Browsing by Author "Long, Chris Evin"

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    Bridging the Gap in Digital Library Continuing Education: How Librarians Who Were Not "Born Digital" Are Keeping Up.
    (2008) Applegate, Rachel; Long, Chris Evin
    Studies on the continuing education pursuits of librarians are prevalent in library literature, but none has focused on the efforts made by librarians trained in the pre-Internet era to keep abreast of the skills needed in the digital library age. This study collected data from randomly solicited members of the Indiana Library Federation, a statewide library association including librarians from all types of libraries. Qualified respondents were those who received their M.L.S./M.L.I.S. prior to 1996. Participants were asked about the digital library-related topics they had studied in the past two years, the continuing education methods they had used, and how helpful they had found the activities in which they had engaged. Analysis of the responses reveal that a large majority of the librarians in this study see training in digital library skills as important and they seem to be making the acquisition of these skills a priority.
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    Cataloging Odyssey: RDA Basics
    (2013-06-24) Long, Chris Evin
    A basic explanation of Resource Description and Access (RDA), including FRBR, best practices for understanding RDA records, and implementing RDA.
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    Off-Road Authority Control
    (2014-06-27) Long, Chris Evin
    Projects such as the Library of Congress’ BIBFRAME initiative show that libraries are transitioning towards a linked data environment. In this Semantic Web world, everything must be disambiguated, meaning the importance of authority control’s role of pulling together and connecting persons, organizations, things, and topics will not only be retained but enhanced. Furthermore, the new cataloging guidelines encourage us to avoid creating undifferentiated authority records, the lumping together of two or more persons under the same name heading. These factors place an increased burden on catalogers to find information that uniquely identifies persons, especially birth/death dates and occupations. Fortunately, the treasure trove of data on the web means catalogers are no longer confined to searching traditional reference sources. This presentation will explore a variety of web resources that are useful in locating information to uniquely identify persons, including genealogical sources, obituaries, tombstone inscriptions, and local histories.
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    RDA: Coming Soon to a Catalog Near You!
    (2013-06-24) Long, Chris Evin
    A presentation intended for non-catalogers on Resource Description and Access (RDA), the proposed new cataloging code. It includes a brief description of the issues and events that have led to the formulation of RDA, followed by a few concepts that are fundamental to understanding RDA, such as FRBR. To give the audience a “first taste” of the differences that they will see as RDA records appear in an online catalog, there are side-by-side examples of AARC2 and RDA bibliographic records as they appear in OPAC display. This is followed by a discussion of display and retrieval issues that are foreseen. Finally, there will is an examination of RDA implementation issues.
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    Recent Citation Practices of the Indiana Supreme Court and the Indiana Court of Appeals
    (2005) Cosanici, Dragomir; Long, Chris Evin
    This study provides an empirical, practical measure of the citation practices of the two highest courts in the state of Indiana during a recent ten-year span (1994-2003). It focuses on the type of legal materials most frequently cited as authority, examining the importance of both primary and secondary sources. It also demonstrates the importance of housing and maintaining complete appellate briefs from the two highest courts in the state of Indiana.