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Li, Haipeng. "Built to succeed: sustainable learning environment at UC Merced Library." Library Management 38, no. 2/3 (March 14, 2017): 175–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lm-01-2017-0003.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the sustainable learning environment at UC Merced Library. Design/methodology/approach Case study. Findings The Library is built to support active and constructive learning through its sustainable design as an open, collaborative, and welcoming learning environment and it has become a sustainable environment that supports sustainable learning for the future. Originality/value As the first new research university campus of the twenty-first Century in America, University of California, Merced (UC Merced), from its very beginning, has embraced principles of a green campus from ground up – sustainable economic, social, and environmental systems that preserve the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

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Shiroma, Jerrold. "The art of costume design: The work of Dunya Ramicova." Art Libraries Journal 42, no. 1 (December 15, 2016): 41–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/alj.2016.43.

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The Art of Costume Design: The Work of Dunya Ramicova is an on-going project by the University of California, Merced Library to digitize, preserve, and promote the work of costume designer and UC Merced Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Dunya Ramicova. This article talks about the collection itself and the various projects undertaken in support of its preservation and promotion.

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Squibb, Sara Davidson, and Susan Mikkelsen. "Assessing the Value of Course-Embedded Information Literacy on Student Learning and Achievement." College & Research Libraries 77, no. 2 (March 1, 2016): 164–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crl.77.2.164.

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A team at the University of California, Merced, collaborated to evaluate the value of integrating information literacy into introductory composition courses through a curriculum developed by librarians and writing faculty. Using a mixed-methods approach, the team investigated the impact of the curriculum on students’ learning and achievement at the end of their first semester of college. Students participating in the curriculum demonstrated greater gains than their peers in using suitable sources and presenting arguments and multiple viewpoints with evidence. This learning did not translate to higher student achievement as represented by course grades and grade point average.

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Squibb, Sara Davidson. "Be aware: Elevate your news evaluation: Emphasizing media literacy, one library’s initiative." College & Research Libraries News 78, no. 10 (November 3, 2017): 541. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crln.78.10.541.

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The following article outlines the University of California-Merced Library’s unfolding news evaluation campaign,1 shares our strategies, and reflects on our efforts. The impetus for this campaign came when a colleague shared Vanessa Otero’s News Quality Chart, a graphic that places news sources on X and Y axes, representing quality and partisan bias.2 Otero’s work, combined with increasing public concern and conversation about the legitimacy of news, propelled my colleagues and I to start discussing how we might emphasize media literacy, especially news evaluation. We started our discussion just prior to the spring semester, and we launched our campaign a few weeks later. Though this meant limited time for planning, we wanted to capitalize on this opportunity to promote information literacy by initiating and participating in a broader campus conversation about news evaluation.

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Stephen G. Katsinas. "From Rangeland to Research University: The Birth of University of California-Merced (review)." Review of Higher Education 32, no. 1 (2008): 144–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rhe.0.0022.

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Samberg, Rachael, Richard A. Schneider, Anneliese Taylor, and Michael Wolfe. "What’s behind OA2020? Accelerating the transition to open access with introspection and repurposing funds." College & Research Libraries News 79, no. 2 (February 1, 2018): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crln.79.2.85.

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In 2017, four University of California (UC) campuses took a public stance on accelerating the transition to open access (OA) by endorsing the Open Access 2020 (OA2020) initiative’s Expression of Interest (EOI). OA2020 is an international effort to convert the existing corpus of scholarly journals from subscription-based access to OA. In March 2017, when the first three UC campuses—UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis, and UC-San Francisco—endorsed,1,2 there had been only one U.S. signatory institution (California State University-Northridge, having endorsed in July 2016). Six months later in September 2017, another UC campus, Merced, added its affirmation. As of this writing, these five California universities remain the only OA2020 EOI signatories from the United States.3

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Mari, Will. "University of Southern California Digital Library." American Journalism 31, no. 4 (October 2, 2014): 548–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08821127.2014.968950.

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Bililign, Solomon, Keith Schimmel, J. P. Roop, and Gregory Meyerson. "A university without departments and colleges -A new structure to strengthen disciplinary and interdisciplinary education and research." International Journal for Innovation Education and Research 3, no. 11 (November 30, 2015): 117–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol3.iss11.475.

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A 21st century workforce must be trained to solve not only major national and global challenges but to fit into the current complex work environment. The challenges cannot be solved by a single discipline and require interdisciplinary solutions only possible through the collaboration of physical, biological, and social scientists along with engineers. The 21st century student needs to be educated so they can combine disciplinary depth with the ability to reach out to other disciplines. Such training requires a cost-effective higher education structure that promotes and sustains interdisciplinary research and education (IDRE). The current structure has failed to achieve this. In response to this failure, some private universities like Dartmouth and Olin and public institutions like the University of California Merced (UC Merced) are experimenting with giving up traditional department silos and majors in favor of an interdisciplinary organization. These programs can serve as models for what is to be done in U.S. higher education and may also serve as models for emerging universities in the developing world.

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Cygan, David, Hamid Abbasi, Aleksandr Kozlov, Joseph Pondo, Roland Winston, Bennett Widyolar, Lun Jiang, et al. "Full Spectrum Solar System: Hybrid Concentrated Photovoltaic/Concentrated Solar Power (CPV-CSP)." MRS Advances 1, no. 43 (2016): 2941–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/adv.2016.512.

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ABSTRACTGas Technology Institute (GTI), together with its partners University of California at Merced (UC Merced) and MicroLink Devices Inc. (MicroLink) are developing a full spectrum solar energy collection system to deliver variable electricity and on-demand heat. The technology uses secondary optics in a solar receiver to achieve high efficiency at high temperature, collects heat in particles for low fire danger, stores heat in particles instead of molten salt for low cost, and uses double junction (2J) photovoltaic (PV) cells with backside infrared (IR) reflectors on the secondary optical element to raise exergy efficiency. The overall goal is to deliver enhancement to established trough technology while exceeding the heliostat power tower molten salt temperature limit. The use of inert particles for heat transfer may make parabolic troughs safer near population centers and may be valuable for industrial facilities.

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Roberts, John H. "The Music Library, University of California, Berkeley." Library Quarterly 64, no. 1 (January 1994): 73–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/602654.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "University of California, Merced. Library"

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Cox, Suellen. "Student use of CD-ROM indexes at one academic institution." 1994. http://books.google.com/books?id=fKfgAAAAMAAJ.

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Books on the topic "University of California, Merced. Library"

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The new university library: Four case studies. Chicago: ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association, 2014.

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Cranston, Meg. Library book. [U.S: the author?], 1993.

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Cranston, Meg. Library book. 2nd ed. [Los Angeles: 1301], 1993.

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Commission, California Postsecondary Education. Opening the Central Valley: A review of the Board of Regents' proposal to build the University of California at Merced. Sacramento, Calif: California Postsecondary Education Commission, 1999.

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Schattenmann, Monika. Universitätsgründungen in Deutschland und Amerika: Universität Erfurt und University of California at Merced im Vergleich. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 2011.

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Stirling, Isabel. Self-paced library instruction workbook for the sciences. 7th ed. Riverside: Bio-Agricultural Library, Library of the University of California, 1985.

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Stirling, Isabel. Self-paced library instruction workbook for the sciences. 7th ed. Riverside: Bio-Agricultural Library, Library of the University of California, 1985.

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University of California (System). Division of Library Automation. MELVYL reference manual, University of California online catalog. Berkeley, Calif: Division of Library Automation, Office of the Assistant Vice President--Library Plans and Policies, Office of the President and University-wide Services, University of California, 1985.

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Santucci, James A. A loan exhibit at the Library, California State University, Fullerton, April-July, 1986. [Fullerton]: Departments of Religious Studies and Linguistics, The University, 1987.

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Ferrari, Mirella. Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

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Book chapters on the topic "University of California, Merced. Library"

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Dooley, Jim. "University of California, Merced:." In Academic E-Books, 93–106. Purdue University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1wf4ds0.10.

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Lo, Patrick, Dickson K. W. Chiu, Allan Cho, and Brad Allard. "Michael Gorman, University Librarian Emeritus Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno." In Conversations with Leading Academic and Research Library Directors, 119–26. Elsevier, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-102746-2.00008-x.

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Lo, Patrick, Dickson K. W. Chiu, Allan Cho, and Brad Allard. "Virginia Steel, Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)." In Conversations with Leading Academic and Research Library Directors, 43–74. Elsevier, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-102746-2.00004-2.

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"2. Berkeley, University of California, Bancroft Library, MS. 95 (Notes de lecture)." In Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia, 676–98. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.ipm-eb.4.00213.

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Marra, Toshie. "The Rise of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley." In Inside the World's Major East Asian Collections, 391–99. Elsevier, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-102145-3.00035-2.

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Perry, Susan Chesley, and Jessica Waggoner. "Processes for User-Centered Design and Development." In Advances in Library and Information Science, 37–58. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2676-6.ch002.

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The authors discuss user-centered design and agile project management using the development of the Omeka Curator Dashboard as a case study. The University of California, Santa Cruz University Library developed a suite of 15 plugins for the Omeka open source content management system. This chapter describes the library's use of agile principles and methods for the management of this project, detailing the creation of user stories and acceptance criteria. This chapter also outlines the usability testing conducted by the library in the form of online surveys and moderated field tests. The authors conclude that user-focused, inclusive, and iterative development are key components to the success of the software development process.

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El Mimouni, Houda, Jennifer Anderson, Nadaleen F. Tempelman-Kluit, and Alexandra Dolan-Mescal. "UX Work in Libraries." In Advances in Library and Information Science, 1–36. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2676-6.ch001.

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The application of UX expertise is beneficial in all the areas and aspects of library services and products. All what a librarian needs is an understanding of those principles and some tools with which to practice them. The goal of this chapter, therefore, is to provide a guide for librarians, whether they are specifically in charge of UX work at their library or aspire to integrate UX into their work on other library services and products. This chapter provides some theoretical background on the traditional goal of library user satisfaction and introduces UX as an approach that benefits libraries and their users. It gives an overview of popular UX methodologies and describes real-life UX in libraries through the stories from three librarians in their respective institutions: the New York Public Library, New York University, and University of California, Riverside.

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Goodson, Kymberly. "Incrementally Building Community and User Engagement in the UC San Diego Library." In Library Science and Administration, 834–56. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3914-8.ch039.

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The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Library's inaugural Learning Spaces (LSP) Program was formally established on July 1, 2013 through a library-wide reorganization process spanning 2012-2014. As a new program whose offerings remained in development, 2013-2014 presented the opportunity organizationally to initiate new library services and amenities and to adopt a new path based on the program's initial strategic objectives. This chapter details several of the ways in which the program began during its first year to accomplish its goals of engaging library users, building a sense of community and patron ownership within the library's learning spaces, establishing a culture of assessment among program staff, and developing library spaces where students feel welcomed and supported in their academic life. Activities detailed in the chapter are provided as examples for other libraries working toward similar outcomes. Additionally, a limited literature review of library engagement and community building in libraries is presented, along with research support for many of the Learning Spaces Program's new initiatives.

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"The Mark Twain Project Online: Authoritative Texts, Documents, and Historical Research. Oakland: California Digital Library and University of California Press, 2007–2013." In The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, 252–54. Brill | Rodopi, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401212113_019.

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"INTRODUCTION." In Catalog of Pre-1900 Vocal Manuscripts in the Music Library, University of California at Berkeley, IX—X. University of California Press, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/9780520331402-001.

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Conference papers on the topic "University of California, Merced. Library"

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Ritschel, Alexander, and Jeff Wright. "Development of a Solar Energy Research and Test Center at the University of California, Merced." In 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conference. IEEE, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/wcpec.2006.279740.

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Diaz, Gerardo, John Elliott, and Carlos F. M. Coimbra. "Towards Zero Net Energy at a Community-Scale Level: Case Study at UC Merced." In ASME 2011 5th International Conference on Energy Sustainability. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2011-54545.

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The recent establishment of the University of California Merced presents a unique and invaluable opportunity to plan, carry out, and monitor the development and growth of a new university campus utilizing the most advanced sustainable concepts and technologies available today. Although retrofitting and obsolete building construction codes are not an issue, this community-scale project is already facing operational questions related to the integration of renewable resources. The actual operation at a high percentage of renewable power generation and building efficiency provides invaluable information to analyze the operation that mimic or even exceed California’s 20% and future 33% renewable portfolio standards. UC Merced is already working to meet the commitment of zero net energy by 2020 that is part of the triple-zero challenge that also includes elimination of landfill waste and climate neutrality in the same timeframe. In this work, current findings about this integration strategy are provided.

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Diaz, Gerardo. "Experimental Characterization of an Aluminum-Based Minichannel Solar Water Heater." In ASME 2013 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2013 7th International Conference on Energy Sustainability and the ASME 2013 11th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ht2013-17347.

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Water heating accounts for a significant fraction of the energy consumption in the residential and commercial sectors. A wide variety of water heater configurations are available some of which have higher operating costs than others. The use of solar water heaters is becoming more widespread in many countries usually due to the low operating costs associated with the technology. This paper describes the first implementation of an aluminum-base minichannel solar water heater currently being tested at the University of California Merced.

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Scott, Kerry P. "Interrogating Demand: Pathways Toward Purchase in Patron‐Influenced E‐Book Models; University of California‐wide Demand‐Driven Acquisitions—E‐Book Hopes and Dreams Revisited." In Charleston Library Conference. Purdue University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5703/1288284316307.

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Ohler, L. Angie, Leigh Ann DePope, Karen Rupp-Serrano, and Joelle Pitts. "Canceling the Big Deal: Three R1 Libraries Compare Data, Communication, and Strategies." In Charleston Library Conference. Purdue Univeristy, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5703/1288284317171.

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Canceling the Big Deal is becoming more common, but there are still many unanswered questions about the impact of this change and the fundamental shift in the library collections model that it represents. Institutions like Southern Illinois University Carbondale and the University of Oregon were some of the first institutions to have written about their own experience with canceling the Big Deal several years ago, but are those experiences the norm in terms of changes in budgets, collection development, and interlibrary loan activity? Within the context of the University of California system’s move to cancel a system-wide contract with Elsevier, how are libraries managing the communication about Big Deals both internally with library personnel as well as externally with campus stakeholders? Three R1 libraries (University of Maryland, University of Oklahoma, and Kansas State University) will compare their data, discuss both internal and external communication strategies, and examine the impact these decisions have had on their collections in terms of interlibrary loan and collection development strategies. The results of a brief survey measuring the status of the audience members with respect to Big Deals, communication efforts with campus stakeholders, and impacts on collections will also be discussed.

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Sharma, Neeraj, and Gerardo Diaz. "Contact Glow Discharge Electrolysis as an Efficient Means of Generating Steam From Liquid Waste." In ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2013-64062.

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The present study focuses on the performance evaluation of contact glow discharge electrolysis as a potential means for efficient generation of steam from liquid waste in the form of cooling tower blowdown produced at the campus of the University of California at Merced. The cooling tower blowdown, which acts as an electrolyte is fed into a stainless steel electrolytic cell connected to a DC power supply. After describing the transition from normal electrolysis to contact glow discharge electrolysis, the electrolytic cell is run in glow discharge mode for a specific duration of time and data for current, voltage, and rate of steam generation are recorded. Steam generation efficiency as high as 87% is obtained. High efficiency of steam generation makes it a practical method of generating steam from liquid waste.

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Kendall, Susan K., Ramune K. Kubilius, Sarah McClung, Jean Gudenas, and Rena Lubker. "Down the Rabbit Hole We Go Again (the 19th Health Sciences Lively Lunchtime Discussion)." In Charleston Library Conference. Purdue Univeristy, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5703/1288284317161.

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This year’s sponsored, no holds barred health sciences lively lunchtime gathering was open to all. It began with greetings from luncheon sponsor, Rittenhouse. The moderator, Rena Lubker, introduced the session and provided introductory remarks about this year’s three presentations: a commentary on issues that keep us up at night; a report on considerations to make when leaving big deal licenses and entering into new, OA friendly arrangements; and more discussion about the impact of expansions on libraries of academic medical affiliation. All three topics provided fodder for lively discussion at the end. Ramune Kubilius provided her brief annual update on health sciences publishing world developments. Are there trends or commonalities in the issues that concern health sciences collection managers across institutions? Susan Kendall, editor of a recent book on 21st century collection management shared her thoughts on what keeps health sciences collection managers on their toes (or up at night). Audience members were invited to agree or disagree with her list. The ever-changing academic library and affiliated hospital relationship landscape was again explored at the Charleston health sciences-themed gathering. Jean Gudenas examined the effects of hospital mergers and acquisitions on academic libraries. She discussed the challenges with negotiating licensing changes quickly, the commitment to communication, and other matters essential to ensuring access to resources for the new affiliates. What goes into planning, preparing and actively shifting towards a more open access friendly landscape? How do consortia make decisions to leave or enter into deals on behalf of a multi-type academic library system? Are the interests of health sciences libraries represented? Sarah McClung shared examples of recent collections decisions made by the University of California libraries and what lessons can be imparted to other libraries, including those licensing in smaller groups or even solo.

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"Addressing Information Literacy and the Digital Divide in Higher Education." In InSITE 2018: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences: La Verne California. Informing Science Institute, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4041.

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Aim/Purpose: [This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, Volume 14] The digital divide and educational inequalities remain a significant societal prob-lem in the United States impacting low income, first-generation, and minority learners. Accordingly, institutions of higher education are challenged to meet the needs of students with varying levels of technological readiness with deficiencies in information and digital literacy shown to be a hindrance to student success. This paper documents the efforts of a mid-Atlantic minority-serving institution as it seeks to assess and address the digital and information literacy skills of underserved students Background: A number of years ago, a historically Black university located in Maryland devel-oped an institutional commitment to the digital and information literacy of their students. These efforts have included adoption of an international digital literacy certification exam used as a placement test for incoming freshmen; creation of a Center for Student Technology Certification and Training; course redesign to be performance based with the incorporation of a simulation system, eportfolios, Webquests, a skills building partnership with the University library; pre and post testing to measure the efficacy of a targeted computer applications course taught to business and STEM majors; and student perception surveys Methodology: In 2017, pre and post testing of students in enrolled in core computer applications courses were conducted using the IC3 test administered during the second and fifteenth week of the academic terms. These scores were compared in order to measure degree of change. Additionally, post test scores were assessed against five years of the scores from the same test used as a placement for incoming freshmen. A student perception survey was also administered. The survey included a combination of dichotomous, Likert-scaled, and ranking questions with descriptive statistical analyses performed on the data. The results were used to test four hypotheses. Contribution: This study provides research on a population (first-generation minority college students) that is expanding in numbers in higher education and that the literature, reports as being under-prepared for academic success. Unfortunately, there is a paucity of current studies examining the information and technological readiness of students enrolling at minority serving institutions. This paper is timely and relevant and helps to extend our discourse on the digital divide and technological readiness as it impacts higher education. Additionally, this paper also marks a valuable contribution to the literature by examining the efficacy of computer applications courses in higher education with Generation Z learners Findings: The digital divide is a serious concern for higher education especially as schools seek to increasingly reach out to underserved populations. In particular, the results of this study show that students attending a minority serving institution who are primarily first generation learners do not come to college with the technology skills needed for academic success. Pre and post testing of students as well as responses to survey questions have proven the efficacy of computer applications courses at building the technology skills of students. These courses are viewed overwhelmingly positive by students with respondents reporting that they are a necessary part of the college experience that benefits them academically and professionally. Use of an online simulated learning and assessment system with immediate automated feedback and remediation was also found to be particularly effective at building the computer and information literacy skills of students. Recommendations for Practitioners: Institutions of higher education should invest in a thorough examination of the information and technology literacy skills, needs, and perceptions of students both coming into the institution as well as following course completion. Recommendation for Researchers: This research should be expanded to more minority serving institutions across the United States as well as abroad. This particular research protocol is easily replicated and can be duplicated at both minority and majority serving institutions enabling greater comparisons across groups. Impact on Society: The results of this research should shed light on a problem that desperately needs to be addressed by institutions of higher education which is the realities of the digital divide and the underpreparedness of entering college students in particular those who are from low income, first generation, and minority groups Future Research: A detailed quantitative survey study is being conducted that seeks to examine the technology uses, backgrounds, needs, interests, career goals, and professional expectations with respect to a range of currently relevant technologies

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Reports on the topic "University of California, Merced. Library"

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Haves, Phillip, Brandon Hencey, Francesco Borrell, John Elliot, Yudong Ma, Brian Coffey, Sorin Bengea, and Michael Wetter. Model Predictive Control of HVAC Systems: Implementation and Testing at the University of California, Merced. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), June 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/988177.

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Chorover, Jon, Karl Mueller, Peggy Anne O'Day, Carl Steefel, Wooyong Um, John Zachara, Nico Perdrial, et al. Final Report, University of California Merced: Uranium and strontium fate in waste-weathered sediments: Scaling of molecular processes to predict reactive transport. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), June 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1425916.

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