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Item Analysis for Science Librarians of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics: Foundational Discoveries Enabling Machine Learning with Artificial Neural Networks(Taylor & Francis, 2025) Fosmire, Michael; Kolah, Debra; Fondren LibraryThe Royal Swedish Academy of Science has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2024 to two scientists, John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, for their foundational work developing models for associative memory and artificial neural networks, respectively. This article provides an analysis of the citation and publication patterns of each awardee after a brief introduction to the science and scientists who received the prize.Item Federal Depository Library Leading the Way of Civic Engagement(U.S. Government Publishing Office, 2024-10) Xiong, AnnaFederal Depository Libraries have the strong potential to continue serving as a civic leader in the digital age. This poster highlights Rice University's Fondren Library and its five-year journey to becoming a strong civic engagement leader on campus. It will feature charts, tables, and infographics showcasing Fondren Library's growing efforts, achievements, and service statistics, along with event photos, links to resources and materials, ideas, experience and suggestions for enhancing civic engagement. While the poster aims to inspire Federal Depository Libraries, it can serve as a model for any library seeking to take on a leadership role in civic engagement.Item Library Science @ Fondren(Rice University, 2024-07) Sewell, Jeanette Claire; Fondren LibraryA quarterly e-newsletter of library and information science resources.Item The road from DSpace 6 to DSpace 7 and beyond: Building (and building on) two modern digital repositories at Rice University(Rice University, 2024-06-03) Jin, Ying; Mulligan, John; Evans, KennethIn October 2023, the Digital Scholarship Services team in Fondren Library at Rice University upgraded its digital repository. The process was both challenging, rewarding, and instructive for our future work on digital collections. We took a mixed approach in which 27% of our content was moved to Quartex, which could be curated as digital cultural heritage, 11% was retired, and the remainder migrated from the DSpace 6.4 system to the new 7.6 deployment. We are now using our two new platforms’ APIs to enable a microservices-based approach to customized UI presentations for special collections, and semi-automatic metadata enrichment, and document submission workflows. This poster describes our preliminary attempts in this space on two collections: geo-located photographs of Chinese subway advertisements over two decades and the geographically dispersed papers relating to the United States President’s Council of Advisors on Science and TechnologyItem Library Science @ Fondren(Rice University, 2024-04) Sewell, Jeanette Claire; Fondren LibraryA quarterly e-newsletter of library and information science resources.Item Library Science @ Fondren(Rice University, 2024-01) Sewell, Jeanette Claire; Fondren LibraryA quarterly e-newsletter of library and information science resources.Item Library Science @ Fondren(Rice University, 2023-10) Sewell, Jeanette Claire; Fondren LibraryA quarterly e-newsletter of library and information science resources.Item A Collection of Resources for Learning to Code in R(Rice University, 2023) Barber, Catherine RomeroThis collection of guides and Markdown code files introduces coding basics to learners who are new to R. Topics include navigating in RStudio, importing and indexing data, data wrangling, visualization, basic statistics, creating reports with Markdown, and programming basics.Item Book review: The Impactful Academic: Building a Research Career That Makes a Difference(Iowa State University Digital Press, 2023) Kipphut-Smith, ShannonA brief review of Wade Kelly's book, The Impactful Academic: Building a Research Career That Makes a Difference (2022).Item Canvas Survey and User Testing, Summer 2015(2015) Kolah, Debra; Yan, HaoItem Designing the Fondren Library K-12 Experience: A collaborative project(2014-06-05) Bynog, David; Spiro, Linda; Edwards, Sandi; Kolah, DebraHow do we create an experience that makes a meaningful impression on our school visitors, so that they come to know the value of a research library, and understand how it fits into a university setting? The high school student visitors of today could be the Rice students of tomorrow.Item Usability Testing the Classic Catalog & OneSearch(2013) Butler, Diane; Edwards, Sandi; Koffler, Jeff; Kolah, Debra; Mueller, Lauren; Zhao, JaneThe web team used two methods with students to achieve answers to our research questions. The first method was a series of one-on-one interviews. The second method used was a session where students were invited to drop in and fill out a Google Form that has questions about their use of the library catalog. Finally, a librarian review was conducted to determine areas that needed further training and education within the catalog.Item Library Science @ Fondren(Rice University, 2023-07) Sewell, Jeanette Claire; Fondren LibraryA quarterly e-newsletter of library and information science resources.Item Research Flow: Understanding the Way Research Happens(2012-08) Kolah, Debra; Rivero, Monica; Ajtai, Rebecca; Focke, Amanda; LaFlamme, Marcel; Spiro, Linda; Crawford, Esther; Segal, Jane; Krevit, Leah; Meyers, Lauren; Miller, JenniferItem Discovering Discovery: How Researchers Find the Sources They Need(2011-05-18) Kolah, Debra; LaFlamme, Marcel; Segal, Jane; Krevit, LeahRice University’s current discovery tool, OneSearch, will no longer be supported after 2011. A committee, the Fondren Library Resource Discovery Tools Working Group, co-chaired by Esther Crawford and Jiun Kuo, has been charged with looking at other available discovery tools and providing a recommendation to the Fondren Library Executive team on what tool, if any, should be purchased as a replacement. Fondren Library wants to be the first place where information seekers look for information. The right discovery tool could help Fondren attract and retain users seeking one-stop access to information.Item Establishing fondren@BRC: Insights from a User Study(2010-08) Kolah, Debra; Spiro, LisaRice University’s Bioscience Research Center (BRC) aims to be “a catalyst for new and better ways for researchers to collaborate, explore, learn and lead.”1 With fondren@brc, its new library facility in the BRC, Fondren Library can participate in this collaborative effort and support researchers in producing pioneering new research. Through fondren@brc, the library can explore how to use a flexible library space that focuses on service instead of content, what kind of services to offer to a group of scientists who mainly do their research online, and how to implement embedded librarianship, or the integration of librarians into academic disciplines.Item Library Science @ Fondren(Rice University, 2023-04) Sewell, Jeanette Claire; Fondren LibraryA quarterly e-newsletter of library and information science resources.Item Decolonization and the Cambridge University Libraries—Interview with Mel Bach(Taylor & Francis, 2023) Vieira, ScottIn this installment of “Conversations,” Mel Bach, head of collections and academic liaison at Cambridge University, discusses her work on decolonization within the Cambridge University Libraries. The discussion includes a history and description of the Decolonisation Working Group, including its membership and some of its earliest efforts.Item Digital Scholarship Services Spring 2023 Newsletter(Rice University, 2023-02-02) Fondren Library Digital Scholarship ServicesIn this newsletter, Fondren Library's Digital Scholarship Services highlight services, tools and collections of interest to the Rice community. It also shares staff news and spotlight recent collaborations.Item Library Science @ Fondren(Rice University, 2022-10) Sewell, Jeanette Claire; Fondren LibraryA quarterly e-newsletter of library and information science resources.