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2012 May Hill Arbuthot Honor Lecture
(2012-04-04) -
Adding “Free E-Books”: Providing User Access to Public Domain Hathi Trust Resources in the KentLINK and OhioLINK Catalogs
(2012-05-11)At the request of the OhioLINK Database Management and Standards (DMS) committee, Kent State University Libraries began investigating the possibility and feasibility of loading bibliographic records for public domain digital ... -
American Civil War: Why Does It Matter?
(2011-10-22) -
Approaching the Ineffable
(2012-05-25) -
Automated Metadata Generation and the Critical Role of Catalogers and Indexers in Technical Services of the Future
(2012-05-11)Academic and research libraries have an important role in collecting, organizing, and facilitating access to the world’s scholarly information. Technical services librarians build the foundation upon which scholarly ... -
Cataloging Remote Access Multimedia: An Open Access Virtual Guide
(2012-05-18)The following lightning talk session introduces a freely accessible, peer-reviewed guide that effectively explains how to catalog remote access multimedia, including podcasts, streaming video, streaming audio, e-books, and ... -
Culture, Social Life, and Customs of Civil War America
(2011-10-22) -
Dalai Lama Visit: Morning Program
(2010-10-21) -
Dalai Lama Visit: Public Lecture
(2010-10-21) -
Demystifying Measurement, Valuing Narrative
(2012-05-25)Charlie Blaich, Director, Center of Inquiry, Wabash College, and the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium. Respondent: John Jeep, German, Russian, and East Asian Languages Department, Miami University -
DIY E-Resources: Break Out and Build Your Own
(2012-05-11)The options for libraries to create databases and access points far beyond the traditional ILS have expanded exponentially in the last few years. Library technical services departments can use their expertise to create ... -
From Civil War to Civil Rights: The Politics of New Freedom
(2011-10-22) -
How OPEN SCHOLARSHIP is CHANGING RESEARCH
(2012-10-25)A talk about how new digital capabilities -including electronic publishing, social media, institutional repositories, and copyright legislation- are profoundly impacting traditional scholarly communication. -
"I'm Prepared for IP Rights Governance": Creative Commons Licensing, Media Assets Management, and the Role of Technical Services as IP Rights Administrator
(2012-05-11)Intellectual Property Rights Governance (IPRG) is fast becoming an important part of both education and enterprise-based activities (i.e. multimedia-based student portfolios, library learning commons, media assets ... -
Incorporating Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Projects in Technical Services: an Examination of Possibilities and Potential Pitfalls
(2012-05-11)This presentation will showcase work being done at an academic library to encode a collection of manuscripts on Cleveland and the Western Reserve in XML format following TEI guidelines, and address the objectives of and ... -
Is There Value in Value Added Cataloging?
(2012-05-11)As with most libraries, the Grasselli Library holdings include many items with zero or very few circulations. In particular, we were facing decisions about whether to withdraw numerous items contained in monographic series. ... -
Keynote Address: Assessment, Transformative Learning and the Humanities
(2012-05-25)Carol Geary Schneider, President, Association of American Colleges and Universities. Respondent: Allan Winkler, Chair, Miami University Humanities Center; Distinguished Professor of History -
Local History and Local Resources Presentations
(2011-10-22) -
NSSE, FSSE and Assessment in the Humanities
(2012-05-25)Bob Gonyea, Associate Director, Research and Data Analysis, National Survey of Student Engagement, Indiana University Tom Laird, Project Manager, Faculty Survey of Student Engagement, Indiana University. Respondent: Carolyn ...