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Wähler, Josefine; Hanke, Maria-Annabel – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2022
This article focuses on a library collection containing around 9,000 titles of Pädagogische Lesungen [Pedagogical Lectures] (PL), compiled and centrally awarded in the GDR from 1961 to 1989. This contribution gives an initial overview of the current state of research and a comprehensive description of the material diversity of the collection.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Educational History, Library Materials
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Quinn Galbraith; Alexandra Carlile Butterfield; Chase Cardon – College & Research Libraries, 2023
Given academia's frequent use of publication metrics and the inconsistencies in metrics across disciplines, this study examines how various disciplines are treated differently by metric systems. We seek to offer academic librarians, university rank and tenure committees, and other interested individuals guidelines for distinguishing general…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Periodicals, Academic Libraries, Librarians
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Jahnke, Lori M.; Tanaka, Kyle; Palazzolo, Christopher A. – College & Research Libraries, 2022
Beginning with a discussion of how collections diversity has been conceptualized and assessed within the literature, we then analyze four areas in which professional practices and modes of thinking create barriers to collecting materials from historically marginalized voices. Specifically, we discuss how metadata practices can obscure these…
Descriptors: Library Policy, Library Materials, Library Services, Academic Libraries
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Stapleton, Suzanne Cady; Dinsmore, Chelsea S.; Van Kleeck, David; Ma, Xiaoli – College & Research Libraries, 2021
Discovery of digital items by scholars and the public is highly dependent upon effective metadata to ensure inclusion and prioritization in search engines. Subject descriptions based on controlled vocabulary, such as Library of Congress subject headings (LCSH), are particularly useful to enhance discovery, but they may be expensive to provide. In…
Descriptors: Indexing, Metadata, Computer Use, Electronic Publishing