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Arlitsch, Kenning | Future leaders' views on organizational culture | Research libraries will continue to be affected by rapid and transformative changes in information technology and the networked environment for the foreseeable future. The pace and direction of these changes will profoundly challenge libraries and their staffs to respond effectively. This paper pre... | | 2010 |
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Morrow, Anne; Mower, Allyson | University scholarly knowledge inventory system: a workflow system for institutional repositories | The University Scholarly Knowledge Inventory System (U-SKIS) provides workspace for institutional repository staff. U-SKIS tracks files, communications, and publishers' archiving policies to determine what may be added to a repository. A team at the University of Utah developed the system as part o... | Digital repositories; workflow management; copyright permissions | 2009 |
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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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Anderson, Richard Bryan | IMHBCO (In my humble but correct opinion)--LJ and the NRA: separated at birth? Or, knee-jerk politics makes strange bedfellows | I'm a regular reader of Slate, the online news and commentary magazine. 1 know it's part of the Microsoft Military-Industrial Complex, but Slate offers enough witty and insightful writing that I'm usually able to put aside my reflexive aversion to all things Microsoft for a few moments each morning ... | Elitists, Extremists, Captured | 2002 |
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Anderson, Richard Bryan | IMHBCO (in my humble but correct opinion) - academic libraries and the "Arming America" problem: a response to Steve McKinzie | McKinzie is careful in his recommendations: although he is deeply concerned about the "host of unwary readers" who may find in the stacks "a terribly misleading book that bases its arguments on fabricated data and deliberately misconstrued research," he emphasizes at the same time that he is not su... | | 2009 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Hurricane havoc in paradise | Tuesday 3 November 1992: Having previously cast absentee ballots, six conservators departed from Honolulu airport on election day for Kaua'i and a first-hand look at the damage caused by Hurricane Iniki. | Recovery; Mold; Kaua'i museum | 1992 |
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Kraus, Peter L. | Information literacy for German language & literature at the graduate level: new approaches and models | At the University of Utah the recent hiring of several new faculty members in the German Language and Literature Section of the Modern Languages department has resulted in an increased demand for library services in the area of instruction and technical support. Areas explored will include approache... | Germanic languages; Higher Education; Librarianship | 2007 |
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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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| Industrial revolutions: from canal systems to computer networks | Today's so-called "Information Revolution" is often compared to past industrial revolutions, especially a British Industrial Revolution which took place between 1750 and 1830 and a Second Industrial Revolution which is believed to have occurred in the United States between 1880 and 1940. The compari... | Information technology; Information Age | 2000 |
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Landesman, Margaret M. | Alphabetical fable : article and book meet the google | Wherein an Apprehensive Article (doubtless from a scholarly journal) and a Rather Bolder Book (of the sort that may be monetizing your click stream any day now) discuss current affairs... | World Wide Web; Print; Digitization; Internet | 2007-02-11 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Scholarly communication and the changing landscape of scholarship | This presentation will cover the changes that are occurring within scholarship, the relationship they have with scholarly communication, and the role of libraries in this evolving landscape. It will discuss initiatives that the University of Washington (UW) libraries is pursuing with regard to sc... | Digital scholarship; Institutional repositories; Academic libraries | 2003 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Acquiring minds want to know: a glimpse of paradigms | Acquiring Minds Want to Know column: "The concept of the paradigm, as generally cited in the literature, derives from the work of Thomas Kuhn in the 1960's. Kuhn, an historian of science, set out to explore how science, and scientists, actually worked. Kuhn found that scientific activity tends to be... | Thomas Kuhn; Paradigms; Librarianship, trends; Librarianship, Philosophy; of | 1993-04 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Pamphlet binders and their use in research libraries | By definition, research libraries have a commitment to preserving pamphlets as well as all print and non-print media they collect. A discussion of the preservation requirements for pamphlets is useful for their survival, and pamphlet binders are an important tool in preparing these often ephemeral ... | Pamphlets; Preservation; Binders | 1992 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Day the university changed | Describes the disaster recovery efforts in the Morgan Library of Colorado State University following the 1997 flood. Deals in detail with conservation and restoration of damaged book and journal collections. | Library materials, Conservation; Library Materials, Restoration; Flood damage; Emergency management | 2003 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Origins of offset | The connection between this printed magazine you are reading and a discarded tin of tuna fish packed in oil or spring water is particularly fascinating, but requires a bit of historical sleuthing, and a brief excursion through the increasingly industrial 19th century. | Tinplate; Direct lithographic printing; Offset lithography | 1995 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Book repair in the U.S.A.: a library-wide approach to conservation | Abstract: Modern research library collections are a composite of both rare and non-rare books the majority of which are out of print and irreplaceable. Consequently, conservation treatment priorities cannot responsibly ignore non-rare material without shortchanging future scholarly needs. To address... | Preservation, books; Conservation, books | 1997 |
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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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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Bit by bit: communicating voucher information to the accounting department from automated library systems(pt. 2) | Bit by Bit column: "This is the second of a two-part article. Part 1 (ATG Feb. 1991) presented some general considerations about the value of the automation process, the time and effort saved and the improved accuracy achieved by eliminating redundant data entry. Part II will present the rudiments o... | Library automation; Library information systems; Library acquisitions | 1991-06 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Exploring the contributions of the academic library to student learning | Most recently, as part of our multiyear Value of Academic Libraries Initiative, ACRL joined with three partners ? the Association for Institutional Research, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, and the Council of Independent Colleges ? to convene two national summits in late 2011. The... | | 2011 |
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Arlitsch, Kenning | Digitizing Sanborn fire insurance maps for a full color, publicly-accessible collection | Describes the digitization of 1300 full-color Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps at the University of Utah's Marriott Library. Issues of copyright, digitization specifications, digital asset management system (CONTENTdm), and web presentation are discussed. | Digitization of library materials; Fire insurance maps | 2002-07 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Carol Twombly on type | The appeal of an inviting building begins with its solid architectural space. So too with typography, that all-too-often unnoticed "architecture" implicit in the conveyance of the printed word. Viewed under magnification, bold, vertical stems clearly support cross bars like studs; spherical bowls op... | Typography; Type designer; Typeface | 1994 |
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Arlitsch, Kenning; Jonsson, Jeff | Aggregating distributed digital collections in the mountain west digital library with the CONTENTdm multi-site server | This paper describes the creation of the Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL), a cooperative regional program distributed throughout Utah and Nevada. Its metadata are aggregated at a single website. Six digitization centers at the largest universities in both states digitize their own collections an... | Consortia; Metadata; Computer software, Development | 2005-06 |
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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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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 |