Articles

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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

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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...

 

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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...

 

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Dublin Core Application Profiles and the OCLC Digital Gateway: New Tools for Improving Discoverability of Digital Collections (with Allyson Mower and Sandra McIntyre), Utah Library Association Annual Conference (2010)

Discusses how some new tools such as Dublin Core application profiles and the OCLC Digital...

 

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Resource Discoverability at the Crossroads (with Anne Diekema and Liz Woolcott), Utah Library Association Annual Conference (2010)

The Internet is changing how people find and use information. Users increasingly are discovering relevant...

 

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Tools for Using and Organizing Online Resources to Enhance Reference and Instruction (with Anne Diekema, Heather Leary, and Sheri Haderlie), Utah Library Association Annual Conference (2010)

Demonstrates free tools for tracking, organizing, and repurposing digital resources for incorporation into libguides, powerpoint...

 

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Optimizing for Broader Discoverability: Metadata with Web Crawlers and OAI Harvesters in Mind (with Sandra McIntyre), Southeast CONTENTdm Users Group Conference (2009)

Wondering how to get your CONTENTdm resources featured more in Google, OAIster, and other web...

 

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Using Digital Primary Sources for Teaching K-12 (with Anne Diekema, Sheri Haderlie, and Heather Leary), Utah Education Association Convention (2009)

USU faculty and northern Utah K-12 teachers and library media specialists talk about how to...

 

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Logan Historical Newspaper Transcription Project (with Phyllis Smith), Summer Citizens (2009)

Presentation given to summer citizens' group in Logan, Utah to tell them about the Logan...

 

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Using Digital Primary Sources for Teaching K-12 (with Heather Leary), Western CONTENTdm Users Group Conference (2009)

This presentation was the first in a series of three exploring how digitized primary materials...

 

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Sharing Your Finding Aids in CONTENTdm: Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Files in Mountain West Digital Library (with Sandra McIntyre), Western CONTENTdm Users Group Conference (2009)

Six libraries and archives from the Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) consortium are using CONTENTdm...

 

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Tapping Utah's Scholarly Works (with Jeff Belliston and Allyson Mower), Utah Library Association Annual Conference (2009)

Academic institutions in Utah talk about the institutional repositories (IRs) they have created to provide...

 

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Archival collections in a Digital World, Utah State University, Archives Class session (2008)
 

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DigitalCommons@USU: Opening USU Scholarship to All, Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library (2008)

Presentation introducing USU Library's new Institutional Repository

 

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Bear River Watershed Historical Digital Collection (with Steve Sturgeon), Bear River Water Commission (2006)

This presentation to the Bear River Water Commission introduced a new digital collection of images...

 

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If not DC, then MODS? A look at the Metadata Object Description Schema, Utah Library Association Annual Conference (2006)
 

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Sneak preview: Bear River Watershed Historical Digital Collection (with Stephen Sturgeon), 2006 Spring Runnoff Conference (2006)

Provides early look at a new digital collection assembling image and text resources about the...

 

Slideshows, Exhibits, etc.

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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...

 

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Welcome to Utah State University’s Digital Library! (2005)

Digital exhibit introducing Utah State University Library's new Digital Library in 2005