Library Staff Publications

Pace Digital Commons in the Open Frontiers

Rey P. Racelis — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:38:49 PDT

...beyond showcasing faculty and student works, the repository, popularly referred to as the Digital Commons, really is a tool to preserve in digital format, the various digital artifacts that are being produced nowadays in many university campuses. Many of these digital materials are being produced with no standardized way of compiling, preserving, and indexing them. At times they are produced and remain undiscovered because they remain in a sort of digital flotsam due to lack of a proper venue where they can be highlighted, or where, in the company of similar works, they can be made to appeal to a bigger audience. In most cases, there are disparate departmental sites where a given department may have a quonset area where faculty or student publications are listed and accessible digitally but it is often buried several layers below the surface of a departmental or institutional website. These are then institutional resources that sometimes remain undiscovered, or get bypassed by researchers and yet, local and native resources as they are, they have values that go beyond what is available generally in libraries or university bookstores. In fact, as institutional resources, they are paramount sources of information from local experts who can easily be reached, communicated with and consulted personally for follow-up research. They are the intellectual, sometimes artistic, products of local faculty, resident specialists, or the university students themselves for that matter. It used to be that they were not also readily available outside of the immediate university community where some counterpart printed copies of their work may probably be languishing, undiscovered, in some shelves in the library.

Frye Leadership Institute - A Report

Medaline Philbert — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:11:26 PDT

The Frye Leadership Institute is a two-week intensive residency program available to colleagues of diverse backgrounds: faculty, librarians, IT and staff. Collaboration is the focus of the institute, and this richness of interaction among participants assist in the development of skills to transform information resources in the twenty-first century.

Content includes reports on various areas of leadership and collaborative enterprise in the areas of librarianship, education, access to and delivery of information as well as the application of technology to research, education and learning.

Using Courseware to Deliver Library Instruction Via the Web: Four Examples

Nancy K. Getty et al. — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:22:56 PST

Librarians at four academic institutions present their experiences using four courseware products (Web Course in a Box, Blackboard, eCollege.com, and WebCT) to teach information literatcy skills. Objectives, methods, content, and student populations vary from place to place. In all four cases, with some reservations, librarians deem courseware a valuable tool for delivery of library instruction. They agree on the following primary advantages: support for interactivity; support for assessment/grade management; support for distance education; relatively quick development time; relatively low technical skill requirement; and raise the following concerns; inability to integrate quiz questions into the text of lessons; and diminution of interpersonal contact.

Information is Power : The Pace University Library

Sarah Burns-Feyl et al. — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:05:00 PST

At some point in your time at Pace you may be asked to complete a research paper, a debate, a speech, or a group project which will require you to do research. The mission of the Pace University Library is to provide you with the ability to find, access, and evaluate the information resources you'll need, whether those items are books, articles, websites, statistics, or some other form of information. Our goal is not only to help you complete your course assignments, but to help you develop information-seeking skills which you will be able to use after you graduate from Pace.

The skills you develop in the library may help you select a graduate school, a health plan at your new job, or a candidate in an upcoming election. Whether you are seeking information for personal reasons or for a class assignment, you will need to know what resources are available to assist you in locating information, how to access or obtain a piece of information once you know it exists, and how to evaluate whether the information you have located is valuable to you.

Bridging the Distance : Pace University Library and Remote Users

Medaline Philbert — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:03:55 PST

This article outlines Pace University Library's commitment to address the needs of the university distance education populace.Discussion focuses on one of the programs offered by Pace University, e-MBA (executive MBA). Pace University Library offers many services to meet the research needs of its remote users. These include remote access to electronic resources, Interlibrary Loan, a toll-free number, and an online form for submission of reference queries. To improve document delivery services, the library subsidizes SUMO uncover, and also uses Digital sender to e-mail or fax documents to students. Pace University LIbrary continuously looks at new methods to effectively serve its distance education populace.

Applying the Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education : Improving Research Writing Skills in a Writing-Emphasis Health Counseling Course

Kathleen Schmaltz et al. — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:01:50 PST

It is frequently noted by college professors that students are ill prepared to conduct proper research. In order to address this problem, the authors discuss the use of a set of instructions to enable students to reach their writing potential. The Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education by Chickering and Gamson (1987) formulate a set of guidelines to improve teaching and learning. This paper will list the seven principles followed by the approach that the authors took in adhering to the principles.