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Purr: A Research Data Curation Service Model Using Hubzero, Courtney E. Matthews, Michael Witt

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

The Purdue University Research Repository (PURR, http://research.hub.purdue.edu) uses HUBzero to provide a research collaboration and data management solution for campus researchers. The National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and other funding agencies have begun requiring that researchers describe in their grant proposals how they will manage and share the data that will be produced in their research. Purdue researchers can include PURR in their data management plans, invite collaborators to work with them in a private projects on PURR, and publish datasets that can be cited using Digital Object Identifiers (DOI). This presentation will explore Purdue’s data …

Press Clippings For The Exhibit, Allison Marsh

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Gallery Floor Plan, Keyed To The Powerpoint Walk-Through, Allison Marsh

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Budget, Allison Marsh

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Findings Reported To The National Science Foundation, Allison Marsh

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A Power Point Walk-Through Of The Exhibit, Allison Marsh

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Pallet, Font, Sizes, Allison Marsh

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Digital Repository Adoption In New York City Research Institutions, David J. Williams

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As more scholarly and research materials are created in digital formats, institutions charged with managing, preserving, and disseminating these materials are increasingly adopting specialized software tools and environments created to fulfill these functions. Concurrently, subscriptions to serials databases provided by academic publishers are increasingly prohibitive and problematic. This paper surveys the adoption of digital institutional repositories by research institutions in the New York City region as of the Spring of 2009, and concludes that in spite of their potential advantages these systems are still not widely applied toward addressing the issues of preservation and access to their fullest potential.

An Often-Tumultuous Saga Of Books And Book-Places In The World: A Review, Dayne Sherman

E-JASL: Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship (1999-2009, Volumes 1-10)

Book review of Battles, Matthew. Library: An Unquiet History. W.W. Norton, New York, NY, 2003. $24.95.

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Library: An Unquiet History dignifies the work of librarians as a profession, something needed more now than ever before, as we encounter this chaotic Communication Age. It tells us why we are here toiling in the library by telling us how we arrived as keepers of books and guardians of democracy.

Children's Book Festival, Karen Rowell, University Of Southern Mississippi, Special Children's Collection Of The University Of Southern Mississippi Library

Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival Programs

The third annual Children's Book Festival held on the campus of The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1970.