Brad Matthies

December 2011 - Digital Minute Issue 14

Brad Matthies — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 06:31:56 PST

This issue promotes the 2011 Annual Report.

Course-Integrated information literacy instruction in introduction to accounting

Anne Kelly et al. — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:44:19 PDT

Two groups of students, enrolled in Introduction to Accounting, volunteered to participate in a pedagogical study to assess course-integrated information literacy instruction. Only one group had received information literacy instruction in an earlier business course. Academic librarians provided three instruction sessions, and students completed a semester-long case to evaluate a company as a potential investment. The results suggest that information literacy skills can be learned for application in subsequent coursework. This research also provides some evidence of significantly greater improvement in information literacy and significantly higher perceptions of course-integrated instruction benefits by students who had not received the previous instruction.

Digital Minute - Issue 13

Brad Matthies — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:50:41 PDT

This issue introduces Modern Languages, Literatures & Culture and also highlights IR educational resources.

Digital Minute - Issue 11

Brad Matthies — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:20:27 PDT

This issue introduces the College of Communication and LinkedIN.

Digital Minute - Issue 12

Brad Matthies — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:12:57 PDT

This issue discusses SelectedWorks photos and unique repository content.

Digital Minute - Issue 10

Brad Matthies — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:29:28 PDT

This issue explains content selection.

The Academic Library’s Role in Fostering Digital Citizenship

Brad Matthies — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:46:03 PDT

This presentation discusses Butler University Library’s efforts to introduce various campus constituents to Digital Citizenship. The primary platform featured in this presentation is the Butler University Library Digital Commons, a product by Berkeley Electronic Press. Discussed is how the presenter used this product to get digital immigrants excited about a Web 2.0 technology. Also discussed is marketing strategies for promoting similar Web 2.0 technologies to digital immigrants in higher education, and how such endeavors can also serve to transform the academic librarian’s role in the 21st Century.

Note: This presentation contains accompanying video interviews.

Winning Strategies from IR All-Stars

Chad Bauman et al. — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:13:43 PDT

Your faculty and students have been producing scholarly work for many years. Is it locked away in print format, getting very little use? Are you thinking about creating an Institutional Repository (IR) at your college or university to digitize these valuable resources and make them more widely accessible? If so, Butler University and bepress invite you to learn from game-winning IR specialists. This event will feature successful strategies for content acquisition and growth, distributing scholarship globally, and using metrics to take stock of your progress. Dave Stout (bepress Sales Director) will kick off the event with a brief introduction to IRs at 9:25 a.m.

Digital Minute - Issue 9

Brad Matthies — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 06:11:18 PST

This issue showcases how to leverage open access to promote your presentations.

Staffing the Repository: How to build your team and use it effectively

Brad Matthies — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:46:23 PST

Brad Matthies, Head of Access Services and Project Manager for Digital Commons at Butler University, discusses the development of DigitalCommons@Butler, offering valuable suggestions for managing a repository with limited staff and resources.

Among the topics covered in the webinar: using the staff you have available to best advantage; developing successful, scalable workflows; and maintaining momentum over time.

Over the last two and a half years, and with no more than half an FTE dedicated at any one time, Brad and his team have brought Digital Commons@Butler from several hundred objects to over 2,000 objects. Just in the past year, it has grown by more than 700 objects. They have collected in both undergraduate and graduate ETDs, archived two journals, are publishing a third, have populated over 30 different series, and have built a gallery of Selected Works pages on behalf of faculty.

The road to faculty-librarian collaboration

Brad Matthies — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:14:28 PST

It is critical that citizens of a democratic society have a solid grounding in information literacy Several conceptions and definitions of information literacy have become prevalent. For example, one conception defines information literacy in terms of a set of competencies that an informed citizen of an information society ought to possess to participate intelligently and skills. The author believes that an effective way to achieve this goal is for faculty and librarians to collaborate on ways to teach these skills to students. As proof of the efficacy of faculty-librarian collaboration the author presents an example that is based on his collaborative experiences with faculty.

Digital Minute - Issue 8

Brad Matthies — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:30:19 PST

This issue highlights the value of having your work in open access publications.

Improving financial information literacy in introduction to financial accounting

Anne Kelly et al. — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 04:11:45 PST

The motivation for this study came from a desire to improve teaching of the use of accounting information for decision making. The information literacy standards and related performance indicators guided the development of a semester-long case study by accounting faculty and academic business librarians. Their collaboration yielded a series of instruction modules and related student exercises leading up to a group activity involving the evaluation of a company as a potential investment for retirement savings. Students enrolled in two sections of an introductory accounting course volunteered to participate in this study. They provided information about their knowledge before and after all of the activities using a repeated measures research design involving pre-test and post-test questionnaires. The results of the study suggest significant improvements in financial information literacy upon completion of the case study.

Faculty participation through SelectedWorks: engagement at Butler University and Boise State

Berkeley Electronic Press et al. — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 06:02:20 PST

Michelle Armstrong and Brad Matthies discuss how they have created SelectedWorks uptake at their institutions, with ample time for questions and discussion.

Learn about workflows and practical strategies for building SW sites and collecting content, marketing to specific departments, and providing a meaningful and valuable service to faculty.

This is the second in a series of webinars designed to help Digital Commons users benefit from the knowledge and best practices of the Digital Commons community.

Using i-Google to Help Digital Immigrants Manage Business Information

Brad Matthies — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:17:33 PDT

The article focuses on the different uses of i-Google. Cited is a case wherein i-Google was used in assisting digital immigrants on handling business information. The i-Google features a simple interface which could be arranged by customizable tabs and each tabbed page receives Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. It is noted that i-Google can function in any information source that is RSS-capable, such as scholarly journals and business magazines, and is accessible anywhere particularly for customers.

Note: Link is to the article in a subscription database available to users affiliated with Butler University. Appropriate login information will be required for access. Users not affiliated with Butler University should contact their local librarian for assistance in locating a copy of this article.

Review of HumanTrafficking.org

Brad Matthies — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:01:02 PDT

Creating an Institutional Repository "on the Cheap"

Brad Matthies et al. — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:18:14 PDT

Digital Commons is a product from bepress™ for creating an open access institutional repository. Butler University Libraries have used Digital Commons to create a repository for Butler theses and faculty research, Selected Works pages to highlight the publications of Butler faculty and staff, and open electronic journal access for a discontinued journal and a continuing print-based journal, both published by Butler. This presentation demonstrate the utility of the Digital Commons product for the development of an open access repository for Butler University and shares the methods we have employed to maximize the use of the resources available to us to implement it.

Using the CRITIC acronym to teach information evaluation

Brad S. Matthies et al. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:35:31 PDT

Currently, college students are being presented with a wide array of information. This wealth of information may come from such sources as article databases, books, serials, or the often unregulated Internet. Thus, teaching college students how to evaluate information has become a crucial role for the modern instruction librarian. Unfortunately, most of these efforts seem to focus on Web evaluation with little being done to address print sources.

The Psychologist, the Philosopher, and the Librarian The Information Literacy Version of CRITIC

Brad S. Matthies — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:34:14 PDT

The information-literacy version of CRITIC expands upon Wayne R. Bartz's development of that acronym. This step-by-step method for introductory critical thinking is reinforced by an exercise inspired by Bertrand Russell.

Review of Human Security Gateway

Brad Matthies — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:15:45 PDT