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Metadata Standards and Web Services in Libraries, Archives, and Museums An Active Learning Resource Taschenbuch von Erik Mitchell Details Autor: Erik Mitchell EAN: 9781610694490 Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert Sprache: Englisch Seiten: 304 Maße: 254 x 178 x 16 mm Erschienen: 31.10.2015 Schlagworte: Verlagswesen / Bibliotheks- / Archiv- und Informationsmanagement / Medien / Kommunikation / Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen Beschreibung Metadata in library information environments is evolving rapidly. This book provides readers with a set of tools for designing, developing, and implementing metadata-rich information systems while also examining the challenges and opportunities in this field. As the world of library and information science has developed in the age of digital information, metadata and metadata-rich information systems have become increasingly important-and more complex and confusing. This book will enable students, instructors, and practitioners in the information science field to understand how the

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This is the inaugural post in our new series Archival Innovators!  In this new series, we aim to raise awareness of the individuals, institutions, and collaborations that are helping to boldly chart the future of the the archives profession and set new precedents for the role of the archivist in society. Our first Archival Innovators…

GW professor helped conserve droid’s original costume from iconic ‘Star Wars’ trilogy.

Larger and small institutions alike are trying to figure out ways to preserve digital ephemera such as podcasts and tweets.

Larry Smith’s collection of Vols basketball memorabilia shows a passion for the sport and a dedication to our players.

Adriana Flores is one of our participants in our Year in the Life series, which follows new archivists in their first professional position. We will be following Adriana for a year. You can read her previous posts here. As I mentioned in my previous post, my two-year work anniversary at HGARC was this month. With that anniversary…

UT Libraries is excited to introduce #UTKLibPets! Follow UTKLibraries on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or our blog to meet the beloved pets of library staff. Tag us to share your adorable pet photos, or for an extra challenge, snap a photo of your pet sporting UT orange! Name: Pierogi (named after the potato and cheese filled … Continued

In a world of apps, massively multiplayer online role playing games/MMORPGs, game consoles, and connected mobile devices, the physicality and social aspect of gaming begins to wane. All this despite much online gaming being touted as, well, social. Players become more detached from play and removed from the physical medium as well as from others. Board games are a way out of this by providing a physical, manipulable medium for patrons to interact, grow and explore in a physical space (hopefully within a library). In an attempt to connect with patrons who desire diverse gaming experiences - game experiences which engage their imagination, spur critical thought, and exist in a physical rather than digital realm - the Primos Branch of the Upper Darby Free Public Library piloted three separate gaming groups in the Summer of 2013 - A weekly, intergenerational

Jacob Harris on the hows and whys of designing interactives to survive the future

Rabia Gibbs, an assistant professor and librarian, passed away on June 15. Gibbs joined the UT Libraries in 2010 as a diversity resident librarian. In 2012 she was appointed digital services and access librarian in Special Collections. Funeral services will be held this week in Gibbs’s hometown of Philadelphia.

Don’t miss two unusual free exhibits about Knoxville history on UT’s campus. Take advantage of the summer lull on the University of Tennessee’s campus to witness two very interesting exhibits ...

Robert Morgan, the acclaimed author of Gap Creek and The Road from Gap Creek, will speak about the impact of Willma Dykeman’s fiction and non-fiction in his own work at the beginning of a two-day tribute to Dykeman on April 7 and 8. The events are sponsored by the Library Society of the University of … Continued

by Courtney Butler, former Head Editor, INALJ Idaho previously published 7/12/13 Why Archives are Awesome: A Top 5 List This past week I began an internship with the Missouri State Archives – the v…

LibParlor Contributor, Rachel Miles, gives readers some tips for getting started with academic writing and presenting.

By Sam Meister ____ This is the third post in the bloggERS series describing outcomes of the #OSS4Pres 2.0 workshop at iPRES 2016, addressing open source tool and software development for digital preservation. This post outlines the work of the group tasked with "developing requirements for an online community space for sharing workflows, OSS tool integrations, and implementation experiences" See…

WebJunction recently hosted Library Journal Mover & Shaker Courtney Saldana for a webinar on her area of expertise: teen services. The information she shared was very valuable and her enthusiasm for working with teens was infectious.

by Bonnie Gordon This is the twelfth post in the bloggERS Script It! Series. Context Over the past couple of years at the Rockefeller Archive Center, we've digitized a substantial portion of our audiovisual collection. Our colleagues in our Research and Education department wanted to create a clip library using this digitized content, so that they could…

An exhibit at the University of Tennessee's Hodges Library explores movies and the East Tennesseans who created them.