University Libraries Research Copyright (c) 2013 Carnegie Mellon University All rights reserved. http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science Recent documents in University Libraries Research en-us Fri, 10 May 2013 01:31:58 PDT 3600 An Overview of the Northern Influences on Tolkien's Works http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/99 http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/99 Wed, 08 May 2013 13:32:30 PDT J.R.R.Tolkien studied the Old Norse literature and mythology thoroughly. While knowing Northern literature does not provide a key to unlock the meanings of his major works, his characters, creatures, implements, customs, incidents, and themes do have antecedents in the Eddas and sagas. This paper assesses the extent and impact of those antecedents.

]]> Gloriana St. Clair Volsunga Saga and Narn: Some Analogies http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/98 http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/98 Wed, 08 May 2013 13:32:29 PDT "Narn", one of the works in the Unfinished Tales, has many parallels with the thirteenth-century Old Norse Volsunga Saga, which Tolkien read and studied, This paper will assess comparisons between the heroes, women, dragons, plots, and tokens for their contribution to understanding Tolkien's relationship to his sources, and will note Tolkien's craft in source-assimilation.

]]> Gloriana St. Clair Tolkien as Reviser: A Case Study http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/97 http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/97 Wed, 08 May 2013 13:32:27 PDT The publication of drafts of The Lord of the Rings allows scholars to assess Tolkien as a reviser. A comparison of the early presentations of Gondor in The History of "The Lord of the Rings" , with the finished scenes indicates the nature and direction of Tolkien's changes. This paper will discuss how the process of revision contributed to the overall effect of the work.

]]> Gloriana St. Clair Teaching and Learning with Collections: The Library as a Site for Exploration and Inspiration http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/96 http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/96 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:01:14 PDT The library is commonly seen as a site for information seeking and directed research, yet it may also serve as a site for exploration and inspiration. The library as Wunderkammer, or a cabinet of curiosities, explored through the senses, is not a new idea, but one that is commonly lost in today’s disembodied digital universe. Library architecture sometimes promotes this identity. But when libraries are mute, and librarians are focused on information competencies, how do students come to perceive the library as a site of exploration and inspiration? Carnegie Mellon University’s Arts Library and Special Collections Department believes that teaching and learning with rare and unique collections—and sometimes even with circulating collections—addresses this question and has special application to the education of arts students. A number of case studies with architecture students are presented in this article.

]]> Martin Aurand CMU Libraries" Digital Assets Preservation Strategy http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/95 http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/95 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:16:03 PDT Gabrielle Michalek Preservation The Saga of the Fellowship of the Ring Road http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/94 http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/94 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:47:05 PDT Blog of a 2012 visit to Iceland

]]> Gloriana St. Clair Iceland Photo Album http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/93 http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/93 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:47:04 PDT Photos from 2012 Iceland trip

]]> Gloriana St. Clair Response to Library of Congress NOI on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/92 http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/92 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:40:58 PST Denise Troll Covey Copyright Orphan works Open access Digital preservation Response to OSTP RFI on Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications Resulting from Federally Funded Research http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/91 http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/91 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:40:55 PST Response to Request for Information from the Office of Science and Technology Policy posted in the Federal Register, Vol. 76, No. 214, November 4, 2011.

]]> Denise Troll Covey et al. Open access Response to OSTP RFI on Public Access to Digital Data http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/90 http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/90 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:40:54 PST Response to Request for Information from the Office of Science and Technology Policy posted in the Federal Register, Vol. 76, No. 214, November 4, 2011.

]]> Denise Troll Covey et al. Digital preservation Open data Letter to Congress opposing the Research Works Act http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/89 http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/89 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:40:53 PST Denise Troll Covey et al. Institutional repositories Copyright Open access Digital preservation Olive: A Digital Archive for Executable Content http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/88 http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/88 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:40:53 PST ncreasingly, executable content pervades research and industry. Traditionally, libraries have been responsible for the preservation of historical content in its original forms, and recently in born-digital forms as well. This practice has enabled the accumulation of knowledge while reducing reinvention. Libraries have failed, however, to meet their preservation obligations in the area of executable content. Using virtual machines for curation, Olive, an Internet-based infrastructure for archiving and preserving deprecated hardware, will enable libraries to fulfill their responsibility to those segments of the community that produce dynamic, interactive, and executable content. Including this content among the responsibilities of the academic library will foster progress for engineers, scientists, historians, sociologists, and others. Use cases to be explored preferentially will include educational software, games, and scholarly articles that include executables.

]]> Gloriana St. Clair et al. digital archives A Year in the Life: Business Librarians Report on 2008–09 http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/87 http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/87 Tue, 08 May 2012 11:28:13 PDT This article summarizes trends and initiatives in the world of academic business librarianship, as reported by the members of the Academic Business Library Directors (ABLD) organization, for the year 2008-9.

]]> Roye Werner Buried Treasure: A Business Librarian’s Insights on Finding the Evidence http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/86 http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/86 Mon, 07 May 2012 13:57:44 PDT This chapter offers my perspective as a professional librarian and former manager on accessing the research evidence in the business and management fields. I describe the barriers faced by managers, students, and scholars in locating and reading the peer-reviewed literature: its scattered placement, varying formats, controlled access, and swiftly changing environment. I explore how those roadblocks are being overcome, and I offer practical recommendations for both managers and researchers on what they can do today to bring that evidence to light.

]]> Roye Werner The Heinz Electronic Library Interactive On-Line System (HELIOS): Building A Digital Archive Using Imaging, OCR, and Natural Language Processing Technologies http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/85 http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/85 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:32:03 PST In February 1994, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) embarked on an ambitious project to convert one million pages of the congressional papers of Senator John Heinz (R-PA) into digital format and to provide access to these papers through innovative information retrieval software developed at CMU. Named in memory of the late Senator, the Heinz Electronic Library Interactive Online System (HELIOS) supports full-page digital images and it utilizes natural language processing (NLP) technology to search large quantities of unstructured text. HELIOS will allow researchers to access the Heinz papers through the campus network as well as through the Internet.

Over one million dollars was donated by the Heinz Family Foundation, Heinz Company Foundation, and Heinz Endowments to support the establishment of the H. John Heinz III Archives and the digitization project. Heinz assistance has made it possible to advance the principles of digital preservation and access for archival collections. In addition to the Heinz gift, CMU has committed an additional $450,000 in matching resources to the project. These resources primarily come in the form of permanent full-time staff salaries, archival equipment, and rental of a processing facility.

Our goal is to develop a digital archive that will serve as a model for the archival profession. We expect to create an archival information technology environment that dramatically increases the depth of indexing and the quality of retrieval beyond what archiving resources have traditionally allowed.

To create the HELIOS database, documents are scanned, converted to ASCII form via OCR, verified and organized, and indexed using the CLARIT natural language processing software. The project will develop three graphical user interfaces in a Microsoft Windows environment: a scanning interface, an archivist/verification interface, and an end-user interface.

HELIOS represents a significant breakthrough technology that has the potential to transform the work of archivists by helping them to overcome the significant challenges they face, including an inability to: 1. create good finding aids and indexes for paper archives that provide deep access to collections, 2. provide effective retrieval from paper archives due to the inherent diversity and size of these one-of-a-kind files, and 3. offer broad public access to archives because they represent resources that the researcher must visit in order to use effectively.

Archivists have resisted the use of information technology because they lack appropriate tools to automatically process large amounts of text for retrieval. HELIOS will offer such a tool.

Clearly, there are many problems yet to be solved in the management and preservation of digital archives, but it is CMU's intention to work with the larger archival and library community to help establish standard practices for digitizing paper archives and to develop the information management tools to give scholars and students state-of-the-art access to them.

]]> Gabrielle Michalek Digital Libraries Requirements and Characteristics of a Preservation Quality Information Management System http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/84 http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/84 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:31:59 PST This paper focuses on the requirements of an information management system that is designed to ensure the long term preservation of the information managed and delivered by that system. It is not an all inclusive list or description, but rather, an overview of the approaches and methodologies that have been used by the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries as we have built, developed, and now, acquired, information management systems that have the onerous task of supporting collections we have promised to keep in perpetuity.

]]> Gabrielle Michalek Digital Libraries Author Rights and Publishing Today: What you should know. Why you should care. http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/83 http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/83 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:54:42 PDT Denise Troll Covey Institutional repositories Copyright Open access Recruiting Content for the Institutional Repository: The Barriers Exceed the Benefits http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/82 http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/82 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:55:50 PDT Focus groups conducted at Carnegie Mellon reveal that what motivates many faculty to self-archive on a website or disciplinary repository will not motivate them to deposit their work in the institutional repository. Recruiting a critical mass of content for the institutional repository is contingent on increasing awareness, aligning deposit with existing workflows, and providing value-added services that meet needs not currently being met by other tools. Faculty share concerns about quality and the payoff for time invested in publishing and disseminating their work, but disagree about metrics for assessing quality, the merit of disseminating work prior to peer review, and the importance of complying with publisher policies on open access. Bridging the differences among disciplinary cultures and belief systems presents a significant challenge to marketing the institutional repository and developing coherent guidelines for deposit.

]]> Denise Troll Covey Institutional repositories Copyright Open access IEEE Explore http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/81 http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/81 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:10:16 PDT The new IEEE Xplore 2010 digital library is almost unrecognizable from its previous incarnation -- and that's a good thing. A true collaboration between IEEE and its stakeholders, the product now drives like a fine sports car, the kind that may cost you a tidy sum to insure, but each time you take it out for a spin, you feel reimbursed. IEEE's vision is to become both the publisher of choice for all technical information and the leading society in technology innovation. The advanced search option is the key feature of the new IEEE Xplore. It offers a wide selection of criteria for building an eloquent search strategy and, most importantly, for refining search results. The mega-improved search functionality and delivery options set the pace for future innovation at the researcher's workbench. Kudos to IEEE for working so closely with its base clientele to address their needs and to implement necessary changes based on their feedback.

]]> G. Lynn Berard Reference Services - Statistics Database Review Testing the Viability of the READ Scale [Reference Effort Assessment Data]©: Qualitative Statistics for Academic Reference Services http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/80 http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/80 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:10:12 PDT The READ Scale (Reference Effort Assessment Data) is a six-point scale tool for recording qualitative statistics by placing an emphasis on recording effort, knowledge, skills, and teaching utilized by staff during a reference transaction. Institutional research grants enabled the authors to conduct a national study of the READ Scale at 14 diverse academic libraries in spring of 2007 and test its viability as a tool for recording reference statistics. The study data were collected from 179 individuals and 24 service points with over 22,000 transactions analyzed. There was a 52% return rate of an online survey of participants, with over 80% of respondents indicating they would recommend or adopt the Scale for recording reference transactions. The authors suggest that the READ Scale has the potential to transform how reference statistics are gathered, interpreted, and valued. This paper presents the findings of a nationwide study testing the Scale in spring 2007 and suggests practical approaches for using READ Scale data.

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