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Origins of libraries in Boulder, Central City, Colorado City, Colorado Springs, and Denver during the period 1860-1905: a paper submitted for History Seminar 658, Department of History
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1974) Ernest, Douglas, 1947-, author
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Agricultural frontier to electronic frontier: a history of Colorado State University Libraries, 1870-1995
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1996) Ernest, Douglas, 1947-, author; Colorado State University, publisher
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Media reports a library disaster: a case study at Colorado State University
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2000-06) Ernest, Douglas, 1947-, author; Lederer, Naomi, 1965-, author
The first section of this article surveys the literature regarding the news media's reporting of disasters. The second section describes the media reports of the July 1997 natural disaster's impact upon Morgan Library at Colorado State University. The third section analyzes the reports from Colorado State University's disaster as compared to the research literature, media by media: broadcast, national newspapers and wire services, Colorado (local) newspapers, library press, and specialized publications. The conclusion presents concerns about media reporting and the apparent lack of concern for accuracy; this case study serves as a warning to all librarians and researchers.
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The Germans from Russia: documenting the immigrant experience in northern Colorado
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2005) Bastian, Dawn E. (Dawn Elaine), 1961-, author; Haworth Press, Inc., publisher
The Sidney Heitman Germans from Russia Collection at the Colorado State University Libraries is named in honor of the late Dr. Heitman's years of research and teaching about Colorado's second largest ethnic group. Created to support his Germans from Russia in Colorado Study Project, active at the university in the late 1970s, the collection's centerpiece is the oral histories generated by the project. This article provides information on the collection and describes a digital project supported by an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant through the Colorado Digitization Project (CDP) to make a selection of the oral histories, transcripts, photos, project documentation, and the finding aid available online to researchers. In addition to providing access to more than 1,500 digital objects, project staff developed important metadata for their discovery, retrieval, and management using the Western States Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices and Encoded Archival Description (EAD).
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Digitization of Local Collections Task Force report
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2005-11) Watkins, Shan, author; Morse-McGill, Tami, author; Lunde, Diane B., author; Liu, Shu, author; Jickling, Lynn C., author; Bishop, Janet, author; Paschal, Dawn Bastian, author
The Digitization of Local Collections Task Force was formed as a response to the growing need for established standards and procedural organization to accompany the digitization projects that CSU Libraries staff has become routinely involved in. With the increase in acquisitions of water and agricultural-related archival collections and the pending transfer of over 300,000 University photographs (digital and print format) from the former Office of Information Services (OIS), there is also a current urgency in establishing standardized workflow, communication, and procedural organization to CSU Libraries' digitization endeavors.
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Enrich. Educate. Entertain. Year in review 2005-2006
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2006) Colorado State University. Libraries. Friends of the Library, author; Colorado State University. Libraries, publisher
As the community outreach arm of Colorado State University Libraries, our mission is to connect our community with cultural and artistic programming to enrich, educate, and entertain.
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"The beginning of everything": a five-year report on the Colorado State University Water Resources Archive
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2006-09) Rettig, Patricia J., author
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Learning objects: an expedition from archival collection to online collaboration
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2007) Liu, Shu, author; The Haworh Press, Inc., publisher
People of Chinese origin have lived in British Columbia, Canada, since the beginning of non-aboriginal settlement. Many of them have left Chinese-language records that are valuable for the study of Chinese immigrant history. This article provides information about a pilot project completed at the Asian Library of the University of British Columbia to build a learning-object repository using an archival collection of historical Chinese language materials. The collection supports the undergraduate curriculum Chinese-Canadian history. This article introduces the definition and characteristics of learning objects and learning-objects metadata resulting from the project's investigation and the author's experience with selecting and testing systems to develop a prototype of a learning-object repository.
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Phase One report: core metadata elements for CSU electronic theses and dissertations, faculty Papers, and University Historic Photographs Collection (glass plate negatives)
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2007-08) Level, Allison V., author; Rettig, Patricia J., author; Liu, Shu, author; Hunter, Nancy, author
This document recommends and discusses a list of core metadata elements to be included in all Colorado State University Libraries (CSUL) digital projects, using CSU electronic theses and dissertations, faculty Papers, and University Historic Photographs Collection (glass plate negatives) as examples. It is the collaborative output of the CSUL Metadata Best Practices Task Force's first-phase work.
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CSU core data dictionary: version 1.0
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2007-10) Rettig, Patricia J., author; Liu, Shu, author; Hunter, Nancy, author; Level, Allison V., author
This document provides guidelines and examples on metadata creation for all Colorado State University Libraries (CSUL) digital projects. It is the collaborative output of the CSUL Metadata Best Practices Task Force's second-phase work.
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Carnations and the floriculture industry: documenting the cultivation and marketing of flowers in Colorado
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2008) Liu, Shu, author; Meyer, Linda M., author; The Haworth Press, Inc., publisher
The Records of the Colorado Flower Growers Association (CFGA) is an archival collection documenting the association prior to its 1979 name change. The CFGA was founded in 1928 to support the production and marketing of greenhouse flowers grown commercially in the state. In 1979, the organization changed its name to the Colorado Greenhouse Growers Association to reflect the increasing diversification of the industry. The collection consists of documents dated 1928 to 1980 (with the bulk falling between 1958 and 1972), and includes minutes from general, board and committee meetings, correspondence, newsletters, financial reports, scrapbooks, clippings, and photographic materials. This article provides a history of Colorado carnations, information on the collection, and describes a digital project supported by a cooperative agreement between the Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC) and the Colorado State University (CSU) Libraries to make a selection of the scrapbooks, clippings, newsletters, and photographic materials available online to researchers through the AgNIC Web site. In addition to providing access to over 500 digital images, project staff developed important metadata to facilitate their discovery, retrieval, and management using the Standard NAL Metadata and the Collaborative Digitization Project (CDP)'s CDP Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices.
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Engaging users: the future of academic library web sites
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2008) Liu, Shu, author; Association of College & Research Libraries, publisher
This article examines current academic library web site practices and recommends a conceptual model for future academic library web site design. The author investigated 111 ARL member library web sites and has summarized current site content, design patterns, and innovative features. The author discusses the Web 2.0 principles as defined by Tim O'Reilly and reviews the current literature on Web 2.0 implications for library web services. The author proposes making the academic library web site a virtual place and recommends a conceptual model to inform future academic library web site design based on the investigation and the discussion. Future academic library web sites might feature: 1) user focus, 2) personalization, 3) user engagement, 4) online communities, and 5) remixability.
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Developing a metadata best practices model: the experience of the Colorado State University Libraries
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2008) Hunter, Nancy, author; Liu, Shu, author; Rettig, Patricia J., author; Level, Allison V., author; The Haworh Press, Inc., publisher
The Metadata Best Practices Task Force at the Colorado State University (CSU) Libraries developed a core set of metadata elements and an accompanying data dictionary to facilitate a coordinated metadata management approach for a central digital repository of diverse digital objects. This article describes the rationale for the Task Force and the process used for its work following a look at the background of digitization and past metadata practices at CSU. The article includes a literature review on institutional metadata projects and examples, and it ends with a description of the Task Force's ongoing work and plans for future assessment.
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Colorado water history: a bibliography
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2008) Kryloff, Nicolai Alexander, author; Rettig, Patricia J., author; Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, publisher
Water is at the heart of Colorado's past and future. Ongoing debates - even lawsuits - regarding water show the importance this vital resource to the state and to the West. Combined with natural disasters such as floods and drought, or human concerns such as pollution and recreation, water issues have drawn an increasing degree of public attention. For water professionals, students, and interested citizens, knowing the history of our water resources can lead to a better understanding of current issues and events. The Colorado Water History Bibliography is a helpful resource for those wanting to learn more about this timely and significant topic. This bibliography is not intended to be comprehensive. Rather, it is a selective listing of core books on the topic that are generally accessible to the public, both in terms of content and availability. In addition to illuminating books already written about Colorado's water, this list reveals areas ripe for research. There are clearly holes in the writings about our state's rich water history, waiting to be filled in by generations of scholars yet to come.
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CSU core data dictionary: version 1.1
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2008-07) Rettig, Patricia J., author; Liu, Shu, author; Hunter, Nancy, author; Level, Allison V., author
This document provides guidelines and examples on metadata creation for all Colorado State University Libraries (CSUL) digital projects. Version 1.1 contains updates on the Identifier element in CSU core data dictionary version 1.0.
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A usability evaluation of Colorado State University Libraries' digital collections and the Western Waters Digital Library web sites
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2009) Zimmerman, Donald E., author; Bastian, Dawn E. (Dawn Elaine), 1961-, author
To assess ease of use, 18 participants completed 11 usability tasks for each Web site and then a Web site perception questionnaire. Participants rated both Web sites positively, but 25% and 36% could not complete all tasks; doing so required more than a minute to complete.
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Two librarians, an archivist, and 13,000 images: collaborating to build a digital collection
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2010) Oehlerts, Beth, author; Legg, Kathleen, author; Hunter, Nancy Chaffin, author; The University of Chicago, publisher
Colorado State University Libraries has been creating digitized collections, primarily from its Archives and Special Collections unit, since 2000. These projects involved collaboration among Archives, Cataloging, and Digitization; the most recent and ambitious project, digitizing 13,000 historical images of the university dating from the 1880s into the 1930s, required closer collaboration than any previous project. The three authors, each with a distinctive role in the project, use this case study to illustrate and discuss in detail the different professional and technical skills and perspectives that each brought to the project and how they learned from each other. The authors present lessons learned in how to effectively build successful internal partnerships to further digitization projects.
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Research for design: exploring student and instructor attitudes toward accessing library resources and services from course management systems (CMS)
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2010) Munro, Karen, author; McLure, Merinda, author; Communications in Information Literacy, publisher
The authors conducted a study concerning student and instructor attitudes toward accessing library resources and services from within course management systems (CMS). In spring 2008, the authors held semi-structured interviews with a small population of students and instructors at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) and at Colorado State University (CSU). They asked participants to respond to examples of library integrations in course management systems at other institutions and to report their local experiences with both the campus CMS and library services. Participant responses frequently challenged and altered the authors' preconceptions about best practices in integrating a library presence and library services in CMS. The interview findings are discussed thematically, in relation to higher education and library literature, and can help librarians to integrate an effective library presence in a campus course management system. This study can be readily adapted for implementation at other institutions.
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"A long way from Moscow": a collaborative project between archivists, librarians, and historians from the Steppes of Saratov Province and High Plains of Colorado
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2010) Rock, Kenneth W., author; Bishop, Janet, author; Regis University, publisher
This article describes the authors interactions with Russian archivists, librarians, and historians during a 2008 delegation visit to Saratov Province, the state of archival holdings and special collections in the Saratov area, and preliminary discussions regarding proposed collaborative digitization and academic research projects. A reciprocal visit by Russian and Ukrainian colleagues the following year to participate in the Inaugural Conference on German-Russian Studies is also detailed. The authors, both members of the Joint Academic Board for the International Center for German-Russian Studies at Colorado State University, discuss outreach strategies and lessons learned regarding a wide-ranging collaborative international project with information professionals and academics in a region previously closed to the West.
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Developing an institutional repository using DigiTool
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2011) Zhou, Yongli, author; Liu, Shu, author; Emerald Group Publishing Limited, publisher
This article aims to inform library professionals on technical issues relating to implementing and using DigiTool, proprietary software by Ex Libris, to develop an institutional repository (IR).