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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....
Meeting minutes and Powerpoint presentation from the November 2018 and April 2019 meeting for the FSU Libraries Advancement Board meeting. Includes Committee updates and presentation on FSU Special Collections & Archives.
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
When Florida State University started the migration from its old digital collections software into the Islandora platform, it became clear the actual migration wasn’t going to be the biggest problem; more than a decade’s worth of poor...
This article is based on quantitative and qualitative research examining humanities scholars' understandings of the advantages and disadvantages of print versus electronic information resources. It explores how humanities' faculty...
Acquisitions functions remain operationally crucial in providing access to paid information resources, but data formats and workflows utilized within library acquisitions remain primarily within the traditional integrated library system ...
Florida State University (FSU) Libraries Digital Library Center (DLC) in collaboration and partnership with FSU Biological Scientist, Dr. A.K.S.K. Prasad, has successfully preserved a small sample of his diatoms research in both Florida...
The University Library and its Role in Digital Scholarship: Florida State University Faculty Luncheon Series Fall 2012: The Future of Scholarly Publishing
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Associate Dean of Special Collections and Archives, Katie McCormick, gives a lecture on digital archives and digital archival materials held in various archives as a starting point to discuss the new digital archives program at FSU...
The authors lay out practical ways for libraries to involve themselves in this evolving area, especially focused on current strengths of many libraries including commitments to resource accessibility and project development. Finally, ...
Presented as part of Progress (and Pitfalls) of Linked Data Projects panel, ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2018, Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting: https://archives2018.sched.com/event/ESm5/303-progress-and-pitfalls-of-linked-data-projects...
In this study, researchers sought to capture students’ authentic experience of finding books in the main library using a GoPro camera and the think-aloud protocol. The GoPro provided a first-person perspective and was an effective...
As efforts to advance open access (OA) and develop scholarly communication programs become increasingly pervasive in academic libraries, there is a pressing need for scholarship on the diverse ways that librarians are responding to this...
Local records are the foundation on which social history is constructed. However, in an era when most historians categorize themselves as social historians, it is amazing to note how much these primary resources appear to be...
There is a significant and important responsibility as libraries move into the role of publishing to retain our heritage of "access for all." Connecting and collaborating with colleagues in the publishing industry is essential, but...
The presentation highlights the early development of FSU Heritage Protocol using DigiTool digital assets management system for the digital collection development and resource discovery of select historic FSU materials digitized for...
Preservice teachers enrolled in the first portion of an undergraduate education program at the Florida State University were assigned to develop case studies based on their experience working in local elementary schools. The case studies...
Meeting minutes and Powerpoint presentation from the November 2019 and March 2020 meetings for the FSU Libraries Advancement Board meeting. Includes Committee updates and presentation on FSU Special Collections & Archives mid pandemic...
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...
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.
Libraries' focus on mobile devices as information portals (e.g., text reference and mobile Web sites) and productivity tools (e.g., calendars and documents) has caused them to overlook a more subtle opportunity. Smartphones and tablets...
Research shows that academic libraries can be difficult to navigate, and that students are often frustrated with not being able to find the right materials. This current study attempts to identify access barriers in FSU's Strozier...
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...
Presentation of a proposed faculty Open Access (OA) policy to the Florida State University Faculty Senate on 17 February 2016. Following the presentation and questions, the Senate voted unanimously in favor of adopting the policy.
Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) make data liquid and enable research components to get connected and flow. This flow of information makes it easy to find, cite, and reuse. PIDs promote FAIR practices. Federal funding agencies have now...
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...
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.
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 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...
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