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Centennial Library E-News, March/April 2014, Cedarville University

Centennial Library Shelf Life

Articles in this issue: Two staff receive Dean awards, Collection milestone, Recognitions dinner awards, Career exploration program, MediaPLEX summer closure, Library summer schedule, University faculty in print, University alumni in print

Content Management Systems And 3d Models: Creation, Interaction And Display, Dillon Wackerman, Ashley Thompson

Librarian and Staff Presentations

This presentation will explore methods of creating and displaying 3D images in relation to Content Management Systems and online collections. Examining the creation of 3D models through various platforms, we will discuss the interaction and feasibility for implementation of several common 3D formats.

The online display of 3D models has been in use for several years, most notably in archaeological reconstruction projects and more recently in digital imaging within the field of medical science. For this presentation, a 3D model is a visual representation that can be manipulated with various tools, which enable it to be turned, rotated and magnified …

Finding Roots, Gems, And Inspiration: Understanding Ultimate Use Of Digital Materials, Santi Thompson, Michele Reilly

Library Scholarship

The University of Houston Digital Library (UHDL) is the point of virtual access for digitized cultural, historical and research materials for the university’s libraries. UHDL developed a "digital cart” system (DCS) that allow users to download high resolution images from its collections. The DCS records important information supplied by the user regarding the ultimate use of the downloaded images. Until now, no formal analysis of the transaction log for the DCS has been completed. This research is significant because little is known about the ultimate use of digital library materials. Current literature suggests that this problem is not uncommon among …

Holocaust Remembrance Day, Southwest Minnesota State University

Ethnic History

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Southwest Minnesota State University.

Who's Afraid Of Repository Rankings? How To Define And Measure Institutional Repository Success

Jean-Gabriel Bankier

As institutional repositories grow and thrive, many institutions are eager to quantify and benchmark their hard work and success. The proposal presented in this workshop is intended to serve as a starting point for the creation of a simple and measurable set of IR success metrics that would serve the needs of the broad community of repository managers and stakeholders. The benchmarking models being presented in this workshop come from analyzing deposit and activity data from hundreds of repositories, and are founded upon in-depth interviews with repository managers about their goals. The aim of this workshop is to create platform-agnostic …

Who's Afraid Of Repository Rankings? How To Define And Measure Institutional Repository Success

Ann Connolly

As institutional repositories grow and thrive, many institutions are eager to quantify and benchmark their hard work and success. The proposal presented in this workshop is intended to serve as a starting point for the creation of a simple and measurable set of IR success metrics that would serve the needs of the broad community of repository managers and stakeholders. The benchmarking models being presented in this workshop come from analyzing deposit and activity data from hundreds of repositories, and are founded upon in-depth interviews with repository managers about their goals. The aim of this workshop is to create platform-agnostic …

Preserving The Louisville Sound: Outreach And Donor Relations, Elizabeth E. Reilly, Heather Fox

Elizabeth Reilly

Helin Bylaws, Helin Consortium. Board Of Directors

HELIN Documents

Bylaws of the HELIN Library Consortium, revised April 25, 2014

These Bylaws are based upon the HELIN Agreement for Integrated Library and Information Services for The Higher Education Library Information Network (HELIN), Inc. (hereinafter referred to as HELIN or the HELIN Library Consortium), and the HELIN Policy Governance Manual. Those documents represent authoritative and binding obligations and expectations on the part of all parties, and these Bylaws are an extension of those documents. It is acknowledged by all parties that the HELIN Agreement for Integrated Library and Information Services and the HELIN Policy Governance Manual are the ultimate authority …

Jocelyn Swigger, Associate Professor Of Music, Musselman Library, Jocelyn Swigger

Next Page

In this new Next Page column, Jocelyn Swigger, Associate Professor of Music, shares with us which authors and books are her “comfort foods,” how she has introduced meditation to her daily practice as a musician, and one of the few things she likes about Twitter.

Matching Staff And Projects, Ruth E. Bryan

Library Presentations

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Digitization At Western, Nicholas Rapp

Nicholas Rapp

This report is an examination of the challenges and considerations that surround digitization at Western. Some of the highlighted areas include hosting and displaying materials, institutional repository software, storage, metadata, infrastructure and copyright.

Papers Of Nelson Poynter, Third Accession, Jodi Geever-Ostrowsky, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives.

Special Collections and University Archives Finding Aids: All Items

On 13 September 2013, William C. Ballard—a former member of the Fisher & Sauls law firm—deposited a collection of personal correspondence and other documents related to the management and operation of the Times Publishing Company with Special Collections and University Archives, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. These documents, held by the firm since approximately 15 June 1978, the date of Nelson Poynter’s death, cover the years primarily from 1936 through 1959 and may have been helpful in establishing intra-familial relationships regarding the St. Petersburg Times [now Tampa Bay Times], St. Petersburg Evening Independent, and other publishing and operational entities of the …

Earl Weir Floridiana Collection, Second Accession, Jodi L. Harman, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., Earl Weir

Special Collections and University Archives Finding Aids: All Items

Earl Weir, a longtime St. Petersburg resident who now lives outside of the area, originally donated materials related to his family’s history and the Tampa Bay region in 2012. Many items from the original accession were digitized versions of home movies, and they were received in multiple installments. Some artifacts were also included in the original accession, such as an electric clock from Webb’s City, a longtime department store located in St. Petersburg. Mr. Weir donated a second accession of items in early 2014 while visiting the Poynter Library. This finding aid enumerates materials from this second accession only, comprised …

What's Gender Got To Do With It? A Critique Of Rda Rule 9.7, Amber Billey, Emily Drabinski, K.R. Roberto

University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

The interpretation of RDA Rule 9.7 regarding gender when identifying persons by Library of Congress (LC) and the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) reinforce regressive conceptions of gender identity. The rule instructs catalogers to record gender when identifying persons, and although RDA gives catalogers the flexibility to record more than two gender labels, LC limits Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO) catalogers to a binary label: male, female or not known. In this article, the authors challenge gender as a descriptive attribute for personal names, critique how LC is instructing NACO catalogers to record elements about gender, and make recommendations to …

Opening Up A Dark Habitat And Opening Up Data: The Co-Emergence Of Scientific Collaboration, Infrastructure For Data-Sharing, And Data-Sharing Practices, Peter Darch

Peter Darch

Allied to the movement promoting Open Access publishing is the Open Data movement, which aims to facilitate and encourage the open sharing of research data amongst scientists across multiple disciplines and institutions. Studies of scientists’ data practices link barriers to data-sharing with lack of appropriate infrastructure, cultural issues regarding norms and reward structures, and lack of trust amongst researchers. However, there have been fewer studies of actual instances of successful data-sharing. Furthermore, little attention has been paid to the implications of successful data-sharing for the structures of collaborative scientific work.

This paper will present findings from a longitudinal ethnographic case …

Data, Metadata, And Ted, Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

Ted Nelson coined the term “hypertext” and developed Xanadu in a universe parallel to the one in which librarians, archivists, and documentalists were creating metadata to establish cross-connections among the myriad topics of this world. When these universes collided, comets exploded as ontologies proliferated. Black holes were formed as data disappeared through lack of description. Today these universes coexist, each informing the other, if not always happily: the formal rules of metadata, the chaos of crowdsourcing, the complex paths of linked open data, and copious efforts to establish best practices for the citation of complex objects such as research data. …

Digitization At Western Presentation, Nicholas Rapp

Nicholas Rapp

This presentation is an examination of the challenges and considerations that surround digitization at Western. Some of the highlighted areas include hosting and displaying materials, institutional repository software, storage, metadata, infrastructure and copyright.

Gazing Into The Crystal Ball: Using Scenarios For Future Visioning Of A Distance Learning Library Service, Anne Marie Casey, Jon E. Cawthorne, Kathleen Citro

Anne Marie Casey

Speech To The Hope Academy Of Senior Professionals, Delivered At Hope College On April 23, 2014, Arend D. Lubbers

Presidential Speeches

Speech to the Hope Academy of Senior Professionals, delivered at Hope College on April 23, 2014 by Arend D. Lubbers, who served as President of Grand Valley from 1969-2001.

The Anchor, Volume 127.24: April 23, 2014, Hope College

The Anchor: 2014

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). As of Fall 2019 The Anchor has moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.