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HELP! Quick Sample of Questions for Student CCO Project…

Posted by louismunoz on December 13, 2007

Hi all,

De-lurking here. Finishing up my semester at Pratt, student project due on Cataloging Cultural Objects. If you can take a few minutes to answer as many of the questions as you can, maybe even add some comments, I’ll be very grateful. (Any responses you wish kept off the record will be honored.)

Thanks, Louis in Brooklyn.

1-Do you/your institution use CCO? If so, for how long? If not, any particular reasons?

2-If you don’t use CCO, how familiar are you with it? Self-study, or from other work/interests?

3-How effective are the CCO content standards? Also, do you find it easy to use/implement?

4-What are your favorite/least favorite features? (What do you like best/least about it?)

5-BIG one for my project: Have you seen users’ image searches improve with CCO? Why or why not?
(Any anecdotes, examples, will be extremely appreciated.)

6-CCO: Wave of the future? Or not enough to achieve goals?

7-How easy is CCO to use with other descriptive standards tools & metadata element sets?

8-Whether you use CCO or not, does your work entail more of documenting cultural objects or describing images of objects?

If there is anything you’d like to add that I haven’t addressed, please feel free to include.

Thanks in advance for everyone’s help! Hope I can either return the favor and/or pay it forward, and have a great holiday season, all!

Louis Munoz
louismunoz@yahoo.com

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ARTstor Research Project

Posted by Carter on August 2, 2007

Dear Art Librarians:

For a research study involving digital rights management and academic library electronic resources, I am interested in talking with art librarians who are actively involved with ARTstor.

The purpose of the research is to understand the process by which librarians, publishers and other interested parties develop access and use terms, how specific access and use terms come to be perceived as acceptable or unacceptable by librarians, and how those perceptions may vary across types of libraries.  We are looking at  ARTstor as an
exemplar of this process.

If you are interested in participating in this research, you will be asked to participate in a  phone (preferred)  or email interview regarding the process by which you  decide that certain access and use terms are  acceptable. Your participation will last approximately 45 minutes.  This study will result in academic publications; however personal (individual names) will not be used and library and institution names will not be used.

If you would consider participation but have questions, or if you would like to participate, please contact:

Barbara Walden
bwalden@library.wisc.edu
608 265-5885

Thank you very much for your interest;  I look forward to hearing from you!

Barbara Walden
PhD student, School of Library and Information Studies,
Western European Studies librarian,
University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Second Life, Museums, and Archaeological Modeling

Posted by Carter on June 15, 2007

Richard Urban blogs at Inherent Vice on his collaborative poster session, “Second Life, Museums, and Archaeological Modeling” for the Digital Humanities Conference.

The researchers have identified the trend of user-created cultural institutions, rather than institution-created cultural sites.  Plus, “serious leisure” and Oldenburg’s “third spaces” – what an amazing opportunity to create new spaces for cultural creativity!

Posted in Museums, Personal Websites, SecondLife, Student Research, Technology, [ Suggestions for Improving this Blog ] | 1 Comment »

publishing opportunities

Posted by sfalls on February 23, 2007

Library and Information Science students and educators,

Library Student Journal is once again accepting student papers for review
and publication in our next issue. Please visit
http://informatics.buffalo.edu/org/lsj/getinvolved.php for more information
about having your work published.

LSJ was founded at the University of Buffalo in New York state but seeks
international readers and authors. We’ve also expanded our services to the
LIS community with recent additions of a discussion board and blog. We’re
pleased to offer students such an accessible forum for discussion as well
as the opportunity to be published alongside peers. Educators are
encouraged to share this opportunity with students.
Thank you

- Shannon Smith -
Library Student Journal staff

http://www.librarystudentjournal.com

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Featured Blog: Heather’s Art Blog

Posted by Carter on October 19, 2006

Heather Saunders is an up-and-coming art library student based out of Toronto. Some of you may remember her talk, “Internet Art and the Archivist’s Conflicting Roles” from the New Voices in the Profession panel at Banff earlier this year. Heather is now blogging at Heather’s Art Blog. Check out her artist’s statement as well as images of her work. She’s also tackled some heavy Library 2.0 issues if you’re interested . . .

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