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Item A Camera-based Approach for Digitising a Large-scale Photographic Negative Collection(Henry Stewart Publications, 2019-01) Moore, Jeremy D.; Peters, Todd C.The University Archives at Texas State University contains an estimated 1.8 million photographic negatives. In 2017, the University Libraries were awarded a TexTreasures Grant, funded by the US Institute of Museum and Library Services, from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, to research and build custom capture stations and digitise an initial 6,000 negatives from the collection. In this comparative analysis, the authors present evidence that their camera-based system surpasses traditional scanners for photographic negative digitisation. Major factors affecting equipment and workflow decisions are discussed.Item A New Crown for an Old Friend(1995-01) Vaverek, MargaretMuch has changed at SWT since its charter in 1899 and its opening in 1903. Yet, two things remain in the memories of all those who have passed through this school - the San Marcos River and Old Main. The river flows gently through the campus, bringing life and beauty to its citizens. Old Main sits majestically atop Chautauqua Hill, casting a protective shadow over the campus community. She, like the river, is always changing but somehow ever the same. Recent renovation of the roof has once again restored her color and brought her new life.Item A Virtual, Globally Dispered Twenty-First Century Academic Library System(Routledge, 2013-05) Uzwyshyn, RaymondThis article presents a new model for virtual global distributed information and research services currently implemented at a completely online university. It outlines online academic library technology innovation through geographically dispersed librarians, information technologies and online course guides, an award winning library alternative to the traditional university print textbook model.Item A Wound Too Deep To Show: A Preliminary Study of the Legacy of Falcon International Dam, 1953-2023(South Texas Historical Association, 2023) Vaverek, Margaret A.; Flores, Lorin M.; Flores, Beatriz IzaguirreThis study details the impacts upon the people of Zapata County, Texas when Falcon International Dam was built. The Dam was a joint project of Mexico and the U.S. to harness the waters of the Rio Grande in the early 1950s. This work brings to light the struggles of the people in Zapata County and their fight for justice as their ancestral lands and homes were seized by the United States government with little compensation. They were forced to move and start new lives away from the river which had been the source of their livelihood for generations. This work also looks at the next generation “the children of Falcon Dam” as they continue to be impacted by the events surrounding the building of Falcon Dam- now 70 years later.Item AACR2 One Year Later: Implementation at the [Indiana University] Undergraduate Library(Indiana University Librarians Association, 1982-12) Khosh-khui, Sam Abolghasem; Weinryb, HerbNo abstract prepared.Item Adventures in DSpace(Society of Southwest Archivists, 2018-11) Goodley, Lauren; Fuentes, Evangelina LizaThis short newsletter article outlines the tasks completed by the authors during a summer project. Goals included developing workflows and procedures for putting digitized audio-visual archival materials online. We made use of vendors for ADA-compliant captions, created workflows for the DSpace archival repository and MediaFlo enterprise streaming service, and created metadata application profiles and standards-compliant, interoperable metadata.Item Arbitrage Opportunities for Image Search: Changing Metaphors, Game Metadata and Gathering Common Sense(American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2009-06) Uzwyshyn, RaymondThis article presents a new paradigm for image search metadata collection exemplified by the Human Computation School’s application of gaming principles to information science search challenges. In parallel, it looks at a a suite of Web 2.0 interface applications for visual search which open new interactive possibilities and visual metaphors for navigation. This article briefly introduces this paradigm shift and then looks critically toward wider innovation and prescriptive future directions.Item Back to the Future: From Book Warehouse to Library Learning Commons(Infosources Publishing, 2016-10) Uzwyshyn, RaymondThis article reviews learning commons possibilities in academic libraries, looking at the shift in academic libraries from book warehouses to libraries housing a wide spectrum of technologies. The article explores new paradigm for academic libraries with, themed moveable centers, unique infrastructure designs ranging from makerspaces and physical computing to visualization walls, library epresses,new internet of things possibilities and imagineering design. Prototyping and scaling needed to build these new types of buildings and infrastructures are also explored with prescriptive suggestions. .Item Best of the best business reference web resources 2019(American Library Association, 2019-01) De Peri, Robbi; Guth, LuMarie; Allan, Charles; Aquila, Mary A.; Click, Amanda; Fama, Kimberly Lace Lee; Farrell, Bridget; Howard, Heather; Kubo, Hiromi; Kula, Helen; Nielsen, Jordan Michael; Norrisey, Susan M.; Spackman, Andy; Williams, TeresaThe article announces recipients of the Best of the Best Business Reference Web Resources Award (BRASS) including the website of the United Nations World Tourism Organization; the website of the U.S. Travel Association and the International Trade Administration National Travel and Tourism Office.Item Bit by Bit: Gaining Knowhow with BitCurator(Society of American Archivists, 2014-01) Goodley, Lauren; Russell, Rebecca; Rushing, Amy; Davis, Nicole; Snider, Lisa; Toups, MeganArchivists from repositories in Texas recently participated in community outreach sessions to learn more about one of these tools: BitCurator.Item Charles Bowden Comes to the Wittliff Collections(The Southwest Center, University of Arizona, 2019-06) Goodley, LaurenThe Charles "Chuck" Bowden archive in the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University, San Marcos, documents the literary journalist's prolific career from 1970 to 2014, with a few family items dating back to 1947. Comprising 172 boxes, the collection includes his published writings on the environment, social justice, political corruption, and U.S.-Mexico border violence; correspondence, proposals, research, and financial materials; photographs, electronic media, and artifacts; and Bowden's library of books, LP records, and cassette tapes. A complete finding aid and folder list is on the Wittliff Collections website and on Texas Archival Resources Online. The materials were given jointly by Bowden and Mary Martha Miles, his longtime companion, literary executor, and co-editor of The Charles Bowden Reader, just prior to the book's publication in 2010. In addition to the archiving finding aid, researchers have access to Mile's 250-page item-level inventory, which includes descriptions of, and at times contextual and other comments on, the many items in the collection. Miles is currently working to publish Bowden's earlier, unpublished works. These materials, while housed in the archive, are restricted until the time of their publication. Several boxes of materials given to Miles by Bowden's friend and colleague Bill Broyles are also included in the archive. The following overview is not meant to be exhaustive, but rather is intended to provide an introduction and highlight some interesting items and possible areas of research. The papers are open to researchers. The Wittliff Collections offers funding through the William J. Hill Visiting Researcher Travel Grants.Item Cleanup of Netlibrary Cataloging Records: A Methodical Front-End Process(The Haworth Press, Inc., 2006-01-09) Sanchez, Elaine; Fatout, Leslie; Howser, Aleene; Vance, CharlesElectronic resources and ebooks in particular, have become a very important source of information for library patrons. When our library was given access to more than 20,000 ebooks, we were faced with bibliographic records of unknown quality. To provide high-quality records in a timely manner, we identified as many potential problems as we could, worked with reference staff to create the best PAC displays, and created efficient record-editing methods to address these issues prior to loading the records in our database. This article documents that process and describes the MarcEdit, Word, and Excel strategies used to methodically correct and improve these records. It also offers practical solutions and procedures for database maintenance and quality control for NetLibrary or any outsourced cataloging records. The future of ebooks and other related cataloging issues, including authority control, are also discussed as points that remain to be addressed.Item Coming of Age: The Online Data Research Repository(Campus Technology, 2016-12) Grush, MaryThis interview for Campus Technology overviews the world of online data research repositories: objectives, why they are needed, the various parameters, admonitions and prescriptions for faculty and students wishing to use data repositories, types of data formats and size of repositories, search capabilities of repositories, factors to consider in building a repository, selecting a repository and planning for staff and human resourcesItem Effects of Subject Specificity: Part II: Relationship of LC Subject Headings Specificity and Class Notation Length(The Hawthorn Press, Inc., 1987-03) Khosh-khui, Sam AbolghasemSubject headings and class notations in 7,834 LC bibliographic records were analyzed to determine if there was a correlation between the degree of subject specificity and class notation length, and if there was a relationship between the number of subject headings per bibliographic record and class notation length. The findings of the study indicated that as the degree of specificity of subject increased, the length of both LCC and DDC notations increased. However, the difference between class notation lengths corresponding to subject headings with a different level of specificity was not statistically significant. There was not a statistically meaningful association between the number of subject headings per bibliographic record and class notation length.Item Effects of Subject Specificity: Part I: Specificity of LC Subject Headings and Depth of Subject Analysis in Monographic Records(The Haworth Press, Inc., 1986-12) Khosh-khui, Sam AbolghasemSubject headings in 7834 LC monographic MARC records were analyzed to determine relationship between the specificity of LC Subject Headings and the number of subject headings per bibliographic record. The findings indicated that a weak inverse correlation existed between the specificity of LC Subject Headings and the number of subject headings assigned to each document. The study concluded that using more specific subject headings does not reduce the mean of headings per bibliographic record. The number of headings assigned to each document most likely depends on the variation of topics discussed in a document, the availability of specific headings to cover multiple topics, and local management policy.Item Electronic Error Reporting Via Internet in the VAX Environment(Emerald, 1995-10) Khosh-khui, Sam AbolghasemThis article describes an electronic OCLC error reporting (OER) program developed at the Albert B. Alkek Library, Southwest Texas State University, in response to the OCLC announcement that OCLC users could begin submitting bibliographic record change requests and duplicate record reports via Internet e-mail. OER is a menu-driven program written in VAX VMS which facilitates sending OCLC error reports by providing blank error-report forms for various error-reporting activities. This is accomplished by adding constant and system-supplied information to the forms and then automatically sending the forms, while giving ample opportunities to review the accuracy of the outgoing report. Doing so provides more uniformity and accuracy in the reporting process and saves money and staff time. This article suggests that, although the program is written for the SWT library, it may easily be modified and used by other compatible institutions.Item Item From Politics to Poodles: A Look Into Molly Ivins' Personal Library(Society of Southwest Archivists, 2013-02) Sigler, Karen B.No abstract prepared.Item From Research Data and Datasets to Artificial Intelligence and Discovery: Online Data Research Repositories and Digital Scholarly Ecosystems(International Federation of Library Associations, 2022-07-23) Uzwyshyn, RaymondOnline networked data research repositories allow sharing and archiving of research data for open science and global research. This sharing opens data to modern interoperability and metadata for search, retrieval, and larger possibilities of open scholarly research ecosystems. Data research repositories are currently being leveraged to accelerate global research, promote international collaboration, and innovate on levels previously thought impossible. Research data repositories may also link data to further content from online publications and other digital communication and aggregation tools. This article pragmatically overviews such a data and content-centered ecosystem at Texas State University Libraries in the United States. The research then discusses the ecosystem's next level of planning and construction involving both bigger data possibilities for AI infrastructures\enabling researchers and their data towards Deep Learning (Neural Net) possibilities. The research uses examples of recent digitized medical image datasets for Cancer/melanoma detection through Deep Learning/Neural Net for global open science possibilities. These methodologies show large promise in making good use of online open data repositories, digital library ecosystems and online datasets. Recent AI research highlights the utility of several easily available online open-source digital library data repository and ecosystem components. An online data-centered research ecosystem accelerates open science, research and discovery on global levels. This open-source ecosystem and software infrastructure may be easily replicated by research institutions. Creating open online data infrastructures for research communities enables future global data and research, collaboration and the advancement of science, the academic research cycle on networked global levels.Item Ideas for Using Defined Function Keys in PRISM(1992-04) Khosh-khui, Sam AbolghasemNo abstract prepared.
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