Copyright (c) 2009 Purdue Libraries All rights reserved. http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research Recent documents in Libraries Research Publications en-us Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:24:08 PST 3600 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/113 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/113 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:22:54 PST Besides web resources that are visible to traditional search engines such as Google or Bing, there are a large portion of the web that is invisible to them. For example, the Purdue Library has access to more than 400 databases. Most of them contain documents that are not reachable by traditional web crawlers due to security, technical limitations or copyright agreement. The only way to search and retrieve documents from those databases is through their service interfaces, which implement different methods of indexing and searching. Given a large number of databases available, it is difficult for users to select the best databases for their searches. In this poster, we present an intelligent search system for Purdue Library. This system is able to analyze users' queries, select the most relevant databases, retrieve documents from those databases and represent the merging result to users.This poster was presented at the 2009 IT Summit at Purdue University. Dzung Hong http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/112 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/112 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:41:15 PST Provides an overview of U.S. Government and Indiana State Government energy information resources. Bert Chapman http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/111 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/111 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:41:14 PST Provides information about U.S. Government and Indiana State Government transportation and transportation policy information resources. Bert Chapman http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/110 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/110 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:41:13 PST Provides an overview of information resources on agriculture from the U.S. Government and Indiana State Government. Bert Chapman http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/109 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/109 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:44:10 PDT This presentation describes the variety of government information resources on space warfare and defense produced by U.S. military and government agencies. It also shows how important space has become to U.S. national security and to U.S. and international economic activity. Bert Chapman http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/108 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/108 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:40:56 PDT Purdue University's Management and Economics Library (MEL) recognized a unique opportunity to build a strong collaboration among campus units in the career development area, enhancing students' interviewing abilities and employment opportunities. The products and services presented in this article focus on MEL's unique campuswide collaboration with twelve campus libraries and thus far eight career units in the creation and implementation of a Career Wiki. The Career Wiki, both a library product and service, offers electronic access to career resources, and it effectively increases use of all library collections and information resources, thereby adding to the services each career unit offers. Mary M. Dugan http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/107 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/107 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:29:46 PDT There is an old proverb, "If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain." It can be a challenge to reach out to incoming undergraduate students who are often overwhelmed by the high expectations of scholarship at the college level and the complexities of the modern information environment. Unconventional and creative approaches are needed to reach millennial learners where they are, both physically, in terms of where they reside on campus, and pedagogically, by employing innovative and engaging teaching methods that they can appreciate and understand. In the fall of 2007, two librarians with rather unique positions at Purdue University coordinated, developed, and implemented an instructional pilot program to reach out to and engage undergraduate students. Strategic partnerships among librarians, residence hall staff, faculty fellows, and the students themselves led to effective and well-attended educational sessions that were conducted in the study lounges of campus residence halls and addressed major concepts pertaining to research, information literacy, and critical thinking. This peer-reviewed article is based on the poster and report archived at http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/88/. Catherine F. Riehle http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/106 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/106 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:46:53 PDT As an evolving part of the profession of librarianship, institutional repository development is still in the process of establishing guiding principles and best practices. There is no one path to follow and few established cases from which to learn about development options and risks. This case study presents a close examination of the approaches taken at three university libraries, comparing choices, strategies, and conditions driving development activities. The most pronounced differences stem from how the initiatives are balancing content acquisition and service provision. Across cases, intellectual property concerns are prevalent, and repository goals and policies are often implicit, with the value of the repository for faculty and the university emerging in multiple ways. The complex planning, management, and technical work of repository developers is increasingly dependent on coordination with liaison librarians and their existing relationships with faculty. The three cases suggest a range of productive responses to the many challenges facing institutional repositories, as they mature, expand, and integrate further with library operations, and continue their important contribution to the ever-changing enterprise of scholarly communication. Carole L. Palmer http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/105 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/105 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:03:54 PDT Fee-based information services in libraries will face many challenges in continuing to offer value-added, cost-effective services to customers daring the opening decade of the new millennium. Some of the challenges are similar to those faced by other library units, but others are unique. Many of these are related to the proliferation of electronic resources and to the "do-it-yourself" approach customers have toward them. Other issues that must be addressed include shifts in client expectations; the demand for new types of information services and products; unresolved intellectual property issues; evolving means of providing access, delivery, and distribution; the need to form innovative partnerships; and the increasing globalization of the customer base. Yem Fong http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/104 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/104 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:02:51 PDT Broadly speaking, the lack of a framework for organizing, preserving, and making research data available for the long-term has resulted in valuable datasets becoming lost or discarded. The approach of the Distributed Data Curation Center of the Purdue University Libraries has been to integrate librarians and the principles of library and archival sciences with domain sciences, computer and information sciences, and information technology to address the challenges of managing collections of research data and to learn how to better support interdisciplinary research through data curation. One piece of infrastructure that supports these activities is a "distributed institutional repository" that includes electronic documents, digitized archival collections, and research datasets housed in multiple systems that are connected together using web services and other middleware. Concurrently, roles for librarians and institutional repositories in data curation are being explored. Michael Witt