Recent Additions

• Library Publishing Services and Their Readers: Trends and Barriers in the Digital Collections We Create 

  Tracy, Daniel G. (2015)

  Library publishing is a booming area of creation for digital collections. This presentation reports on a survey of library publishers to establish how they collect and use information about readers to inform publication ...

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  Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 (608kB)
• Leadership Training: Making It Work in Libraries around the World 

  Schnuer, Susan; McGuire, Rebecca; Teasdale, Rebecca (2015)

  The Gates Foundation has awarded a grant to the Mortenson Center to develop stand-alone leadership training materials that will work in different countries and cultures. This talk present lessons from pilot testing in ...

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  Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 (654kB)
• Disambiguating the Addresses of Chicago Directors 1900/01-1906 

  Phillips, Carissa (2015)

  As part of a broader analysis of an early 20th Century directory of Chicago business directors, identification of similar addresses reveals geographical concentrations of these leaders. This talk provides an overview of ...

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  Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 (10MB)
• Exposing Library Holdings (meta)Data in RDF Using schema.org Semantics 

  Han, Myung-Ja; Cole, Timothy W.; Lampron, Patricia; Sarol, Maria Janina (2015)

  The holdings and item data that are unique to individual libraries are not discoverable on the web.  This presentation discuss options to make essential library holdings and item data fully viable as linked open data using ...

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  Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 (739kB)
• Rethinking Medieval Manuscript Anthologies: The Case of the Perceval Casket 

  Carns, Paula Mae (2015)

  My research looks at how a medieval carved ivory box plays with the notion of the anthology to cleverly create in visual and miniature form a medieval "compilation" of Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval and its many Continuations.

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  Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 (2MB)