With more and more cartographic data being created and released only as GIS datasets, map catalogers will eventually find themselves moving away from Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC) as their primary bibliographic description schema and moving towards the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). This move will be necessitated in large part...
This bibliography focuses on works that will provide the reader with supplemental resources on the history of ethnic minorities in Oregon. An effort has been made to highlight materials that are particularly appropriate for use in teaching students of various ages. The featured resources address all historical time periods, but...
Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) is the professional standard for the content of archival description by U.S. archivists. Published in 2004 and approved by the SAA Council in March 2005, it is the first U.S. standard for the content of archival finding aids. This brief case study of implementation...
Librarians at Oregon State University Libraries perceive that there is a disconnection between the organization of libraries’ information resources and the way our users search for information. Librarians are curious to learn how users of OSU Libraries web pages find information on specific subjects. For example, should the OSU Libraries...
Describes efforts at Oregon State University to combat serials inflation through involvement of faculty in a Scholarly Communication Task Force. Includes brief discussion of context of scholarly communication crisis and information about the formation and work of task force to educate and change faculty behavior depending on their role in...
The first in a series of articles published in OSU This Week by members of the Faculty Senate Library Committee regarding threats to an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication and potential solutions.
The second in a series of articles published in OSU This Week by members of the Faculty Senate Library Committee regarding threats to an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication and potential solutions. Article discusses how journal prices have increased beyond the rate of inflation, monopolistic publishing practices, library...
The fifth and final article in a series of articles published in OSU This Week by members of the Faculty Senate Library Committee regarding threats to an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication and potential solutions. Article discusses how deposit of articles in institutional repositories increases the availability of...
In schools at every level, teachers and administrators are under pressure to demonstrate how effective they are by showing exactly what it is their students are learning. These pressures have fueled campus-wide assessment efforts at schools across North America. Librarians at Oregon State University saw this as an opportunity to...
The second in a series of articles published in OSU This Week by members of the Faculty Senate Library Committee regarding threats to an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication and potential solutions. Article describes what journal impact factors are and how they are determined and makes recommendations for...
Twenty-six Holstein and 18 Jersey multiparous cows in a randomized block design were assigned by calving date and breed to a non-anionic prepartum diet (CTRL) or a treatment diet containing a commercial anionic salt supplement (Animate®). Control and treatment diets were formulated to a dietary anion-cation difference (DCAD) of 21.3...
The third in a series of articles published in OSU This Week by members of the Faculty Senate Library Committee regarding threats to an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication and potential solutions. Article describes open access model of scholarly communication.
The summary data reports academic standing of undergraduate students at the end of each term, Fall 2001 (200201) through Winter 2006 (200602) showing academic reinstatements as of the beginning of the term, arranged by class.
During the 2005 Spring Term, OSU participated in the 2005 Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE). The project was administered by the Division of Student Affairs with the support of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and International Programs.
The Faculty Survey of Student Engagement was designed to obtain information...
The summary data reports academic standing of undergraduate students at the end of each term, Fall 2002 (200301) through Winter 2006 (200602) showing academic reinstatements as of the beginning of the term, arranged by college.
Contents: National Sruvey of Student Engagement, Weatherford Hall: The Living and Learning Environment; International Assessment and Retention Conference; Faculty Survey of Student Engagement--OSU Results
The summary data reports the distribution of undergraduate students in academic standing categories, Fall 2002 (200301) through Winter 2006 (200602) showing academic reinstatements as of the beginning of the term.
Media application on the internet has become more and more popular as the bandwidth of the network links increase. The bottleneck of the existing media systems is no longer the link bandwidth at user’s end, but the server’s ability to handle streaming requests. These existing streaming systems do not scale...
1-km MODIS observations of ship tracks off the west coast of the U.S. are used to characterize changes in cloud visible optical depths, cloud droplet radii, cloud cover fraction, and column cloud liquid water amount as low-level marine clouds respond to particle pollution from underlying ships. This study re-examines the...
Working collaboratively with faculty, librarians can develop scalable models of information literacy instruction that are integrated with classroom work and spark student learning. In this session, librarians from Oregon State University discuss the challenges and benefits of collaborating with faculty to develop and implement such models in large, multi-section courses.
A digital phase locked loop (DPLL) and a statistical time-to-digital converter (STDC) were previously fabricated in a 0.35µm, 3.3V SOI CMOS process. This work summarizes these designs and characterizes the measured performance. Simulations supplement the measurements where applicable.
The DPLL was found to reach a locked state under a limited...
The social impact of the Red Hat Society is twofold: first, the “disorganization” is grounded solely in the belief that women over 50 have too long been ignored by society…hence the outrageous hats, boas and colors that accompany a Red Hat outing (Cooper, 2004). The sheer number of “Red Hatters”...
The roles of today’s grandparents have drastically changed from fifty years ago. Grandparents are now expected to give up their retirement and that “grandparent relationship” to fill in the position of “parent” when the child’s parents can no longer do so. This can be a hardship for both the grandparents...
This study compares arthropod biodiversity in areas infested with invasive cheatgrass Bromus tectorum with areas not infested. The goal of this project was to establish a baseline of the types of arthropods found in both habitats, discover if there is more diversity in either habitat and to find any patterns...
The sustainable landscape model we are creating is an attempt to visually make community members aware of the water issue in our region. This xeric landscape will be aesthetically pleasing as well as functional, to represent the suitability for residential function. Water consumption is an issue in the West, typically...
Human land use practices have degraded hundreds of thousands of miles of water corridors in the U.S. Fortunately, there has been an increase in effort to restore many of these aquatic habitats. Currently, the Deschutes Basis Land Trust (DBLT) is proposing to reconnect a portion of Whychus creek that flows...
It is time to open up the dialogue about old age with a healthy and positive outlook. The current state of Oregon is faced with high elder suicide rates and depression is common with elders. I propose a complex including the following: • A focus on the mind and body...
There are two objectives of this experiment. The first is to test the effectiveness of various soil treatments on cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) canopy cover. The second is to compare the two treatment types side by side to evaluate their relative effectiveness in treating cheatgrass. The treatments we selected are easily...
Thinning of overstory timber will change forest function and productivity of understory vegetation. Increased solar exposure promotes understory growth, and disturbance caused by thinning will create an opportunity for species establishment. We set up a study to collect baseline data on the understory community at the Metolius Preserve. Our data...
Restoration ecology seeks to incorporate entire ecosystem functioning; primarily attempting to repair what has been degraded or altered. In order to reinstate ecological processes, biotic and abiotic components must be included, such as flora, fauna, hydrology, and of course, soil. Soil provides many functions in which all aspects of life...
The purpose of this study was to see if fifth grade students agreed with the research that says that children can easily and rapidly identify social isolation within their peer groups (Dodge, Coie, Pettit, Price, & Joseph, 1990 ).
Road decommissioning will be a valuable science in the future of ecological restoration because of the excess number of roads in this country. May things like habitat fragmentation, erosion, spread of invasive species, and access to fragile environments can be linked to roads. For this study I selected a road...
Small mammal populations are vital to the Metolius Forest Preserve. The forest preserve is undergoing selective thinning, which may affect small mammal populations in the forest. Our null hypothesis is that small mammal populations are not affected by the treatment of the forest. In addition to the null hypothesis, we...
Self-regulated learners are students who take an active role in their education and have the desire to become more competent and more capable as learners (Zimmerman, 1990). Teaching student skills to be more self-regulated has been shown to help students improve their thinking and organizational skills (Pape, Bell, & Yetkin,...
Restoration projects that involve revegetation efforts are often confronted with problems of desiccation. Several studies have shown that mulching, or laying organic material over the surface of the soil, can be very effective in helping to retain soil moisture and avoid desiccation. To determine the effects of moisture retention in...
Three 20 minute presentations given on the morning of Feb. 15, 2006 at the code4lib Conference at Oregon State University in the LaSells Stewart Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
Three 20 minute presentations given on the afternoon of Feb. 15, 2006 at the code4lib Conference at Oregon State University in the LaSells Stewart Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
The lightning talks were fast paced 5 minute talks on topics of the speaker's choosing.
Titles of the 5 minute talks:
1. Total Eclipse Of My Brain (Ed Summers)
2. [Link PURLs|http://purl.org/net/linkpurl] and Firefox (Devon Smith)
3. Call to Action: Deprecate OAI Sets! (Rob Sanderson)
4. Cross-Site Scripting Attacks (Eric...
Keynote presentation given during the second day of the code4lib Conference held Feb. 15-17, 2006 at LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.