Organizing and Indexing Photo Collections

Historical photo archives or collections can put an organization on the map and make it into a destination for patrons. Conversely, if not well organized and indexed, collections and archives can languish in obscurity and occupy valuable space and resources with no tangible return for the organization. The Milwaukee Public Library’s (MPL) Historic Photo Archives (HPA) contain around thirty thousand historic images; of those images, most are located in the Historic Photo Collection, one of the archives’ 45 individual collections. The HPA has evolved over the decades. Various reference librarians have been assigned the archives, and the rotation of responsible parties has left its mark. The challenge created by having many individuals with different backgrounds, priorities, areas of interest, and time to devote to the maintenance of the collection has been mitigated by a strong collection development policy

A note on the rate of convergence for a sequence of random polarizations

It was shown by Burchard and Fortier that the expected $L^1$ distance between $f^*$ and $n$ random polarizations of an essentially bounded function $f$ with support in a ball of radius $L$ is bounded by $2dm(B_{2L})||f||_{\infty}n^{-1}$. The purpose of this note is to expand on that result. It is shown that the same expected $L^1$ distance is bounded by $c_nn^{-1}$ with $\limsup_{n\rightarrow \infty}c_n \leq 2^{d+1}||\nabla f||_1$ for every $f \in W_{1,1}(B_L) \cap L^{\infty}(B_L)$. Furthermore, the aforementioned expected $L^1$ distance is $O(n^{-1/q})$ for $f \in L^p(B_L)$ with $p>1$ and $\frac{1}{p} + \frac{1}{q} = 1$. An exponential lower bound is provided for the expected measure of the symmetric difference between the random polarizations of measurable sets and their Schwarz symmetrization. Finally, the rate $n^{-1}$ is shown to be, in a sense, best possible for the random polarizations of measurable sets: the expected symmetric difference between the random polarization of a ball and its corresponding Schwarz symmetrization decays at the rate $n^{-1}$.Comment: 13 pages. Improved the presentation, added rate of convergence estimates for unbounded functions, and made major changes to the section on the random polarization of ball

Marketing an Established Institutional Repository: Marquette Libraries’ Research Stewardship Survey

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the results of Marquette University Libraries’ survey measuring faculty knowledge and attitudes about the institution’s repository, for the purposes of creating a marketing plan for the institutional repository (IR). Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts a quantitative approach through the use of a survey. Findings Like many other endeavors to measure faculty engagement with the IR, the investigators discovered that faculty knowledge of the IR is not universal. Moreover, the perceived values and motivators for faculty use of the IR were also not surprising, with faculty viewing online dissemination of their work to be the most valuable feature offered by the IR, and furthering their own careers was the prime motivator. The importance of continual and varied methods of marketing is reaffirmed. Originality/value Whereas many articles on faculty recruitment for IRs agree on the importance of marketing, very few suggest specific strategies. The investigators make suggestions for continual and varied marketing methods based on their findings

Becoming the Gothic Archive: From Digital Collection to Digital Humanities

The Gothic Archive is the flagship digital humanities project for the Marquette University library. The project was birthed from a simple digital collection, and through the partnership of faculty and librarians, was transformed into something more. The core tenets of digital collection creation were adhered to in order to create a solid foundation upon which to build the Archive. The expertise of both groups and communication were key in the evolution of the collection, and in discovering and highlighting the relationships between the objects. This case study reviews the steps Marquette took in creating the collection and taking it to the level of digital humanities project

The current status of oral reading in professional literature

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