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    • A Case Study on the Path to Resource Discovery 

      Guay, Beth (Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), 2017-09)
      A meeting in April 2015 explored the potential withdrawal of valuable collections of microfilm held by the University of Maryland, College Park Libraries. This resulted in a project to identify OCLC record numbers (OCN) ...

    • BTAA Geoportal: An update on collections, metadata, and interface design 

      Piekielek, Nathan; Martindale, Jaime; O'Neal, Kelley (2017-10-10)
      The Big Ten Academic Alliance Geoportal provides discoverability and facilitates access to geospatial resources curated by librarians and geospatial specialists at twelve participating research institutions. Since the ...

    • "Women of Today": An Overview of Women in Historic Maryland Newspapers 

      Wack, Rebecca; Carolan, Alexandria (2017-04)
      This poster was prepared for University of Maryland's Social Justice Day, and examines the media's treatment of women by exploring different women's issues in historic Maryland newspapers.

    • WorldCat UMD Usability Final Report 

      Goldfinger, Rebecca (2017-07-20)
      In April 2015, a subgroup of the University Libraries' Discovery Group began its two phase usability testing, conducting the first phase on WorldCat Local. In July of 2015, the Libraries transitioned from WorldCat Local ...

    • Management of Digital Programs in Special Collections 

      Pike, Robin C. (2017-07-19)
      Class lecture on digitizing special collections for CUA CLSC 747 Special Collections. Presented in 2015, 2016, and 2017 with minor modifications.