Beyond Traditional Print Resources: Accessing Information about Geoscience Collections Cynthia L. Prosser Science Collections and Scholarly Communication UGA Libraries Athens, Georgia 2012 GSIS/GSA Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012
Geoscience Collections Books and journals Maps, aerial and satellite photographs, and cross sections Seismic data & sections X-ray diffraction graphs Field notes and field books Photographs, slides, and films Other personal papers Samples –Rock, mineral, and fossil –Thin-sections, petrographic slides,... Display specimens GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012
Libraries Academic & Public Institutional & Corporate Special Collections Archives Repositories Departmental Institutional Museums Collection Locations GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012
Mentioned – news article, the invisible college, blog, social network, … Visit the location and search and view the collection in person Online Search with Favorite Search Tool Abstracting & Indexing service Google, Bing, Yahoo Twitter Discovering the Resource GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012
Finding Aids in Transition From Paper to Electronic From Local to Remote From Static to Dynamic From Controlled to Crowdsourcing GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012
Finding Aids -Paper GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012
Finding Aid - Index GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012
Finding Aid – Online Catalog GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012
Finding Aids - A & I Service GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012
Finding Aid - Wiki GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012
Finding Aids - Tags GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012
Finding Aid – Tag Cloud GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012
Finding Aids - Summary Paper – card catalog, index, … Electronic Listing Online Searchable Catalog Wiki Tags & Tag Clouds GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012
Questions? Cynthia Prosser: 2012 GSIS/GSA Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012