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Montana State University Library (MSU Library) is the academic library of Montana State University, Montana's land-grant university, in Bozeman, Montana, United States. It is the flagship library for all of Montana State University System's campuses. In 1978, the library was named the Roland R. Renne Library to honor the sixth president of the university. The library supports the research and information needs of Montana's students, faculty, and the Montana Extension Service.
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Finding Aid Aggregation: Toward a Robust Future
(Society of American Archivists, 2022-12)Over the last twenty-five years, cultural heritage professionals have formed aggregations—of finding aids, digital object metadata, or related forms of description—in order to overcome barriers to creating and presenting ... -
Job Stories: A Creative Tool for Library Service Design and Assessment
(2022-03)A job story tells the tale of a user, a task to be completed, and the service used to accomplish that task. The job story can be a helpful design tool for understanding users and improving a service. This method draws from ... -
Bridging the Digital Divide: Wi-Fi Hot Spots as a Means of Digital Equity
(2022-01)Many areas of the United States still fall short of digital equity and inclusion, defined as the ability of individuals to access and use information and communication technologies to participate fully in society, democracy, ... -
“Broad” Impact: Perceptions of Sex/Gender-Related Psychology Journals
(Frontiers Media SA, 2022-03-03)Because men are overrepresented within positions of power, men are perceived as the default in academia (androcentrism). Androcentric bias emerges whereby research by men and/or dominated by men is perceived as higher ... -
Strategies for collaboratively maintaining A- Z lists
(2021-10)This article discusses a project to integrate the management expertise of an Electronic Resources Librarian with the experiences of users, including students and Research & Instruction Librarians, to create a more user-centered ... -
Toward A Contemplative Technopedagogy Framework: A Discourse Analysis
(2020-09)Digital technology features prominently in the higher education ecosystem, affecting the ways in which educators think, communicate, and teach. This research applies discourse analysis to articles published within The ... -
Radical Collaboration: Making the Computational Turn in Special Collections and Archives
(2019-11)As more archival collections are digitized or born-digital, the work of archivists increasingly overlaps with the work of librarians who are responsible for research data and digital scholarship. This editorial uses Nancy ... -
The Role of an Electronic Resources Librarian in Procuring Accessible Online Resources
(2020-06)Per the 2019 NASIG Core Competencies for electronic resources librarians (ERL), ERLs “work with concepts and methods that are very much in flux … [they are] knowledgeable about the legal framework within which libraries ... -
Out-of-the-Box Library Marketing: Examining Third-Party Materials that Promote Electronic Resources
(2020)With so many online resources at our fingertips, balancing the brand identity of libraries and third-party resource providers has long been a concern. Existing research addresses the impact of promotional materials branded ... -
Spectral Tales: Lessons Learned from Being Ghosted by Faculty
(2020-11)Imagine building a great online module or LibGuide only to have the collaborating faculty vanish after it is finished. Or designing an awesome student or faculty workshop as part of a campus-wide series only to have an ... -
An analysis of use and performance data aggregated from 35 institutional repositories
(2020-11)Purpose This study demonstrates that aggregated data from the Repository Analytics and Metrics Portal (RAMP) have significant potential to analyze visibility and use of institutional repositories (IR) as well as potential ... -
Improving Onboarding with Employee Experience Journey Mapping: A Fresh Take on a Traditional UX Technique
(2018-09)We present a creative method for applying the UX technique of journey mapping to improve the onboarding experience of new employees in any organization. Journey mapping is a well-known design research tool used to gain ... -
Beyond Therapy Dogs: Rethinking Animal Policies to Protect and Promote Student Wellness for All Library Users
(2020)This chapter presents options for rethinking and communicating animal policies to protect and promote wellness for all library patrons and suggests considering a responsive approach to educating users about library policies ... -
Applying Attributes of Contemplative Technopedagogy to a Social Media Assignment
(2019-06)With widespread prevalence of digital technology in contemporary higher education, researchers have been keen to identify best practices and understand impacts. Social media present opportunities to cultivate interactive, ... -
Quantifying Scientific Jargon
(SAGE Publications, 2020-07)When scientists disseminate their work to the general public, excessive use of jargon should be avoided because if too much technical language is used, the message is not effectively conveyed. However, determining which ... -
Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Framework for Strategic Planning and Organizational Change
(2020)Strategic planning processes offer an opportunity to connect foundational practices with a vision for future change. In this chapter, Kotter’s eight stages of change are mapped to the Montana State University Library’s ... -
No Such Thing as a Free Lunch: Google Analytics and User Privacy
(2016)Patron privacy is sometimes the price we pay for free services. This trade-off is part of Google Analytics, the free web tracking tool. This session shares research into analytics implementations of DLF institutions, ... -
Narrative Budgets: Telling the Story of Your Library’s Value and Values
(American Library Association, 2019-09)A library’s budget should be a reflection of its values and goals, but budget formats do not always lend themselves to telling the library’s story. Your budget message needs to be aligned with your library’s broader ... -
Communicating Library Values, Mission, Vision, and Strategic Plans through Social Media
(American Library Association, 2019-06)Social media communication needs to be aligned with your library’s broader communication plan so that user experience is consistent with messaging from other library venues. Ideally, social media along with all library ... -
Data-Driven Improvement to Institutional Repository Discoverability and Use
(Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2018-09)The Montana State University (MSU) Library, in partnership with the MSU School of Computing, the University of New Mexico Library and DuraSpace, seeks a $49,998 Planning Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library ...
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