Collection Development and Management Commons^™

Strategic Planning For Sustaining User-Generated Content In Digital Collections, Cory K. Lampert, Su Kim Chung

Library Faculty Presentations

• Should there be an overarching philosophy for user-generated content in the organization?

• Who in the management or leadership determines this philosophy or guides the organization to come up with a shared vision?

•What technical considerations are there for these projects? Are there staff that need to be consulted for software choices and technical customization?

•Is there are point person for the project and does this person have the authority and appropriate expertise to moderate content and respond to user’s contributions?

•Should there be appropriate guidelines for communicating an institutions’ brand or message in these new venues?

•And ultimately, …

Technical Services' Trip To The Strand, Joanna Burkhardt, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides from a presentation, "Technical Services' Trip to the Strand," given to the University of Rhode Island Library Faculty Development Committee on September 27, 2010.

Native American History Month, Southwest Minnesota State University

Ethnic History

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Southwest Minnesota State University.

Information Outlook, September 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Volume 14, Issue 6

Tracking Online Document Usage From Your Catalog: Using Statistics To Demonstrate The Value Of Government Publications, Susan Kendall

Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Information Outlook, July/August 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Volume 14, Issue 5

Finding The Middle Ground In Collection Development: How Academic Law Librarians Can Shape Their Collections In Response To The Call For More Practice-Oriented Legal Education, Leslie A. Street, Amanda M. Runyon

Library Staff Publications

To examine how academic law libraries can respond to the call for more practice-oriented legal education, the authors compared trends in collection management decisions regarding secondary sources at academic and law firm libraries. The results of their survey are followed by recommendations about how academic and firm librarians can work together to best provide law students with materials they will need in practice.

Presidential Elections, Southwest Minnesota State University

Elections/Voting

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Southwest Minnesota State University.

Collaborating With Faculty To "Start Up" An Open Access Journal, Marianne A. Buehler

Library Faculty Presentations

University faculty have ongoing pressure to publish their research findings and teaching successes and produce scholarship worthy of tenure. Acceptance to publish an article in a journal can be highly competitive and in some fields of study, there are few journal publication options. With the advent of open access (OA) publishing opportunities, academic libraries are fulfilling a need by supporting sustainable models of scholarly communication that include collaborating with faculty and editors to “start up” an OA journal or convert a traditional print journal to OA. Some faculty would prefer to transcend the traditional publishing model and may not be …

Information Outlook, June 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Volume 14, Issue 4

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.

Designing The Born-Digital Archive, Michelle Light

Library Faculty Presentations

Light spoke generally about the major issues facing archivists who manage born digital records and how the UCI Libraries responded when providing access to the Richard Rorty papers. She discussed the challenges, such as dealing with rapid technological change, ensure present and future accessibility of legacy files, managing privacy and copyrights, guaranteeing the authenticity and integrity of files, preventing loss and destruction, and selecting the most important material for preservation. She also discussed numerous decisions archivists make that impact the future archive, such as emulation or preservation of the original computing environment, the organization of files, the migration of materials …

Information Outlook, April/May 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Volume 14, Issue 3

Holocaust Remembrance Day, South Dakota State University

Ethnic History

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from South Dakota State University.

Print Reference Collections In New York State: Report Of A Survey, Jane G. Kessler

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

An up-to-date, well-managed reference collection is essential to the provision of quality reference service in all types of libraries. This article presents the results of a survey of managers of reference collections at public and academic libraries in New York State.

[Review Of] A Cultural Dictionary Of Punk, Robert A. Aken

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Oral History On The Web, Tom D. Sommer

Library Faculty Presentations

This session will examine how oral history is increasing its relevance in a changing digital landscape. This session will not only showcase a few oral history collections currently online, but how oral historians can place them there. Further, this session will explain the basic steps to uploading your interviews (audio, video and transcriptions) to the Web with some practical tools. This session will also showcase a new method of access for oral history researchers. This new method is the digital collection. For example, the University Libraries at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas has created the digital collection entitled, “Nevada …

Information Outlook, March 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Volume 14, Issue 2

Information Outlook, January/February 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Volume 14, Issue 1

National Library Month, Southwest Minnesota State University

Library

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Southwest Minnesota State University.