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26 Anderson, Richard BryanIMHBCO (In my humble but correct opinion): thinking about the value of staff timeWhen it comes to deciding how we and our staff should spend our time at work, it's becoming increasingly important that we look in a very hardheaded way at the value of our time and the value of our tasks. Our time is becoming increasingly expensive. Are we still spending time on processes that a...Staff time; Salary budget; Collections budget2006
27 Landesman, Margaret M.Performance of American in-print vendors: a comparison at the University of UtahA study was conducted by the Monographs Order Division of the University of Utah Libraries to compare the performance of three domestic book vendors during the fiscal year 1978-79. The study was designed to measure performance in terms of speed, discount and service, and to compare vendor success in...Monographs order; Vendor performance; Trade materials1980
28 Making of the channel tunnel: a modern day wonderWithout 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...Eurotunnel1995-10-05
29 Sorensen, Justin Bruce; Williams, Donald Glade; Chaufty, Lisa MarieJust digitize it! : The J. Willard Marriott Library's endeavor to bring geological scholarship to the world (Abstract)The need to organize, preserve, and share the geoscience materials available at the University of Utah motivated the J. Willard Marriott Library's Geospatial Information Committee to begin a project of digitizing the University of Utah's geological theses and their associated maps. This presentation...Thesis and dissertation georeferencing project; digitization; Utah; Abstract2011-10-12
30 Morrison, David L.Intro to IP and patent searching for new engineers2013-09
31 Landesman, Margaret M.ATG Interview with Victoria Reich, Director (and founder) of the LOCKSS programAs Vicky and I talked, we discussed her various activities in more or less chronological order. Later on, Vicky said of the work we'd been discussing, "but that's not my true love of the moment." There's not much to say to that, except to ask: ATG: And what is your true love of the moment? VR: Th...Preservation; Digital; Electronic; LOCKSS2003
32 Landesman, Margaret M.Our users are your users: blurring the lines between academic and public librariesAcademic and public libraries share core values and goals. We share users. We can get closest to filling our mission if we work at this together and if both sets of librarians work at telling both sets of users about both sets of libraries.Libraries; Collection development; Library use2008
33 Landesman, Margaret M.Libraries investing in the future first - some practical suggestionsMuddling 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
34 Energy eighteen wheelers: the technological revolution within utility restructuring.The electric utility industry, is being de-regulated and restructured. The utilities want to preserve their traditional markets and customers and to avoid stranding their capital investments. Special customer interest groups want to open these traditional markets to new "merchant" providers of elect...Utility Industry; Change; Photovoltaics1997-10-09
35 Silverman, Randall H.First paper made west of the MissouriThe need for paper was recognized in Utah by the American Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers before their arrival in "Great Salt Lake City" (as it was originally called) in 1847. Frustration at having to delay plans to publish a newspaper was noted in a letter drafted by Young on July 17...Deseret News; Thomas Howard; Sugar House Mill; Granite Paper Mill1994
36 Cannon, Thomas MichaelDigital image deblurring by nonlinear homomorphic filtering (CSTD-74-004)This report is concerned with the digital estimation of the frequency response of a two-dimensional linear system through which images have been passed and blurred. Almas t no a priori Knowledge concerning the system is required, and only one blurred image is necessar\d for a successful estimation. ...Computer animation1974-08
37 Landesman, Margaret M.Missing issues: a responseI 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; Correspondence1982
38 Landesman, Margaret M.Sense and sensibilitySense and Sensibility column: "Some publishers produce superior products at low prices. Some produce mediocre products at low prices. And some produce superior products at high prices. And so forth. It has always been this way as far as I know. So why is it that librarians of late seem to leap from ...Acquisitions; Vendors; Publishers; Publisher packages2001-04
39 Kraus, Peter L.Simon Winchester, Map that changed the worldThe author, noted writer Simon Winchester (who graduated with a Geology degree from Oxford University), makes no secret of the fact that this text is an unabashed tribute to his hero, William Smith, a nineteenth century surveyor and canal digger whose passionate hobby was geology. In the course of S...2002
40 Ogburn, Joyce L.Moderately risky business challenging librarians to assume more risk in an era of opportunityOne 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
41 Anderson, Richard BryanIMHBCO (In my humble but correct opinion): four mantras for the patron-centered technical services librarianIn the interest of promoting a more patron-centered approach to technical services work, I'd like to offer four mantras: 1. My job is not to manage information, but to deliver it; 2. I will not try to think like a good librarian, but like a bad patron; 3. Not everything worth doing is worth doing w...Information access; Information processing2005
42 Silverman, Randall H.Seven deadly sins of disaster recoveryDisaster response is largely about managing people. Human failings and vice can delay or derail library and archives recovery activities, causing irreparable damage to irreplaceable cultural property. Peter Waters' seven requirements for conducting successful disaster recoveries are contrasted with ...Peter Waters; Florence flood; Disaster plan; Recovery protocol; Library; Archive2007
43 Landesman, Margaret M.Saving yourself into the poor houseSense and Sensibility column: "Saving yourself into the poor house...Perhaps it might be a good thing, especially when thinking about life four or five years down the road, to look more closely at these tempting small "incremental expenditures" for "Big Deals." "Saving yourself into the poorhouse" i...Acquisitions; Vendors; Publishers; Publisher packages2002-12
44 Anderson, Richard BryanIMHBCO (In my humble but correct opinion): reference services, scalability, and the starfish problemThe problem with traditional reference service is that it isn?t scalable, and the solution to that problem does not lie in improving or expanding reference service, but rather in making traditional reference service less necessary. If only it didn?t feel so good to provide traditional reference serv...Patron service (Libraries); Library catalogs; Library classification systems2007
45 Ogburn, Joyce L.Bit by bit: digitizing informationBit by Bit column: "Librarians began to explore the technologies that allow printed materials to be converted to a digitized form in the 1980's. This technology essentially turns a printed original work into a computerized image. Although the technology is not new, it is only recently that it has be...Digital technology; Digital holdings, libraries1992-04
46 Anderson, Richard BryanAway from the Icebergs: row your library into the Web 2.0 environmentI DON?T THINK THERE?S ANY QUESTION THAT WE LIBRARIANS ARE WORKING hard, with the best intentions, to serve our users well in a world that has changed dramatically in the last decade. If the profession is a boat, then I think we?re all rowing pretty heroically. But I?m not sure we?re paying enough a...Web 2.0; Libraries2006
47 Silverman, Randall H.Fiber and talent intertwine at TwinrockerSeventeenth century philosopher John Locke compared the newborn human mind to a blank sheet of paper, a page devoid of any mark, ready to receive on its surface the unique characters of an individual's soul and circumstance. As history demonstrates, not all minds-or sheets of paper-are created equal...Twinrocker Homemade Paper; Mold-made paper; Papermaking1995
48 Ogburn, Joyce L.Acquiring minds want to know: educational opportunitiesAcquiring Minds Want to Know column: The fourth ALCTS Business of Acquisitions Institute will be held in Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University June 3-4, 1993. These instituties are designed to teach a basic understanding of the complex function of acquiring materials for libraries to beginnin...Acquisitions, Educational opportunities; Association for library collections and technical services1993-02
49 Ogburn, Joyce L.Acquiring minds want to know: digital scholarshipA new form of scholarship has emerged in recent years named "digital scholarship." I have seen it defined as online publishing or digitized material presented online, or, in other words, scholarship that appears in a digital form. However, a more compelling definition treats it as scholarship that d...Born digital; Libraries; Electronic publishing2003
50 Craigle, Valeri; Herbert, John; Morrow, Anne; Mower, AllysonThe development of library-led publishing services at the University of Utahlibrary publishing; scholarly communications; digital scholarship2013
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