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M. Kathleen Kern
Researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Publications - 20
Citations - 373
M. Kathleen Kern is an academic researcher from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The author has contributed to research in topics: Service (business) & Computer-mediated communication. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 20 publications receiving 355 citations.
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2016 top trends in academic libraries A review of the trends and issues affecting academic libraries in higher education
Lisabeth Chabot,Wayne Bivens-Tatum,Heather L. Coates,M. Kathleen Kern,Michelle Leonard,Chris Palazzolo,Lorelei Tanji,Minglu Wang +7 more
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Citation management software: Features and futures
TL;DR: The role of the librarian in choosing, promoting, and teaching citation management software has been examined from both the perspective of both the patron and librarian as mentioned in this paper, and four of the most popular citation managers were examined from a user's perspective.
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2016 Top trends in academic libraries: A review of the trends and issues affecting academic libraries in higher education
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A multiple-case study investigation of the discontinuation of nine chat reference services
TL;DR: The major reason for discontinuation was funding problems, followed by low volume (including low volume by target audience); the possibility of restarting chat services, perhaps in consortia or with simpler chat software, exists for all services.
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Next Generation Catalogs: What Do They Do and Why Should We Care?
M. Kathleen Kern,Jenny Emanuel +1 more
TL;DR: Jenny Emanuel is passionate about the user search experience and conducts usability studies and talks with a range of users to better understand which changes to library interfaces are improvements and which are just change.