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Content and Context: A Case Study of Metadata Collaboration

This article demonstrates how taking differences in end-user behavior and differing interdepartmental perspectives on metadata into account can strengthen the digital object workflow to serve a greater variety of users. The University of Illinois…

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Liaising the Catalog: Collaborating Across Library Departments to Promote Successful Discoverability through Enhanced Cataloging

This article discusses how a team of librarians participating in CARLI Counts, an immersive professional development program funded by a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Grant through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, responded to the…

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Panel discussion – Institutional Repositories – the joys and challenges with Q&A

This invited panel was an overview of the landscape of IRs in health science libraries – platform options, migrations, and the “nuts and bolts” of implementing and maintaining.

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Collaboration, communication, and the cataloger: measuring the impact of enhanced cataloging on discoverability of library resources

This presentation examined the journey of librarians from different types and sizes of institutions within the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) who collaborated to investigate how reference and instruction librarians…

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Re-org, retreat and reach out : how we make technical services successful.

This presentation shared the experience of how University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Resource Acquisition and Management (RAM) Department adopted a project management methodology to reorganize technical services in an academic library setting. The…

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A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: Bringing Our Expertise to Enhance the Digital Collections Workflow

In the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Library, the Resource Acquisition & Management (RAM), and the Special Collections & University Archives (SCUA) departments collaborated on the new workflow for digital collections, incorporating the…

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Metadata workflow of digital image collections – engaging traditional catalogers

This poster describes the change in the UIC Library digital metadata workflow as we distributed that workflow across Special Collections and University Archives, Digital Programs and Services and Resource Acquisition Management.

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Catalogers Create Connections for Student Learning

This poster described one of the CARLI Counts Cohort 2 projects, which was conducted by the Team Tech service. It highlighted the goal of our project and how we approached the result by designing a survey instrument. Our survey instrument was…

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A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: Building A Collaborative Workflow for Digital Collections

In preparation for a migration to a new digital asset management system, the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Library revamped their workflow for digital collections, taking a fresh look at how physical content that was chosen for digitization…

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Canton Through Western Eyes: Resources & Wood’s Sketches of China

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This book talk was organized by the Guangzhou Book Club and it was aimed to introduce the newly translated and published book《洋记者的广州城记》(English title: Sketches of China: with Illustrations from Original Drawings). The original English book was…

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