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Care of plastic objects
(Kansas Museum Association webinar series, 2023-07-06)I routinely deal with plastics in my job as a library and archives conservator. Plastics conservation is a fairly new area for all of us, and conservators are still learning about how to care for these objects as they begin ... -
Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the origins of the British Museum. [Review Essay]
(Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, 2017)Review of a published book. -
The Role of Gelatin in Paper Permanence, Part II, Phase One: Gelatin as a Relative Humidity Buffer
(1997-12-15)For over four decades, conservators and scientists have been interested in why papers produced in the 15th and 16th centuries have remained in much better condition than many modern papers. One factor, overlooked until ... -
Relationships among cost, citation, and access in journal publishing by an ecology and evolutionary biology department at a U.S. university
(PeerJ, 2023-01-04)Background: Optimizing access to high-quality scientific journals has become an important priority for academic departments, including the ability to read the scientific literature and the ability to afford to publish ... -
The Public Digital Humanities Institute - A National Endowment for the Humanities Institute to Support Academic & Community Collaborations in the Digital Humanities
(2024-01)The Public Digital Humanities Institute (PDHI) brought together teams of academics and community partners from 12 community-based digital humanities projects for an intensive week of digital humanities training and discussion ... -
The informational “cosplay journey” of Star Wars cosplayers in the context of a Facebook group
(Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås, Sweden, 2023-09-15)INTRODUCTION. Research on personal information practices has increased in recent decades. Building on this current of thought, the present study explores information practices in the context of serious leisure, looking ... -
Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge
(Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association, 2023-09)The intersection of scholarly communication librarianship and open education offers a unique opportunity to expand knowledge of scholarly communication topics in both education and practice. Open resources can address the ... -
With Plenty of Elbow Room: Planning New and Upgraded Spaces for Library and Archives Conservation and Audiovisual Preservation
(Sage, 2021-12)In 2018, the University of Kansas (KU) Libraries upgraded from a tired, twenty-year-old basement space to a new, purpose-built conservation lab for library and archives collections. The new conservation lab, which is housed ... -
OER+ScholComm Summer 2023
(2023-08-10)This report provides background and present status on a collaboration that has resulted in an open textbook and a corpus of additional open teaching and learning materials scoped to scholarly communication topics. It ... -
Improving Energy Efficiency in Collection Storage in Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas, PF-271970-20.
(2023-07-28)The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the University of Kansas (KU) Libraries a Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections Implementation Grant to complete the second phase of a multi-phased approach to ... -
The Language of Type 1 Diabetes: Why It Matters in Online Patient Education
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023-03-07)This article discusses online patient education materials (PEMs) in the context of type 1 diabetes and the language used to describe the condition. The role of healthcare providers and health information professionals in ... -
Recommended by Librarians: A Computational Citation Analysis Methodology for Identifying and Examining Books Promoted in LibGuides (Dataset and Scripts)
(2023-05)Dataset and Jupyter notebooks (Python) created as the basis for an article aiming to expand current approaches to studying library guides as published on Springshare’s LibGuides platform. Library guides are curated web-based ... -
Wikipedia and Large Language Models: Perfect Pairing or Perfect Storm?
(Emerald, 2023)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential benefits and challenges of using large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT to edit Wikipedia. Approach: The first portion of this paper provides background ... -
Investigating NIBS for language rehabilitation in aphasia
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2022-07-04)Purpose The purpose of this scoping review was to identify and synthesize research on interventions in which noninvasive brain stimulation (NIBS) was used to improve linguistic abilities in individuals with aphasia. NIBS ... -
Research sprints: A new model of support
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A Comprehensive Survey of Research Library Organizational Structure
(American Library Association, 2022-03-14)Research library structures have grown in size and complexity over the past several decades. There is no single template for how to organize a library in the 21st century, but it is unclear how much variance in structure ... -
“A Supernova that Sparks in Every Direction”: A Long-Term Assessment of the Research Sprints Faculty Engagement Program
(American Library Association, 2024-03)PREPRINT: Article to be published in College & Research Libraries in March 2024. This is the accepted version of the manuscript prior to copyediting. The Research Sprints program offers faculty partners the opportunity to ... -
Finding your way in academic librarianship: Introducing the Scholarly Communication Notebook
(American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, 2022-11)Scholarly communication, often called “scholcomm,” is one of the fastest growing and most rapidly changing fields in librarianship. Scholcomm jobs are increasingly prevalent at all types of institutions, and there is ... -
The Faces of Haiti: Resolute in Reform, Resistance and Recovery, 2nd edition
(University of Kansas, 2020-10-25)This report describes the activities and findings of the University of Kansas Haitian Research Initiative team that travelled to Haiti in July 2011. The purpose of the visit was to assess the current research and educational ... -
Diversity in Monographs: Selectors, Acquisitions, Publishers, and Vendors
(2023-01-02)In 2020 the University of Kansas Libraries began a year-long diversity audit of the circulating monograph collection. The study, which utilized the checklist method evaluated the Libraries’ holdings based on a curated list ...