Browsing by Author "McDonald, Celina"

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    Analyzing Long-Term Usage Trends of Electronic Government Information
    (Association of College & Research Libraries, 2017-03-23) McDonald, Celina
    As libraries reduce the size of their physical government documents collections, they often lack data about usage of government information. This poster explores ways to harvest, analyze, and use electronic usage data of government publications to make collections and service decisions based on an electronic usage study spanning 10 years conducted at a large research university.
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    Basic Project Management for Weeding Government Documents Collections
    (American Library Association, 2016) McDonald, Celina
    For as long as academic libraries have participated in the federal depository library program, there has been an inherent conflict between their academic and depository mandates. While state and public libraries are tasked with serving the greater public, academic libraries have an imperative to meet the specific needs of their institutions. As institutional priorities have evolved and new needs emerged, many academic depositories have come to face pressures of staffing and physical space that lead to the desire to downsize their physical government documents holdings in favor of digital surrogates. Because the government documents received through the federal depository library program are not the libraries’ property, withdrawing these materials is a time consuming, labor intensive, costly, and complicated undertaking.
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    Beyond Google - Another Look at Finding Government Information
    (Government Publishing Office, 2017-02-02) McDonald, Celina
    This webinar covered intermediate and advanced searching techniques, deep web search engines, and ways to find and use "hidden" resources. During the webinar, sample searches were shown for statistics, born-digital, and digitized historical publications.
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    Season of Change: Government Information at UMD
    (2022-06-08) McDonald, Celina; Wilson, Aaron
    This presentation was made as part of the UMD Libraries' Libraries Research and Innovative Practice Forum on June 8, 2022. The presentation provides a general description of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), along with the University of Maryland's role as an FDLP Regional Depository. Additionally, the presenters discuss the variety of changes that have occurred within the Government Information Team from late 2019 through June 2022, ranging from the processing adjustments during the COVID-19 Pandemic, the backlog cataloging project, and staffing adjustments.
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    U.S. Government Documents: Vision Plan 2015-2020
    (2015-10-12) McDonald, Celina
    The U.S. Government Documents Collection supports and enhances University of Maryland faculty and students' learning, teaching, and research needs through research services, information literacy instruction, and access to a comprehensive collection of new and historically significant government publications. The U.S. Government Documents Plan outlines how the Libraries will use traditional and emerging technologies to transform its spaces, collection, and services over a five-year period.