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Leither, Luke | Library alchemy: researching contemporary art | This poster was created to present a workshop for researching contemporary art in the Marriott Library. The workshop and poster was created by Luke Leither, the Art and Architecture Library at the University of Utah. | Art; Contemporary Art; Research; Fine Arts | 2013 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Library as Knowledge Commons for the University | For much of the 20th century libraries were known and valued for their collections, and the defining role for a library was to be "a repository of knowledge." Although libraries continue to build and deliver a large collection of resources, we are now defined by the services we offer and our ability... | Knowledge Commons | 2010 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Library collections conservation discussion group: taking a comprehensive look at book repair | A national effort to improve the quality of book repair operations is under way. This work has been spearheaded by the Library Collections Conservation Discussion Group (LCCDG) of the American Institute for Conservation. During the past three years LCCDG has broadly examined samples of book repair t... | Collections; Techniques; Treatment | 1994 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Library profile: Penn State | Institution profile: Penn State is a land grant institution often described as the one university geographically dispersed. Penn State supports twenty-two campuses scattered across the commonwealth. Contrary to what one might infer from the name Penn State, the University is considered "state rel... | Pattee Library; Penn State University; Profiles | 1990 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Lifelong learning requires lifelong access: reflections on the ACRL plan for excellence | | | 2011-10 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Litany of "terrible, no good, very bad" things that can happen after the disaster | This paper summarizes post-disaster dangers that can threaten the well-being of recovery workers. These include the structural stability of damaged buildings, electrical risks, the presence of hazardous materials and collections in the work area, and biological hazards. Issues that need to be assess... | Library materials, Conservation and restoration; Emergency management; Disaster relief, Research | 2004-05-21 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Litany of 'terrible, no good, very bad' things that can happen after the disaster | On average, 464 disasters occur each year in all parts of the globe. Some are more catastrophic than others; research reveals that excluding drought, famine and war, approximately 197 take place in Asia, 111 in the Americas, 77 in Europe, 61 in Africa, and 18 in Oceania. As a result, 50,000 people a... | | 2004 |
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Le Ber, Jeanne M.; Lombardo, Nancy T.; Bramble, John; Weber, Alice | Load up the Woody: portable classroom leads to partnership | The Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library and the University of Utah School of Medicine realize an oportunity to partner technology and teaching utilizing the library's portable wireless classroom. | Wireless classroom; Portable Classroom | 2003-04-24 |
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Anderson, Rick | Local and global, now and forever: a matrix model of "depth perception" in library work | Academic libraries are in an interesting and difficult position, one that makes us different from most other public and private institutions. We are charged with meeting the immediate needs of students and faculty (needs that can usually be identified and defined with at least some degree of precisi... | Academic libraries; Library collections; Library work | 2014-11 |
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Youngkin, Mary E. | Locating clinical guidelines on the world wide web | A LIFT Forum presentation. The purpose of the Library and Information Technology Forum is to inform the University of Utah community about electronic information resources, and current trends in the use of computers and online technologies for accessing these resources | Clinical Guidelines | 1999-11-10 |
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| Making of the channel tunnel: a modern day wonder | Without any doubt, the Channel Tunnel will alter the face of Anglo- French travel in the near future. It caused the coming together of two communities joined for the first time since the Ice Age by a single fixed land link. It has made the dream of many great dreamers and visionaries over the last t... | Eurotunnel | 1995-10-05 |
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Patrick, Sally Mulford | Medical information -- when limited acess can have life changing consequences | There is no subject where information being current, accurate and thoroughly validated is as critical as it is with medical information. Health professionals including Physicians Assistants, social workers, nurses, dieticians, psychologists and others often work independently, without access to a ho... | Online medical information; Library outreach; Document delivery | 2008 |
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Le Ber, Jeanne M.; Lombardo, Nancy T.; Bramble, John | Medical students find power in their palm: PDAs in a clinical rotation | Librarians partnered with School of Medicine faculty to integrate the use of handheld devices into a third-year course. This was an excellent opportunity for the library to integrate emerging technologies into the curriculum. The course planning team met regularly for three months to design the less... | PDA; Personal Digital Assistant; Mobile Technology; Clinical Rotation; Medical School Curriculum; Palm Tungsten C | 2005-05-27 |
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Arlitsch, Kenning; Herbert, John | Microfilm, paper, and OCR: issues in newspaper digitization at the Utah digital newspapers program | Describes the issues surrounding digitizing newspapers from microfilm and paper in the Utah Digital Newspapers program. The paper also explores optical character recognition (OCR) accuracy and the problems of digital file storage of newspapers. | Digital libraries; Microfilms, Deterioration; Newspaper office libraries | 2004-03 |
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Landesman, Margaret M. | Millenium minutes (comment) | In 1969, I left grad school and a job at the Stanford Library and followed my almost-husband to the University of Utah, where I became Head of the Library of Congress Card Order Section, a "Sub-professional." (The more sensitive librarians referred to us as "Para-professionals.") As at Stanford, we ... | Librarianship; Librarians | 2000-12 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Millennium minutes: a look back at licensing | The seemingly ubiquitous license agreement has a longer history than our readers might imagine or remember. It has roots deep in contract law, and also has copyright, patent, and trademark parentage. Librarians tend to think of licenses in terms of databases and fulltext e-journals, however, it sta... | Digital; Contracts; Licensing; Libraries | 2001 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Misperceptions about White Gloves | Collection care and handling policies that mandate curators and/or patrons to wear gloves when handling archival and library materials need reexamining. Contrary to popular opinion, gloves provide no guarantee of protection from perspiration and dirt. Further, they increase the likelihood of physica... | Library materials, Conservation and restoration | 2005 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Misperceptions about white gloves | Awkward mobility. Loss of feeling. Impaired sensations. These are not descriptions of a trip to the dentist, but rather a visit to the reading rooms of many special collections where the experience of handling valuable rare books and documents is synonymous with donning white cotton gloves. This pap... | | 2005 |
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Landesman, Margaret M. | Missing issues: a response | I am inclined to retitle this article "Missing Issues: One Technique for Doubling Staff, Postage, and Xeroxing Expenses While Needlessly Alienating Vendors." I cannot, of course, be sure it would double expenses as the author does not supply figures, but we utilize the spare moments of one part-time... | Vendor; Missing issue dealer; Correspondence | 1982 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Moderately risky business challenging librarians to assume more risk in an era of opportunity | One may not readily associate risk with librarianship; however, librarians deal with risk every day and in all parts of the profession. Acquisition functions, for example, include the risks associated with managing budgets and processes, producing appropriate audit trails, predicting and acting on p... | | 2009 |
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Landesman, Margaret M. | Multi-volume reference sets-have they a future | For the past few years, I've felt badly about the sales representatives from major microform publishers who come to visit hoping to sell microform collections to the library. It seems a cruel thing for a publisher to do - to send a representative out in this day and budget to pitch microfilm to libr... | Libraries; Collection development; Reference resources | 2001-11 |
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Peay, Wayne J. | National network of libraries of medicine RFP, region 4, technical proposal | The mission of the Region 4 RML is quite simply to realize the promise of the NN/LM. The model that is being proposed for Region 4 reflects the power of the distributed, networked computing environment where the power of the technology resides in the hands of the end-user. The resources and services... | RFP; NN/LM; RML; National Network of Libraries of Medicine; Regional Medical Libraries | 2005-07 |
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Landesman, Margaret M. | New challenges for scholarly communication in the digital era - changing roles and expectations in the academic community: a scholarly report | This conference, co-sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries, the American Association of University Professors, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Association of American University Presses, and the Coalition for Networked Information, was held March 26-27, 1999, in Washington... | Digital publication; Distance education; E-print | 2000 |
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Estlund, Karen M. | New librarians and scholarly communication | Included in the mission statement of many academic libraries is a phrase similar to this: "The library supports the research and instruction of the university." Scholarly communication is essential to this mission and it is critical that the problem of the lack of resources and access to scholarship... | Scholarly communication; Academic libraries; Copyright; Research databases; Research; Librarianship | 2007 |
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McCloskey, Kathleen | NIHSeniorHealth & MEDLINEplus: Web-based resources for caregivers and the elderly | A LIFT Forum presentation. The purpose of the Library and Information Technology Forum is to inform the University of Utah community about electronic information resources, and current trends in the use of computers and online technologies for accessing these resources | NIHSeniorHealth; MedlinePlus; Older people | 2002-12-04 |