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What Is A Metadata Librarian?, Karen Miller, Kristin Martin, Ellen Corrigan

Ellen K. Corrigan

Panel discussion on the role of the metadata librarian in academic libraries. Drawing from their own experiences, three Illinois academic librarians address topics including the training and skills needed, as well as the duties and challenges of the position. Part of the DCUG "Metadata Matters" webinar series.Webinar recording available via http://www.carli.illinois.edu/mem-serv/mem-train/10falldcug.html. Presentation was recorded on: Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 10:00am – 11:00am

What Is A Metadata Librarian?, Karen Miller, Kristin Martin, Ellen Kathryn Corrigan

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

Panel discussion on the role of the metadata librarian in academic libraries. Drawing from their own experiences, three Illinois academic librarians address topics including the training and skills needed, as well as the duties and challenges of the position. Part of the DCUG "Metadata Matters" webinar series.

Webinar recording available via http://www.carli.illinois.edu/mem-serv/mem-train/10falldcug.html. Presentation was recorded on: Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 10:00am – 11:00am

A College Library, Its Print Monograph Collection And The New Information Ecology, Bob Kieft

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Archiving Your Research: The Unm Institutional Repository, Amy S. Jackson

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Digital Commons Initiatives At The Ames Library, Stephanie Davis-Kahl

Stephanie Davis-Kahl

No abstract provided.

Science And Technology Resources On The Internet: Selected Internet Resources On Digital Research Data Curation, Brian Westra, Marisa Ramirez, Susan Wells Parham, Jeanine Marie Scaramozzino

Library Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Digitalcommons@Calpoly: A Case Study On The Development And Implementation Of The Institutional Repository, Marisa Ramirez

Library Scholarship

Academe first took notice of institutional repositories (IRs) in 2002, when universities began offering in-house services to manage and disseminate digital materials created by students and faculty. These repositories developed in response to profound changes, both in the needs of faculty and students and in scholarly communication itself. As the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) notes, “…This increased visibility [and] demonstration of value can translate into tangible benefits, including the funding – from both public and private sources – that derives in part from an institution's status and reputation.”¹

The Cal Poly Provost and the Library Director …

Institutional Repositories: A Disruptive Response To An Established Paradigm, Mark J. Caprio

Mark J Caprio

Presentation focused on Institutional Repositories as a disruptive technology, and as an essential system for the new unit of scholarly communication, that is, the complex digital object, components of which may exit in distributed environments.

Collaborative Learning And Convergence: Library Strategies And Solutions With An Eye On The Usg Information Technology Strategic Plan, Robert W. Fernekes, Lori Jean Ostapowicz Critz

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article discusses collaborative learning as a library strategy of the University System of Georgia (USG) Information Technology Strategic Plan 2010 and the role of convergence in fostering it. It is stated that collaborative learning enables people to achieve quality learning by way of efficient technologies and its integration with content and environments that will benefit people and institutions. Convergence reportedly refers to the integration of distinct library services that will support the shared purpose of learning.

Georgia Library Quarterly, Fall 2010, Susan Cooley

Georgia Library Quarterly

Complete issue of Georgia Library Quarterly, Fall 2010, vol. 47, no. 4.

Global Adoption Of Electronic Theses And Dissertations, Dillip K. Swain

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) are being adopted by more and more universities. As a primary source of information, theses and dissertations are particularly useful to researchers, but most languish in obscurity in university libraries and archives. The best way to make use of theses and dissertations is through electronic publication and online access. This paper looks at the status of use and adoption of ETDs in various different parts of the world, describes the history and development of ETDs, key issues governing ETD projects, potential merits of ETDs for effective teaching and research, and ETD initiatives in India.

Pirus2: Creating A Common Standard For Measuring Online Usage Of Individual Articles, Peter Shepherd, Paul Needham

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

And They Were There-Reports Of Meetings, Ramune K. Kubilius

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Acrl New England Scholarly Communication Special Interest Group Workshop: Partnering With Faculty: Scholarly Communication Conversations, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

Report on a workshop held by the Scholarly Communications Interest Group of the Association of College and Research Libraries, New England Chapter (ACRL/NEC), an independent chapter of ACRL. The workshop, titled "Partnering with Faculty: Scholarly Communication Conversations" was held on July 29, 2010 at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Massachusetts.

Information And Communication Technologies Enabled Paradigm Shift And New Practices In Libraries, Muhammad Ramzan Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Traditionally libraries have been dealing with the recorded knowledge. The changes in the formats of writing and access have historically influenced the libraries use of technologies. However, the wonderful invention of computer and information access technologies has drastically influenced recording, organization and access to knowledge. Since then the libraries are in a continued change mood. The shifts from physical to virtual, direct access to authors and instant access to globally available knowledge from remote locations are changing the whole scenario of the library profession. Academic libraries being in the forefront of the creation and use of scholarship and knowledge are …

Open Access Availability Of Publications Of Faculty In Three Engineering Disciplines, Virginia A. Baldwin

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

The analysis presented here provides a snapshot in time of the open access online availability of the five most recent works of engineering faculty in five institutions that overall have heavily populated institutional repositories. The incentive for the study was to provide a measure of the inclination of engineering faculty in specific disciplines to provide open access to their most current manuscripts or articles. The Web of Science database was used to choose the five most recent publications for each faculty member in each of three disciplines: civil, chemical, and mechanical engineering. The study was done for the five United …

Digital Video Communication And Preservation For Educational Purposes, Chelsea Lyon

Graphic Communication

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the benefits of digital video to communicate and preserve scholarly work. This study asks the question: How can digital video benefit communication and scholarly work? Combining both visuals and audio, digital video has become a unique educational tool between scholars and students alike to communicate, teach, and learn. As technology advances, the creation, preservation, and viewing of digital video continues to increase; however, so do the challenges that arise as a result. Digital video currently faces challenges in defining and effectively managing metadata standards for media files, bridging a gap between traditional …

Open Access Repositories: A Review, Mohammad Hanief Bhat

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This article reviews recent literature on open access (OA) repositories and explores issues such as author attitudes, publisher participation, government and university initiatives, and barriers to OA.

Coordinating And Marketing Digital Collections, Barbara Lewis

Barbara Lewis

Coordinating and Marketing Digital Collections

1. What is a digital collection?

2. Staffing / Organization

3. Project management

4. Grant opportunities

5. Reaching your audience

6. Collection portals/guides and more

Data Curation And Libraries: Short-Term Developments, Long-Term Prospects, Anna Gold

Robert E. Kennedy Library

This paper was prepared as background for a talk given at AGU 2009 on “Data & Libraries.” It summarizes the developments and events from late 2006 through early 2010 that are shaping library roles in scientific data curation while underscoring the range, complexity, and varying granularity of systems, actions, and efforts involved. The main conclusions are: (1) leaders of major research libraries have committed their institutions to support data curation. (2) The library profession has demonstrated significant conceptual progress in characterizing and understanding data curation both in theory and in practice. (3) There has been progress since 2006 in legitimizing …

Improving Our Local Electronic Serials Through Standardization And Migration To New Platforms, Wendy C. Robertson

Wendy C Robertson

The University of Iowa has several currently published journals scattered across the institution, many on out dated simple html sites. We also have a small but growing group of digitized older titles. We are beginning to implement bepress, are continuing to use CONTENTdm, and are a partner in the Hathi Trust. Each of these tools will play a role in our local serials. We are trying to bring some order to the chaos by pulling the titles together, using appropriate tools. We will work closely with campus partners to encourage serials will be most effectively discovered, linked to and archived. …

Exile And Montage: Josep Renaus Reckoning With Community And Self, Claire-Lise Bénaud, Suzanne M. Schadl

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

This paper examines Spanish photomontagist, Josep Renaus artistic progression through two exiles (the first in Mexico and the second in East Germany) as an example in which an individual defines his cultural identity first in the context of community, a collective leftist-socialist identity, and then as Stuart Hall points out in terms of 'difference.' When history reveals to Renau his separation from the community, he has no choice but to find himself in an expression of difference — not from the home he makes for himself in Mexico so much as from the neighbor he must criticize in order to …

Digital Preservation: An Historical Perspective And Overview, Peter D. Verheyen

Peter D Verheyen

Introduces the concepts of digital preservation to library school students beginning with various historic analog formats through current cooperative project such as LOCKSS, Fedora, ...

Scholarly Communication And Content Recruitment For Institutional Repository (Presentation For Gradlis 9315), Adrian K. Ho

Adrian K. Ho

No abstract provided.

Scholarly Communication And Content Recruitment For Institutional Repository (Presentation For Gradlis 9315), Adrian K. Ho

Western Libraries Presentations

No abstract provided.

Public Services Department : Annual Report : 2009 - 2010, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Coming Home: Scholarly Publishing Returns To The University, Linda L. Phillips

Other Library Publications and Works

For more than two decades visionary university administrators and librarians have urged the scholarly community to recognize the value of its intellectual capital beyond promotion, tenure, and academic prominence. Publishing in its broadest sense encompasses the production and dissemination of information for public access; scholarly publishing includes peer-reviewed literature in books and journals, as well as conference papers, technical reports, working papers, data sets and emerging forms of scholarship presented in numerous multimedia formats. Today’s academic publishing environment is a complex amalgam of technological capability, economic realities, and emerging social networking practices pushing the boundaries of the traditional scholarly publishing …

Creating Metadata Best Practices For Contentdm Users, Myung-Ja Han, Sheila A. Bair, Jason Lee

University Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

The OCLC CONTENTdm Metadata Working Group was formed in response to research demonstrating the need for guidelines and best practices for creating quality Dublin Core metadata, which is useful to the primary user community and “shareable” outside of the local context. The CONTENTdm Metadata Working Group has worked since August 2009 in a test environment to develop best practices for creating Dublin Core metadata in CONTENTdm and mapping to MARC to share in WorldCat via the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway, a self-service OAI harvesting tool. The best practice document identifies 12 core elements and four recommended elements, and provides guidelines …

Coral: Usf Libraries Digital Collections Prospectus, Mark I. Greenberg, Barbara I. Lewis, Richard R. Bernardy, Jr.

Mark I. Greenberg

This prospectus seeks to explain why the University of South Florida Libraries Special & Digital Collections Department (SDC) decided during the summer of 2009 to leave DigiTool and build a new digital asset management system (DAMS). It explains what SDC holds most important in a new DAMS and how its new DAMS (CORAL) was built. It discuss CORAL’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats and lays the intellectual framework for possible presentations and publications regarding CORAL.

Coming Home: Scholarly Publishing Returns To The University, Linda L. Phillips

Linda L. Phillips

For more than two decades visionary university administrators and librarians have urged the scholarly community to recognize the value of its intellectual capital beyond promotion, tenure, and academic prominence. Publishing in its broadest sense encompasses the production and dissemination of information for public access; scholarly publishing includes peer-reviewed literature in books and journals, as well as conference papers, technical reports, working papers, data sets and emerging forms of scholarship presented in numerous multimedia formats. Today’s academic publishing environment is a complex amalgam of technological capability, economic realities, and emerging social networking practices pushing the boundaries of the traditional scholarly publishing …