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Digital Preservation and Data Repositories: just what does "long-term" mean anyway?
(15-10-27)As the University of Washington Libraries began writing policy for the institution's data repository currently under development, we found ourselves in a quandary: "how long is long enough?" Within the framework mandated ... -
Teaching Meetings: Providing a Forum for Learning How to Teach
(Emerald Insight, 1998)"In 1996, librarians at the University of Washington Bothell Library gathered together their teaching librarians and the director of the Writing Center and began meeting on a regular basis to discuss issues of teaching and ... -
Single vs. multiple records for remotely accessed electronic monographs : a CPC discussion paper
(University of Washington Libraries, 1998-04)At the October 1997 meeting of the Cataloging Policy Committee, a group was appointed to look into the issue of how to treat monographic titles appearing in a remotely accessed electronic form and in at least one other ... -
Genre/form index in WebPAC : a Cataloging Policy Committee discussion paper
(University of Washington Libraries, 1999-06-16)Issues surrounding creating a genre index in a library online catalog are discussed. -
Future of the Libraries' catalog : an initial exploration by the Cataloging Policy Committee
(University of Washington Libraries, 2000-07)There is increasing interest in the future of the UW Libraries’ online catalog that has been sparked by a number of factors. The creation of the Digital Registry and the Information Gateway provided a new means of access ... -
My Gateway at the University of Washington
(Information Technology and Libraries, 2000-12)Much of the content of the University of Washington Libraries' Information Gateway is generated from an SQL database extracted from the libraries' OPAC. The database, known locally as the Digital Registry, drives multiple ... -
SACO Participants' Manual
(Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service, 2001)The SACO Participants' Manual provides easy-to-use guidance for libraries proposing new Library of Congress subject headings and LC classification numbers and for libraries submitting change proposals for existing subject ... -
Public Health Outreach Forum: lessons learned
(Medical Library Association, 2001-10)The accompanying article in this report, ‘‘Public Health Outreach Forum: Report,’’ describes the planning process and the program that constituted a forum held at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) on April 4 to ... -
Slavic and East European Web catalogs as a resource for catalogers
(Haworth Press, Inc., 2002)Today a Slavic cataloger faced with a puzzle can often see what their counterparts in Eastern Europe have done by looking at library catalogs now accessible over the World Wide Web. -
Indexing and display recommendations for linking fields (7XX) : a report to CPC.
(University of Washington Libraries., 2003-04-10)At the Cataloging Policy Committee meeting in November 2002, an overview was presented on the changes in the cataloging rules that would be implemented nationally on December 1, 2002. Examples of links that would be made ... -
University of Washington Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project in DSpace
(2004-09-02)Preliminary findings on the deployment of metadata for a project using DSpace at the University of Washington Libraries are presented. Problems encountered include mapping user-provided metadata for a domain-specific image ... -
Linking in the catalog : a discussion paper for the Cataloging Policy Committee, University of Washington Libraries / by Kathleen Forsythe, Cathy Gerhart, Joe Kiegel, Adam Schiff and Steve Shadle.
(2004-10-19)Reviews URL links from catalog records to Web resources as found in the University of Washington Libraries catalog as of October 2001. The intent of this review is to start discussion in order to set policy for what type ... -
Research 101
(University of Washington, 2005)Research 101 is an interactive online tutorial for students wanting an introduction to research skills. The tutorial covers the basics, including how to select a topic and develop research questions, as well as how to ... -
World Treaty Index
(2005-03-04)The World Treaty Index provides access to over 55,000 treaties of the 20th century, from sources ranging from the United Nations Treaty Series to various national indexes, gazettes, and official files. -
Libraries and the Evolving Nature of Scholarship
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Website Redesign: The University of Washington Libraries’ Experience
(Emerald Group Publishing, 2006)Purpose: This article is a case study of a large academic library’s website redesign, undertaken during the 2003-2004 academic year. Methodology: During the redesign process, numerous methods of eliciting user feedback ... -
Images of Blackness in American Children's Picture Books, 1899-1999: Selections from the UW Children's Literature Collection
(University of Washington Libraries, 2006-02)Bibliographic essay that accompanied an exhibit of 20th-century children's books depicting African Americans, shown in University of Washington's Suzzallo-Allen Libraries, Feb.-Mar. 2006. -
What's in a (Family) Name? DACS, LCSH, and Mixed-Standard Catalogs
(2006-06-30)The source code "dacs" was recently approved by the Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office for use in MARC field 600, subfield ‡2. Catalogers who follow DACS (Describing Archives: A Content ... -
Methodological Diversity and Assessment Sustainability: Growing the Culture of Assessment at the University of Washington Libraries
(2006-09-25)The University of Washington Libraries has been active in library assessment since 1991 and is frequently mentioned as one of the few academic libraries with a thriving culture of assessment. During the past fifteen years ...