Browsing MIT Libraries Publications and Presentations by Title
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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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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 ... -
Digital Archive Policies and Trusted Digital Repositories
(Digital Curation Centre, UK, 2007-06)The MIT Libraries, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and the University of California San Diego Libraries are conducting the PLEDGE Project to determine the set of policies that affect operational digital preservation ... -
Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in Library Technical Services
(2019-07-02)The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries recently embraced a large-scale initiative to incorporate the values of diversity, inclusion, and social justice (DISJ) into library practices. In early 2017, the ... -
Do Black Wikipedians Matter? Confronting the Whiteness in Wikipedia with Archives and Libraries
(Maize Books, 2021-09)Wikipedia is in the top ten of the most visited websites in most places in the world and makes up the backbone of the Internet’s information ecosystem. Despite the global presence of the website and its sister projects, ... -
DSpace : An Institutional Repository from the MIT Libraries and Hewlett Packard Laboratories
(Springer-Verlag, 2002)The DSpace⢠project of the MIT Libraries and the Hewlett Packard Laboratories has built an institutional repository system for digital research material. This paper will describe the rationale for institutional repositories, ... -
DSpace as an Open Archival Information System: Current Status and Future Directions
(Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2003-01)As more and more output from research institutions is born digital, a means for capturing and preserving the results of this investment is required. To begin to understand and address the problems surrounding this task, ... -
DSpace at MIT: Meeting the Challenges
(ACM Press, 2001)DSpace is a joint development effort by HP and MIT to establish an electronic system that will enable MIT faculty and researchers to capture, preserve, manage, and disseminate their intellectual output, and that will ...