Fondren Library Staff Presentations and Publications
This collection contains presentations, publications and other works by staff members at Rice University's Fondren Library
Unless otherwise noted, materials are available through a Creative Commons attribution license.
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Offering Infographic Short Courses to Meet Students' Interest
(2016-06-15)A library student survey done in spring 2015 at Rice University shows that both undergraduate students and graduate students are most interested in taking library short courses on creating infographics and data visualization. ... -
Linked Open Data Modeling for Library Cartographic Resources
(2016-03)For centuries libraries have cataloged collections of maps, atlases, and geographic data resources using text-based systems such as bibliographies, the card catalog, and the online catalog. These catalogs of metadata, while ... -
Libraries at the hub as the federally funded research wheel turns to open
(2016-03-15)Academic libraries are strong partners in supporting researcher compliance with both funder public access policies and institutional open access policies, and are increasingly involved in research data management activities. ... -
"Take it, You Can Have it": Grateful Dead Taping and the Idea of Open Access
(2014-11-12)Historians and commentators have long praised the Grateful Dead for their razor-sharp business acumen, especially the band’s audience taping policies. What started as way to stem the tide of bootlegs (while keeping a certain ... -
Evaluating Peer Review Criteria: The Geo-Twist
(2015)The evaluation and impacts of digital humanities works, and defining their scholarly contributions is quite complex and hotly debated within many scholarly communities. Peer review criteria are being developed, including ... -
What Does Your Data Need?
(2015-09-25)What does research data need so that it can live on after the experiment is over? Challenges facing Rice researchers in successfully (and strategically) managing their research data include formulating an effective data ... -
Curatorial Challenges of the Cassette Culture Revolution
(2015-06-11)Until just over a decade ago, the cassette tape was one of the most popular mediums for prerecorded music. In the West, it was the dominant format of the 1980s, until the shift to compact discs in the mid-1990s; in the ... -
Reasons for Non-Compliance with an Institutional OA Policy
(2015)As the number of institutional open access policies increases, libraries and other academic units must figure out ways to facilitate faculty compliance. This poster shares initial results of a study tracking faculty ... -
Reading with a Tender Rapture: Reveries of a Bachelor and the Rhetoric of Detached Intimacy
(2003)"Reading with a Tender Rapture" examines readers' responses to Donald Grant Mitchell's best-selling sentimental work Reveries of a Bachelor (1850). This article was based upon a chapter in my dissertation, "Bachelors of ... -
"Good Enough": Developing a Simple Workflow for Open Access Policy Implementation
(2014)Academic libraries are often tasked with open access (OA) policy implementation. Many academic libraries have developed robust workflows that utilize custom-built management tools and receive support from a number of library ... -
Review of "Customer Service.Gov: Technology Tools and Customer Service Principles for Innovative and Entrepreneurial Government"
(2014-07)Review of: Customer Service.Gov: Technology Tools and Customer Service Principles for Innovative and Entrepreneurial Government. Bruce McClendon, Mac Birch, and Ray Quay. Folsom, CA: Citygate Press, 2013. 526 pp. $21.98 ... -
Engaging in a Campus-Wide Conversation About Open Access
(2014)Open access (OA) scholarship—generally, scholarship made freely available online with minimal copyright and licensing restrictions—is a major focus of many academic libraries. Academic libraries are perfectly situated to ... -
Leading a Campus-Wide Conversation About Open Access
(2014)Open access (OA) scholarship—generally, scholarship made freely available online with minimal copyright and licensing restrictions—is a “hot topic” in academic libraries. Academic libraries are perfectly situated to lead ... -
Digital video preservation & access: Broad strokes to local implementation
(2013)Fondren Library worked in 2012-2013 to make a collection of born-digital video oral histories, a part of Special Collections and Archives - Houston Asian American Archives (HAAA), available through its institutional ... -
Digital Preservation: Tales from the Precipice between theory and practice
(2013)Long-term access to digital materials relies on active management of these resources. A major challenge for today’s data stewards is how best to apply the plethora of recommended standards and emerging technologies not ... -
Internet and Reference Services: Implications for Academic Libraries
(1993)Awareness and availability of information resources on the Internet, the electronic network of networks, have soared in recent years. In the process of considering the potential benefits and costs of using the Internet to ... -
The Evolution and Reaffirmation of a Library Orientation Program in an Academic Research Library
(1995)In 1981, James Rice proposed that there are three levels of library instruction: library orientation, library instruction, and bibliographic instruction.1 Library orientation provides an introduction for users to the ... -
The Viola in America: Two Centuries of Progress
(2012-06)
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