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UMKC University Libraries are an essential partner in intellectual discovery, knowledge creation, and empowerment while serving as the hub of learning activities for students, researchers, and UMKC's urban neighbors.
Miller Nichols Library, located on the Volker campus, is UMKC’s largest library and houses the general collection, Music/Media Library, LaBudde Special Collections, and Marr Sound Archives. On the Health Sciences campus, the Dental Library and Health Sciences Library serve students and researchers in those disciplines. Along with its partners, the UMKC School of Law’s Leon E. Bloch Law Library and the Linda Hall Library, University Libraries is the comprehensive public research library for Kansas City and the very heart of UMKC.
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Using R to develop a corpus of full-text journal articles
(Journal of Information Science, 2023)Over the past two decades, databases and the tools to access them in a simple manner have become increasingly available, allowing historical and modern-day topics to be merged and studied. Throughout the recent COVID-19 ... -
Cracking the code: Building an assessment plan with student discussion boards
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2021)Library instruction sessions offer students a chance to learn a variety of information literacy skills and often give them a chance to apply these abilities with a librarian close by for assistance. But how can the ... -
Collective responsibility: seeking equity for contingent labor in libraries, archives, and museums
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Where is that [dang] file? Why we should care that UM maintains our digital future
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)Historically, libraries and archives have been situated at the center of knowledge preservation and creation, serving a distinct role to preserve and provide access to the historical record for research and study. Given ... -
Using 360-Degree Cameras for Self-Assessment in Skills-Based Courses
(2017)The proliferation of digital photography, which can capture and process high-resolution images with low-cost consumer cameras, brought panoramic imaging technology to the mass very quickly. Today’s 360-degree cameras are ... -
Developing In-House Digital Tools: Case Studies From the UMKC School of Law Library
(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 ... -
They Can't Kill Us All
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The Distance Between Us
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Where Do They Look?: Music Information Seeking Behavior in the Digital Age
(2017)Presentation given at the Music Library Association annual conference, February 24, 2017, Orlando, Florida. Discovering new musical works is an important activity for musicians. The increasing proliferation of online tools ... -
More Than a Melody: Providing Graphical Subject Access to Sheet Music
(2017)Presentation given at the Music Library Association annual conference, February 22-6, 2017, Orlando, Florida. -
Avanzando: The Impact of Mentoring
(2016-10-07)Presentation given at the Missouri Library Association annual conference, October 5-7, 2016, Springfield, Missouri. -
Helping patrons navigate GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
(2016-10-05)Presentation given at the Missouri Library Association annual conference, October 5-7, 2016, Springfield, Missouri. -
Altmetrics: A look at a moving target...
(2016-07-13)Presented at Health Sciences Library Network of Kansas City (HSLNKC) meeting on July 13, 2016. -
The Next Chapter for Academic Libraries
(2016-03-06)Presentation given at the All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church Forum in Kansas City on March 6, 2016. Audio is available on the KKFI.ORG website (http://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/the-next-chapter-for-academic-libr ... -
Music Discovery Requirements: A Guide to Optimizing Resources
(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
(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
(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
(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 ...