Bradford Lee Eden

Bio: Bradford Lee Eden is an academic researcher from Valparaiso University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Computer science & Information visualization. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 38 publications receiving 157 citations. Previous affiliations of Bradford Lee Eden include University of California, Santa Barbara.

Leadership in academic libraries today : connecting theory to practice

Abstract: Table of Contents Introduction Part One: Combining Theory and Practice Chapter 1 - Motivating Millennials: The Next Generation of Leaders Julie Artman Chapter 2 - Positive Leadership in Libraries: The Rise of the Credible Optimist Susan E. Parker Chapter 3 - Leadership Capabilities in the Midst of Transition at the Harvard Library Deborah S. Garson and Debra Wallace Part Two: Influencing Success: Women and Minorities in Leadership Roles Chapter 4 - Mentoring Diverse Leaders in Academic Libraries Starr Hoffman Chapter 5 - Academic Library Leadership, Second-Wave Feminism and Twenty-First Century Humanism: Reflections on a Changing Profession Marta Deyrup Part Three - Applying current ideas in the business world to academic library settings Chapter 6 - Leadership and Value Co-Creation in Academic Libraries Michael Germano Chapter 7 - Good to Great for Academic Libraries Dominique Roberts Chapter 8 - Organizational Culture and Leadership: The Irresistible Force Versus the Immovable Object Jason Martin Part Four - Case Studies of Successful Leadership Chapter 9 - The Entrepreneurial Leadership Turn in Higher Education: Agency and Institutional Logic in an Academic Library Kristen E. Willmott, PhD and Andrew F. Wall, PhD Chapter 10 - Marriage between Participatory Leadership and Action Research to Advocate Benefits Equality for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People: An Extended Human Rights Role for Library and Information Science Bharat Mehra and Donna Braquet Contributor Biographies

Enhancing Teaching and Learning in the 21st-Century Academic Library: Successful Innovations That Make a Difference

Abstract: Introduction Chapter 1 Open access for student success Teri Oaks Gallaway and James B. Hobbs Chapter 2 The library-bookstore revisited James Lund Chapter 3 Librarians and MOOCs Loren Turner and Jennifer Wondracek Chapter 4 Trends in medical library instruction and training: a survey study Antonio DeRosa and Marisol Hernandez Chapter 5 Using digital badges to enhance research instruction in academic libraries Susan David deMaine, Catherine A. Lemmer, Benjamin J. Keele, and Hannah Alcasid Chapter 6 The librarian and the media producer: creating an audio-archive based on a unique collection Helen Fallon and Anne O'Brien Chapter 7 York College Library's school media specialist: a new library model for easing the transition from high school to college Christina Miller and John Drobnicki Chapter 8 Unleashing the power of the IPad Michelle Currier and Mike Magilligan Chapter 9 Training library staff with badges and gamification Cyndi Harbeson and Scott Rice Chapter 10 Gamification and librarianship: a new DART-Europe ready to roll Diana Parlic, Adam Sofronijevic, and Mladen Cudanov Chapter 11 Creating connective library spaces: a librarian-student collaboration model Alexander Watkins and Rebecca Kuglitsch Chapter 12 Merging Web 2.0 and social media into information literacy instruction Rachel Wexelbaum and Plamen Miltenoff Chapter 13 Library instruction in the age of constructivism: engaging students with active learning technologies Anthony Holderied and Michael C. Alewine

Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication: Policy and Infrastructure: Edited by Kevin L. Smith and Katherine A. Dickson (Eds.), Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, 307 pp., $66.00, ISBN: 978-1-4422-7302-3.

Abstract: This book provides a balance of both theoretical and practical knowledge on the issues surrounding open access and scholarly communication. This volume (the ninth in the series Creating the 21st Ce...

Technical services : a vision for the future

Abstract: The Internet has opened the door for technical services librarians and their information organization skills. Results of the Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA) Metadata Task Force from 1995-2000 will provide some insights on how the cataloging community envisions the future of search engines and intelligent information exchange, as well as this community's approach to the continued growth and development of metadata standards both within and outside librarianship. Some comments on metadata and the Cooperative Online Resource Catalog (CORC) will also be provided, along with a vision of where cataloging and technical services professionals and staff need to be in order to position themselves for survival in the library of the future. Ideas expressed at the ALCTS Preconference or Metadata at ALA Annual 2000 will also be given.

A Complete Bibliography of Publications in Isis, 2000{2009

Abstract: accademiche [38]. Ada [45]. Adrian [45]. African [56]. Age [39, 49, 61]. Al [23]. Al-Rawi [23]. Aldous [68]. Alex [15]. Allure [46]. America [60, 66]. American [49, 69, 61, 52]. ancienne [25]. Andreas [28]. Angela [42]. Animals [16]. Ann [26]. Anna [19, 47]. Annotated [46]. Annotations [28]. Anti [37]. Anti-Copernican [37]. Antibiotic [64]. Anxiety [51]. Apocalyptic [61]. Archaeology [26]. Ark [36]. Artisan [32]. Asylum [48]. Atri [54]. Audra [65]. Australia [41]. Authorship [15]. Axelle [29].

From Hesiod to Saussure, from Hippocrates to Jevons: An Introduction to the History of Scientific Thought between Iran and the Atlantic

Abstract: claims with real quantified laws). In order to solve this problem, one has to introduce a notion of the “price of production”, for which it holds true that producers will continue to supply the market with such goods that can be produced in unlimited quantity as long as the price they anticipate exceeds their price of production. Such a notion was introduced by Alfred Marshall in 1890 in his Principles of Economics [Marshall 1949]. As it turns out, Marshall’s determination of this price is mathematically equivalent to what Marx had developed on the foundation of the labour value theory in volume III of Das Kapital (published only in 1894 by Engels) when confronting the problem of real market prices (more precisely, the equilibrium prices toward around which real prices fluctuate – Marx’s thinking was dynamic, that of Marshall static). Ideology and political whitewashing were thus no longer the only determinants of the content and results of theory. Marshall’s general aim was still to prove that the prevailing economic system was optimal. He did so by combining arguments from mathematical curves with verbal exposition (shifting to the latter when the outcome of his mathematics threatened to make conflicts with his intended conclusion too glaring. But even Marshall was not the end point of the marginalist development. In 1933, Marshall’s most brilliant student Joan Robinson showed in her Economics of Imperfect competition (second edition [J. Robinson 1969]) that his methods and arguments when taken seriously lead to a conclusion that diverges strongly from what Marshall had believed. As she shows, an economy where each sector is dominated by a small number of agents (since decades the actual situation in the capitalist economy) will 1662 In one such case, Marshall [1949: 380 n.1] claims that “abstract reasonings [...] are apt to be misleading, not only in detail, but even in their general effect [...]. Some [...] follow their mathematics boldly, but apparently without noticing that their premises lead inevitably to the conclusion that, whatever firm first gets a good start will obtain a monopoly of the whole business of its trade in its district”. What made Marshall reject this conclusion was not that it was contradicted by empirical evidence; monopolization was indeed the unmistakeable trend since decades when Marshall wrote. The problem was that this “inevitable” conclusion following from “bold” use of Marshall’s mathematics not only contradicted his ideal picture but also eliminated the basis for many of his arguments. A brief postlude 1243 never operate optimally on global terms if each agent optimizes his behaviour according to his private interests. Beyond providing monopolists with conceptual tools that allow them to determine better than by instinct alone what their private interests ask for, Joan Robinson’s theory thus showed that the “invisible hand” is less beneficial than proclaimed by Jevons and Marshall. Though no full theory of the economic crisis that had broken out, Joan Robinson provided part of the explanation. The optimistic aspect of the moral is thus that even a mediocre contribution which gains undeserved prestige may, if only further work is done seriously and critically – that is, in agreement with the general norms for decent scientific work – become fruitful in the longer run. Done seriously and critically, scientific practice may then provide both functioning technical knowledge and such insights as can serve enlightenment purposes. (The pessimistic aspect is of course that may does not entail must.) One may like or dislike the uses to which the technical knowledge is put, but we must recognize that the production of applicable knowledge has been seen since the 17th century as one of the properties that characterizes valid science. Whoever does not welcome insights that can serve enlightenment purposes does not deserve the name of an intellectual.

Tenure and Promotion Experiences of Academic Librarians of Color.

Abstract: This study broadly examines factors impacting work-life experiences of library faculty of color within the framework of tenure policies and processes. An online survey was sent out to academic librarians of color to gauge perceptions of tenure and promotion policies and processes, professional activities and productivity, organizational climate and culture, and job satisfaction and retention. Results of the survey showed mixed findings regarding the impact of race on the tenure and promotion process. Findings can be used to inform future discussions of recruitment and retention for academic librarians of color and to improve the overall tenure experience.

Task-Based Information Interaction Evaluation: The Viewpoint of Program Theory

Abstract: Evaluation is central in research and development of information retrieval (IR). In addition to designing and implementing new retrieval mechanisms, one must also show through rigorous evaluation that they are effective. A major focus in IR is IR mechanisms’ capability of ranking relevant documents optimally for the users, given a query. Searching for information in practice involves searchers, however, and is highly interactive. When human searchers have been incorporated in evaluation studies, the results have often suggested that better ranking does not necessarily lead to better search task, or work task, performance. Therefore, it is not clear which system or interface features should be developed to improve the effectiveness of human task performance. In the present article, we focus on the evaluation of task-based information interaction (TBII). We give special emphasis to learning tasks to discuss TBII in more concrete terms. Information interaction is here understood as behavioral and cognitive activities related to task planning, searching information items, selecting between them, working with them, and synthesizing and reporting. These five generic activities contribute to task performance and outcome and can be supported by information systems. In an attempt toward task-based evaluation, we introduce program theory as the evaluation framework. Such evaluation can investigate whether a program consisting of TBII activities and tools works and how it works and, further, provides a causal description of program (in)effectiveness. Our goal in the present article is to structure TBII on the basis of the five generic activities and consider the evaluation of each activity using the program theory framework. Finally, we combine these activity-based program theories in an overall evaluation framework for TBII. Such an evaluation is complex due to the large number of factors affecting information interaction. Instead of presenting tested program theories, we illustrate how the evaluation of TBII should be accomplished using the program theory framework in the evaluation of systems and behaviors, and their interactions, comprehensively in context.

Seeking Full Citizenship: A Defense of Tenure Faculty Status for Librarians

Abstract: Tenure status for library faculty in the academic environment is coming under increasing attack from administration, faculty members in other departments, and non-academics. This is due to incorrect perceptions about what academic librarians do and how they serve their profession. This paper describes the many challenges faculty librarians face in balancing their work load with service and scholarship; justifies why academic librarians need tenure; and ultimately proves that tenure and faculty status for academic librarians are an absolute necessity.