Focusing on the need for basic yet broad perspective training resources, the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) collaborated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Data Conservancy to produce ...

Through a description of a specific research design, the author details various merits of qualitative research. Using concrete examples from an actual research project on the use of computers by individuals over the age ...

Released November 5, 2010, at the eBlackChampaign‐Urbana Campus‐Community Symposium, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 501 E. Daniel, Champaign, Illinois. Since Fall 2009 the eBlackChampaign‐Urbana ...

The 1990s have been defined as the decade of digitization, which has been hailed by its proponents as a true cause for celebration. Yet, other voices have warned of the very real ”threat,” which digitization, and more ...

Met with a voluminous stack of files filled with rich feedback, a librarian’s biggest barrier to utilizing qualitative assessment data is implementing a streamlined method for organization and analysis. This poster ...

We present a novel sentiment classifier particularly designed for modeling and analyzing social movements; capturing levels of support (supportive versus non-supportive) and degrees of enthusiasm (enthusiastic versus ...

Computer support tools are increasingly designed to help reduce the time required for evidence synthesis tasks such as manually extracting information from scientific papers. We present two case studies evaluating ...

A poster on the ParsCit evaluation project

In the course of a reference transaction, academic librarians are expected to help patrons both find the information they are seeking while educating the patron about the process of finding, evaluating, and using information. ...