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Item AgNIC 20th Annual Meeting 2015 "HathiTrust -- How To"(2015-05-01) McGeachin, Robert B.Item AgNIC 20th Annual Meeting 2015 "LibGuides for All with Open Access Resources"(2015-05-01) McGeachin, Robert B.Item AgNIC Pre-conference 2009 “If It’s Digital and In Google – Then They Will Come”(2009-04-21) McGeachin, Robert B.AgNIC offers a four hour pre-conference on how to scan and digitize print items, make derivative versions for easy access on the Internet, create basic Dublin Core metadata, and how to add digital objects to a digital repository to make them available to the world.Item AgNIC Pre-conference 2011 “If It’s Digital and In Google – Then They Will Come”(2011-05-17) McGeachin, Robert B.AgNIC offers a two hour pre-conference on how to scan and digitize print items, make derivative versions, including archival PDF/A, for easy access on the Internet, create basic Dublin Core metadata, and how to add digital objects to a digital repository to make them available to the world.Item An Alternate Career Choice for the Geography Major: Map, GIS, Geographic Information Librarianship(2007-11-03) Weimer, KatherineItem An Alternate Career Choice for the Geography Major: Map, GIS, or Geographic Information Librarianship(2007-11-03) Weimer, KathyThe field of Map, GIS and Geographic Information Librarianship has expanded over the past decade. This expansion is due in part to the addition of GIS dataset collections in many university libraries, specialized government or corporate information agencies. Librarians holding a bachelor’s degree in geography, earth sciences or environmental sciences, are in high demand to fill positions as a Map, GIS or Geographic Information librarian. The standard requirement for these positions, beyond the bachelor’s degree, is a master’s degree from an American Library Association accredited library/information science program. There are 57 ALA accredited library/information science programs in the US, four of which are located in the SWAAG region. Master’s degree curriculum varies, but generally requires 36 hours or more, and some programs require a thesis or practicum. Undergraduates who are interested in a service profession and enjoy the research process, instruction and organization of information are good candidates for this career. A description of the traditional and evolving work duties, starting salaries, and how the geography degree supports this specialization will be included in the presentation.Item Are We Having Fun Yet(Texas Digital Humanities Consortium, 2016-05-27) Hankins, Rebecca; Potvin, Sarah; Earhart, Amy; Ives, MauraThis presentation was the basis for discussing, surfacing, and sharing best practices for establishing and evolving collaborations among digital scholars. We sought to engage the audience in discussing what factors to consider when dealing with multiple faculty and students, an issue that can become thorny, particularly as projects change and grow, despite good intentions. How do we properly credit any work that is done to publicize or publish these multidisciplinary projects that universities and funding agencies are encouraging and oftentimes are requiring academics to secure in order to receive shrinking dollars?Item Aristotle's Contribution to Scholarly Communication (corrected dissertation)(Stephen Bales, 2014-01-11) Bales, StephenThis historical study examines the Aristotelian foundations of the Library and Museum of Alexandria for the purpose of (1) understanding how the Library and Museum differed from preceding ancient Near Eastern information institutions (i.e., ―protolibraries‖) and (2) how Aristotle‘s methodologies for producing scientific knowledge were carried out in Alexandria. While protolibraries served as safeguards for maintaining a static cultural/political ―stream of tradition‖ and created, organized, and maintained ―library‖ documents to this end, the Library of Alexandria was a tool for theoretical knowledge creation. The Library materialized Aristotelian pre-scientific theory, specifically dialectic and served the scholarly community of the Museum in its research. Following the Library, collections of materialized endoxa, or recorded esteemed opinions, became a necessary tool for use by scholarly communities. The Library established the post-Aristotelian paradigm under which academic libraries still operate. Although the Library of Alexandria represented a fundamental shift in the meaning and purpose of collections of recorded documents, a feminist critique of the post-Aristotelian library shows that the academic library, while used in knowledge creation, is rooted in a foundationalist philosophy that validates and maintains the status quo.Item Art in Special Collections: Latino and African American Fine Art and Photography Collections in Academic Institutions(Art Libraries Society of North America, 2010-05-15) Hankins, Rebecca; Juarez, MiguelOften university libraries or archive/special collections house large fine art and photographic collections by African American and Latino artists. These collections are frequently hidden due to inadequate funding to promote them, minimal exhibit space, insufficient staffing with requisite exhibition and curatorial expertise, and/or diminished cataloging or digital priority. This article seeks to address the concerns and issues that affect this lack of exposure within academic special collections in both large and small institutions. The intent is to highlight successful strategies that can be used by other repositories seeking to diversify their art and photography holdings.Item An Astronaut, a Nurse, and a Prostitute walk into a Library ...: How to effectively explain our value to non-catalogers(2019-06-19) Ros, AmandaSometimes it is hard for catalogers to explain what we do and why it is important to the public at large. This is because the words (jargon) we use often sounds like a foreign language to others. This presentation will show how to better explain our relevance by talking about the unintentional--and sometimes intentional--bias of library catalogs due to classification numbers and subject terms. Outdated terms, lack of knowledge, and implicit bias can lead to incorrect analysis which can then lead to items not reaching those who need them.Item The Bias hiding in your LIbrary(The Conversation, 2019-03-20) Ros, AmandaCataloging and classification are critical to any library. Without them, finding materials would be impossible. However, there are biases that can result in patrons not getting the materials they need. This article illustrates some issues that patrons need to be aware of in order to better utilize their library’s catalog.Item The Bias in Your Library's Catalog(2018-05-18) Ros, AmandaCataloging and classification are critical to any library. Without them, finding materials would be impossible. However, there are biases that can result in patrons not getting the materials they need. This poster will illustrate some issues that patrons need to be aware of in order to better utilize their library’s catalog.Item Bibliography of Texas State and Local Agricultural Literature From 1820-1945.(Texas A&M University Libraries, 1998-09-15) Sandall, Sharon K.; McGeachin, Robert B.This bibliography was compiled for the Texas state and local literature component of the United States Agriculture Information Network (USAIN) Preservation Project Plan. The USAIN Preservation Project Plan is a national coordinated effort to preserve United States agricultural literature. This bibliography is an attempt to identify all Texas agricultural literature published by state and local entities, both governmental and commercial, prior to 1946. There are 1970 monographic and 685 serial titles listed in this bibliography.Item Bibliography on Black Women's Hair Research(2014-11-02) Hankins, Rebecca; Hankins, RebeccaA selected listing of resources for the study of or research on Black women's hairItem BOOKS MENTIONED IN THE FICTION OF LOUIS L’AMOUR(2013-02-17) Hall, Halbert W.A guide to the books, articles, plays, music and other literary material mentioned in the fiction of Louis L'Amour.Item A Catalyst for Social Activism: The Digital Black Bibliography Project(Texas Digital Libraries, 2016-05-26) Hankins, Rebecca; Earhart, Amy; Ives, Maura; Potvin, SarahThis ppt presentation details a collaborative proof of concept project called Digital Black Bibliography (DiBB) that sought to provide scholars with the tools to compile, preserve, manipulate, and interpret Africana cultural history as represented in seminal black historical bibliography texts. The project objectives were to transform printed bibliographies into more granular data that scholars could use to search, analyze, and expand the understanding of bibliographies. The works used in the project were of two seminal bibliographers, Prof. Dorothy Porter Wesley's A Catalogue of The African Collection and Prof. Abdul Alkalimat (Gerald McWhorter)'s Afro-Scholar newsletters.Item Chad Oliver: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide.(SFFBRI, 2008-06-01) Hall, Hal W.Item Characterizing Open Access Publishing at Your Institution(2014-11-03) Hubbard, David E.; Li, YuItem Chemical Lecture Demonstrations: An Opportunity for Engagement through Collections, Instruction, and Reference(Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-11-21) Hubbard, David E.Chemical lecture demonstrations have been used as a pedagogical tool since at least the founding of chemistry as a discipline in the 1600s. This paper describes how science librarians can engage chemistry faculty and students through chemical lecture demonstrations. This paper describes chemical lecture demonstrations–including history and efficacy–and discusses how science librarians can engage chemistry faculty and students through collections, instruction, and reference in support of this pedagogy. In addition to outlining a research guide and lesson plan for chemical lecture demonstrations, this paper identifies chemical lecture demonstration monographs found in WorldCat® and analyzes the holdings of those monographs within the thirty-six-member Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) consortium.Item Chemical Pricing Information for Student Design Projects and Cost Engineering: Challenges and Opportunities(American Society for Engineering Education, 2018) Hubbard, David E.Chemical prices are an important component of cost engineering for chemical engineering students and researchers, as well as other disciplines that might be interested in chemical processes (e.g., agricultural engineering, business, economics, and industrial engineering). Students in chemical engineering senior design (or capstone) courses are especially in need of chemical pricing to demonstrate the economic feasibility of their process designs. Over the last 12 years, bulk chemical prices have become increasingly difficult to locate as information providers publishing such information have consolidated and gradually removed that content from their publications. This paper first summarizes the history of published chemical prices in the literature and then reports on a quantitative content analysis of library research guides containing chemical pricing sources at institutions with ABET-accredited chemical engineering programs. Despite the aforementioned challenges, there are some opportunities for engineering librarians. One such opportunity involves locating citations for chemical prices from a variety of sources and placing them into a searchable database that could be a community-based solution.