ProjectMuse DB4 Competency

Database: ProjectMuse

Naïve Question: Do College Students use the Academic Library?

Facets: Academic LIbrary, College, Students

Search Strategy – Specific Facet search

SS1: Search for Academic Library (subject)

Results: 56

SS2: Search for College (subject)

Results: 1508

SS3: Search for Students (subject)

Results: 922

SS4: Search for College Students (subject)

Results: 573

Observations: The most specific facet of this search is Academic Library. Since there were only 56 results I scanned through them and found this article:

In a roundabout way this article tells me that college students are using the academic library, and explores which disciplines use it the most.

JSTOR DB3 Competency

Database: JSTOR

Naïve Question: What are the archiving practices and history of theological libraries?

Facets: History, Archives, and Theological Libraries

Search Strategy – Building block search

Facets History Archives Thelogical Libraries

My search terms History archiving thelogical libraries

Historical

thesaurus Church History archives theological library

historical libraries archiving

SS1: Boolean Search statement (theological library) and (history or church history or historical libraries) and (archives or archiving)

Results: 7796

Unfortunatley this database does not provide futher subject headings to choose from for another search, so I decide to employ limiters, I limit to only articles and only English

SS2: Boolean Search statement (theological library) and (history or church history or historical libraries) and (archives or archiving) with limiters Articles and English

Results: 4067

I further limit the results by choosing the disciplines of Religion, History, and language and literature

SS2: Boolean Search statement (theological library) and (history or church history or historical libraries) and (archives or archiving) with limiters of disciplines Religion, History, and language and literature

Results 2816

This is still a lot of articles, but it has been narrowed down, so I decide to sift through the results and see if I can find anything interesting. I find an article that peaks my interest here is the screen shot:

This article talks about the archives, libraries, and museums attached to a seminary in Poland. It gives an interesting account of the history of these places.

Worldcat database DB2 Competency

Database: Worldcat

Naïve Question: What are the archiving practices and history of theological libraries?

Facets: History, Archives, and Theological Libraries

Search Strategy One – Specific Facet

Search for Thelogical Libraries (subject)

Results: 1,363 1,295 in english

Observations: this database shows promise, this search tells me I might find something

Search Strategy Two – Building block search

Facets History Archives Thelogical Libraries

My search terms History archiving thelogical libraries

Historical

thesaurus Church History archives theological library

historical libraries

church archives

SS1: Boolean Search statement (theological library) and (history or church history) and (archives or historical libraries or church archives) subject search

Results: 5 articles

Observations: none of these article are terribly relevant so I decide to expand my search to a keyword, rather than subject search

SS2: (theological library) and (history or church history) and (archives or historical libraries or church archives) keyword search

Results: 196, 168 in english

Observations: I scanned through the results and found two articles that looked interesting.

The first article gives a kind of history of the American Theological Library Assocaition and the second article is more about how church historians work together with the library. Both are not exactly the answer to my question but they both give a historical perspective to theological libraries.

Academic Search Complete DB1: Competency

Database: Academic Search Complete

Naïve Question: What are the archiving practices and history of theological libraries?

Facets: History, Archives, and Theological Libraries

Search Strategy four – browsing search

I use directed browsing to look at subject terms and look at religious libraries, where I am able to add search terms, so I add "BIBLE college libraries" or "CHRISTIAN libraries" or "CHURCH libraries" or "THEOLOGICAL libraries" or "RELIGIOUS archives" which yields 67 results and I find this article about preservation, which included the subject headings online databases and theological libraries:

and this article about the history of the Princeton Theological library, which included the subject headings, libraries, theological libraries, and religious libraries:

I then used directed browsing to look at Archives and while there were a lot of different subject headings under this topic I decided to look at just ""CHURCH archives" or "RELIGIOUS archives" since they relate the most closely to my question. I found one article that looks at the archiving practices, not of a specific library, but of religious materials in general. The article had only two subject headings, Church Archives and Archivists:

The searching was time consuming, but I feel like I found some good material. If my question was posed for an undergradute writing a paper, I believe that having a variety of articles about the different facets would be beneficial. The database is large and covers a wide variety of topics, which makes it ideal for someone with a broad question, such as the one that I posed.

Overall Observations:

Although my browsing did not turn up a plethora of results, some of the ones that I found were really great and very interesting. The article on the history of the Princeton Theological Seminary Library gave some great information about the history and collection practices of the theological library.

Internet Competency

The website that I have chosen I actually found through working on a project for another class. It is the website for the American Theological Library Association, here is the link. What I am more interested in is this link, which talks about the grant money the association gives for those working to preserve religious texts. I feel that this would be a great association to join once I have completed my degree and the grants that it awards would be very benefical as well. I found the site through google after my father suggested that I look at theological libraries as a career path. Over the course of the semester my idea of what I would like to do has evolved and instead of the general idea of an academic library, I have now focused more on the theological library, although I am still very interested in archiving/preservation.

The Book that Changed the World — History.com Video

The Book that Changed the World — History.com Video

I thought that since I had used an image of the Gutenberg Bible for my image compentency that it made sense to have something related to that for my multimedia compentency. This links to a short video about the Gutenberg bible that is very interesting. The Citation is: The Book that Changed the World. (2010). The History Channel website. Retrieved 10:54, March 11, 2010, from http://www.history.com/videos/the-book-that-changed-the-world. This relates to what I'd like to do, which is work in preservation in a theological library.

Competency: Image

I have added an image to my page that I feel represents what I'd like to do, which is work in preservation in a theological library. The image is from the British Library's website, here is the link to it http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/gutenberg_lg.html. Clicking on the picture should also link to the the British Library's website. The Citation was provided on the website:

Gutenberg's (42-line) Bible: Opening of Genesis. Johann Gutenberg, Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer. Mainz, 1455

British Library C.9.d.4, f.5

Copyright © The British Library Board

Library Literature/Books in Print competency

Library Literature/Books in Print Competency

Topic of Interest: archiving in academic librarianship

“naïve” question: What kind of information is available about archiving in academic librarianship, as this is the field I would like to work in someday?

I have a history background and would love to combine my two areas of study (history and librarianship) into a job, which means working in archiving in a special collections or university library.

Facets	Librarianship	Academic	Archives
My initial search terms	Library, librarian	School, university	Archives
Thesaurus	Libraries Library Service	Academic libraries	Archives

Boolean Logic statement (libraries or library service) and (academic libraries) and (archives)

Library Literature Database

SS1

1. Search Statement – Boolean logic statement
2. Results 268 records
3. Notes – there are too many results, using the “narrow by subject” search feature I narrow my results by electronic data archives/conservation restoration

SS2

1. Search statement – narrowed search results
2. Results 33 records
3. Notes – I look to see how many of these relate to what I am looking for, since my question is very generalized. I find an article I am interested in that explores the “significance” of what goes into preserved collections. It is titled “Building Collections for All Time: The Issue of Significance”

Books in print

There is no thesaurus tool in this database so I decided to use the original facets to begin my searching.

SS1

1. Search Statement( Subject-all) – archiving and academic and librarianship
2. Results 0 records
3. Notes - the words may be the problem here, I decide to use a variation of archiving and librarianship in order to see if my topic is even going to be in this database

SS2

1. Search Statement (subject - all)– archives and library
2. Results 151 records
3. Notes – this is too many records, I’d like to keep the number under 100, I decide to add a word from last weeks searching in order to see if this database will use similar search terms as the other

SS3

1. Search Statement (subject-all) – archives and library and collections
2. Results 7 records
3. Notes – this is a great number and I find a book I’m interested in from these results. It is a listing of articles about archiving and manuscript collections entitled “Articles Describing Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography”

I felt like I was able to find information easier for this competency, however I didn't feel that these databases held a lot of information for my topic of interest, last week I got thousands of results compared with this week where I got hundreds.

Tagging and Indexing competency

I searched librarything.com tags for academic and archives and the best option I found was Preservation: Issues and Planning by Paul N Banks and Roberta Pilette. According to the product description on amazon.com it is "A reference guide covering the repair, maintenance and preservation of library or archive collections, providing an analysis of how to plan for and ensure the long-term health of an institution's collection in this digital age." (amazon.com, 2010) The tags for this item are: 439 [Library] academic ALA American Library Association archival preservation archival science archives archives and preservation archivist at_home book conservation and preservation book studies books brittle books conservationcybulski disaster relief documentation documents essays grad school information science librarianship librarieslibrary library & information science library and archival preservat library and information science library materials - conservation and retoration - planning library preservation library resources library school library science LIS LIS 439manuscripts maryland MLIS MSLS non-fiction Northumbria Library Onuf own photographpreservation preservation. archives. archiving. library. historic assets. digitization. read read in 2006 read in 2009records reference restoration shelf 4 SU09 textbook textbooks texts theory work work reading

Here is the link to this item.

worldcat and eric competency and rss

Eric/Worldcat Competency

Topic of Interest: archiving and history

“naïve” question: What kind of information is available about archiving in academic librarianship, as this is the field I would like to work in someday?

I have a history background and would love to combine my two areas of study (history and librarianship) into a job, which means working in archiving in a special collections or university library.

Facets	librarianship	academic	archives
My initial search terms	Library, librarian	School, university	archives
Thesaurus	Library science Library Research Library education	Academic libraries Archives College libraries	Library collections Records Management

Boolean Logic statement (library science or library research or library education) and (academic libraries or archives or college libraries) and (library collections or records management)

Eric Database

1. Search Statement – Boolean logic statement
2. Results 1,776 records
3. Notes – there are too many results, using a promising article as a jumping off point I refine my search to include just three of the search terms

1. Search statement – archives, academic libraries, library collections
2. Results 56 records
3. Notes – these results are actually pretty good, but they can still be narrowed further, I chose 4 articles and looked at their headings to refine my search.

1. Search statement – archives, academic libraries, history
2. Results 24 records
3. Notes – I found several articles that I liked, the best one was this: "Heritage through Oral History and Archival Images"

It’s the kind of project that I am looking to work on once I am finished with school.

Worldcat

1. Search Statement – Boolean search terms
2. Results 170 records in English
3. Notes - the results need to be narrowed, I looked at a few of the articles and chose new search terms based on them

1. Search Statement – archives, academic library, collections
2. Results 107 records in English
3. Notes – there are a lot of web results, I looked through to try and refine my search

1. Search Statement – archives, academic library, library collections
2. Results 78 records in English
3. Notes – this is a more manageable number, there are still a lot of web results, this is the one I like the best: "University of Huddersfield Library: Archives and Special Collections: Sources in Women's History"

Not only is this about archives, it also has to do with women’s history (which my M.A. is in) and it is located in England which is a place that I would love to work.

I noticed that the WorldCat produced a lot more web results and that Eric produced only articles. My search terms were slightly different on each, but they were very similar.

RSS Feed

I chose 2 RSS Feeds, one from the national archives and one the Library Journal about academic libraries as these are the two areas I am interested in. They are both showing on the side.

Competency 3

Because I can not do anything half-way (or maybe because I am so indecisive) I have chosen two podcasts. The first can be found here according to Itunes the description of ths podcast is "Thoughts on the field of library science, digitization of historic materials and information science..." I thought that sounded interesting and the guy talks about more than just libraries, but he does have some interesting things to say. I especially liked the one entitled Reclaiming Our Past. I am also including this link that is a project from 2008 from The National Archive. Not only is the history behind it fascinating, bringing the whole project online where everyone has access to it is amazing and is something that I would like to be a part of one day. I found both of these podcasts by searching in Itunes.

Discussion Question

This was my response to this weeks discussion question, which asked us to describe in plain language a concept that we had difficulty with in this weeks reading: I had a bit of trouble with the Types of Indexing. I don't necessarily think that it is a hard concept, but for some reason the text just did not make any sense to me. So, derivative indexing uses keywords taken from the document, while assignment indexing uses a controlled vocabulary. For example, in a cookbook a recipe for Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Cake using derivative indexing would be listed under keywords taken from the recipe, like chocolate, raspberries, sugar, flour, cream etc. The same recipe in an assignment index would use a controlled vocabulary determined by a person and may list the recipe under desserts, chocolate desserts, fruit desserts, etc. Both types of indexing have their drawbacks, for instance listing Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Cake under the ingredient sugar would be problematic as sugar is a popular ingredient in many recipes. Also, listing using a controlled vocabulary can be confusing since an actual person is choosing what to list the recipe under and what one person or group of people choose may not what everyone thinks of, for instance I would not look for Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Cake under fruit desserts. Both types have thier advantages as well. Using derivative indexing Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Cake would most likely be listed under Chocolate which would be helpful when looking it up in an index. Using the assignment index Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Cake would probably be listed under Cakes (depending on the controlled vocabulary) which again, would be very helpful when searching for it in an index.

Related blog

I had some difficulty with this. I used Google blog search and I actually have three blogs that I am linking to. This first is http://brooklynhistory.org/blog/tag/archiving-women/ I found this post quite interesting as my background is in Women's history and I would love to combine my two degree and work in archiving Women's history or at a Women's library. The second is http://www.historytodaymagazine.blogspot.com/2010/01/first-archive-centre-to-combine.html, again, this project sounds fascinating and I'd love to work in this field. "Bringing together material held by Hull City Archives, Hull Local Studies Library and Hull University Archives, the centre is the first in the country to combine university and local authority archives" This quote from the article sums it up for me, I'd love to be involved in helping to preserve not only academic libraries, but also city libraries. I guess I still haven't made a decision yet on which one I'd really like to do. The third is this http://www.catalogingmatters.blogspot.com/. I thought this blog was much more library oriented than the others. The description 'Thoughts about the future of libraries and the catalog" I think that relates to my blog since I am also interested in the future of libraries. The post for January 15th is particularly interesting, since it links to an article about the future of academic libraries. I'll probably end up following all three blogs this semester because I think all of them may have some interesting topics.

Initial Post

113 days (aproximatley), 14 modules, 10 competencies, one semester. The purpose of this blog is to explore concepts related to Information Storage and Retrieval for students of Library Science. What I am interested in, mainly, is archiving and research in a University Library setting or perhaps something in the Public Library, at this point in time I am not 100% sure. For this class I am going to choose the University Library setting, I will make a big picture decision later.