If You Build It, They Will Come

2018 ◽  
pp. 177-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura M Horne-Popp ◽  
Elisabeth Bliese Tessone ◽  
Joshua Welker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Library Assessment ◽  
Detailed Explanation ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The University ◽  
Assessment Activities

Like many academic libraries throughout the United States, the James C. Kirkpatrick Library at the University of Central Missouri has increasingly documented its impact on the university and its students. A library statistics dashboard tool was developed internally to assist with increased assessment activities. The Information Technology Librarian and the Library Assessment Team collaborated to create the dashboard tool. This case study discusses the impetus for developing the tool and provides a detailed explanation of the creation and testing of the dashboard. The chapter also describes the outcomes of using the dashboard tool in the library's assessment activities, along with recommendations for how other libraries may develop similar tools and skills within their organizations.

‘A Routh O’ Auld Nick-Nackets’ – the antiquarian collection of John Rae

2015 ◽  
Vol 36-37 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-183
Author(s):  
Paul Taylor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Case ◽  
National Museums ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

John Rae, a Scottish antiquarian collector and spirit merchant, played a highly prominent role in the local natural history societies and exhibitions of nineteenth-century Aberdeen. While he modestly described his collection of archaeological lithics and other artefacts, principally drawn from Aberdeenshire but including some items from as far afield as the United States, as a mere ‘routh o’ auld nick-nackets' (abundance of old knick-knacks), a contemporary singled it out as ‘the best known in private hands' (Daily Free Press 4/5/91). After Rae's death, Glasgow Museums, National Museums Scotland, the University of Aberdeen Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, as well as numerous individual private collectors, purchased items from the collection. Making use of historical and archive materials to explore the individual biography of Rae and his collection, this article examines how Rae's collecting and other antiquarian activities represent and mirror wider developments in both the ‘amateur’ antiquarianism carried out by Rae and his fellow collectors for reasons of self-improvement and moral education, and the ‘professional’ antiquarianism of the museums which purchased his artefacts. Considered in its wider nineteenth-century context, this is a representative case study of the early development of archaeology in the wider intellectual, scientific and social context of the era.

scholarly journals MetaSearching and Beyond: Implementation Experiences and Advice from an Academic Library

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail Herrera
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Google Scholar ◽  
University Of Mississippi ◽  
United States Mexico ◽  
The University

In March 2003 the University of Mississippi Libraries made our MetaSearch tool publicly available. After a year of working with this product and integrating it into the library Web site, a wide variety of libraries interested in our implementation process and experiences began to call. Libraries interested in this product have included consortia, public, and academic libraries in the United States, Mexico, and Europe. This article was written in an effort to share the recommendations and concerns given. Much of the advice is general and could be applied to many of the MetaSearch tools available. Google Scholar and other open Web initiatives that could impact the future of MetaSearching are also discussed.

scholarly journals From Digital Arts and Humanities to DASH

2015 ◽  
pp. 234-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Schell ◽  
Jennie M. Burroughs ◽  
Deborah Boudewyns ◽  
Cecily Marcus ◽  
Scott Spicer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Service Model ◽  
Digital Arts ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The University

Academic libraries around the United States have been responding to an emerging style of research, the digital humanities, that promises to expand and revolutionize the humanities. Libraries are finding themselves to be generative sites of innovative partnerships and projects. Seeing a new opportunity to showcase cutting edge research and demonstrate value in an era of competitive demands for financial resources, there is significant incentive for libraries to quickly anticipate scholarly needs. Yet how do academic libraries best support a field of practice that is still developing? To address these issues, the University of Minnesota Libraries conducted a multi-year assessment of scholarly trends and practices, infrastructure needs, and roles of digital humanities centers and academic libraries, the University of Minnesota Libraries have designed and are in the process of implementing a service model as part of its Digital Arts Sciences + Humanities (DASH) program.

Narrative, Resistance and Manus Prison Theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-195
Author(s):  
Omid Tofighian ◽  
Behrouz Boochani
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theory Analysis ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The University

AbstractIn early 2020 Behrouz Boochani and Omid Tofighian conducted a speaking tour of the United States, Canada, UK, and Europe (including Ireland). They presented at numerous universities, including the University of Cambridge. In their Cambridge talk they focused on the transformative potential of storytelling and the importance of creating new intellectual frameworks for resistance. Key themes and issues in their discussion included features of Manus Prison Theory, analysis of the book No Friend but the Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison, Australia's detention industry, and colonialism. The three parts of this article involve: the context to Boochani's incarceration and the creation and success of his award-winning book; a dialogue between Boochani and Tofighian; and a series of analytical remarks by Tofighian in response to audience questions.

Investigating the Potential of Deaccessioning as a Tool for Public Archaeology Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 420-427
Author(s):  
Jenna Domeischel ◽  
Tawnya Waggle
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Archaeology ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Educational Programming ◽  
Collections Management ◽  
Checks And Balances ◽  
Similar Program ◽  
The Creation

ABSTRACTIn the United States, deaccessioning is a poorly understood collections management tool. Archaeologists often view deaccessioning with what Robert Sonderman called “primal fear,” and this fear has caused them to overlook the opportunities that deaccessioned artifacts and collections may provide in the area of public archaeology education. Although deaccessioning without checks and balances can be problematic, when done properly and ethically, it offers previously untapped resources to the creation of educational programming, such as teaching trunk programs. This article discusses the process of deaccessioning and suggests that deaccessioned artifacts may be useful as content for teaching trunk programs. We discuss a case study from our own institution, where we implemented a trunk program in 2016 that was largely stocked with material from a deaccession we had performed the previous year. We also offer suggestions for anyone wishing to implement a similar program.

scholarly journals Poetry of the Colorado Miners: 1903-1906

2014 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 20-30
Author(s):  
Dan Tannacito
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Nonferrous Metal ◽  
The United States ◽  
Working Class Literature ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Surrounding Areas

The poetry published in the Miners Magazine during the first decade of this century provides us with an illuminating case study of the characteristics and development of working-class literature in the United States. The creation of poetry by nonferrous metal miners in Colorado and surrounding areas illustrates the need for expression, affirmation, and communication on the part of the workers themselves and their allies during times of struggle.

scholarly journals The digital exhibition defined: The M.O. Hammond Collection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeleine Anne Bognar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Insight Into

This thesis consists of a digital exhibition presented online at: http://ppcm2017-hammondexhibition.myfreesites.net/. This digital exhibition is used as a case study for the written component. As such it outlines the criteria that attempt to define digital and virtual exhibitions in 2017. The case study is analyzed alongside research from cultural and historical institutions and interviews with professionals in Canada and the United States. These interviews and research provide insight into how different institutions approach the worldwide interest of digital exhibitions. This thesis not only examines the criteria of digital exhibitions but also analyzes the success of the case study created for this project. Appendices included in this thesis outline the digitization process, image selection information, web text and layout used during the creation of the case study digital exhibition.

scholarly journals The digital exhibition defined: The M.O. Hammond Collection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeleine Anne Bognar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Insight Into

This thesis consists of a digital exhibition presented online at: http://ppcm2017-hammondexhibition.myfreesites.net/. This digital exhibition is used as a case study for the written component. As such it outlines the criteria that attempt to define digital and virtual exhibitions in 2017. The case study is analyzed alongside research from cultural and historical institutions and interviews with professionals in Canada and the United States. These interviews and research provide insight into how different institutions approach the worldwide interest of digital exhibitions. This thesis not only examines the criteria of digital exhibitions but also analyzes the success of the case study created for this project. Appendices included in this thesis outline the digitization process, image selection information, web text and layout used during the creation of the case study digital exhibition.

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