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Kraus, Peter L. | Francis Carroll, Good and wise measure: the search for the Canadian-American boundary, 1783-1842 | A Good and Wise Measure is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is also a delight to those who work in the area of cartography, maps, or government documents in libraries. The author makes extensive use of original source material and numerous obscure resources. Simply put, this book can se... | | 2003 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Acquiring minds want to know: digital scholarship, a new scholarly enterprise | A new form of scholarship has emerged in recent years that can be called 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 scholar... | Born digital; Libraries; Electronic publishing | 2003 |
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Arlitsch, Kenning | Utah digital newspapers project | The J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah has digitized 30,000 pages from three weekly Utah newspapers from the period of 1889 - 1922 and made the collections freely available on the Internet. This article describes a new method for digitizing historic newspapers, developed in a part... | Digital libraries; Newspaper and periodical libraries; Newspapers in microform; Newspapers | 2003-03 |
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Breznay, Ann Marie; Haas, Leslie M. | Checklist for starting and operating a digital reference desk | SUMMARY. This article explores digital reference and offers practical advice to those interested in implementing a digital reference desk in their library. Digital/chat/online reference services are defined and practical guidelines on staffing, selecting and troubleshooting hardware and software... | Online reference; Chat reference; Digital reference | 2003-11 |
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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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Anderson, Richard Bryan | IMHBCO (In my humble but correct opinion): four mantras for the patron-centered technical services librarian | In 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 processing | 2005 |
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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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Anderson, Richard Bryan | IMHBCO (In my humble but correct opinion): not even wrong: Gorman on Google | This article critiques Michael Gorman's critique of the Google Book Project. | Google Book Project; Digitization; Information | 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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Anderson, Richard Bryan | IMHBCO (In my humble but correct opinion): three kinds of research and two kinds of researcher | Our libraries should be places (virtual and physical) where as little searching as possible has to take place. Making libraries easier to use doesn't undermine intellectual development -- on the contrary, it makes more intellectual development possible because it lets our patrons spend more time... | Researchers; Libraries; Information | 2005 |
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Landesman, Margaret M. | Getting it right - the evolution of reference collections | SUMMARY. Reference works were present in the earliest libraries; and their numbers have grown inexorably ever since. They consume an increasing share of library acquisitions budgets. This article traces the evolution of reference collections, drawing on experiences at the author's library. The autho... | History, reference works; Library, reference sources; Reference media | 2005 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Trade bookbinding in the British Isles, 1660-1800 by Stuart Bennett | A review of "Trade Bookbinding in the British Isles, 1660-1800" by Stuart Bennett. | Books, Reviews; Bookbinding | 2005 |
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Paiva, Marie | Beyond databases: a creative approach in keeping up with our growing resources | Most libraries in the 21st century provide databases for their users. These databases seem to have rapidly multiplied over the years. At our academic library, there are over 320 databases available giving both librarians and patrons a broad array to choose from at any given time. Even with this abun... | Databases; Library resources; Electronic resources | 2005 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Disaster recovery in the artifact fields - Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina | From 22-29 September 2005 HEART - one of eight Heritage Emergency Assistance Recovery Teams - arrived in Mississippi to assess collection damage to cultural institutions following Hurricane Katrina. Organized jointly by the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) and the America... | | 2005 |
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Salem, Susan; Arlitsch, Kenning | Western Waters Digital Library: providing solutions through collaboration and technology | This paper describes current strategies for promoting the long-term success and sustainability of a collaborative and distributed digital library project. The Western Waters Digital Library (WWDL) is designed to develop from a framework incorporating a common digital management system, uniform appli... | Digital libraries; Authorship, Collaboration; Water and civilization | 2005-01-10 |
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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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Morrison, David L. | Utah digital newspapers: copyright and the web | Copyright presentation given by David Morrison, July 14, 2005. | | 2005-07-14 |
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Breznay, Ann Marie; Haas, Leslie M. | If you build it will they come? Services will make the difference in a portal | Abstract: Identifying and adding services to a library portal will add to its long term success in a market that pits libraries against commercial vendors like Google and Amazon.com. The current focus on portals has been on selecting collections and developing the basic functionality of the websi... | Web design; Functionality; Customization | 2005-10 |