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Kott, Tama I. "An index of excerpts and an overview of published Orchestral Bassoon excerpt collections with a comparison of three collections /." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488196781733201.
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Anderson, Susan. "Resource Sharing: A Study of Florida's Shared-Used Library Collections." NSUWorks, 1988. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/388.
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Designed to provide library service for two or more different groups of library users in one library facility, shared-use or joint-use libraries are a unique aspect of library resources sharing. Thirteen examples of shared-use library collections in shared or joint-use library facilities in Florida were examined in this investigation. Special focus was placed on the perceptions of librarians who work in these libraries in order to determine how well the libraries meet the information needs on users and how successful the libraries are in conserving financial resources as a result of combined collections. A design of a special resource collections for one of the institutions participating in a shared-use library was formulated to demonstrate the planning process for collections sharing. Guidelines and contractual agreements relative to collection development that exist between the various shared-use libraries in Florida were evaluated and used to develop a model for agreements and a mission statement for shared-use libraries. Four types of shared-use library facilities in Florida were included in the study: community college/school libraries, community college/public libraries, community college/university libraries and school/public libraries.
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Clamon, Travis. "Marketing Book Collections: Creating Digital Displays Using Alma Analytics." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4869.
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Libraries purchase and subscribe to many new book titles each year. Instead of waiting for patrons to find these new titles in Primo, East Tennessee State University decided to develop automated book sliders using data from Alma Analytics. These sliders are now deployed in our subject guides, website, and on our digital displays. This presentation will give participants a high-level overview of our workflow and the tools we used. I'll first go over Alma Analytics, defining collection scopes and required fields. Next, I'll cover our process of retrieving the data via API and formatting the data into a JSON array. The last section will cover the implementation of slider widgets and use of book covers.
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Norton, Daniel. "Mixing the library : information interaction and the DJ." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2013. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/0d76d345-7bfc-4487-9d72-ab102a35784a.
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Digital collections have been amassed by institutions and individuals for over two decades. Large collections are becoming increasingly available as resources for research, learning, creativity, and pleasure. However, the value of these collections can remain elusive. Systems and methods are needed to unlock the potential held within collections, to access the knowledge and to make new discoveries with the available information. The aim of this research is to identify and describe a system for interacting with large volumes of digital material that supports both learning and creative development. This is done by investigating the Disc Jockey (DJ) who works with electronic media files. DJs have worked with large digital collections since the birth of file sharing in the 1990s. Their activities necessitate a library system that supports retrieval, creative play, and public presentation of material. The investigation will develop a model of information interaction from their activities. To examine the practice, the research employs an autoethnographic diary study, video interviews, and a practice-led method that combines Grounded Theory with digital interface development. Findings indicate a model of interaction which facilitates learning through the development of a personal collection, and allows creative innovation through key information behaviours of selecting and mixing. The research distinguishes fundamental interface requirements that support the process, and demonstrates transferability of the model to other data representations.
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Wall, Terry K. "Studies on frequency distributions of recorded use for students using academic library collections." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1987. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/10938.
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Frequency distributions of recorded use for students using academic libraries were analysed using statistical models not previously employed for the purpose. The suitability of the data for such analysis is discussed. Evidence suggested that frequency distributions of recorded library use reflected real differences in amounts of library use by users. A computer simulation of library use by students was used to investigate the effects of competition among users upon distributions of use. Negative binomial probability distributions were found to reproduce some of the observed patterns of user activity, but were rejected on grounds of fit and applicability. Other two and three-parameter probability distributions were considered. A novel modification of the negative binomial distribution (being a Neyman Type A-gamma distribution instead of a Poisson-gamma distribution) gave good fit to frequency distributions of recorded use from various libraries. The fitted parameters appeared to be related to statistics of use for the observed populations, but the diversity observed in reality among users was clearly simplified in a stochastic model with only three parameters. In the second part of the study, methods of using the model were explored. Given stability in two of the three parameters, the model could be scaled with time to predict future frequency distributions. The extrapolation of numbers of non-users from one set of data is described. The effect upon the uptake of titles from a library collection of distributions of activity among students was also considered. By simplifying the model, relationships between the mean use by a group of users and maximum amounts of use by individuals, and between numbers of uses and numbers of titles used are suggested. A key factor in relating user activity to uptake is the extent to which users diversify in their use of titles.
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Sekikome, Patrick. "Developing a strategy and action plan for sustainably digitising specific special collections : a case of Buganda Kingdom collection at the Makerere University Library, Uganda." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/58605.
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The focus of this study was to develop a strategy for sustainable digitisation of the Buganda kingdom special collections at Makerere University Library, Uganda. A number of questions were formulated to guide the researcher in finding answers to the research question.
A literature review based on the research sub-questions was carried out. The review covered the approaches used when planning digitisation projects. These included the selection criteria, processes and technology requirements for digitising archival materials, resource requirements for sustainable digitisation initiatives, skills and competencies, possible framework for digitising archival materials, an overview of the Buganda Kingdom collection as well as the current digitisation equipment available at the Makerere University Library.
The study took a qualitative approach with a case study design. This was due to the need to collect in-depth and detailed views and experiences regarding digitisation projects. A purposive sampling technique was used to identify three institutions, located within the Kampala area, which are actively involved in digitisation of collections. Data were collected, using semi structured interviews, from three participants; one from each institution. The participants were selected because of their knowledge about digitisation and semi-structured interviews were preferred due to their flexibility.
An interview schedule was used as the data collection instrument. Data was transcribed into Microsoft Word and later entered into Microsoft excel for easy analysis.
For ethical considerations, the researcher obtained clearance from the University of Pretoria and sought the consent of the participants before data were collected.
Findings that answered the research question and sub-questions were presented and interpreted in chapter four and conclusions as were well recommendations discussed in detail in chapter five of this research reportMini Dissertation (MIT)--University of Pretoria, 2016.
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Morris, Alan. "Digital technologies and photographic archives Birmingham Central Library : a case study." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/126505.
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This thesis considers the use and potential of digital technologies for those responsible for photographic collections in public libraries. Using the Birmingham Central Library as a case study, the research has explored how information comn1unication technologies have impacted on the way in which photographic in1ages are created, stored and disseminated. The study provides an overview of both the British library service and the role of archives within this public provision. Following an examination of the characteristics of digital media and a range of issues relating to the preservation, dissemination and economic exploitation of photographic il1aterials in digital form, the thesis goes on to adopt a variety of research strategies, including a number of empirical projects used to assimilate information relating to the practical application of information communication technologies by those working in public libraries. The major outcome of the research, identified in the later sections of the thesis, has been to n1ake a unique contribution to the field of knowledge relating to the provision of digital resources by those responsible for photographic collections residing in archives within public libraries in the United Kingdom. The conclusions to emerge from the theoretical and empirical research contribute to knowledge by providing current information about the utilisation of digital technologies for the purposes of enhancing access to photographic material held within public library archives, whilst also considering possible future developments relating to the area of investigation.
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Akbar, Monika. "Integrating Community with Collections in Educational Digital Libraries." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/25139.
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Some classes of Internet users have specific information needs and specialized information-seeking behaviors. For example, educators who are designing a course might create a syllabus, recommend books, create lecture slides, and use tools as lecture aid. All of these resources are available online, but are scattered across a large number of websites. Collecting, linking, and presenting the disparate items related to a given course topic within a digital library will help educators in finding quality educational material.
Content quality is important for users. The results of popular search engines typically fail to reflect community input regarding quality of the content. To disseminate information related to the quality of available resources, users need a common place to meet and share their experiences. Online communities can support knowledge-sharing practices (e.g., reviews, ratings).
We focus on finding the information needs of educators and helping users to identify potentially useful resources within an educational digital library. This research builds upon the existing 5S digital library (DL) framework. We extend core DL services (e.g., index, search, browse) to include information from latent user groups. We propose a formal definition for the next generation of educational digital libraries. We extend one aspect of this definition to study methods that incorporate collective knowledge within the DL framework. We introduce the concept of deduced social network (DSN) - a network that uses navigation history to deduce connections that are prevalent in an educational digital library. Knowledge gained from the DSN can be used to tailor DL services so as to guide users through the vast information space of educational digital libraries. As our testing ground, we use the AlgoViz and Ensemble portals, both of which have large collections of educational resources and seek to support online communities. We developed two applications, ranking of search results and recommendation, that use the information derived from DSNs. The revised ranking system incorporates social trends into the system, whereas the recommendation system assigns users to a specific group for content recommendation. Both applications show enhanced performance when DSN-derived information is incorporated.Ph. D.
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Schofield, Alice. "Evaluating the intellectual assets of the Scholarship and Collections Directorate at the British Library." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/20801/.
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This thesis aims to provide an evaluation of intellectual assets for the Scholarship and Collections Directorate (now Collections) at the British Library. Intellectual assets are assets which belong to and benefit an organization but do not have any tangible net worth, thus making it difficult to provide evidence of their value. An organization such as the British Library which is entirely dependent on the expertise of its staff, the way its collections are used and the relationships it forges with external stakeholders relies heavily on its intellectual assets and therefore a method for identifying and evaluating them in relation to the Library’s strategic aims is vitally important. This project is especially timely due to the financial constraints placed on the Library by the recent financial crisis and the changes to the Directorate’s infrastructure which have taken place since 2010. The data for this project was gathered on site at the British Library, using largely qualitative methods. Several in-depth interviews were conducted with Scholarship and Collections staff and stakeholders, and this was supported by a questionnaire distributed to all employees of the Directorate which was designed to collect further qualitative data as well as some quantitative data to support the findings. A phenomenographical approach was used during the data analysis process. This entailed focusing on the ways that individuals experience and interact with a particular phenomenon, in this case how Scholarship and Collections staff and stakeholders interact with intellectual assets. Several suggestions were made based on the collected data for how the Directorate could improve its utilisation of intellectual assets, which were largely concerned with encouraging a matrix culture within the Library and greater promotion of staff expertise and the services they could offer. An evaluation tool was developed which would enable users to use KPIs to generate qualitative data for evaluating intellectual assets. As a case study, this research is naturally limited to a particular location and period in time. Limited resources also prevented certain ethnographic groups, such as British Library users, from being included. However, the model which has been developed can be adapted for application to other organisations wishing to perform an intellectual asset evaluation. This project has formulated an intellectual asset evaluation tool which relies on qualitative methods, something which has not been fully accomplished before. It also provides a basis for the evaluation of IAs in libraries, an area of study which had not garnered much attention previously. The evaluation tool was designed so that it might be adapted for the use of other similar organisations.
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Kahn, Michelle. "The growth of e-book collections at South African academic libraries : a case study of the Western Cape." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11153.
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Includes bibliographical references.Libraries are still unsure of the value e-books can add to their collections and subsequently to their users’ research. E-book integration into library collections is made difficult by complicated purchasing and lending models and ever-changing technological requirements. Additionally, it is unclear what exactly library users want from their e-books. In this study, research into the obstacles facing the growth of academic library e-book collections was carried out by reviewing the literature on the topic, found in print and electronic reference works, monographs and journals, and on blogs and websites. Secondly, an investigation was conducted into patrons’ attitudes to e-books, their current use of e-books, and their expectations of e-books in their libraries, to examine the current and potential use of e-books at South African university libraries. The investigation employed both qualitative and quantitative research methods to discover library users’ attitudes towards e-books. Surveys were run on the campuses of the four universities in the Western Cape of South Africa. A sample of potential participants, totalling 1,539 staff members and 45,849 students, was invited to participate in the survey via email or a website link. Data was collected by means of a self-administered, online questionnaire distributed using SurveyMonkey software.
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McHugh, Andrew. "An ontology for risk management of digital collections." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7757/.
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Maintaining accessibility to and understanding of digital information over time is a complex challenge that often requires contributions and interventions from a variety of individuals and organizations. The processes of preservation planning and evaluation are fundamentally implicit and share similar complexity. Both demand comprehensive knowledge and understanding of every aspect of to-be-preserved content and the contexts within which preservation is undertaken. Consequently, means are required for the identification, documentation and association of those properties of data, representation and management mechanisms that in combination lend value, facilitate interaction and influence the preservation process. These properties may be almost limitless in terms of diversity, but are integral to the establishment of classes of risk exposure, and the planning and deployment of appropriate preservation strategies. We explore several research objectives within the course of this thesis. Our main objective is the conception of an ontology for risk management of digital collections. Incorporated within this are our aims to survey the contexts within which preservation has been undertaken successfully, the development of an appropriate methodology for risk management, the evaluation of existing preservation evaluation approaches and metrics, the structuring of best practice knowledge and lastly the demonstration of a range of tools that utilise our findings. We describe a mixed methodology that uses interview and survey, extensive content analysis, practical case study and iterative software and ontology development. We build on a robust foundation, the development of the Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment. We summarise the extent of the challenge facing the digital preservation community (and by extension users and creators of digital materials from many disciplines and operational contexts) and present the case for a comprehensive and extensible knowledge base of best practice. These challenges are manifested in the scale of data growth, the increasing complexity and the increasing onus on communities with no formal training to offer assurances of data management and sustainability. These collectively imply a challenge that demands an intuitive and adaptable means of evaluating digital preservation efforts. The need for individuals and organisations to validate the legitimacy of their own efforts is particularly prioritised. We introduce our approach, based on risk management. Risk is an expression of the likelihood of a negative outcome, and an expression of the impact of such an occurrence. We describe how risk management may be considered synonymous with preservation activity, a persistent effort to negate the dangers posed to information availability, usability and sustainability. Risk can be characterised according to associated goals, activities, responsibilities and policies in terms of both their manifestation and mitigation. They have the capacity to be deconstructed into their atomic units and responsibility for their resolution delegated appropriately. We continue to describe how the manifestation of risks typically spans an entire organisational environment, and as the focus of our analysis risk safeguards against omissions that may occur when pursuing functional, departmental or role-based assessment. We discuss the importance of relating risk-factors, through the risks themselves or associated system elements. To do so will yield the preservation best-practice knowledge base that is conspicuously lacking within the international digital preservation community. We present as research outcomes an encapsulation of preservation practice (and explicitly defined best practice) as a series of case studies, in turn distilled into atomic, related information elements. We conduct our analyses in the formal evaluation of memory institutions in the UK, US and continental Europe. Furthermore we showcase a series of applications that use the fruits of this research as their intellectual foundation. Finally we document our results in a range of technical reports and conference and journal articles. We present evidence of preservation approaches and infrastructures from a series of case studies conducted in a range of international preservation environments. We then aggregate this into a linked data structure entitled PORRO, an ontology relating preservation repository, object and risk characteristics, intended to support preservation decision making and evaluation. The methodology leading to this ontology is outlined, and lessons are exposed by revisiting legacy studies and exposing the resource and associated applications to evaluation by the digital preservation community.
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St, Germain Gary. "MusLib: A proposed database for the management of a music library." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/566.
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Lyons, Reneé C. "Huzzah Indeed! Print and Digital Collections Conducive to Civics Education Collaboration." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2387.
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Lyons, Reneé C., and Deborah Parrott. "Huzzah Indeed! Print and Digital Collections Conducive to Civics Education Collaboration." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2388.
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In the current environment of standardized testing, school library programs can support the preservation and improvement of the U.S. constitutional democracy. Participants are introduced or re-familiarized with neglected civics education standards, assess collections with regard to implementation of these standards and learn of print and digital resources conducive to civics education instruction and collaboration.
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Smith, Randy N. "Human selection and digitized archival collections| An exploratory research project about choice of archival materials digitized for online public availability." Thesis, The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10075454.
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Our collective memory, the history that is cultivated through reflection, documentation, and consensus of historical data, is predicated upon the citizenry having access to the historical materials that society has created. Digitization has enabled greater public access to those materials. However, are items being scanned or digitally photographed to create surrogates that are then not made available to the world? The impetus for this study is to delve into whether or not intentional or unintentional personal choices play a role in determining which items archivists transform into digital surrogates; both in the decision of what to digitize and what to make available to the public on the World Wide Web. When one archival collection is prioritized over another or when it is not possible to digitize an entire collection, what rationale is used to determine which items will be digitized and published online? Do intentional or unintentional personal choices come into play in the decision-making? To answer these questions, four case studies were conducted, involving the random sampling of online collections and concomitant interviews of archivists. The purpose of this study is to enhance archivists’ understanding of the reasons that guide the digitization decision-making process. Through such understanding, archivists can be more proactive in the decision-making process to realize the benefit of digitizing and publishing archival materials that ultimately affect collective memory. The findings of this research revealed that in the case of the four institutions assessed, archivists do use personal choice to determine which materials within an archive are digitized.
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Masango, Charles Akwe. "User preferences in the use of Law Library collections : a case study of the Brand van Zyl Law Library of the University of Cape Town." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13397.
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Bibliography: leaves 129-134.Law libraries are specialised libraries consisting primarily of printed and electronic legal literature which assist their patrons in legal research and the teaching of law. The use of the law library by the entire university often causes concern on the part of the legal patrons and staff who use and manage the library and its collection. This dissertation investigates the nature and purpose of the law library of the University of Cape Town, with a view to establishing patterns of use and revealing the problems encountered by patrons and members of staff in the use of this library and its collections. In the investigation, two types of questionnaires were prepared and administered to the patrons and members of staff of this library in order to establish their library usage and preferences. The researcher undertook the quantitative approach since the qualitative approach in the form of interviews and observations had earlier been effectuated by the researcher during his internship in this library. In the investigation during which a total number (60) of students, academics (14) and four members of staff responded, it was revealed that the patrons encounter problems of space, noise and movements. The members of staff noted inter alia that in addition to the problems of space, noise and movements, there were also problems of mutilation of the library's materials (underlining passages and tearing pages) and of the deliberate mis-shelving of materials. In the light of these identified problems, this dissertation makes a number of recommendations designed to alleviate the problems experienced by the respondents.
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Rodriguez, M. "Knowledge Discovery in a Review of Monograph Acquisitions at an Academic Health Sciences Library." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/528.
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This study evaluates monograph acquisition decisions at an academic health sciences library using circulation and acquisitions data. The goal was to provide insight regarding how to allocate library funds to support research and education in disciplines of interest to the library user base. Data analysis revealed that allocations in 13 subject areas should be reviewed as the cost of circulation was greater than the average cost of circulation of the sample and the average cost of monographs was higher in these subject areas than the average cost of monographs in the sample. In contrast, 13 subjects returned cost of circulation rates lower than the average cost of circulation of the sample. These subjects merit stable budget allocation or increased allocation depending upon collection needs. Overall, this study found that this library is allocating a majority of resources to subjects with above average rates of use.
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Riddar, Johnson Matilda. "Kungliga bibliotekets fotografiska förvärv : En undersökning av Kungliga bibliotekets förvärv av fotografier under 1958‒2008." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of ALM, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-105610.
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My master’s thesis is a study of acquisition of photographies during 1958-2008. The questions I proceed from is what patterns lies behind the Royal library's acquisition of photography and how the process of acquisition looks like. The theoretical base which I lean on consists partly of a problematization of the process of cultural heritage and partly of organizational theory. The problematization of the process of cultural heritage is my foundation of this essay. My starting point is that the Royal library make a choice when they collect material to be a cultural heritage and the memories gathered for future generations. I used organizational theory to find answer to how the collection been gathered through studies of the organizations interaction with the members of the organization, the process in the organizations, like goals and policy, and the organizations interaction with other organizations. I used case-study as my method. I interviewed most of the chiefs who were in charge of the unit during the period 1958-2008 and worked through journals of acquisition, annual reports, letters of regulation, exchange of letters and other in-house material. My results are that the acquisition of photography follows the Royal library's acquisition of picture at large. The culture heritage that the library collect for future generations is based on the content rather than the form of the material. This aspect was founded early in the creation of the library and has kept its status as a guiding line ever since. The main categories of collection are based on the motif of the photography and are the following; portrait, topography and events. Events is a new category but a sequel of an old category, historical wall chart. The material that the photographies are made of has varied but the majority have been photographies on paper. Gifts and purchases have been the most common ways for the library to collect photographies. Gifts have been treated differently through the years, from the beginning all gifts were received and the library asked actively for special gifts, later the library decided whether or not they should accept a gift. The policy from both the library and from the government have been vague, but lately they have been working on a new and more detailed policy from 2008.
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Damm, David [Verfasser]. "A Digital Library Framework for Heterogeneous Music Collections : from Document Acquisition to Cross-Modal Interaction / David Damm." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1044971967/34.
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Adzobu, Nesba. "Strategy Development for Building Digital Collections of the University of Cape Coast Library, Ghana : A Case Study." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-17335.
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Strategic planning is a critical issue for higher education academic libraries, especially in developing countries like Ghana, due to limited financial resources and the rapid change in the information environment during the last several decades. Theory-testing case study methodology was used in this thesis to examine strategy formulation and implementation in building the digital collections of the University of Cape Coast Library (UCCL) in Ghana. The main question the study attempted to answer was how did the DL strategic formulation and implementation processes used by the UCC in building its digital collections compare with the Mintzberg’s strategic formulation and implementation framework? The instruments used for data collection were the key informant interview technique and document reviews. The results showed that, during the formulation phase, two aspects (resources and aspirations of senior management) were emergent. During the implementation phase, five aspects (achieving results, processes and behaviour, standards, motivation, and personal) were emergent. All other elements of building the UCC digital collections were planned during both the formulation and implementation phases. Although the basic technical architecture for the digital library is in place, inconsistency between organizational objectives and the values of the management group was identified as a problem in strategy formulation. Digital library staff reported that cost of using Information Communications Technology (ICT) facilities, frequency of power outage, obsolete digitization equipment, interconnectivity problems, and high cost of internet connectivity inhibited their work and regular student access to digital collections. Although the emphasis on students and learning is laudable and apt, there seems to be lack of focus on research support beyond digital collection building, despite the fact that research excellence is one of the UCC’s key priorities. Opportunities exist for improving feedback mechanisms between the users, digital library staff and the university management; and inclusion of social media tools in the digital library project.Program: Masterprogram: Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap, Digitala bibliotek och informationstjänster
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Schneider, Ulrich Johannes. "Sammlungen, die Bibliothek, die Zukunft." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-157024.
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In den letzten Jahren grassierte unter Geisteswissenschaftlern das Archivfieber: Man sucht, auch in der durch gedruckte Texte überlieferten Vergangenheit, nach Sammlungen und ihren inneren Zusammenhängen. Man möchte über bekannte Textzeugnisse hinausgehen, man erforscht Kontexte, die sich in der Zeit verfestigt haben und nun in allen Tiefendimensionen studierbar sind. Man tritt gewissermaßen aus den geistesgeschichtlichen Selbstverständlichkeiten
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schon kennt. So werden auch Bibliotheken interessant, sobald man über die normalen Routinen der Bestandsabfragen und über die Erforschung einzelner Stücke hinausgeht. Welche Fragen kann eine Bibliothek beantworten, nachdem sie die Fragen der wissenschaftlichen Curiositas und der alltäglichen Neugier schon beantwortet hat? Das vom Archivfieber entzündete Interesse richtet sich auf Provenienzen, also auf Herkünfte von Einzelstücken bis zu ganzen Büchersammlungen, was auch immer in größere Sammlungen integriert wurde.
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Perkins, Boyd B. "The documents, personal music collections, and artifacts contained in the Goldman Band Library at the University of Iowa." Diss., University of Iowa, 2004. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5367.
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Bailey-Shimizu, Pamelalee. "First Nations Tribal Library and Social Research Center." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1952.
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Taliani, Alexandra R. "An Annotated Catalog of the Music of Eusebia Simpson Hunkins in the Music and Dance Library Special Collections Room and the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections of Ohio University." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1587141633610687.
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Du, Toit Jaqueline Susann. "The organization and use of documentary deposits in the near east from ancient to medieval times : libraries, archives, book collections and genizas." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38480.
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A multidisciplinary approach is utilized to assess the organization and use of ancient and medieval Near Eastern textual deposits. An elaborate survey of the published material in ancient Near Eastern studies and library and archival studies indicates a general and pervasive insensitivity to and misuse of key terminological constructs. The indistinct portrayal of the nature of ancient libraries and archives is identified as of particular concern; as well as a widespread disregard for the recognition of textual collections older than the famed Library of Alexandria. This dissertation endeavours to indicate the presence of distinct textual collective units in the ancient Near Eastern context on equal footing with their much later counterparts and more broadly defined than the traditional library and archive, to include entities such as the geniza, building and foundation deposits, and so forth. Furthermore, the ancient temple library, as a restricted and well-regulated collective entity, is suggested as representative of literary standardization in the Near East, and the canonization process of the Hebrew Bible, in particular. Ancient archives are attested as equally prevalent textual units, clearly distinguishable from adjunct textual deposits, often loosely, but incorrectly, termed "archives" in modern scholarly discourse. In conclusion, this dissertation reconsiders the status of the two traditionally most valued ancient textual entities, the Library of Assurbanipal and the Library of Alexandria, and concludes that these entities are atypical examples of ancient textual collections. As closest claimants to the improbable and often religiously imbued ideal of universal collection of information, these libraries erroneously became the impossible standards by which all ancient collections were measured and found wanting. As alternate, the applicability of the theoretical constructs proposed in the earlier part of this dissertation, such as the introduction of an in
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Reitz, Florian [Verfasser], and Bernd [Akademischer Betreuer] Walter. "Learning From the Past of a Digital Library - Using Historical Metadata to Study the Development of Collections. / Florian Reitz ; Betreuer: Bernd Walter." Trier : Universität Trier, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1197704574/34.
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Nicolas, Yann. "La réforme maorie de la Bibliothèque Nationale de Nouvelle-Zélande dimension stratégique et enjeux techniques (collections, catalogues, accès, conservation) /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2003. http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque/documents/dcb/nicolas.pdf.
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Hodgson, John. "Class acts : the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth earls of Crawford and their manuscript collections." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/class-acts-the-twentyfifth-and-twentysixth-earls-of-crawford-and-their-manuscript-collections(3ed36c16-23f9-4b9c-85d5-21070eea9984).html.
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Throughout Victoria's reign, Lord Lindsay and his son Ludovic, respectively twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth earls of Crawford, created one of the largest private libraries ever assembled in Britain. The Bibliotheca Lindesiana included some six thousand manuscripts, which Ludovic sold to Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 for £155,000. The principal problematic that I address in this thesis is: Why did the earls of Crawford invest vast amounts of financial and cultural capital in this endeavour? In other words, what factors - both structural and specific - led to the formation of the library, what purposes did it serve, and what roles did its manuscript components in particular perform? Other questions include: How - and how successfully - did Lindsay and Ludovic maintain physical and intellectual control over the rapidly growing library? How did they position themselves within networks of connoisseurship and collecting in Victorian Britain? How was the formation of the Oriental manuscript collections connected with Lindsay's interest in racial classification and with wider racial discourses? And how did the library reflect and reinforce Lindsay's identity as a gentleman-scholar? Previous studies of this and other manuscript collections have adhered to an antiquarian, bio-bibliographical model, focusing on the detailed matter and mechanisms of collecting, rather than exploring the socio-cultural and epistemological contexts of their development. This thesis, by contrast, constitutes the first extended application of cultural theory to a manuscript collection, or indeed to any private library, in the nineteenth century. I combine close archival work with Bourdieu's concepts of field, capital and habitus to reveal the complex structuration and signification of the library, and to investigate the imbrication between the earls' personal agency and wider forces operating upon the library. My examination of the Bibliotheca Lindesiana has uncovered several key issues and themes hitherto unexplored in this or any other major private library of the nineteenth century. First, I argue that the reasons for the library's development reside principally in various forms of classification, which preoccupied Lindsay and reflected wider societal trends and taxonomies: the classification of libraries and the ramification of knowledge; Lindsay's deployment of the library to corroborate his and his family's social and cultural distinction (i.e. social classification); and an interest in racial classification, which reflected Orientalist discourses associated with imperialism. Secondly, while the dispersal of aristocratic collections in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is a familiar trope, this study is the first to contextualize the decline of a private library within the struggle between the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie. Finally, this is the first examination of the impact of professionalization upon private as opposed to public libraries, revealing the tensions between amateur traditions and growing professionalism and specialization in the nineteenth century. I thus 'read' through the library some of the wider socio-economic and cultural issues operating in Victorian Britain and its empire.
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Schneider, Ulrich Johannes. "Sammlungen, die Bibliothek, die Zukunft." Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2012. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A13034.
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In den letzten Jahren grassierte unter Geisteswissenschaftlern das Archivfieber: Man sucht, auch in der durch gedruckte Texte überlieferten Vergangenheit, nach Sammlungen und ihren inneren Zusammenhängen. Man möchte über bekannte Textzeugnisse hinausgehen, man erforscht Kontexte, die sich in der Zeit verfestigt haben und nun in allen Tiefendimensionen studierbar sind. Man tritt gewissermaßen aus den geistesgeschichtlichen Selbstverständlichkeiten
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schon kennt. So werden auch Bibliotheken interessant, sobald man über die normalen Routinen der Bestandsabfragen und über die Erforschung einzelner Stücke hinausgeht. Welche Fragen kann eine Bibliothek beantworten, nachdem sie die Fragen der wissenschaftlichen Curiositas und der alltäglichen Neugier schon beantwortet hat? Das vom Archivfieber entzündete Interesse richtet sich auf Provenienzen, also auf Herkünfte von Einzelstücken bis zu ganzen Büchersammlungen, was auch immer in größere Sammlungen integriert wurde.
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Palti, Kathleen Rose. "'Synge we now alle and sum' : three fifteenth-century collections of communal song : a study of British Library, Sloane MS 2593; Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. e.1; and St John's College, Cambridge, MS S.54." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/15578/.
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The manuscripts British Library, Sloane MS 2593, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. e.1, and St John’s College, Cambridge, MS S.54 are compact collections of song lyrics written during the fifteenth century, largely without notation. My thesis seeks to develop responsive ways of reading these anthologies and uses the manuscripts to illumine the creative processes that produced and circulated their songs. I integrate attention to song lyrics within the material books and exploration of wider textual networks. As many of the anthologies’ texts are in carol form, a combination of refrain parts and stanzas, the books provide an opportunity to examine the form’s identity and significance within fifteenth-century English songwriting. The thesis is in three parts and the first introduces critical approaches to the manuscripts and the carol, followed by an examination of the books and their contexts, especially manuscripts with which the anthologies have textual connections. The central section investigates the songs’ production and circulation by examining textual networks, how the anthologies were written, how the songs may have been performed, and the role of memory in shaping the songs and anthologies. The final part explores women’s role in the songs, the range of forms used, and the centrality of the many imagined voices and performances within the texts. This is the first extended study focused upon these three sources, which as anthologies offer insight into ways songs were shared and organised. I investigate the role of short collections and booklets in the construction of longer anthologies, and the possibility of an especially productive song culture within fifteenth-century East Anglia. Rather than repeating assertions familiar from earlier studies of carols that the anthologies’ songs are either popular or clerical productions, I suggest how the anthologies engage with communal performance cultures and participate in varied song traditions, from liturgy to lullaby.
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Mattos, Ana Maria. "Análise de citações de teses como apoio a tomada de decisão no desenvolvimento de coleções de bibliotecas universitárias." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/15441.
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O objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar as citações utilizadas na elaboração das teses defendidas de 1999 até 2007 no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Escola de Administração da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, e, a partir das análises, obter indicadores de apoio à tomada de decisão no desenvolvimento de coleções da biblioteca. Para tal, analisam-se a tipologia dos materiais bibliográficos utilizados, a idade da literatura, os títulos de periódicos citados e a preferência do idioma dos materiais consultados. As informações obtidas permitirão otimizar a alocação de recursos para investimento em material informacional, traçar diretrizes para o armazenamento retrospectivo da coleção, determinar a composição da coleção-núcleo de periódicos, avaliar em quais idiomas devem ser selecionados os materiais bibliográficos em futuras aquisições, bem como preparar possíveis cortes na coleção devido a eventuais reduções no orçamento da biblioteca.The aim of this research is analyze dissertations citations patterns uphold between 1999 and 2007 in the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração of Escola de Administração at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, and built up indicators to support library`s collection development decision-making. In doing so, we analyzed the kind of bibliographic materials used, his age, the main journals, and the references language. The result allows optimize resources` allocation and investment in informational material, establish retrospective collection storage guidelines, determining the core collection journals composition, indicate what language bibliographical materials should be selected in future acquisitions, and prepare for collection cuts due to possible library budget reductions.
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Backman, Helena. "Kompetent för specialsamlingar : Utbildningsmöjligheter för studenter och kompetensutveckling för verksamma vid folkbibliotek." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-296642.
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The purpose of this thesis is to compare international ideal competencies for Special Collections librarianship to the possibility to acquire these competencies as a student of library education or as a professional librarian with the care of special collections in a public library in Sweden today. The questions posed are: How are international ideal competencies concerning special collections looked upon in Swedish public libraries? How can students or professional librarians today acquire competences necessary for the work at hand in special collections? Suggested in this thesis is to emphasize the importance of understanding that handling special collections demands other skills and belongs to other practices than ordinary work in a public library. The major discrepancy with international ideal competencies consists in the lack of ways for education in the field of special collections for both students and professional librarians in Sweden today.
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Friday, Kate. "Learning from e-family history : online research behaviour and strategies of family historians and implications for local studies collections." Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10059/734.
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The massive expansion of electronic resources has been identified as one of the major drivers behind the ‘explosion’ in the popularity of family history, which bring ease, convenience and accessibility to some parts of the research process. Amongst this expanse of easily-accessible raw materials, online local studies materials (recording both historical and contemporary aspects of a community) can add real context and value to researchers’ findings and experience; turning a genealogy into a family history. However, the vast majority of these do not appear visible to online family history researchers. Through three central foci (users, e-family history resources, and Local Studies Collections), this research investigates these resources and collections from the perspective of users, to establish how to make the added value of the local studies collections more visible and encourage increased engagement for those who cannot visit collections in person. Specific evaluative criteria for e-family history resources are presented, contributing to practitioners’ awareness and understanding of their nature; in turn helping maintain their service quality to researchers. Using a hybrid (primarily ethnographic) research approach, the study also examines the online research behaviour of family historians, identifying a taxonomy of actions (seeking of genealogical facts, local or social history; communicating with other researchers or resources; locating resources or instructive information; managing own information), strategies (search modifications and incorporation of background knowledge) and outcomes (outcome; direction (projected and actual)). From these categories, a model of Family Historians’ online information seeking has been developed. Researchers have both informational and affective needs, and are highly emotionally attached to the research process. Users universally used Ancestry, FamilySearch, ScotlandsPeople, and Genes Reunited far more than other sites, seeking out quality informational content and unique records, which must be successful for researchers. Google was a major method of access to these. Very few participants were preaware of ‘e-local studies’ websites, and were surprised by the variations in quality, inconsistencies in terminology and navigation, and invisibility of quality content. Despite a lack of ease of use, the content present on e-local studies sites and their usefulness and value had been demonstrated to researchers. This suggests significant demand for local information of this kind online where it is available and made known.
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Sebastião, Elizabeth Jesus. "As revistas científicas electrónicas nas bibliotecas da área da saúde em Portugal." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/16040.
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A crescente predominância dos recursos eletrónicos de acesso remoto em bibliotecas especializadas ligadas a áreas científicas de investigação, quer devido à evolução dos suportes tecnológicos quer devido à alteração do perfil e necessidades dos utilizadores, produtores e consumidores de informação, veio alterar o paradigma das bibliotecas tradicionais ao criar novos requisitos aos sistemas tecnológicos e de metadados e ao exigir novas competências aos profissionais da informação. Este trabalho estuda o desenvolvimento das coleções das revistas científicas eletrónicas nas bibliotecas da área da saúde, em Portugal, nos últimos dez anos, efetuando uma análise diacrónica e, simultaneamente, uma reflexão sobre o impacto destes recursos nos serviços de informação. A metodologia utilizada para o desenvolvimento deste estudo baseia-se na aplicação da triangulação de dois métodos de investigação, o quantitativo e o qualitativo, sendo utilizados como instrumentos de recolha de dados na investigação de campo, o inquérito por questionário e o inquérito por entrevista. Os dados recolhidos e posteriormente analisados revelam que as revistas científicas eletrónicas são, desde a década de 90 do século XX, um recurso disponível nas bibliotecas da área da saúde em Portugal, quer seja por aquisição quer seja por oferta dos editores na compra do formato impresso. Apesar disso, o estudo indica que o número de bibliotecas que dispõem atualmente deste recurso é ainda pequeno, sendo o custo o principal motivo apontado como fator impeditivo da adesão de muitas bibliotecas a este novo método de apresentação e disseminação do conhecimento científico. Os motivos apresentados para a decisão de constituição de coleções de revistas científicas eletrónicas, normalmente em paralelo com as coleções de revistas científicas impressas, apontam no sentido das várias potencialidades da pesquisa, maior rapidez na recuperação da informação e possibilidade de simultaneidade no acesso Contudo, a gestão deste recurso eletrónico veio trazer alguns problemas de ordem tecnológica, exigindo uma série de novas competências aos profissionais da informação e documentação até agora não requeridas, o que aponta para a necessidade de formação neste campo. Com as bibliotecas da área da saúde a se transformarem cada vez mais em serviços híbridos, a coexistência de revistas científicas impressas e eletrónicas levanta a questão de qual de entre os dois suportes persistirá. Os dados obtidos Durante este estudo revelam que a existência de um suporte não significa necessariamente o desaparecimento do outro. /ABSTRACT - Remote-access on-line resources are becoming increasingly predominant in specialized libraries relating to areas of scientific research, the result both of the technological evolution of media and of the changing profile and needs of data users, producers and consumers. This is changing the paradigm of conventional libraries and creating new requirements from technology and metadata systems, and demanding new skills from members of the information professions. This study examines how on-line scientific journals in health and medical libraries have developed in Portugal over the last ten years. The study offers a diachronic analysis and, at the same time, a reflection on the impact of these resources on information services. The methodology used for the development of this study was based on the triangulation of two approaches to research: the quantitative and the qualitative, with data being collected in the field through surveys and interviews. The data collected and analyzed show that since the 1990s, on-line scientific journals have become available in health and medical libraries in Portugal, either through acquisition or through bundling in the purchase of the printed journal. However, the study shows that the number of libraries offering this resource remains small, with cost being indicated by many libraries as the main reason for not offering this new means of presenting and disseminating scientific knowledge. The reasons given for building collections of on-line scientific journals, normally in parallel with collections of the printed versions, include the many possibilities for searching, the speed with which data can be retrieved, and the possibility of simultaneous access. However, managing these on-line resources does imply certain technological problems, demanding a range of hitherto unnecessary new skills from members of the information and documentation professions, indicating a need for training in this field. With health and medical libraries becoming increasingly hybrid in nature, the coexistence of printed and on-line scientific journals raises the question of which of the two media will subsist. The study shows that the existence of one medium does not necessarily signify the disappearance of the other.
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Furtenbach, Petra. "Priskuranten - en resa i tiden: Priskuranter i Kungl. biblioteket, Uppsala universitetsbibliotek och Nordiska museets bibliotek." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-155519.
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The aim of my master’s thesis has been to examine the situation of the price lists in the National Library of Sweden, in Uppsala University Library and in the Nordiska Museet Library. The starting point was that the institutes have been operating within different institutional practices. These operational differences between the institutes have affected the collecting, the organizing and the accessibility to the information of the price lists. My master‘s thesis is based on Birger Hjørlands theories of domains and knowledge organization. The main sources of the information in the thesis are interviews conducted with informants within these three institutes. The findings of the study show that the main differences in how the institutes have been organizing the price lists, results from the different assignments the institutes have in collecting the material. Based upon the facts that have emerged in the interviews, some general and some specific problem areas have been highlighted. These problem areas have been discussed in the thesis and possible solutions in how to proceed have been presented.
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Sheehan, Jennifer Karr. "Intangible Qualities of Rare Books: Toward a Decision-Making Framework for Preservation Management in Rare Book Collections, Based Upon the Concept of the Book as Object." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5213/.
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For rare book collections, a considerable challenge is involved in evaluating collection materials in terms of their inherent value, which includes the textual and intangible information the materials provide for the collection's users. Preservation management in rare book collections is a complex and costly process. As digitization and other technological advances in surrogate technology have provided new forms representation, new dilemmas in weighing the rare book's inherently valuable characteristics against the possibly lesser financial costs of surrogates have arisen. No model has been in wide use to guide preservation management decisions. An initial iteration of such a model is developed, based on a Delphi-like iterative questioning of a group of experts in the field of rare books. The results are used to synthesize a preservation management framework for rare book collections, and a small-scale test of the framework has been completed through two independent analyses of five rare books in a functioning collection. Utilizing a standardized template for making preservation decisions offers a variety of benefits. Preservation decisions may include prioritizing action upon the authentic objects, or developing and maintaining surrogates in lieu of retaining costly original collection materials. The framework constructed in this study provides a method for reducing the subjectivity of preservation decision-making and facilitating the development of a standard of practice for preservation management within rare book collections.
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Mauersberger, Klaus. "Bibliothek und Sammlungen der technischen Bildungsanstalt." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2006. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:swb:14-1156336203153-50156.
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Bermes, Emmanuelle. "Le numérique en bibliothèque : naissance d'un patrimoine : l'exemple de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (1997-2019)." Thesis, Paris, Ecole nationale des chartes, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020ENCP0001.
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Depuis les années 1980, des objets matériels et immatériels d’une croissante diversité se trouvent qualifiés de “patrimoine”. L’idée d’un patrimoine numérique est ainsi aujourd’hui institutionnalisée. Pourtant, si l’on en croit l’expérience de la BnF au cours des vingt dernières années, l’acquisition d’une légitimité pour ces nouveaux objets patrimoniaux, qui vont des jeux vidéo sur support aux archives de l’Internet, des ouvrages anciens numérisés aux contenus dématérialisés collectés sur le web, a été une aventure mouvementée.Avec une période d’expérimentation, jusqu’en 2003, puis une période d’industrialisation et de professionnalisation, jusqu’en 2008, la filiation entre patrimoine écrit ou documentaire et patrimoine numérique a d’abord contribué à asseoir la place des documents et collections numériques dans les missions de la bibliothèque. Cependant, cette continuité restait indissociable d’une profonde altérité, inhérente à la nature du web et des objets documentaires qu’il génère. Ubiquité, volatilité, déstructuration, massification, internationalisation, transversalité : autant de caractéristiques du web qui ont contraint la BnF à adapter ses processus de travail, ses méthodes de traitement, ses outils et son organisation. L’étude de ce processus de patrimonialisation, qu’elle passe par l’observation des outils institutionnels qu’il mobilise, par l’étude des étapes ou gestes de ce processus, ou par les émotions qu’il suscite, fait apparaître deux aspects complémentaires du patrimoine numérique, interrogeant en profondeur l’identité et les missions de la BnF, dans son rapport à la société et au monde. D’une part, le numérique œuvre comme outil de dissémination, de médiation et de mise en valeur du patrimoine déjà existant ; d’autre part il voit émerger de nouveaux contenus et objets patrimoniaux. Dans la vision originelle d’une “très grande bibliothèque, d’un type entièrement nouveau”, la numérisation avait pour mission de réconcilier le patrimoine avec la nation, en utilisant la technologie comme outil de décloisonnement. Vingt ans d’expérimentations et de pratique ont semble-t-il fini par renverser cette logique, faisant du numérique un nouveau patrimoine dans lequel la nation est appelée à se reconnaîtreSince the 1980s, physical and digital objects of increasing diversity have been described as "heritage". The idea of a digital heritage is thus institutionalized today. However, according to the experience of the BnF over the past twenty years, these new heritage objects, which range from video games to web archives, from digitized rare and ancient books to online media, are not yet considered legitimate.With a period of experimentation, until 2003, then a period of industrialization and professionalization, until 2008, the continuity between written heritage and digital heritage first helped to establish the place of digital documents and collections within the missions of the library. However, the digital heritage also bring profound changes, inherent in the nature of the web and the documentary objects it generates. Ubiquity, volatility, destructuring, massification, internationalization, transversality: these characteristics of the web have forced the BnF to adapt its work processes, its tools and its organization.The study of the process towards the creation of a new digital heritage involves observing institutional tools, as well as studying the stages of this process and the emotions it arouses. Thus we reveal two complementary aspects of this new digital heritage, questioning in depth the identity and missions of the BnF, in its relationship to society and the world. On the one hand, digital developments help the dissemination, mediation and enhancement of existing heritage; on the other hand, new digital heritage objects emerge. In the original vision of a "very large library, of an entirely new type", the mission of digitization was to reconcile heritage with the nation, using technology. Twenty years of experimentation and practice have apparently ended up reversing this logic, making digital a new heritage which the nation is committed to preserve
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Schneider, Ulrich Johannes. "Die Ehe von Wissenschaft und Bibliothek." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2009. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-ds-1243944239518-45626.
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Die Ausstellung „Ein Kosmos des Wissens“ präsentiert, wie es der Untertitel verspricht, „Weltschrifterbe in Leipzig“. Das ist hoch gegriffen und doch nicht zu wenig gesagt. Wir bewahren hier in der Bibliotheca Albertina seltene und sehr wertvolle Stücke auf, die unserer Obhut anheim gegeben sind, aber eigentlich der Welt gehören.
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Giusti, Carmen Lúcia Lobo. "Estudo para criação da Biblioteca Retrospectiva no Sistema de Bibliotecas da Universidade Federal de Pelotas : lugar para a memória bibliográfica." Universidade Federal de Pelotas, 2012. http://repositorio.ufpel.edu.br/handle/ri/1033.
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Previous issue date: 2012-02-13This study results from the constant need of space that libraries face when, after a careful selection, take collections out of their active spaces in order to place new materials and technologies. These collections still have their historical and cultural value and because of that, must not be definitely discarded. The main aim of this study is to be an influence in decision-making at the information units at several Brazilian federal universities, but specially at the Library System at Federal University of Pelotas, regarding storage and accessibility issues regarding collections selected by chopping processes. The proposal here is the creation of the Retrospective Library, with an adequate policy which respects the importance of historical research and preserving bibliographic memory of the cultural heritage that one day composed the university collections and should not be discarded. The main focus is on retrospective research, but we are still attentive to the modern information research tools, allowing researches and future generations to access both historical and retrospective information and new technologies and virtual content from the whole world. Analysis was done through a survey used to collect data. Results showed that 88,9% of the libraries at federal universities in Brazil do not have a good space for storing the studiedcollections in an organized way. In Southern Brazil, 83,3% of the libraries analyzed do not have this space and among them, 60% have already considered creating it without ever putting it into action. Because of that, we believe that creatingsuch a space would be very important for preserving the bibliographic cultural heritage of this institution
O presente estudo é o resultado da constante necessidade de espaço das bibliotecas, que, após criteriosa seleção, se deparam comacervos retirados de suas estantes ativas para o registro de novos materiais ou implementação das novas tecnologias. Estes acervos, bens patrimoniais utilizados para estudos, fazem parte da memória bibliográfica da instituição e, portanto, ainda possuem valor histórico e cultural e, por isso, não devem ser descartados definitivamente. O objetivo principal é influenciar na tomada de decisões das unidades de informação das diversas universidades brasileiras, mas principalmente do Sistema de Bibliotecas da Universidade Federal de Pelotas, quanto à solução dos problemas de armazenamento e acessibilidade dos acervos selecionados pelo processo de desbastamento. A presente proposta é criar a Biblioteca Retrospectiva, com uma política adequada ao setor, respeitando a importância na construção de pesquisas históricas e preservando a memóriabibliográfica dos patrimônios culturais que um dia fizeram parte dos acervos da universidade e, portanto, não devem ser descartados.Seu principal foco será a pesquisa retrospectiva, sem distanciá-la das modernas ferramentas debusca da informação, possibilitando que pesquisadores e futuras gerações, de um lado, disponibilizem informações históricas e retrospectivas, e de outro, convivam com o avanço tecnológico e o acesso a informações virtuais do mundo inteiro. Através da aplicação de um questionário, utilizado como instrumento para a coleta de dados, foi realizada a análise, e os resultados apontaram que em 88,9% das bibliotecas federais brasileiras não existe um local próprio para armazenar, organizadamente, o acervo em estudo. Na Região Sul do Brasil, este índice é de 83,3% das bibliotecas analisadas, sendo que em 60% deste universo os administradores já cogitaram criar essa biblioteca, mas nunca a concretizaram. Dessa forma, acredita-se que a criação desse novo espaço teria grande valia para a preservação do patrimônio cultural bibliográfico na instituição
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Kemp, Helen. "Collecting, communicating, and commemorating : the significance of Thomas Plume's manuscript collection, left to his Library in Maldon, est. 1704." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/20651/.
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This thesis is about networks in seventeenth-century England: the making and re-shaping of networks of people and texts, and the ways in which they evolved and transformed. It focuses on the manuscripts collected by Dr Thomas Plume (1630-1704), vicar of Greenwich and archdeacon of Rochester, who left them with a substantial body of books and pamphlets to the Library he endowed in Maldon. They take the form of notebooks and papers complied by a number of different clergymen, in particular Dr Robert Boreman (d.1675) and Dr Edward Hyde (1607-1659), in addition to Plume. The significance of the research lies in its reconstruction of the intellectual lives of the middle-status loyalist clergy through their handwritten texts. The research intervenes into debates about the nature and status of the manuscript form in an age of print and asks why these texts were left with the Library. The content and material form of these notebooks and papers evidence the reading and writing practices of the middle-status clergy, and the ways they were able to use their positions to influence and persuade on local and national levels. The main sections of the thesis encompass: a critical analysis of the manuscript collection; an examination of why the manuscripts were created and re-used; an appraisal of themes of identity, memorial, and legacy reflected within them; and the relationship between the handwritten items and printed books. This thesis argues that these seemingly-ephemeral texts were in fact the ‘heart’ of Plume’s library collection, representing a network of clergymen whose commitment to each other’s work extended as far as if they had been related by blood. Their working papers symbolised a memorial to their scholarship, saved for posterity under the shadow of destruction and loss during the Civil Wars.
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Geyer, Andrea. "A TRIBAL SPECIAL LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES PROJECT: ESTABLISHING THE MALKI MUSEUM SPECIAL LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/752.
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The Malki Museum Tribal Special Library and Archives project is an on-site repository created in order to provide access to information regarding tribal culture and heritage to local tribal members and researchers. The project filled the need for a space dedicated to material related to the history of local Southern California Native American tribes and information regarding the topics of Archaeology, Anthropology and History. The collection includes: books, manuscripts, documents, audio/visual media, and photographs. Bringing together multimedia sources, the Special Tribal Library allows for the preservation and accessibility of these items through cataloging and digitizing the collection. This method allows for the collection to be available to the public while being able to preserve its integrity through limited handling. In order to facilitate the establishment of the Special Library and Archive, the Malki Museum Special Tribal Library and Archives project teamed up with the Malki Museum’s Director, as well as the Malki Museum’s Tribal Board of Directors. Several weeks of organization, assessment, and collaboration helped prepare the Special Library first for user-friendliness. The final product is the Malki Museum Tribal Special Library which provides tribal members and scholars alike a locality where research can be undertaken and acquired. The Malki Museum Tribal Special Library project helps bring important data within reach to its local community.
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Leedham, Susan. "Curating a gentleman's library : practices of acquisition, display and disposal in the Cottonian Collection, 1791-1816." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/12176.
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This thesis examines the book and archival holdings of the Cottonian Collection – a national designated eighteenth-century collection of fine art and books – between 1791 and 1816, the period of William Cotton II’s custodianship. Prior to this thesis, the Cottonian Collection has not been the subject of a full-length academic study. Whilst the art holdings have received some attention, the book and archival contents have not been examined. This thesis addresses this imbalance by conducting a thorough examination of the archival holdings and the history of the book collection. Taking the actions of the collection’s penultimate private owner, William Cotton II, as its primary focus this thesis examines the curatorial practices of acquisition, preservation and disposal through three key lenses: the presentation of the collection as a symbol of gentlemanly status, the evolution of Enlightenment cosmopolitanism thought, and the rise of Anglican Evangelicalism during this period. In doing so, this thesis considers the effects of the broader societal, political and religion changes on a national designated collection during a period defined by ideological threat and revolutionary warfare. In the process, it seeks to embed the history of the Cottonian Collection within the broader context of late-eighteenth-century book collecting practices.
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Delmas, Jean-François. "Des collections de dom Malachie d’Inguimbert à l’Inguimbertine : transferts et héritages culturels dans le Comtat Venaissin (XVIIIe-XXIe siècle)." Thesis, Paris, Ecole nationale des chartes, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018ENCP0003.
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Cette recherche parcourt un large spectre temporel. La période considérée débute au XVIIIe siècle avec la fondation de l’Inguimbertine, bibliothèque-musée de Carpentras, par l’évêque de la ville, dom Malachie d’Inguimbert (1683-1757). Elle s’étend jusqu’au chantier actuel du transfert de cet établissement atypique dans un ancien hôtel-Dieu, monument historique né de la volonté de ce même prélat. Cette étude évoque aussi les opérations ambitieuses des notables carpentrassiens pour développer l’institution au XIXe siècle ainsi que le semi-abandon des collections à partir des années 1960. Elle entend montrer comment une population s’approprie, ou se réapproprie, l’héritage d’un homme singulier qui a importé le modèle romain dans le Comtat Venaissin. Elle signale également le travail de médiation auquel doit se livrer le conservateur pour maintenir l’équilibre entre cette nécessaire réappropriation et le respect de la volonté de Mgr d’Inguimbert. Du concept de bibliothèque-musée adapté par l’évêque à Carpentras découle l’organisation mise en place au XIXe siècle. Cet aménagement original a lui-même induit le mode de présentation des collections de l’Inguimbertine à l’hôtel-Dieu au XXIe siècle. Dans un souci de continuité, la préservation du dessein originel du prélat est le moteur de l’évolution majeure de l’institution aujourd’hui. Ce mémoire vise, enfin, la promotion, au sein de la profession, du travail scientifique malheureusement trop souvent sacrifié par les conservateurs au profit de tâches administrativesThis research covers a vast period of times. It starts in the 18th century with the founding of L’Inguimbertine, the library-museum of Carpentras, by the bishop of the city, dom Malachie d’Inguimbert (1683-1757). The period of time includes the current project of transferring this atypical establishment into an ancient hospital, a historic monument born out of the conviction of the same prelate. This study evokes the ambitious work of the dignitaries of Carpentras to develop the library-museum in the 19th century, as well as the semi-abandonment of the collections from the 1960s onward. This research intends to show how a population appropriates, or reappropriates, the legacy of a man who imported the Roman style into Comtat Venaissin. It also highlights the mediation needed by the curator in order to preserve the balance between the necessary reappropriation and the respect for Mgr d’Inguimbert’s intention. The organization set in the 19th century is a direct result of the concept of a library-museum developed by the bishop of Carpentras. This original concept itself leads to the way the collections are presented at L’Inguimbertine at the hôtel-Dieu in the 21th century. Today, to ensure continuity, the main driving force of the establishment is to preserve the original intention of the prelate. Finally, this research paper aims at showing how scientific work within the profession is often sacrified for the administrative tasks of the curators
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Rohrmüller, Marc. "Das Maschinenzeitalter online." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-32965.
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Die SLUB Dresden verfügt über zahlreiche Titel zur Technikgeschichte und beginnt mit Unterstützung der DFG die Digitalisierung ausgewählter technikhistorischer Schriften aus dem 19. Jahrhundert. Diese werden frei im Netz angeboten. Bis 2011 werden so 3 500 Bände der Erscheinungsjahre 1801 bis 1870 digitalisiert und erschlossen. Auch die Digitalisierung der wichtigsten technikgeschichtlichen Zeitschrift des 19. Jahrhunderts, „Dinglers polytechnischem Journal“, ist als Kooperationsprojekt von der Humboldt-Universität Berlin und der SLUB abgeschlossen. Damit wird auch das Sondersammelgebiet Technikgeschichte an der SLUB Dresden wesentlich aufgewertet.
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Idrees, Haroon. "Development of a classification scheme for Islam." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät I, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16524.
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Die Bibliotheken, die reichen Sammlungen über den Islam haben, stehen vor den Problemen der Organisation des Wissens während Klassifizierung von Materialien über den Islam. Denn die Standard-Klassifikationssysteme wie DDC-Sachgruppe, Library of Congress Klassifikation, Universal Decimal Klassifikation, Bliss Klassifikation, und Colon Klassifikation, die durch eine große Anzahl von Bibliotheken verwendet werden, nicht genügend Platz und angemessene Zählen oder Hierarchie für islamischen Wissens haben. Anschließend, verschiedene alternative Lösungen wurden von Gelehrten sortiert und von diesen Bibliotheken adoptiert. Diese Lösungen umfassen Erweiterungen im Standard-Klassifikationssysteme mit unterschiedlichen Ansätzen und indigenen Klassifikationssysteme für den Islam gemacht. Trotz dieser Lösungen, die Bibliotheken hatten Probleme und sind immer noch unzufrieden. Dieses Forschungsprojekt untersucht dieses Problem. Es hat die Literatur zu diesem Thema bewertet, und empirischer Daten gesammelt, die im Bibliotheks-und Informationswissenschaft (LIS) Bereich in neun verschiedenen Ländern der Welt relevant sind. Die Forschung verwendet Interviews (persönlich oder per Telefon) als wichtigstes Instrument für die Datenerfassung. Die Durchsicht der Literatur und die Analyse der empirischen Daten bestätigte die Existenz des Problems und die Unzufriedenheit der Bibliotheken. Folglich, die optimale Lösung dass in der Literatur und von recherchierten Bevölkerung angegeben ist, wurde vorgebracht worden in diese Forschung: Entwicklung einer unabhängigen und umfassenden Klassifikationssystem für islamischen Wissens. Dieses System wurde von den Gelehrten der LIS und Islamische Studien überprüft worden.The Libraries that have rich collections on Islam are facing the problems of knowledge organization while classifying materials on Islam. This is because the standard classification systems like Dewey Decimal Classification, Library of Congress Classification, Universal Decimal Classification, Bliss Classification, and Colon Classification, which are used by a huge number of libraries, have not provided with sufficient place and proper enumeration or hierarchy for Islamic knowledge. Subsequently, different alternative solutions have been sorted by scholars and opted by these libraries. These solutions include expansions made in standard clas-sification systems with different approaches and indigenous classification systems for Islam. Despite these solutions, the libraries had problems and were not satisfied. This study has addressed this problem, reviewing litera-ture on the problem and collecting empirical data from relevant libraries and scholars of Library and Information Science (LIS) from nine different countries of the world, using interviewing as data collection instrument. Findings of literature and empirical data confirmed the existence of prob-lem and dissatisfaction of libraries. Consequently, the optimal solution in-dicated in literature and by researched population has been brought for-ward in this research, i.e., development of an independent and comprehensive classification system for Islamic knowledge. This system has been got verified by the scholars of LIS and of Islamic Studies.
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Slavic, Aida. "Call numbers, book numbers and collection arrangements in European library traditions." Ess Ess Pub, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/111798.
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Throughout the long history of the library, there have been many examples of methodical approaches to creating techniques, tools and knowledge that contribute to creating the library profession as we know it today. Collection arrangement and book labelling represent skills that are built into the very foundations of librarianship.With the opening of each new library, with collection merging or moving, or when building open access to a collection from scratch, librarians continue to question the methods they inherited. Librarians have to have a good understanding of the details and functions of book labelling in order to make an informed decision on how much of the work required for book labelling and re-shelving can be saved or replaced by other methods of locating and presenting documents.
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Lewis, David W. "Reflections on the Future of Library Collections." 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/222312.
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Clark, Ann L., and Peter Botticelli. "Building Digital Cultural Heritage Collections in Arizona." 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/196609.
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Arizona has an exceptionally rich cultural heritage, and yet only a small fraction of this legacy has been digitized and made available online through the Arizona Memory Project and other collections. With IMLS funding, the University of Arizona’s DigIn program is carrying out research (grant ending 2012) on digital collection development and digital curation activities in a diverse sampling of Tucson-area cultural heritage institutions, especially those representing underserved communities. We are gathering data on a range of factors influencing the decision to start digital projects, and the sustainability of digitization at a time of limited resources. Our goal is to assess the feasibility of new or expanded digital projects, and to define best practices for institutions pursuing small-scale digitization efforts especially. In this program we will share our preliminary results and discuss future efforts to advance the digitization of cultural heritage by librarians and information professionals across Arizona and the West.
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Hyry, Tom. "In, Out, and Beyond: Integrating Special Collections at UCLA Library." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/222232.
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