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SHARE’s Open Dataset of Research Outputs
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Searching for known items: comparing search results for books in Millennium (III) and Primo at Boston University Libraries
(2013-06-19)This study attempts to compare the effectiveness of searching for “known items” in Primo and the Millennium OPAC. Boston University Libraries provided both the Millennium OPAC and Primo for a period of 16 months. During ... -
Evolutionary Subject Tagging in the Humanities; Supporting Discovery and Examination in Digital Cultural Landscapes
(2011-11-30)In this paper, the authors attempt to identify problematic issues for subject tagging in the humanities, particularly those associated with information objects in digital formats. In the third major section, the authors ... -
Library Technology Services at Boston University: an un-roadmap
(2011-02-06)This document attempts to identify user needs and expectations along with trends in scholarship, scholarly communication, and technologies that are the context in which decisions about library technologies are made. It ... -
Collection Development and the Value of the Library
(2011-01-20)Discusses recent trends in scholarly communication and library collection development -
Services to support BU Authors with Open Access Issues
(2011-01-20)Discusses options for Boston University Libraries for supporting faculty authors in their efforts to make their articles available through open access publishing models. -
Report on OCLC Web-scale Management Services (WMS)
(2010-12-08)A report on the OCLC/LYRASIS “Moving Library Cooperation to Web Scale” session on Friday, Dec 3, 2010. -
Library as Agent of [Re]Contextualization
(Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, 2009-06)
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