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An Alternate Career Choice for the Geography Major: Map, GIS, or Geographic Information Librarianship
(2007-11-03)
The 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 ...
Adding OAI-ORE Support to Repository Platforms
(Open Repositories Conference 2009, 2009-05-17)
The Texas Digital Library is a cooperative initiative of Texas universities. One of TDL’s core services is a federated collection of ETDs from its member schools. As this collection grew, the need for tools to manage the ...
Using an Online Environment for a Long-Term Collaborative Writing Project
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2006-04-20)
In October 2005, nine Library and Computing services faculty from six universities around the U.S. began writing a book collaboratively. The book, entitled Teaching with Technology: An academic librarian’s guide, will be ...
Seeing (and Hearing) is Believing! How Screen Capture Software Makes Website Usability Data a More Effective Tool
(American Library Association, 2004-06-19)
Texas A&M University Libraries has adopted screen capture
software as a tool to assist with website usability studies.
This poster session provides an introduction to the software
package used to record the usability ...
New Things to Love @ Your Library
(2008-02-12)
Enhance your courses and personal research with several new services and research tools available from the TAMU Libraries and the World Wide Web. We will pick up where we left off last year with a demonstration of some of ...
AgNIC Pre-conference 2009 “If It’s Digital and In Google – Then They Will Come”
(2009-04-21)
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 ...
Oral Tradition in Historical Research
(International Oral History Association Proceedings, 2004-06)
This article will chronicle how those professionals called archivist, charged with collecting, preserving, and making primary source materials including oral history resources available to the public, view their role in ...
ETD Release Policies in American ARL Institutions: A Preliminary Study
(2005-09-27)
The advent of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) has improved access to graduate level research, but with these new opportunities come new challenges. Institutions that host ETD collections must develop release ...
Subject Access to Your Information
(2006-08-01)
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 ...