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2013 System Department Accomplishments
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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 ... -
Charleston Library Conference 2015 Poster Session
(2015-11-23)Shelf-ready processing of print materials is a commonly available service from library book vendors, and many libraries outsource these services in order to help save staff time and costs, and to expedite the process. ... -
Collaborations and conversations: Establishing an open educational resources initiative at a small public university
(2019)Establishing an Open Educational Resources (OER) initiative can be challenging for any institution-- funding, staffing, and faculty buy-in may be roadblocks for the most inventive or ambitious of projects. While these ... -
Comic Books and Academia: One Library’s Participation in Free Comic Book Day
(2014-07-25)For the first time ever, Texas Woman's University libraries participated in Free Comic Book Day, a nationwide event that promotes the reading and adoption of comic books and graphic novels. Being an academic library, it ... -
Conducting research on the college level
(Texas Woman's University, 2014-05-22)Presentation done at the AISL conference. -
Derechos posthumanos: Dimensiones de los mundos transhumanos
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2015)There are at least three dimensions to rights. We may have and lack freedom to 1) be, 2) do, and 3) have. These dimensions reformulate Locke’s categories, and are further complicated by placing them within the context of ... -
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 ... -
Ebooks: Are your students getting a return on your investment
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Exploring open educational resources at TWU: Textbook affordability and accessibility
(2018)This presentation was given at TWU's 13th Annual Teaching and Learning Symposium. -
Five years of first-year composition: A librarian reflects
(2019)This presentation is a reflection of an instruction librarian’s first five years of teaching one-shot information literacy classes to First-Year Composition (FYC) courses in higher education. It is critical for the academic ... -
Free Comic Book Day
(2014-05-01)Free Comic Book Day event held at Texas Woman's University, Denton campus on May 1, 2014. -
Getting In Touch With EBooks
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Graduate Research @TWU: Exploring the dissertations and theses community in the Repository@TWU
(2018)The robust scholarly output of graduate students at Texas Woman's University (TWU) can be accessed by a global audience within TWU's institutional repository, the Repository@TWU. Theses and dissertations authored by TWU ... -
If you see a cyborg in the road, kill the Buddha: Against transcendental transhumanism
(Journal of Evolution & Technology, 2014-09)A stream in transhumanism argues that the aims of Buddhism and transhumanists are akin. It is the case that transhumanism contains religious tropes, and its parallels to Christianity are readily apparent. It does not share ... -
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 ... -
Kickstarting the Repository@TWU: Three initiatives to showcase research at Texas Woman’s University
(2019)What can you do when no one on campus knows about your new repository? Change tactics and remove the barriers to archiving content. In an effort to showcase the research and scholarly accomplishments of the Texas Woman’s ... -
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 ... -
Open educational resources in Texas academic libraries
(2019)With the average cost of an undergraduate education reaching an all-time high, academic institutions are increasingly instituting open educational resources (OER) initiatives, which are often led by the library. Many ...