Browsing Fondren Library Staff Presentations and Publications by Title
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Information Portals: A New Tool for Teaching Information Literacy Skills
(Association of College and Research Libraries, Science and Technology Section, 2010)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, ... -
Institutional Repositories
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International Treasures at the Woodson Research Center
(Rice University, 2008-11)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 ... -
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 ... -
Introduction to Academic Blogging
(2009)Powerpoint slides from a February 2009 workshop on academic blogging. -
Introduction to Scholarly Communication
(2009)Presentation for The Future of Scholarly Communications A Forum for Houston Area Librarians, July 22, 2009, University of Houston (co-sponsored by UH, Rice and HAM-TMC Libraries). Also includes updated version for UNT ... -
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 ... -
Libraries at the Crossroads: Technology, Policy, Economics and Culture
(2010)Presentation delivered at the Houston Area Forum on the Future of Libraries, July 21, 2010. Revised version of a presentation first given at the CNI Fall 2009 meeting. -
Managing Information Overload
(2010)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. -
Metababble: A Clash of Metadata Cultures
(2009-06-22)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 ... -
“Methodology for the Infinite Archive”: Exploring the Implications of Digital Resources and Tools for Literary Scholarship
(2009)Slides from an April 2009 presentation on digital humanities research at item A&M University. Remixes some elements from previous presentations. The title pays tribute to Bill Turkel's blog of the same name. -
More Pixels, Less Process: Decision making for minimal process digitization
(Rice University, 2008-08)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 ... -
Organizing & Managing Research Using Digital Tools
(2009)Presentation on the Digital Media Center and digital tools for graduate students in history at Rice, March 27, 2009. -
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"Research, Not Re-Search": Managing Research with Zotero
(2008)Review of Zotero, a Firefox based research tool. -
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 ... -
Rice University's experiments in Second Life
(Rice University, 2011)A description of Rice University's experimental participation in Second Life, 2008-2009. -
Science Librarians Analysis of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics: The Work of Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, and Adam G. Riess
(Taylor and Francis, 2012-03-12)The Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011 was awarded to scientists from two different research collaborations that independently and contemporaneously discovered from observations of distant supernovae that the universe's expansion ...
