Congratulations to the Illinois librarians and academic professionals publishing in Spring of 2015! The past several months saw book and article publications on library assessment, less commonly taught language collections, grey literature, loaning technology, and more. The following publications have been submitted to the blog. Significant research publications from those listed below are also added to the Major Publications by Library Faculty Database.

• Dougan, Kirstin. Finding the Right Notes: An Observational Study of Score and Recording Seeking Behaviors of Music Students. The Journal of Academic Librarianship 41.1 (2015): 61-67.
• Downie, J. Stephen, Kirstin Dougan, Sayan Bhattacharyya, and Colleen Fallaw. The HathiTrust Corpus: A Digital Library for Musicology Research?. The 1st International Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop, ACM/IEEE Digital Libraries 2014 76.2 (2014).
• Farkas, Meredith Gorran, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, and Amy Harris Houk. Bridges and Barriers: Factors Influencing a Culture of Assessment in Academic Libraries. College & Research Libraries 76.2 (2015): 150-169.
• Hahn, James F. The Student/Library Collaborative: Senior Undergraduate Computer Science Course Projects at the University of Illinois Library. portal: Libraries and the Academy 15.2 (2015): 287-298.
• Hensley, Merinda Kaye. The Scholarly Commons: Emerging Research Services for Graduate Students and Faculty. Rethinking Library Reference for Academic Libraries: Innovative Developments and Future Trends. Ed. by Carrie Forbes and Jennifer Bowers. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015: 17-33.
• Lenkart, Joe, Thomas H. Teper, Mara Thacker, and Steven W. Witt. Measuring and Sustaining the Impact of Less Commonly Taught Language Collections in a Research Library. College & Research Libraries 76.2 (2015): 222-233.
• Mestre, Lori S., and Jessica M. LeCrone. Elevating the Student Assistant: An Integrated Development Program for Student Library Assistants. College & Undergraduate Libraries 22.1 (2015): 1-20.
• Murphy, Stephen J., Lívia D. Audino, James Whitacre, Jenalle L. Eck, John W. Wenzel, Simon A. Queenborough, and Liza S. Comita. Species Associations Structured by Environment and Land-Use History Promote Beta-Diversity in a Temperate Forest. Ecology 96.3 (2015): 705–715.
• Rudasill, Lynne M. Changing Dimensions of Libraries in the Internet Era: Grey Literature and Scholarly Communication. Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Emerging Trends and Technologies in Libraries and Information Services (2015): 53-57.
• Rudasill, Lynne M. The IFLA Trend Report: Looking Beyond the Walls in Library Planning. Journal of Library Administration 55.2 (2015): 153-164.
• Sander, Janelle, Lori S. Mestre, and Eric Kurt. Going Beyond Loaning Books to Loaning Technologies: A Practical Guide for Librarians. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015.
• Simmons, Heather J.E. Categorizing the Useful Arts: Past, Present, and Future Development of Patent Classification in the United States. Law Library Journal 106.4 (2014): 563-577.
• Slyder, Jake, James Whitacre, and John Wenzel. Painting a Clearer Picture of Shale Gas Development. ArcNews 37 (2015): 20-21.
• Teper, Thomas H., et al. HathiTrust Print Monographs Archive Planning Task Force: Final Report. Submitted to the HathiTrust on March 20, 2015.
• Thacker, Mara. Beyond the Library of Congress: Collecting Practices of South Asia Area Specialist Librarians. Library Resources & Technical Services 59.2 (2015): 72-83.