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Review Of Country Music Annual 2000, Rebecca Tolley Jan 2002

Review Of Country Music Annual 2000, Rebecca Tolley

ETSU Faculty Works

Review of Tennessee’s New Deal Landscape: A Guidebook. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. 281 pp.

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The Many Uses Of Digitized Oral History Collections: Implications For Design, Dagobert Soergel, Douglas W. Oard, Samuel Gustman, Lydia Fraser, Jinmook Kim, Joan Meyer, Elizabeth Proffen, Theresa Sartori Jan 2002

The Many Uses Of Digitized Oral History Collections: Implications For Design, Dagobert Soergel, Douglas W. Oard, Samuel Gustman, Lydia Fraser, Jinmook Kim, Joan Meyer, Elizabeth Proffen, Theresa Sartori

Faculty Publications

Oral history - and spoken word collections generally - are assuming increasing importance in digital libraries as the storage, transmission and reproduction infrastructure improves. This paper describes three synergistic approaches to user needs analysis, explains how they are being applied to guide the design of systems to provide access oral history collections (using a s test bed the Shoah Foundations collection of over 50,000 videotaped oral history interviews), presents preliminary results from so -called “discount requirements analysis” and an analysis of “early access” requests, and draws some design implications. The results show a wide variety of users and uses of …

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The Role Of Libraries In Native American Communities In Louisiana, Becky Hebert Jan 2002

The Role Of Libraries In Native American Communities In Louisiana, Becky Hebert

LSU Master's Theses

Describes the study done to identify and describe Louisiana tribal libraries and public library services to Louisiana Native American communities. These four tribes had tribal libraries: Chitimacha, Coushatta, Tunica-Biloxi, and the United Houma Nation. Tribal library evaluation areas included collections, users, technology, funding, cultural integration, and staff demographics. The following tribes were interviewed about public library service in their parishes: Caddo Adais, Choctaw-Apache Community of Ebarb, Clifton Choctaw, Four-Winds Cherokee, Jena Band of Choctaws, and the Talimali Band of Apalache of Louisiana. Most communication between tribes and parish libraries was poor. In general, the tribal library staff did not know …

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Cross-Cultural Acceptance Of The Euro: Assessing The Effectiveness Of Public Information Marketing, Steven W. Staninger Dec 2001

Cross-Cultural Acceptance Of The Euro: Assessing The Effectiveness Of Public Information Marketing, Steven W. Staninger

Copley Library: Faculty Scholarship

The introduction of the euro currency is a major social, cultural, and economic event in the history of Europe. A massive public information marketing campaign has failed to encourage widespread acceptance of the new currency. This paper analyzes the reasons for this failure, and suggests strategies for future campaigns.

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11-2001 Newsletter, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Library Services Nov 2001

11-2001 Newsletter, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Library Services

Library Services Newsletters

Minnesota State University, Mankato, Library Services Newsletter for November 2001.

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 026, Number 12, October 22, 2001, Grand Valley State University Oct 2001

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 026, Number 12, October 22, 2001, Grand Valley State University

2001-2002, Volume 26

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

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Lanthorn, Vol. 36, No. 08, October 4, 2001, Grand Valley State University Oct 2001

Lanthorn, Vol. 36, No. 08, October 4, 2001, Grand Valley State University

Volume 36, July 12, 2001 - June 13, 2002

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Volume 7, Number 3: September/October 2001, Suzanne Zack Oct 2001

Volume 7, Number 3: September/October 2001, Suzanne Zack

UConn Libraries Newsletter

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Nota Bene; Volume Xv, Number Iii, Yale University Library Oct 2001

Nota Bene; Volume Xv, Number Iii, Yale University Library

Nota Bene

Nota Bene is published during the academic year to acquaint the Yale community and others with the resources of the Yale Library.

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A Library Research Strategy For Communication, Scott Mandernack Oct 2001

A Library Research Strategy For Communication, Scott Mandernack

Library Faculty Research and Publications

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The Anchor, Volume 115.03: September 12, 2001, Hope College Sep 2001

The Anchor, Volume 115.03: September 12, 2001, Hope College

The Anchor: 2001

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). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

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Visual Displays Of Information: A Conceptual Taxonomy, Scott Warren Sep 2001

Visual Displays Of Information: A Conceptual Taxonomy, Scott Warren

Librarian Publications

This paper creates a taxonomic model for visual information displays looking at three levels: information design (based on Edward Tufte’s work), information architecture, and information spaces. Special attention is paid to the use of spatial and navigational metaphors in visual systems as they affect the user’s experience. Especially interesting is how a user creates an “information space” – a mental model of what he has seen, how she keeps track of where she is within a system, and how these activities fit together with the data that is being sought. Mathematics is one area that holds promise for better understanding …

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Lanthorn, Vol. 36, No. 02, August 23, 2001, Grand Valley State University Aug 2001

Lanthorn, Vol. 36, No. 02, August 23, 2001, Grand Valley State University

Volume 36, July 12, 2001 - June 13, 2002

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Information Interface - Volume 29, Issue 4 - August/September 2001, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library Aug 2001

Information Interface - Volume 29, Issue 4 - August/September 2001, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Information Interface (1976 - 2009)

News and information about Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library of interest to users.

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 026, Number 02, July 23, 2001, Grand Valley State University Jul 2001

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 026, Number 02, July 23, 2001, Grand Valley State University

2001-2002, Volume 26

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

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Image Retrieval Knowledge And Art History Curriculum In The Digital Age, Hsin-Liang Chen Jun 2001

Image Retrieval Knowledge And Art History Curriculum In The Digital Age, Hsin-Liang Chen

University Libraries Faculty Research & Creative Works

This study investigates end-users' image queries by comparing the features of the queries to those identified in previous studies proposed by Enser and McGregor (1992), Jorgensen (1995) and Fidel (1997) in order to discover the utility of these existing features for the art history field and identify any expansions or new features. It also examines relationships between user search tasks and image query modes. Enser and McGregor's categories of Unique and Non-unique, and Jorgensen's classes of Location, Literal Object, Art Historical Information, People and People-related Attributes received high degrees of matching by three reviewers. This finding can be applied to …

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The Potential For Support Of Gardner's Theory Of The Naturalist Intelligence In Selected Elementary School Library Media Centers, Traci L. Haines May 2001

The Potential For Support Of Gardner's Theory Of The Naturalist Intelligence In Selected Elementary School Library Media Centers, Traci L. Haines

Theses and Dissertations

The concept of teaching to the ability of the child is complex. Each child absorbs, analyzes and processes information differently. Howard Gardner developed a series of eight intelligences describing the variety of ways in which children learn. This study focused on the Naturalist Intelligence, an ability to recognize and discriminate different concepts in nature. A naturalist learner has strong observational skills and is good at sorting and classifying (Checkley, 1997). This evaluation compares randomly selected samples of the collections of two elementary school library media centers in order to determine whether the books in the 500s support Gardner's Theory of …

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04-2001 Newsletter, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Library Services Apr 2001

04-2001 Newsletter, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Library Services

Library Services Newsletters

Minnesota State University, Mankato, Library Services Newsletter for April 2001.

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East Meets West In Paris, Kristen Kern Apr 2001

East Meets West In Paris, Kristen Kern

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Kristen Kern describes her visit to La Bibliotheque interuniversitaire des Langues orientales, or the Interuniversity Library of Oriental Languages (BIULO), located on the Rue de Lille, a few blocks east of the Musee d’Orsay on the Left Bank of the Seine, housed in the Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, as well as the history of the Interuniversity Library of Oriental Languages and some of the more special collections.

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 025, Number 30, March 6, 2001, Grand Valley State University Mar 2001

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 025, Number 30, March 6, 2001, Grand Valley State University

2000-2001, Volume 25

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

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Converting A Controlled Vocabulary Into An Ontology: The Case Of Gem, Jian Qin, Stephen Paling Jan 2001

Converting A Controlled Vocabulary Into An Ontology: The Case Of Gem, Jian Qin, Stephen Paling

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

The prevalance of digital information raised issues regarding the suitability of conventional library tools for organizing information. The multi-dimensionality of digital resources requires a more versatile and flexible representation to accommodate intelligent information representation and retrieval. Ontologies are used as a solution to such issues in many application domains, mainly due to their ability explicitly to specify the semantics and relations and to express them in a computer understandable language. Conventional knowledge organization tools such as classifications and thesauri resemble ontologies in a way that they define concepts and relationships in a systematic manner, but they are less expressive than …

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Natural Language Processing, Elizabeth D. Liddy Jan 2001

Natural Language Processing, Elizabeth D. Liddy

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the computerized approach to analyzing text that is based on both a set of theories and a set of technologies. And, being a very active area of research and development, there is not a single agreed-upon definition that would satisfy everyone, but there are some aspects, which would be part of any knowledgeable person’s definition.

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An Nlp Approach For Improving Access To Statistical Information For The Masses, Elizabeth D. Liddy, Jennifer H. Liddy Jan 2001

An Nlp Approach For Improving Access To Statistical Information For The Masses, Elizabeth D. Liddy, Jennifer H. Liddy

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

Naïve users need to access statistical information, but frequently do not have the sophisticated levels of understanding required in order to translate their information needs into the structure and vocabulary of sites which currently provide access to statistical information. However, these users can articulate quite straightforwardly in their own terms what they are looking for. One approach to satisfying the masses of citizens with needs for statistical information is to automatically map their natural language expressions of their information needs into the metadata structure and terminology that defines and describes the content of statistical tables. To accomplish this goal, we …

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Biblical Assyria And Other Anxieties In The British Empire, Steven W. Holloway Jan 2001

Biblical Assyria And Other Anxieties In The British Empire, Steven W. Holloway

Libraries

The successful “invasion” of ancient Mesopotamia by explorers in the pay of the British Museum Trustees resulted in best-selling publications, a treasure-trove of Assyrian antiquities for display purposes and scholarly excavation, and a remarkable boost to the quest for confirmation of the literal truth of the Bible. The public registered its delight with the findings through the turnstyle- twirling appeal of the British Museum exhibits, and a series of appropriations of Assyrian art motifs and narratives in popular culture - jewelry, bookends, clocks, fine arts, theater productions, and a walk-through Assyrian palace among other period mansions at the Sydenham Crystal …

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Historical Fabrications On The Internet: Recognition, Evaluation, And Use In Bibliographic Instruction, John A. Drobnicki, Richard Asaro Jan 2001

Historical Fabrications On The Internet: Recognition, Evaluation, And Use In Bibliographic Instruction, John A. Drobnicki, Richard Asaro

Publications and Research

Although the Internet provides access to a wealth of information, there is little, if any, control over the quality of that information. Side-by-side with reliable information, one finds disinformation, misinformation, and hoaxes. The authors of this paper discuss numerous examples of fabricated historical information on the Internet (ranging from denials of the Holocaust to personal vendettas), offer suggestions on how to evaluate websites, and argue that these fabrications can be incorporated into bibliographic instruction classes.

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Multivalent Metadata : Exploiting The Layers Of Meaning In Digital Resources, Alison M. Anderson Jan 2001

Multivalent Metadata : Exploiting The Layers Of Meaning In Digital Resources, Alison M. Anderson

Theses : Honours

The rapid growth of the World Wide Web was due in part to the simplicity of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). It is anticipated that the next generation of web technology, coined the Semantic Web, by Tim Berners-Lee (1989, p. 1), will be driven by the Extensible Markup Language (XML). The XML suite of technologies provides a framework for the application of metadata, and hence semantic information, to web resources. Advantages of a semantic web include improved sharing and reuse of resources, enhanced search mechanisms and knowledge management. The knowledge or meaning contained in digital information may vary according to …

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Desk Set: Ready Reference On The Web, Beth Juhl Jan 2001

Desk Set: Ready Reference On The Web, Beth Juhl

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 025, Number 17, November 20, 2000, Grand Valley State University Nov 2000

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 025, Number 17, November 20, 2000, Grand Valley State University

2000-2001, Volume 25

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

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11-2000 Newsletter, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Library Services Nov 2000

11-2000 Newsletter, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Library Services

Library Services Newsletters

Minnesota State University, Mankato, Library Services Newsletter for November 2000.

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 025, Number 12, October 16, 2000, Grand Valley State University Oct 2000

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 025, Number 12, October 16, 2000, Grand Valley State University

2000-2001, Volume 25

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

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