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Thematic Mapping Of Apidae Holdings Within The University Of Arkansas Arthropod Museum, Baylie Lenora Day

Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Honors Theses

Museum biological collections store species data that can be utilized in research on biodiversity, environmental change, invasive species, public health, and disease. The University of Arkansas Arthropod Museum, which began in 1905, houses over 750,000 specimens and has not yet been digitized. Making data publicly accessible via the internet makes the data available to the entire scientific community. The goal of this project was to create a digital resource to allow greater access to the University of Arkansas Arthropod Museum holdings. To do so, data from Bombus (bumble bee) and Xylocopa (carpenter bee) specimens were databased in Excel and displayed …

Code For Care: Hypertension Prediction In Women Aged 18-39 Years, Kruti Sheth

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

The longstanding prevalence of hypertension, often undiagnosed, poses significant risks of severe chronic and cardiovascular complications if left untreated. This study investigated the causes and underlying risks of hypertension in females aged between 18-39 years. The research questions were: (Q1.) What factors affect the occurrence of hypertension in females aged 18-39 years? (Q2.) What machine learning algorithms are suited for effectively predicting hypertension? (Q3.) How can SHAP values be leveraged to analyze the factors from model outputs? The findings are: (Q1.) Performing Feature selection using binary classification Logistic regression algorithm reveals an array of 30 most influential factors at an …

Tendencias Sobre El Diseño, Implementación Y Uso De Los Lenguajes Documentales Especializados En Centros De Documentación De Bogotá, Miguel Stiwar Castillo Daza, Diana Lorena Rozo Torres

Sistemas de Información, Bibliotecología y Archivística

Este trabajo de investigación realiza una investigación documental sobre las tendencias de los lenguajes documentales en el panorama colombiano, a partir de la perspectiva de diferentes autores especialistas en la investigación de los lenguajes documentales y el discernimiento sobre el futuro de estas herramientas frente a los avances tecnológicos y el constante crecimiento de la información. Se busca analizar la perspectiva de los profesionales de la información en el diseño, uso e implementación de los lenguajes documentales con el fin de desarrollar una matriz de tendencias de los lenguajes documentales y el impacto que puede tener en la organización y …

Ledgers Of The W.T. Carter And Brother Lumber Company: An Archival Processing Project, Christopher Cameron Cotton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The W.T. Carter and Brother Lumber Company began in 1898 and operated until 1968 when it was sold to the U.S. Plywood Corporation. The Polk County, Texas company harvested longleaf pine during a crucial period of development for the Texas economy. The lumber industry was the state’s first large scale commercial enterprise not dependent on farming and provided a model for future extractive industries in the state. The W.T. Carter and Brother Lumber Company town of Camden, Texas exemplifies rural implementations of the company town system in the Texas lumber industry. This public history thesis provides a brief history of …

Inclusivity In Children’S Services Within The School And Public Library, Phoebe Levin

Student Theses

The children's library has the potential to not only aid in knowledge-seeking conquests but to help establish a relationship of acceptance between the differences spewing from the child's own self, and the diversity of their peers. The increasing rate of underrepresented peoples in America, and the growing number of representative titles, have contributed to the trend of diversity and inclusivity in the library.

The efforts to make the library diverse and representative have been an ongoing struggle, yet in recent times efforts have proved that the exposure of diversity and inclusivity is beneficial to children. While examining how diversity and …

Remembering Why: Finding Direction In The Face Of Unsustainable Collections Practices, Megan Barr

Museum Studies Theses

Shifts in the philosophy and practices that guide museums have changed the way we collect and what we collect. However, professional standards and expectations related to the management and use of those collections have largely remained unaltered. Museum professionals are repeatedly confronted by the impracticality and near impossibility of achieving accepted professional standards when managing collections. It is clear that the profession needs to rethink the practices and policies that shape our daily work assumptions, but where do we begin? Using Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle as a guide, we will rearticulate our purpose and reexamine the practices that get in …

Critical Information Literacy And Collections: Developing Praxis For Public Libraries, Lesley Garrett

Liberal Arts Capstones

Public libraries play an active role in building equitable, democratic communities by promoting critical information literacy, most notably in their collections development. Critical Information Literacy builds on the standard information literacy definitions by adding an analysis of political, economic, social and corporate systems that “have power and influence over information production, dissemination, access, and consumption" (Gregory and Higgins, 2013). This project includes a zine created to introduce an adaptation of Paulo Freire's banking concept of education for libraries, as well as note the continued work needed to develop a praxis for critical public librarianship.

Queer Political Organization In Israel, And Palestine: Shifting Away From Homonationalism, Tristan Blaisdell

Undergraduate Honors Theses

In this project, I present research I have done on the issue of pink washing queer Israeli and Palestinian citizens and homonationalism within Israel and Palestine. I also create an exhibit brief outlining a hypothetical museum exhibit on this topic to be put up at the museum of culture and environment. The first section outlines the history and theory of my exhibit, and a brief personal statement where I talk about my interest in the subject and where I’m coming from before I design this exhibit. My theory is built off concepts of diaspora, home, belonging, queer identity, and intersectionality …

Logros, Avances Y Dificultades Del Canon De Los Ochenta Libros En El Programa De Sistemas De Información Bibliotecología Y Archivística De La Universidad De La Salle Durante Los Años 2013 - 2014, Fernando Rodríguez López

Sistemas de Información, Bibliotecología y Archivística

La investigación se originó en el desarrollo de la formación en las líneas de investigación del pregrado, para indagar sobre los logros, avances y dificultades del canon de los ochenta (80) libros en el Programa de Sistemas de Información Bibliotecología y Archivística PSIBA, de la Universidad de la Salle, desde la revisión de antecedentes investigativos y bibliográficos que permitió establecer la diferenciación conceptual enmarcadas en el capítulo de marco de referencia, entre Lector, Lectura, Promoción de lectura, Plan lector, Practica lectora Canon y Canon literario. El lector se entiende como es aquel individuo que con regularidad realiza lecturas ya sea …

Uso De Las Bases De Datos Por Los Estudiantes Y Docentes Del Programa De Sistemas De Información, Bibliotecología Y Archivística De La Universidad De La Salle En El Periodo 2013 - 2017, Marion Nathalie Quintero Mendoza

Sistemas de Información, Bibliotecología y Archivística

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Marketing Digital Aplicado A Productos Y Servicios Innovadores Para La Biblioteca Rural De Moniquirá, Angie Lorena Aragón Perilla, Cristian Camilo Fontecha Álvarez

Sistemas de Información, Bibliotecología y Archivística

En este trabajo se presenta una propuesta de marketing digital aplicado a los productos y servicios innovadores para la biblioteca rural de Moniquirá, para lo cual se identifica el perfil socio informativo de los usuarios de la biblioteca, se determina el tipo de productos y servicios apropiados para el perfil de esos usuarios y se definen las diferentes fases de la propuesta. El trabajo incluye la construcción del estado del arte del tema, el desarrollo del marco teórico necesario para el cumplimiento de los objetivos, el diseño y la aplicación de los instrumentos de encuestas y entrevistas necesarios para el …

Propuesta Para La Creación De Una Biblioteca Rural En La Vereda De Apartadero-Ubaté, Rudy Adriana Sánchez Pineda

Sistemas de Información, Bibliotecología y Archivística

La investigación originó una propuesta para la creación de una biblioteca rural en la Vereda de Apartadero la propuesta se llevó a cabo aspectos claves tales como se puede realizar un proceso con una comunidad rural y como llevar información al alcance de ellos por medio de una biblioteca para ello se tuvo que conocer el pilar fundamental desde las Bibliotecas Públicas de los municipios y como promueven servicios a dichas comunidades, también conocer un poco más de las bibliotecas rurales en todos los ámbitos locales, nacional e internacional con el fin de estar al tanto cómo se maneja en …

Lineamientos Para El Rescate Del Patrimonio Cultural Del Municipio De Vergara Cundinamarca Desde La Biblioteca Pública, Karen Andrea Valderrama Campos

Sistemas de Información, Bibliotecología y Archivística

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Propuesta Metodológica Para La Evaluación De La Calidad De Productos Y Servicios De Información En Bibliotecas De Universidades Públicas De Bogotá, Lady Katherine Gómez Viviel, Fabián Enrique Hernández Hernández

Sistemas de Información, Bibliotecología y Archivística

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Propuesta Para La Creación De Una Biblioteca Rural Comunitaria En La Vereda Chontegrande Del Municipio De Vergara, Cundinamarca, Wilfredo Castañeda Rivera

Sistemas de Información, Bibliotecología y Archivística

Las bibliotecas rurales son un fenómeno emergente dentro de las ciencias de la información que han surgido gracias a los cambios a nivel demográficos y socioeconómicos que están experimentando diferentes regiones del mundo, pese a que en la práctica se encuentran ya funcionando algunas de estas, aún se evidencian algunas carencias conceptuales en lo que respecta a la planeación necesaria para construir una biblioteca en este tipo de entornos considerando las realidades que les son propias. Por lo anterior, surge este trabajo de grado cuya intención principal es aportar, no sólo conceptual sino también pragmáticamente, conocimiento sobre las bibliotecas rurales …

Modelo De Autogestión Para La Biblioteca Comunitaria Cerro Sur De Suba, Sandra Patricia Chacón Rengifo, Julián Augusto Martínez Rodríguez

Sistemas de Información, Bibliotecología y Archivística

Una de las mayores problemáticas que se presenta en la biblioteca comunitaria Cerro Sur de Suba nace desde el manejo administrativo, el desconocimiento de los procedimientos y del cómo se debe desarrollar y ejecutar. Por ende, se pretende diseñar un modelo de autogestión que sea fácil de entender y de ejecutar por parte de los funcionarios de dicha unidad de información. La metodología tiene un enfoque mixto con el fin de recopilar diversidad en información y así lograr unos objetivos óptimos en la creación del modelo de autogestión. Además, y a modo de resultados se esperaría la creación de un …

Propuesta Para La Creación De Una Biblioteca Comunitaria En La Iglesia Cristiana Familia Emanuel, Daniel Humberto Rojas Martinez

Sistemas de Información, Bibliotecología y Archivística

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A Tribal Special Library And Archives Project: Establishing The Malki Museum Special Library And Archives, Andrea Geyer

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

The Malki Museum Tribal Special Library and Archives project is an on-site repository created in order to provide access to information regarding tribal culture and heritage to local tribal members and researchers. The project filled the need for a space dedicated to material related to the history of local Southern California Native American tribes and information regarding the topics of Archaeology, Anthropology and History. The collection includes: books, manuscripts, documents, audio/visual media, and photographs. Bringing together multimedia sources, the Special Tribal Library allows for the preservation and accessibility of these items through cataloging and digitizing the collection. This method allows …

Picturing Buffalo: The Howard D. Beach Photography Studio Collection, A Master’S Project To Prepare And Exhibit Images And Artifacts From The Howard D. Beach Photography Studio Collection, Kimberly A. Bruckman

Museum Studies Projects

The purpose of this Master’s Thesis Project is to implement essential practices in the museum profession in relation to the stabilization, digitization, and exhibition of the Howard D. Beach Photography Studio Collection. Through skills learned in the Museum Studies MA program, negatives from the Beach Collection were systematically chosen, digitized, and researched. This process resulted in an exhibition titled Picturing Buffalo: The Howard D. Beach Photography Studio Collection, which was on display from February 4-27, 2018 at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, in Buffalo, New York.

Remembering The Church In The Wildwood: The Archival Processing And Digitization Of The Martinsville Baptist Church Collection, Allison N. Grimes

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Martinsville Baptist Church was founded in 1912 in a rural farming community on State Highway 7 in eastern Nacogdoches County. The church was founded during a revival being held in the community of Martinsville and has been in continuous operation ever since. The church grew throughout its lifetime, reaching record attendance and membership numbers between 1950 and 1980. Since the early 2000s, church attendance and membership has been in decline. This thesis outlines the history of Martinsville Baptist Church and explains conservation measures taken during the archival processing and digitization of records in the Martinsville Baptist Church Collection.

Ya Banned Books Analysis, Amanda Birro, Jennifer Pappas, Briana Cimino

Student Theses

Book banning or challenging is a complex issue, in which a person takes issue with a book in the library‟s collection, complains to the librarian, and sometimes demands that the book be removed from the collection entirely. Books for young adult audiences are especially at risk, and the reasons why these books are challenged or banned are numerous. By reading fifteen different young adult books from between the years of 1990 and 2016, the researchers performed a content analysis to look at the reasons why books may be challenged or banned. They also looked for trends or patterns in books …

Providing Information And Public Outreach Across Three U.S. State Archaeology Offices During The Age Of Open Access, Samuel Thomas Ayers

LSU Master's Theses

Archaeology in the United States has been transformed into a mainstream, practical science over the past fifty years by Cultural Resource Management (CRM) and the federal regulations imposed by the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966. However, this form of archaeology has been plagued with criticisms since the NHPA’s enactment including issues of access and use of data maintained by state site files. State archaeology is publicly funded yet state and federal legislation often exempts CRM data from freedom of information laws. To mitigate this contradiction and stem the growing body of “gray literature”, new open-access (OA) technologies are …

Safeguarding For The Future: Managing Born-Digital Collections In Museums, Kimberly Kruse

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

Over the past few decades, advancements in technology have changed society entirely. Every bit of information about world news, popular culture, and art is just a tap of a touchscreen away. So many aspects of the contemporary world have become digitized so that it was only a matter of time before museums would have to face the issue of born-digital media in their collections. From videos to web-based art, museums have to tackle how to save this new form of cultural heritage. Museums have to do so now before it gets lost forever. The challenge of born-digital objects lies in …

Teach Your Children White?, Katelyn Johnson

Senior Theses

Through exploration of early childhood literature - focused on those intended as read aloud and including illustrations – this thesis will investigate the impact and influence of cultural and racial diversity and representation in books on the development of a child’s identity as well as broader world view. The thesis will also research the histories of cultural diversity and representation in children’s literature. The research parameters for this project are focused on Marin County and will include: access to culturally diverse literature in public libraries throughout the county; library procurement policies and the impact on cultural diversity within the collection; …

Identifying Ebook Pedagogies For Literacy Instruction: A Qualitative Content Analysis, Jamey Twitchell Herdelin

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Capstones

Students in K-6 support becoming digital learners but many lack the digital skills needed to engage with ICTs such as eBooks. Some educators lack the technological pedagogical knowledge (TPK) to adjust instruction and meet students’ needs. This study examined the extant body of research on the use of eBooks with K-6 literacy instruction to address the perceived lack of effective evidence based practices needed to build self-efficacy. The goal: identify effective TPK regarding when, how, and why to integrate eBooks with K-6 literacy instruction. The research questions: According to the extant literature, what types of K-6 literacy practices and engagements …

Identifying Ebook Pedagogies For Literacy Instruction: A Qualitative Content Analysis, Jamey T. Herdelin

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Capstones

Students in K-6 support becoming digital learners but many lack the digital skills needed to engage with ICTs such as eBooks. Some educators lack the technological pedagogical knowledge (TPK) to adjust instruction and meet students’ needs. This study examined the extant body of research on the use of eBooks with K-6 literacy instruction to address the perceived lack of effective evidence based practices needed to build self-efficacy. The goal: identify effective TPK regarding when, how, and why to integrate eBooks with K-6 literacy instruction. The research questions: According to the extant literature, what types of K-6 literacy practices and engagements …

Dimensions Of Access To Traceability Information For Us Beef Cattle Producers: Merging Information Frameworks For Assessment And Visualization Of State Web-Based Resources In An Effort To Strengthen National Security Connections Between Government And Cattle Farming Operations, Reid Isaac Boehm

Doctoral Dissertations

US consumers eat a lot of beef. The nation’s beef cattle production industry is a multi-faceted, complex supply chain which makes it an area rich for discussion about information practices, yet vulnerable to problems such as disease and terrorist attack. This research looks at cattle identification and traceability information resources that are accessible to beef cattle producers through two web channels: the state cooperative Extension website and the state Department of Agriculture website. This is a state by state content analysis of all fifty states to look at the topics, types, formats, quality, and interactivity of the available resources. By …

Preserving, Interpreting, And Displaying Mental Health History: Establishing The Patton State Hospital Museum And Archive, Shannon Rene Long

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

There are few museums in the western half of the United States that provide an opportunity to educate the public about the history of mental health care. Recently, a mental health museum and archive of artifacts, photographs, and documents was established on the grounds of Patton State Hospital in Highland, California. The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the establishment of this museum and archive and to provide an account of the 125 year history of Patton State Hospital. Understanding the history of Patton provides an opportunity to understand the history of mental health care in the United …

Digital Repository Adoption In New York City Research Institutions, David J. Williams

Student Theses

As more scholarly and research materials are created in digital formats, institutions charged with managing, preserving, and disseminating these materials are increasingly adopting specialized software tools and environments created to fulfill these functions. Concurrently, subscriptions to serials databases provided by academic publishers are increasingly prohibitive and problematic. This paper surveys the adoption of digital institutional repositories by research institutions in the New York City region as of the Spring of 2009, and concludes that in spite of their potential advantages these systems are still not widely applied toward addressing the issues of preservation and access to their fullest potential.

Beginning A Book Swap Room: A Quantitative And Qualitative Study, Mari Lynn Stangland

All Graduate Projects

Many children do not have adequate access to print. To rectify this in her school, the author created an ongoing Book Swap Room. The author documented the reading growth of students by looking at their reading test data in conjunction with records of the number of books traded in the Room. A family survey was used on three occasions to determine book ownership in the home of students, and a student survey was used to determine whether the Book Swap Room was achieving its desired goal of reinforcing book ownership. Though results were mixed and inconclusive, the author has seen …