Copyright (c) 2009 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/marisa_ramirez Recent documents in Marisa Ramirez en-us Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:18:00 PST 3600 http://works.bepress.com/marisa_ramirez/8 http://works.bepress.com/marisa_ramirez/8 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:44:17 PST Marisa Ramirez Digital Libraries http://works.bepress.com/marisa_ramirez/7 http://works.bepress.com/marisa_ramirez/7 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:04:14 PDT Cal Poly State University librarians are engaging faculty, staff and students by transforming physical and digital library spaces to better support teaching and learning. A Science Café program hosted in the Learning Commons Library Café provides informal opportunities to come together over coffee, share current faculty research, and make salient the connections that exist between the numerous and seemingly unrelated areas of study on campus: science, humanities and the social sciences. The campus institutional repository (IR), DigitalCommons@CalPoly, is an ever-growing digital archive of faculty research, student work and campus documents which has facilitated new collaborations between faculty, campus constituents and the library and has elevated the visibility of faculty and student research. Sharing of physical and digital space provides for dynamic, campus-centered programs and initiatives bringing together technology, information, and people to create a myriad of connections. These initiatives are redefining physical and digital library spaces, catalyzing renewed interest in the library and fostering communication and connections on campus. Jeanine Scaramozzino Digital Libraries http://works.bepress.com/marisa_ramirez/6 http://works.bepress.com/marisa_ramirez/6 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:46:59 PDT Marisa Ramirez Digital Libraries http://works.bepress.com/marisa_ramirez/5 http://works.bepress.com/marisa_ramirez/5 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:22:56 PST This paper will review the findings from a research project concluded in 2004, which had the primary goal of learning more about the natural behaviors of people choosing materials for inclusion in a digital archive. Project participants, retiring faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had a number of tasks to perform. They had to 1) survey and choose the materials to include in the archive; 2) develop a "collection development plan" defining the nature of their materials, their intended audience, and the organizational scheme of their collection; 3) provide materials for digitization; 4) supply metadata for the digitized materials; and 5) write a "finding aid" for their collection. The research team digitized the materials and developed a demonstration repository website for the participants. This paper will focus on the disconnect between traditional archival theory and the users' natural behavior; and the challenges of developing an archival collection given current digital repository software. Megan A. Winget Digital Libraries http://works.bepress.com/marisa_ramirez/4 http://works.bepress.com/marisa_ramirez/4 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:40:59 PDT Marisa Ramirez Digital Libraries http://works.bepress.com/marisa_ramirez/3 http://works.bepress.com/marisa_ramirez/3 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:37:07 PDT In a research environment, dissemination of new knowledge is an imperative. Science itself is advanced by increased access to scholarly work. However, under the current model of research dissemination, publications can only be seen by the few people who subscribe to the journal. This limits the impact of research and its ability to influence subsequent work. Creation of a central online location to manage, preserve and maintain intellectual and historical output of an institution addresses dissemination, long-term preservation and thus sustainability of institutional knowledge. Marisa Ramirez Digital Libraries Institutionalizing Sustainability