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Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Michele Villagran
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Michele Villagran
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Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw is one of the nation’s largest corporate law firms with offices in seven US cities and eight cities overseas. The firm, founded in 1881, has headquarters in Chicago, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Charlotte, Washington D.C. and Palo Alto. Overseas offices are in London, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, Shanghai and Beijing. The firm has more than 1300 attorneys and 566 partners. We spoke with Michelle Lucero, Legal Information Manager and Director of the Houston Office.
Commons-Based Digital Libraries, Anita Coleman
Commons-Based Digital Libraries, Anita Coleman
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This is a presentation of 30 slides at the Brown Bag Series, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana on 31 March 2006. Abstract: Commons-based digital libraries are an emerging phenomenon. They are based on a new vision of digital information organization and use. A definition of commons-based digital libraries, some examples, fundamental characteristics, emerging information behaviors, and preliminary results from a scholarly communication survey of LIS faculty will be presented.
Metadata Education And Research Information Clearinghouse (Meric): Web Prototype, Anita Coleman
Metadata Education And Research Information Clearinghouse (Meric): Web Prototype, Anita Coleman
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This is a presentation of 15 slides at the Metadata Education Resources Clearinghouse: Background and Future Plans session sponsored by the Technical Services SIG at the 2006 Annual Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), 17 January, 2006, San Antonio, Texas. Explains the rationale for the design of the prototype
Findings From A Study Of Jelis, Anita Coleman
Findings From A Study Of Jelis, Anita Coleman
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This is a presentation of 29 slides at the Scholarly Communication panel session of the 2006 Annual Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education, 19 January, 2006, San Antonio, Texas. Reports the findings from a study that investigated the value of the Journal of Education for Library & Information Science (JELIS). As far as growth is concerned, JELIS is in a holding pattern. Practitioners have decreased as authors and most articles continue to focus on Curriculum in library schools. Articles on distance education and cognition are increasing as are authors from foreign countries (outside US and Canada), …
William Stetson Merrill And Bricolage For Information Studies, Anita Coleman
William Stetson Merrill And Bricolage For Information Studies, Anita Coleman
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Purpose – This paper examines William Stetson Merrill, the compiler of A Code for Classifiers and a Newberry Library employee (1889‐1930) in an attempt to glean lessons for modern information studies from an early librarian's career. Design/methodology/approach – Merrill's career at the Newberry Library and three editions of the code are briefly examined using historical, bibliographic, and conceptual methods. Primary and secondary sources in archives and libraries are summarized to provide insight into Merrill's attempts to develop or modify tools to solve the knowledge organization problems he faced. The concept of bricolage, developed by Levi‐Strauss to explain modalities of thinking, …
Usability Of The Digital Library: An Evaluation Model, Judy Jeng
Usability Of The Digital Library: An Evaluation Model, Judy Jeng
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Summary report from the 2004 ACRL Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship recipient