Browsing Fondren Library by Title
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A brief look at book closures
(2008-10)A brief look at the history of various book closures such as metal clasps, leather or fabric ties, pin and hole closures, using examples from the collections of the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University. ... -
Building and Managing Your Online Profile as an Academic
(2016-12-07)Slides from a workshop on raising your online visibility as an academic. -
Can a UX Department Really Make a Difference?
(2017-04-03)When a library is truly invested in UX, with total awareness of and buy-in on user-centered thinking, its staff more readily embrace UX principles and have more empathy. However, creating a user-centric culture can be ... -
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 ... -
Communication and Storage of Data for Personal Libraries
(2005-07-20)Personal libraries are proposed by investigating design elements that should be considered in the creation of a distributed digital object store for a personal library system. Particular emphasis is placed in storage ... -
Communication and Storage of Data for Personal Libraries
(2005-07-20)This research proposes personal digital libraries by investigating design elements that should be considered in the creation of a distributed digital object store for a personal library system. Particular emphasis is ... -
Compliance: E-Science Mandates and Policies
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Contextualizing Science Education via Earth System Science Events for Meaningful Lifelong Learning
(2005-08-09)The widespread deployment of ubiquitous communication technologies, including growing Internet access, in the early 21st century has resulted in a growing number of information sources available for educational purposes. ... -
Creating a Community-Driven Digital Archive: The Harvey Memories Project
(2018-04-23)Between August 17 and 30, 2017, Tropical Storm Harvey -- later Hurricane Harvey -- crisscrossed the Southeast corner of Texas, killing 88 Texans, damaging or destroying more than 119,000 homes in Harris County, and causing ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Data Management Plan Tools
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Data Management Policies and Issues with Life Science Data
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Deepening the Conversation
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Describing Archival Collections So Visitors Can Find Them On-line
(2008-03)An overview of various ways archival repositories can post information about their collections on-line so that users can easily find them. Originally presented at the Texas Association of Museums annual meeting, March ... -
Describing Images for the Digital Environment
(2007-05)How archivists can translate their skills for describing materials at the collection to describing materials at the item level, with a focus on describing images for on-line access. First presented at the Society of Southwest ... -
Digital History: Tools for Research and Teaching
(2009)Presentation for the History Barrel (Rice U. graduate students in history), October 19, 2009 -
Digital Libraries & Desktops: How Users View & Use Digital Libraries in Relation to their Own Private Collections
(2005-08-08)This dissertation will study the interaction between frequent users and the digital libraries they regularly visit, specifically to gain a greater understanding of the factors which underly users’ decision-making with ... -
Digital Libraries & Desktops: How Users View & Use Digital Libraries in Relation to their Own Private Collections
(2005-08-08)This dissertation will study the interaction between frequent users and the digital libraries they regularly visit, specifically to gain a greater understanding of the factors which underly users’ decision-making with ... -
Digital Libraries as Learning Environments: A Case for Enabling Digital Libraries
(2005-08-10)Digital libraries have improved the availability of resources by leaps and bonds compared to traditional libraries. The improved availability does not have much effect on improved accessibility of resources. Accessibility ... -
Digital Preservation of New Media Art Through Exploration of Established Symbolic Representation Systems
(2005-07-20)In this paper, I describe my thesis research, which is concerned with digital preservation of new media art. This paper is divided into three sections: the first places technical digital preservation approaches within the ... -
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 ... -
Digital Tools for Research and Teaching in Anthropology
(2009)Presentation on digital research tools for Rice University's anthropology department, October 27, 2009 -
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 ... -
Doing Digital Scholarship
(2008)Paper presented at Digital Humanities 2008 (Oulu, Finland). Focuses on a project to practice digital scholarship by relying on electronic resources, experimenting with tools for analyzing and organizing digital information, ... -
Emerging Technologies that Hold Promise for Education
(2009)Presented at Lone Star College System's E-learning Symposium 2009, November 12, 2009 -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 Evolving World of E-Science, A report of the IATUL conference, 2010.
(2011)Debra Kolah attended a conference of the International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries at Purdue University. This is her brief report and recommendations. -
FIRES
(2010)The Houston Zoroastrian Association Library is the new center for the FEZANA Information Research & Education Systems. FIRES is a collection of Zarathushti books, manuscripts, literature, magazines and scholarly research. -
Fondren Through the Years: an Oral History of the Library, 1949-2009
(2009)This 42-minute video includes 29 interviews with Fondren library staff including 6 retirees and 23 current employees. The film offers an informative and entertaining look at the library's development from the late 1950s ... -
The Global Library
(2008)Presentation about the global reach of digital libraries, given as part of the "International Treasures" panel at Fondren Library, November 2008. -
"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 ... -
Implementing DSpace at Rice: Lessons Learned
(2008)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 ... -
Implementing Encoded Archival Description (EAD) : A quick start guide
(2008-10)An introduction to Encoded Archival Description (EAD), examples of its use today and possible future uses, and quick guide to the software, files, standards and general principles needed to implement EAD. First presented ... -
Information Portals: A New Tool for Teaching Information Literacy Skills
(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
(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 E-Science
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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. -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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. -
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 ... -
Measuring Open Access Policy Compliance: Results of a Survey
(2018)INTRODUCTION: In the last decade, a significant number of institutions have adopted open access (OA) policies. Many of those working with OA policies are tasked with measuring policy compliance. This article reports on a ... -
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 ...