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Editorial: The Use of Library Material
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Where There’s a Will There’s a Way?: Survey of Academic Librarian Attitudes about Open Access
Kristi L. Palmer, Emily Dill, and Charlene Christie
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Undergraduate Perceptions of Information Literacy: Defining, Attaining, and Self-Assessing Skills
Melissa Gross and Don Latham
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The Federal Depository Library Program in 2023: One Perspective on the Transition to the Future
Peter Hernon and Laura Saunders
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Unless Otherwise Indicated: A Survey of Copyright Statements on Digital Library Collections
Melanie Schlosser
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An Assessment of the Completeness of Scholarly Information on the Internet
Chuanfu Chen, Qiong Tang, Xuan Huang, Zhiqiang Wu, Haiying Hua, Yuan Yu, and Song Chen
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Book Reviews

• Pearson, David. Books as History: The Importance of Books beyond Their Texts
• Sillars, Stuart. The Illustrated Shakespeare, 1709–1875
• Bayne, Pauline Shaw. A Guide to Library Research in Music
• Miller, Cynthia Pease. Managing Congressional Collections
• Convergence and Collaboration of Campus Information Services. Eds. Peter Hernon and Ronald R. Powell
• E-learning and Business Plans: National and International Case Studies. Eds. Elaina M. Norlin and Tiffini A. Travis.

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May 2009, Vol. 70, No. 3

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Leveraging Lean Six Sigma to Culture, Nurture, and Sustain Assessment and Change in the Academic Library Environment
Sarah Anne Murphy
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How Scholarly Is Google Scholar? A Comparison to Library Databases
Jared L. Howland, Thomas C. Wright, Rebecca A. Boughan, and Brian C. Roberts
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The Role of Academic Libraries in Mentored Undergraduate Research: A Model of Engagement in the Academic Community
Anthony Stamatoplos
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The Presence of IT Skill Sets in Librarian Position Announcements
Janie M. Mathews and Harold Pardue
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Serving Generation 1.5: Academic Library Use and Students for Non–English-Speaking Households
Curt Asher, Emerson Case, and Ying Zhong
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Job Satisfaction among Academic Cataloger Librarians
Joan M. Leysen and Jeanne M.K. Boydston
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• Afro-Americana 1553–1906: Author Catalog of the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
• Case Studies in Library and Information Science Ethics. Eds. Elizabeth A. Buchanan and Kathrine A. Henderson.
• Kelty, Christopher M. Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software. Reviewed by Kevin M. Ford
  College and University Archives: Readings in Theory and Practice. Eds. Christopher J. Prom and Ellen D. Swain.
• The Desk and Beyond: Next Generation Reference Services. Eds. Sarah K. Steiner and M. Leslie Madden.
• Schwedt, Rachel E., and Janice DeLong. Core Collections for Children and Young Adults.

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March 2009, Vol. 70, No. 2

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Collaboration between Marketing Students and the Library: An Experiential Learning Project to Promote Reference Services
Lynda M. Duke, Jean B. MacDonald, and Carrie S. Trimble
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“Publishers Did Not Take the Bait”: A Forgotten Precursor to the NIH Public Access Policy
Jonathan Miller
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Information Desk Referrals: Implementing an Office Statistics Database
Louise Mort Feldmann
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Preparing the Underprepared: Current Academic Library Practices in Developmental Education
Ann Roselle
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Think Locally, Act Globally: Understanding Home Institution Library Engagement among Study-Abroad Students
Laurie Kutner
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Selected Reference Works, 2007–08
Sarah Witte and Mary Cargill
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Book Reviews

• Beal, Peter. A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology, 1450–2000.
• The Portable MLIS: Insights from the Experts. Eds. Ken Haycock and Brooke E. Sheldon.
• Warner, Dorothy Anne. A Disciplinary Blueprint for the Assessment of Information Literacy.
• Behrnd-Klodt, Menzi L. Navigating Legal Issues in Archives.
• de Schryver, Antoine. The Prayer Book of Charles the Bold: A Study of a Flemish Masterpiece from the Burgundian Court.
• Kabatchnik, Amnon. Sherlock Holmes on the Stage: A Chronological Encyclopedia of Plays Featuring the Great Detective.

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Revitalizing a Mentoring Program for Academic Librarians
Diana Farmer, Marcia Stockham, and Alice Trussell
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The Impact of Electronic Journals on Use of Print in Geolgy
Steve Borrelli, Betty Galbraith, and Eileen E. Brady
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Without Merit: One Library’s Attempt to put “Merit” back in “Merit Pay”
Frada L. Mozenter and Lois Stickell
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Judging Books by Their Covers: Managing the Tensions between Paperback and Clothbound Purchases in Academic Libraries
Alan W. Aldrich
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Measuring Quality in Chat Reference Consortia: A Comparative Analysis of Responses to Users’ Queries
Deborah L. Meert and Lisa M. Given
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Book Reviews

• John V. Pavlik. Media in the Digital Age.
• Information Literacy Instruction Handbook. Eds. Christopher N. Cox and Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay
• Robert Hauptman. Documentation: A History and Critique of Attribution, Commentary, Glosses, Marginalia, Notes, Bibliographies, Works-Cited Lists, and Citation Indexing and Analysis
• Robert N. Matuozzi and Elizabeth B. Lindsay. Literary Research and the American Modernist Era: Strategies and Sources
• Reijo Savolainen. Everyday Information Practices: A Social Phenomenological Perspective
• Ann J. Topjon. Carl Larsson: An Annotated Bibliography

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Article Title: An Assessment of the Completeness of Scholarly Information on the Internet
Authors: Chuanfu Chen, Qiong Tang, Xuan Huang, Zhiqiang Wu, Haiying Hua, Yuan Yu, Song Chen
Accepted: December 1, 2008
Anticipated Publication Date: July 2009

Article Title: A Simulated Electronic Availability Study of Serial Articles through a University Library Web Page
Author: Thomas E. Nisonger
Accepted: December 2, 2008
Anticipated Publication Date: July 2009

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Editorial: To Print, or Not
Joseph Branin

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Identifying Student and Faculty Needs through LibQUAL+™: An Analysis of Qualitative Survey Comments
Sherri Jones and Jessica Kayongo
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Information Seeking through Students’ Eyes: The MIT Photo Diary Study
Tracy Gabridge, Millicent Gaskell, and Amy Stout
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The Traditional Future: A Computational Theory of Library Research
Andrew Abbott
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The Interdisciplinary Influence of Library and Information Science 1996-2004: A Journal-to-Journal Citation Analysis
Jere Odell and Ralph Gabbard
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Evidence vs. Anecdote: Using Syllabi to Plan Curriculum-Integrated Information Literacy Instruction
Amy VanScoy and Megan J. Oakleaf
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Journal Prices, Book Acquisitions, and Sustainable College Library Collections
William H. Walters
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Book Reviews

• Book Trade Connections from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries. Eds. John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong.
• What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria? Eds. Mostafa El-Abbadi and Omnia M. Fathallah
• Williamson, Joy Ann. Radicalizing the Ebony Tower: Black Colleges and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi.
• Practical Pedagogy for Library Instructors: 17 Innovative Strategies to Improve Student Learning. Eds. Douglas Cook and Ryan L. Sittler.
• Perspectives on Knowledge Management. Ed. By I. V. Malhan and lecturer Shivarama Roa K. Lanham.
• O’Brien, Donald C. Amos Doolittle: Engraver of the New Republic.

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The Role of Information Architecture in Designing a Third-Generation Library Web Site
Jennifer Duncan and Wendy Holliday
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Cognitive Growth, Instruction, and Student Success
John M. Budd
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The Effects of Portfolio Purchasing on Scientific Subject Collections
Sarah Anne Murphy
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Undergraduate Information Resource Choices
David H. Mill
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Citation Characteristics and Intellectual Acceptance of Scholarly Monographs
Rong Tang
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Continuing Assessment of Library Instruction to Undergraduates: A General Education Course Survey Research Project
Kate Zoellner, Sue Samson, and Samantha Hines
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Book Reviews

• America’s Membership Libraries. Ed. Richard Wendorf
• John M. Budd. Self-Examination: The Present and Future of Librarianship
• Alex Byrne. The Politics of Promoting Freedom of Information and Expression in International Librarianship: The IFLA/FAIFE Project
• Philip N. Cronenwett, Kevin Osborn, and Samuel Allen Streit. Celebrating Research: Rare and Special Collections from the Membership of the Association of Research Libraries
• Joseph R. Matthews. The Evaluation and Measurement of Library Services
• Staikos, K. The Mirror of the Library
  

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Every Library’s Nightmare? Digital Rights Management, Use Restrictions, and Licensed Scholarly Digital Resources
Kristin R. Eschenfelder
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Status of Approval Plans in College Libraries
Beth E. Jacoby
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What’s in a Name? Using Card Sorting to Evaluate Branding in an Academic Library’s Web Site
Peter Hepburn and Krystal M. Lewis
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Adjusting to the Workplace: Transitions Faced by New Academic Librarians
Joanne Oud
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Transition to Electronic Resources in Undergraduate Social Science Research: A Study of Honors Theses Bibliographies, 1999–2005
Leslie Kriebel and Leslie Lapham
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Book Reviews

• Herring, Mark Y. Fools Gold: Why the Internet is No Substitute for a Library.
• Woodward, Jeannette A. What Every Librarian Should Know about Electronic Privacy.
• Books on the Move: Tracking Copies Through Collections and the Book Trade. Ed. by Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote.
• Patriotic Information Systems. Ed. by Todd G. Loendorf and David Garson.
• Studying Students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester. Ed by Nancy Fried Foster and Susan Gibbons.
• The Commonwealth of Books: Essays in Honour of Ian Willison. Ed. by Wallace Kirsop.

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“We’re pleased to make these preprint articles openly available,” said ACRL Executive Director Mary Ellen Davis. “Drawing on our long-standing concerns for the health of scholarly communication, ACRL continues to experiment with our access and business models as a publisher.”

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Research Productivity Among Librarians: Factors Leading to Publications at Penn State
Joseph Fennewald
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A Mixed-Methods Investigation of the Relationship between Critical Thinking and Library Anxiety among Undergraduate Students in their Information Search Process
Nahyun Kwon
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Measuring Students’ Information Literacy Skills through Abstracting: Case Study from a Library & Information Science Perspective
Maria Pinto, Andrés Fernández-Ramos, and Anne-Vinciane Doucet
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Better than Brief Tests: Coverage Power Tests of Collection Strength
Howard D. White
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Selected Reference Works, 2007
Sarah Witte and Mary Cargill
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Book Reviews

• Burgan, Mary. What Ever Happened to the Faculty? Drift and Decision in Higher Education.
• College Libraries and the Teaching/Learning Process: Selections from the Writings of Evan Ira Farber. Ed. by David Gansz, Richard Hume Werking, Lynn Scott Cochrane, and Pyke Jr. Johnson.
• Jeanneney, Jean-Noël. Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge: A View from Europe.
• Markham, Sheila. A Book of Booksellers: Conversations with the Antiquarian Book Trade 1991–2003.
• Wiegand, Shirley A. and Wayne A. Wiegand. Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland.
• Caribbean Libraries in the 21st Century: Changes, Challenges, and Choices. Ed. by Cheryl Peltier-Davis and Shamin Renwick.

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