Guidelines for Bibliographic Description of Interactive Multimedia

This is a very useful compilation of guidelines for cataloging interactive multimedia. According to the glossary of this book, interactive multimedia is Media residing in one or more physical carriers (videodiscs, computer discs, computer optical disks, compact discs, etc.) or on computer networks. Interactive multimedia must exhibit both of these characteristics: (1) user controlled, nonlinear navigation using computer technology; and (2) the combination of two or more media (audio, text, graphics, images, animation, and video) that the user manipulates to control the order and/or nature of the presentation

Maps: A Must Have Item for Genealogists

This presentation will cover the parts of a map, types of maps, especially those useful to genealogists, how maps can be used in genealogy, how to find places on maps, cartographic tools, paper versus electronic maps, online map viewers, how to locate map collections online, and where to buy maps

Map Displays and Exhibits

Many patrons do not even know libraries have map collections, let alone what kinds of maps are in them or how they could use those maps. Map displays and exhibits can help increase interest in map collections. Muriel Strickland wrote an article on casual map displays with the title Map Displays: a Means of Promoting Map Use in volume 17, number 3 of the WAML IB (June 1986). One of the purposes of my writing this article is to reprise some of the valuable information in Muriel\u27s article; because it was published so long ago, many of the present WAmL members will not have read it. The other is to add information on preservation issues involved in exhibits and information on more formal exhibits. I have also included ideas from a discussion group on map displays and exhibits held at the spring 2011 WAML meeting

Faith Is the First Step: Faith-Based Solutions to Homelessness

This brief guides faith leaders interested in providing homeless services on their land, highlighting legal and operational considerations and community education and outreach. Faith-based organizations (FBOs) have been important social services providers throughout history. Today, they continue to play an important role with specific legal protections. Indeed, FBOs enjoy special legal protections for their religious practice, which may allow them to provide shelter even if otherwise prohibited by local law. Any FBO with the desire to address homelessness on its land should be able to do so, and this brief sets forth best practices based on successful case studies in Washington and Colorado. Among other recommendations, this brief recommends FBO hosts build partnerships with other organizations, be prepared to face opposition from neighbors and politicians by communicating effectively about homelessness, and make an effort not to exclude groups of homeless people who are often not welcome in shelters

Tracing the Las Vegas landscape through maps: A cartographic journey through Las Vegas history

Starting with the 1844 Fremont Map, and going through the present day, each era of Las Vegas history is described

How to Deal with Published Maps in Your Collection

This program is aimed at archivists and other special collections staff who have published maps as opposed to manuscript maps as part of their collections but do not have much expertise in map librarianship. The program includes information on kinds of maps, the basic parts of a map including those found mainly on pre-19th century maps, how to store and preserve maps, why they should be cataloged, how cataloging rare maps differs from cataloging current maps, why maps should be classified with a standard classification system, how Library of Congress call numbers can be used to locate certain kinds of maps for certain geographical areas, and how to date a map. Information will also be provided on how to do map exhibits and map digitization projects and how the information in bibliographic records for maps can be used in metadata for map digitization projects. UNLV’s map digitization project will be shown as an example and some online historical map collections will be discussed that patrons can be referred to and that may be useful in finding more information on maps in a library or museum’s collection. Examples will be provided of how various archival collections organize and store their maps. Discussion will be included on the ethical and cataloging issues of acquiring sheets that have been removed from atlases

Metadata and the technical services librarian

Introduction - Early Las Vegas Digital Project - Background on project - Version 1—Used MARC Records - Version 2—Used Dublin Core in Contentdm softwar

Dementia assessment and management in primary care settings: a survey of current provider practices in the United States.

BACKGROUND:Primary care providers (PCPs) are typically the first to screen and evaluate patients for neurocognitive disorders (NCDs), including mild cognitive impairment and dementia. However, data on PCP attitudes and evaluation and management practices are sparse. Our objective was to quantify perspectives and behaviors of PCPs and neurologists with respect to NCD evaluation and management. METHODS:A cross-sectional survey with 150 PCPs and 50 neurologists in the United States who evaluated more than 10 patients over age 55 per month. The 51-item survey assessed clinical practice characteristics, and confidence, perceived barriers, and typical practices when diagnosing and managing patients with NCDs. RESULTS:PCPs and neurologists reported similar confidence and approaches to general medical care and laboratory testing. Though over half of PCPs performed cognitive screening or referred patients for cognitive testing in over 50% of their patients, only 20% reported high confidence in interpreting results of cognitive tests. PCPs were more likely to order CT scans than MRIs, and only 14% of PCPs reported high confidence interpreting brain imaging findings, compared to 70% of specialists. Only 21% of PCPs were highly confident that they correctly recognized when a patient had an NCD, and only 13% were highly confident in making a specific NCD diagnosis (compared to 72 and 44% for neurologists, both p < 0.001). A quarter of all providers identified lack of familiarity with diagnostic criteria for NCD syndromes as a barrier to clinical practice. CONCLUSIONS:This study demonstrates how PCPs approach diagnosis and management of patients with NCDs, and identified areas for improvement in regards to cognitive testing and neuroimaging. This study also identified all providers' lack of familiarity with published diagnostic criteria for NCD syndromes. These findings may inform the development of new policies and interventions to help providers improve the efficacy of their decision processes and deliver better quality care to patients with NCDs

A Cartographic Journey through Las Vegas History: Tracing the Las Vegas Landscape through Maps Pt. 2

An interesting set of historical maps of Nevada and the Las Vegas area

Navigating to Success: Finding Your Way Through the Challenges of Map Digitization

This presentation highlights the key steps and decision points essential to completing a successful map digitization project. Topics to be covered include: overcoming the challenges of scanning large-scale materials (including file sizes and encapsulation), descriptive metadata for map collections, copyright and privacy issues for geographic materials, adding geographic coordinates to map collections, image viewer and interface options for online maps, and methods to track the impact of map digitization with users. Using University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries’ digital project Southern Nevada: History in Maps as a case study, the authors will discuss the challenges inherent in map digitization and suggest strategies to overcome these obstacles. In addition to walking the audience through map digitization workflow, the poster will highlight the University of Nevada Las Vegas’ spatial search tool, ISIS, that allows users to search maps in CONTENTdm collections without text-based queries. Poster session attendees will learn from one institution’s experience with a successful map digital collection and leave with the knowledge and confidence to pursue their own project