DLTS Faculty Publications Copyright (c) 2013 Western Kentucky University All rights reserved. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub Recent documents in DLTS Faculty Publications en-us Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:25:57 PDT 3600 Resource Discovery Tools: Supporting Serendipity http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/22 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/22 Wed, 27 Jun 2012 05:54:55 PDT Serendipity, the accidental discovery of something useful, plays an important role in discovery and the acquisition of new knowledge. The process and role of serendipity varies across disciplines. As library collections have become increasingly digital faculty lament the loss of serendipity of browsing library stacks. Resource discovery tools may have features that support serendipity as part of information seeking. A comparison of four commercial Web-scale discovery tools, Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) WorldCat® Local1, Serials Solution2® Summon3™, ExLibris4® Primo Central5™, and EBSCO Discovery Services (EDS)6™, links product features to characteristics that support serendipitous discovery. However, having such features is only part of the equation. Educators need to include serendipity in discussions about the research process. Future research opportunities include determining whether serendipity can be encouraged, evaluating its occurrence in the web scale environment, and studying serendipity in relation to research instruction.

]]> Tammera M. Race Reflections about the Faxon Company: Beyond Vision, the Reality of Shatterproof Windows and the Demise of the Faxon Company http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/21 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/21 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:06:21 PST Connie Foster, editor of Serials Review, opens this issue with reflections about the Faxon Company. She is joined by several contributors who had close ties with the subscription agency, either as former employees or clients. In an effort to document some of the milestones of the Faxon Company and results of an upheaval in the business community with the bankruptcy of divine/RoweCom/Faxon Library Services, the contributors also willingly share some experiences with and insights about a former serials subscription agency giant with services that spanned three centuries.

]]> Connie Foster In Memoriam: Alfred Jaeger (1923-2003) http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/20 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/20 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:53:02 PST Connie Foster In Memoriam: Frank F. Clasquin (1915-2002) http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/19 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/19 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:53:00 PST Connie Foster Editorial: Journeys and Pathways: A Different Road http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/18 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/18 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:22:59 PST Connie Foster Editorial: Revisiting Open Access: Anything New in Four Years? http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/17 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/17 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:46:10 PST Connie Foster Digital Commons Meeting at ALA Midwinter 2010 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/16 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/16 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:46:08 PST If you manage or work with a Digital Commons implementation, please join the discussion at ALA Midwinter! Registration requested. Reception to follow meeting from 5:30-7.

]]> Berkeley Electronic Press et al. Fishing for Leadership: A Service Philosophy in Library Technical Services http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/15 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/15 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:00:28 PST Connie Foster The Role of Public Libraries and Their Future http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/14 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/14 Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:24:23 PDT Uma Devi Doraiswamy Editorial: If You Could Freeze-Frame the Information Flow, What Would You Do? http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/13 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/13 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:30:25 PST Connie Foster Editorial: What Are Your Favorites? http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/12 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/12 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:21:13 PDT Connie Foster Where in the World Is Library Technical Services? Finding Ourselves in Fun, Learning, and Food http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/11 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/11 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:40:34 PST Public libraries do it, historical societies are a natural, especially in Boston; media centers incorporate them into special events; the British started it. The “it” or “them” represents a tea party. But why in academic libraries? Why in Library Technical Services?

]]> Connie Foster Random Thoughts about Volume 34, 2008, and Some Insights into Journal Production http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/10 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/10 Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:28:28 PST Connie Foster Lessons Learned as Author and Editor http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/9 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/9 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:07:00 PST Writing and editing are dynamic, creative processes. At some point both author and editor must release the finished product and submit to the production process (more copy editing, proofing and queries). To offer the best manuscript possible, some tips are presented.

]]> Connie Foster Editorial: Revisiting Open Access: Anything New in Four Years? http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/8 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/8 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:16:52 PDT Connie Foster New Journey for <i>Western Scholar</i> http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/7 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/7 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:05:36 PDT Connie Foster Editorial: <i>Serials Review</i>, a Changing World, You and I http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/6 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/6 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:20:07 PDT Connie Foster Editorial: The Serials Information Chain http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/5 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/5 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:20:06 PDT Connie Foster Institutional Repositories—Strategies for the Present and Future http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/4 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/4 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:02:04 PDT Institutional repositories can create exciting possibilities for scholarly communication with access, discovery, and permanency for the intellectual capital of a university. Digital research repositories capture student and faculty research and allow publishing opportunities for electronic journals in an open access environment. Western Kentucky University launched TopSCHOLARtm in May 2007 and is reaping benefits from the decision to contract with an established publishing platform, bepress' Digital Commons.

Institutional Repositories are intended to create an alternative publishing model, enhance scholarly communication, showcase an institution's intellectual output, and preserve and provide access to an institution's digital assets. What are strategies and challenges involved in launching and populating an IR using Western Kentucky University as an example.

]]> Connie Foster Chapter One: Beneath the Spanish Moss: The World of the Root Doctor http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/3 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlts_fac_pub/3 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:31:46 PDT The spiritual practice of the Shaman is most likely the oldest spiritual tradition on Earth. Shamanism is a way in which humanity has sought a psychic connection to the world of healing, life and death, as well as a sense of social and individual balance. It is a complex psychological grammar that allows the Shaman to function in both the conventional and an alternative "spirit" view of reality. Shamanisn has been a part of American culture since the colonial settlement and continues today despite technology and modern scientific rationalism. This chapter is a brief social history of the African-American shamanic experience called "Hoodoo" and "Conjure" found in the Southeastern United States.

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