American Library Association 2008 Conference Proceedings
Table of Contents
Children and Young Adults
Title: Library/Student Partnerships Redefine Tomorrow's Libraries
Author: Jon E. Cawthorne, Mark Stover, James Poet and Joy Salvatin
Title: America's Game: When Media Representations Influence Children's Responses to Literature
Author: Karla M. Schmit
Title: Teaching the Teacher: How to Integrate Information Literacy into the Teacher Education Curriculum
Author: Dr. Bob Fernekes and Dr. Sonya S. Shepherd
Collection Management & Technical Services
Title: Tables of Contents in the Catalog and their Impact on Usage
Author: Michael S. Babinec and Karen D. Miller
Title: Reinvented by a Robot: Implementing an Automated Retrieval System to Transform a Library
Author: Sharon L. Bostick, Bryan Irwin
Title: Sharing Bibliographic Records: How Effective is Current Practice? What are Some Alternatives?
Author: Magda El-Sherbini
Digital Information & Technologies
Title: How Scholarly is Google Scholar? : A comparison of Google scholar to library databases
Author: Rebecca A. Boughan, Jared L. Howland, Brian C. Roberts, and Thomas C. Wright
Title: Reading Nineteenth Century Schoolbooks online: User Behavior in a digitized special collection.
Author: Bhuva Narayan , Prof. Amanda Spink
Title: A model for Collaborative Digitization: the HBCU Library Alliance Digital Collection
Author: Ira Revels
Title: Whither the Web? How Libraries can Preserve our Digital Cultural Heritage
Author: Tracy Seneca
Research
Title: Assessing, Improving, and Sustaining Internship Programs: Three Models
Author: Johanna Alexander, Curt Asher, Ray English, Marla Peppers, and Doris Ann Sweet
Title: Using Conversion Analysis to Enhance the Training of IM Chat Reference Librarians
Author: Terrence W. Epperson, PhD
Title: It's not "Crap"; Series Books and Adolescent Development
Author: Paula Griffith
Title: Disseminating National Library of Medicine Knowledge into Communities: Fighting Health Disparities
Author: Gabriel Peterson, LaHoma Smith Romocki, Deborah Swain and LaShawn
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User Services
Title: Open to All: How Research Can Drive Strategy and Set Your Course
Author: Kerry Bierman and Alison Circle
Title: Public Libraries in a digital future: a strategy
Author: Jan Braeckman
Title: Behavioral Performance in Reference: What is Going on???
Author : Alexandra Dimitroff
Title: Where Have You Been? Where are you Going?: Assessing Student Information Skills
Author: Diane M. Duesterhoeft
Title: University Investment in the Library: What's the Return?
Author: Kira Cooper, Paula Kaufman and Judy Luther
Title: Understanding Information Literacy in Context: Undergraduates' Perceptions o f Skill Level &Attainment
Author: Don Latham and Melissa Gross