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Born digital, video capture, screen sharing, social media, presentation tools
Catalog usability study, research flow study
Digital preservation, digitization, research data management, metadata design
Examination, exploration, and drafting of a business case for a Research Data program. Examination and
recommendations for a Research Commons. Drafting of a Digital Preservation Policy and continuing research and gap
analysis to make infrastructure and digital repository development decisions.
Grant funding to conduct research behavior analysis, which lead to another grant to develop a virtual community for a
field (which grew out of the behavior analysis).
In 2012, classrooms in the university’s Humanities and Social Sciences Building, the largest classroom building on
campus, were renovated to include mobile furniture and interactive classroom technologies as part of a campus plan
to encourage blended and active learning teaching techniques in the classroom. As part of this effort, The University
Libraries partnered with the Teaching and Learning Center and the Classroom Upgrade Committee to create a classroom
in the library outfitted with new furniture and technologies. This classroom would serve as a training area for faculty,
instructors, and GTAs to familiarize them with the new mobile furniture and teaching technologies. The collaboration
targeted, trained, and assessed over 600 faculty at the university. The project solidified the Libraries’ reputation as the
main street of campus as well as a leader in innovation in teaching and learning.
The room was outfitted with:
ceramic boards on all walls and an annotation board
30 Node chairs with tablet arm
2 Node chairs without tablet arm
2 Mobile ADA tables
instructor furniture and equipment stack
wall-mounted, interactive projection system in addition to ceiling-mounted projector
Major library software: the entire NOTIS system was designed at Northwestern. More recently, we have designed
several more targeted software applications, for example a page-turner and book mark-up application for processing
the digital files from a book scanner. We did some explorations to develop a preservation technique for diazotypes
but the preliminary work did not result in findings that funding agencies felt were indicative of a need for unique new
solutions.
MetriDoc is a modified form a data warehousing developed for the specific needs of libraries and the peculiarities of
library transactional data.
Open source software development in partnership with external stakeholders research to improve access of library
webcasts, particularly for integration with university courses development and implementation of an electronic course
reserves system development of a copyright permissions database various web interface improvement projects.
Previous funding of academic university research projects on electronic records, automated transcription, etc.
RAMP [described above]. Cuban Theater Digital Archive: development of an open source content management
system designed especially for the collaborative documentation of theater performance. Participation in the Variations,
Variations-on-Video/Avalon, Shared Shelf. ArtSTOR, and Kuali OLE R&D initiatives
Research into data curation and digital preservation options (collaborative activity with SURA and ASERL), joint
initiation of the CLIR-Vanderbilt Committee on Coherence of Scale, development partner for Primo (Ex Libris), NSF study
grant
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