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Beyond Traditional Print Resources: Accessing Information about Geoscience Collections Cynthia L. Prosser Science Collections and Scholarly Communication.

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1 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

2 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 2 2012 GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012

3 Libraries Academic & Public Institutional & Corporate Special Collections Archives Repositories Departmental Institutional Museums Collection Locations 3 2012 GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012

4 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 4 2012 GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012

5 Finding Aids in Transition From Paper to Electronic From Local to Remote From Static to Dynamic From Controlled to Crowdsourcing 5 2012 GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012

6 Finding Aids -Paper 6 2012 GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012

7 Finding Aid - Index 7 2012 GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012

8 Finding Aid – Online Catalog 8 2012 GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012

9 Finding Aids - A & I Service 9 2012 GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012

10 Finding Aid - Wiki 10 2012 GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012

11 Finding Aids - Tags 11 2012 GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012

12 Finding Aid – Tag Cloud 12 2012 GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012

13 Finding Aids - Summary Paper – card catalog, index, … Electronic Listing Online Searchable Catalog Wiki Tags & Tag Clouds 13 2012 GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012

14 Questions? Cynthia Prosser: cprosser@uga.educprosser@uga.edu 2012 GSIS/GSA Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012


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