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  • 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 ...
  • What Systems User Groups Need to Hear from Music Librarians 
    Fairclough, Ian (1997-05-16)
  • Word Play for Kids: A Sourcebook of Poems, Rhymes, and Read-Alouds by Tim Wadham 
    Driscoll, Anne (Taylor & Francis, 2015-10)
    Word Play for Kids is geared toward public and school librarians. This program uses a variation on librarian Katie Blake's ChildRead and Shared Warmth reading programs. The book is divided into four chapters, each with its ...
  • Zen and the Art of Metadata Maintenance 
    Warren, John W. (Journal of Electronic Publishing, 2015-06)
    Metadata is the lifeblood of publishing in the digital age and the key to discovery. Metadata is a continuum of standards and a process of information flow; creating and disseminating metadata involves both art and science. ...
  • Zen and the Art of Metadata Maintenance 
    Warren, John W. (2015-10-19)
    Metadata is the lifeblood of publishing in the digital age and the key to discovery. Metadata is a continuum of standards and a process of information flow; creating and disseminating metadata involves both art and science. ...

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