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Bridging Researchers’ Active Data Storage Needs, Matt Schultz Oct 2015

Bridging Researchers’ Active Data Storage Needs, Matt Schultz

Matt Schultz

The 2015 Midwest Data Librarian Symposium was the inaugural launch of this now widely-attended un-conference series. Attendees were encouraged to submit lightning presentations on local developments in the area of data management support from within their Libraries. This brief presentation highlighted early work undertaken to develop a checklist that my role as Metadata & Digital Curation could make use of to navigate faculty researcher questions that arise when considering where to store and maintain research data during active stages of any given sponsored research project.

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Navigating Reference Requests: An Examination Of Academic Archivists’ Use Of Reference Tools, Anne Daniel, Amanda Oliver, Amanda Jamieson Jun 2015

Navigating Reference Requests: An Examination Of Academic Archivists’ Use Of Reference Tools, Anne Daniel, Amanda Oliver, Amanda Jamieson

Anne Daniel

Traditionally, archivists have engaged in arrangement and description and created finding aids to be used as guides to fonds and collections. The creation of finding aids is an established archival function that continues today. The availability of technology, such as a databases, is changing the way that archivists conduct their work. This research examines the tools that archivists use to answer reference questions and begins to look at the following issues: What other tools do archivists use when they assist their researchers? Should the creation of finding aids continue to be a priority for archivists or has the time come …

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The View From The Film Reel: The Representation Of Archivists In Film, Anne Daniel, Amanda Oliver Jun 2015

The View From The Film Reel: The Representation Of Archivists In Film, Anne Daniel, Amanda Oliver

Anne Daniel

Archivists are depicted in many different forms of pop culture, including books, television and films. These representations help shape how the world views archivists and situates the profession on the archival horizon. Building upon previous research in this area, this study aims to investigate how archivists are portrayed in film. Films involving archivists were selected and a content analysis of these films was conducted to address the following questions: is there an archivist in the film and how is the character portrayed? Is there a clear image of archivists portrayed in the films? How do these images affect how the …

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Navigating Reference Requests: An Examination Of Academic Archivists' Use Of Reference Tools, Anne Daniel, Amanda Jamieson, Amanda Oliver May 2015

Navigating Reference Requests: An Examination Of Academic Archivists' Use Of Reference Tools, Anne Daniel, Amanda Jamieson, Amanda Oliver

Anne Daniel

Traditionally, archivists have engaged in arrangement and description and created finding aids to be used as guides to fonds and collections. The creation of finding aids is a traditional archival function that continues today. The availability of technology, such as a databases, is changing the way that archivists conduct their work. This research examines the tools that archivists use to answer reference questions and begins to look at the following issues. What other tools do archivists use when they assist their researchers? Should the creation of finding aids continue to be a priority for archivists or has the time come …

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You Want What? #11;Responding To Patron #11;Duplication Requests, Garrett Kremer-Wright, Cathy Martyniak, Mary Rubin May 2015

You Want What? #11;Responding To Patron #11;Duplication Requests, Garrett Kremer-Wright, Cathy Martyniak, Mary Rubin

Mary Rubin

To be completed later.

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