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Assessing the Information-Seeking Behaviors and Needs of the Mormon Religious Studies Information Community

by Gregory K. Seppi   Abstract This paper investigates the information-seeking behaviors of the Mormon Studies Information Community, defined as scholars (professional and nonprofessional) interested in the history, culture, theology or other aspects of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and other related religious organizations, such as the Community of Christ (formerly the Reorganized Church of…

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October 17, 2015
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Crowdsourced Tagging & Transcription for Cultural Heritage Institutions

by Michael Radmacher    Abstract Describing, managing and making content discoverable poses serious organizational challenges for libraries, archives, museums (LAMs), and researchers.  Describing scholarly research material is not a new field of practice for LAMs, however, tracking the key who, what, when, where and how descriptors for the ever expanding corpus of digital objects has proven to be an exceedingly…

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October 6, 2015
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Conference Bust

  by Kathryn Kane   I am an MLlS student slowly creeping upon graduation, so when I found out that the Pacific Northwest Library Association annual conference was going to be in my hometown of Vancouver, Washington, I jumped at the chance to hobnob with some professionals. It was to be my first conference and I had high hopes. In…

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October 6, 2015
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