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Libraries Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Family Stories
(Society of American Archivists, 2016-12)What’s an archivist to do when her parents leave her no archives? -
Macro (Re)Appraisal: Does This Really Need to Come to the State Archives?
(Society of American Archivists, 2016-03)The Kansas Historical Society had a six-month time period in which to shut down its State Records Center. Major tasks besides the physical shutdown of the center included transferring archival records to the State Archives ... -
Research Support Services for the Field of the Indigenous Studies
(2019)Indigenous Studies (IS) is an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field. The research practices and information needs of scholars within IS echo its interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature. While Indigenous ... -
Recovering Untold Stories: An Enduring Legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education Decision
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2018)"Recovering Untold Stories: An Enduring Legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education Decision" captures the first-person narratives of individuals who were plaintiffs or whose families were represented in the five cases ... -
un/reliable reflections: The burden of reliability and the refuge of unreliability
(2018-10)Under the umbrella title “un/reliable reflections,” the two parts address burnout by comparing expectations for the reliability of computing and of data librarians. The first part, “The Burden of Reliability,” invokes ... -
50 for 50: Celebrating Fifty Years of Kenneth Spencer Research Library
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Git Going with LEGO: Tactile techniques for teaching text-based tools
(Kansas University Libraries, 2018-11-01)Git is arguably an essential tool of modern scholarship and research communication. It offers robust, distributed version control and mechanisms for collaboration and sharing through online platforms such as GitHub. Yet, ... -
Digital Border-Crossing: Practical Advice for Digitization Projects that Transcend Borders
(Kansas University Libraries, 2015-10-01)The online environment makes all types of border-crossing possible, including sharing a library’s distinctive resources with audiences around the globe. This breakout session will explore practical advice gleaned from a ... -
Making Room: Digitizing Your Scholarly Output
(Kansas University Libraries, 2017-11-03)With an eye toward repurposing physical library space, the University of Kansas (KU) Libraries has moved forward with the digitization of post-1923 theses and dissertations created by its student body. This scholarly work ... -
Reappraisal and Deaccessioning Practices in the United States and Canada (Dataset)
(2018-10-01)The objectives for this study were multifold: To learn how repositories conduct reappraisal and deaccessioning, including the processes involved; To learn how common these practices are and which types of repositories ... -
A Case Study: You want to get what done when? Digitizing the Phog Allen Papers
(Kansas University Libraries, 2018-09-27)How do you react when a crowdfunded project focused on a significant figure in your university’s history is successful? And when the collection needs extensive processing to prepare it for digitization and display? University ... -
Pizzagate and a slice of free speech: Media literacy outside of the classroom
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2017)Since 2016, the public eye has turned to the problems of mis- and disinformation. As a result, many librarians sprang into action to spread the good news about information and media literacies. At the University of Kansas ... -
Leveraging Elsevier’s Creative Commons License Requirement to Undermine Embargo
(Clemson University Press, 2018-08-07)In the last round of author-sharing policy revisions, Elsevier created a labyrinthine title-by-title embargo structure requiring embargoes from 12 to 48 months for authors sharing via institutional repository (IR), while ... -
Information Literacy Practices of Spanish-Speaking Graduate Students at the University of Kansas
(Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2018-07)Recognizing the importance of designing educational opportunities that draw upon students' prior knowledge and experiences, this paper uses focus groups to explore how Spanish-speaking students in a graduate program at the ... -
Sowing the Seeds of Journal Success: Cultivating Relationships with Journal Editors and Staff
(Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2017-07-01)Since 2007, the University of Kansas Libraries has provided support to the KU community for the management and distribution of online scholarly journals and other publications, and currents hosts over 20 scholarly journals. ... -
University 101 Instructor Manual -- 2018
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2018-08)The University 101 Information Literacy Unit Instructor Manual describes a three-day information literacy unit that is integrated into first-year experience courses at the University of Kansas. -
Sticking Point: History, Manufacturing Techniques, and Preservation of Decals
(Rowan and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2015)Decals, also known as decalcomania or transfer prints, flourished between the 1850s and 1970s. Applied to a wide variety of materials, they were used primarily for trademarking, advertisement, and decoration of many surfaces. ... -
iPad and Android Tablets: Wonder Pills or Placebo for Academic Library Staff?
(Library Hi Tech (Emerald Insight), 2017-05-18)This paper describes the creation and work of a collaborative learning community, consisting of library staff from a variety of library departments. The purpose of this paper is to build proficiency in using tablet devices ... -
Aspects of Diversity in ASEEES National Conferences as a Reflection of the Field of Slavic and Eurasian Studies in North America: Case Studies of Gender, Location, Discipline, and Institution
(Slavic & East European Information Resources (Taylor and Francis), 2016-12-01)This article is a series of four case studies that investigate diversity in Slavic and Eurasian (S&E) studies viewed through the lens of participation in national conferences of the Association of Slavic, East European, & ... -
"«Сеанс черной магии» на Таганке”: ["'Seans chernoi magii' na Taganke":] The Hunt for Master and Margarita in the Pravda Digital Archive
(Slavic & East European Information Resources (Taylor and Francis), 2013-08-28)This article describes the process of tracking down an obscure yet politically and culturally significant Russian theater review, “«Сеанс черной магии» на Таганке” by N. Potapov, published in Pravda, the official organ of ...