Robin Davis

Works (14)

Updated: April 4th, 2024 05:06

2022 journal article

Snippets, subject lines, and exclamation points: A case study in constructing better library emails

Weave: Journal of Library User Experience, 10(2).

By: R. Davis , M. Partlow , D. Pearce & S. Sheffield 

Contributors: R. Davis , M. Partlow , D. Pearce & S. Sheffield 

Source: ORCID
Added: October 28, 2022

2020 journal article

Internet Connection: AI and Libraries: Supporting Machine Learning Work

Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 36(3), 109–112.

By: R. Davis n 

TL;DR: It seems as though every new product has some kind of “AI” at its core, and even library conferences seem overtaken by this kind of technology. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: November 8, 2020

2020 journal article

Uncovering the Mystery of How Users Find and Use eBooks through Guerilla Usability Testing

SERIALS REVIEW, 46(3), 193–200.

By: R. Davis n  & X. Song n

author keywords: Ebook discovery; user research
TL;DR: This case study focuses on user research that was conducted to enhance users’ ebook discovery experience by seeking the users” perspectives, and coordinated guerilla usability testing in the library lobby. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 7, 2020

2019 journal article

Digital privacy resources for you, your library, and your library’s patrons

Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian.

Robin Davis

Source: ORCID
Added: December 5, 2019

2019 journal article

Introducing first-year and transfer students to a college library with a historical mystery from the special collections

College & Undergraduate Libraries, 26(4), 278–300.

By: R. Davis n 

author keywords: Escape room; first-year students; game-based learning; information literacy; library instruction; transfer students
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Source: ORCID
Added: December 5, 2019

2017 journal article

The LMS and the Library

Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian.

Robin Davis

TL;DR: Five ways that libraries can be incorporated into an LMS are given, ordered from easiest to most difficult to scale, or, in other words, least to most personal. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: December 5, 2019

2016 journal article

APIs and Libraries

Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 35(4), 192–195.

By: R. Davis* 

TL;DR: This column introduces application programming interfaces (APIs) and discusses how APIs are used in various library projects and includes a table of library-related APIs from organizations such as OCLC, Ex Libris, and the New York Public Library. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: October 31, 2019

2016 journal article

Annotate the Web: Four Ways to Mark Up Web Content

Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 35(1), 46–49.

By: R. Davis* 

TL;DR: Four tools for private or public web annotation are examined, Hypothesis and Genius offer users a shareable way to annotate webpages line by line and start conversations in the margins, and Pinboard and Evernote allow users to organize and save web documents and add private annotations. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: October 31, 2019

2016 journal article

Hackathons for Libraries and Librarians

Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 35(2), 87–91.

By: R. Davis* 

TL;DR: Libraries and librarians can get involved in hackathons, in which attendees form teams and work on a project together within a given time limit. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Source: ORCID
Added: October 31, 2019

2016 journal article

Make a Twitter Bot in Python: Iterative Code Examples

Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/make-a-twitter-bot-in-python-iterative-code-examples/

By: R. Davis  & M. Eaton

jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu
Source: ORCID
Added: October 31, 2019

2016 journal article

The Future of Web Citation Practices

Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 35(3), 128–134.

By: R. Davis* 

TL;DR: Several studies showing how reference rot has affected different academic disciplines are looked at; emerging Web citation practices: Perma, a “freemium” Web archiving service specifically for citation; and the Internet Archive, the largest Web archive are examined. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: October 31, 2019

2015 journal article

Git and GitHub for Librarians

Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 34(3), 158–164.

By: R. Davis* 

TL;DR: In this article, version control, the particulars of Git, the burgeoning social network of GitHub, and how Git can be an archival tool are examined. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: October 31, 2019

2015 journal article

Synchronizing Oral History Text and Speech: A Tools Overview

Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 34(4), 234–238.

By: R. Davis* 

TL;DR: Three tools that synchronize sound and text for online oral history collections are explored: the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS), the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), and YouTube. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Source: ORCID
Added: November 19, 2019

2015 journal article

Teaching the Network: A Brief Demonstration of the Internet's Structure for Information Literacy Instruction

Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 34(2), 88–94.

By: R. Davis* 

TL;DR: “traceroute” and “whois” commands are demonstrated as tools that librarians can use to illustrate how the Internet is geographically distributed, how businesses enable and control information sharing, and how to check a source's credibility by determining website ownership. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Source: ORCID
Added: October 31, 2019

Employment

Updated: October 27th, 2022 09:28

2019 - present

NC State University Raleigh, NC, US
Associate Head, User Experience Libraries

2012 - 2019

John Jay College of Criminal Justice New York, NY, US
Emerging Technologies & Distance Services Librarian Library

Education

Updated: May 6th, 2015 15:05

2013 - present

City University of New York Graduate School and University Center New York, NY, US
MA Linguistics

2010 - 2012

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL, US
MLIS Graduate School of Library and Information Science

2006 - 2010

Brown University Providence, RI, US
AB English

Funding History

Funding history based on the linked ORCID record. Updated: July 6th, 2018 13:59

grant
Writing Against the Machine: Toward Stylometric Obfuscation
PSC-CUNY

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