Slides from a presentation about Rice's DSpace installation given at the Texas Library Association's Digitization 101 pre-conference, April 2008. (Note: some of the slides were previously used in a presentation at Open ...

Librarians at Rice and Purdue Universities created novel assignments to teach students important information literacy skills. The assignments required the students to use a third-party web site, PageFlakes and NetVibes, ...

A presentation introducing a sampling of the international rare books, manuscripts, and Rice University archives available at the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University. Given as part of the "International ...

Powerpoint slides from a February 2009 workshop on academic blogging.

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 ...

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. ...

Gives an overview of information overload and discusses processes, habits and tools for managing it. Revised version of a presentation about information overload given in 2008.

A tension exists between making digitized resources available to users quickly and providing detailed, item-level metadata and semantic markup that make those resources more discoverable. The Our Americas Archive ...

Presenting a minimal process digitization approach for digitizing archival materials (at the folder level with minimal metadata), as compared to a more common full process approach at the individual item level with extensive ...