Building Community Through Non-Traditional Collections in Public Libraries

This poster will explore the wide range of non-traditional, non-media collections circulating in our nation's public library systems, with an eye to how we can use these collections to enhance community engagement with libraries here in Hawaii

Borrowing Across Disciplines for Integrated Curriculum Development [Slides]

Slides from a presentation about data visualization and adding it to LIS curricula given at the Lilly Conference in Austin, TX in January 2018

Career Reflections from Library Careers in Academic and Special Libraries

My guest speaker presentation covers my background, current career setting, major roles and responsibilities, what I love and find rewarding about my work, and advice for students getting started on their library degree. I also covered the contrast between my current position as an academic librarian and my previous position in the library of a high tech company

Guide to the Dewey Decimal Classification scheme

This library uses the Dewey Decimal Classification scheme (DDC) to arrange books and other library materials on the shelves for easy retrieval. It is used in many libraries and allows items about the same subject to be shelved together. This is a guide to the numbers used and what they represent

Electronic Publishing in Higher Education: How to design OAI interfaces - Recommendations -

The Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) allows sharing metadata serving to describe arbitrary objects with others. In addition to a short overview of the protocol the paper on hand contains recommendations for the application of Sets by German data providers and for the proper usage of the metadata elements of Dublin Core (DC). Thereby the target is pursued to ensure an efficient metadata exchange between the different users of the OAI protocol

The Interplay of Big Data, WorldCat, and Dewey

As the premier example of big data in the bibliographic world, WorldCat has the potential to support knowledge discovery in many arenas. After giving evidence for a big data characterization of WorldCat, the paper explores this knowledge discovery potential from two perspectives related to the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system: (1) how WorldCat data can inform development of the DDC (classification analytics) and (2) how DDC-classified content in WorldCat can shed light on the bibliographic world itself (collection analytics). In the realm of classification analytics, WorldCat data support decisions to modify the DDC by expanding or reducing the number of classes, adding topical coverage, or adding subject access points; data analysis can support recognition of (1) trending topics and (2) the faceted structure of subject domains. In the realm of collection analytics, the paper considers as possible applications the use of the DDC in the topical "fingerprinting" of categorized content in WorldCat or in performing a bibliographic gap analysis