• The Tenure-Track Librarian as a Scholarly Researcher 

  Fischer, Rachel K. (2019)
• Promoting Institutional Repositories via Visualizations: A Changepoint Study 

  Jiang, Zhehan; Fitzgerald, Sarah Rose (2019-03-11)

  This article examines whether implementing visualizations on an institutional repository webpage increases traffic on the site. Two methods for creating visualizations to attract faculty and student interest were employed. ...
• Modeling Time-to-Trigger in Library Demand-Driven Acquisitions via Survival Analysis 

  Jiang, Zhehan; Fitzgerald, Sarah Rose; Walker, Kevin W. (2019-07)

  Conventional statistical methods (e.g. logistics regression, decision tree, etc.) have been used to analyze library demand-driven acquisitions (DDA) data. However, these methods are not well-suited to predict when acquisitions ...
• The Alert Collector: The Gothic Aesthetic: From the Ancient Germanic Tribes to the Contemporary Goth Subculture 

  Fischer, Rachel K. (2019-06-22)

  Goths. How did we get from warlike Germanic tribes sacking Rome, to an aesthetic or subculture imbued with "the dark and melancholy, a hint of horror tinged with romance." This column will show you how widely this aesthetic ...
• CEO Pay Ratios of S&P 500 Companies 

  Siciliano, Mark

  Starting with Fiscal 2017, all public companies must submit a ratio of the compensation payable to their Principal Executive Officer (PEO) to their median employee. This is a list list of pay ratio's for S&P 500 companies ...
• The Impact of the Monographs Crisis on the Field of Communication 

  Yates, Steven D.; Chapman, Karen

  This study replicates and extends Yates and Chapman’s [(2007), Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 26(1), 39-51] study of references from Communication Monographs, Communication Research, and Journal of Communication ...
• Restructuring Technical Services and Collection Development to Meet User Needs and Improve Return on Investment 

  Arthur, Michael A. (2019-01-27)

  This presentation highlights dramatic changes in collection development and the role of technical services in a large academic library. The changes follow a thorough review of technical services operations. Changes include ...
• Managing a Comprehensive Cost-per-Use Project in a Large Academic Library 

  Arthur, Michael A. (2019-02-01)

  This article reports the findings of a study to evaluate title-level cost per use (CPU) for most recurring resources at The University of Alabama Libraries. The study relied on cost and usage data from FY2016. The purpose ...
• Crossing Disciplinary, Institutional and Role Boundaries in an Interdisciplinary Consortium 

  Fitzgerald, Sarah Rose; Gardner, Alexander C.; Amey, Marilyn J.; Farrell-Cole, Patricia L. (2018)

  To illuminate barriers to collaboration, this study examines who participates in cross-boundary scholarly collaboration most often and which types of boundary crossing (disciplinary, institutional, role) are engaged in ...
• Postmodernism 

  Fischer, Rachel K. (2014)

  This article introduces the concept of Postmodernism. It provides a list or recommended resources that can be included in a library collection on the subject.
• Genocide 

  Fischer, Rachel K. (2013)

  This article provides an introduction to the topic of genocide for the purpose of developing a collection on the topic for a library. It includes a bibliography of essential resources.
• Connecticut Community Colleges Join Forces to Share Library System 

  Gilstrap, Donald L. (2001)

  Libraries of the twelve community colleges in the state of Connecticut recently joined together to purchase and share the Endeavor Voyager integrated library management system.
• New Rates of Exchange: Technological Integration and University Libraries in Central and Eastern Europe 

  Gilstrap, Donald L. (2000)

  Over the course of the past ten years, Central- and Eastern-European Countries have seen significant changes in virtually all sectors of society. Higher education has been transformed, bringing western philosophies to ...
• Leadership and Decision-Making in Team-Based Organizations: A Model of Bounded Chaotic Cycling in Emerging System States 

  Gilstrap, Donald L. (2013)

  This article discusses the results of both intrinsic and instrumental case study investigations of team-based leadership and decision-making in an Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institution undergoing dramatic ...
• Collective Case Study Method and Fractal Geometry: Instrumental and Intrinsic Cases in Organizational Research 

  Gilstrap, Donald L. (2009)

  In case study methods of organizations, researchers are often limited to the aggregation of individual cases within the context of the organizational case. Borrowing from Stake’s (1995) use of instrumental and intrinsic ...
• Critical Reflection as an Irreversible Process: Epicurus, the Arrow of Time, and an Ontology for Organizational Learning 

  Gilstrap, Donald L. (2010)

  Time’s Arrow has been widely debated in scientific and philosophical circles, yet this theoretical construct is relatively nascent in the social and behavioral sciences. More specifically, we may have much to discover ...
• Digital Literacy and the Emergence of Technology-Based Curriculum Theories 

  Gilstrap, Donald L.; Mallon, Melissa N. (2014)

  A shifting focus in education is resulting in more networked, technology-enhanced classrooms. Contemporary educators need to be aware of the skill sets students require to thrive in twenty-first century educational ...
• Le Délégué de la Compagnie: Claude E. Boillot and the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956-57 

  Gilstrap, Donald L. (1995-08)

  For 90 years the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez played an integral role in the economic development and stability of the world. The Suez Canal connects the western world to the eastern, and, consequently, ...
• Librarians and the Emerging Research Library: a Case Study of Complex Individual and Organizational Development 

  Gilstrap, Donald L. (2007)

  The purpose of this case study was to increase the knowledge base of how research librarians experience and cope with the turbulence of change within their library system. This research also examined the issues that ...
• XML and Better Web Searching 

  Gilstrap, Donald L.; Jackson, Joe (1999)

  This article addresses the implications of the new Web meta-language XML for World Wide Web searching. Compared to HTML, XML is more concerned with structure of data than documents. These XML data structures, especially ...

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