Browsing MIT Libraries Publications and Presentations by Title
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The Accessibility Quotient: A New Measure of Open Access
(Pacific University Library; Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 2012-05-15)INTRODUCTION The Accessibility Quotient (AQ), a new measure for assisting authors and librarians in assessing and characterizing the degree of accessibility for a group of papers, is proposed and described. The AQ offers ... -
Applying Concepts of Algorithmic Justice to Reference, Instruction, and Collections Work
(2019-09-30)As part of the MIT Libraries Library Instruction and Reference Services (LIRS) department’s “Summer of Data” initiative, we participated in a project on algorithmic justice. The growth of artificial intelligence (AI), ... -
Archive and database as metaphor: Theorizing the Historical Record
(2012-06-27)Digital media increase the visibility and presence of the past while also reshaping our sense of history. We have extraordinary access to digital versions of books, journals, film, television, music, art and popular ... -
Automated Validation of Trusted Digital Repository Assessment Criteria
(Texas Digital Library, 2007-09)The RLG/NARA trusted digital repository (TDR) certification checklist defines a set of assessment criteria for preservation environments. The criteria can be mapped into data management policies that define how a digital ... -
Bioinformatics Needs Assessment
(2015-04-29)An assessment of the Bioinformatics Program at MIT Libraries was conducted using quantitative and qualitative data collection methods during FY13-14. Interviews were conducted to gain insight about bioinformatics researcher’s ... -
Black and Brown at Blue and Gold: Two Notre Dame Experiences as Resident Librarians
(Library Juice, 2022-08)This book chapter describes the experiences of two Librarian-in-Residence program alumni, Naomi Bishop and Kai Alexis Smith. Bishop participated in the program from 2010-2012 designed around Science Technology Engineering ... -
Black to the Future: A Librarian’s Guide to Building an Afrofuturist Comics and Graphic Novels Collection
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Building a Business Plan for DSpace, MIT Libraries Digital Institutional Repository
(Texas A&M University, 2003)This paper presents an overview of the methodology and results of the MIT Libraries’ business plan development project for DSpace (http://www.dspace.org/), MIT’s digital institutional repository. The introductory section ... -
Building DSpace to Enhance Scholarly Communication
(Haworth Press, 2002)The MIT Libraries has built a durable digital document repository called DSpace to house the digital output of our faculty's research. DSpace will be a home for the digital documents our faculty want to share with their ... -
Campus Open-Access Policy Implementation Models and Implications for IR Services
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Corporate Bodies: Access Points and Authority Control
(Informa UK Limited, 2021-01)The concept of authorship is central to how libraries organize their collections. But libraries do not only collect resources created by individuals, they also collect documents issued by organizations. Library catalogers ... -
Corporate Bodies: Access Points and Authority Control
(Informa UK Limited, 2021-01-12)The concept of authorship is central to how libraries organize their collections. But libraries do not only collect resources created by individuals, they also collect documents issued by organizations. Library catalogers ... -
Corporate Bodies: Access Points and Authority Control
(Informa UK Limited, 2021-01)The concept of authorship is central to how libraries organize their collections. But libraries do not only collect resources created by individuals, they also collect documents issued by organizations. Library catalogers ... -
Creating a Social Justice Mindset: Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in the Collections Directorate of the MIT Libraries
(2017-02-09)The Collections Directorate of the MIT Libraries sponsored a task force to identify opportunities for archives, technical services, preservation, scholarly communication, and collections strategy staff to manifest the ... -
Creating an Institutional Repository: LEADIRS Workbook
(MIT Libraries, 2004)The Learning About Digital Institutional Repositories Seminars programme (LEADIRS) aims to describe and illustrate how to build an online institutional repository. The LEADIRS series of seminars present specialists from ... -
CSU Dreamin': A Case Study of Collaboration across the California State University System with Arts, Architecture, and Performing Arts Librarians
(Art Documentation, 2021-06)In summer 2017, the California State University (CSU) system implemented a shared unified library management system. This united the catalog records for the physical and electronic collections from all twenty-three campuses ... -
Curating Architectural 3D CAD Models
(UKOLN at the University of Bath, 2009-07)Increasing demand to manage and preserve 3-dimensional models for a variety of physical phenomena (e.g., building and engineering designs, computer games, or scientific visualizations) is creating new challenges for digital ... -
The Data Dilemma
(2007-11-27)There’s a famous allegory about a map of the world that grows in detail until every point in reality has its counterpoint on paper; the twist being that such a map is at once ideally accurate and entirely useless, since ... -
Deciding how to decide: Using the Digital Preservation Storage Criteria
(SAGE Publications, 2021-05)The Digital Preservation Storage Criteria (hereafter, the Criteria) grew out of a community discussion at the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES 2015) on the evolving landscape of digital preservation ... -
DEJA :“ A Year in Review
(2002)The MIT Libraries'€™ proposed to the Mellon Foundation to plan a preservation archive for dynamic electronic journals (DEJA : a€“ Dynamic E-Journal Archive) that would be reliable, secure, enduring, and sustainable over ...
