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Expanding Graduate Teaching & Research Horizons with Library Digital Collections

Graduate Teacher Program Fall Intensive 2006
Aug 25 (Friday) 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Session Outline

1. Curriculum support
   1. Online learning object sources such as MERLOT
   2. Syllabi (through web search engine or specific sites like MIT OpenCourseWare)
   3. University Libraries Subject Bibliographers
2. Reading Packets
   1. University Libraries E-Reserve
   2. Campus' Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines
   3. Full-Text Linking from Libraries' subscriptions
   4. RefWorks (online bibliography management service)
3. Library Sources
   1. Digitized Content
      • Library of Congress's American Memory Project
      • Colorado Digitization Program
      • Digital Asset Library (DIAL)
      • Early English Books Online
      • New York Times Archive
      • Associated Press Multimedia Archive
      • EnviroNetBase
      • Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, and many others.
   2. University Libraries' database by subject
   3. University Libraries' subject guide
   4. Audiovisual material from Media Library and web archive such as CSPAN
   5. Rare and unique material in University Libraries Special Collections and Archives
4. Future trends
   1. Institutional repositories such as DSpace
   2. Scholarly communication crises (open access initiatives, alternative publishing model)

Last Update: August 25, 2006