Using off-the-shelf search technology provides a single point of access into library resources,
but we found that such commercial systems are not entirely satisfactory for the academic library
setting. In response to this, Oregon State University (OSU) Libraries designed and deployed
LibraryFind, a metasearch system. We conducted a usability experiment...
This dissertation draws on ethnographic data and political ecological theory to analyze the experience of residents living in the IBM-Endicott Superfund site in Endicott, New York. Combining in-depth narratives and quantitative measures from a household survey, it highlights residents' perceptions of 1) environmental health risk, 2) risk mitigation, 3) deindustrialization...
Research & Innovative Services Report 4 (2009). Report on project conducted in AY 2008/09 to identify strategies and resources which have proved successful at other libraries where programs for campus-wide dataset curation are in place; articulate common "problems" that have been encountered by the implementers of these programs; and make...