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2013 System Department Accomplishments
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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 ... -
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. -
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 ... -
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 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. ... -
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. -
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. -
Getting In Touch With EBooks
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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 ... -
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 ...
