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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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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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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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Analysis for science librarians of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: the life and work of John O'Keefe, Edvard Moser, and May-Britt Moser
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2015) Gilman, Neyda V., author; Taylor & Francis, publisher
Navigation and awareness of space is a complicated cognitive process that requires sensory input and calculation, as well as spatial memory. The 2014 Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine, John O'Keefe, Edvard Moser, and May-Britt Moser, have worked to explain how an environmental map forms and is used in the brain (Nobelprize.org 2014b). O'Keefe discovered place cells that allow the brain to learn and remember specific locations. The Mosers added the second part of the "positioning system in the brain" with their discovery of grid cells, which provide the brain with a navigational coordinate system (Nobelprize.org 2014b).
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Analysis for science librarians of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: the life and work of William C. Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura, and Youyou Tu
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016) Gilman, Neyda V., author; Taylor & Francis, publisher
Parasites affect humans worldwide with varying degrees of seriousness. Some of the most impactful parasitic infections affect millions of people, many of whom are already impoverished and struggling. The discoveries of the 2015 Nobel Laureates in Physiology of Medicine have changed the way some of these serious parasitic infections are treated, saving and improving the lives of countless people. These Laureates are William C. Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura, and Youyou Tu.
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Analysis of Readex's Serial Set MARC records: improving the data for the library catalog
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2012) Draper, Daniel C., author; Lederer, Naomi, author; Elsevier, publisher
Colorado State University Libraries (CSUL) purchased the digitized United States Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994 and American State Papers (1789-1838) from the Readex Division of NewsBank, inc and, once funds and records were available, the accompanying MARC records. The breadth of information found in the Serial Set is described, along with the difficulties in using the print version (incorporated in the literature review, which includes citations of announcements of the digital collections and reviews of the software). The digital version of the Serial Set has its advantages, but there are additional rewards (much greater discovery opportunities) when items in the digital collection are directly accessible from the library catalog. The purchased MARC records, while overall excellent, had problems that needed to be corrected before they were loaded into CSUL's Innovative Interfaces library catalog. Patron access impact was used as a criterion when determining which of the records would be fixed before loading. High impact problems were identified and solutions derived for: multiple 245 (title) fields; 245 second indicator zero with titles beginning with a, an, or the; dollar sign used in text; fixed field date; languages; subject headings; creating proxy URLs; classification numbers; and author authority control (e.g. corporate entries and presidential entry errors).
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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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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 1.0
(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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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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CSU electronic theses and dissertations (CSU ETD) data dictionary, version 1.2
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2012-05) Liu, Shu, author; Oehlerts, Beth, author
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Customization of open source applications to support a multi-institution digital repository using DSpace
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016-05) Benchouaf, Youssef, author; Hamp, Daniel, author; Shelstad, Mark, author; D-Lib Magazine, publisher
Colorado State University, along with seven other academic institutions and a university press, migrated out of DigiTool to DSpace in the fall of 2015. This article will analyze the customizations made to the application, including assigning multiple handles; automating ingest of electronic theses and dissertations; mapping of multiple schema (METS, MODS, MARC) to Dublin Core; modifying the Simple Archive Format for ingest; Kaltura for ingesting bulk video submissions; and harvesting the OAI feed for CSU's web site, discovery layer, and other repositories. A number of processes for ingest have been automated or made available to non-system staff, resulting in significant cost and time savings.
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Data curation: a study of researcher practices and needs
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2014) Level, Allison V., author; Oehlerts, Beth, author; Cranston, Catherine, author; McLure, Merinda, author; Culbertson, Mike, author; The Johns Hopkins University Press, publisher
Colorado State University librarians conducted five focus groups with thirty-one faculty, research scientists, and research associates. The groups explored: (1) The nature of data sets that these researchers create or maintain; (2) How participants manage their data; (3) Needs for support that the participants identify in relation to sharing, curating, and preserving their data; and (4) The feasibility of adapting the Purdue University Libraries' Data Curation Profiles Toolkit interview protocol for use in focus groups with researchers. The authors report their review of related literature, themes that emerged from analysis of the focus groups, and implications for related library services.
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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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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).
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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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DMPTool
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2015-01-01) Swauger, Shea, author; The Charleston Advisor, publisher
DMPTool is a free, open source, online tool that helps users build a comprehensive and descriptive data management plan. DMPTool is tailored to be compliant with major grant funding agencies' requirements for data management plans, provide guidance for content, and link to additional resources that users might need to complete their plans. Institutions can subscribe (for free) to integrate customized text and resources into their researcher's plans using available campus services like institutional repositories, or set up a review system for plans associated with that institution.
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Duplication of Serial Set publications in the American State Papers: an annotated inventory
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2013) Imholtz, August A., author; Draper, Daniel C., author; American Library Association, publisher
The American State Papers collection of Congressional and Executive Branch publications, which in total number more than 6,300 documents, not only covers the fourteen Congresses before the initiation of the Congressional Serial Set in Dec. 1817 but for the final three-fifths of the collection overlaps chronologically with the first two decades of the Serial Set. Over 2,650 of the American State Papers publications reprint, with some occasional minor alterations and a few major ones, Reports and Documents originally published in the Serial Set. This paper provides for the first time an annotated list of all those duplicated publications.
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Duplication of Serial Set publications in the American State Papers: an annotated inventory part II
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2014) Imholtz, August A., author; Draper, Daniel C., author; Conrardy, Alicia, author; American Library Association, publisher
The American State Papers collection of Congressional and Executive Branch publications, which in total number more than 6,300 documents, not only covers the fourteen Congresses before the initiation of the Congressional Serial Set in Dec. 1817 but for the final three-fifths of the collection overlaps chronologically with the first two decades of the Serial Set. Over 2,650 of the American State Papers publications reprint, with some occasional minor alterations and a few major ones, Reports and Documents originally published in the Serial Set. This paper provides for the first time an annotated list of all those duplicated publications.
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Embracing INTO: library plans and campus collaboration to serve an increased international student population
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2013) Cranston, Catherine L., author; Farrell, Shannon L., author; Bullington, Jeffrey S., author; Regis University, publisher
Universities are using private recruitment agencies to fast-track internationalization initiatives and realize tuition-based revenue increases. Colorado State University (CSU), with this dual aim of increasing the proportion of international students on campus and generating income via out-of-state tuition, signed a contract with INTO, a British organization that works to recruit international students to attend partner institutions from countries across five continents. International students, although not a homogenous population, as a whole do bring unique challenges. Our study examined how both campus and the library could prepare for the expected large influx of international students. Seeking to understand the INTO model and the effect it would have on campus, particularly in terms of resource planning, we conducted a series of interviews with INTO staff, librarians at other U.S. INTO institutions, and CSU faculty and staff who would interact most substantially with the INTO population. Various campus departments have made significant preparations to prepare for the growing INTO population, and we identified several steps that the CSU Libraries could take to better serve these students, including enhancing existing services and fostering new campus collaborations.