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Item ADULT LEARNING ON THE INTERNET: ENGAGING THE eBAY AUCTION PROCESS(2005-11-21T18:26:58Z) Ghost Bear, Anne A; Conti, Gary JThe current revolution of the Information Age is rapidly changing the complexion of many personal and corporate societies. This revolution is changing the methods people use to communicate with each other, research new information, solve problems, and transact business. The purpose of this study was to describe the learning strategies that adults use in learning to engage in the eBay auction process. The study used the following research questions: (a) what are the identified learning strategy preferences of adult learners using eBay, (b) how do the learning strategy preferences of eBay users compare to the norms for ATLAS, and (c) how do eBay users describe their learning processes related to getting started on eBay, participating in eBay activities,communicating on eBay, learning through eBay, and experiencing eBay? This study used a descriptive design along with the information and data gathering advantages of the Internet to collect data about how adults learn using the Internet. An online questionnaire which featured 19 qualitative questions and 11 quantitative Likert scale items was used to determine the perceptions of eBay participants. Assessing The Learning Strategies of AdultS (ATLAS) instrument was imbedded within the online questionnaire to determine the preferred strategies of eBay users. The study involved a representative sample of 380 eBay users which was identified by electronically downloading the e-mail addresses of participants in completed auctions. The sample was stratified by the 13 categories of items listed on eBay. Within each of these categories, high-volume completed auctions were selected in which the final sale price was under $10, between $11 and $100, and over $100.Item Coming Soon From Your Local Library... Family Literacy!(H.W. Wilson Company, 2007) Mathews, AliceWe librarians sometimes like to imagine that everyone is highly literate and loves words as much as we do. But within our cities, suburbs, and rural areas are children who don’t grow up wanting to read books and parents who don’t understand the implicit and awesome value of words when spoken or read to their children. These are the families for which the decades-young term “family literacy” has been created.Item Ending Book Hunger: Social Publishing and the Power of Mission-Driven Innovation(Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, 2015) Shaver, LeaAround the world, billions of people find that books are too expensive, too difficult to find, or are simply not being published in the languages that they speak. The problem of “book hunger” is pervasive across the developing world, and for lower-income adults and children in the United States. This market failure comes at an enormous social cost. The lack of affordable and appropriate reading material is holding back education as a path out of poverty. Fortunately, a solution exists. This book examines the growing sector of “social publishing,” an emerging non-profit sector driven by the belief that all people should enjoy opportunities to read, regardless of their income or native language. This book offers a descriptively rich, accessible account of the inspiring world of social publishing, drawing upon extensive interviews with organizational leaders driving the evolution of this emerging sector. Case studies of organizations both in the United States and abroad explore the many challenges social publishers face – including geographic, cost, and language barriers – and the innovative solutions they are developing to forge a new business model for low-cost, multilingual, truly multicultural publishing. The book’s central objectives are to document the emerging practices of social publishers, to generate insight about what makes their efforts successful or unsuccessful, and to derive broader lessons from this particular case study of social innovation. A key theme of this research is the role of social mission in driving business model innovation. To deliver books that are appropriate, attractive, and affordable to neglected readerships, social publishers cannot simply imitate the established business models of for-profit publishers. Instead, they are forced to innovate radically different strategies in the areas of content acquisition, production, and marketing. These innovations include free-to-the-reader pricing, digital distribution, open licensing, and distributed authorship. A full appreciation of these innovative business models for social publishing is central to solving the problem of book hunger sustainably and at scale. More broadly, understanding the phenomenon of “mission-driven innovation” can also inform other initiatives in philanthropy, nonprofit management, social innovation, public policy, and corporate social responsibility.Item Going "Slow:" Leading the Slow Books Movement at an Academic Library(2013-06-29) Lacy, Meagan; States, EmilyIn a March 23, 2012 blog post on The Atlantic website, author Maura Kelly argues for a new “slow” movement, the “Slow Books Movement.” Not unlike the Slow Foods’ call for a more healthful, substantive diet, the Slow Books Movement challenges readers to choose more substantive reading material—serious literature that encourages quiet contemplation and that broadens self-awareness. Slow Books is neither an alarmist reaction to technology nor a nostalgic longing for the past—meaningful works of literature exist whether in electronic or print formats. Rather, the point of slow reading is simply to challenge minds and stimulate reflection. Academic libraries, as repositories of the literary printed (and digital) word, are perfectly positioned to lead this movement. By embracing a reader’s advisory role, academic librarians can help create new readers, inspire existing readers, and build literary communities. This poster demonstrates how one academic librarian is engaging students through blogging, book clubs, and reader’s advisory in order to promote slow reading on campus. Outreach strategies and evaluation methods (including analytics, surveys, and user feedback) are explained step-by-step so that librarians can apply these findings and implement these programs and practices on their own campuses.Item Home Literacy Experiences and Shared Reading Practices: Preschoolers With Hearing Loss(Oxford University Press, 2023) DesJardin, Jean L.; Stika, Carren J.; Eisenberg, Laurie S.; Johnson, Karen C.; Hammes Ganguly, Dianne; Henning, Shirley C.; Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery, School of MedicineHome literacy experiences and observed parent and child behaviors during shared book reading were investigated in preschool-age children with hearing loss and with typical hearing to examine the relationships between those factors and children's language skills. The methods involved parent-reported home literacy experiences and videotaped parent-child dyads during shared book reading. Children's language skills were tested using the Preschool Language Scale-4. The results indicated significant differences between groups for home literacy experiences and observed parent and child behaviors. Parents of children with hearing loss were found to read more frequently to their children than parents of children with typical hearing, yet scored lower for literacy strategies and teaching techniques compared to parents of children with typical hearing. Children with hearing loss scored lower in interactive reading behaviors compared to children with typical hearing. For children with hearing loss, frequency of book reading and child interactive reading behaviors were strong predictive factors for children's language skills. These results suggest that families of children with hearing loss would benefit from professional support as they read storybooks to their children. Similarly, children with hearing loss should be encouraged to be more interactive during shared book reading.Item Mt. Pleasant Library: Reading among African Americans in 19th Century Rush County(Black History News and Notes, 2005-11) O'Bryan, AnnIn frontier Indiana, beginning in the 1820s, several settlements of free African Americans grew and flourished. Many of the settlers came from Virginia and North Carolina, where earlier settlers, many of them Quakers, had originated. One of those settlements, called the Beech Settlement, developed in Rush County, Indiana, from the late 1820’s. Like other African Americans in antebellum U.S., the settlers of the Beech were anxious to educate themselves and their children. Indeed, the lack of access to education in the South was an important motivation for migration. Despite the difficulties and hard work of creating farms on the frontier, they early on established schools and churches in their communities. Further, the residents of the Beech went beyond teaching and organized a library that was organized, maintained, and used during the years 1842-1869. This article aims to create a portrait of a community of mid-19th century rural African American readers and users of their community library.Item Reading and Print Culture in a 19th C. African American Farm Community(2012-10) O'Bryan, AnnIn 1954, Indianapolis resident Mary Jeffries Strong donated to the Indiana Historical Society what remained of a rural library in a 19th century African American settlement in central Indiana. The gift included two manuscript books – one with the circulation records, the other containing the minutes of the meetings of the library officers – and a collection of books. Mrs. Strong had kept the collection since the death of her uncle, who had been a teacher and major organizer of the library. My project involves using the manuscripts and other primary sources, including census data, newspapers, genealogy records, and personal interviews with descendants, to reveal a community of readers in rural Indiana ca. 1840-1870.Item Using Heuristics to Guide Collaboration: A Classroom Teacher and University Faculty Members Teach Together(Indiana State Reading Association, 2017) Mattingly, David; Daley, Sharon; Conner-Zachocki, Jenny; Education-IUPUC