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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

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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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Beyond Traditional Print Resources:

Accessing Information about Geoscience Collections

Cynthia L. ProsserScience Collections and Scholarly Communication

UGA LibrariesAthens, Georgia

2012 GSIS/GSA Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012

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Geoscience Collections

Books and journalsMaps, aerial and satellite photographs, and cross sectionsSeismic data & sections X-ray diffraction graphsField notes and field booksPhotographs, slides, and filmsOther personal papersSamples– Rock, mineral, and fossil– Thin-sections, petrographic slides, ...

Display specimens

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LibrariesAcademic & PublicInstitutional & CorporateSpecial Collections

ArchivesRepositories

DepartmentalInstitutional

Museums

Collection Locations

32012 GSIS/GSA Charlotte, NC –

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Mentioned – news article, the invisible college, blog, social network, …Visit the location and search and view the collection in personOnline Search with Favorite Search Tool

Abstracting & Indexing serviceGoogle, Bing, YahooTwitter

Discovering the Resource

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Finding Aids in Transition

From Paper to Electronic

From Local to Remote

From Static to Dynamic

From Controlled to Crowdsourcing

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Finding Aids -Paper

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Finding Aid - Index

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Finding Aid – Online Catalog

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Finding Aids - A & I Service

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Finding Aid - Wiki

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Finding Aids - Tags

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Finding Aid – Tag Cloud

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Finding Aids - Summary

Paper – card catalog, index, …Electronic ListingOnline Searchable CatalogWikiTags & Tag Clouds

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Questions?

Cynthia Prosser: [email protected]

2012 GSIS/GSA Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC – November 6, 2012