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As public access policies from US federal agencies continue to come online, universities are considering how best to ensure compliance with these emerging new requirements. On some campuses, libraries are playing a central role in these...
In today's economic environment, there are pressures to fundraise throughout all of the academic units at colleges and universities, including libraries. Unfortunately, however, there is no natural constituency for the academic library....
Presented at ALA Annual 2017. Panel abstract: In this program speakers will discuss how they are using APIs to improve and automate cataloging, acquisition, metadata enhancement, and holdings maintenance workflows in technical services....
Online finding aids enhance reference service in libraries and complement printed guides. Reference service at our institution has changed through using an online finding aid along with a printed reference source. Librarians and...
In response to changing roles of subject librarians, Florida State University Libraries identified three basic, overarching values of the subject librarian program, and flowing out from those values, five core competencies. The values...
Going green, or becoming more environmentally conscious, has become a mounting international concern in recent decades. The increasing global consumption of finite resources has led to large-scale societal campaigns to heighten...
Initiated in early 2020, Florida State University Libraries (FSU Libraries) joined 19 peer institutions across the United States in Ithaka S+R’s “Teaching with Data in the Social Sciences” research study. An interdisciplinary team of...
Inspiration can be found in a variety of ways such as technology, conferences, and other academic settings. However, sometimes, something as unusual as budget cuts can inspire an innovative, new program. Like many other university...
Academic libraries produce a range of events. While large-scale events can be a lot of fun, the planning process can seem more daunting than the process for programming targeting smaller audiences. Planning and executing large-scale...
ETD 2006 U.S. Regional Conference: Revealing the Potential of ETDs co-presentation at the University of Missouri-St. Louis on October 27, 2006 with Michael Kaplan of Ex Libris discussing DigiTool digital assets management system.
This research focuses on First-Time-in-College (FTIC) student library usage during the first academic year as number of visits (frequency) and length of stay (duration) and how that might affect first-term grade point average (GPA) and...
The paper is an extension of a previous study, which examined student perceptions of a unique freshman seminar offered to Criminology and Criminal Justice students at Florida State University. The seminar is characterized by a heavy...
This journal article discusses the community digitization partnerships undertaken by FSU Libraries and the impact they have had on the local and global community.
This poster session will use text, diagrams, and images to display the development of the application of The DCC Curation Lifecycle Model practices to preservation of Diatomscapes. Diatomscapes represents a collection of images of...
The application of divergent local practices in a shared bibliographic database can result in unexpected display issues that adversely affect user experience. This is especially problematic when merging databases from multiple...
This report summarizes the work of the Scholarly Communications Task Force. The Task Force was charged to:Conduct an environmental scan of FSUs faculty involvement in scholarly publishing; Increase awareness of scholarly communication...
This chapter will examine the ethical role of librarians and academics in using, teaching, and promoting digital tools and emerging technologies in light of our professional values and offer guidance in moving forward without foregoing...
This poster discusses the planning and implementation of research data management services at Florida State University Libraries. We are taking a novel approach to providing research data management services by implementing a team-based...
In an effort to reconceptualize its liaison program, the FSU Libraries initiated a three-phase, grassroots effort to develop a set of core values and competencies, conduct a self-assessment based upon those competencies, and create a...
This study aims to investigate academic librarians' organizational socialization. Successful socialization can increase librarians' commitments to and retention in the libraries, which may enhance the quality of information services to...
FSU Libraries recently completed a migration from Digital Commons (a hosted proprietary IR platform) to Islandora (an open source digital collections platform based on Drupal and Fedora Commons). In implementing a mission-critical open...
This is a poster on the Stephen Graham papers, a collection housed in FSU Libraries Special Collections and Archives Division. Stephen Graham (1884-1975), an author who travelled on foot in many parts of the world, wrote more than fifty...
Access and Use Issues in Creating Collection and Management Policies: The Library/Archives Point of View" discusses the importance of documentation in collection development and management policies for access to research materials in...
P 3 D - Publishing, Publicizing, & Preserving Diatomscapes Faculty institutional repositories (IR) participation contribution is successful when "What's in it for me?" is effectively conveyed to faculty while emphasizing minimal faculty...
An institutional repository (IR) can be defined as "a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members...
Everyday students are sent to a Special Collections because they need to find "old" materials or this is where "all" the primary sources are housed. When discussing their research needs, you discover they don't have any real clue what a...
Demonstrates partnerships between faculty, digital librarian, cataloger, and external digital preservation partners involved in open access (OA) institutional repository (IR) digital collection development and digital preservation of...
International Open Access Week is an annual occasion for the international research and academic communities to learn about the benefits and opportunities of open access, the goal of which is to "...inspire wider participation in helping...
When moving from a proprietary and hosted IR solution to a local and open one, an intense migration schedule necessitated some time saving measures and ETD and faculty publications were moved with only submitter-assigned keywords. After...
FSU Libraries Special Collections and Digital Library Center collaborated on development this presentation highlighting FSU Lives Class of 1955 digitization project along with digital preservation of faculty research as part of a guest...
Developing Archival Information Package (AIP) for Florida Digital Archive (FDA) using Metadata Encoding Transmission Standard (METS): Digital curation data management for undergraduate honors theses (UHT) at Florida State University
The Florida State University (FSU) Libraries partnered with the Honors in the Major department in 2004 to begin providing onlineaccess to FSU undergraduate honors theses (UHT) . Over the years, data management processes, platform...
In November 2012, the educational provisions of the Copyright Modernization Act were proclaimed in force, thereby introducing a number of significant changes to the Canadian Copyright Act. These changes include the expansion of fair...
The paper aims to introduce the framework outlined in The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) Curation Lifecycle Model for the development of a systematic approach for preservation of images of biological silica collected from the southern...
This is a report of an action-research project undertaken in tandem with the development of a new freshman seminar in criminology and criminal justice. In the freshman seminar the goal is to teach the research, critical thinking and...
El artículo la política feminista mexicana durante el periodo de 1922-1923. Feministas como Margaret Sanger y Esperanza Velázquez Bringas expusieron que el país necesitaba una política acerca del control de la natalidad. Ellas...
FSU's Institutional Repository, DigiNole, recently re-launched on an extensible Open Source software platform. One of DigiNole's anticipated growth areas is in handling research data, but what does that really mean? Is there a shared...
Two years ago use of the terms "scholarly communications" and "open access" on the Florida State University (FSU) campus was limited primarily to library administrators and a few library and teaching faculty. But in a relatively short...
Quality control of bibliographic data is essential in assuring ETDs are both discoverable and accurately described. This poster session outlines semi-automated methods for achieving accurate transcription of bibliographic data in theses...
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