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Hagerty Library Collection Development Internship, James Gross Dec 2014

Hagerty Library Collection Development Internship, James Gross

James Gross

Collection Development Internship at the Drexel University, Hagerty Library. Summary of several collection management projects. Heavy usage of excel for data extraction. Screenshots used for visual aid.


Controlled Vocabulary Standards For Anthropological Datasets, Celia Emmelhainz Jan 2014

Controlled Vocabulary Standards For Anthropological Datasets, Celia Emmelhainz

Celia Emmelhainz

This article seeks to outline the use of controlled vocabulary standards for qualitative datasets in cultural anthropology, which are increasingly held in researcher-accessible government repositories and online digital libraries. As a humanistic science that can address almost any aspect of life with meaning to humans, cultural anthropology has proven difficult for librarians and archivists to effectively organize. Yet as anthropology moves onto the web, the challenge of organizing and curating information within the field only grows. In considering the subject classification of digital information in anthropology, I ask how we might best use controlled vocabularies for indexing digital anthropological data. …


Metadata Survey: Ead Schema Usage Review, James Gross Dec 2013

Metadata Survey: Ead Schema Usage Review, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, INFO 653. A brief review of the EAD schema found in XML encoded finding aids, based on a limited survey. The method of user website access and the percentage of EAD schema usage is briefly reviewed at three library websites: the University of Vermont Library, the Duke University Library, and the University of Chicago Library.


Digital Libraries: Concept Map Exercise, James Gross Nov 2013

Digital Libraries: Concept Map Exercise, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, INFO 653, Assignment #5, Digital Libraries: Concept Map Exercise.


Metadata Standards: A Review Of The Ead (Encoded Archival Description) Standard, James Gross Oct 2013

Metadata Standards: A Review Of The Ead (Encoded Archival Description) Standard, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info 653. Assignment #2: Metadata Standards, A Review of the EAD (Encoded Archival Description) Standard.


Digital Collaboration: The Development Of A National Preservation Program By The Library Of Congress And The Ndiipp, James Gross Jun 2012

Digital Collaboration: The Development Of A National Preservation Program By The Library Of Congress And The Ndiipp, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info756, Professor Matienzo. A review of the national digital preservation program developed and managed by the Library of Congress and the LOC's NDIIPP department.


The Doi Identifier, James Gross Jun 2012

The Doi Identifier, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info 756, Professor Matienzo. Short review of the DOI identifier and its usage to help identify published web based research data.


Digital Preservation Policy Report: University Of Utah Marriot Library Initiative, James Gross May 2012

Digital Preservation Policy Report: University Of Utah Marriot Library Initiative, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, INFO 756, Professor Matienzo, Digital preservation policy report: University of Utah Marriot Library Initiative. Briefly examines four areas of the digital preservation policy initiative as drafted and created by this library.


Personal Digital Information Project, Part 2: Hands-On Exercise, James Gross May 2012

Personal Digital Information Project, Part 2: Hands-On Exercise, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info 756, Professor Matienzo. Digital information class assignment (Part 2, Hands-on exercise) to select an organizational website and review select files for file type usage.


Analytical Essay: The Oais Model And Preservation Planning, James Gross Apr 2012

Analytical Essay: The Oais Model And Preservation Planning, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, INFO 756, Professor Mark Matienzo. Brief analytical essay on the usage of Significant Properties in preservation planning for digital records.


Records Management Case Study: The Historical Society Of Pennsylvania, James Gross Mar 2012

Records Management Case Study: The Historical Society Of Pennsylvania, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info 755, Dr Miller, class assignment #3, Records management case study.


Pdf And Pdf/A: A Technology Used In Creating Records, James Gross Feb 2012

Pdf And Pdf/A: A Technology Used In Creating Records, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info 755, Professor miller, Class assignment #1.


Collection Analysis Report: Falvey Memorial Library, Villanova University, James Gross, Audrey Hamelers, Marie Johnson Mar 2011

Collection Analysis Report: Falvey Memorial Library, Villanova University, James Gross, Audrey Hamelers, Marie Johnson

James Gross

Drexel University, INFO665, Collection Analysis Report. An analysis of two subject area collections and one special emphasis collection within Falvey Memorial Library at Villanova University.


Annotated Bibliography: Collection Development In Archives, James Gross Jun 2010

Annotated Bibliography: Collection Development In Archives, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info 561. Review of select literature on collection development in archives.


Future Of The Public Library, An Ipl Survey, James Gross Jun 2009

Future Of The Public Library, An Ipl Survey, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info 650. Review of select literature on electronic library services, select demographic data regarding digital library access and resources. Examine the trends in the use of digital public library resources and seek to identify the trends for future library resource needs. IPL survey on the Cherry Hill Public Library discussed.


Institutional Report: The Historical Society Of Pennsylvania, James Gross May 2009

Institutional Report: The Historical Society Of Pennsylvania, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info 560.


Library Observation: On-Site Interview And Analysis Of The Cherry Hill Public Library And The Drexel University Hagerty Library, James Gross May 2009

Library Observation: On-Site Interview And Analysis Of The Cherry Hill Public Library And The Drexel University Hagerty Library, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info650, Professor Galbraith.


National Library Of Singapore Review, James Gross Mar 2009

National Library Of Singapore Review, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info 640. Group project to review managerial aspects of the National Library of Singapore.


Legislative Lobbying Library Resource Center: Operating Budget, James Gross Feb 2009

Legislative Lobbying Library Resource Center: Operating Budget, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info 640, Operating Budget assignment.


Critique Of Irmin Allner's Article, "Managerial Leadership In Academic Libraries: Roadblocks To Success", James Gross Jan 2009

Critique Of Irmin Allner's Article, "Managerial Leadership In Academic Libraries: Roadblocks To Success", James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info 640.


Connecting 24/5 To Millennials: Providing Academic Support Services From A Learning Commons, Anne C. Moore, Kimberly Wells Jun 2008

Connecting 24/5 To Millennials: Providing Academic Support Services From A Learning Commons, Anne C. Moore, Kimberly Wells

Anne C. Moore

In response to the seamless academic and personal behavior of Millennial college students, libraries are creating a learning commons in which campus academic support services are integrated with library services to provide everything students need to succeed in a single facility 24 hours a day with food. Roving may be an effective way to satisfy the immediate support needs of students collaborating in these bustling environments. A survey conducted on March 16, 2006 of users of the UMass Amherst Learning Commons (opened in the W.E.B. Du Bois Library in September 2005) provided detailed insight into who they are, how often …


Internet Public Library (Ipl) Project, James Gross Jun 2008

Internet Public Library (Ipl) Project, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info 511.


Information Abstract: Role Of The Digital Reference Librarian, James Gross May 2008

Information Abstract: Role Of The Digital Reference Librarian, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info 511.


Review Of The National Archives & Records Administration Website, James Gross May 2008

Review Of The National Archives & Records Administration Website, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info 511. Class assignment. I wrote a review of the following website: "National Archives & Records Administration"


Annotated Bibliography On The Information-Seeking Behavior Of Scholars & Historians, James Gross Mar 2008

Annotated Bibliography On The Information-Seeking Behavior Of Scholars & Historians, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info 510. Class assigned paper. Based on my interests, I chose to write on the topic of," Annotated Bibliography on the Information-Seeking Behavior of Scholars & Historians."