Collection building

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Scaling Down to Scale Up: Streamlining Production for Mass Digitization Efforts (with Greg Prickman, Mark F. Anderson, and Jen Wolfe), 2010 Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting (2010)

Departments looking to increase their digitization efforts from start-up project mode to a maturing digital...

 

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Social Movement to Public Policy: Digital History in the IDL (with Jen Wolfe, Mark F. Anderson, Wendy C. Robertson, and Anne E. Shelley), Iowa Government Documents Round Table Annual Workshop (2008)

The Digital Library Services staff from the University of Iowa Libraries provided a content update...

 

Book reviews

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Building Digital Libraries: A How- To-Do-It Manual (review), Library Resources & Technical Services (2009)

Building Digital Libraries: A How-To-Do-It Manual. By Terry Reese Jr. and Kyle Banerjee. New York:...

 

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The Women of Country Music: A Reader (review), Western Folklore (2005)
 

Web reviews

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Community, and: Celestial Monochord: Journal of the Institute for Astrophysics and the Hillbilly Blues, and: The Art of the Rural: Considering Rural Arts and Culture in the Twenty-First Century (review essay), Journal of American Folklore (2011)
 

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The Folk Music Index, and: Discography of Bluegrass Sound Recordings (review), Notes (2010)

The Folk Music Index and the Discography of Bluegrass Sound Recordings are two robust, open-access...

 

Folklore

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Public Folklore Collections in the Upper Midwest poster (with Janet C. Gilmore), American Folklore Society Annual Meeting (2008)

Public folklorist have generated a wealth of ethnographic documents since the 1970s through thousands of...

 

No subject area

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Mentoring: It's a Good Thing: what we learned partying with student librarians (with Jen Wolfe and Paul A. Soderdahl), College & Research Libraries News (2011)

Party hosting is an exercise in preparation and personal finesse. The ambiance and menu must...

 

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Virtual Writing University Archive partnership with the University of Iowa Libraries (with James Elmborg), American Library Association Annual Conference (2010)

Two sets of panelists, each with a librarian and an LIS faculty member, discussed the...