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YouTube - JISC - Libraries of the Future
Joint Information Steering Community of the UK video predicting what the library of the future will look like. (9:41)
Brainstorm: Local Politics in Academe - Chronicle.com
Academic departments have a culture and is sometimes the first priority over institution. This is important to know when working as a liaison or working in institutional repositories.
IRM: Cataloging: Dewey Call Numbers: Cuttering — Morris Library
Very thorough and complete source of information about Call numbers. Other quality sections in Cataloging page - one section behind.
Smithsonian Web & New Media Strategy Concept Map
Excellent concept map on the mission of a knowledge diffusing organization such as a library or museum.
YouTube - Stephen Wolfram discusses Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine
Search engine that answers questions based on data analysis algorithms.
Special Collections - Virtual Museum & Digital Collections
Includes Buffalo Creek Flood which incorporates text, images, audio and video for a virtual museum of the event. Hosted by Marshall University in Huntington, WV.
Institutional Repositories: Thinking Beyond the Box - 3/1/2009 - Library Journal
Current state of IR's is poor writes Andrew Richard Albanese. Begins with Harvard's open access mandate and details what went wrong overall with repositories. Mentions some things that IR's need to do to be successful such as enticing faculty to contribute by providing services.
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IRs have failed to catch on for a multitude of reasons, Salo explains, not the least of which is that the first generation was hopelessly passive about their collection activities.
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In his opening keynote at the 2008 SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting in Baltimore, John Wilbanks, director of Science Commons, spoke about what would move IRs forward: incentives. “My experience is that faculty don't like to be hit with sticks,” Wilbanks said. “They prefer carrots.”
Using OAI-ORE to Transform Digital Repositories into Interoperable Storage and Services Applications
OAI-ORE provides a way to organize, store and share repository objects while freeing them from any particular software that holds them.
www.ArcaSearch.com - archive it. access it. - Courier Global Route
Vendor at Library Tech Conference used by many CLIC schools. Has done newspapers, yearbooks and specializes in fragile items because manual processing.
Models of Digital Collection Use in a University Community
Bass, K., Puckett, C., & Rockman, S. (2008, January). Models of Digital Collection Use in a University Community. Educational Technology, 48(1), 44-49.
Digital collections allow university students and faculty to share academic scholarship across their campuses and beyond. Based on interviews, we present cases of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates to illustrate some factors that seem to determine why they do or do not use collections in their research, teaching, and learning. Findings have implications for the kinds of support structures needed to sustain digital scholarship.
Library Digital Programs — Library Digital Programs
Johns Hopkins University Home page for Library Digital Programs.The LDP collaborates closely with faculty, library staff, academic departments within the University, and IT@Johns Hopkins.
This site provides current information on the status of LDP projects, including links to many project sites and the opportunity for users to ask questions and submit comments to project team members.
A Rough Measure of Copy Cataloging Productivity in the Academic Library, John Buschman, F. William Chickering
Library Philosophy and Practice article from the University of Idaho. Buschman, John and Chickering, F. William.
FREE DATABASES (SCU LIBRARY COMMONS)
Great example of an educational Google account using Google Sites from Southwestern Christian University.
Opinion | Academic libraries foster key skills in next generation | Seattle Times Newspaper
Opinion column in the Seattle Times about the value of academic libraries. Authors Betsy Wilson, dean of U of Washington Libraries and Erika Linke associate dean for libraries at Carnegie Mellon.
webcast.berkeley » Guidelines for Faculty who are Podcasting
Guidelines for professors who are presenting podcast lectures. Media information and technical guidelines.
Academic Research Place
Blog by academic librarian and Christian, John Jaeger at Dallas Baptist University.
Religious Information Place
John Jaeger's Religion blog.
Undergraduate Research Project: Shared Results
University of Rochester's ethnographic study of Undergraduate students and their research habits. Collection of documents regarding the project.
UST Libraries News
Example of a Library Blog from the University of St. Thomas. Has examples of taxonomy and content.
Shiny Toys or Useful Tools?
Report on blogs and wikis in libraries and how useful they are. Hints on being effective and statistics on current usage.
Crawford, W. (2009, February). Making it Work: Shiny Toys or Useful Tools?. Cites & Insights 9(3). 1-9. Retrieved February 10, 2009 from http://citesandinsights.info/v9i3a.pdf
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