• Collective responsibility: seeking equity for contingent labor in libraries, archives, and museums 

  Rodriguez, Sandy (University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)

  The Collective Responsibility project seeks to address the specific problems of precarity that grant-funded positions in digital library, archive, and museum work create and reproduce, and how those positions impact the ...

• Principles for designing active and adaptable onboarding experiences for library employees 

  Wellemeyer, Dani; Williams, Jess (Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2019)

  The development of an active, adaptable, culture-centric experience for new library employees is a crucial first step in building effective teams. Establishing a culture of teamwork has long-lasting benefits and can be ...

• Interlibrary loan and serving graduate students 

  Salvo-Eaton, Jennifer (2018)

  When undergraduate students become graduate students, their library needs change. In order to meet these different needs, some academic libraries stratify their resources, services, and programming to provide for various ...

• Developing In-House Digital Tools: Case Studies From the UMKC School of Law Library 

  Ajmi, Ayyoub (2018)

  The author describes his experiences working in the Leon E. Bloch Law Library designing and prototyping in-house digital tools to improve communication among internal and external stakeholders. The projects discussed include ...

• Music Discovery Requirements: A Guide to Optimizing Resources 

  Newcomer, Nara L.; Belford, Rebecca; Kulczak, Deb; Szeto, Kimmy; Matthews, Jennifer; Shaw, Misti (Music Library Association, 2013-03)

  Music materials, particularly scores and recordings, pose unique demands that must be considered for their successful discovery. Some of the discoverability challenges of music materials in public search interfaces can be ...

• Music Discovery Requirements: A Guide to Optimizing Interfaces 

  Newcomer, Nara L.; Belford, Rebecca; Kulczak, Deb; Szeto, Kimmy; Matthews, Jennifer; Shaw, Misti (Ortus Musikverlag, 2013-07)

  This is an English language version of the German language article cited below. “Discovery” has become a library buzzword but it refers to a traditional concept: enabling users to find library information and materials. ...

• Picture the Music: Performing Arts Library Planning with Photo Elicitation 

  Newcomer, Nara L.; Lindahl, David; Harriman, Stephanie (Taylor & Francis, 2016-03)

  Photo elicitation, a form of ethnographic journaling, provided insights into university music and dance student needs in library and campus spaces and services. In this case study, subjects took a photo for each of twenty ...

• UMKC Conservatory Students and Their Work: Research Findings 

  Newcomer, Nara L.; Lindahl, David; Harriman, Stephanie (2015)

  The initiative for UMKC’s Downtown Campus for the Arts presents a unique opportunity for radical change in Conservatory and Conservatory library spaces and services. To inform planning of the new campus and its library, a ...

• Are we good digital stewards? : a proposal to create and implement digital preservation policies, practices, metrics, and educational outreach for the University of Missouri system 

  Rodriguez, Sandy (2015)

  Providing long-term access to digital materials presents unique challenges requiring active stewardship. The librarians and archivists of the University of Missouri System (UM System) collect, curate, describe, and provide ...

• A review of "Organizing Information from the Shelf to the Web" 

  Rodriguez, Sandy (American Library Association, 2008-07)

  The article reviews the book "Organizing Information from the Shelf to the Web," by G.G. Chowdhury and Sudatta Chowdhury.

• A review of "Shelflisting Music: Guidelines for Use with the Library of Congress Classification: M" and "A Manual for the Performance Library" 

  Rodriguez, Sandy (American Library Association, 2009-10)

  The article reviews the books "Shelflisting Music: Guidelines for Use with the Library of Congress Classification: M," by Richard P. Smiraglia, and "A Manual for the Performance Library," by Russ Girsberger.

• A review of "Collection-Level Cataloging: Bound-With Books" 

  Rodriguez, Sandy (American Library Association, 2011-07)

  The article reviews the book "Collection-Level Cataloging: Bound-With Books," by Jain Fletcher.

• A review of "Crash Course in Cataloging for Non-Catalogers: a Casual Conversation on Organizing Information" 

  Rodriguez, Sandy (Online Audiovisual Catalogers Inc., 2009-09)

  This article offers a review of Kaplan, Allison G. (2009). Crash Course in Cataloging for Non-Catalogers: A Casual Conversation on Organizing Information. Westport, Connecticut : Libraries Unlimited.

• A review of "Conversations with Catalogers in the 21st Century" 

  Rodriguez, Sandy (Online Audiovisual Catalogers Inc., 2011-03)

  This article offers a review of Sanchez, Elaine R. (2011). Conversations with Catalogers in the 21st Century. Santa Barbara : Libraries Unlimited.

• Survey -- library publishing 

  Moulaison Sandy, Heather; Le Beau, Chris (2015)

• Final report: recommendations of the UMKC University Libraries' Organizational Development Task Force 

  University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Organizational Development Task Force (2015-04-29)

• Cataloguing Cheat Sheets http:// www.special-cataloguing.com/cheats 

  Schweitzberger, Kathleen (Taylor & Francis, 2012-09)

• ANCESTRY.COM http://www.ancestry.com 

  Schweitzberger, Kathleen (Taylor & Francis, 2012-03)

• The African American Read-In : Building campus-community partnerships 

  Tibbs, Gloria; Jackson-Brown, Grace (American Library Association, 2013-07)

• Top ten technologies for academic libraries 

  Boden, Eliot; Lomax, Elisabeth; Martin, Kelley; Robb, Aaron (2012)

  This report details ten technologies of use in academic libraries.

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