Digital Commons Network^™

Optimizing For Broader Discoverability: Metadata With Web Crawlers And Oai Harvesters In Mind, Cheryl D. Walters, Sandra Mcintyre

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

Wondering how to get your CONTENTdm resources featured more in Google, OAIster, and other web crawlers and harvesters? The Mountain West Digital Library regularly harvests nine CONTENTdm repositories in Utah and Nevada, along with two other Open Archives Initiatives (OAI) repositories. The result is a central regional index with over 270,000 records representing 1.2 million digital files, accessible via search and browse in an online portal at http://mwdl.org. Members of the MWDL's Best Practices and Standards Working Group are revising and expanding recommendations for assigning metadata in CONTENTdm collections to optimize their discovery in MWDL, as well as other crawlers …

Hybrid Maintenance, Timothy Janello

Presentations

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Demographics And Learning Styles Of Automotive Students, Omar Trinidad

Presentations

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Beyond Research: Opencourseware In The Institutional Repository, Heather Leary, Brett E. Shelton, Marion Jensen

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

Presentation given at the 2009 LITA National Forum in Salt Lake City, Utah on archiving OpenCourseWare in the Institutional Repository.

The main function of OpenCourseWare is to provide open access to collections of educational materials used in formal courses. The main function of an Institutional Repository is to collect, preserve, and disseminate intellectual output of an institution. Since OCW is a significant portion of the intellectual output of a university, archiving OCW in an institutions repository seems a perfect marriage of means and opportunity.

Dealing With Difficult Students (Faccs/Iaccs), Beth E. Ackerman

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Praise: Dealing With Difficult Students, Beth E. Ackerman

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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The Proactive Teacher, Beth E. Ackerman

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Differentiated Instruction (Faccs), Beth E. Ackerman

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Let Faculty Members Do Your Marketing, Michelle B. Goodwin, Deanna L. Keith, Esther Alcindor

Faculty Publications and Presentations

This presesntation provides a Power Point and a corresponding handout to assist local chapters of Kappa Delta Pi in utilizing faculty professors to publicize the benefits of membership and active participation in KDP.

Libguides For Information Literacy At Johnson & Wales: Leadership, Rosita E. Hopper

Library Staff Publications

This set of power point slides accompanied a talk given by Rosie Hopper to a seminar for independent school librarians, which took place on October 1, 2009 at the Lyrasis New England headquarters in Southborough, Massachusetts.

Institutional Design And Governance In Microbial Research Commons, Charlotte Hess

Librarian Publications

Presentation slides on institutional design and governance to facilitate a global research commons for microbiology delivered at the International Symposium on Designing the Microbial Research Commons, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, 8-9 October 2009.

Using Digital Primary Sources For Teaching K-12, Cheryl D. Walters, Anne R. Diekama, Sheri Haderlie, Heather Leary

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

USU faculty and northern Utah K-12 teachers and library media specialists talk about how to identify and integrate digital primary sources such as photographs, letters, diaries, interviews and more into the curriculum to create engaging lessons. Digital resources such as the Library of Congress' American Memory, Mountain West Digital Library, and Utah Digital Newspapers, as well as tools for organizing the digital objects will be discussed.

Management Initiatives To Ensure Quality Teaching, Frank Mcmahon

Presentations

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Vision For The Future, G. Sayeed Choudhury, Jean-Gabriel Bankier, Kenning Arlitsch, Jessica Branco Colati, Sue Kunda, Marilyn Billings

Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship

This discussion will include 5 minute lightening talks by each presenter with an open floor discussion about the future of Institutional Repositories.

The Institutional Repository As A Publishing Platform, Richard W. Clement, Jean-Gabriel Bankier, Jeffrey Belliston, Marilyn Billings, Jay Burton

Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship

J.G. will speak about the Edikit journal software. Jeff will speak about Open Journal Systems software. Rick and Marilyn will speak about publishing on their campus. Jay will talk about using online journal software.

What Is Working Today: Success Stories In Marketing, Rights Management, And More, Heather Leary, Allyson Mower, Michelle Armstrong

Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship

This panel session will be a discussion of success stories by various IR Coordinators in their daily work with marketing, copyright clearance, workflow, distinctions between the Digital Library and IR, and more.

Keynote - The Value Of Institutional Repositories, G. Sayeed Choudhury

Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship

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Digital Commons Eposter, The Berkeley Electronic Press

Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship

Electronic poster about Digital Commons, Institutional Repository software created and managed by The Berkeley Electronic Press.

Fedora Eposter, Fedora Commons, Duraspace

Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship

Electronic poster on Fedora Commons Repository Software, open source software for managing, preserving, and linking content.

Contentdm Eposter, Oclc

Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship

Electronic poster about CONTENTdm, digital collection management software created and managed by OCLC.

Institutional Repositories & Discipline Repositories Eposter, Stacy Righini

Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship

Electronic poster about the Institutional Repository and how a Discipline Repository fits into the landscape.

Hot Potato: Who Will End Up Paying For Open Access? [Slides], Sue Ann Gardner

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

PowerPoint slides of a talk given at the 35th IAMSLIC Annual Conference & 13th Biennial EURASLIC Conference, September 27-October 1, 2009, Provinciaal Hof, Brugge, Belgium.

Abstract of accompanying paper: Open access to scholarly content is increasing, and will continue to do so. This phenomenon is driving the economics of publishing to change dramatically. The question is: what will the economics of open access look like when this correction settles into a sustainable model? I will cover some of the ideas that have recently been articulated by economists, information professionals and others regarding retooling the evolving publishing business model, and will …

What's Good About Feeling Bad Handout For Aacc World Conference 2009, John C. Thomas

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Based upon the book "What's good about feeling bad: Finding purpose and a path through pain" by Drs. John C. Thomas and Gary Habermas. The presentation covers the benefits that God can bring from suffering

Foraging Preference By Wild Deer On Toyon Populations From Santa Catalina Island Versus The Santa Monica Mountains, Amelia I. Clark, Rodney Honeycutt, Anjel Helms, Stephen Davis

Biology

Post-fire regeneration of Toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia), a chaparral shrub on Santa Catalina Island is impeded by mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), a non-native species introduced during the 1930’s. Mainland and island populations of Toyon were examined for potential differences in defense mechanisms that act as natural deterrents to over-browsing by ungulate herbivores, with the hypothesis that island populations, void of natural ungulate herbivores, may lack such defense mechanisms. Several characteristics of leaf morphology, including number and length of spines, leaf area and depth, and tensile strength of leaves, were compared between island and mainland populations. Leaves of Toyon from Santa Catalina …

Using Small Satellites For Low Cost Space Education & Science Missions, Robert J. Twiggs

Robert "Bob" Twiggs STEM Education Collection

A PowerPoint Presentation created by Professor Bob Twiggs titled "Using Small Satellites for Low Cost Space Education & Science Missions" from September 8, 2009.

The Seven Outs: Strategic Planning And Leadership Development, David B. Ross

Faculty Presentations

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The Seven Outs: Strategic Planning And Leadership Development, David B. Ross

Faculty Presentations

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Integrating An Opencourseware And Institutional Repository, Heather Leary, Brett E. Shelton

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

This presentation was given at the 2009 Open Education Conference in Vancouver, BC. It shows how and why Utah State University chose to archive their OpenCourseWare. This was done in their Institutional Repository, DigitalCommons@USU. The presentation emphasizes the importance of the Open Education community to work with Librarians.

Code Green: Using The Participatory Approach To Grow Environmental Awareness, Megan Pugh

Sandanona

This demonstration will expose teachers to the participatory approach and how it can used to generate environmental awareness in students. Participants will leave with activities for more ways to create environmental awareness in the classroom in different teaching contexts.

Author Outreach For Institutional Repositories, Jonathan Nabe

Conference Papers and Presentations

No abstract provided.