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Lending Longterm Technology: An Unexpected Journey
(2023)In the fall of 2020, the TWU Libraries were awarded a Texas State Libraries and Archives Commission (TSLAC) and Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant to purchase laptops and hotspots for students in need ... -
Suffrage in Texas expanded: A history uncovered project
(Texas Library Association, 2022)Suffrage in Texas Expanded (SITE) is a digital humanities project that was initiated by members of the Digital Scholarship Work Group at Texas Woman’s University. Inspired by the 100th anniversary of the ratification of ... -
Desk Stretches with Digital Strategies
(2022-09-16)The 2022-2023 TWU Libraries book-in-common is Dr. Zoe Shaw's A Year of Self-Care: Daily Practices and Inspiration for Caring for Yourself. Librarian and chair yoga teacher, Susan Whitmer, is inspired by the book and offers ... -
Hitchhiker's Guide to Digital Preservation
(2022)Digital preservation is important, but how to get started? This poster will provide a roadmap for how the Texas Woman’s University Libraries built, and continues to build, a cross-departmental digital preservation program ... -
Review of On Trans-humanism
(Science Open, 2022)A review of Sorgner's "On Trans-humanism." What to do with transhumanism? And – before we figure out how to categorize it, think about it and make actionable policy decisions with it – how should we define transhumanism? ... -
Foundations of Effective Digital Collaboration Skills
(2022-07-28)Collaborating with colleagues online can be just as easy, fun, and productive as in-person, and you can learn to improve your digital collaboration skills through this hands-on virtual workshop. Together, we will shore up ... -
Data 101
(2022)Data can be found everywhere and in everything! In this workshop, learn about the role of data and how to make use of it. Our presenter will teach basic steps for getting started and ways of being accurate and inclusive ... -
Storytelling with Data: A Hands-on Workshop for Beginners
(2022-04-12)Your research data tells a story! Interactive data visualization is about communicating your insights and research effectively, giving your data a voice. Please join the TWU Libraries and Rafia Mirza, MSI (Southern Methodist ... -
Get the GISt: GIS Basics for Academic Researchers
(2022-03-08)Want to boost your research and take it to the next level? Join the TWU Libraries and Dr. Nathaniel Dede-Bamfo of Texas State University for a virtual hands-on workshop on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) fundamentals. -
Google Books: Shamed by snobs, a resource for the rest of us
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015)On my first day at the university library reference desk, four students requested The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities by Lawrence C. Ross Jr. The Divine Nine is suggested reading ... -
An Interview with Slaven Zivkovic on the 10th Anniversary of LibGuides
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-10)Slaven Zivkovic, an entrepreneur with a history of library innovations, headed the team that created LibGuides in 2007. LibGuides are websites that librarians and library staff design to help library users locate sources ... -
Five years of first years: Success, challenges, and some solutions for teaching information literacy
(Texas Library Association, 2020)This article is based on five years of data collected from information literacy sessions given to English 1023 Composition II classes. The one-hour information literacy sessions were taught by the author, Susan Whitmer. ... -
Action items for new librarians
(Texas Library Association, 2015)A librarian’s first year of professional work is full of expectations – both from the new librarian and the employer. Job responsibilities can range from serving as the LibGuides administrator to library instructor ... -
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) Open Education Resource (OER) Development and Implementation Grants
(2020)Interested in applying for a grant to offer no-cost textbook options in your classroom or department but not sure where to begin? -
Transhumanism (dot) mil: A bibliometric analysis of technoprogressive terms in military publications
(University Libraries of the University of Nebraska--Lincoln, 2019-09)Has transhumanism influenced military thinking? Previous work found that transhumanist terms did not appear widely in military publications. The present work analyzes and improves on previous content analysis of transhumanist ... -
Developing and implementing a departmental award for textbook savings at Texas Woman’s University
(SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), 2019-05-13)As a smaller, public, higher education institution with extremely limited resources, the drivers for OER adoption on the TWU campus are threefold-- grass-root initiatives, strategic campus partnerships, and a large helping ... -
Breaking free of curricular confines: Seeking new opportunities to teach critical media literacy in the era of “fake news”
(2018)The recent rise in “fake news” has brought renewed attention to developing students’ critical thinking and media literacy skills. Librarians, as both experts in the pedagogy of information literacy and as curricular outsiders ... -
The path to government funding
(Information Today, 2015-07)The U.S. Department of Education and IES (Institute of Education Sciences) awarded their 2015 Small Business Innovation Research grants to 21 educational startups this spring (ies.ed.gov/ sbir/2015awards.asp). ... -
Librarians need global credentials
(Library Journal, 2016-04)Until there is a body to take responsibility for reviewing LIS programs globally and granting the strong ones accreditation, a large number of librarians will be banned de facto from participating in our increasingly ... -
The Islamic State group attempts to survive in the information age
(Information Today, 2016-02)Leaked documents showing the Islamic State group’s (aka ISIL) plan for building a nation were recently published in The Guardian. Examples of the brutal enforcement of its own interpretation of Sharia law are all too ...
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