eInside Recognition
Check out some of your colleagues’ recent achievements.
Professional Activities
Joe Clark, assistant professor and head of the Performing Arts Library, presented “Emerging Roles for Academic Arts Librarians” at the Association of College and Research Libraries Art Section’s Midwinter Virtual Discussion Forum in January 2014; presented “Information-Seeking Behavior of Graduate Distance Education Students” at the Midwestern Chapter of the Music Library Association in Cleveland, Ohio, in October 2013; and presented “Transforming Collections and Rethinking Acquisition Budgets” at the Joint Meeting of the Atlantic and New York State-Ontario Music Library Association Chapters in Pittsburgh, Pa., in October 2013.
Kate Harmon, Blackstone LaunchPad, and Zach Mikrut, Blackstone LaunchPad, presented "The Online Personal Business Model: A Template for Student Career Organization" at the 31st Annual Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education in Cleveland, Ohio, on Nov. 16, 2013.
Web link: http://www.entre-ed.org/_network/forum.htm.
Kenneth Cushner, Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies, invited featured speaker offering three sessions, presented "Enhancing the Intercultural Competence of Teachers and Students" at the European Council of International Schools (ECIS) Annual Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands on Nov. 21-22, 2013.
Marianne Martens, School of Library and Information Science, presented "International Children's Literature and Librarianship" at the Kent State's International Education Week in Kent, Ohio, on Nov. 22, 2013.
Publications
Kay Downey, Collection Management Librarian, was invited to contribute a guest forum column titled, “Is DDA Right For Your Library” for Informed Librarian Online in 2013, and co-authored an article titled KSUL: An Evaluation of Patron-Driven Acquisitions for Ebooks in Computers in Libraries, Vol. 34 (1)– January/February 2014. Web link: www.infotoday.com/cilmag/default.shtml
Margaret Maurer and Roman Panchyshyn, University Libraries, authored Understanding the Why: A Case Study in Managing the RDA Implementation in Cataloging and Classification Quarterly.
Web Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01639374.2013.859644
Joe Clark, assistant professor and head of the Performing Arts Library, authored “Duke/Peacock Records” and “Excello Records” in The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition, edited by Charles Hiroshi Garrett. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Marcia Lei Zeng, School of Library and Information Science, and Jin Zhang, co-authored A New Similarity Measure for Subject Hierarchical Structures, Journal of Documentation, Vol. 70, Issue 3, (2014): 1-33.