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Libraries Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Soapbox for the Automobile: Bumper Sticker History, Identification, and Preservation
(AltaMira Press, 2011)First produced in the late 1940s, the bumper sticker quickly gained prominence in the early 1950s and over the years has served a wide range of purposes—from advertising tourist attractions and promoting public safety to ... -
The Basics of Preserving Family History
(2012-06-04)The presentation outlines simple steps one can take to preserve family treasures, focusing on environment and storage. -
Looking at Resource Sharing Costs
(Emerald, 2012-05-23)Purpose – This paper is the result of a small cost study of resource sharing services in 23 North American libraries. Trends that have affected resource sharing costs since the last comprehensive study are discussed. ... -
The Use of Geographic Information Systems to Model Habitat for Puma concolor cougar in the Northern Blue Ridge of Virginia
(2002-05-18)Geographic Information Systems (GIS) was used to predict suitable habitat for the eastern cougar (Puma concolor cougar) in the Northern Blue Ridge of Virginia. Two areas were studied, a primary area nested inside a secondary ... -
Congress Has a Role to Play in Making Research Public
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Coffee and Conversations: How to do OA (Open Access) at KU
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‘Jack Be Nimble…Quick’, and Communicative: Flexible Staffing Positions for Changing Technical Services Workflows
(Northwest Missouri State University, 2011-11-04)As library purchases for their collections move to predominantly electronic and patron-driven, acquisitions staffing has been changing to meet demands of fast paced and more complex workflows. For large academic institutions ... -
An Assessment of Image Quality in Geology Works from the HathiTrust Digital Library
(2011-10-27)This study assesses the quality of both images and text in a sample from the 2,180 works on geology from the HathiTrust Digital Library (multi-institutional digital repository)--an outgrowth of the Michigan Digitization ... -
The Faces of Haiti: Resolute in Reform, Resistance and Recovery
(2011-10-25)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 ... -
Charting Future Directions for Reference Service
(2011-10-18)At the University of Kansas Libraries, daily reference interactions have been collected since 2007 via the open source software known as LibStats at the two largest campus libraries: Anschutz and Watson Libraries. Together, ... -
The Long and Winding Road to Building an Electronic Reference Collection
(2011-10-18)As libraries increasingly embrace e-books, no part of a library’s collection goes unaffected, even the reference collection. Today physical reference collections are shrinking as more titles are provided electronically. ... -
From the Ground Up! Lessons Learned from One Librarian’s Experience Digitizing Special Collections
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Cushing Memorial Library: A new face for an old building
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DACS and RDA Insights and Questions from the New Archival Descriptive Standard
(Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, 2007)Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) is the new archival content standard published by the Society of American Archivists (SAA). The publication of this forward-thinking and comprehensive response to changing ... -
"Get It, Catalog It, Promote It": New Challenges to Providing Access to Special Collections
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Special Collections Cataloging at a Crossroads: A Survey of ARL Libraries
(Elsevier, 2004)Facing shifting organizational cultures, technological innovations, and the growth of digital information, administrators must consider how best to utilize the resources and staff devoted to cataloging special collections. ...