Publications: Recent submissions
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What Was Old Is New Again: Managing Streaming Archival Films on Multiple Hosted Platforms
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2017-07)Time-lapse film is an engaging media to help deliver messages about our natural and built environments. The F. Franklin Moon Library at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), ... -
Literary Manuscripts in the Classroom: Using Manuscript Collections to Engage Undergraduate Students
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2017-07)Special collections librarians need to find new ways to engage undergraduate students. One way to engage students is to approach faculty members with innovative ways to integrate special collections materials into their ... -
A Model for Surfacing Hidden Collections: The Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grant Program at The University of North Texas Libraries
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2017-07)The University of North Texas Libraries (UNT Libraries) have directed a digitization service called Rescuing Texas History (RTH) with the goals of helping local and state-level cultural heritage institutions and private ... -
Making the Case for Brown University’s Stamp Collections
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2017-07)Postage stamp collections offer distinct challenges for special collections libraries. This essay presents a case study of the stamp collections in Brown University Library Special Collections from the perspective of a ... -
Bringing Art to the Library: An Undergraduate Art Education Collaborative With the Curriculum Materials Center
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2017-07)In 2013, one Curriculum Materials Center (CMC) located in an academic library in Tennessee began to examine ways by which to increase awareness of its collection among students, faculty, and the greater community. The ... -
From Silos to (Archives)Space: Moving Legacy Finding Aids Online as a Multi-Department Library Collaboration
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2016)Prior to 2014, finding aids from Hunter Library’s Special Collections did not have a publicly accessible online presence and resided as Microsoft Word documents on an internal library server. In 2014, Hunter Library began ... -
Research First? Assessing the Role of Special Collections Librarians in Academia
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2016)In academic libraries, one of the lesser-explored discussions surrounds the value and validity of research done by librarians outside of their own professional literature (LIS). For this study, the authors surveyed ... -
When the Curioso Meets the Curator: Engaging Students Outside of the Classroom
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2016)University special collections librarians and archivists have a primary mission to engage students with the material in our collections. For small liberal arts schools this engagement has traditionally happened in a ... -
From Dusty Boxes to Data Bytes Acquiring Rights to Special Collections in the Digital Age
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2016)Acquiring the rights to special collections material is of increasing importance as special collections are increasingly being digitized and placed online. Greater access to materials can lead to greater risk of copyright ... -
From Brooklyn to Binghamton: The Vera Beaudin Saeedpour Kurdish Library & Museum Collection at Binghamton University
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2016)The Kurds number over 40 million and are a diasporic people scattered throughout the world, often far from their homeland. An American, Dr. Vera Beaudin Saeedpour started the Kurdish Heritage Foundation, Kurdish Library and ... -
Objects in the Reading Room: Centralizing Museum Collection Access through the Library, Archives, and Special Collections
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2015-09)This case study focuses on using a museum’s library, institutional archives, and special collections spaces and staff to provide unified intellectual and physical access to all museum collections for research purposes ... -
The Simón S. Lucuix Río de la Plata Library
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2015-09)The circumstances of collection development and use vary wildly. The story of the library created between 1919 and 1963 by Simón Lucuix in Montevideo, Uruguay, and then purchased by the University of Texas in 1963, ... -
Throwing a Hail Mary! The University of Maryland Football Film Project
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2015-09)Documentation of the planning, preparation, and implementation of moving image preservation and digitization projects is difficult to find in scholarly sources, despite the large numbers of deteriorating films housed in ... -
Acts of Curation: The Curating of Poetry & The Poetics of Curating: a roundtable discussion
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2015-09)This event was held on Friday, September 19, 2014, in the Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York as part of the UB Poetics Program’s Fall 2014 Poetics Plus ... -
Collecting Nineteenth-Century Books with Photographs
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2015-09)In the years before photographs could be reproduced in ink alongside letterpress text, some publishers experimented with photographic illustration by pasting original photographs into books. Most of these books went ... -
Philanthropy, Faith, and Influence: Documenting Protestant Missionary Activism during the Armenian Genocide
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2015-09)American Protestant missionaries played important political and cultural roles in the late Ottoman Empire in the period before, during, and after the Armenian genocide. They reported on events as they unfolded and were ... -
Consensus in the Cloud: Paxos Systems Demystified
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Seismic Isolation of Nuclear Power Plants using Elastomeric Bearings
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Seismic Isolation of Nuclear Power Plants using Sliding Bearings
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Property Modification Factors for Seismic Isolators: Design Guidance for Buildings
(MCEER, 2015-06-30)