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Information Outlook, September/October 2012, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2012

Volume 16, Issue 5

Information Outlook, July/August 2012, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2012

Volume 16, Issue 4

Information Outlook May/June 2012, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2012

Volume 16, Issue 3

Information Outlook, March/April 2012, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2012

Volume 16, Issue 2

Map Displays And Exhibits, Katherine Rankin

Library Faculty Research

Many patrons do not even know libraries have map collections, let alone what kinds of maps are in them or how they could use those maps. Map displays and exhibits can help increase interest in map collections. Muriel Strickland wrote an article on casual map displays with the title "Map Displays: a Means of Promoting Map Use" in volume 17, number 3 of the WAML IB (June 1986). One of the purposes of my writing this article is to reprise some of the valuable information in Muriel's article; because it was published so long ago, many of the present WAmL …

Information Outlook January/February 2012, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2012

Volume 16, Issue 1

Global Data Change, Julene L. Jones

Ex Libris Bluegrass Users Group Newsletter

Presentation given on Voyager Global Data Change at eBUG 2012 by Julene Jones, University of Kentucky.

Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival, Karen Rowell, The University Of Southern Mississippi, The University Of Southern Mississippi's School Of Library And Information Science

Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival Programs

The program for the forty-fifth annual Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival held on the campus of The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 2012.

Ebug 2012 Program, Julene L. Jones

Ex Libris Bluegrass Users Group Newsletter

eBUG 2012 program

Ebug 2012 Minutes, Julene L. Jones

Ex Libris Bluegrass Users Group Newsletter

eBUG 2012 minutes, approved 6/14/2013

Moving The Archivist Closer To The Creator: Implementing Integrated Archival Policies For Born Digital Photography At Colleges And Universities, Brian Keough, Mark D. Wolfe

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

This article discusses integrated approaches to the management and preservation of born digital photography. It examines the changing practices among photographers, and the needed relationships between the photographers using digital technology and the archivists responsible for acquiring their born digital images. Special consideration is given to technical issues surrounding preservation and access of image formats. It explores how integrated policies can enhance the success of managing born digital photographs in an academic setting and illustrates the benefits and challenges to acquisition, description, and dissemination of born digital photographs. It advocates for the archivist’s active involvement in the photographer’s image management …

Information Outlook, December 2011, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2011

Volume 15, Issue 8

Acquisitions And Collection Development In Business Libraries, Constance B. Cameron, Colleen Anderson

Library Staff Publications, Presentations & Journal Articles

Lists and evaluates essential resources for business libraries and includes essays on business periodicals, online resources, collection development, and library organization.

Information Outlook, October/November 2011, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2011

Volume 15, Issue 7

Navigating To Success: Finding Your Way Through The Challenges Of Map Digitization, Cory K. Lampert, Katherine Rankin

Library Faculty Presentations

This presentation highlights the key steps and decision points essential to completing a successful map digitization project. Topics to be covered include: overcoming the challenges of scanning large-scale materials (including file sizes and encapsulation), descriptive metadata for map collections, copyright and privacy issues for geographic materials, adding geographic coordinates to map collections, image viewer and interface options for online maps, and methods to track the impact of map digitization with users. Using University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries’ digital project Southern Nevada: History in Maps as a case study, the authors will discuss the challenges inherent in map digitization and …

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 …

Information Outlook, September 2011, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2011

Volume 15, Issue 6

Information Outlook, July/August 2011, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2011

Volume 15, Issue 5

Creating Collections Through Collaboration: An Innovative Digital Library Project In Monteverde, Costa Rica, Laurie Kutner, Cindy Dykes, Stefanie Havelka

Publications and Research

The proposed presentation will focus on a successful cross-cultural and cross-institutional collaborative model, involving four institutions, that was developed to create digital library collections of research-based information generated in the Monteverde Zone in Costa Rica. Addressing a need for the Monteverde community to have easy access to locally-produced research-based information, the digital collections contain unpublished research documents produced by area international study programs focusing on local sustainable community development, community health, and tropical ecology.

Each summer, since 2008, LIS graduate student interns from Syracuse University have spent 5-6 weeks on site at the Monteverde Institute in Costa Rica, working to …

Information Outlook, June 2011, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2011

Volume 15, Issue 4

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

Information Outlook, April/May 2011, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2011

Volume 15, Issue 3

Free Puppies: Integrating Web Resources Into The Catalog, Robert L. Bothmann, Kellian Clink

Library Services Publications

Nongovernmental groups, state governmental agencies, and of course, the federal government put timely, authoritative, practice-oriented reports up on the Web with great speed. This presentation will provide the rationale and procedures for adding freely available Web sites to the online catalog to augment and support curricular needs and provide some mechanisms for students to find and access the resources easily.

Information Outlook, March 2011, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2011

Volume 15, Issue 2

Information Outlook, January/February 2011, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2011

Volume 15, Issue 1

Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival, Karen Rowell, The University Of Southern Mississippi, The University Of Southern Mississippi's School Of Library And Information Science

Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival Programs

The program for the forty-fourth annual Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival held on the campus of The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 2011.

Kvug 2011 Minutes, Julene L. Jones

Ex Libris Bluegrass Users Group Newsletter

Minutes from KVUG 2011 meeting.

Digitalcommons Report: 2011, Jean Bigger

DigitalCommons Documents

No abstract provided.

Information Outlook, December 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Volume 14, Issue 8

Information Outlook, October/November 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Volume 14, Issue 7