Collaborating with library staff: opportunities for technical communicators

Poster session presented at the International Professional Communication Conference, October 1-3, 2007, Seattle, Washington

Usability evaluation of Colorado State University Libraries' digital collections and the Western Waters Digital Library web sites, A

Unreviewed manuscript.To assess ease of use, 18 participants completed 11 usability tasks for each Web site and then a Web site perception questionnaire. Participants rated both Web sites positively, but 25% and 36% could not complete all tasks; doing so required more than a minute to complete

Managing scientific research data: data packaging and organizing materials for curation

The SGS-LTER research site was established in 1980 by researchers at Colorado State University as part of a network of long-term research sites within the US LTER Network, supported by the National Science Foundation. Scientists within the Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, and Biology Department at CSU, California State Fullerton, USDA Agricultural Research Service, University of Northern Colorado, and the University of Wyoming, among others, have contributed to our understanding of the structure and functions of the shortgrass steppe and other diverse ecosystems across the network while maintaining a common mission and sharing expertise, data and infrastructure.Presentation held at the Front Range Data Librarian Meeting on June 16, 2014 at CSU Libraries and Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory in Fort Collins, Colorado.NSF Grant DEB-1027319

Data curation issues in transitioning a field science collection of long-term research data and artefacts from a local repository to an institutional repository

The SGS-LTER research site was established in 1980 by researchers at Colorado State University as part of a network of long-term research sites within the US LTER Network, supported by the National Science Foundation. Scientists within the Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, and Biology Department at CSU, California State Fullerton, USDA Agricultural Research Service, University of Northern Colorado, and the University of Wyoming, among others, have contributed to our understanding of the structure and functions of the shortgrass steppe and other diverse ecosystems across the network while maintaining a common mission and sharing expertise, data and infrastructure.Transition a local 32 year project, the Shortgrass Steppe Long-Term Ecological Research (SGS-LTER), with over 100 data packages and related digital artefacts, to an Institutional Repository (IR) at Colorado State University (CSU) Libraries to ensure persistent, reliable, and interoperable access to our collection of scientific data. Our collaborative team envisions being part of a larger information environment, which enables sharing of knowledge and data - a web of repositories. Poster presented at the 9th International Digital Curation Conference held in San Francisco, California on February 25, 2014. Refereed.This work is supported by NSF Grant Number DEB-0823405, Colorado State University, and the UIUC Data Curation Education at Research Centers (DCERC IMLS Award #RE-02-10-0004-10)

Germans from Russia: documenting the immigrant experience in northern Colorado, The

Final, peer-reviewed manuscript.The Sidney Heitman Germans from Russia Collection at the Colorado State University Libraries is named in honor of the late Dr. Heitman's years of research and teaching about Colorado's second largest ethnic group. Created to support his Germans from Russia in Colorado Study Project, active at the university in the late 1970s, the collection's centerpiece is the oral histories generated by the project. This article provides information on the collection and describes a digital project supported by an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant through the Colorado Digitization Project (CDP) to make a selection of the oral histories, transcripts, photos, project documentation, and the finding aid available online to researchers. In addition to providing access to more than 1,500 digital objects, project staff developed important metadata for their discovery, retrieval, and management using the Western States Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices and Encoded Archival Description (EAD)