13 Things in Blackboard​ is a self-paced extended learning opportunity designed to encourage library staff to experiment with unfamiliar learning technologies and foster understanding of best practices in online pedagogy ...

Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), the prominent 19th-century poet and reformer who famously penned the lyrics to “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” collected and bound for personal use five volumes of music; three volumes bear ...

Collection assessment is a key component of collection development, budget allocation, and justification of library collections. Unfortunately, comprehensive collection assessment is daunting, subject to the weaknesses of ...

An unattributed black-and-white photograph in Special Collections at George Mason University Libraries shows a dozen young girls hiking in single file down a hillside while intently playing treble recorders. The annotation ...

Regular, series concerts of major choral-orchestral repertoire in 19th-century America were risky ventures, and promoters struggled to develop sustainable entrepreneurial models. Prominent Wall Street lawyer and diarist ...

Final report of the Digital Archiving, Preservation and Access Task Force. Report surveys digital preservation needs and proposes to use the technical architecture of an “institutional repository” to meet digital archiving ...

Based on a desire to examine librarian teaching identity within the context of our institution, we sat down as colleagues to participate in a structured dialogue to explore the meaning of being a teacher-librarian. Our ...

Among Ludwig van Beethoven’s lesser-known works in the smaller forms are several volumes of folksong settings. Edinburgh music publisher George Thomson, gambling on demand from domestic musicians in the British Isles and ...

George Mason University Libraries conducted research using both uniform data and conversation transcripts to text mine three years of virtual reference chats, investigating its applicability for business analytics. Traditional ...

Over the past few decades, there has been a growing critical mass of scholarly interest in the study of popular romance fiction as a literary form in its own right. While much of the scholarship is available in academic ...