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The Clock Struck Murder

(2019)

Patricia Bravender

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Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans for Librarians

(2015)

Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts provides instruction librarians detailed, ready-to-use, and easily adaptable lesson ideas to help students understand and ...

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Articles (8)

Article

The Language of Information Literacy: Do Students Understand?

College & Research Libraries (2017)

Gayle Schaub, Patricia Bravender, Cara Cadena and Christopher Kierkus

In order to effectively access and utilize the resources of the academic library and to become information literate, students must ...

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Integrating Factual Investigation Skills into Legal Studies Courses

The Paralegal Educator (2016)

Patricia Bravender and Ruth Stevens

In addition to having excellent legal research skills, successful paralegals are experts at finding and interpreting factual information, such as ...

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Regarding Reference in an Academic Library: Does the Desk Make ...

Reference & User Services Quarterly (2013)

Patricia Bravender and Hazel McClure

Some academic libraries are consolidating their circulation and reference desks into single service points. The librarians at one academic library ...

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Digital Tour of the Furniture City: Grand Rapids on the ...

Michigan Archives Conference (MAC) Newsletter (2012)

Patricia Bravender

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Establishing Kinship with Family Reunion Announcements

American Ancestors (2012)

Patricia Bravender

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Self-Service Holds in Libraries: Is Patron Privacy Being Sacrificed for ...

Reference & User Services Quarterly (2012)

Ruth Stevens, Patricia Bravender and Caralee Witteveen-Lane

The increased use of self service holds, a holds system where a patron is notified that a requested book has ...

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Should Chat Reference be Staffed by Librarians? An Assessment of ...

Internet Reference Services Quarterly (2011)

Patricia Bravender, Colleen Lyon and Anthony Molaro

This study analyzes 1,557 chat reference questions received at Grand Valley State University Libraries over four semesters to determine the ...

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Weeding an Outdated Collection in an Automated Retrieval System

Collection Management (2011)

Patricia Bravender and Valeria Long

In 2008 Grand Valley State University Libraries began a large weeding project in the automated retrieval system (ARS) at its ...

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Contribution to Book

Richard Hines of Buckland

Western Massachusetts Families in 1790 (2012)

Patricia Bravender

Unpublished Paper

A Poor Boy of Said Town of Hubbardton: Robert T ...

(2015)

Patricia Bravender

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Presentation

Teaching Factual Investigation Skills in Legal Studies Courses

33rd Annual Conference of the American Association for Paralegal Education (2014)

Patricia Bravender and Ruth Stevens

This presentation demonstrated how a legal studies professor collaborated with a former paralegal who is a liaison librarian to develop ...

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Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys: The Secrets of our ...

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Aquinas College (2014)

Patricia Bravender

If the words ‘mystery’ and ‘clue’ still give you a shiver of excitement, you were probably a fan of Nancy ...

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Teaching Threshold Concepts: Practical Plans for Meaningful Instruction in Information ...

MLA Academic Libraries (2013)

Gayle Schaub, Hazel McClure and Patricia Bravender

With the unique constraints that instruction librarians face in the classroom, we often rely on point-and-click instruction sessions that do ...

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The Secrets of Girl Detectives

Michigan Library Association Annual Conference: Yes We Can! (2010)

Patricia Bravender

Did you have a secret desire to drive a blue roadster and explore haunted mansions? Did you have chums instead ...

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To Chat or Not to Chat: That is the Question

Michigan Library Association Annual Conference: Yes We Can! (2010)

Patricia Bravender, Colleen Lyon and Anthony Molaro

In the midst of an economic crisis, libraries must continue to provide essential services with fewer staff and resources. Is ...

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Weeding with Robots: Managing Collections in an Automated Retrieval System

(2012)

Patricia Bravender, Robert Kelly, Linda Masselink and Hazel McClure

Many libraries, because of space and cost constraints, are considering housing collections in automated retrieval systems (ARS). When building an ...

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Articles (8)

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