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Breaking the Bottleneck: Automating the Reconciliation of Named Entities to the Library of Congress Name Authority File
(2015-02-01)
At the University of Michigan Libraries, we have developed an intuitive, straight-forward process for automating the reconciliation of named entities against the Library of Congress Name Authority File. Using OpenRefine ...
Famous and Lesser Known Members of the University Medical School Who Have Made a Difference: A Historical View
(2015-09)
The University of Michigan Medical School (UMMS) opened its doors in 1850. Since that time it has become renowned for numerous alumni who have made an impact in the world. Although some are well known, others have played ...
Diving into Data: Developing Data Fluency for Librarians
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2015)
As data services continue to emerge as a growth area for academic research libraries, many librarians are finding themselves in need of a skill upgrade in order to support research data at a level of excellence consistent ...
The Arrival Fallacy: Collaborative Research Relationships in the Digital Humanities
(Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2015-09)
As discussion and debates on the digital humanities continue among scholars, so too does discussion about how academic libraries can and should support this scholarship. Through interviews with digital humanities scholars ...
International, Regional, and National Data Sets
(2015)
As part of an internship with the University Library, I worked alongside my mentor, Loyd Mbabu, and other librarians in order to create an online research guide that could help students find international statistics more ...
Michigan Publishing Backlist Rights and Permissions Project
(2015-04-13)
In 2013, Michigan Publishing undertook a Rights and Permissions Project to evaluate the rights of, and effect use cases for, all of its digitized backlist titles; nearly 4,000 titles had been digitized in a previous phase ...
Three Challenges of Pubrarianship
(Against the Grain Press, 2015-01-15)
This article describes the challenges of being both a press director and a library publisher.