http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/2488 2013-05-24T06:59:08Z http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148728 Preservation of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin in the Digital Repository To assist agricultural librarians in their new role as digital preservation and distribution specialists, this article documents the basic procedures for scanning and digitizing print agricultural serial publications and submitting them to a DSpace digital repository, through a case study of a project at Texas A&M University Libraries to digitize Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletins. It is hoped that a dispersed network of similar agricultural materials in all the various land grant university digital repositories could be crawled to harvest the metadata records and make them accessible in a central user-friendly digital library for agriculture. 9 pg. 2010-04-23T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/147902 Myths and Value in the Deposit of ETDs: A Final Teachable Moment Presentation given on March 1, 2013 to Texas Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (TxETDA) meeting at Texas A&M University. The presentation addresses the issue surrounding the choices made by student in access upon deposit of their thesis or dissertation in the Institutional Depository. Various responses to these concerns are discussed. 2013-03-05T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/147616 Copyright and Publishing Literacy for ETD Authors: Applying the Theft of the Mind Model Thanks to a fruitful collaboration between the Scholarly Communication office in the University Libraries, and the Thesis Office in the Graduate School, ETD authors and their faculty advisers at Texas A&M University now enhance their understanding of copyright principles and publishing strategies through a series of successful workshops. These sessions include 'Copyright Essentials;' 'Fair Use: Using Copyrighted Material in Your Thesis or Dissertation;' Creative Commons Licensing: A Tool for Publishing Your Research Via Open Access;' and 'Managing Your Author Rights as You Publish.' The curriculum for each program is based on the Theft of the Mind model (see Clement and Brenenson, 2013) which was recently published by ACRL in the book Common ground at the nexus of information literacy and scholarly communication. This curriculum relies on a series of student learning outcomes (SLO's) derived from both on ACRL's Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education and their "Principles Supported" for Scholarly Communication. The elements of Theft of the Mind curriculum selected for graduate students aim to meet their needs both as ETD authors and as new professionals, scholars and practitioners as they enter the 21st century workplace. 2013-02-28T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/147615 BOOKS MENTIONED IN THE FICTION OF LOUIS L’AMOUR A guide to the books, articles, plays, music and other literary material mentioned in the fiction of Louis L'Amour. 2013-02-17T00:00:00Z