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.
Recent Submissions
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Building and Managing Your Online Profile as an Academic
(2016-12-07)Slides from a workshop on raising your online visibility as an academic. -
Preserving Music Recitals
(2017-04-05)This session seeks to present a series of impactful case studies showcasing locally designed and implemented digitization workflows that serve the source material and its designated community while complimenting the ... -
Cultivating our ORCID garden: Lessons learned from publishers
(2017)ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID)--developed to address the problem of name ambiguity in scholarship--has been widely welcomed by many in the scholarly communications community, including many academic librarians. ... -
Recital Preservation: before they fade away
(2016-09-22)The Rice University Shepherd School of Music was formally opened in 1975. Since that time thousands of performances by faculty and students have been recorded and collected in multiple formats, with accompanying programs ... -
Using OpenRefine’s Reconciliation to Validate Local Authority Headings
(2017-12-01)In 2015, the Cataloging and Metadata Services department of Rice University’s Fondren Library developed a process to reconcile four years of authority headings against an internally developed thesaurus. With a goal of ... -
“When We’re Done with It, We Don’t Care What Happens to It” What Open Access Practitioners Can Learn from Deadheads
(2016)Historians and commentators have long praised the Grateful Dead for their razor-sharp business acumen, especially the band’s policy on audience taping. What started as way to stem the tide of bootlegs (while keeping a ... -
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 ...
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