Articles
Teaching Use of Digital Primary Sources for K-12 Settings (with Anne R. Diekema, Heather Leary, and Sheri Haderlie), D-Lib Magazine (2011)
This paper describes learning outcomes of a three-day workshop on integrating primary sources into K-12...
Thermal-transfer printing: a better way to print library labels, Information Technology and Libraries (2004)
Thermal-transfer printing, a technology borrowed from the manufacturing sector, offers libraries a flexible method for...
Best Practices & Application Profiles
Mountain West Digital Library Dublin Core Application Profile, Version 2.0 (with Utah Academic Library Consortium. Digitization Committee. Metadata Working Group.) (2011)
Originally created by the Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) Metadata Working Group in 2009/10 and...
Mountain West Digital Library Dublin Core Application Profile (with Utah Academic Library Consortium. Digitization Committee. Metadata Task Force) (2010)
This Dublin Core application profile supersedes the Metadata Guidelines for the Mountain West Digital Library...
Utah Manuscripts Association Encoded Archival Description Best Practice Guidelines, version 1.2 (with J. Gordon Daines and Utah Manuscripts Association. Best Practices Committee) (2009)
Best Practice Guidelines created for participants in the Utah Manuscripts Association EAD Project funded by...
Western States Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices, version 1.2 (with Western States Digital Standards Group) (2003)
Funded by a grant awarded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in...
Presentations
Preserving the Digital Past for the Next Hundred Years (with Tawnya Mosier Keller and Chris L. Erickson), Utah Library Association Annual Conference (2012)
Digital resources in libraries are fragile, and without proper preservation, these valuable resources will become...
Roping, Corralling and Branding Silos of Information: Old West Techniques for a New World (with Randy Williams and Liz Woolcott), Utah Library Association Annual Conference. Salt Lake City, Utah. May, 2012 (2012)
Isolated silos of information are somewhat outdated in today's fast paced, Google-ized search environment. At...
The Design Workshop Archive and Digital Collection: A Collaboration Broadening Discovery, Access and Use of Design Materials (with Bradford R. Cole, Sara Skindelien, and Hillary Osborne), Conference of Intermountain Archivists/Society of Southwest Archivists Joint Conference (2012)
This presentation deals with the Design Workshop Archive and Digital Collection, a collaborative project of...
Metadata Standards for Digital Records: Helping the Public Find the Records They Need (with Kayla Willey and Sandra McIntyre), Electronic Records Conference (2011)
Presentation explains how metadata and metadata standards can be used by records managers to make...
Reaping a Rich Harvest from CONTENTdm: Using Primo and a Dublin Core Application Profile (with Sandra McIntyre), CONTENTdm Western Users Group Conference (2010)
Explains how Mountain West Digital LIbrary (mwdl.org) is using a new discovery platform (Primo) in...
Slideshows, Exhibits, etc.
Letter of Information (with Anne Diekema and Andrew Wesolek), Library Faculty & Staff Publications (2012)
Letter of Information for participants in the study: The Impact of New Data Management Plan...
Mormon History Materials: Utah State University Special Collections & Archives (2011)
The slideshow was created for the Mormon History Conference held in St. George, Utah May...
Welcome to Utah State University’s Digital Library! (2005)
Digital exhibit introducing Utah State University Library's new Digital Library in 2005