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Item Academic Libraries and Technology: An Environmental Scan Towards Future Possibility(Nova Publishers, 2018-07-08) Uzwyshyn, RaymondThis research conducts an environmental scan of current best practices in academic library technology to reflect on future landscapes. The work takes the premise that by projecting out from current leading-edge technology realities, it is possible to better plan for the future. Academic Library learning commons, 3D printing labs, makerspaces, online data research repositories and information literacy are overviewed to reflect on future academic library vistas. Academic needs and library areas are surveyed through themes of: collaborative, networked and emergent technologies, digital and information literacy, open source frameworks, online collections, the scholarly record and artificial intelligence. This research is meant to provoke and spark discussion, surveying present best practice thematic areas through various current sources and the author’s own pragmatic work and research in academic libraries and leading-edge information technologies.Item RDA, AACR2, and You: What Catalogers Are Thinking(ABC-CLIO, 2010-12-16) Sanchez, ElaineNo abstract prepared.Item Rendering Repositories: Taking out the Fat and Getting to the Impact(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2017-09) Brannon, Sian; Waugh, LauraThis book chapter contains a recipe detailing how to survey users for understanding the perceived value of digital library collections. Surveying users about your digital collections can tell librarians and administration how collections contribute to institutional goals. This type of assessment could be replicated for almost any collection, not just for institutional repositories.Item Semi-Structured and Unstructured Information Systems Information Visualization(Information Today Inc., 2011-01) Uzwyshyn, RaymondThis chapter presents an introduction to Information Visualization from Information Science and technological perspectives: semi-structured information systems and unstructured information systems are explored and 20th Century information Visualization programmers and theoreticians overviewed. The historical development of computer visualization along with information visualization early research communities are discussed in terms of significance for further developments. Directions and the promise of information visualization with regards to content and data are speculated upon for the future.