Books and Book Chapters

Hurst, Susan. "Faculty and Librarians Working Together to Improve Students’ Research Skills.." It Works for Us, Collaboratively ! Shared Tips for Effective Collaboration. (Stillwater, OK : New Forums Press, 2005).

 

Presnell, Jenny. Information-Literate Historian: A Guide To Research For History Students. (New York : Oxford Universtiy Press, 2006).

 

Presnell, Jenny. "Coal Settlements." Encyclopedia of Appalachia. (Knoxville, TN : University of Tennessee Press, 2006).

 

Presnell, Jenny. "Harmon Blennerhassett." Encyclopedia of Appalachia. (Knoxville, TN : University of Tennessee Press, 2006).

 

Resnis, Eric; Yu, Jen-chien. "Smart Searching: An Easily Customizable Subject-Specific Online." Information Literacy Programs in the Digital Age: Educating College and University Students Online. (Chicago : Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), forthcoming).

 

Santucci, Lisa; Withers, Rob. "Information Literacy isn't Enough: Why Librarians need to think outside that Box." Discover, Connect, Engage: Creative Integration of Information Literacy. (Ann Arbor, MI : Pierian Press, 2005) p. 39-44.

 

Yu, Jen-chien; Shrimplin, Aaron. "Introducing Undergraduates to Data Literacy: How to Find, Use, & Evaluate Numeric Data." Teaching Information Literacy Skills to Education and Social Sciences Students and Practitioners: A Second Casebook of Application. (Chicago : Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), 2006) p. 14-23.

 

Journal Articles

Butler, Betsy. "Printing in the Correct Style: The Champlin Press." TIMELINE 23, no. 3 (July-September 2006) p. 19-23.

 

Howser, Michael. "Improving Undergraduate Geographic Literacy." GIS Educator (Spring 2006) p. 5-6.

 

Hu, Alfred Ko-wei; Yu, Jen-chien. "The DDI and Its Internet Interfaces: Integrating Survey Data Information." ICDAT '05 Proceedings: 2005 International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies. (Taipei, Taiwan : International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies, 2005) p. 231-247.

 

Hurst, Susan. "After You Find Your Office, Everything Else You Need to Know: Online Orientations for Newly Hired Reference Librarians." Internet Reference Services Quarterly 10, no. 2 (2005) p. 35-42.

 

Hurst, Susan; Leonard, Joseph. "Garbage In, Garbage Out: The Effect of Library Instruction on the Quality of Students’ Term Papers." E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship 8, no. 1 (2007) p. (online).

 

Hurst, Susan; Magnuson, Matthew. "Chat, Email, and IM Reference: School Libraries and Academic Libraries, What We Can Learn From Each Other." Knowledge Quest 35, no. 4 (March/April 2006).

 

Jackson, Jason W.; Gebremichael, Meseret D "Bridging the Gap in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Holistic Look at Information Poverty and the Region's Digital Divide." Government Information Quarterly 23, no. 2 (2006) p. 267 - 280.

 

Resnis, Eric; Butler, Betsy; Barth, Jennifer. "Follow the Silk Road to Orientation Success: Promoting Miami University's Brill Science Library." Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship no. 51 (Summer 2007).

 

Resnis, Eric; Butler, Betsy; Barth, Jen. "[Board accepted] Follow the Silk Road to Orientation Success: Promoting Miami University's Brill Science Library." Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship no. 51 (Summer 2007) p. online: http://www.istl.org/07-summer/article1.html.

 

Sears, Jean. "Miami University's Depository Status (and How It Was Affected by OSU and Dayton Metro Library)." Docs Prescriptions no. 67 (Fall 2007) p. 12-15.

 

Shrimplin, Aaron; Hurst, Susan. "A Virtual Standoff - A Q Analysis of Virtual Reference." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 2, no. 4 (2007) p. 3-21.

 

Shrimplin, Aaron; Yu, Jen-chien. "Focusing on Student Learning Outcomes: How SDA Helped us Build a Learning Community." IASSIST Quarterly 28, no. 2/3 (2005) p. 55-57.

 

Stepanova, Masha. "Disciplinary Duality: The Contested Terrain of Book Studies." Publishing Research Quarterly 23, no. 2 (June 2007) p. 105-115.

 

Wortman, William A. "The ." Henry James Review 28, no. 3 (Fall 2007) p. 281-91.

 

Wright, Deborah K. The Eighteeth-Century Intelligencer ns 20, no. 1 (February 2006) p. 23-27.

 

Zaslow, Barry. "Book Review of ." Fontes Artis Musicae (Journal of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres) 52, no. 4 (Oct. - Dec. 2005) p. 315-316.

 

Conference Presentations

Abbitt, Robbyn; Grabach, Ken; Howser, Michael. "Digital Help with a Human Touch: Video, IM and GIS ." ESRI EdUC Conference (San Diego, CA; June 19, 2007).

 

Brice, Elizabeth. "Sounding the Call: The Future of Technical Services." Ohio Library Council Technical Services Retreat (Mohican State Park, Perrysville, OH; April 25-26, 2006).

 

Brinkman, Stacy; Yates, Frances. "Cultural Discovery: Librarians as Local Partners for Global Understanding." (Poster Session) ACRL 13th National Conference (Baltimore; March 29 - April 1, 2007).

 

Bryan, Cynthia; Howser, Michael. "Improving the Quality of Student Research through Faculty and Librarian Collaboration." 2007 MERLOT International Conference (New Orleans, LA; August 7-10, 2007).

 

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Butler, Elizabeth . "Perfect Partnerships: Collaborative Approaches to Presenting Library and Archival Material in Museum Exhibits." Midwest Archives Conference/Society of Ohio Archivists (Columbus, Ohio; May 3-5, 2007).

 

Casson, Robert. "Metasearch Sprint Course." Tools for Managing Electronic Resources: (Columbus Metropolitan Library, but organized by OhioNet; March 23, 2007).

 

Casson, Robert D.; Shrimplin, Aaron K.; Withers, Rob "Open Source Software for Libraries: Creating Subject and Course Specific Resources in the Libraries' Web Site and the University's Portal." Computers in Libraries (Washington, D.C.; March 24, 2006).

 

Cole, Heather. "Dealing with Unwelcome Transformations: Using a Condition Survey to Assess Collection Damage." ALAO Annual Conference, 2007 (Columbus, Ohio; October 25, 2007).

 

Fink, John. "Options in Electronic Bibliographic Management." Ohio Digital Commons for Education (Columbus, OH; March 4, 2007).

 

Goode, Joanne. "Assigning a Value to Your Collections." Collection Management Interest Group Spring Workshop (Granville, OH; May 25, 2006).

 

Howser, Michael. "Improving the Quality of Student Research Through Information Fluency." American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) Student as Scholar: Undergraduate Research and Creative Practice (Long Beach, California; April 21, 2007).

 

Howser, Michael; Mader, Cynthia; Merhout, Jeffrey. "Improving Student Research Fluency: an Academic Partnership between Library and Faculty to Make a Difference in the Classroom." EDUCAUSE ELI 2007 Annual Meeting (Atlanta, GA; January 23, 2007).

 

Howser, Michael; Mays, Louis; Ebbert, Doris. "Librarian and Faculty Collaboration: Tips for Baking a Successful Information Literacy Cake." Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) 2006 Annual Conference (Akron, OH; November 3, 2007).

 

Howser, Michael; Resnis, Eric; Revelle, Andrew. "Faculty/Librarian Partnerships for Enhancing Student Learning." American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Sharing Responsibility for Essentatial Learning Outcomes Conference (Savannah, GA; November 1-3, 2007).

 

Hurst, Susan. "“Hands-On Instruction: How Much Better Is It Really?”." 2007 International Lilly Conference on College Teaching (Marcum Center, Oxford, OH; 11/16/07).

 

Hurst, Susan; Leonard, Joseph (Management). "Putting the “B” into BI : An Exploratory Study of the Effect of Library Instruction on the Number, Variety, and Sources of Citations Found in Business Students’ Term Papers." (Poster Session) ACRL (Minneapolis, MN; April 9, 2005).

 

Hurst, Susan; Magnuson, Matthew. "Is the Medium Still the Message?? Differences in reference questions based on how they were asked." (Poster Session) American Library Association Annual Conf. (New Orleans, LA; June 25, 2006).

 

Mader, Cynthia; Cross, Valerie. "A Partnership between a Librarian and Computer Science Faculty: An Outcome of a Faculty Learning Community Experience." LOEX (Louisville, KY; May 12-14, 2005).

 

Mader, Cynthia; Howser, Michael. "Bridging the Information Literacy Divide: Collaborating through a Faculty Learning Community Experience." (Poster Session) ACRL (Minneapolis, MN; April 7-10, 2005).

 

Millard, John; Wright, Deborah K. "A Collaborative Approach to Teaching Digital Editing of Scholarly Texts in ...." ODCE Conference (Columbus, OH; March 8, 2005).

 

Perkins, Jody. Colorado Association of Libraries Annual Conference (Denver, Colorado; November 11, 2006).

 

Perkins, Jody. "Metadata Design, Planning and Implementation for Digital Library Projects." Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians (Bloomington, Indiana; May 12, 2006).

 

Resnis, Eric. "First Year Engineering Students Invading the Library: Integrating Collaboration, Outreach, and Information Literacy." (Poster Session) 2006 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference (Chicago, IL; June, 2006).

 

Resnis, Eric. "Spicing up the Orientation: Promoting Brill Science Library." (Poster Session) 2006 ALAO Annual Conference (Akron, OH; November 2, 2006).

 

Resnis, Eric; Sekyere, Kwabena; Withers, Rob. "Developing User-Centered Tutorials with Student Consultants." Academic Library Association of Ohio Annual Conference (Columbus, OH; October 26, 2007).

 

Resnis, Eric; Sekyere, Kwabena; Withers, Rob; Yu, Jen-chien. "We Don't Make the Rules: Developing a User-Centered Academic Interigy Tutorial for First Year Students." HighEdWebDev Annual Conference (Rochester, NY; October 15, 2007).

 

Resnis, Eric; Yu, Jen-chien. "Making it Theirs: Online Information Literacy Tutorials Designed Specifically to Introductory Science Courses." Special Libraries Association Annual Conference (Contributed Paper) (Denver; June, 2007).

 

Resnis, Eric; Yu, Jen-chien. "Whose Tutorial is it Anyway? Applying User-Centered Design in Developing Web-Based Information Literacy Tutorials." Ohio Digital Commons For Education 2006 Conference (Columbus, OH; March 6, 2006).

 

Santucci, Lisa. "The Center for Information Management: Not that Common." Information Commons Institute: LACUNY (New York City, NY; May, 19, 2006).

 

Sears, Jean. "Government Documents Round Table of Ohio: The Middle Years." Government Documents Round Table of Ohio 25th Anniversary (State Library of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio; Nov. 17, 2006).

 

Shanley-Roberts, Ross. "'Oh, So We're Going to Be Just Like Amazon, Huh?': Preparing the Catalog for FRBR, XML, Open-Source ILSs and Patron-Initiated Catalog Enhancement." Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; May 10-11, 2006).

 

Shanley-Roberts, Ross. "'Oh, So We're Going to Be Just Like Amazon, Huh?': Preparing the Catalog for FRBR, XML, Open-Source ILSs and Patron-Initiated Catalog Enhancement. (Revised)." West Virginia Library Association Spring Fling (Flatwoods, West Virginia; April 12, 2007).

 

Shanley-Roberts, Ross. "Does This Mean We Have to Re-catalog Everything? : A Systematic Approach to Upgrading and Enriching Bibliographic Records." Catalog Management Discussion Group, ALA Midwinter Meeting (San Antonio, TX; January 21, 2006).

 

Shanley-Roberts, Ross. "Keynote address: ." Wisconsin Library Services (WiLS) OCLC Peer Council Meeting (Madison, WI; Oct. 12, 2006).

 

Shanley-Roberts, Ross; Casson, Rob. "Solrpac: an Open Source Library 2.0 endeavor." LITA Next Generation Catalog Interest Group Meeting, ALA 2008 Midwinter Meeting (Philadelphia, PA; January 13, 2007).

 

Shrimplin, Aaron; Yu, Jen-chien. "Focusing on Student Learning Outcomes: How SDA Helped Us Build a Learning Community for Data Users." International Association of Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) (Ottawa, Canada; 2003).

 

Shrimplin, Aaron; Yu, Jen-chien. "Numeracy Across the Curriculum: New Opportunities in the Digital Age." Ohio Commons for Digital Education (OCDE) (Columbus, Ohio; 2004).

 

Taub, Eric; Howser, Michael. "Historical Research and GIS for First-Year Students." ESRI Education User Conference (San Diego, California; August 8, 2006).

 

Withers, Rob. "Understanding Usage Patterns of Library Web Sites with Google Analytics." (Poster Session) Academic Library Association of Ohio Annual Conference (Columbus, OH; October 25, 2007).

 

Wright, Deborah K. EC/ASECS Meeting (Annapolis, MD; 28 Oct. 2005).

 

Wright, Deborah K. "The Matthew Prior Project: A Sampling of Opportunities for New Research." EC/ASECS Meeting (Annapolis, MD; 29 Oct. 2005).

 

Yates, Frances. "From Spies to Scrotums: Censoring Youth Literature." Reunion Weekend (Miami University; June 16, 2007).

 

Yates, Frances. "Text sets." Eileen Tway Children's Lit conference (Miami University; Oct 6, 2007).

 

Yates, Frances; Brinkman, Miller, Resnis; PANEL. "More than Marketing: Innovative Outreach Programs for Academic Libraries." ALAO (Columbus, OH; October 26, 2007).

 

Yu, Jen-chien. "Re-engineering Reference Statistics for Use in Strategic Staffing." (Poster Session) World Library and Information Congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council (Seoul, Korea; 2006).

 

Yu, Jen-chien; Zou, Ning. "Becoming a Librarian: A Beginner’s Guide to Academic Librarianship." Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) Midwest Chapter Annual Conference (Bloomington, Indiana; 2005).

 

Yuan, Haiwang; Yu, Jen-chien. "Library Application of Blogs and Podcasts." Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) Midwest Chapter Annual Conference (Cleveland, Ohio; 2006).

 

Grants

Butler, Betsy. "Awarded a scholarship to attend the 47th Annual RBMS Preconference, Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the 21st Century: Intersecting Missions, Converging Futures? in Austin, Texas, June 20-23, 2006." ($1,080; April 2006).

 

Butler, Betsy. "James Davis Scholarship to attend Publishers' Bookbindings, 1830-1910, Rare Book School, University of Virginia, July 16-21, 2006." ($845; April 2006).

 

Hurst, Susan; Shrimplin, Aaron; Messner, Kevin. "2007 Ingenta Research Award Grant ." ($5800; 7/20/2007).

 

Johnson, Jacqueline. "The Freedom Summer Training at Western College for Women." ($500; October 26, 2006).

 

Misco, Masha. "Preservation of Andre and Catherine de Saint-Rat collection (the grant will fund purchase of rare Russian materials)." ($5,800; November 26, 2007).

 

Resnis, Eric. "Follow the Silk Road...to the Science Library." ($1200; March 2005).

 

Resnis, Eric. "Follow the Silk Road...to the Science Library again." ($1,000; March, 2006).

 

Resnis, Eric; Moeckel, Nancy. "Attracting Educators to ." ($500; February 2005).

 

Wortman, William A. ($20,000; July 1, 2006-June 30, 2007).

 

Wright, Deborah . "Fellowship." ($2,000.00; tenable after 15 May 2008).

 

Wright, Deborah K. "Rare Book School Scholarship." ($845.00; 15 November 2005).

 

Yates, Frances. "Let's Talk About It Book Discussion." ($1500; 2005).

 

Yates, Frances. "Professional Development." ($750; Summer 2005).

 

Yates, Frances. "Girls Voices Book Club." ($500; February 2005).

 

Yates, Frances; Borchers-Factora. "Your Heart’s Desire: Sex and Love in Jewish Literature." ($2,500; Jan-May 2008).

 

Yates, Frances; Borchers-Factora, Lisa. "A Mind of Her Own: Fathers and Daughters in a Changing World." ($2,500; Sept-Dec 2007).

 

Yates, Frances; Brinkman, Stacy. "Ohanashi: Discovering Japan through Stories." ($5,000; September 2006).

 

Yates, Frances; Dales, Brenda; Socol, Terri. "InfoOH! Information Literacy for K-12 Teacher Education." ($3,500; August 2006).

 

Other Professional Service

Altenhof, David. Web Manager, Library and Information Technology Association, a division of the American Library Association. (2006-2008).

 

Butler, Betsy. Academic Outreach Chair, Sweet Briar College Alumnae Association Board (2008-2010).

 

Cole, Heather. Chosen as an ALA Emerging Leader for 2008. (2008).

 

Hurst, Susan. Participated in the CELT Teaching and Learning Expo by facilitating discussion table on plagiarism prevention and detection. (November 1, 2005).

 

Millard, John. Invited to participate on review panel for Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grants. May 2007 (May 2007).

 

Millard, John. Invited to participate on review panel for Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grants. May 2007 (May 2007).

 

Perkins, Jody. “Metadata Planning and Implementation for Digital Library Projects” Workshop at OhioNET, Columbus, Ohio, March 30, 2006. .

 

Perkins, Jody. ALCTS Committee on Education, Training and Recruitment for Cataloging, Continuing Education Subcommittee (2006-2008).

 

Perkins, Jody. Ohiolink Metadata Strategies for the Contemporary Consortial Environment Task Force ((2007- )).

 

Perkins, Jody. Panelist, ALA/ALCTS Networked Resources and Metadata Discussion Group at ALA Midwinter, Seattle, Washington (2007).

 

Perkins, Jody (organizer); Gammon, Julie (organizer). Technical Services Interest Group, (Academic Library Association of Ohio) Annual Spring Workshop Technical Services Librarianship: Working Today – Preparing for Tomorrow” at Kent State University (March 4, 2005).

 

Perkins, Jody (organizer); Maurer, Margaret (organizer). Technical Services Interest Group, (Academic Library Association of Ohio) Annual Spring Workshop “Chaos or Control: Content, Context and Access in the Digital Age” at OhioNET, Columbus, Ohio (May 19, 2006).

 

Presnell, Jenny. Vice President and Program Chair, McGuffey Museum Voluneteers (2003 - ).

 

Presnell, Jenny; Millard, John; Zinsser, Judith (History). Digital Collection of Du Chatelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749 works. John Millard has the web address. (2002-2006).

 

Schmidt, Robert. received the Society of Ohio Archivists' Merit Awards during the Society of Ohio Archivists conference. .

 

Stuckey, Janet. Member, NEH Panel reading Preservation Assistance Grant applications for Smaller Institutions (2006).

 

Stuckey, Janet. Appointed member, Board of Directors of the Myaamia Heritage Museum and Archive by the Business Committee of the Miami Nation (Miami, OK) (2006-2008).

 

Withers, Rob. Human Diversity Committee, Academic Library Association of Ohio (2006-2007).

 

Withers, Rob. 2007 Conference Planning Committee, Academic Library Association of Ohio (2006-2007).

 

Withers, Rob. Policy and Publications Review Committee, Association of College and Research Libraries, Instruction Section (American Library Association) (2007-2009).

 

Withers, Rob. Co-chair, Web Site Design Implementation Task Force, Association of College and Research Libraries, Instruction Session (2008-2009).

 

Withers, Rob. Vice President / President Elect, Academic Library Association of Ohio (2008 - 2010).

 

Wortman, William. Interviewed by Merit Youngdeer for radio program (February 6, 2007).

 

Wortman, William. Invited (February 15, 2007).

 

Wortman, William. Senior planner for conference titled (Feb. 19-22, 2007).

 

Wortman, William A. Guest on WMUB's "Free Advice" Program (February 23, 2006).

 

Wortman, William A. . Invited guest on WMUB (07/19/2007).

 

Yates, Frances. Faculty Learning Community for Inclusion (2005-2008).

 

Yates, Frances. First Year Seminar Assessment group (Fall 2007 (August-December)).

 

Yu, Jen-chien. Chair, Web Committee, Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) (2006-2007).

 

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