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• Health information seeking behaviors among mothers of young healthy children: A comparative study of U.S. mothers and Korean immigrant mothers 

  Lee, Hanseul Stephanie (iSchools, 2019-03-15)

  The goal of this study is to compare health information seeking behaviors between two groups: U.S. mothers and immigrant Korean mothers living in the U.S. With a nonprobability sampling method, data were collected from ...

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• Leaving no one behind: Preparing China's public librarians for providing multicultural services to ethnic minorities 

  Zhou, Lihong; Cui, Cheng; Zijlstra, Tim (iSchools, 2019-03-15)

  This research aims to develop a guideline for training China's public librarians for the provision of multicultural services to ethnic minorities. This poster reports on the findings drawn from a pilot study, in which a ...

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• Assessing the practicality of ARK identifier usage in a catalogue of medieval manuscripts 

  Burns, Halle; Burrows, Toby; Downie, J. Stephen; Lewis, David; Page, Kevin; Velios, Athanasios (iSchools, 2019-03-15)

  In data management, the use of identifiers is essential for disambiguation and referencing. The scope of the use of identifiers varies. For example, disambiguation within an institution using integer identifiers may be ...

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• Decision-making processes for e-book products: Mixture of institutional and rational actions 

  Zhang, Mei (iSchools, 2019-03-15)

  In this study, I examine the decision-making processes employed by academic librarians to purchase e-book products through interviews. I first investigate my participants' perceptions of the context in which they made their ...

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• Participatory development of an open source broadband measurement platform for public libraries 

  Rhinesmith, Colin; Ritzo, Chris; Bullen, Georgia; Werle, James; Gamble, Alyson (iSchools, 2019-03-15)

  Public libraries need access to reliable, automated, and longitudinal data on the speed and quality of service of their broadband Internet connections. Having such data at a local, granular level is essential for libraries ...

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