How to Search The Colorado House and Senate Journals Collection In Colorado Law’s Scholarly Commons

Directions for how to search the Colorado House and Senate Journals digital collection.https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/colorado-house-and-senate-journals/1580/thumbnail.jp

How to Search the Colorado Session Laws Collection In Colorado Law’s Scholarly Commons

Directions for how to search the Colorado Session Laws collection in Scholarly Commons.https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/session-laws-2001-2050/10352/thumbnail.jp

Facilitating Collaborative Metadata Creation for Faculty-initiated Digital Projects

The usability and long-term preservation of digital humanities projects, such as a digital archive or other project built around digitized materials, depend on thoughtful and thorough metadata creation. The variety of expertise required to create high-quality metadata for digital humanities projects practically requires a collaborative approach. Putting the call for collaboration into practice requires tools that are accessible and functional for all collaborators. Research on tools for metadata creation has tended to focus either on tools for librarians to manage digital project metadata or on tools for independent author metadata creation (Greenberg, 2003; Crystal & Greenberg, 2005). The literature has also tended to focus solely on the use of spreadsheets for metadata creation. Lincoln (2018) has discussed best practices for Google Sheets in archival metadata entry, and Broman and Woo (2017) have discussed best practices for spreadsheet data entry in general. This article positions tool selection and configuration as site of collaboration for the creation of digital project metadata through its examination of a Google Forms-based workflow for the creation and organization of metadata

A Pandemic at the Library: Lessons from COVID-19 About Technology Needs for Remote Working During a Crisis

In March 2020, during the COVID-19 crisis, Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, USA decided to close its campus and that the majority of its employees would be working remotely. This chapter discusses how the Grinnell College Libraries' technology team set up library staff to work remotely. Then, the chapter gives lessons learned and best practices for setting up library staff to work remotely during the next crisis.</p

Beyond Scholarship: Innovative Institutional Repository Collections

Repositories are well-established containers for faculty and student scholarship, but there is so much more they can do. During this session, presenters will discuss their unique repository collections, how the ideas were developed, the unexpected stumbling blocks they encountered along the way, and how they worked with stakeholders to develop and market the collections. We will discuss how each collection has benefited the library and institution and the benefits we can show our institutional administration with these projects. The program will include how the libraries developed collections on three different repository platforms, their benefits, and their drawbacks: bepress\u27s Digital Commons, Islandora, and Harvard\u27s homegrown platform. Boston University will discuss its living memorial site for a faculty member, Harvard will discuss its Neil Chayet collection of audio and transcripts from Looking at the Law (a local radio show), the University of Georgia will discuss its podcast collection and a special collection that accompanies a physical exhibit, and the University of Colorado will discuss their Colorado Session Laws collection. One of the speakers is a new librarian who will also speak about getting involved in library projects like this early in his career. The presenters will develop a worksheet for participants to plan their own unique collections, which will include subject matter and platform considerations, an area for brainstorming potential stakeholders, marketing ideas, and considerations the speakers wish they had known about. Attendees will be empowered to connect with each other and others who work on repositories to develop their collection ideas. TAKEAWAYS: Participants will be able to identify four institutional repository collections that used their platforms in innovative ways, showcase a school\u27s unique assets, and help draw web traffic to the repositories. Participants will be able to plan their own unique collections, identify the support needed to develop them, and be prepared to address any unexpected issues that may arise. Participants will develop ideas for selling those ideas to stakeholders involved in repositories

Beyond Scholarship: Innovative Institutional Repository Collections

Repositories are well-established containers for faculty and student scholarship, but there is so much more they can do. During this session, presenters will discuss their unique repository collections, how the ideas were developed, the unexpected stumbling blocks they encountered along the way, and how they worked with stakeholders to develop and market the collections. We will discuss how each collection has benefited the library and institution and the benefits we can show our institutional administration with these projects. The program will include how the libraries developed collections on three different repository platforms, their benefits, and their drawbacks: bepress\u27s Digital Commons, Islandora, and Harvard\u27s homegrown platform. Boston University will discuss its living memorial site for a faculty member, Harvard will discuss its Neil Chayet collection of audio and transcripts from Looking at the Law (a local radio show), the University of Georgia will discuss its podcast collection and a special collection that accompanies a physical exhibit, and the University of Colorado will discuss their Colorado Session Laws collection. One of the speakers is a new librarian who will also speak about getting involved in library projects like this early in his career. The presenters will develop a worksheet for participants to plan their own unique collections, which will include subject matter and platform considerations, an area for brainstorming potential stakeholders, marketing ideas, and considerations the speakers wish they had known about. Attendees will be empowered to connect with each other and others who work on repositories to develop their collection ideas. TAKEAWAYS: Participants will be able to identify four institutional repository collections that used their platforms in innovative ways, showcase a school\u27s unique assets, and help draw web traffic to the repositories. Participants will be able to plan their own unique collections, identify the support needed to develop them, and be prepared to address any unexpected issues that may arise. Participants will develop ideas for selling those ideas to stakeholders involved in repositories

Journal of Virology

Eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV) has a high case-fatality rate in horses and humans, and Florida has been hypothesized to be the source of EEEV epidemics for the northeastern United States. To test this hypothesis, we sequenced complete genomes of 433 EEEV strains collected within the United States from 1934 to 2014. Phylogenetic analysis suggested EEEV evolves relatively slowly and that transmission is enzootic in Florida, characterized by higher genetic diversity and long-term local persistence. In contrast, EEEV strains in New York and Massachusetts were characterized by lower genetic diversity, multiple introductions, and shorter local persistence. Our phylogeographic analysis supported a source-sink model in which Florida is the major source of EEEV compared to the other localities sampled. In sum, this study revealed the complex epidemiological dynamics of EEEV in different geographic regions in the United States and provided general insights into the evolution and transmission of other avian mosquito-borne viruses in this region.Published versio

Phylogeographic reconstruction of the emergence and spread of Powassan virus in the northeastern United States

Powassan virus is an emerging tick-borne virus of concern for public health, but very little is known about its transmission patterns and ecology. Here, we expanded the genomic dataset by sequencing 279 Powassan viruses isolated from ticks from the northeastern United States. Our phylogeographic reconstructions revealed that Powassan virus lineage II was likely introduced or emerged from a relict population in the Northeast between 1940 and 1975. Sequences strongly clustered by sampling location, suggesting a highly focal geographical distribution. Our analyses further indicated that Powassan virus lineage II emerged in the northeastern United States mostly following a south-to-north pattern, with a weighted lineage dispersal velocity of ~3 km/y. Since the emergence in the Northeast, we found an overall increase in the effective population size of Powassan virus lineage II, but with growth stagnating during recent years. The cascading effect of population expansion of white-tailed deer and populations likely facilitated the emergence of Powassan virus in the northeastern United States

Phylogeographic clustering of Caribbean/Americas epidemic CHIKV strains.

<p>The Bayesian maximum clade credibility (MCC) tree of CHIKV Asian genotype was annotated to reflect the geographic origin of samples collected in the Americas. The CO clade was split into three parts, magnified, and indicated by gray shading: subclade CO1 (right side of the tree), subclade CO2 (left middle panel), and non-CO1/CO2 strains (left lower panel). Sequences from different regions are colored in branches as described in the key. The original countries of infections (either indigenous or travel-related) are depicted with colored ovals next to the complete strain names and described in the key as well.</p