BU Libraries Scholarly Papers and Presentations
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Salary Survey: New England Health Sciences Librarians
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Don’t Panic! Teaching Strategies for Introverts
(2024-06-12)You’ve just been given your first library teaching assignment. You may be new to the library profession or a mid-career librarian taking on your first teaching role. Do you panic at the thought of standing up in front of ... -
Building A Community of Interest Around Cultural Heritage Digitization
(2024-06-12)This presentation will walk you through a tour of several Boston-area digitization programs that BU Libraries' Digital Ventures team went on as they went about setting up their new digitization and digital collections ... -
An introduction to the African Ajami Library
(2020-11-17)Presented on the African Ajami Library (AAL) project at the 4th Annual Princeton African Humanities Colloquium, Africa and Digital Humanities on November 17, 2020. The AAL is an almost ten year partnership with international ... -
Beyond orality: digital preservation and the African Ajami Library
(Boston University Libraries, 2020-04-07)This talk will provide an overview of the African Ajami Library (AAL), an open access digital repository of materials written in Ajami script (modified Arabic script) from all over Islamized Africa, which is hosted in ... -
Building a library talent program from scratch: how Boston University Libraries separated talent from HR to transform its people operations
(Boston University Libraries, 2020-03)The uncertainty of the future of the academic library casts a long shadow on today’s library operations. This session will discuss the important distinction between talent and HR, and the need to recast a vision of ... -
NIRDs unite: building a community of institutional repository practitioners in the Northeast
(Against the Grain, 2019)In the northeastern United States, there is a noticeable lack of any organized regional events specifically related to the topic of IRs. With other regions across the country holding similar events — along with recent ... -
Beyond African orality: digital preservation of Mandinka ʿAjamī archives of Casamance
(Wiley, 2019-06-14)This article focuses on the digital preservation of African sources written in Mandinka ʿAjamī, i.e. the enriched form of the Arabic script used to write the Mandinka language for centuries. ʿAjamī writing has been utilized ... -
Dolly Parton, gender, and country music
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-04-15)