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Metadata Value Chain for Open Access Journals
(Taylor and Francis, 2011)
In this session, Holly Mercer presented a case for finding global solutions to improve the metadata that is available for journals, particularly small, independent open access journals. She discussed the scholarly ...
Copyright Literacy Standards for Graduate Education: A Call to Action!
(USETD Association, 2011-05-19)
It's Not About A Desk
(2004-05-19)
The issue of replacing reference librarians with staff on the desk is combined with the issue of development of a single service point. Cross training and reorganization will be discussed for an impact on positive staff ...
Lessons Learned by a Standing Search Committee: Developing Better Practices
(Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2009-07)
This paper describes the reasons for establishing a standing committee for faculty searches at Texas A&M University Libraries, the committee’s practices as they have evolved over time, and the successes the committee has ...
Creating and Evaluating Metadata for a Large Legacy Thesis Collection: From 'Vocational Agriculture' (1922) to 'Microemulsion-mediated syntheses' (2004)
(2013-05-23)
In the summer of 2012, Texas A&M University Libraries uploaded more than 16,000 retrospectively-digitized masters-level theses, dating from 1922 to 2004, into our DSpace institutional repository.
Item records for the ...
Keeping Students Engaged with Web-Based Polling in the Library Instruction Session
(Emerald, 2012)
This research was performed with the goal of determining the potential benefit(s) of including web-based polling in the library instruction classroom. Over the course of a year, web-based polling was used in library ...
Energy Systems Laboratory: Building a Model Repository Collection
(Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, 2008-06-05)
The Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) is a division of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station and part of the Texas A&M University System. First established in 1939, the ESL maintains a testing laboratory on the Riverside ...
Preservation of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin in the Digital Repository
(Taylor and Francis, 2010-04-23)
To assist agricultural librarians in their new role as digital preservation and distribution specialists, this article documents the basic procedures for scanning and digitizing print agricultural serial publications and ...
Copyright Uncertainty in the Geoscience Community: Part I, What's Free for the Taking?
(Geoscience Information Society, 2012)