Presentation from a workshop for the Kansas City Metropolitan Library Information Network (KCMLIN) on April 1, 2008. Workshop facilitators included Kristin Whitehair, Danielle Theiss-White, Jason Coleman, and Dale Askey.

K-State Libraries employ a user-centered approach to web design that makes our website easy to navigate, sought out by users, valid in content, and reliable in currency of information. This usability test was a study of ...

As the global economy grew in the latter half of the 20th Century, the demand for the mobility of engineers greatly increased. In the 1980’s and 1990’s, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), an ...

This paper describes two serialists who use skills honed in their respective serials departments to show how those skills adapt to the world of e-publishing. The presenters will discuss their roles in e-publishing and their ...

This talk, presented by a librarian for an audience of researchers in the humanities, consists of two distinct parts. The first half addresses the deficiencies of the MLA International Bibliography and points out alternatives ...

How to get the information you publish elsewhere to the places your users are looking by using RSS feeds and a few simple tools to customize library computer desktops.

This poster provides an overview of how and why K-State Libraries uses Libstats, a simple, open source, Web-based system for tracking reference statistics. K-State Libraries began using Libstats at one service point in ...

Science librarians are in a unique position to take a leadership role promoting scholarly communication initiatives and to aid in making scientific information more accessible. This article outlines steps and identifies ...

ERMs are the future of serials management for academic libraries, but no one is quite sure what that future will look like. Lessons learned during Verde ERM implementation from K-State Libraries at Kansas State University.

Librarians are frequently required to support collection and broader management decisions. Line staff and managers need clear and complete data that can be easily accessed and manipulated in order to understand current and ...