On academic campuses, graduate students produce data and that data is often being lost. This paper describes the efforts at Oregon State University to educate graduate students on the value of their data and of preserving it. Graduate students were interviewed and from this information a successful data management workshop...
Much of the focus of digital collections has been and continues to be on rare and unique materials,
including monographs. A monograph may be made even rarer and more valuable by virtue of hand
written marginalia. Using technology to enhance scans of unique books and make previously
unreadable marginalia readable...
Purpose – This paper aims to describe a project conducted by the University of Oklahoma Libraries
to create a digital collection consisting of three-dimensional scientific objects.
Design/methodology/approach – The University of Oklahoma Libraries developed the following
methodology for creating a digital collection of three-dimensional objects. Digital still photographs of
six...
Purpose: The paper discovers how many American Research Libraries produce podcasts, on what subjects they are produced and how those podcasts are promoted.
Design/methodology/approach: The researchers looked at each American Research Library’s website in December 2009 to determine if the library has a podcasting initiative and if so, what topics...