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
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
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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