Faculty and graduate students may see the value in learning how to use library resources and tools more effectively, but they can rarely carve out the time. Kansas State University Libraries responded by developing Library ...

Don't sing the blues about your usage data. Learn how to make it rock! We will review intermediate Excel tools for handling and consolidating data. Then we will derive meaning from consolidated data and communicate it to ...

Many agriculture professors are also avid photographers. Throughout their careers, they photograph the unique, the mundane, and the fantastic. Their photographs and slides range from beautiful roses and champion bulls to ...

This paper presents one chairperson’s experience using a formalized, structured mentoring program to foster success of newly-hired, pre-tenured faculty. A description of the specific model is offered, as well as an outline ...

This article describes the processes, challenges, and outcomes of a project undertaken by Kansas State University (K-State) Libraries and a global community of researchers. The project, initiated by librarians in the newly ...

Posits that the five laws of library science propagated by Ranganathan have mutated over the years, leading to dysfunction in our relations with users.

Opinion piece on the current market for ebooks and ebook reading devices.

Discusses the development and implementation of the field librarian concept in the United States. Field librarians are those that spend a significant portion of their work time outside the confines of a library, typically ...

This study surveyed current education majors (n=70) in two Kansas universities to gain a perspective on their understanding of Information Literacy (IL) concepts and skills and to learn whether they anticipated teaching ...