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  • Making DSpace your own 
    Salo, Dorothea; Donohue, Tim (2006-06-20)
  • Mapping Artists' Books through the Digital Humanities 
    Rinalducci, Jennifer; Stevens, Jen (2016-03-24)
    Experimental, amusing, or beautiful, artists’ books are art in book form, intersections between image and text. Five years ago, we began collecting artists’ books for teaching and research. This non-browsing collection ...
  • MARC Authority 368 and 37X fields 
    Fairclough, Ian (2013-02-15)
  • Media Guidelines for Distance Education Courses: Selecting Content and Requesting Video Clips 
    Holland, Claudia; Adams, Tina (2012-03)
    Instructors teaching distance education courses often want to use proprietary video content to convey and illustrate concepts in support of student learning. George Mason University librarians developed internal guidelines ...
  • Meeting the Textbook Needs of Engineering Students 
    Calcagno, Theresa M; Bowdoin, Jessica (American Association for Engineering Education (ASEE), 2012-06)
    In early 2009, the Head of Interlibrary Loan (ILL) at George Mason University analyzed ILL borrowing statistics from the previous academic year and found that 90% of the fifty most borrowed titles had been requested ...
  • Mentoring Novice Music Editors, Or, How I Spent My Summer with Old Manuscripts and New Software 
    Gerber, Steven K. (2017-10-13)
    A music technology/composition professor and a music librarian/musicologist mentored a small team of undergraduates at George Mason University in a grant-funded research project that involved editing music manuscripts held ...
  • Metadata for the Digitization History of Time-based Media Art 
    Griesinger, Peggy (2015-12-03)
    The work done by audiovisual preservation specialists to transfer and digitize audiovisual artworks is integral to the preservation of our cultural heritage. The choices that these specialists make, such as what playback ...
  • Model Language for Research Data Management Policies 
    Hall, Nathan; Corey, Bill; Mann, Wendy; Wilson, Tom (ASERL / SURA Research Data Coordinating Committee, 2013-01)
    This proposal was drafted by a Working Group of the ASERL/SURA Research Data Coordinating Committee. The purpose of this document is to provide model language for universities to consider when drafting policy to support ...
  • Name Authority Records – A Primer for Scholars and Researchers 
    Fairclough, Ian (Bridging the Spectrum Symposium, 2019-02-08)
    Name authority work is integral to documenting and properly identifying scholarly activity. Often thought about as merely an aspect of cataloging, name authority records are increasingly of value to researchers. Scholars ...
  • OEBPS FAQ: an introduction to OEBPS-based eBooks 
    Salo, Dorothea (2001-11)
    This FAQ is primarily intended for those who create eBook content and need a quick and relatively painless introduction to the Open eBook Publication Structure and the technologies underlying it. It is not intended for ...
  • Open access for teachers 
    Salo, Dorothea (2006-04-13)
    The movement for open access to the scholarly and research literature emerged as a response to the enormous, unsustainable increases in the price of journals and journal bundles for academic libraries. When the internet ...
  • Open-Access Digital Dissemination of Rare Sheet Music from a Special Collection 
    Gerber, Steven K. (2019-10-24)
    The International Music Score Library Project (“IMSLP;” imslp.org) is an open-access digital repository of downloadable public-domain music. Its holdings, uploaded primarily by volunteer librarians, include high-quality ...
  • Process history metadata for time-based media artworks at the Museum of Modern Art, New York 
    Griesinger, Peggy (Henry Stewart Publications, 2016)
    The Museum of Modern Art in New York City (MoMA) is a world-renowned museum with a large collection of time-based media artworks. Media conservators in MoMA’s conservation department noticed a gap in their documentation ...
  • Purchase Replaced by License: Impact on Cultural Heritage and Research 
    Unknown author (2016-02-12)
    Although information seems but just a click away, when libraries embraced licensing as a means of acquisition, the choice had far reaching implications. The hard hit to academic library budgets is well documented, but the ...
  • RDA and the Local Library 
    Fairclough, Ian (2013-03-15)
  • Revising Academic Library Governance Handbooks. 
    Stevens, Jen; Calcagno, Theresa; Holland, Claudia C.; Putnam, Nathan (In the Library with the Lead Pipe, 2015-07-01)
    Regardless of our status (tenure track, non-tenure track, staff, and/or union), academic librarians at colleges and universities may use a handbook or similar document as a framework for self-governance. These handbooks ...
  • Scholarly Connections: Leveraging Citation Data to Highlight Faculty Research Trends 
    Hoffman, Kimberly; Leak, Carl; Kunaparaju, Vamsi; Kan, Teresa; Cocks, Sarah (2018-08-20)
    During the 2016-2017 academic year, George Mason University Libraries' Science and Technology Team began a project with an end goal of capturing trends in faculty research by creating visual representations of faculty ...
  • “They All Quote Each Other!”: Discovering a Scholarly Conversation Through Guided Inquiry 
    McManus, Helen (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2018)
    This chapter offers a lesson plan for teaching the "Scholarship as Conversation" frame in ACRL's Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education.
  • Volunteered Geographic Information: Selected Web Resources 
    Dietz, Cynthia; Suh, Joy (Map & Geospatial Information Round Table, 2012)
    Increasingly Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is being used to create and analyze spatial information through visualizations, and geospatial models. The geospatial data used, whether publicly provided or offered ...
  • What makes a digital steward: A competency profile based on the National Digital Stewardship Residencies 
    Griesinger, Peggy; Peltzman, Shira; Blumenthal, Karl-Rainer; Steeves, Vicky; Kim, Julia (iPRES, 2016-10-03)
    Digital stewardship is the active and long-term management of digital objects towards their preservation for and unencumbered access by future generations. Although the field is rapidly maturing, it still lacks a comprehensive ...

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