Article discussing copyright, open access, and library instruction.

This article is from the 2014 Chair of the American Library Association (ALA) Government Documents Round Table (GODART) discussing developing advocates and communicating value.

This article is from the 2014 Chair of the American Library Association (ALA) Government Documents Round Table (GODART) discussing collaborating for success.

Preface to the 2014 edition of The Eagle Feather.

Article on implementing a collaborative workflow for metadata analysis, quality improvement, and mapping.

Article on creating a faculty book delivery service and supporting faculty research.

This article discusses spiritually transformative experiences and how they differ from psychotic experiences, including the context, content, how the experience is remembered, and effect on the individual.

Brief paper discussing after-death communication with children and how it affects their relationships with their parents.

Brief paper discussing the use of induced after-death communication to help resolve grief.

Brief paper discussing the origin and workings of Spiritist Centers and Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil.

Brief paper discussing correlations between near-death phenomena and quantum theory in relation to consciousness.

Brief paper discussing the results of a phenomenological study to evaluate spiritual crisis and emergency among Christian women.

Abstract: Extraordinary spiritual experiences (ESEs) events that appear to be direct perception of spiritual facts, have a history in Western societies of being stigmatized and pathologized except within very limited religious contexts. That negative view has caused real harm to many "visionaries." But in the latter 20th century, social science research began to show that ESEs are actually common in the general population and that they are normal. Near-death experiences are a well-known example. The growing body of research literature suggests that many conventional theories about spirituality are empirically mistaken and that ESEs may have the potential to be powerfully health promoting. This emerging evidence creates both a great ethical obligation and a research opportunity.

Article on enhancing descriptive metadata records with freely-available Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

Article discussing mentoring and growing library leaders.

Article discussing a case study of the UNT Libraries digital collections and managing serials in a large digital library.

Article on librarians and technology and things to consider.

Article discussing a project by the UNT Libraries to purchase e-book readers for students purchasing digital textbooks.

Article discussing interviews with the Special Interest Group/International Information Issues (SIG/III) co-founders Toni Carbo and Michel Menou.

Article introducing a special section of the Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) featuring interviews, discussions of ASIS&T chapters and SIGs roles, networking activities, and past and current organizational initiatives.

Abstract: Decades of studies on near-death experiences (NDEs) have reveals both cross-cultural and culture-specific features (Kellehear, 2009) and that it is important to determine which aspects are attributed to the physiological, biological, or psychological mechanisms shared by all humans and which aspects are of cultural origin. In this article, we examine Japanese NDEs and compare their features with generalizations based on observations of Western NDEs. The main differences between Japanese and Western NDEs are the interpretation of the light and the concomitant lack of interaction with it, the image of heaven, and the absence of the life review. We suggest that these characteristics are accounted for in terms of cultural differences.

Article comparing near-death experiences (NDEs) to the philosophy described in the spiritual text A Course in Miracles (1976). It provides an overview of the text's philosophy, previous literature comparing the text to NDEs, and an analysis of how the philosophies are similar and different, with references to specific cases.

Article discussing a study concerning administrative support provided to encourage the research and publishing activities of academic librarians.

Article discussing a case study at the University of North Texas (UNT) on an analysis of URL references in electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).