Adkins, Denice (MU)
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Item Reference librarians and LIS students : contrasting views of reference source training and experience(2011) Adkins, Denice; Bossaller, Jenny S., 1972-; Information Science and Learning TechnologiesAn examination of students' and practitioners' attitudes towards, and uses of, various reference sources. Students found print sources to be educational, but use of print is waning. Many practitioners said learning specific sources was best done on the job, and felt new hires were better prepared to use online sources.Item The television viewing habits of librarians (Pop Culture Association version)(2003) Adkins, Denice; Brown-Syed, Christopher; Information Science and Learning TechnologiesOne night, I phoned a colleague at home to ask a question. “I’d love to chat,” he said, “but Star Trek is on.” After hanging up, I started to wonder: why does every librarian I know watch Star Trek? As I started wondering about this idea, another colleague complained that the students in her graduate LIS classes spent more time watching Friends than they spent doing their homework. A 1999 article reported that the majority of librarians enter the field because they enjoy books and reading (Gordon & Nesbeitt, 1999). However, it seemed to me like television was taking a more prominent role in the lives of librarians, perhaps to the exclusion of books and reading.Item Unintentional recruiting for diversity(2004) Adkins, Denice; Hussey, Lisa; Information Science and Learning TechnologiesLibrary and information science literature presents several types of intentional recruitment strategies, such as scholarships and mentoring programs. In this presentation, we will introduce the topic of unintentional recruitment: unconscious strategies used by librarians and library science faculty which affect patrons’ likelihood to choose librarianship as a career choice. Unintentional recruitment strategies can be positive, inducing the patron to think of librarianship as a good career choice, or negative, inducing the patron to disregard librarianship as a career choice.Item The function of libraries for Latino college students(2004) Adkins, Denice; Hussey, Lisa; Information Science and Learning TechnologiesConsidered a great tool of democracy,1 libraries are open to all who choose to use them, regardless of race, gender, or creed. Therein lies both the greatest strength and weakness of libraries: because libraries provide resources chosen by librarians for patron use, libraries unwittingly "deny access to their resources to certain social classes." In diverse communities, libraries are often limited as to the extent to which they are able to deal with varied, and sometimes unknown, information needs. All of this leads to the questions of who is well served by libraries and who is left behind.Item Perceptions of romance readers : an analysis of Missouri librarians(2004) Adkins, Denice; Esser, Linda; Velasquez, Diane L., 1959-; Information Science and Learning TechnologiesThe romance novel is a form of literature geared toward women, which presents a love story with a central female character and a focus on that character's emotional state. Feminist scholarship and library-related literature from the 1980s and 1990s suggests a bias against romance novels on the part of librarians. Some of the reasons for this opinion include the marketing of romance novels as commodities rather than literature, the presence of sexuality in those novels, and the suggestion that romance novels undercut the goals of feminism by maintaining that the key to women's happiness lies in male domination.