The Time Has Come... To Move Many Things: Inventorying and Preparing a Collection for Offsite Storage

Student Employees ◽

Subject Areas ◽

In the spring of 2019, the Montana State University (MSU) Library embarked on a large-scale inventory project that involved weeding and moving portions of their collection to an offsite storage facility within six months in order to create more student study space in the Library. The department primarily responsible for leading the project, Collections Access & Technical Services, the result of two departments merging, was also simultaneously navigating their new structure and a remodel of their workspace thus adding further challenges to the project. This poster session demonstrated how MSU Library approached and completed this project by advocating to their Library Administration for additional resources, including hiring a project manager and third-party companies to assist with the inventory and moving of the collection. It also discussed the types of work groups formed to identify new workflows (i.e., retrieval of offsite items) and modify existing ones, involving student employees in the project, and internal and external collaborations that took place. Additionally, presenters shared strategies used to communicate to their campus community, and the impact this project has had on our patrons. They also included statistics that were gathered during the project including deselection figures, the number of materials that did not have barcodes and were not accounted for in the Library’s catalog and discovery layer (Ex Libris’ Alma and Primo), and what subject areas currently remain in the main library building.

The Effect of Private Customer-Manager Social Engagement Upon Online Booking Behavior

Cornell Hospitality Quarterly ◽

10.1177/1938965520975330 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 193896552097533

Author(s):

Saram Han ◽

Christopher K. Anderson

Keyword(s):

Social Engagement ◽

Large Scale ◽

Term Effect ◽

Third Party ◽

Travel Agency ◽

Long Term Effects ◽

Individual Level ◽

Customer Manager ◽

Owing to the impact of third-party commissions upon hotel profitability, many hotel brands have actively engaged in book direct campaigns, but to date, no large-scale longitudinal effort has been conducted to systematically evaluate direct booking behavior (i.e., direct versus online travel agency [OTA]). In this study, we use three years of transactional data from a large hotel brand to evaluate booking channel choices. To address the dynamic nature of the longitudinal individual-level data, we use a hidden Markov model (HMM), allowing us to evaluate both short- and long-term effects. Using the HMM, we evaluate the latent loyalty status of customers through their observed online booking channel behavior (i.e., direct versus OTA). As a result, we find that customer–manager engagement through guest satisfaction surveys (and managerial responses to those surveys) has a long-term effect on consumer propensities to book direct, gradually increasing customer loyalty to the brand. Specifically, we find that positive customer feedback signals a greater willingness to book direct in subsequent purchases. Moreover, managerial responses to the satisfied customer result in greater tendency to remain loyal and book direct. Second, the membership program tier of the customer has a significant short-term effect on the consumer’s propensity to book direct. Low-loyalty customers’ direct booking tendency increases as soon as they join the membership program. These findings not only illustrate the impact of membership status upon channel choice but also indicate the effect of the customer’s voice and the resulting managerial response upon booking behaviors over time.

THE CAAV 2017 Immersive Scholar Presentation: Visualizing Digital Scholarship Across Institutions

10.31229/osf.io/jyqr3 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Shelby Hallman ◽

Mike Nutt

Keyword(s):

Community Of Practice ◽

Large Scale ◽

Annual Conference ◽

State University ◽

Scholarly Work ◽

University Libraries ◽

Learning Spaces ◽

Immersive Environments ◽

Digital Scholarship ◽

NC State University Libraries has been awarded a three-year, $414,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop extensible models and programs for the creation and sharing of digital scholarship in large-scale and immersive environments. Entitled “Visualizing Digital Scholarship in Libraries and Learning Spaces,” or Immersive Scholar for short, the grant aims to 1) build a community of practice of scholars and librarians to help visually immersive scholarly work enter the research lifecycle; and 2) overcome technical and resource barriers that limit the number of scholars and libraries who use visualization environments and the impact of generated knowledge. This presentation introduced the grant and it's components to The Higher Education Campus Alliance of Advanced Visualization (THE CAAV) at THE CAAV's 2017 annual conference.

Advances in Library and Information Science - Planning and Implementing Resource Discovery Tools in Academic Libraries ◽

Implementation of Resource Discovery

10.4018/978-1-4666-1821-3.ch035 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 598-607 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Elizabeth P. Babbitt ◽

Amy Foster ◽

Doralyn Rossmann

Keyword(s):

Academic Libraries ◽

Resource Discovery ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Collection Development ◽

State University ◽

Daunting Task ◽

Library Resources ◽

Academic libraries have a myriad of information sources for their communities, yet meeting users at their point of need can be a daunting task. Web-scale discovery tools offer a way to pull together many library resources for retrieval through a single search interface. The lessons learned in this case study at Montana State University include challenges with implementation, troubleshooting, collection development, and user education. Strategies and solutions to problems such as “full-text red herrings” (broken links to articles from aggregated databases) as well as techniques for prioritizing search results are described. Incorporating locally digitized collections in the discovery tool is also explained. The impact of discovery on collection development can take many forms and this case study details three issues that this implementation caused to emerge. The examples described in this chapter serve as helpful considerations for other academic libraries in their Web-scale discovery product exploration, implementation, and analysis.

The Impact of dental wear on the analysis of morphological affinities based on dental non-metric traits

Dental Anthropology Journal ◽

10.26575/daj.v34i2.328 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Daniel Fidalgo ◽

Veronica Wesolowski ◽

Mark Hubbe

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Principal Component ◽

Ordinal Scale ◽

State University ◽

Arizona State University ◽

Dental Wear ◽

Severe Wear ◽

Morphological Studies ◽

Individual Trait ◽

Dental wear is described as a limitation to dental morphological studies, as it obscures important crown trait features, resulting in significant differences on trait frequencies, an essential component for estimating biodistances. However, the actual impact of dental wear on biological distances still requires further characterization. We explore the impact of dental wear on morphological affinities for Brazilian pre-colonial series in the context of worldwide reference series. Twenty crown traits were scored using the Arizona State University Dental Anthropological System, and dental wear was quantified as an ordinal scale between 1 (no wear) and 8 (crown eroded). Seven crown trait frequencies are significantly associated with dental wear (p<0.05), demonstrating its impact on their analysis. To explore this impact on biodistances, data was divided by wear categories (all teeth, low-wear, moderate/severe wear) and morphological affinities among series was compared through Euclidean distances, Mean Measure of Divergence, and Principal Component Analysis. Results show the impact of wear is only meaningful when a sample contains many wear-biased traits with only moderate/severe wear. We conclude despite the impact of wear on individual trait frequencies, its impact on morphological affinities can be mitigated by including other variables or when comparisons focus only on large-scale biological differences.

Development And Evaluation Of An Undergraduate Multidisciplinary Project Activity In Engineering And Design

American Journal of Engineering Education (AJEE) ◽

10.19030/ajee.v3i1.6888 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 41-52 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

David R. Smith ◽

Joanne Cole

Keyword(s):

Undergraduate Students ◽

Large Scale ◽

Learning Experience ◽

Computer Engineering ◽

Group Project ◽

Project Activity ◽

Undergraduate Study ◽

Subject Areas ◽

Survey Responses ◽

The School of Engineering and Design Multidisciplinary Project (MDP) at Brunel University is a one week long project based activity involving first year undergraduate students from across the School subject areas of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Design. This paper describes the main aims of the MDP and gives an overview of how it has developed over the last four years to become a key part of the engineering undergraduate programme at Brunel University. The paper then presents an in-depth evaluation of the MDP, following the collection of 114 survey responses from students across all four subject areas and all four academic years that have participated in the activity, to assess the impact of the MDP on the student learning experience throughout the period of undergraduate study. The paper also discusses feedback about the MDP obtained from the relevant professional bodies that accredit Brunel University undergraduate engineering programmes, and representatives from the Brunel Placement and Careers Centre, to assess their opinions of the usefulness of the project activity in developing key transferable skills and enhancing the employability of Brunel graduates. The findings of this study will ensure the continued success of the MDP in future academic years and also provide a case study of a large scale multidisciplinary group project teaching activity that may prove useful to those considering or currently developing such activities at other higher education institutions.

Implementation of a COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Clinic to College Students in Montana

American Journal of Public Health ◽

10.2105/ajph.2021.306435 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. e1-e4

Author(s):

Sally Moyce ◽

Julie Ruff ◽

Ann Galloway ◽

Sarah Shannon

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Large Scale ◽

Student Health ◽

Facilities Management ◽

State University ◽

Medical Assistant ◽

Collaborative Intervention ◽

Academic Units ◽

Vaccine Distribution

We describe a large-scale collaborative intervention of practice measures and COVID-19 vaccine administration to college students in the priority 1b group, which included Black or Indigenous persons and other persons of color. In February 2021, at this decentralized vaccine distribution site at Montana State University in Bozeman, we administered 806 first doses and 776 second doses by implementing an interprofessional effort with personnel from relevant university units, including facilities management, student health, communications, administration, and academic units (e.g., nursing, medicine, medical assistant program, and engineering). (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print September 9, 2021: e1–e4. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306435 )

Veterinary Professions Advising Center: An innovative approach to pre-veterinary advising for Animal Science students

Translational Animal Science ◽

10.1093/tas/txab064 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Shweta Trivedi ◽

Jessica C Clark ◽

M Todd See

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

State University ◽

Science Students ◽

Animal Science ◽

Veterinary Students ◽

North Carolina State University ◽

Veterinary Student ◽

Undergraduate Advising ◽

The Impact ◽

Academic Year

Abstract Veterinary Professions Advising Center (VetPAC) is a unique undergraduate advising center that combines Career Center services with pre-professional advising for pre-veterinary students at North Carolina State University (NCSU). During the past 10 years, VetPAC has created five distinct internships, three annual study abroad courses, a competitive annual high school summer camp, provided holistic advising, and hosted large-scale advising events that consistently provide resources to more than 800 students annually. The VetPAC provided outreach to an average of 13 local high schools per academic year, and educated over 300 visiting students about VetPAC and pre-veterinary life at NCSU since 2015. NCSU College of Veterinary Medicine has had a minimum of 26% and a maximum of 45% DVM students in the incoming classes who accessed VetPAC resources and advising. This article presents the impact VetPAC has had on pre-veterinary student success at NCSU, and provides an outline of VetPAC’s first 10 years of development as a model of combined career services and pre-professional advising for peer institutions.

Dataset Search: A lightweight, community-built tool to support research data discovery

Journal of eScience Librarianship ◽

10.7191/jeslib.2021.1189 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Sara Mannheimer ◽

Jason Clark ◽

Kyle Hagerman ◽

Jakob Schultz ◽

James Espeland

Keyword(s):

Research Data ◽

State University ◽

Data Repositories ◽

Harvesting Process ◽

The Impact ◽

Advance Knowledge ◽

Support Research ◽

Core Features ◽

Archived Data

Objective: Promoting discovery of research data helps archived data realize its potential to advance knowledge. Montana State University (MSU) Dataset Search aims to support discovery and reporting for research datasets created by researchers at institutions. Methods and Results: The Dataset Search application consists of five core features: a streamlined browse and search interface, a data model based on dataset discovery, a harvesting process for finding and vetting datasets stored in external repositories, an administrative interface for managing the creation, ingest, and maintenance of dataset records, and a dataset visualization interface to demonstrate how data is produced and used by MSU researchers. Conclusion: The Dataset Search application is designed to be easily customized and implemented by other institutions. Indexes like Dataset Search can improve search and discovery for content archived in data repositories, therefore amplifying the impact and benefits of archived data.

SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence in a University Community: A Longitudinal Study of the Impact of Student Return to Campus on Infection Risk Among Community Members

10.1101/2021.02.17.21251942 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Callum Arnold ◽

Sreenidhi Srinivasan ◽

Catherine M Herzog ◽

Abhinay Gontu ◽

Nita Bharti ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Social Science Research ◽

Science Research ◽

State University ◽

Igg Antibodies ◽

Pennsylvania State University ◽

Igg Antibody ◽

Longitudinal Cohort ◽

Prospective Longitudinal ◽

Background Returning university students represent large-scale, transient demographic shifts and a potential source of transmission to adjacent communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods In this prospective longitudinal cohort study, we tested for IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in a non-random cohort of residents living in Centre County prior to the Fall 2020 term at the Pennsylvania State University and following the conclusion of the Fall 2020 term. We also report the seroprevalence in a non-random cohort of students collected at the end of the Fall 2020 term. Findings Of 345 community participants, 19 (5.5%) were positive for SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies at their first visit between 7 August and 2 October. Of 625 student participants who returned to campus for fall instruction, 195 (31.2%) were positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies between 26 October and 23 November. Twenty-eight (8.1%) community participants returned a positive IgG antibody result by 9 December. Only contact with known SARS-CoV-2-positive individuals and attendance at small gatherings (20-50 individuals) were significant predictors of detecting IgG antibodies among returning students (aOR, 95% CI: 3.24, 2.14-4.91; 1.62, 1.08-2.44; respectively). Interpretation Despite high seroprevalence observed within the student population, seroprevalence in a longitudinal cohort of community residents was low and stable from before student arrival for the Fall 2020 term to after student departure. The study implies that heterogeneity in SARS-CoV-2 transmission can occur in geographically coincident populations. Funding The Pennsylvania State University Office of the Provost, Social Science Research Institute, Huck Institute for the Life Sciences, and Clinical and Translational Science Institute; National Institutes of Health.

Book Reviews

Journal of Economic Literature ◽

10.1257/jel.50.1.179.r8 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 197-198

Keyword(s):

Older Workers ◽

Well Being ◽

Associate Professor ◽

State University ◽

Wellesley College ◽

Stock Market Crash ◽

Current Economic Crisis ◽

Wendy A. Stock of Montana State University reviews “Reconsidering Retirement: How Losses and Layoffs Affect Older Workers” by Courtney C. Coile and Phillip B. Levine. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins: Examines how the current economic crisis will affect older workers' decisions to retire, including the impact of stock, housing, and labor markets on the transition into retirement. Discusses defining and explaining retirement; detecting the impact of market conditions; the impact of the stock market crash; the impact of the housing market crash; the impact of the labor market crash; and implications for retiree well-being. Coile is Class of 1966 Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Wellesley College. Levine is Catherine Coman and A. Barton Hepburn Professor in the Department of Economics at Wellesley College. Index.