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Submissions from 2024

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Effective Leader Practices to Leverage School Librarians as Leaders in One-to-One Computing, Mary Moen

Submissions from 2023

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Virtual interviews vs. in person interviews: Factors Influencing Researchers to Conduct Virtual Interviews, Lauren H. Mandel

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Paradigm Shift, Expansion, and Inclusion: Visual Literacy Research for the Field of Information, Yan Ma

Submissions from 2022

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Measuring the implementation of media literacy instructional practices in schools: community stakeholder perspectives, Renee Hobbs, Mary Moen, Rongwei Tang, and Pamela Steager

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If you shrink it, will they still succeed? Comparing the effectiveness of pedagogical models for accelerated learning in an online master’s degree program, Lauren H. Mandel

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Library Adoption and Use of GIS as an Information Sharing Tool during the Covid-19 Pandemic, Lauren H. Mandel

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What’s working? A case study of an exemplary school library district program in a 1:1 device setting, Mary Moen

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Digitizing the ‘Ideal’ Latina Information Worker, Miriam Sweeney and Melissa Villa-Nicholas

Submissions from 2020

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Information Provision and the Carceral State: Race and Reference beyond the Idea of the "Underserved", Jeanie Austin and Melissa Villa-Nicholas

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A new decade of uses for geographic information systems (GIS) as a tool to research, measure and analyze library services, Lauren H. Mandel, Bradley Wade Bishop, and Ashley Marie Orehek

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Teaming up to Teach Teamwork in an LIS Master’s Degree Program, Lauren H. Mandel, Mary H. Moen, and Valerie Karno

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Continuing education for public library staff: Valued competencies and preferred delivery format, Mary Moen, Lauren H. Mandel, and Valerie Karno

Submissions from 2019

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Data Body Milieu: The Latinx Immigrant at the Center of Technological Development, Melissa Villa-Nicholas

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Latinx Digital Memory: Identity Making in Real Time, Melissa Villa-Nicholas

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Designing the ‘good citizen’ through Latina identity in USCIS’s virtual assistant ‘Emma’, Melissa Villa-Nicholas and Miriam E. Sweeney

Submissions from 2018

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Developing Research Practitioners: Exploring Pedagogical Options for Teaching Research Methods in LIS, Nicole D. Alemanne and Lauren H. Mandel

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User Wayfinding Strategies in Public Library Facilities, Lauren H. Mandel and Kelly A. LeMeur

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Teaching intersectionality: Pedagogical approaches for lasting impact, Melissa Villa-Nicholas

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Terror by Telephone: Normative Anxieties around Obscene Calls in the 1960s, Melissa Villa-Nicholas

Submissions from 2017

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Experiencing Research Firsthand: The “unClassroom” Experiential Learning Approach to Teaching Research Methods in an LIS Master’s Program, Lauren H. Mandel

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Mapping Race and Racism in U.S. Library History Literature, 1997–2015, LaTesha Velez and Melissa Villa-Nicholas

Submissions from 2016

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Understanding and describing users’ wayfinding behavior in public library facilities, Lauren H. Mandel

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Visualzing the Library as Place, Lauren H. Mandel

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Evaluating Library Signage: A Systematic Method for Conducting a Library Signage Inventory, Lauren H. Mandel and Melissa P. Johnston

Submissions from 2015

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Organization and Access to the Chinese Books/CDs/DVDs Donated by Hanban to the Confucius Institutes in the United States, Yan Ma

Submissions from 2014

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Are We Leaving Them Lost in the Woods with No Breadcrumbs to Follow? Assessing Signage Systems in School Libraries, Lauren H. Mandel and Melissa P. Johnston

Submissions from 2013

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Finding Their Way: How Public Library Users Wayfind, Lauren H. Mandel

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Costs of and Benefits Resulting from Public Library E-Government Service Provision: Findings and Future Directions from an Exploratory Study, Lauren H. Mandel, Laura I. Spears, Debra Guenther, and Charles R. McClure

Submissions from 2012

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Practical Approaches and Proposed Strategies for Measuring Selected Aspects of Community-Based Broadband Deployment and Use, Lisandra R. Carmichael, Charles R. McClure, Lauren H. Mandel, and Marcia A. Mardis

Submissions from 2011

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Public Library Assessment, Bradley Wade Bishop, Lauren H. Mandel, and Charles R. McClure

Submissions from 2010

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Geographic Information Systems: Tools for Displaying In-Library Use Data, Lauren H. Mandel

Submissions from 1982

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Learning Theory, Lecture, and Programmed Instruction Text: An Experiment in Bibliographic Instruction, Thomas T. Surprenant