Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Rda Is Here!, Jeremy Myntti

Faculty Publications

• FRBR
• RDA Training Schedule
• RDA Resources on StaffNet
• RDA Changes –Abbreviations
• RDA Changes –GMD => C-M-C
• RDA Changes –Rule of Three
• RDA Changes –Relationships
• RDA Changes –Forms of Headings
• RDA Changes –Misc
• RDA Changes –Behind the Scenes
• RDA Changes –Authority Records

The History And Current State Of The Information Portal In Libraries, Richard Hacken, Mathew Miles

Faculty Publications

This paper expands upon the concept of the information portal as introduced in the earlier-published article "The Role of Web Services in Portal Design: Approaches for an Algerian University Library." The categories and concepts involved are outlined as follows:
Defining the “portal” and its variants
Identifying variant functions of portals
Notions of portal user profiles and customization
History of portals
Library catalog models
Early library catalog models
Current library catalog models
Metadata repository models
Early metadata repository models
Current metadata repository models
Federated search models
Early federated search models
Current federated search models
Beyond Federated Searching (Centralized Indexes)
Digital library …

Linked Data, Jeremy Myntti

Faculty Publications

RLS Forum, J. Willard Marriott Library

Rda Is Coming To The Marriott Library, Jeremy Myntti

Faculty Publications

• History of RDA
• RDA Resources on StaffNet
• RDA Training Schedule
• RDA Changes – Abbreviations
• RDA Changes – GMD => C-M-C
• RDA Changes – Rule of Three
• RDA Changes – Relationships
• RDA Changes – Forms of Headings
• RDA in Aleph/Primo

Provo City Library: Building Across A Century, Gregory M. Nelson

Faculty Publications

The public library in Provo City, Utah has undergone significant changes since the founding of the original 1906 building that was funded by Andrew Carnegie. The library has changed according to the needs of the community as it has adapted from its pioneer heritage to a modern service information organization. As it has adapted, however, the Provo Library has maintained its focus on community service with its physical facilities, collection development, community outreach and quality staffing.

Motivating Millenials: Improving Practices In Recruiting, Retaining, And Motivating Younger Library Staff, Quinn Galbraith, Sara D. Smith

Faculty Publications

Working with younger staff and student employees can be a challenge for library supervisors in a multigenerational workplace. Because members of the Millennial Generation have different work expectations, managers need to adjust to best meet their needs. By surveying its five hundred student employees, Brigham Young University's Harold B. Lee Library has learned ways to avoid miscommunication due to generational differences and to better supervise and motivate student employees. The purpose of this paper is to explore the library survey results and results from other national surveys, and to share what was learned from student employees about the Millennial Generation …

The Feasibility Of Implementing A Collaborative Recommender System For The Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library, Derrick Brinton

Student Works

With library users finding their information from other non-library sources, the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University has great need of a recommender system. The library already has years of checkout data that can be used to jump-start the recommender system's recommendations. Unfortunately, that data is difficult to format in a way that a recommender system can use. With some effort, it can be stored in a graph database and used to generate recommendations for users based on their preferences. Calculating recommendations before they are required and storing them for future use can speed up the amount of …

Open Knowledge Repository, Leticia Camacho

Faculty Publications

The Open Knowledge Repository is a project from the World Bank to preserve and make available to the public its vast storehouse of publications. Launched in April 2012, the site comprises World Bank resources published from 2005 to 2012, including reports, academic books, journals, and working papers. The site is simple and easy to use. The home page features new titles and a search box for the entire website. Content can also be browsed by collections, authors, publication date, topics, or titles. The six main collections are Annual Reports and Independent Evaluations, Journals, Working Papers, Books, Economic and Sector Work …

Review Of "Budgeting Smarts: How To Set Goals, Save Money, Spend Wisely, And More", Leticia Camacho

Faculty Publications

This review covers two titles from the Today Teen Wise Guides series, Job Smarts and Budgeting Smarts. Other titles available in the series are Conflict Resolution Smarts, Relationship Smarts, Scheduling Smarts, and Shopping Smarts. Each book is organized in the same way, with an introduction, five chapters, and an epilogue. Each book also includes a glossary, a selected bibliography, a short index, and a “further information” section that lists some useful associations and publications for readers who would like to learn more. Each chapter begins with the story of a teen facing a dilemma that the reader might be facing. …

A Quick Response: Qr Code Use At The Harold B. Lee Library, Michael J. Whitchurch

Faculty Publications

The use of quick response (QR) codes in libraries is just beginning to evolve, with a varied and vast future. At the Harold B. Lee Library of Brigham Young University, two projects that use QR codes have been implemented. This article presents details of these implementations and briefly describes QR code uses at other libraries. In addition, some pros and cons, cautions, and potential implementation issues are discussed.

Uspages: The Best Of Us Business, Leticia Camacho

Faculty Publications

USPages provides a directory of information about all Fortune 500 corporations, which users can browse by industry or search. The Fortune 500 is a list of the 500 largest public corporations in the US with the highest gross revenue; Fortune magazine has published the list annually since 1955. Company profiles include an overview of the corporation, a business and financial summary, Fortune 500 ranking score for the past five years, and contact information.

Business Stages For Entrepreneurs, Leticia Camacho

Faculty Publications

This site is part of the James J. Hill Library, a private nonprofit business reference library founded in 1921. Containing hundreds of links to carefully preselected resources, Business Stages for Entrepreneurs functions as a portal to resources that can help entrepreneurs start, run, and grow their businesses. The home page is organized in tabs by the five stages of a business: exploring, beginning, growing, managing, and maturing.

A Synthetic Document Image Dataset For Developing And Evaluating Historical Document Processing Methods, Daniel Walker, William Lund, Eric Ringger

Faculty Publications

Document images accompanied by OCR output text and ground truth transcriptions are useful for developing and evaluating document recognition and processing methods, especially for historical document images. Additionally, research into improving the performance of such methods often requires further annotation of training and test data (e.g., topical document labels). However, transcribing and labeling historical documents is expensive. As a result, existing real-world document image datasets with such accompanying resources are rare and often relatively small. We introduce synthetic document image datasets of varying levels of noise that have been created from standard (English) text corpora using an existing document degradation …

Important Information Literacy Standards For Life And Health Sciences, Betsy S. Hopkins

Faculty Publications

Information literacy in the life and health sciences is a dynamic field, with challenges, opportunities, and rewards for the successful practitioner. This chapter will describe the big picture of information literacy in these disciplines, list relevant performance indicators from the ALA/ACRL/STS Task Force on Information Literacy for Science and Technology [STS-TFILST] (2006) Information Literacy Standards for Science and Technology (hereafter Standards), and give some practical advice for life and health sciences librarians and librarians with instructional responsibilities in those disciplines. The focus is on undergraduates at research universities, although many principles and strategies will apply to other circumstances.

The Global Entrepreneurship And Development Index, 2012, Leticia Camacho

Faculty Publications

Social & Behavioral Sciences 50-0031 HD82 MARC Ács, Zoltán J. The global entrepreneurship and development index, 2012, by Zoltán J. Ács and László Szerb. E. Elgar, 2012. 391p ISBN 9781849808439, $450.00; ISBN 9781781001158 e-book, contact publisher for price

Review Of "Job Smarts: How To Find Work Or Start A Business, Manage Earnings, And More", Leticia Camacho

Faculty Publications

This review covers two titles from the Today Teen Wise Guides series, Job Smarts and Budgeting Smarts. Other titles available in the series are Conflict Resolution Smarts, Relationship Smarts, Scheduling Smarts, and Shopping Smarts. Each book is organized in the same way, with an introduction, five chapters, and an epilogue. Each book also includes a glossary, a selected bibliography, a short index, and a “further information” section that lists some useful associations and publications for readers who would like to learn more. Each chapter begins with the story of a teen facing a dilemma that the reader might be facing. …