Browsing Fondren Library Staff Presentations and Publications by Issue Date
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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 ... -
“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 ... -
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 ... -
Master Class: Mastering the Art of User Experience
(2015)Session Abstract: It's time to rethink what we know about gathering user data, going beyond surveys and other traditional methods to engage our users in deep conversations around the way they do research in order to develop ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
"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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
"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 ... -
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 ... -
UX Toolbox:Using Ethnography to Design Library Services for Scientists
(2013)Ethnography of scientists can provide a rich framework to provide insights to create actionable results that inform library services for research scientists. Learn a brief history of ethnographic work done with scientist ... -
The Viola in America: Two Centuries of Progress
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Science Librarians Analysis of the 2011 Prize in Physics
(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 ... -
Science Librarians Analysis of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics: The Work of Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, and Adam G. Riess
(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 ... -
Collecting to the Core--Physics
(2012)Column Editor’s Note: The “Collecting to the Core” column highlights monographic works that are essential to the academic library within a particular discipline, inspired by the Resources for College Libraries bibliography ...
