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Democratic librarianship: the role of the medical library in promoting democracy and social justice

Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2020
Evidence suggests that Erich Meyerhoff was one of the first practitioners of democratic librarianship throughout his long and productive life. This essay defines democratic librarianship in the context of democratic ideals and social justice and posits ...
Elaine Russo Martin
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Built to last! Embedding open science principles and practice into European universities

Insights: The UKSG Journal, 2020
The purpose of this article is to examine the cultural change needed by universities, as identified by LERU in its report 'Open Science and its role in universities: a roadmap for cultural change'.1 It begins by illustrating the nature of that cultural ...
Tiberius Ignat, Paul Ayris
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‘A Work from an Unknown Member of the Proletariat’: Digitising and Re-examining Vere Gordon Childe’s ‘Dawn of European Civilization’.

Archaeology International, 2017
This article presents a detailed examination of Gordon Childe’s 'The Dawn of European Civilization', one of the best known books in European Archaeology.
Katie Louise Meheux
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High-performance computing service for bioinformatics and data science

Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2018
Despite having an ideal setup in their labs for wet work, researchers often lack the computational infrastructure to analyze the magnitude of data that result from “-omics” experiments.
Jean-Paul Courneya, Alexa Mayo
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Towards a conceptual framework for communicating library training to students in South African university libraries: A literature review

Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023
Developing conceptual frameworks to improve library training among librarians in South African university libraries is not common. The purpose of this article was to assess, synthesise and critique available literature to determine the extent to which ...
Mahlaga J. Molepo, Sihle Blose
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Connect the dots : newsletter of the South Carolina State Library Talking Book Services

, 2023
Connect the Dots is a newsletter by the South Carolina State Library Talking Book Services for patrons unable to read traditional print materials as a result of temporary or permanent visual or physical limitations. The newsletter features news about the
South Carolina State Library. Talking Book Services
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Social justice and the medical librarian

Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2019
This lecture discusses social justice and the role that medical librarians can play in a democratic society. Social justice needs to be central to the mission of medical librarianship and a core value of the profession.
Elaine Russo Martin
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The Library Services Branch and Its Services to Libraries

College & Research Libraries, 1965
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Methods and Practices for Institutional Benchmarking based on Research Impact and Competitiveness: A Case Study of ShanghaiTech University

Journal of Data and Information Science, 2019
To develop and test a mission-oriented and multi-dimensional benchmarking method for a small scale university aiming for internationally first-class basic research.
Chang Jiang, Liu Jianhua
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Defining a self-evaluation digital literacy framework for secondary educators: the DigiLit Leicester project [PDF]

Research in Learning Technology, 2014
Despite the growing interest in digital literacy within educational policy, guidance for secondary educators in terms of how digital literacy translates into the classroom is lacking. As a result, many teachers feel ill-prepared to support their learners
Richard Hall, Lucy Atkins, Josie Fraser
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