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"Using transaction log analysis to assess student search behavior in the library instruction classroom"

Article of interest:

Susan Avery, Daniel G. Tracy (2014). Using transaction log analysis to assess student search behavior in the library instruction classroom, Reference Services Review 42 (2)

Purpose - This study seeks to determine how undergraduate students search in the context of a library instruction session. The results of an assessment of transaction logs are shared in order to provide evidence of student search behavior within a class setting.

H-Net academic announcements posted to the web 2014-05-20 - 2014-05-21

Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 07:00:02 -0400
From: H-Net Announcements <announce@mail.h-net.msu.edu>
Subject: H-Net academic announcements posted to the web 2014-05-20 -
2014-05-21

EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM H-NET

Guide to Curating Scholarship from the Open Web

This Guide to Curating Scholarship from the Open Web introduces the intellectual and practical considerations for initiating and sustaining a collaboratively-edited publication that sources and distributes scholarship on the open web.

There are 5 parts:

H-Net academic announcements posted to the web 2014-05-19 - 2014-05-20

Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 07:00:02 -0400
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Subject: H-Net academic announcements posted to the web 2014-05-19 -
2014-05-20

EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM H-NET

Rory Litwin: Pressing Issues for Librarians

Barbara Fister interviews Rory Litwin, publisher of Library Juice Press, an imprint of Litwin Books.

"Rory Litwin: Pressing Issues for Librarians," Library Babel Fish, May 12, 2014, http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/rory-litwin-pressing-issues-librarians

H-Net reviews posted to the web 12 May 2014 - 19 May 2014

The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between
12 May 2014 and 19 May 2014.

Reviewed for H-Ethnic by John Burdick
    Tompkins, Kyla Wazana. _Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the
    19th Century_. New York: New York University Press, 2012.
    Illustrations. xiii + 275 pp. $74.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-7002-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37042

Archiving social media

From the UK's National Archives blog (May 8, 2014, http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/archiving-social-media/):

"Our social media archive has been released today, as a collaborative effort between The National Archives and the Internet Memory Foundation, our web archiving supplier.

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-HistBibl: 12 May - 19 May

The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 12 May
2014 to 19 May 2014. These job postings are included here based on
the categories selected by the list editors for H-HistBibl. See the
H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more
information.

Borough of Manhattan Community College - Reference and Outreach
Librarian (Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=48867

XPost: Weekend Reading: Google Glass, Jewish History, Travel Advisories

Weekend Reading: Google Glass, Jewish History, Travel Advisories

Ted Sickler

Saturday, May 17, 2014

Robert Darnton, “A World Digital Library is Coming True!”

Robert Darnton, “A World Digital Library is Coming True!” The New York Review of Books LXI, no. 9 (22 May 2014): 8-11. Read it free online at: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/may/22/world-digital-library-coming-true/?insrc=whc

There’s a lot (including comments on journals, open access, and Google Books) in this well-worth reading piece. As for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), Darnton writes:

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"Using transaction log analysis to assess student search behavior in the library instruction classroom"

H-Net academic announcements posted to the web 2014-05-20 - 2014-05-21

Guide to Curating Scholarship from the Open Web

H-Net academic announcements posted to the web 2014-05-19 - 2014-05-20

Rory Litwin: Pressing Issues for Librarians

H-Net reviews posted to the web 12 May 2014 - 19 May 2014

Archiving social media

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-HistBibl: 12 May - 19 May

XPost: Weekend Reading: Google Glass, Jewish History, Travel Advisories

Robert Darnton, “A World Digital Library is Coming True!”

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