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Booklists: Should- And Want-To-Reads, Stephanie Wiegand, Sarah Naper
Booklists: Should- And Want-To-Reads, Stephanie Wiegand, Sarah Naper
University Libraries Faculty Publications
Booklists ... librarians love them, but they also raise many questions. This session explores where today's libraries fit in the dichotomy between what we 'should read,' what we 'want to read.' Our first stop on this exploration will be the concept of a booklist. Highlights of this part of the adventure will be: testing attendee's knowledge of current booklists, a review of booklist sources, and identification of OCLC booklist highlights. The literary canon will be the second focus of our session. After defining this concept, we will ask attendees to join us in a discussion of the library's role in …
Developing A Meaningful Digital Self-Archiving Model: Archival Theory Vs. Natural Behavior In The Minds Of Carolina Project, Megan A. Winget, Marisa L. Ramirez
Developing A Meaningful Digital Self-Archiving Model: Archival Theory Vs. Natural Behavior In The Minds Of Carolina Project, Megan A. Winget, Marisa L. Ramirez
Library Scholarship
This paper will review the findings from a research project concluded in 2004, which had the primary goal of learning more about the natural behaviors of people choosing materials for inclusion in a digital archive. Project participants, retiring faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had a number of tasks to perform. They had to 1) survey and choose the materials to include in the archive; 2) develop a “collection development plan” defining the nature of their materials, their intended audience, and the organizational scheme of their collection; 3) provide materials for digitization; 4) supply metadata for …
Lacuny Executive Council Meeting Minutes, October 19 2006, Lacuny
Lacuny Executive Council Meeting Minutes, October 19 2006, Lacuny
Meeting Minutes
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The Last Few American Indian Treaties – An Extension Of The Charles J. Kappler Indian Affairs: Laws And Treaties Internet Site At The Oklahoma State University, Charles D. Bernholz, Brian L. Pytlik Zillig, Laura K. Weakly, Zacharia A. Bajaber
The Last Few American Indian Treaties – An Extension Of The Charles J. Kappler Indian Affairs: Laws And Treaties Internet Site At The Oklahoma State University, Charles D. Bernholz, Brian L. Pytlik Zillig, Laura K. Weakly, Zacharia A. Bajaber
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
In a previous discussion [Bernholz, C. D., & Holcombe, S. L. (2005). The Charles J. Kappler Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties Internet site at the Oklahoma State University [The url for this resource is http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/] Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, 29, 82-89], an electronic collation of documents created by American Indians tribes and the federal government was presented as an effective collection development resource. That digital work provides the final text of 366 of the 375 American Indian treaties recognized by the United States Department of State. This research note describes an electronic suite that supplies access to the …
Tying Collection Development's Loose Ends With Interlibrary Loan, Margie Ruppel
Tying Collection Development's Loose Ends With Interlibrary Loan, Margie Ruppel
Margie Ruppel
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to discover the characteristics and quality of interlibrary loan (ILL) titles, and determine whether purchasing ILL titles is a useful collection development method.
Design/methodology/approach - The study analyzed document containing 18,322 monographic education and psychology monographs borrowed by Southern Illinois University Carbondale patrons through I-Share, Illinois' statewide catalog, during the 2004 calendar year. Education and psychology books account for 574 of the 18,322 titles. The study located 132 reviews for 92 of the titles by searching PsycINFO and Education Abstracts. It recorded reviewer recommendation, publication date, publisher, source of review, and list …