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126 Kraus, Peter L.Filling a need or seeing an opportunity? The Evolution of grant writing and research instruction in the libraries at the University of UtahAbstract An investment in continuing education in the area of grantsmanship for a public services librarian has resulted in the teaching of Grant Writing & Research offered at the J. Willard Marriott Library and the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library on the campus of the University of Utah. ...Higher Education; Funding; Award; Librarianship; Academic Libraries; Research Libraries2007
127 Anderson, Richard BryanIMHBCO (In my humble but correct opinion): necessity, virtue, and research skillsIn libraries, I think we need to reexamine some of what we?ve come to consider ?virtuous? in our attitudes and behavior. Are these attributes and practices really virtues, or are they only ways of making necessary evils feel less onerous? And are they still necessary?Research skills; Databases; Books2007
128 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
129 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
130 Kraus, Peter L.Information literacy for German language & literature at the graduate level: new approaches and modelsAt 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; Librarianship2007
131 Estlund, Karen M.New librarians and scholarly communicationIncluded 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; Librarianship2007
132 Silverman, Randall H.Inconvenient legacyThe role of research libraries is to preserve the long-term memory of humankind. Straddling competing interests, they strive to provide unimpeded access to scholarly books while maintaining those same volumes in perpetuity. In practice, these ?Ç£bastions of knowledge?Ç¥ lean toward pragmatic mai...Research libraries; Preservation; Book repair2007
133 Anderson, Richard BryanOpen access: clear benefits, hidden costsOpen Access offers real benefits to society. However, the net value of those benefits cannot be determined unless its costs are computed as well. The purpose of this statement is not to call on participants in the scholarly information chain to fight against OA, but only to move forward while taki...Open Access; Research; Publishers; Information2007
134 Silverman, Randall H.Tsunami and Archives: The Unexpected Possibilities; Jakarta, Indonesia 17-18 July 2006The International Gathering on Tsunami and Archives, sponsored by the National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia (ANRI) and the International Council on Archives (ICA), was held in Jakarta, Indonesia 17-18 July 2006. The event was conducted in English and Indonesian and provided a venue for arch...Natural disasters; Tsunami; Preservation; Book repair2007
135 Silverman, Randall H.Fire and ice: a soot removal technique using dry ice blastingA welder?ÇÖs spark touched off the attic fire in the Sevier County Recorders Office (Richfield, Utah, USA) on 2 May 2006, igniting a blaze that ripped through the crawl space and greedily consumed the building?ÇÖs paper-backed insulation. The fuel readily spent, the fire burned itself out 15 min...Disaster cleanup, techniques; Book repair; Preservation; Fire damage2007
136 Landesman, Margaret M.Alphabetical fable : article and book meet the googleWherein 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; Internet2007-02-11
137 Landesman, Margaret M.Scraping by on $7 million a yearWhenever we talk about electronic resources, the phrase that comes up is: "We have no money." I am tired of hearing myself say, "We don't have the money." Is this true?Libraries, budget; Collection Development; Libraries, purchasing2007-04
138 Anderson, Richard BryanAcquisitions issues in serials managementWelcome to the first installment in the "Acquisitions Issues in Serials Management" column! The purpose of this inaugural essay is threefold: First, to explain the scope and purpose of the column; second, to invite future contributors; and third, to set out some potentially fruitful topics of di...Purchasing options; Collection development; Price inflation2007-08-19
139 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
140 Kraus, Peter L.Boys from the Brooklyn Museum venture to ZionThe Brooklyn Museum is the second largest museum in New York City, and one of the largest in the United States. Although now known primarily as an art museum, prior to the Second World War, the Museum pursued an aggressive acquisition policy in the field of Natural History and Archeology. Various me...Naturalist; Engelhard, George P.; Entomology2008
141 Paiva, Marie Clare P.Adventures in an Ethiopian libraryDuring my sabbatical time from mid-September 2007 to mid-March 2008, I worked as a volunteer librarian at Addis Ababa University (AAU) in the Institute of Ethiopian Studies Library (IESL) on a collection development project in Ethiopia.University libraries; Collection development; Ethiopian studies2008
142 Anderson, Richard BryanIMHBCO (in my humble but correct opinion): Preservation, yes - but what shall we preserve?Our work as librarians has always been the work of making difficult choices, but sometimes it seems like the choices we have to make are getting harder and harder. In this column, I'd like to talk about one that's so tough we don't even talk about it: how do we decide what information is not worth t...2008
143 Silverman, Randall H.Fire and ice : a soot removal technique using dry ice blastingAwelder's spark touched off the attic fire in the Sevier County Recorders Office in Richfield, Utah on May 2, 2006, igniting a blaze that ripped through the crawl space consuming the building's paper-backed insulation. The fuel readily spent, the fire burned itself out 15 minutes later, sparing the ...Manual wiping; vacuuming with a HEPA filter; ozone treatment2008
144 Ogburn, Joyce L.Defining and achieving success in the movement to change scholarly communicationIn the pursuit to change scholarly communication, libraries have undertaken a number of initiatives. These may include establishing a formal program, creating a committee, or taking other concerted actions at their institutions. While librarians have been engaged in targeted activities for some tim...Scholarly communication; Change2008
145 Anderson, Richard BryanIMHBCO (In my humble but correct opinion): three reason I?m a librarianWhy am I a librarian? I?m sure all of us have asked ourselves that question at one time or another, and I imagine that for some of us the answer is simple and for others it?s complex or even ineffable. For me, I think it boils down to three memories from my childhood and young adulthood, all of ...Library profession; Materials access2008
146 Paiva, Marie Clare P.Quick glimpse at public and academic libraries in Addis Ababa, EthiopiaEthiopia's 80 million people continue to live in a country with poor infrastructure in the Horn of Africa region. The population of Addis Ababa is estimated at 10-15 million and libraries have just recently been given some recognition. When I first came to this country as an ALA-USIA Fellow in...Libraries; Africa; Ethiopia2008
147 Anderson, Richard BryanScholars and libraries in radically changed -- and changing -- publication environmentWhite paper presented to the Faculty Senate on November 3, 2008. Working scholars face two basic problems when it come to information access and distribution: The access problem and the publication problem.2008
148 Anderson, Richard BryanIMHBCO (In my humble but correct opinion): the journal issue and the record album: two fundamentally irrational information productsOver the past few years I've become more and more convinced that the scholarly information world has a lot to learn from the music industry. Not so much from what the latter is doing either right or wrong, but from what has happened to it over the past 100 years, how it has happened, and why. From ...2009
149 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
150 Anderson, Richard BryanIMHBCO (in my humble but correct opinon): What's your problem? (and what's mine?)Academic libraries are in a tough situation, there's no question about it. We're beset on two sides, and it's almost as if the two sides had coordinated their attacks. From one side, attacking us with a gentle smile and a two-edged sword, is Google, which wasn't satisfied with being the single easi...2009
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