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  Culturally Grounded Approaches to Information Literacy Understanding

  Katia G. Karadjova-Kozhuharova, Georgia Southern University

  2021
  

  Georgia Southern faculty member, Katia G. Karadjova-Kozhuharova authored, Culturally Grounded Approaches to Information Literacy Understanding.

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  J.G. Farrell’s Empire Novels: The Decline and Fall of the Human Condition

  Rebecca Ziegler, Georgia Southern University

  2-1-2019
  

  Despite its name, the real subject of J.G. Farrell’s three-and-a-half-book Empire Series is not the British empire, but the human condition, a state characterized by ‘fall’ – like the empire, like the human race itself according to the biblical story of the Fall from Eden. Farrell lets us know that this is his primary interest by giving one of his major characters a dog named The Human Condition. He actually uses the falling empire as an overarching metaphor, as well as a rich source of imagery and incidents, to illustrate the worsening human situation. In Farrell’s darkly funny books, all ... Read more

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  Emerging Technologies for Librarians: A Practical Approach to Innovation

  Sharon Q. Yang and LiLi Li, Georgia Southern University

  2016
  

  Emerging Technologies for Librarians: A Practical Approach to Innovation focuses on the practical applications of emerging technologies in libraries, defining the technologies in the context of their use in real situations.

  Each chapter includes an overview of the use of emerging technologies in a particular work area that is followed by a list of relevant applications. Chapters cover work areas such as advertising, distance learning, metadata. and digital libraries, and also focus on applications, including mobile computing and web conferencing, followed by a conclusion.

  This book serves as a guide for those interested in learning about, and implementing, the available ... Read more

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  Library Expansion/Renovation Checklist: Creating Today’s ARC Takes More Than Forty Days and Forty Nights

  Ann Hamilton, Georgia Southern University

  6-2015
  

  E-Book/Webcast package published by the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) – a division of the American Library Association.

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  Scholarly Information Discovery in the Networked Academic Learning Environment

  LiLi Li, Georgia Southern University

  8-18-2014
  

  In the dynamic and interactive academic learning environment, students are required to have qualified information literacy competencies while critically reviewing print and electronic information. However, many undergraduates encounter difficulties in searching peer-reviewed information resources. Scholarly Information Discovery in the Networked Academic Learning Environment is a practical guide for students determined to improve their academic performance and career development in the digital age. Also written with academic instructors and librarians in mind who need to show their students how to access and search academic information resources and services, the book serves as a reference to promote information literacy instructions. This title ... Read more

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  Best Practices in Access Services

  Lori L. Driscoll, University of Florida and W. Bede Mitchell, Georgia Southern University

  2009
  

  Book Description: Access Services departments in libraries have become highly complex organizations responsible for a broad range of functions, often including circulation, reserves, interlibrary lending and borrowing, document delivery, stacks maintenance, building security, photocopying, and providing general patron assistance. This book offers effective solutions to familiar problems, fresh ideas for responding to patron needs, and informed speculation on new trends and issues facing access services departments.

  This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Access Services.

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  Emerging Technologies for Academic Libraries in the Digital Age

  LiLi Li, Georgia Southern University

  2009
  

  This book is written to promote academic strategic management and envision future innovations for academic library resources, services and instructions in the digital age. It provides academic executives, consultants, instructors, IT specialists, librarians, LIS students, managers, trainers and other professionals with the latest information for developing trends of emerging technologies applied to student-centred and service-oriented academic learning environments. This book explores various fields where key emerging technologies may have great implications on academic library information technologies, academic library management, academic library information services, and academic library internal operations.