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California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Library and Information Science

2003

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Flow: Co-Constructing Low Barrier Repository Infrastructure In Support Of Heterogeneous Knowledge Collection(S), Karen S. Baker, Anna K. Gold, Frank Sudholt May 2003

Flow: Co-Constructing Low Barrier Repository Infrastructure In Support Of Heterogeneous Knowledge Collection(S), Karen S. Baker, Anna K. Gold, Frank Sudholt

Robert E. Kennedy Library

Institutional repositories are being constructed today to address the needs of scholarly communication in a digital environment. The success of such institutional infrastructures as knowledge collections depends in part on offering low barriers for participation and on supporting heterogeneous knowledge inputs and outputs. The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) in partnership with CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research), the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Science & Engineering Library, has modified CERN’s CDSware software to initiate the process of creating a local low barrier repository.

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Building Research Skills: Course-Integrated Training Methods, Adriana Popescu, Radu Popescu Jan 2003

Building Research Skills: Course-Integrated Training Methods, Adriana Popescu, Radu Popescu

Library Scholarship

An enriched syllabus has been experimentally introduced to undergraduate level students enrolled in a geotechnical engineering course. Two research assignments have been integrated in the course, which require students to find information on a geotechnical engineering topic using both print and electronic resources available at the university library and on the Internet. Aiming to foster the development of technical information literacy and communication skills, the students are required to prepare a report based on a specific set of guidelines, followed by oral presentations of the topics researched. Between the two assignments, a lecture on the subject of identifying and using …

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