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Item What Systems User Groups Need to Hear from Music Librarians(1997-05-16) Fairclough, IanItem OEBPS FAQ: an introduction to OEBPS-based eBooks(2001-11) Salo, DorotheaThis FAQ is primarily intended for those who create eBook content and need a quick and relatively painless introduction to the Open eBook Publication Structure and the technologies underlying it. It is not intended for hardcore developers, though some sections may be useful to them. It is not intended for people who read but do not produce eBooks, though they may find it of interest.Item Building On Our Strengths: Final Report of Digital Archiving Task Force(2005-02-08T18:30:01Z) DAPA Task ForceFinal report of the Digital Archiving, Preservation and Access Task Force. Report surveys digital preservation needs and proposes to use the technical architecture of an “institutional repository” to meet digital archiving needs and also offer repository services at varying levels to members of the George Mason University community. Date on cover: March 25, 2004Item Licensing: An overview of the licensing process(2006-04-11T14:04:01Z) Palmer, LeneItem Open access for teachers(2006-04-13) Salo, DorotheaThe movement for open access to the scholarly and research literature emerged as a response to the enormous, unsustainable increases in the price of journals and journal bundles for academic libraries. When the internet made possible the dissemination of information for near-zero marginal cost (over the cost to package the information in the first place), both researchers and librarians began questioning the necessity of cost barriers to access. Educators who are not themselves researchers or librarians have not been active in the open-access movement or the debates surrounding it as yet. Third-world access to research, higher impact factors, faster research dissemination, relieving overstrained library budgets while restoring selection decisions to librarians—all these concern researchers and the research libraries they use. Institutions whose primary focus is teaching can expect little change one way or the other. Or can they?Item DSpace how-to guide: tips and tricks for managing common DSpace chores(2006-06-20T13:37:39Z) Salo, Dorothea; Donohue, TimThis short booklet is intended to introduce the commonest non-obvious customization-related tasks for newcomers to DSpace administration. It has been written against the current stable version 1.3.2 of DSpace.Item Making DSpace your own(2006-06-20T13:49:48Z) Salo, Dorothea; Donohue, TimItem Applying Census Data for Small Area Estimation in Community and Social Service Planning(DigitalCommons@WayneState, 2009-05-01) Wolf-Branigin, Michael; Suh, Hyon-Sook; Muir, Star; Ihara, Emily S.Small area estimation provides a tool for community analysis. A procedure for accessing, selecting, joining and analyzing US Census data is provided. Skills acquired while completing the procedure include accessing census data, downloading boundary files and displaying themes. Such skills are valuable tools for students to possess as they enter the workforce.Item Documenting an Environmental Disaster: The River Valley Collection at Marion Public Library(TextRelease, 2010) Fairclough, IanMarion Public Library (located in Marion, Ohio, 45 miles north of Columbus) serves as repository for a collection of documents produced in response to local concern about the incidence of leukemia and other ailments among the population. Former athletes at the River Valley High School, several miles east of town, were particularly at risk. Inquiries revealed that the school was built on a former WW II military site, and that the school's ballpark was above a dump site for noxious chemicals. From being considered a relatively minor issue, local outrage grew until something was done. The school was relocated and the old buildings closed. Eventually the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and its contracting agency Montgomery Watson, cleaned up the site. One consequence was the production of voluminous documentation, requiring the attention of a Documents Librarian and a Catalog Librarian. The resulting repository is of interest to scholars, and the library has received a surprising number of requests via interlibrary loan. Such requests, made possible via appropriate bibliographic description and access, demonstrate that a collection of primarily local interest can serve a wider community, provided that proper attention is given to its maintenance. Of particular interest to scholars of grey literature is the issue that arose during the course of the documentation project of the partial transition from a paper‐based paradigm to electronic resources. Initially, documentation was generated, in most cases using electronic technology, with a view to the paper version as end product. The realization that documentation in an electronic medium can serve as the objective happened during the course of the project, but was not fully realized. Indeed, the persons who generated the documentation are not known to have expressed the transition from paper to electronic version as a concept. As a consequence, further work entailing retrieval of the electronic originals where still available, and document scanning where not, remains a possibility. Such work will likely fall to librarians; it is unlikely that the original authors will assume responsibility.Item Academic Research Portals: Integrating Librarians and Academic Programs(2010-09-23) Grotophorst, WallyPresentation reports on the Research Portals project at University Libraries. Winner of a Campus Innovator award from Campus Techology magazine in August 2009, the origins of the program are discussed. Also covers the technology used. This presentation was given to the Library Advisory Committee of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia on September 24, 2010.Item Building RPM with BibApp: Research Profiles @ Mason(ACRL 2011, 2011-04-01) Lee, Joanna; Holland, ClaudiaThe University Libraries at George Mason University are offering a new service to create faculty profiles using BibApp to highlight institutional scholarship. Learn more about the workflow developed to create faculty profiles and archive material in the institutional repository via SWORD and the quality control steps necessary to ensure consistent, accessible records.Item Volunteered Geographic Information: Selected Web Resources(Map & Geospatial Information Round Table, 2012) Dietz, Cynthia; Suh, JoyIncreasingly Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is being used to create and analyze spatial information through visualizations, and geospatial models. The geospatial data used, whether publicly provided or offered by volunteers, has been made available more and more through Web 2.0 technologies. Innovators are hosting more web mapping services, and users are sharing more data from GPS capable and affordable units. The best VGI products are reviewed by peers or members that perform quality control checks and updates. Already there are signs that volunteer information has been playing a critical role to deliver real-time information through crisis mapping such as for Haiti's and Japan's Earthquake disasters. Although best practices to assess data accuracy, lineage, reliability, and appropriate uses are still evolving in VGI, geospatial librarians need to think about making VGI information accessible through their reference desks, especially when critical and real time information is not available elsewhere. Library outreach and instruction modules could be constructed to offer patrons near real-time data for problem solving, and for improving their critical thinking and evaluative skills. The online resources below provide important resources that are considered by the authors to be useful as an introduction to VGI efforts. The resources are presented in three categories: a) major VGI tools and resources, b) successful models for VGI for crisis information and mapping, and c) selected online VGI publications.Item Media Guidelines for Distance Education Courses: Selecting Content and Requesting Video Clips(2012-03) Holland, Claudia; Adams, Tina; ;Instructors teaching distance education courses often want to use proprietary video content to convey and illustrate concepts in support of student learning. George Mason University librarians developed internal guidelines for the purposes of explaining copyright and fair use in the context of media, and describing the workflow by which streaming video clips could be requested by their user community. These guidelines are the precursor to a more fully developed streaming media policy for the library.Item Faculty Forum on Open Access publication funding(2012-05-02) Scholarly Communication TeamOn Wednesday, May 2, 2012, the University Libraries and the Office of the Provost held a faculty forum to discuss the possibility of creating a fund to help Mason faculty publish in open access journals. We anticipate that this fund would be used to help faculty pay article processing fees that are charged by some “gold” open access publishers to make articles publicly available. The purpose of the forum was to gather feedback from the Mason community.Item Meeting the Textbook Needs of Engineering Students(American Association for Engineering Education (ASEE), 2012-06) Calcagno, Theresa M; Bowdoin, JessicaIn early 2009, the Head of Interlibrary Loan (ILL) at George Mason University analyzed ILL borrowing statistics from the previous academic year and found that 90% of the fifty most borrowed titles had been requested by students enrolled in the Volgenau School of Engineering. Further research revealed that: • 100% of the titles requested by engineering students were identified as IT/Engineering textbooks according to the Departmental Textbook lists kept by the University Bookstore; • the Mason Libraries already owned 76% of these titles; and • 83% of the courses using these textbooks were either in the Computer Science or Electrical and Computer Engineering departments. As a result of this analysis, the Engineering Textbook Reserves Program was conceived by the IT/Engineering Liaison Librarian and Access Services staff, including Reserves and ILL. The primary goals of this program, which was implemented during Fall Semester 2009, are: • to help alleviate engineering student demand for textbooks borrowed through ILL by placing these titles on reserve; and • to increase access to high demand engineering textbooks by more effectively utilizing existing library resources and services. Over the subsequent four semesters, seventy-one different titles have been placed on reserve for seventy different courses (86% of which were at graduate level). These books have been checked out over 1,500 times. Through careful monitoring, sixteen titles that were never borrowed were identified and removed from Reserve status. The program’s goal of increasing access to high demand engineering textbooks was met and since Fall 2009, Mason Libraries realized a savings of approximately $16,800 in ILL borrowing costs for engineering textbooks. The purchase costs for new or updated editions of textbooks have been minimal. The total spent, $3,130.68, is approximately 3.0% of the total discretionary funds allocated for Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering purchases for FY2010 and FY2011.Item Collaborative Initiatives in Error Handling and Bibliographic Maintenance: Use of Electronic Distribution Lists and Related Resources(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2012-09-24) Fairclough, IanOver the past decade, people working collaboratively have created several electronic distribution lists, each dedicated to notification about a specific issue in error handling for bibliographic and authority records, and other aspects of catalog maintenance. Librarians and others concerned for the accuracy of classification numbers, established headings, and series data can communicate among each other via these lists and related projects. This article documents their history and role in cataloging operations. Subscription information and frequently-used abbreviations are provided in Appendixes.Item Documenting an Environmental Disaster: The River Valley Collection at Marion Public Library [presentation](2012-11-15) Fairclough, IanItem Librarians and the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans: Helping Disabled Veterans With Business Research(Taylor & Francis, 2013) Hoppenfeld, Jared; Wyckoff, Trip; Henson, Jo Ann J.; Mayotte, Jenna N.; Kirkwood, Hal P.The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities is a national educational program that helps post-9/11 Veterans accomplish their dreams of starting their own businesses. Although their story has been well documented, one story that has not been told is that of a group of business librarians who support the program. The authors present unique services and resources made available to participants of this program and discuss some of the challenges, results, and future aspirations of library support.Item Model Language for Research Data Management Policies(ASERL / SURA Research Data Coordinating Committee, 2013-01) Hall, Nathan; Corey, Bill; Mann, Wendy; Wilson, TomThis proposal was drafted by a Working Group of the ASERL/SURA Research Data Coordinating Committee. The purpose of this document is to provide model language for universities to consider when drafting policy to support data management practices and infrastructure at their institutions. ASERL/SURA member institutions may not need all of the sections in this document. Each institution should include the sections that are relevant for their situation, and modify content as necessary. Much of this document was adopted from Research Data Management Policy, University of Edinburgh, available at (http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/about/policies-and-regulations/research-data-policy).Item Improving WorldCat Quality: How You Can Participate(Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), Dublin, OH, 2013-01-07) Fairclough, Ian; Whitacre, Cynthia M.Have you ever wondered how updates and enhancements can be made to WorldCat master records? Are you curious about the appropriate time to edit WorldCat records, and the improvements you can make?