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From Panic to Process: Developing Workflow and Selection Criteria for Accessing Text and Data Mining Corpora

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At the University of Houston Libraries, every request for data, text collections or access to text mining environments resulted in panic! There was no established workflow and steps had to be retraced and reestablished each time a new request came…

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From RDA to Semantic Web: A Progress Report

Introduced the changes and progress for organization of information in libraries from RDA to Semantic Web.

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From the Ground to the Cloud: A Practice at California State University, East Bay

Cloud computing has been actively discussed in recent years, and is making its way into the library field. It has advantages when libraries work with constrained financial resources. This article describes the procedures that the University Libraries…

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Front Desk

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"Author Kelly Yang tells a story about the family of Chinese immigrants who has been struggling with every day’s life, from the view of a ten-year-old girl who takes over the front desk of a motel that her parents manage. With her parents, this…

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Front Desk

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Mia Tang is the daughter of Chinese immigrants working and living at Calvista Motel. She tries to help her family as they settle into their new home and neighborhood. Mia's kindness, creativity, and courage build community as she confronts bullying…

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Fundraising for the 1990s: The Challenge Ahead -- A Practical Guide for Library Fundraising: From Novice to Expert.

This book discusses Dr. Lee's successful fundraising experience at the Ohio University.

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Future of Academic Libraries in the Digital Age: Trends, Discovery and People in the Digital Age

Digital information is a constantly developing field. The first title in the Chandos Digital Information Review series, Trends, Discovery, and People in the Digital Age, summarises and presents key themes, advances and trends in all aspects of…

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Getting to know SCUA

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David Benjamin joined the UCF Libraries as Head of Special Collections & University Archives in September 2015. David comes from the University of Arizona where he was the Assistant Director of the Volkerding Study Center at the Center for Creative…

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Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad

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Gordon Chang, a history professor at Stanford and co-director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North American Project, wrote the remarkable book Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad which…

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