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Scholarworks Usage Report, 11-2014, Scholarworks Dec 2014

Scholarworks Usage Report, 11-2014, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, November 2014.


Scholarworks Usage Report, 12-2014, Scholarworks Dec 2014

Scholarworks Usage Report, 12-2014, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, December 2014.


Scholarworks Usage Report, 10-2014, Scholarworks Nov 2014

Scholarworks Usage Report, 10-2014, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, October 2014.


Friends Of The Brooks Library Newsletter, October 2014, Friends Of The Brooks Library Oct 2014

Friends Of The Brooks Library Newsletter, October 2014, Friends Of The Brooks Library

Friends of the Brooks Library

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Scholarworks Usage Report, 09-2014, Scholarworks Sep 2014

Scholarworks Usage Report, 09-2014, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, September 2014.


Scholarworks Usage Report, 08-2014, Scholarworks Aug 2014

Scholarworks Usage Report, 08-2014, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, August 2014.


Scholarworks Usage Report, 07-2014, Scholarworks Jul 2014

Scholarworks Usage Report, 07-2014, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, July 2014.


Internet Reviews: Iucn Red List Of Threatened Species, John Creech Jul 2014

Internet Reviews: Iucn Red List Of Threatened Species, John Creech

Library Scholarship

This review evaluates the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)'s Red List of Threatened Species (available at http://www.iucnredlist.org).


Scholarworks Usage Report, 06-2014, Scholarworks Jun 2014

Scholarworks Usage Report, 06-2014, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, June 2014.


Scholarworks Usage Report, 05-2014, Scholarworks May 2014

Scholarworks Usage Report, 05-2014, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, May 2014.


Understanding Ultimate Use Data And Its Implication For Digital Library Management: A Case Study, Michele Reilly, Santi Thompson May 2014

Understanding Ultimate Use Data And Its Implication For Digital Library Management: A Case Study, Michele Reilly, Santi Thompson

Library Scholarship

Information professionals and librarians have been studying, discussing, and developing digital libraries for over two decades, but understanding ultimate use of images from digital libraries remains a mystery for many of them. Most articles written on digital library use focus on users’ search retrieval needs and behavior. Few mention how digital library patrons use the images they request. Like many digital libraries, archives, and special collections, the University of Houston Digital Library makes high resolution images available to their patrons. Image delivery is achieved by an automated system, titled the Digital Cart Service. An unexpected benefit of the Digital Cart …


Scholarworks Usage Report, 04-2014, Scholarworks Apr 2014

Scholarworks Usage Report, 04-2014, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, April 2014.


Finding Roots, Gems, And Inspiration: Understanding Ultimate Use Of Digital Materials, Santi Thompson, Michele Reilly Apr 2014

Finding Roots, Gems, And Inspiration: Understanding Ultimate Use Of Digital Materials, Santi Thompson, Michele Reilly

Library Scholarship

The University of Houston Digital Library (UHDL) is the point of virtual access for digitized cultural, historical and research materials for the university’s libraries. UHDL developed a "digital cart” system (DCS) that allow users to download high resolution images from its collections. The DCS records important information supplied by the user regarding the ultimate use of the downloaded images. Until now, no formal analysis of the transaction log for the DCS has been completed. This research is significant because little is known about the ultimate use of digital library materials. Current literature suggests that this problem is not uncommon among …


Internet Reviews: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility, John Creech Feb 2014

Internet Reviews: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility, John Creech

Library Scholarship

This column comprises a review of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) portal, which is maintained by some 52 participating countries and dozens of scientific organizations. The GBIF provides access to approximately 417 million individual occurrences of organisms. It is recommended for serious students, faculty instructors and research scientists.


Citizen Krueger: An Examination Of Cultural Province And Community Preservation, Stephen Hussman Jan 2014

Citizen Krueger: An Examination Of Cultural Province And Community Preservation, Stephen Hussman

Library Scholarship

This study describes the efforts of an educator to both engage and enlighten his local community regarding the importance of preserving primary resources, and a brief community history highlighting its origin. Finally, this study offers a narrative regarding a community’s collaborative effort to re-discover and reclaim its identity.


Supporting The Next-Generation Ils: The Changing Roles Of Systems Librarians, Ping Fu Jan 2014

Supporting The Next-Generation Ils: The Changing Roles Of Systems Librarians, Ping Fu

Library Scholarship

This paper compares current responsibilities of systems librarians supporting the traditional ILS with anticipated responsibilities associated with supporting the next-generation ILS and examines how the roles of systems librarians will change in migrating to the next generation ILS from the traditional ILS. The method used for this study is content analysis. The content sources are online job banks for keeping an archive of past listings over the past five years. The analysis results demonstrate a shift is happening where the primary roles and responsibilities of systems librarians supporting the next-generation ILS are becoming more human/organizations related, while those positions supporting …