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Libraries As Publishers: Who, What, Why?, Mark J. Caprio
Libraries As Publishers: Who, What, Why?, Mark J. Caprio
Mark J Caprio
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Silent Film Online, Julie A. Decesare
Silent Film Online, Julie A. Decesare
Julie A DeCesare
Alexander Street Press (ASP) has become a leader in providing libraries and institutions access to streaming video and multimedia content. Since 2006, their offerings of online and streaming video databases have grown quickly. Recently, they released Silent Film Online (SFO), a collection of silent films, clips, trailers, and documentaries about filmmaking during the silent film era. ASP pricing is average for this content, and flexible, based on type of institution, budget, and FTE. Annual subscription or one time purchase of perpetual rights are options. Like other ASP online video databases, functionality is high. ASP is currently in beta with a …
Streaming Video Resources For Teaching, Learning, And Research, Julie A. Decesare
Streaming Video Resources For Teaching, Learning, And Research, Julie A. Decesare
Julie A DeCesare
In less than 10 years the availability of digitally converted or born digital video, has grown exponentially. Libraries and librarians are constantly navigating, and helping their patrons navigate, this shift from analog to digital. For access to video, our libraries are challenged by an individual consumer marketplace, where institutional access is often limited and expensive. Due to limitations of streaming content, licensing and copyright issues for use in learning management systems and public performance screenings, and time and budgetary issues surrounding the conversion of analog to digital formats, public and educational institutions are still very reliant on physical formats. Patron …
Publishing Inti: A Suite Of Services Case Study, Mark J. Caprio, Christiane M. Landry
Publishing Inti: A Suite Of Services Case Study, Mark J. Caprio, Christiane M. Landry
Mark J Caprio
Discusses the development of Providence College’s Phillips Memorial Library+Commons Digital Publishing Services (DPS) Department and its evolving collaborative partnership with the faculty editor of Inti: La revista de literatura hispánica, a paper subscription-based, peer-reviewed journal. Beginning with digitization and publication through Providence College’s institutional repository (IR) of the earliest issues, the paper details the evolution of the partnership through support for digital print-on-demand and creation of a companion website for both promoting forthcoming issues and for exploring new forms of “writing” and expression through digital media.
If You Built It, They Will Come: Strategies For Developing An Undergraduate Research Conference, Mark J. Caprio, Robert B. Hackey
If You Built It, They Will Come: Strategies For Developing An Undergraduate Research Conference, Mark J. Caprio, Robert B. Hackey
Mark J Caprio
The benefits of conference participation for undergraduates are now well understood, but the same cannot be said for the practical question of how to create and fund such opportunities for students, particularly at smaller liberal arts colleges. We seek to provide faculty and students with useful lessons for organizing, funding, and disseminating student research presented at discipline-specific undergraduate conferences. Hosting an undergraduate research conference pays dividends for faculty and students by a) providing incentives for undergraduates to revise and extend seminar papers for presentation, b) creating opportunities for students and faculty to meet and discuss their work among students with …
Student Publishing: Future Scholars As Change Agents, Mark J. Caprio
Student Publishing: Future Scholars As Change Agents, Mark J. Caprio
Mark J Caprio
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight undergraduates as an emergent student–scholar author group and to encourage institutions to take a future-oriented view, focusing greater attention to and support of undergraduate’s publishing. Design/methodology/approach – Highlighting benefits derived from undergraduate research (UR) experiences and publishing taken from the literature and experienced through local practice (Providence College), presenting pedagogical models for transforming students into independent thinkers (students as scholars) and responding to business and non-profit leader graduate skills requests of higher education, this paper argues for the need to cultivate graduate attributes (requisite 21st century workforce skills, abilities and …