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Disaster Preparedness In American University Library, Kazuko Hioki
Disaster Preparedness In American University Library, Kazuko Hioki
Library Presentations
This presentation aims to inform the preservation and collection care staff in libraries, museums, and archives from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand of the importance of disaster preparedness.
Connections Newsletter Fall 2011, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
Connections Newsletter Fall 2011, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
Connections Newsletter
Table of Contents
- UNLV Center for Gaming Research
- From the Dean
- Welcome Home, Howard Digital Collection Now on Flickr
- Hotel College Faculty Partner with Library Faculty on Course Design
- Census Provides More than Population Statistics
- Lied Library 10th Anniversary Celebration
- Library Advisory Board Welcomes New Members
- Three Top Students Win Calvert Awards
- Going WEST Preserves Journal Archives Efficiently
Keeping Track Of Objects And Metadata At Unlv: From Material Selection Through Metadata Quality Control, Silvia B. Southwick, Jane Skoric
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 …
Looking Back, Moving Forward In The Digital Age: A Review Of The Collection Management And Development Literature, 2004–8, Lorre Smith, Daryl R. Bullis
Looking Back, Moving Forward In The Digital Age: A Review Of The Collection Management And Development Literature, 2004–8, Lorre Smith, Daryl R. Bullis
University Libraries Faculty Scholarship
The collection and management of digital resources dominated collection development and management literature produced during 2004–8. Themes covered the changing nature of local collections, redefining collection management responsibilities and practices, cooperation and collaboration, and collection assessment and evaluation. The literature reflected the struggle to manage a vast array of resources while library budgets stagnated. While publishers continued to offer more bundles of electronic publications, librarians responded with strategies to collaborate and negotiate for feasible pricing structures. A culture of continuous assessment was a major topic. During this review period, access to and ownership of digital resources reemerged as a pervasive …
Engaging Your Campus In Utilizing Institutional Repositories, Marianne A. Buehler
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
And They Were There: Reports Of Meetings — 30th Annual Charleston Conference. Patron-Driven Acquisition Of Monographs: Results And Implications, Andrée Rathemacher
And They Were There: Reports Of Meetings — 30th Annual Charleston Conference. Patron-Driven Acquisition Of Monographs: Results And Implications, Andrée Rathemacher
Technical Services Department Faculty Publications
Brief summary of a session at the 30th Annual Charleston Conference, held in Charleston, S.C. in November 2010.
The Role Of Audiobooks In Academic Libraries, Catherine Stern
The Role Of Audiobooks In Academic Libraries, Catherine Stern
Publications and Research
The decision by the library of LaGuardia Community College to add audiobooks to its collection led librarians to examine the scope and the nature of audiobook use at other college and university libraries. The author created, distributed, and tabulated a survey that recorded a number of traditional uses for these materials as well as a number of interesting new possibilities and challenges.