David Evans

Who Needs an Online Information System?

David Evans — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:01:33 PST

Online Information Systems in Non-Research Academic Libraries: A Missed Opportunity?

David Evans — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:59:43 PST

Iowanet

David Evans — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:49:55 PST

Library as Partner: IR Collaborations on Campus and in the Community

David Evans — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:42:04 PST

Libraries are forming strategic partnerships on and off campus - with faculty, research institutes, community organizations, and scholarly associations. Repositories are playing a key role in facilitating these new relationships by enabling libraries to offer new and valuable services to these constituencies. This presentation describes the ways that the Sturgis Library at Kennesaw State University has used both journal and conference publishing services to foster these partnerships.

Power Use Behaviors of Library Administrators: Relationships Among Administrators' Preferred Social Power Use, Readiness to Empower and Administrators' Characteristics

David Evans — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:42:40 PDT

Statement of the problem: Little, if any, research has been conducted into the fundamental relationships between power use and empowerment in the academic administrative area. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationships among library administrators' preferred power use, their readiness to empower and administrators' characteristics.

Methods: The population for this study included library administrators employed in 145 public institutions defined by the Carnegie Commission as Masters I and Masters II. The design of this study was correlational using correlational and survey methods. The research instruments consisted of the Power Perception Profile - Profile of Self developed by Hersey and Natemeyer (1979) and the Empowerment-Readiness Survey developed by Henkel, Repp-Begin, and Vogt (1993), a demographic survey of the library administrator. The objectives of this study were to answer two questions: (1) Is there a significant relationship among library administrators' preferred power use, their readiness to empower, and administrators' characteristics? (2) Is there a significant relationship between library administrators' preferred use of the seven bases of power and the six dimensions of empowerment?

Results: The results obtained through the three instruments did not support a general relationship existing between administrators' preferred power use, empowerment, and selective administrators' characteristics.

Conclusions: Administrators preferred to use expert power. However, male administrators showed no relationship between the seven individual power bases and the six dimensions of empowerment. Female administrators did show mild relationships between their preferred base of expert power and the six dimensions of empowerment. Finally, there were no significant relationships among specific administrators' characteristics, preferred power use, and empowerment.

ePublishing and eBooks: Changing Horizons for Libraries

David Evans — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:37:39 PDT

Using an IR to Enhance the Undergraduate Experience

David Evans et al. — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:30:59 PDT

In this session, our keynote speaker, David Evans, Assistant Vice President for Library Services at Kennesaw State University, will provide a senior administrator’s viewpoint on the role of IR’s in the undergraduate experience. Laura Burtle, Associate Dean and University Librarian for Learning and Technology Initiatives at Georgia State University, will share a first-hand account of how Institutional Repositories are being used to publish and promote student journals, theses, and other undergraduate research. David Stout, Sales Director for Digital Commons, will emcee the event.