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E-Science and Data Support Services: August 19, 2010

This study draws on data from 57 of 123 ARL member libraries (a 46% response rate for the survey). Over 75% of survey respondents reported that their institution either provides infrastructure or…
A sustainable future for open textbooks? The Flat World Knowledge story: August 3, 2010

Authors John L. Hilton III and David A. Wiley discuss the concern many college students and their families have a=about the high costs of textbooks. E–books have been proposed as one potential …
An Arbitrage Opportunity for Image Search and Retrieval: June 2, 2009

A new paradigm for image search metadata collection is emerging exemplified by the Human Computation School's application of gaming principles to information science search challenges. In pa…
Course Views: A Scalable Approach to Providing Course-Based Access to Library Resources: March 30, 2009

The NCSU Libraries’ Course Views project, along with a locally developed widget web service, improves course-based access to library collections and services by dynamically generating library c…
Special Collections in ARL Libraries: A Discussion Report from the ARL Working Group on Special Collections: March 26, 2009

The ARL Working Group on Special Collections was charged by the Research, Teaching, and Learning Steering Committee in 2007 with advising it "on special collections issues on an ongoing basi…
A Comparative Study of International Approaches to Enabling the Sharing of Research Data: November 30, 2008

The current methods of storing research data are as diverse as the disciplines that generate them and are necessarily driven by the myriad ways in which researchers need to subsequently access an…
Repurposing Open Source Software for Agile Digital Image Library Development: October 16, 2008

In 2007, the University of West Florida Department of Digital and Learning Technologies was charged with the task of rapidly developing a digital image library focusing on the university'…
Using Personas to Understand the Needs and Goals of Institutional Repository Users: October 3, 2008

This study shares the results of an effort to understand the needs and goals of future institutional repository (IR) users at the University of Colorado at Boulder (UCB). Due to underutilization …
Free digital texts begin to challenge costly college textbooks in California: August 18, 2008

Would-be reformers are trying to beat the high cost -- and, they say, the dumbing down -- of college materials by writing or promoting open-source, no-cost online texts. …
Free and Open Source Options for Creating Database-Driven Subject Guides: March 28, 2008

This article reviews available cost-effective options libraries have for updating and maintaining pathfinders such as subject guides and course pages. The paper discusses many of the available op…

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