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How do you Reach your Library Customers

Posted By Lorette Weldon Jan 26, 2023 07:06 AM
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As a college professor, I found out about the learning needs of my students. This required me to become also a library media specialist to understand the lessons taught to my students when they were in elementary and high school. As a library media specialist, I used Excel to help me squeeze out ...

A Literary Study on "ARE ALL CAUCASIANS WHITE"?

Posted By Lorette Weldon Aug 17, 2022 09:15 AM
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We at Weldon Researchers take time to analyze different types of thoughts, concepts, and awareness occurring in the world around us. This website is dedicated to finding out how people on our planet view the concept of race. As a serious writer and educational researcher, I had to find a way to decode ...

Bibliometrics Starts Early with our Children

Posted By Lorette Weldon Aug 27, 2020 12:19 PM
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How much research is conducted? What is its impact? How many of an author's articles are published in first-class journals? Is that number of publications increasing or decreasing? In the past, bibliometrics has been used to answer such questions and help universities, government agencies, research labs, ...

RE: Epic! Digital Library 35,000 titles

Posted By Lorette Weldon Aug 26, 2020 01:46 PM
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Yes, Epic is a great idea. The problem is that it is only available during "school hours". When you sign up for it, please look at the instructions on the invite you can send out to the parents :-) It is similar to myON (http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/jan19/Weldon--myON-Enabling-Digital-Reading-for ...

Pandemic Can't Stop Library Media Specialists from Delivering the Lessons

Posted By Lorette Weldon Aug 20, 2020 04:38 PM
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Hello, Everyone!I know one of the reasons why the school systems are having a difficult time planning out the coming school year during this pandemic. They have forgotten what the library media specialist can do. Since I was born, I was fascinated with reading. For six years, [I] helped new community ...

Who is a Librarian? Let's redefine the Pandemic Librarian

Posted By Lorette Weldon Jul 30, 2020 07:57 AM
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Through closures, we librarians must awaken to the new "norm". This norm is really taking time out to define who we are and what we can do. See my blog posting at https://librariansandlibrarymediaspecialists.blogspot.com/2018/03/other-communities-where-one-size-does.html?q=one+size ------------ ...

RE: What you get into being a librarian?

Posted By Lorette Weldon Jul 29, 2020 10:46 PM
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My answer is -- One Size does not fit all in a library. Libraries are defined by their communities (https://librariansandlibrarymediaspecialists.blogspot.com/2018/03/libraries-are-defined-by-their.html). During my investigation of one size fits all (https://librariansandlibrarymediaspecialists. ...

Sending the Message of a Lesson to Students Without Computers

Posted By Lorette Weldon Jul 26, 2020 02:21 PM
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No one wants the pandemic, but it is here. Parents and teachers want their children to be safe so some school systems have chosen to continue or begin distance (remote, virtual) learning to protect the teachers, parents, and especially the most prized treasure that we all have on Earth-our children. ...

RE: Setting up an E-Library

Posted By Lorette Weldon Jun 04, 2020 12:02 PM
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One of my principals wanted to "phase out all physical books" too. It had nothing to do with metrics to prove how books were valuable for students. The principal wanted to throw all of the books out and make the library into a testing center. The students were just too busy taking tests to read ...

Bibliometrics for the Classroom Library and the Teaching Impact

Posted By Lorette Weldon May 11, 2020 10:21 PM
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Hello, Everyone! I hope everyone is staying safe, strong, and well. Have some of you ever wondered what bibliometrics can "really" do for you, especially if you teach classes to your patrons? Due to so many school systems from Kindergarten to Postgraduate education closing down for the pandemic, ...

Now the Online Teacher is the Social Distance Keeper

Posted By Lorette Weldon Apr 24, 2020 05:41 PM
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Everyone, Please stay well, strong, and safe. See how the online teacher could become the social distance keeper at https://librariansandlibrarymediaspecialists.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-online-teacher-is-social-distance.html ------------------------------ Best, Dr. Lorette Weldon College Professor, ...

Data Librarians are Everywhere so see where I have been!

Posted By Lorette Weldon Feb 11, 2020 04:23 PM
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Hello, Everyone! Today is a celebration of my latest article in Computers in Libraries, Jan-Feb 2020. It is called "Keyboard Club: Motivating Students to Become QWERTY Literate" on pages 32-36 (http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/jan20/index.shtml). Managing data can be found in tasks that you do every ...

A Day In the Life of a Data Librarian using Bibliometrics and Research Assessment

Posted By Lorette Weldon Feb 06, 2020 03:17 PM
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Hello, Everyone! I was asked to find articles by or about Dr. Glenn Wilson's study about the negative effects of "always-on" technology on employees. In 2005, Dr. Glenn Wilson "was commissioned by Porter-Novelli, the London publicists of Hewlett-Packard, to supervise a small in-house experiment ...

Secret is Out: You May be a Data Librarian

Posted By Lorette Weldon Feb 01, 2020 06:55 PM
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"Currently, data … can be globally accessed at any point, by any user. Data librarianship has its origins in the social sciences… and information retrieval tools…" (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321313688_Data_science_in_data_librarianship_Core_competencies_of_a_data_librarian). Unknowingly ...

An Epiphany of a Data Librarian

Posted By Lorette Weldon Jan 28, 2020 06:39 PM
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Hello, Everyone! What adventures could you take as a data librarian? What new information could you learn as a data librarian? Since my three blog postings pertaining to the data librarian's skills and relationship to the data scientist, I have encountered other claims about the first person to ...

The Data Librarian's Superpower

Posted By Lorette Weldon Jan 26, 2020 11:35 AM
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Hello, Everyone! Are you a Data Librarian? Do you want to be a Data Librarian? Imagine walking into the library without worrying about doing literature reviews. "A librarian need not be a database engineer, but every librarian must understand the underpinnings of information retrieval tools". When ...

Bibliometrics: One Size Does Not Fit all

Posted By Lorette Weldon Jan 24, 2020 11:25 PM
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Hello, Everyone! Did you ever use any form of bibliometrics for an impact report on authors, articles, or journals? The "majority of the academicians in [Bibliometrics] face problems with respect to the collection of data and using a suitable software" (Drew, Pettibone, Finch, Giles, & ...

Library Media Specialist Teaching Common Core Standards

Posted By Lorette Weldon Jan 18, 2020 09:18 PM
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In Computers in Libraries' January/February 2020 Issue, you will be able to read my article on how a library media specialist can teach Common Core Standards to students in grades 3-6 in a public school environment successfully. See https://librariansandlibrarymediaspecialists.blogspot.com/2020/ ...

Can We all Be Data Librarians?

Posted By Lorette Weldon Jan 18, 2020 08:26 PM
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"Aristotle was an intellectual of vast learning and prodigious energy who produced a body of writings that covered the spectrum of the arts and sciences of his age. To aid his studies he gathered so many books that …[H]e was the first to have put together a collection of books and to have taught the ...

Measurements of Customers and Collection

Posted By Lorette Weldon Dec 11, 2019 06:45 PM
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Thanks to all who shared their comments and suggestions with me! This discussion has brought me to a new realization that a collection development theme could be an effort of reinventing the wheel (librariansandlibrarymediaspecialists.blogspot.com/2019/... ). Therefore, I will bring my focus ...

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