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The Changing Values Of Digital Legacies: E-Books And The Challenges Of Data Mobility And The Perceived Value Of Books, Derani Nathasha Dissanayake, David M. Cook Oct 2016

The Changing Values Of Digital Legacies: E-Books And The Challenges Of Data Mobility And The Perceived Value Of Books, Derani Nathasha Dissanayake, David M. Cook

Dr. David M Cook

Digital Legacies in the form of e-Books represent a challenge for those who make direct comparisons to in-print paper books.  Digital legacies come in a variety of segments that are characterised in terms of their perceived value. Digital objects retain higher values when they are easily transferred from one person to another. The value of e-books is dependent upon the ability to access and re-read each e-book, and to make a comparison between an e-book and a paper copy of the same book. A qualitative study of 32 adults over the age of 65 in Australia revealed the difficulty in …


Appendices B-D To Accompany 'Portrait Of A Collector: A View From The Shelves Of Minor Myers, Jr.', Meg Miner Oct 2016

Appendices B-D To Accompany 'Portrait Of A Collector: A View From The Shelves Of Minor Myers, Jr.', Meg Miner

Meg Miner

Download caution: there are 550 pages in this PDF.

This document contains appendices B-D for the publication titled Portrait of a Collector: A View from the Shelves of Minor Myers, jr. by Meg Miner. Appendix A is associated with that article and is available at https://works.bepress.com/meg_miner/28/
 
Portrait of a Collector is a biblio-biography, comprised of several parts, of IWU’s 17th President Minor Myers, jr. A summary describing the entire project is available at https://works.bepress.com/meg_miner/30/


Guidelines For Cataloging Unpublished Screenplays, Laura N. Evans Oct 2016

Guidelines For Cataloging Unpublished Screenplays, Laura N. Evans

Laura Evans

These guidelines for cataloging unpublished screenplays were developed at Binghamton University Libraries to guide catalogers field by field as they describe individual film screenplays.


Library Testimonial: Madeline Mcdermott, Maureen E. Schlangen Sep 2016

Library Testimonial: Madeline Mcdermott, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

A research instruction in the University Libraries and a visit to the Marian Library on the seventh floor of Roesch Library inspired Madeline McDermott '15 to create an archive for her high school alma mater and pursue two master's degrees in library and information science and public history.


Library Testimonial: Libby Durnwald, Maureen E. Schlangen Sep 2016

Library Testimonial: Libby Durnwald, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

Student Libby Durnwald shares the impact the University Libraries had on her studies, service and work.


Library Testimonial: Mary Kuttler, Maureen E. Schlangen Sep 2016

Library Testimonial: Mary Kuttler, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

Graduate Mary Kuttler '15 shares the value of her library skills in her career.


Library Testimonial: Deogratias Eustace, Maureen E. Schlangen Sep 2016

Library Testimonial: Deogratias Eustace, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

Civil engineering professor and Transportation Engineering Laboratory director Deogratias “Deo” Eustace shares his thoughts on the people, materials, services and technology available in the University Libraries.


Library Testimonial: Margaret Mcaleese, Maureen E. Schlangen Sep 2016

Library Testimonial: Margaret Mcaleese, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

Experience in the University Libraries led Margaret McAleese to pursue a career in business research and helped land her a job with an industry-leading firm.


Storytime Censored, Maureen E. Schlangen Sep 2016

Storytime Censored, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

A exhibit of rare first editions of banned and challenged books -- many of them children's classics -- celebrates young people's freedom to read. Exhibit dates: Sept. 6-Nov. 13, 2016. Exhibit location: Roesch Library first-floor gallery.


Library Testimonial: Barath Narayanan, Maureen E. Schlangen Sep 2016

Library Testimonial: Barath Narayanan, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

Electrical engineering doctoral candidate Barath Narayanan shares how he relies on the University Libraries to help him find the materials and information he needs to succeed.


Library Testimonial: David Darrow, Maureen E. Schlangen Sep 2016

Library Testimonial: David Darrow, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

History professor David Darrow, director of the University Honors Program, shares his thoughts on the value of the University Libraries to students and faculty.


Library Testimonial: Linda Arvin Skuns, Maureen E. Schlangen Sep 2016

Library Testimonial: Linda Arvin Skuns, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

Secondary education graduate Linda Arvin Skuns ’63 shares how the role of libraries has grown and changed since her time as a student at UD.


International Travel, Groovy Guys ... And Fathomless Good, Maureen E. Schlangen Sep 2016

International Travel, Groovy Guys ... And Fathomless Good, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

In 2013, the Marian Library received the papers of the late John S. Stokes Jr., co-founder of Mary’s Gardens, a Philadelphia organization that taught and encouraged the planting of devotional gardens in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mother. Active in civil rights and social justice movements, he was the director of the Wellsprings Ecumenical Center in Philadelphia. He died in 2007.

Among his papers was a collection of promotional brochures from a variety of religious orders. The University of Dayton Libraries have digitized them and made many of them available in eCommons, the University’s open-access institutional repository. In observance of …


Library Testimonial: Sam Wallace, Maureen E. Schlangen Sep 2016

Library Testimonial: Sam Wallace, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

Sam Wallace remembers when Roesch Library opened in 1971; since then, it has been as much a part of campus life as Flyer basketball, Christmas on Campus and the student neighborhood. Its technology, spaces and resources keep advancing with the latest learning, research and teaching methods, he says.


Comparative User Experiences Of Next-Generation Catalogue Interfaces, Rice Majors Jul 2016

Comparative User Experiences Of Next-Generation Catalogue Interfaces, Rice Majors

Rice Majors

One of the presumed advantages of next-generation library catalogue interfaces is that the user experience is improved—that it is both richer and more intuitive. Often the interfaces come with little or no user-facing documentation or imbedded “help” for patrons based on an assumption of ease of use and familiarity of the experience, having followed best practices in use on the Web. While there has been much gray literature (published on library Web sites, etc.) interrogating these implicit claims and contrasting the new interfaces to traditional Web-based catalogues, this article details a consistent and formal comparison of whether users can actually …


An Olympic Ode To Cataloging, Maureen E. Schlangen Jul 2016

An Olympic Ode To Cataloging, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

When my colleagues in the University Libraries gathered on the west portico of Roesch Library June 9 for our own version of the Olympics, our competitive nature, mostly dormant in our daily work, emerged in events that put our teams to the test both physically and mentally: journal Jenga, journal toss, cart racing, book balancing, speed sorting and the hardest scavenger hunt I’ve ever participated in.

But like many things I’ve discovered in my two years in the Libraries, the information science that inspired these trivial games is anything but trivial.

As I raced to put a cart full of …


Pathways To Open Access : The Story Of An Institutional Repository And How We Built It., Dwayne Buttler, Rachel Howard, Sarah Frankel Jun 2016

Pathways To Open Access : The Story Of An Institutional Repository And How We Built It., Dwayne Buttler, Rachel Howard, Sarah Frankel

Sarah Frankel

The central purpose of an institutional repository (IR) is providing open access to scholarship. That scholarship originates primarily through the work of faculty and students at research institutions, leading research libraries to embrace IRs and the scholarly communication movement. IRs typically include student theses and dissertations and faculty publications but sometimes extend far beyond to institutional records and documents. Launching an IR requires significant collaborative work across disparate specialties and institutional structures to establish policies, workflows, configure metadata and technology for retrieval, and fashion outreach and ongoing support to the administrators and ultimately provide mediated support to the scholars who …


Combining Faculty, Instructional Design, And Library Services To Provide Students A Framework For Information Evaluation, Linda Leake, Samantha Mcclellan May 2016

Combining Faculty, Instructional Design, And Library Services To Provide Students A Framework For Information Evaluation, Linda Leake, Samantha Mcclellan

Samantha McClellan

The creation of the course-embedded Critical Thinking & information Evaluation Module series resulted from the need for undergraduate students to start their academic careers with a framework for evaluating information. Pulling from the Paul-Elder Critical Thinking Framework and focusing abstract information literacy concepts on the commonly-used resources of Wikipedia, Google, and scholarly journal articles, the presenters will delve into module creation to implementation of these modules and discuss the logistics of this process to guide other faculty-librarian-instruction designer collaborations.


Oclc Worldshare Management Services: New Ways Libraries Are Efficiently Managing Cataloging And E-Resources Workflows, Josh Petrusa May 2016

Oclc Worldshare Management Services: New Ways Libraries Are Efficiently Managing Cataloging And E-Resources Workflows, Josh Petrusa

Josh Petrusa

Josh Petrusa's presentation from the 2014 ALA Annual Conference, presented June 28, 2014 in Las Vegas, NV.


How Not To Waste Catalogers' Time: Making The Most Of Subject Headings, John Mark Ockerbloom Mar 2016

How Not To Waste Catalogers' Time: Making The Most Of Subject Headings, John Mark Ockerbloom

John Mark Ockerbloom

The subject descriptions of well-cataloged library resources have rich semantics, but most online catalogs and discovery systems do not take full advantage of them, and the headings assigned by librarians do not always match the descriptions users expect. This session features ideas, demonstrations, and discussion on how we can improve the design and the data in our catalogs and discovery systems to improve discovery of relevant materials. It will focus on how to better take advantage of the kinds of data that catalogers already create. Topics to be discussed include:
-- How to take advantage of subject heading order in …


Tracing Tárrega’S Preludes For Guitar., David Procházka Feb 2016

Tracing Tárrega’S Preludes For Guitar., David Procházka

David Procházka

No abstract provided.


Adding Patent Records To Clemson's Ir--Highlighting The University's Output, Andrew Wesolek, Jan Comfort, Lisa Bodenheimer, Brenda Burk Jan 2016

Adding Patent Records To Clemson's Ir--Highlighting The University's Output, Andrew Wesolek, Jan Comfort, Lisa Bodenheimer, Brenda Burk

Jan Comfort

A mounting body of evidence suggests that works that are made openly available online are cited faster and more frequently. Clemson now supports this open sharing of research through its institutional repository, TigerPrints. This repository is highly optimized to attract Google and other search engine crawlers, so it makes your patents and other research highly visible on the open web. That said, nothing tops the intricate search capabilities of the library catalog. Lisa Bodenheimer, Jan Comfort, and Andy Wesolek have leveraged the benefits of both of these systems by incorporating patent records into each. Specifically, presenters outline this project from generating …


Dataq: A Collaborative Platform For Answering Research Data Questions In Libraries, Yasmeen Shorish, Sarah Pickle, Christie A. Wiley, Megan Bresnahan, Andrew M. Johnson Jan 2016

Dataq: A Collaborative Platform For Answering Research Data Questions In Libraries, Yasmeen Shorish, Sarah Pickle, Christie A. Wiley, Megan Bresnahan, Andrew M. Johnson

Yasmeen Shorish

DataQ is an IMLS­-funded project led by the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries, GWLA, and GPN to develop an online knowledge-­base of research data questions and answers curated for and by the library community. Publicly submitted questions to DataQ are reviewed by an Editorial Team of experts from 15 institutions across the United States. The site also includes links to resources, best practices, and practical approaches to working with researchers to address specific research data issues. This update from members of the Editorial Team will discuss outcomes and future directions following the first year of the DataQ project.


Hidden Stories, Inclusive Perspectives: Describing Photographs Of Jewish Refugees In Shanghai, Rachel Wen-Paloutzian Dec 2015

Hidden Stories, Inclusive Perspectives: Describing Photographs Of Jewish Refugees In Shanghai, Rachel Wen-Paloutzian

Rachel Wen-Paloutzian

When a collection of over 600 photographs and negatives was discovered in the backlog of Loyola Marymount University (LMU) Library’s Department of Archives and Special Collections, there were moments of surprise, intrigue, and fascination. While information about the collection is limited, the pictures have presumably been taken by Werner von Bolternstern, a photographer and avid postcard collector, who donated the collection (among many others) to LMU. The Werner von Bolternstern Shanghai Photograph and Negative Collection offers rare visual records and remarkable documentation of life in Shanghai, China, from 1937 to 1949. Besides Shanghai urban landscapes, historical architecture, and street scenes, …


Adding Patent Records To Your Institutional Repository, Jan Comfort Dec 2015

Adding Patent Records To Your Institutional Repository, Jan Comfort

Jan Comfort

No abstract provided.