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  • digital versus non digital reference ask a librarian online and offline
    2004
    Co-Authors: Jessamyn West
    Abstract:

    * Preface (Jessamyn West) * SECTION ONE: THE OLD versus THE NEW * Have(n't) We Been Here Before? Lessons from Telephone Reference (M. Kathleen Kern) * E-Mail Reference as Substitute for Library Receptionist (Susan M. Braxton and Maureen Brunsdale) * The Internet Public Library as a Teaching Tool for Shockingly Traditional Reference Skills (Abigail Leah Plumb) * "Contact Us": Archivists and Remote Users in the Digital Age (Katharine A. Salzmann) * Characteristics of E-Mail Reference Services in Selected Public Libraries, Victoria, Australia (Doreen Sullivan) * SECTION TWO: HOW WE DO IT HERE * Predicting the Success of Commercial AskA Services in the United States and Abroad (Jenny Baum and Kate Lyons) * Wired New Jersey: Q and A NJ (Carol Van Houten) * Library LAWLINE: Collaborative Virtual Reference in a Special Library Consortium (Scott Matheson) * Planning for Multilingual Chat Reference in a Suburban Public Library System (Edana McCaffery Cichanowicz and Nan Chen) * SECTION THREE: A FEW THINGS TO THINK ABOUT * The Social Life of Digital Reference: What the Technology Affords (Mita Sen-Roy) * The Case for Non-Intrusive Research: A Virtual Reference Librarian's Perspective (Bruce Jensen) * Index * Reference Notes Included

  • digital versus non digital reference ask a librarian online and offline
    2004
    Co-Authors: Jessamyn West
    Abstract:

    * Preface (Jessamyn West) * SECTION ONE: THE OLD versus THE NEW * Have(n't) We Been Here Before? Lessons from Telephone Reference (M. Kathleen Kern) * E-Mail Reference as Substitute for Library Receptionist (Susan M. Braxton and Maureen Brunsdale) * The Internet Public Library as a Teaching Tool for Shockingly Traditional Reference Skills (Abigail Leah Plumb) * "Contact Us": Archivists and Remote Users in the Digital Age (Katharine A. Salzmann) * Characteristics of E-Mail Reference Services in Selected Public Libraries, Victoria, Australia (Doreen Sullivan) * SECTION TWO: HOW WE DO IT HERE * Predicting the Success of Commercial AskA Services in the United States and Abroad (Jenny Baum and Kate Lyons) * Wired New Jersey: Q and A NJ (Carol Van Houten) * Library LAWLINE: Collaborative Virtual Reference in a Special Library Consortium (Scott Matheson) * Planning for Multilingual Chat Reference in a Suburban Public Library System (Edana McCaffery Cichanowicz and Nan Chen) * SECTION THREE: A FEW THINGS TO THINK ABOUT * The Social Life of Digital Reference: What the Technology Affords (Mita Sen-Roy) * The Case for Non-Intrusive Research: A Virtual Reference Librarian's Perspective (Bruce Jensen) * Index * Reference Notes Included

Labuda Katharine - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Miami-Dade Public Library System Digital Collections
    FIU Digital Commons, 2020
    Co-Authors: Labuda Katharine, Mirabal Margarita
    Abstract:

    The Miami-Dade Public Library System Digital Collections provides enhanced online access to our Special Collections to improve service in the 21st Century and meet the community’s informational, educational, and recreational needs. Our mission it to create an innovative, user-centered, online community anchor that provides opportunities for lifelong education, exploration, and discovery for all. Our Digital Collections come from “The Helen Muir Florida Collection,” “Permanent Art Collection,” and “The Vasari Collection.” The associated information for each record was obtained from sources which, to the best of our knowledge, are authentic and reliable; however, the Miami-Dade Public Library System makes no representations or warranties, either expressed or implied, concerning the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of the information provided. Address: 101 West Flagler Street, Miami, 33130 Phone: 305-921-295

  • Miami-Dade Public Library System Special Collections & Archives
    FIU Digital Commons, 2020
    Co-Authors: Labuda Katharine, Garcia Stephanie, Alonso Giselle
    Abstract:

    Miami-Dade Public Library System’s division of Special Collections & Archives holds rare, irreplaceable, historic books and documents for the benefit of the Public and scholarly community. It is the primary goal for the collection to provide the Public with the contents of the vault, at their request. We oversee the Helen Muir Florida Collection, 16mm Film Collection, Cuban Collection of Rare books & Ephemera, Genealogy Collections, the Vasari Project archive, and the Rare & Antiquarian Collection. Its collections include original manuscripts, over 18,000 photographs, prints, artifacts, audio visual resources, and electronic media. Appointments can be made by emailing specialcollections@mdpls.org or visiting the Main Library during hours of operation, Monday through Saturday, 9:30 AM to 6 PM. Address: 101 W Flagler St, Miami, FL 33130 Telephone: 305-375-2665

Donna Celano - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the knowledge gap implications of leveling the playing field for low income and middle income children
    Reading Research Quarterly, 2006
    Co-Authors: Susan B Neuman, Donna Celano
    Abstract:

    This study examines children's uses of reading resources in neighborhood Public libraries that have been transformed to “level the playing field.” Through foundation funding (US$20 million), the Public Library System of Philadelphia converted neighborhood branch libraries into a technologized modern urban Library System, hoping to improve the lives of disadvantaged children and their families by closing the achievement gap. Using a mosaic of ethnographic methodologies, four studies examined children's uses of Library resources in low-income and middle-income neighborhood libraries, prior to renovations and technology, right after, and once the novelty had worn off a year later, for preschoolers, elementary, and teens. Results indicated that despite heavy Library use across low-income and middle-income children, quality differentials in the way resources were used appeared at all age levels, prior to, immediately after, and stronger still following technology renovations. Taken together, these studies suggest equal resources to economically unequal groups did not level the playing field. Instead, it appeared to widen the knowledge gap between low-income and middle-income children. Este estudio examina el uso que hacen los ninos de los recursos de lectura en bibliotecas Publicas barriales que han sido transformadas para “nivelar el campo de juego”. Por medio de un subsidio (20 millones de dolares), el sistema de bibliotecas Publicas de Filadelfia convirtio las bibliotecas barriales en un sistema de bibliotecas moderno, urbano y con tecnologia, esperando mejorar la vida de los ninos en desventaja y sus familias, asi como cerrar la brecha entre los logros de los ninos de clase media y baja. Mediante un mosaico de metodologias etnograficas, cuatro estudios examinaron el uso que hacian los ninos de los recursos de las bibliotecas en los barrios de clase baja y media en tres momentos: antes de las renovaciones y la tecnologia, inmediatamente despues y cuando habian dejado ya de ser novedad, un ano mas tarde para los ninos de nivel inicial, primario y adolescentes. Los resultados indicaron que, a pesar de registrarse un uso intenso tanto en los ninos de clase baja como en los de clase media, aparecieron diferencias cualitativas en la forma en que los recursos fueron usados en todas las edades, antes, inmediatamente despues y, mas fuertemente, luego de las renovaciones tecnologicas. En conjunto, estos estudios sugieren que iguales recursos a grupos economicamente diferentes no nivelaron el campo de juego. Al contrario, la brecha de conocimientos entre los ninos de clase baja y clase media parecio agrandarse. Diese Studie untersucht die Nutzung der Leseressourcen von Kindern in offentlichen Nachbarschaftsbuchereien, die zum „Angleichen der Spielregeln” umgewandelt wurden. Durch Spendenaufbringung (20 Millionen Dollars) veranderte Philadelphias offentliches BuchereiSystem Buchereiniederlassungen in Nachbarschaften in ein technologisch modernes stadtisches BuchereiSystem, in der Hoffnung, das Leben von benachteiligten Kindern und ihrer Familien durch Schliesen des Leistungsabstands zu verbessern. Durch Anwendung eines Mosaiks von ethnographischen Methodologien untersuchten vier Studien die Nutzung der Buchereiressourcen durch Kinder von Buchereien in Nachbarschaften mit niedrigen und mittleren Einkommen vor Renovierungen und Technologie, unmittelbar danach, und nachdem die Erneuerungsbegeisterung nachlies, ein Jahr danach fur Vorschuler, Grundschuler und Teens. Ergebnisse zeigten, das trotz starker Buchereinutzung von Kindern quer durch niedrige und mittlere Einkommen Qualitatsunterschiede entstanden in der Art wie die Ressourcen durch alle Altersgruppen, vorher, unmittelbar danach, und starker noch als Folge der Technologieerneuerung verwandt wurden. Zusammengefasst, deutet diese Studie an, das gleiche Ressourcen fur wirtschaftlich ungleiche Gruppen nicht die Spielregeln ausglichen. Stattdessen, so schien es, erweiterte sich die Wissenslucke zwischen Kindern aus niedrigen Einkommen und mittleren Einkommen. Cette etude etudie l'utilisation que font les enfants des ressources en lecture de bibliotheques publiques de proximite qui ont ete transformees afin de « niveler le terrain de jeu ». Grâce a un financement de fondation (20 millions de dollars), le Systeme de la bibliotheque publique de Philadelphie a transforme le reseau des bibiliotheques de proximite en un Systeme de bibliotheque urbaine moderne technologique, avec l'espoir d'ameliorer la vie des enfants de milieu defavorise et de leurs familles en comblant les ecarts de reussite. En utilisant toute une mosaique de methodologies ethnographiques, quatre etudes ont etudie comment les enfants ont utilise les ressources des bibliotheques dans des bibliotheques de proximite de milieu defavorise et de milieu moyen, avant les renovations et la technologie, juste apres, et une fois la nouveaute dissipee, un an plus tard, avec des enfants d'ecole maternelle, elementaire, et secondaire. Les resultats montrent qu'en depit d'une importante utilisation des bibliotheques par les enfants de milieu defavorise et de classe moyenne, il apparait des differences qualitatives a tous les âges dans la facon dont les ressources sont utilisees, avant, imediatement apres, et encore plus fortement apres les renovations technologiques. De maniere generale, ces etudes suggerent que des ressources egales fournies a des populations economiquement inegales ne nivellent pas le terrain de jeu. Mieux encore, il semble que les ecarts de connaissance entre les enfants de milieu defavorise et de classe moyenne se soient encore elargis.

Mirabal Margarita - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Miami-Dade Public Library System Digital Collections
    FIU Digital Commons, 2020
    Co-Authors: Labuda Katharine, Mirabal Margarita
    Abstract:

    The Miami-Dade Public Library System Digital Collections provides enhanced online access to our Special Collections to improve service in the 21st Century and meet the community’s informational, educational, and recreational needs. Our mission it to create an innovative, user-centered, online community anchor that provides opportunities for lifelong education, exploration, and discovery for all. Our Digital Collections come from “The Helen Muir Florida Collection,” “Permanent Art Collection,” and “The Vasari Collection.” The associated information for each record was obtained from sources which, to the best of our knowledge, are authentic and reliable; however, the Miami-Dade Public Library System makes no representations or warranties, either expressed or implied, concerning the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of the information provided. Address: 101 West Flagler Street, Miami, 33130 Phone: 305-921-295

Jennifer Velasquez - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.