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Information Outlook, December 2011, Special Libraries Association Dec 2011

Information Outlook, December 2011, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2011

Volume 15, Issue 8


Information Outlook, October/November 2011, Special Libraries Association Nov 2011

Information Outlook, October/November 2011, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2011

Volume 15, Issue 7


Navigating To Success: Finding Your Way Through The Challenges Of Map Digitization, Cory K. Lampert, Katherine Rankin Oct 2011

Navigating To Success: Finding Your Way Through The Challenges Of Map Digitization, Cory K. Lampert, Katherine Rankin

Library Faculty Presentations

This presentation highlights the key steps and decision points essential to completing a successful map digitization project. Topics to be covered include: overcoming the challenges of scanning large-scale materials (including file sizes and encapsulation), descriptive metadata for map collections, copyright and privacy issues for geographic materials, adding geographic coordinates to map collections, image viewer and interface options for online maps, and methods to track the impact of map digitization with users. Using University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries’ digital project Southern Nevada: History in Maps as a case study, the authors will discuss the challenges inherent in map digitization and …


Keeping Track Of Objects And Metadata At Unlv: From Material Selection Through Metadata Quality Control, Silvia B. Southwick, Jane Skoric Oct 2011

Keeping Track Of Objects And Metadata At Unlv: From Material Selection Through Metadata Quality Control, Silvia B. Southwick, Jane Skoric

Library Faculty Presentations

Often times a large amount of time is spent in organizing materials and tracking workflow in digital collection projects. Time is a precious resource in most projects since they are constrained by a rigid schedule. This problem is exacerbated in collaborative environments where different people collaborate in various stages of the project. Silvia Southwick and Jane Skoric with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas will present effective and efficient simple tools to manage digital objects and metadata throughout the life cycle of a digital collection project. Using actual work processes, we will describe and demonstrate the tracking of physical and …


Information Outlook, September 2011, Special Libraries Association Sep 2011

Information Outlook, September 2011, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2011

Volume 15, Issue 6


Information Outlook, July/August 2011, Special Libraries Association Aug 2011

Information Outlook, July/August 2011, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2011

Volume 15, Issue 5


Creating Collections Through Collaboration: An Innovative Digital Library Project In Monteverde, Costa Rica, Laurie Kutner, Cindy Dykes, Stefanie Havelka Jun 2011

Creating Collections Through Collaboration: An Innovative Digital Library Project In Monteverde, Costa Rica, Laurie Kutner, Cindy Dykes, Stefanie Havelka

Publications and Research

The proposed presentation will focus on a successful cross-cultural and cross-institutional collaborative model, involving four institutions, that was developed to create digital library collections of research-based information generated in the Monteverde Zone in Costa Rica. Addressing a need for the Monteverde community to have easy access to locally-produced research-based information, the digital collections contain unpublished research documents produced by area international study programs focusing on local sustainable community development, community health, and tropical ecology.

Each summer, since 2008, LIS graduate student interns from Syracuse University have spent 5-6 weeks on site at the Monteverde Institute in Costa Rica, working to …


Information Outlook, June 2011, Special Libraries Association Jun 2011

Information Outlook, June 2011, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2011

Volume 15, Issue 4


Engaging Your Campus In Utilizing Institutional Repositories, Marianne A. Buehler May 2011

Engaging Your Campus In Utilizing Institutional Repositories, Marianne A. Buehler

Library Faculty Presentations

Essentials of IR Success
- Institutional repository (IR) best practices: engagement with administrators, faculty, staff, and students
- Acquisition of research scholarship, publications, theses/dissertations, and other research objects
- Successful marketing strategies, best practices for garnering IR content, and developing open access mandates


Information Outlook, April/May 2011, Special Libraries Association May 2011

Information Outlook, April/May 2011, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2011

Volume 15, Issue 3


Free Puppies: Integrating Web Resources Into The Catalog, Robert L. Bothmann, Kellian Clink Mar 2011

Free Puppies: Integrating Web Resources Into The Catalog, Robert L. Bothmann, Kellian Clink

Library Services Publications

Nongovernmental groups, state governmental agencies, and of course, the federal government put timely, authoritative, practice-oriented reports up on the Web with great speed. This presentation will provide the rationale and procedures for adding freely available Web sites to the online catalog to augment and support curricular needs and provide some mechanisms for students to find and access the resources easily.


Information Outlook, March 2011, Special Libraries Association Mar 2011

Information Outlook, March 2011, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2011

Volume 15, Issue 2


Information Outlook, January/February 2011, Special Libraries Association Feb 2011

Information Outlook, January/February 2011, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2011

Volume 15, Issue 1


Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival, Karen Rowell, The University Of Southern Mississippi, The University Of Southern Mississippi's School Of Library And Information Science Jan 2011

Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival, Karen Rowell, The University Of Southern Mississippi, The University Of Southern Mississippi's School Of Library And Information Science

Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival Programs

The program for the forty-fourth annual Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival held on the campus of The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 2011.


Digitalcommons Report: 2011, Jean Bigger Jan 2011

Digitalcommons Report: 2011, Jean Bigger

DigitalCommons Documents

No abstract provided.


Kvug 2011 Minutes, Julene L. Jones Jan 2011

Kvug 2011 Minutes, Julene L. Jones

Ex Libris Bluegrass Users Group Newsletter

Minutes from KVUG 2011 meeting.


Facilitating Greater Access To Etds Through Contentdm, Rachel Howard, Tyler Goldberg Dec 2010

Facilitating Greater Access To Etds Through Contentdm, Rachel Howard, Tyler Goldberg

Rachel I. Howard

Bound theses and dissertations (BTDs) have increasingly been supplemented or replaced by electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Since 2002, the University of Louisville Libraries have been building a collection of born-digital and digitized ETDs in order to provide free worldwide access to these titles, and to enable graduate
students to include digital media in their works. In 2009 the Libraries migrated the ETD collection from a homegrown database to CONTENTdm, in order to allow for full-text searching and simultaneous searching of other electronic collections. This article will discuss the cataloging workflows for the different phases of the project, including the …