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Digital imaging and the Early Sedgwick County Township Maps project

Deng, Sai; Wang, Tse-Min; Nelson, Mary; Madway, Lorraine (Chinese American Librarian Association, 2008-01-19)

This presentation describes the digitization, presentation and preservation of the Early Sedgwick County Township Maps, a project undergoing in Special Collections and University Archives at Wichita State University ...
Implementing Shocker Open Access Repository

Matveyeva, Susan J. (Kansas Library Association, 2008-04-09)

With implementation of SOAR (Shocker Open Access Repository), Wichita State University faculty, staff, and students received a secure electronic database to store and access their works, educational material, and university ...
Customized mapping and metadata transfer from DSpace/SOAR to OCLC and Voyager

Deng, Sai; Matveyeva, Susan J.; Wang, Tse-Min (Ex-Libris Southcentral Users Group (ELSUG) Meeting 2008, 2008-10-09)

We present an experiment of customized mapping and metadata transfer from DSpace/SOAR to OCLC to improve ETD work flow at Wichita State University Libraries. SOAR (Shocker Open Access Repository) is a DSpace based digital ...
Simplified dynamic map administration

Mallory, Erik; Deng, Sai; Deyoe, Nancy (Ex-Libris Southcentral Users Group (ELSUG) Meeting 2008, 2008-10-10)

This presentation introduces the dynamic mapping version 2 at Wichita State University (WSU) Libraries. This Java-based new version added a map administration interface and stores shelving map images in an XML database. ...
Optimizing the online catalog: experiences at WSU

Blackburn, Gemma; Deng, Sai (College and Universities Libraries Section of the Kansas Library Association Annual Meeting, 2008-10-23)

In February 2008 the OPAC Redesign and Evaluation Team at Wichita State University Libraries was charged to investigate options to improve the online catalog to provide better access for all library users. This presentation ...
Rightly sore subscribers: where libraries are going wrong with RSS

Blackburn, Gemma; Walker, Mary (Maryville, MO, Northwest Missouri State University, c2008, 2008-11-07)

During the past several years a lot of attention has been given to RSS feeds and how this syndicating technology can be used to channel information to library patrons. Libraries can certainly benefit from the power of this ...
Optimized metadata repurposing in a library using MarcEdit

Deng, Sai (ALCTS Catalog Form and Function Interest Group Meeting, ALA Midwinter 2009, 2009-01-24)

At WSU Libraries, Special Collections and Technical Services had been creating in-house inventories in Excel and MARC records in OCLC separately for their projects, including for a collection of 1800 poems by American poet ...
Changing needs, changing roles

Deyoe, Nancy; Matveyeva, Susan J.; Walker, Mary; Williams, Virginia Kay (2009-04-01)

When library needs change, how does technical services respond? In the last two years, Wichita State started an Institutional Repository, created an Electronic Resources position, and coped with the retirement of a long-term ...
Creating public websites from specialized Voyager data

Deng, Sai; Deyoe, Nancy; Blackburn, Gemma; Wang, Tse-Min (MPLA/KLA Annual Conference, 2009-04-03)

We propose to present a model of building public websites from specialized data in Voyager. The website of Faculty Research Publications at Wichita State University will be featured. This presentation will first explore ...
Beyond the OPAC: creating different interfaces for specialized collections in an ILS system

Deng, Sai (ALA (American Library Association) Annual Conference 2009., 2009-07-11)

This presentation will discuss the speaker’s experiment of creating featured websites from specialized data in Voyager ILS in a wider context. These websites can be seamlessly integrated into public programming events and ...
Enhancing workflow through batch import from Excel to DSpace

Deng, Sai; Matveyeva, Susan J.; Khan, Baseer (Kansas Library 2010 Conference., 2010-04-08)

This presentation will address WSU Libraries' implementation of external programming to enhance workflow in its institutional Repository, SOAR (Shocker Open Access Repository). It will discuss several cases including the ...
Rites of deliverance and disenchantment: The marriage celebrations for Charles II and Catherine of Braganza, 1661-62

Madway, Lorraine (Manchester University Press, 2012)

This article examines the political significance of royal and civic pageantry staged in Portugal and England in 1661-62 to celebrate the marriage of Charles II to Catherine of Braganza. Portugal used its celebrations to ...
Reaching youth through diverse collections

Williams, Virginia Kay; Deyoe, Nancy (2012-09-21)

Do our collections reflect the diverse youth we serve? We present the preliminary results of a nationwide assessment on how collections reflect experiences of youth of different ethnicities, sexual orientations, and ...
Building Collections in IRs from External Data Sources

Deng, Sai; Matveyeva, Susan J. (2012-10)

This presentation will address the experiments of building research publication collections from external data sources such as PubMed, IEEE Xplore and Web of Science in the DSpace based institutional repository (IR). ...