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Making Your Popcorn And Enjoying It Too, Sean Anderson, Adam C. Northam Apr 2015

Making Your Popcorn And Enjoying It Too, Sean Anderson, Adam C. Northam

Velma K. Waters Library Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Digitization And Digital Preservation: A Review Of The Literature, Stephanie Routhier Perry May 2014

Digitization And Digital Preservation: A Review Of The Literature, Stephanie Routhier Perry

School of Information Student Research Journal

Digitization and digital preservation are rapidly becoming the standard forms of preservation for libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage institutions, yet there is still much confusion as to what they mean and how they are meant to be used. Through a review of the recent literature, this paper aims to define both concepts, as well as find some of the common challenges associated with these preservation processes. Different preservation methods, collaboration techniques, and metadata schema are also discussed.


Institutional Repository And Archival Collaborations At Unlv Libraries: Who's In, Who's Out?, Tom D. Sommer May 2014

Institutional Repository And Archival Collaborations At Unlv Libraries: Who's In, Who's Out?, Tom D. Sommer

Library Faculty Presentations

The University Archives has become an integral part of an academic institution. It has met its role as the repository for the rich history of an institution. They have met the challenges of a changing environment at many points in their history. The most recent change being the addition of born-digital materials into their collections. However, there is an opportunity to collaborate with another unit within academic libraries. The introduction and growth of institutional repositories (IR) on college campuses has provided an opportunity for university archives. An IR’s goal is to preserve the intellectual output of an institution. This is …


Popcorn And A Movie: Using Popcorn.Js To Enhance Digital Collections, Sean Anderson, Adam C. Northam Dec 2013

Popcorn And A Movie: Using Popcorn.Js To Enhance Digital Collections, Sean Anderson, Adam C. Northam

Velma K. Waters Library Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


The Next Level Of Understanding Contentdm, Sierra R. Green Apr 2011

The Next Level Of Understanding Contentdm, Sierra R. Green

Blogging the Library

Hello everyone and Happy Wednesday once again! As promised from my last blog entry, I come to you with new knowledge about CONTENTdm! If you remember from my previous post, I had learned how to input the metadata in the correct fields and organize the folders to be harvested by CONTENTdm. I could upload these digitized Tipton photos and their accompanying metadata for approval (this is the "digitized purgatory" I mentioned last time). But one final step that I did not know how to do was "take down" or delete the old digitized Tipton photos and "put up" the new …


The Known And The Unknown, Sierra R. Green Apr 2011

The Known And The Unknown, Sierra R. Green

Blogging the Library

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday! I've just emerged from another week in the world of CONTENTdm and I feel like I'm understanding more and more what it likes and what it doesn't like. Thus far, I've added a digitized image of the reverse side of close to 30 Tipton photographs! [excerpt]


We Started A Digital Collection For Next To Nothing And You Can Too, Adam C. Northam Jun 2010

We Started A Digital Collection For Next To Nothing And You Can Too, Adam C. Northam

Velma K. Waters Library Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


From Digital Library To Institutional Repository: A Brief Look At One Library’S Path, Marianne A. Buehler, Marcia Trauernicht Mar 2007

From Digital Library To Institutional Repository: A Brief Look At One Library’S Path, Marianne A. Buehler, Marcia Trauernicht

Library Faculty Research

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the initial transformation of one academic library’s digital media library into the institutional repository (IR) of its entire academic organization. Design/methodology/approach – Description of an academic digital library’s evolution into an institutional repository, accompanied by both practical and philosophical analyses. Findings – Materials supporting an academic institution’s scholarship (from colleges and from supporting organizations on campus) can play an important part in the success of an institutional repository. Standards for metadata content, data structures and hierarchies of collections must be followed consistently, and adequate storage for digital …


The Organization And Description Of The Unlv Archives, Tom D. Sommer Jan 2007

The Organization And Description Of The Unlv Archives, Tom D. Sommer

Library Faculty Presentations

No abstract provided.


The Evolving Impact Of Institutional Repositories On Reference Librarians, Marianne A. Buehler, Adwoa Boateng Jan 2005

The Evolving Impact Of Institutional Repositories On Reference Librarians, Marianne A. Buehler, Adwoa Boateng

Library Faculty Research

Purpose – The paper's purpose is to share the insights that the staff of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Libraries (Wallace Library, RIT Archives, and the Cary Collection) gained into the role of reference librarians in establishing and operating an institutional repository (IR). Design/methodology/approach – The paper conducts a literature review on a range of published (1999-2005) works to research the background of IRs and to incorporate it with the authors' own experiences. Findings – The research findings, involving implementing IRs and specifically the effect on the role of the reference librarian in academic libraries, were found to be …