Jacobsen …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-9

„… Wegrich TEIL 1: VERWALTUNGSWISSENSCHAFT The Seven Secular Sins of Academic Public Administration 31 …”

Autorinnen und Autoren S. 587-589

„… . phil., Academic Manager des Potsdam Centrum für Politik und Management (PCPM), Leiter des Bereichs …”

Christoph Reichard Reform der Verwaltungsausbildung – ein Dauerbrenner? S. 340-361

„… , Ch./Krogt, T. v. d. (2014): Towards a set of specific competences for academic degree programmes in public …”

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Moti Mizrahi - For and Against Scientism

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For and Against Scientism

2022

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Moti Mizrahi Chapter 9 Whither Academic Philosophy? S. 167-186

„… , but it is demon-strably false now. For one thing, the academic journal Metaphilosophy has been …” „… 2000s has ushered in an era in which academic philosophers pay careful attention to and have great …” „… Chapter 9Whither Academic Philosophy?Moti Mizrahi168 Moti MizrahiNow, some proponents of scientism …”

Moti Mizrahi Chapter 10 Epilogue S. 187-192

„… philosophy should be turned inside out” (2011, 259). Focusing on Anglophone academic philosophy in the …” „… analytic tradition in particular, Kitcher (2011, 253) argues that the central questions of academic …” „… knowledge?” which Kitcher (2011, 255–256) deems individual, academic philosophers should reorient themselves …”

Moti Mizrahi Chapter 2 The Scientism Debate: A Battle for the Soul of Philosophy? S. 25-46

„… academic philosophers against those who value science more than philosophy the battle cry of those …” „… philosophers who seek to defend their territory? If so, what are academic philosophers concerned about? Does …” „… scientism pose a threat to academic philosophy? In this chapter, I consider these questions by taking an …”

Chapter 1 Introduction S. 1-24

„… “academic-internal” and “academic-external” versions of epistemological scientism. The former is the view that “all …” „… to advocate an academic (or academic-internal) version of epistemological scientism. Contemporary …” „… (1997, 17) puts it, meth-odological scientism (or “academic-internal scientism”) is the “attempt to …”

Amanda Bryant Chapter 3 The Supposed Specter of Scientism S. 47-74

„… and non-epistemic goods that are valuable, worth promoting in academic contexts, and relevant to …” „… promoting in academic contexts. To accept this, we would have to deny that aesthetic or pragmatic goods are …” „… genuinely valuable in academic contexts—or valuable enough to be worth pursuing for their own sakes. So …”

Petri Turunen, Ilkka Pättiniemi, Ilmari Hirvonen, Johan Hietanen, Henrik Saarinen Chapter 5 How to Defend Scientism S. 87-104

„… . Williams and Daniel N. Robinson, 131–146. London: Bloomsbury Academic.Smith, James K. A. 2015. “Science as …” „… Academic.Stenger, Victor J. 2009. The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason. New York: Prometheus …” „… , using them to suss out a relation between propositional attitudes and behavior like academic publish-ing …”

Catherine Wilson Chapter 7 “Science in the Crosshairs” S. 119-138

„… “noisy” in the sense of Daniel Kahneman.14 The Journal of Irreproducible Results was once an academic …” „… CRITICISM: SCIENCE SELF-CORRECTSWhere Eclipse is concerned, the conceptual analysis of academic …” „… the Crosshairs”return on investment in academic scientific research can appear more impres-sive than …”

Preface

„… Whither Academic Philosophy? 167Moti MizrahiContentsvi Contents 10 Epilogue 187Moti MizrahiIndex 193About …”

Ian James Kidd Chapter 4 Conceptions of Philosophy and the Challenges of Scientism S. 75-86

„… academic subjects they regard as economically valuable, those ideologically hostile to culturally élite …” „… Rik Peels calls “academic scientism,” which is the concern of Ladyman and Ross. We can usefully …”

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Karen C. Kohn - Collection Evaluation in Academic Libraries

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Collection Evaluation in Academic Libraries

2015

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Preface

„… Collection Evaluation in Academic Libraries9781442250659_WEB.indb 1 5/6/15 8:05 AMPRACTICAL …” „… . Collection Evaluation in Academic Libraries: A Practical Guide for Librarians by Karen C. Kohn9781442250659 …” „… _WEB.indb 2 5/6/15 8:05 AMCollection Evaluation in Academic LibrariesA Practical Guide for …”

Chapter 1. How Collection Evaluation Can Benefit Your Library S. 1-10

„… whole, must be accredited on a regular schedule. Accrediting bodies for many academic programs want to …” „… creation of a new academic program. In this case, the goal was to find out what the library already offered …” „… library. In academic libraries, data can be a tool for outreach to faculty if you share your findings with …”

Chapter 7. List-Checking—Interpreting and Acting on the Data S. 87-94

„… collection is the smallest and then buy more books in this subfield than the others. A third way for academic …” „… decision.Using Authoritative Lists with Patron-Driven AcquisitionsThere is some concern among academic librarians …” „… academic libraries is to teach, and part of a teacher’s role is to identify the most important works for …”

Chapter 6. List-Checking—Collecting and Analyzing the Data S. 71-86

„… forward.List-checking can also be helpful, and sometimes even required, when academic programs are seeking accreditation …” „… . The list is meant for both hospital libraries and academic health sciences libraries and includes a …” „… , involving the work of two hundred specialists. Content specialists, who are academic faculty in the health …”

Chapter 5. Benchmarking—Interpreting and Acting on the Data S. 61-70

„… of all academic publications in any subject area, or 80 percent of the amount your peers have, focus …” „… faculty is another way to assess whether the materials owned are sufficient for their academic needs …” „… tangen-tial to the academic programs it supports, as it will be hard to justify purchasing in this area when …”

Chapter 10. Citation Analysis—Collecting and Analyzing the Data S. 137-152

„… essential for any academic library’s chemistry collection. Gross and Gross’s methodology was like the …” „… fields.Since at least the 1990s, academic librarians have been analyzing students’ and fac-ulty’s work to …” „… could also be useful for conducting a local citation analysis. With either product, academic librarians …”

Chapter 8. Usage Statistics—Collecting and Analyzing the Data S. 95-120

„… a particular topic becomes popular only briefly. Academic libraries should keep in mind that many …” „… differs from the academic year. By importing the data into Excel, you can rearrange the monthly numbers …” „… and add them to get a total for your fiscal year, academic year, or whatever time period you are …”

Chapter 9. Usage Statistics—Interpreting and Acting on the Data S. 121-136

„… . Walters argues that “the goal of the [academic] library is to educate students,” which it can do by …” „… educational mission of an academic library does not mean usage statistics are useless, however. By combining …” „… supporting all academic areas.• For print books, if possible combine several measures of usage to get a …”

Chapter 4. Benchmarking—Collecting and Analyzing the Data S. 41-60

„… focusing on a specific 9781442250659_WEB.indb 45 5/6/15 8:05 AM4 6 ▲ C H A P T E R 4academic …” „… can be obtained for free, either from in-house sources or on the Internet. Many academic libraries …” „… academic libraries already pay for a subscription to WorldCat, using its public interface for data …”

Chapter 3. Before You Start S. 23-40

„… includes Choice maga-zine’s Outstanding Academic Titles, Doody’s Core Titles in the Health Sciences, and …” „… yours.Since the NCES tool does not include a variable for the academic caliber of the school, you may want to …” „… and Kishel’s (2013) survey of sixty-two academic libraries in Wis-consin found that 66 percent of …”

Chapter 2. Approaches to Evaluating Your Collection S. 11-22

„… weeding.Collection Evaluation for Academic Libraries leads you through four methods of doing a collection evaluation …” „… quality of an academic library collection is that it should meet the institution’s pedagogical goals …”

Chapter 11. Citation Analysis—Interpreting and Acting on the Data S. 153-164

„… rely the most heavily on PsycARTICLES and second most on Academic Search Premier. What a chart like …” „… undergraduates at an institution that intro-duces Academic Search Premier to all first-year students in at least …”

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