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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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Landesman, Margaret M. | Libraries investing in the future first - some practical suggestions | Muddling through is what we mostly do most of the time. It is a reasonable strategy for bridging the gap between present resources and future expectations--providing expectations are in a reliably upward direction. | 2004 | |
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Herbert, John; Arlitsch, Kenning | digitalnewspapers.org: The Digital Newspapers Program at the University of Utah | This article describes the Utah Digital Newspapers Program at the University of Utah's Marriott Library. Background information regarding the historical importance of newspapers, the current state of commercial newspaper digitization and the problems with small newspaper digitization are reviewed, a... | Digital libraries; Newspaper and periodical libraries; Library materials, Digitization | 2004 |
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Anderson, Richard Bryan | Open access in the real world: confronting economic and legal reality | Open access to scholarly information is a hot-button issue that quickly triggers heated discussion - especially if the topic arises in a mixed group of librarians and publishers. Sometimes the discussion ends up generating useful ideas and practical solutions to real-world problems; too often, it le... | 2004 | |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Day the university changed | The largest water-related library disaster in U.S. history occurred at Colorado State University's (CSU) Morgan Library in Fort Collins, Colorado on July 28, 1997. This flood was caused by a series of summer rainstorms that began the day earlier, July 27 - and lasted off and on for about 31 hours,... | 2004 | |
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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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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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Landesman, Margaret M. | Libraries investing in the future first - some practical suggestions | This essay offers some practical suggestions for implementing transformative strategies for libraries, with a focus on using the materials budget as an investment fund. | Libraries; Acquisitions; Budget; Materials | 2004-06 |
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