Remembering September 11,
2010
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Remembering September 11, Southwest State University, Mn
Crime/Violence
Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Southwest State University, Marshall, MN.
Women's History Month,
2010
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Women's History Month, Southwest Minnesota State University
Women
Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Southwest Minnesota State University.
Return On Investment For Collaborative Collection Development: A Cost-Benefit Evaluation Of Consortia Purchasing,
2010
University of Colorado, Denver
Return On Investment For Collaborative Collection Development: A Cost-Benefit Evaluation Of Consortia Purchasing, Denise Pan, Yem S. Fong
Collaborative Librarianship
This paper describes the cost-benefits and the return on investment of one consortium comprised of five separately administered libraries in the University of Colorado (CU) System. With a long history of collaboration, the libraries have developed an ideal cooperative arrangement for acquiring electronic content that is accessible across all campuses. The size and flexibility of this institution-based consortium allows it to be responsive and successful in collaborating across four campuses despite different sized budgets and unique local and institutional constraints. To demonstrate the value of jointly leveraging library budgets to university administrators, the authors conducted a consortium level cost-benefit analysis …
Patron-Driven Acquisition: An Introduction And Literature Review,
2010
Purdue University
Patron-Driven Acquisition: An Introduction And Literature Review, Judith M. Nixon, Robert S. Freeman, Suzanne M. Ward
Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research
Introductory article to the Special Issue: Patron-Driven Acquisition: Current Successes and Future Directions
Supporting Faculty Research Through Collaborative Digital Projects: The Mongolian Altai Inventory,
2010
University of Oregon
Supporting Faculty Research Through Collaborative Digital Projects: The Mongolian Altai Inventory, Karen Estlund, Kirstin Hierholzer, Julia Simic
Collaborative Librarianship
This article provides an overview of a collaborative project of the University of Oregon Libraries, Infographics Lab, and an art history professor to create a virtual research guide, entitled, “Archaeology and Landscape in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia.” Offering accompanying digital image archives, this project serves as a model for humanities data preservation and presents a collaborative strategy for promoting faculty research output in a new media environment. In addition to the typical challenges faced in digital projects, the specialized nature of the content and multiple participants with varied areas of expertise added further challenges. Drawing on “lessons learned,” a …
A Nation-Wide Planning Framework For Large-Scale Collaboration On Legacy Print Monograph Collections,
2010
Occidental College
A Nation-Wide Planning Framework For Large-Scale Collaboration On Legacy Print Monograph Collections, Robert H. Kieft, Lizanne Payne
Collaborative Librarianship
Libraries are working toward collaborative management and preservation of print journals, newspapers, legal materials, and government documents; they must also establish a similar concerted effort focused on print monographs. Monographs present complex challenges at a time when libraries want to ensure the preservation of the print record but have increasing incentives to divest of older, less used print materials and take advantage of the affordances of electronic text. With LYRASIS as lead organization, planning partners California Digital Library (CDL), Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), and Center for Research Libraries (CRL)were awarded a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library …
