Gender Demographics And Perception In Librarianship,
2018
Catholic University
Gender Demographics And Perception In Librarianship, Patricia Mars
School of Information Student Research Journal
This article is an examination of the history of gender demographics in the field of librarianship. The historic development and subsequent "feminization" of librarianship continues to influence the gender wage gap and the disproportionate leadership bias in the field today. This article examines the stereotyping of librarians and the cyclical effect of genderizing the profession. Consideration of current trends and data in librarian demographics demonstrates a consistent decrease in gender diversity, accompanied by a troubling lack of women leaders and executives. Additionally, this article explores options for combating the gender perceptions that negatively impact women in library and information science …
Information Literacy In The Digital Age: Myths And Principles Of Digital Literacy,
2018
San Jose State University
Information Literacy In The Digital Age: Myths And Principles Of Digital Literacy, Bernd W. Becker
School of Information Student Research Journal
Librarians have traditionally served as the champions of information literacy, adopting it as a core principle of the profession and creating a movement that tries to facilitate fair, equal access to knowledge and its creation. There are plenty of publications on this topic, but as the Information Age has become the Digital Age, there also needs to be a discussion of how information literacy is evolving. More specifically, librarians are now finding themselves shouldering the responsibilities of digital literacy alongside traditional approaches to information literacy, especially considering how more and more information needs can only be met via digital resources. …
Stepping Into The Future,
2018
San Jose State University
Stepping Into The Future, Holley Cornetto
School of Information Student Research Journal
No abstract provided.
Introduction To Metadata For Digital Libraries,
2018
University of Miami
Introduction To Metadata For Digital Libraries, Elliot Williams
Library Articles, Papers, and Presentations
Slides from a workshop covering basic metadata practices and principles for digital libraries, including a variety of metadata schemas, as well as considerations for writing shareable and user-friendly metadata.
Staffing With Students: Digitizing Campus Newspapers With Student Volunteers At The University Of Minnesota, Morris,
2018
University of Minnesota - Morris
Staffing With Students: Digitizing Campus Newspapers With Student Volunteers At The University Of Minnesota, Morris, Naomi Skulan
Library Publications
The purpose of this paper is to examine the advantages and disadvantages to primarily utilizing undergraduate student volunteers for a long-term digitization project and to discuss methods to mitigate the disadvantages of student volunteer work.
Advocating For Technical Services Through Assessment (Presentation),
2018
University at Albany, State University of New York
Advocating For Technical Services Through Assessment (Presentation), Rebecca L. Mugridge
University Libraries Faculty Scholarship
This presentation discusses how managers can advocate for technical services through a variety of assessment activities.
Benchmarking Vended Authority Control Practices In Arl Libraries,
2018
University at Albany, State University of New York
Benchmarking Vended Authority Control Practices In Arl Libraries, Rebecca Mugridge, Rebecca Nous, Nancy Poehlmann, Wendy West
University Libraries Faculty Scholarship
This article presents the results of a survey designed to benchmark the use of vendors to support authority control activities in Association of Research Libraries member libraries. Such activities include updating authority or bibliographic records, sourcing authority records, participation in cooperative cataloging efforts, and more. The survey investigated whether and how responding libraries used vendors to create and maintain an authority file and process current cataloging records. The survey gathered demographic and other information about the libraries, and the authors sought to identify trends and correlations between these and other factors.
Contextual Classification At Out On The Shelves Library,
2018
Grand Valley State University
Contextual Classification At Out On The Shelves Library, Amber Dierking
Conference Proceedings
Out On The Shelves is Vancouver’s only Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Two-Spirit, Queer, Intersex, Aromantic/Asexual (LGBT2QIA+) library. Due to recent organizational changes, it has become apparent that its current classification system is no longer working effectively. Not only was the previous system unstructured and confusing, it failed to explicitly represent many aspects of the community it serves. This project was undertaken during the summer of 2018, researching alternative classification and queer issues in knowledge organization to determine how to improve it. This research, combined with careful consideration of the needs of the library itself and its users, suggested that building …
Discovery Assessment And Improvement At An Academic Health Sciences Library: Health Information @ Himmelfarb Five Years Later,
2018
George Washington University
Discovery Assessment And Improvement At An Academic Health Sciences Library: Health Information @ Himmelfarb Five Years Later, Jolinda Thompson, Elaine Sullo, Laura E. Abate, Meaghan Heselden, Kathleen Lyons
Himmelfarb Library Faculty Publications
Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library was an early health sciences library adopter of web scale discovery with introduction of a customized instance of EBSCO’s Discovery Service (EDS) in 2012. After three years with EDS, the library initiated an evaluation project involving two user surveys and a library staff focus group to assess user satisfaction with the service. Resulting changes included introduction of widgets to improve access to clinical content, addition of radio buttons to the search box to make defaults easier to enable and disable, and a custom course reserves search feature. The improvements launched fall semester 2016.
Zine Authors ’ Attitudes About Inclusion In Public And Academic Library Collections: A Survey- Based Study,
2018
CUNY College of Staten Island
Zine Authors ’ Attitudes About Inclusion In Public And Academic Library Collections: A Survey- Based Study, Anne Hays
Publications and Research
Zine collections are becoming an increasingly popular addition to public and academic library holdings. Although academics have made strong arguments for the value of zines' inclusion as part of our cultural heritage, current research does not focus on zine authors' perspectives. How do the zine writers themselves feel about having their work--which is often highly personal--collected, shared, and sometimes circulated in the public and academic library sphere? This study will report the findings of a survey designed to uncover zine authors' attitudes about having their works collected, shared, and circulated--in academic libraries, public libraries, and institutionally affiliated archival collections across …
Conceptualizations Of Catalogers’ Judgment Through Content Analysis: A Preliminary Investigation,
2018
CUNY York College
Conceptualizations Of Catalogers’ Judgment Through Content Analysis: A Preliminary Investigation, Junli Diao
Publications and Research
Catalogers’ judgment is frequently mentioned, but rarely researched in formal studies. The purpose of this article is to investigate catalogers’ judgment through an exploration of the texts collected in the database of Library and Information Science Source. Verbs, adjectives and nouns intimately associated with catalogers’ judgment were extracted, analyzed and grouped into 16 categories, which give birth to five conceptual descriptions. The results of this study provide cataloging professionals with an overview picture on aspects of catalogers’ judgment. They may help library school students and graduates and novice catalogers to become independent and confident decision makers relating to cataloging work.
Finding Aid To The Collection Of Mary Low Carver Materials,
2018
Colby College
Finding Aid To The Collection Of Mary Low Carver Materials, Mary Low Carver, Colby College Special Collections
Finding Aids
Mary Caffrey Low (later Carver), born on March 22, 1850, in Waterville, Maine, was the first woman to graduate from Colby College. In 1871, she enrolled as the college's first female student, to graduate four years later in 1875. She was one of the first women in New England to receive a regular A.B. degree. Low was the only female student at Colby until the fall of 1873, when she was joined by four other women, among them Louise Helen Coburn. In 1874, Low co-founded the Sigma Kappa Sorority. Low was the first woman to appear on the rolls of …
Evolution Of Western Library Catalogs: The Rising Expectations Of Users,
2018
CUNY York College
Evolution Of Western Library Catalogs: The Rising Expectations Of Users, Junli Diao
Publications and Research
This paper traces the historical development of library catalogs from primitive catalogs in ancient times to current next generational catalogs, which are summarized into three stages: the agricultural catalog stage, the industrial catalog stage and the information catalog stage. In particular, this paper focuses on the discussion of the rise of users’ expectations on library catalogs at different stages and gives emphasis to what impact they have created accordingly.
Reliquaires Pervertis. Inscriptions Du Deuil Chez Maupassant, Mirbeau Et Rodenbach,
2018
Montclair State University
Reliquaires Pervertis. Inscriptions Du Deuil Chez Maupassant, Mirbeau Et Rodenbach, Elizabeth Emery
Department of World Languages and Cultures Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Dans cette étude il est question de la fascination pour les tombes, reliquaires et épitaphes à travers leur représentation dans des textes naturalistes et décadents de la fin du XIXe siècle. Alors qu’on commande de plus en plus de monuments funéraires, surtout dans les années 1880 et 1890, les écrivains tels que Maupassant, Mirbeau et Rodenbach se moquent de leurs inscriptions ; ils privilégient une vision moins historique (celle de l’Histoire, avec un grand H) et plus intime (celle de l’histoire, avec un petit h) de l’épitaphe, la dotant ainsi d’une fonction de moins en moins matérielle et de plus …
A Survey Of Archival Replay Banners,
2018
Old Dominion University
A Survey Of Archival Replay Banners, Sawood Alam, Mat Kelly, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson
Computer Science Faculty Publications
We surveyed various archival systems to compare and contrast different techniques used to implement an archival replay banner. We found that inline plain HTML injection is the most common approach, but prone to style conflicts. Iframe-based banners are also very common and while they do not have style conflicts, they suffer from screen real estate wastage and limited design choices. Custom Elements-based banners are promising, but due to being a new web standard, these are not yet widely deployed.
Safeguarding For The Future: Managing Born-Digital Collections In Museums,
2017
Seton Hall University
Safeguarding For The Future: Managing Born-Digital Collections In Museums, Kimberly Kruse
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
Over the past few decades, advancements in technology have changed society entirely. Every bit of information about world news, popular culture, and art is just a tap of a touchscreen away. So many aspects of the contemporary world have become digitized so that it was only a matter of time before museums would have to face the issue of born-digital media in their collections. From videos to web-based art, museums have to tackle how to save this new form of cultural heritage. Museums have to do so now before it gets lost forever. The challenge of born-digital objects lies in …
Rethinking The Potential Of Documentation Of Culture As A Data Gathering Practice,
2017
Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Rethinking The Potential Of Documentation Of Culture As A Data Gathering Practice, Tomasz Umerle
Proceedings from the Document Academy
In this article, I examine the documentation of culture (DoC). This is the practice of gathering and producing the information and data relevant to intangible cultural phenomena. DoC is generally practiced by teams of documentalists generally outside GLAM institutions (i.e., galleries, libraries, archives and museums). As such, it differs from the preservation and description of concrete objects of cultural heritage done within those institutions. I examine how DoC finds it increasingly difficult to clearly define and communicate its role: a) in relation to LIS; b) to the broader academic community; and c) in digital age of information overload. In this …
Volume 37, Number 4, December 2017 Olac Newsletter,
2017
University of California, Santa Cruz
Volume 37, Number 4, December 2017 Olac Newsletter, Marcia Barrett, Debra Spidal, Richard N. Leigh, Jan Mayo, Yoko Kudo, Jay Weitz, Lisa Romano
OLAC Newsletters
Digitized December 2017 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.
Information Outlook, November/December 2017,
2017
San Jose State University
Information Outlook, November/December 2017, Special Libraries Association
Information Outlook, 2017
Volume 21, Issue 6
A Spatial Collaboration: Building A Multi-Institution Geospatial Data Discovery Portal,
2017
Johns Hopkins University
A Spatial Collaboration: Building A Multi-Institution Geospatial Data Discovery Portal, Mara Blake, Karen Majewicz, Ryan Mattke, Kathleen W. Weessies
Collaborative Librarianship
As academic education and research increasingly take advantage of geospatial data and methodologies, we see a corresponding exponential growth in the number of available geospatial resources in the form of GIS datasets and scanned historical maps. However, users can experience difficulty finding these resources due to the unconnected multitude of platforms and clearinghouses that host them. Additionally, the resources are not always well described with web semantic metadata that facilitates discovery. In response to this challenge, The Big Ten Academic Alliance Geospatial Data Project began in 2015 to provide discoverability, facilitate access, and connect scholars to geospatial resources. Our project …
