As the number of electronic bibliographic databases available continues to increase, library users are confronted with the increasingly difficult challenge of trying to identify which of the available databases will be of most use in addressing a p . . .

First-year undergraduate students are novices at consuming web information due to a lack of critical information literacy skills. This recipe is designed to satisfy first-year students’ thirst for knowledge by demonstrating web article evaluation and . . .

Real‐time online reference holds enormous potential for revolutionizing the way users find and use reference services. By adding interactive help to their online information services, libraries can reach users who may never have sought out the traditi . . .

This study investigates whether the timing of earnings announcement in earnings season affects stock price discovery process. This paper documents that market reaction is more favorable for earnings announcements made at the beginning of earnings seas . . .

The proliferation of digital information resources and electronic databases challenges libraries and demands that libraries develop new mechanisms to facilitate and better inform user selection of electronic databases and search tools. We developed a . . .

In this article, we examine the discourse that academic librarians have used to describe different generations and age groups in articles and conference presentations throughout the last 2 decades. Age and generations have surfaced in the professional . . .

Lecture delivered via webinar on April 9, 2020. Amanda Baugh is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at California State University, Northridge, and specializes in the study of religion, race, and environmental values among diverse American gro . . .

Lecture delivered via webinar on October 8, 2020. This event featured a panel discussion with the editors of Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial — Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah Jaquette Ra . . .

Many social media users have lost some agency over the use of these sites. Restoring this sense of agency is important as it can help users live responsibly with the technology, and can serve as a target for therapists treating people with difficulty . . .

Multitarget-directed ligands are a promising class of drugs for discovering innovative new therapies for difficult to treat diseases. In this study, we designed dual inhibitors targeting the human fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) enzyme and human sol . . .

Prenyl or dimethylallyl groups are common structural motifs in natural products and small molecule therapeutics. In this report, we describe a palladium-catalyzed method for the cross-coupling of aryl and heteroaryl boronic acids with prenyl alcohol. . . .

Microbialites undergo a well – documented resurgence following the Permian – Triassic mass extinction. This comeback has been attributed to several causes, including the emptying of Early Triassic ecosystems by the severity of the extinction, a declin . . .

With the outbreak of COVID-19 and the implementation of stay-at-home (SAH) orders aimed to mitigate its spread, households became less mobile and sheltered in place. This behavior has potential implications for how households’ value environmental (dis . . .

There is limited aggregated data showing the amount and levels of preparedness training for active shooter situations in public, academic, and K-12 libraries in California and across the United States. The purpose of this research is to assess the sta . . .

Accompanied by increasing demands on school administrator preparation and rapid development of computer technology, educational statistics courses are exposed to unprecedented pressures for changing both curriculum content and computing platforms. In . . .

This chapter outlines the author’s experience co-designing and co-teaching an undergraduate problem-based learning public health course with faculty from her liaison department at a mid-size public university. During the year and a half spent on the d . . .

Although the issues of diversity and representation are often discussed within academic librarianship in Canada and the United States, the field has made little headway in being inclusive of the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) who work . . .

In the English-speaking world, the study of Chinese philosophy has been focused mainly on pre-Qin philosophy and Song-Ming neo-Confucianism. In comparison, contemporary Chinese philosophy, as an initial attempt to communicate with . . .

This paper aims at showing the significance in Roman Ingarden’s thinking of two often overlooked ontological concepts: Gestalt quality and harmonious unity. Ingarden understands Gestalt a derived quality that spr . . .

This paper offers a comparative study of two fundamental Confucian concepts, namely, “harmony” (he) and “coherence” (li). After presenting and interpreting the two characters – with reference to both classical thought and Neo-Confu . . .