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Program: Equal Pay Day, April 22, 2008.

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Equal Pay Day event hosted by Women's Center of Jacksonville, Women's Digest, and the Mayor's Commission on the status of women in Jacksonville.

Pixels & Partnerships: Digital Publishing And Co-Operative Scholarship In Australian And Britsih Imperial History, Robin Walsh

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The efforts of libraries and archival institutions in collecting and curating dispersed collections of original letters, journals, pictorial sources, and realia/artefacts are essential contributions towards research and scholarship. Recent technological advances in digitization offer important new possibilities in the reproduction of documents and images as well as enhanced access to dispersed institutional holdings.

The Lachlan & Elizabeth Macquarie Archive (LEMA) is a co-operative inter-institutional website project based at Macquarie University Library, in partnership with key Australian and UK institutions. The aim of the LEMA Project is to create a digital research gateway to the writings of the Lachlan Macquarie (1761-1824), …

Institutional Repositories In New Zealand: Comparing Institutional Strategies For Digital Preservation And Discovery, Rowena Cullen, Brenda Chawner

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This paper outlines an ongoing project to create of a knowledge base to support the development of institutional repositories in New Zealand. The knowledge base wiki includes a summary of key literature to date, highlighting best practice, and standards relevant to the New Zealand sector, and a set of case studies of how New Zealand institutions have developed their repositories to date. These case studies are analysed, and different strategic approaches taken by institutions across the sector identified. These will then be discussed in relation to the issues identified in the literature. The paper also outlines new research areas being …

Ambient Findability And Structured Serendipity: Enjhanced Resource Discovery For Full Text Collections, Alison Stevenson, Conal Tuohy, Jamie Norrish

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

University Libraries manage increasingly large collections of full text digital resources. These might be repositories of born digital research outputs, e-reserves collections or online libraries of material digitised to provide open access to significant texts. Whatever the content of the material, the structured data of full text resources can be exploited to enhance research discovery. The implicit connections and cross-references between books and papers, which occur in all print collections, can be made explicit in a collection of electronic texts. Correctly encoded and exposed they create a framework to support resource discovery and navigation both within and between texts by …

Kiwi Advanced Research And Education Network (Karen): Opportunities And Challenges, Sam Searle

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Creating A Culture Of Data Integration And Interoperability: Librarians And Earth Science Faculty Collaborate On A Geoinformatics Course, Michael Fosmire, Chris Miller

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

One aspect of the development of an e-infrastructure for research discovery that is often overlooked is the human element. Data is only as interoperable as the scientists who are willing to meet data standards and share their work with others. Information literacy in the data world has at least as many challenges as it does in the world of documents. For example, the provenance of data, who collected it, how they collected it, and whether and how it has been verified, are all very important factors for researchers to consider before incorporating external data into their analyses. With this in …

Minding Our Ps And Qs - Issues Of Property, Provenance And Quality In Institutional Repositories, Bruce White

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The development of institutional repositories has opened the path to the mass availability of peer-reviewed scholarly information and the extension of information democracy to the academic domain. A secondary space of free-to-all documents has begun to parallel the hitherto-closed world of journal publishing and many publishers have consented to the inclusion of copyrighted documents in digital repositories, although frequently specifying that a version other than the formally-published one be used. This paper will conceptually

examine the complex interplay of rights, permissions and versions between publishers and repositories, focussing on the New Zealand situation and the challenges faced by university repositories …

Becoming The Authoritative Source: Taking Repositiories Centre Stage, Howard Amos, Tom Ruthven

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Institutional repositories can be a storehouse of the research of an institution. There are many internal and external needs to find, use and report on the entirety or parts of an institution’s research output.

This paper examines how to harness environmental factors to make an institutional repository the central and authoritative source of the research material output of a university. How to take it from “a place” to put research to making it “the place” and moving it from a nice-to-have service to one with a solid, sustainable future, one that the academic community values, supports and uses rather than …

Going Digital, Experiences At The Wellcome Library, Dave Thompson

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The Wellcome Library^[1] acknowledges that born digital material will form part of its research collections. The question is, how do we implement this? This paper talks to the experiences of the Wellcome Library as it develops and implements its strategy to acquire and manage born digital material. It draws on our experiences of working with ’real’ material, and looks at the pragmatic ways in which workflows and practices have been developed and the archivists successfully engaged in working with this new medium.

Eresearch Developments In Australia, Rhys Francis

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Eresearch: Access And Support To University Researchers, Judy Stokker

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The way research is undertaken is changing fundamentally with eResearch, the uptake of web technologies and the application of advanced computational techniques. At the same time, rapid changes are underway in scholarly publishing and communication so that research outputs - both articles and data - are available in new and different ways. What does this mean for university libraries in our work to support research? Many university libraries are establishing and populating institutional repositories, undertaking e publishing of university journals and entering the field of research data management and curation with the consequential need for training researchers in data management …

University Libraries News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

Library Publications (1999-2023)

• ICPSR Update
• Annual Book Renewal

A Weekend Chockfull Of Interesting China Events, Jeff Wasserstrom

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Seeking enlightenment on China’s increasing enmeshment in the wider world, trends in Chinese media, human right issues, Chinese films, or the complexities of defining the “Han” ethnicity? If you are, and you happen to be in New York City, Los Angeles, Stanford, or Irvine, California, between April 24 and 27 and have some time to kill, you are in luck. There’ll be an event going on that can answer your questions—or at least give you novel food for thought. And some will include presentations by people who’ve either posted to this blog in the past (yours truly, Tom Mullaney, and …

It’S Not Just 8/8/08: A Year Of Chinese Anniversaries, Kenneth Pomeranz

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

One thousand years ago (1008 C.E.) The Song Emperor, the goddess of Mt. Tai, and transformations of Chinese religion:

I’ve been waiting awhile to post another “round number anniversary” piece, figuring I’d let discussions of Tibet take precedence while it remains in the news – but it looks like that could be a long while. Meanwhile, choosing this anniversary may be a bit self-indulgent, since I’ve been writing about this goddess off and on for years – but bear with me.

The story starts when Song Zhenzong, the not-very-successful emperor (r. 998-1023), claimed that he had received a Heavenly Letter, …

Lanthorn, Vol. 42, No. 60, April 21, 2008, Grand Valley State University

Volume 42, July 12, 2007 - June 12, 2008

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

Pvn-Cat-202-Pm-005-002-Cncmpb, Chester Liwosz

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, April 21, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 130, Issue 44

Communiqué, April 21, 2008, Lindenwood University

Communiqué

The Communiqué was the faculty/staff newsletter for Lindenwood University/College from 1982 to 2016.

Pvn-Cat-202-Pm-005-006-Cncmpb, Chester Liwosz

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Cat-202-Pm-005-005-Cncmpb, Chester Liwosz

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Cat-202-Pm-005-003-Cncmpb, Chester Liwosz

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-202-Os-027, Chester Liwosz

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Cat-202-Pm-005-007-Cncmpb, Chester Liwosz

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Cat-202-Pm-005-008-Cnlp, Chester Liwosz

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Cat-202-Pm-005-004-Cnlp, Chester Liwosz

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Columbia Chronicle (04/21/2008), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from April 21, 2008 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 44 pages and is listed as Volume 43, Number 27. Cover story: "State autism bill to fund therapy" Editor-in-Chief: Amanda Maurer

An Economic Analysis Of The Effects Of Steroids On Season Best Performances In Track And Field, Allison Fisher '08

Honors Projects

This paper investigates the relationship between steroids and an athlete's ability to run a season best time in track and field. Certain event groups have seen a faster drop in season bests than others. Medical research indicates which of these event groups (sprinters, distance, throwers, jumpers) would most benefit from steroids. I hypothesize that steroids allow sprinters to improve on their season bests more than other event groups. This hypothesis is based on a production theory from the economics literature where inputs such as coaching, facilities and steroids produce season best performances. Using ordinary least-squares regression, I use a dummy …

“Let Us March Against The Fires Of Heaven:” Tamburlaine, Marlowe And Atheism, Nathaniel Beal

Speech & Drama Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

Peyton, Sunny E. (Fa 219), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 219. Paper: "Stirring Our Brew: A Halloween Fairytale" written by Sunny E. Peyton for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

Davis, Sarah (Fa 224), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 224. Paper: "Derby Day" written by Sarah Davis for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.