scholarly journals For Your Enrichment: Assistance Animals in the Library: How One Academic Library Developed Best Practices

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Rebecca M. Marrall
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Library Professionals

Effectively addressing concerns about assistance animals in any library setting is often problematic due to a lack of awareness about assistance animals in general, which then leads to uncertainty on how to proceed in these situations. Library personnel, regardless of library type, are often unaware of legal definitions of assistance animals. When compelled to respond to a patron complaint about “a dog in the library,” many library professionals are uncertain about which questions they may legally ask a patron who is accompanied by an animal. This uncertainty then creates concern about how to act in these situations, and thus, many library personnel may seek to avoid it entirely. However, with knowledge, time, some organizational development, and the appropriate legal vetting, it is possible to establish a best-practices protocol for handling complaints or concerns about patrons with an assistance animal in a library. This article details one such case study at an academic library in the Pacific Northwest.

Managing Vendor Records for Monographic E-Collections at a Medium-Sized Academic Library

2014 ◽  
pp. 22-40
Author(s):  
Aiping Chen-Gaffey
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Record Management ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Library Catalog ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
Management Policies

The rapid growth of electronic resources continues to challenge traditional methods of cataloging library collections, forcing a cataloging department to reevaluate its policies and procedures and implement changes. This chapter presents a case study of integrating vendor-supplied bibliographic records into a library catalog in order to provide timely and accurate catalog access to the library digital collections. The chapter discusses the benefits, issues, and challenges of batch manipulating and loading large record sets for these e-resources supplied by their vendors. It also describes the strategies and tools the bibliographic services staff has employed to solve the identified problems and improve the process. Further, it examines the effectiveness of the current e-record management policies and procedures. The chapter concludes with recommendation of solutions and a quest for future best practices in managing vendor-supplied records for e-resources.

Television for the Peace Arch Country: Transnational Broadcasting History in the Pacific Northwest

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 510-529
Author(s):  
Helen Morgan Parmett
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Television Station ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
International Broadcasting ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Northwest Region ◽  
The U.S

This article contributes to international broadcasting history through a case study of a local, independent television station in the Pacific Northwest. KVOS-TV was one of a few stations on the U.S./Canadian border that sought out a cross-border audience, but it is unique in its efforts to produce programming to bridge these audiences into a unified viewing public that it termed the Peace Arch Country. The station’s international programming constituted its viewing public as translocal citizens in ways that supported the broader global ambitions of the Pacific Northwest region, as well as responded to and promoted the global ambitions of western liberal democracy and capitalism in the fight against Communism. KVOS-TV’s constitution of Peace Arch citizenship shows how television was a tool for creating translocal citizens, educating and governing them from a distance.

scholarly journals Detailed energy efficiency strategies for converting an existing office building to NZEB: a case study in the Pacific Northwest

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1089-1104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Alajmi ◽  
Abby Short ◽  
Janna Ferguson ◽  
Kalina Vander Poel ◽  
Corey Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Office Building ◽  
The Pacific

Field Note: Introducing SYSPROP—A Software Tool to Identify Small but Economically Viable Timber Parcels in the Pacific Northwest

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Helderop ◽  
Tony H Grubesic ◽  
Clayton N Edson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Timber Harvest ◽  
The United States ◽  
Automatic Identification ◽  
Small Individual ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Field Note

Abstract The past several decades have seen a steady decline in timber harvest rates from many parts of the United States, particularly the Pacific Northwest. Although various factors fuel this decline, one of the principal drivers is increasing rates of parcelization of the landscape. Increasingly parcelized forested landscapes tend to be more challenging to log—both because urbanization rates are somewhat correlated with parcelization but also due to the additional administrative overhead in securing logging rights in increasingly smaller parcels. The purpose of this note is to introduce SYSPROP, a tool to aid in the automatic identification of economically viable parcels for logging. We conclude with a case study of a small logging company operating in Washington State that used this tool to identify several promising parcels. Study Implications: In the Pacific Northwest of the United States, large areas of forested landscape are being broken into small individual parcels. This makes adequately harvesting timber from these tracts of land difficult, because stumpage rights need to be negotiated for each distinct parcel. We introduce a set of software tools that allows a user to automatically identify economically viable parcels for logging company operators. The paper concludes with an exploration of a case study detailing how one small logging company used the software.

scholarly journals Negotiating Open Access Journal Agreements: An Academic Library Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-61
Author(s):  
Mihoko Hosoi
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Scholarly Journal ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Scholarly Journals

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an opportunity for academic libraries to advance open access (OA) to scholarly articles. Awareness among faculty on the importance of OA has increased significantly during the pandemic, as colleges and universities struggle financially and seek sustainable access to high-quality scholarly journals. Consortia have played an important role in establishing negotiation principles on OA journal agreements. While the number of OA agreements is increasing, case studies involving individual libraries are still limited. This paper reviews existing literature on publisher negotiation principles related to OA journal negotiations and reflects on recent cases at an academic library in Pennsylvania, in order to identify best practices in OA journal negotiations. It provides recommendations on roles, relationships, and processes, as well as essential terms of OA journal agreements. This study’s findings are most relevant to large academic libraries that are interested in negotiating with scholarly journal publishers independently or through consortia.

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