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This presentation discusses an oral history project undertaken by archivist John Davis at Special Collections in Performing Arts (SCPA) at the University of Maryland. Since 2017, Davis has interviewed more than thirty ...

In 2012 the UMD Libraries began implementing WorldShare Collection Manager to manage the Libraries’ electronic collections and to make them accessible in the Libraries’ discovery system, WorldCat UMD. The panel will discuss ...

Over the past semester there have been notable changes to the way we are currently handling the Streaming Media Reserves service, due to both the integration of Streaming Media Reserves into the Resource Sharing & Reserves ...

For many researchers of bibliometrics in academia, the discipline has evolved from hierarchical & metric-focused to more descriptive and story driven. The field is changing for practitioners, as well. While research impact ...

Microsoft Academic (MA) is a publicly-accessible commercial discovery interface that supports creative reuse and evaluation of data through the implementation of accessible APIs. This presentation will provide an overview ...

With the Black History Month Read-a-Thon in February 2020, the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Committee launched its new Brave Spaces program. Based on the Brave Spaces principles laid out by Brian ...

In January 2020, a group of employees at Towson University's Cook Library petitioned the Metadata Subgroup of the University System of Maryland & Affiliated Institutions (USMAI) to change the OPAC display of authorized ...

This poster describes an effort to adapt certain principles of "minimal computing" in an attempt to rescue a work of medieval manuscript scholarship from the verge of digital obsolescence. In particular, it describes how ...