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• Serious leisure, information practices and embodiment: A study of amateur classical musicianship 

  Griffin, Brian (2019-09-24)

  People enjoy leisure activities, like sports and the arts, because lifelong learning enhances well-being. However, many physical activities cannot be learned from a book and require learning from others in a community of ...

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• Cooperative catalogers’ lived experience implementing Resource Description and Access: Developing best practices for creating global metadata 

  Woods, Kristine (2019-09-24)

  Through the lens of Bijker's (1995) social construction of technology (SCOT) theory, this phenomenological study examines the lived experience of catalogers implementing Resource Description and Access (RDA) to create ...

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• Understanding the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) of data professionals in United States academic libraries 

  Khan, Hammad (2019-09-24)

  Over the years the library profession has rapidly changed with the advent of technologies. Technology has altered or even at times replaced accustomed duties of librarians, for example, manual card catalogs with bibliographic ...

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• Dark arts: Artists' information practices in the care of digital artworks and archives 

  Post, Colin (2019-09-24)

  Artists increasingly use digital technologies to make art, with implications not only for how art is created and experienced, but also for the long-term preservation of a digital visual arts heritage. Due to the rapid pace ...

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• School librarians’ impact on students’ English & math achievement 

  Wine, Lois (2019-09-24)

  This study uses a rigorous quasi-experimental matching design to determine if full-time certified school librarians impact fourth grade and fifth grade student achievement scores on English/language arts or mathematics ...

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