Shot at the Ceran St. Vrain Trailhead and campground, near Jamestown, Colorado. St. Vrain’s Woods was inspired by Seurat among others. An exploration of the elasticity of time, it is a moving picture made only of still images and the spaces between them. A portrait of a place and a moment.
A few views of water and trees from my month long stay in Phoenecia, NY. This video utilizes an editing technique (a sort of continuous slow horizontal slide) that I conceptualized for more than a year. After several failed attempts I finally figured out how to make it work.
Presentation presented at the Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians on May 19, 2015. Many libraries are withdrawing materials from their government documents collections. The University of Cincinnati Libraries began their withdrawal project by withdrawing tangible materials which had corresponding online equivalent versions. This presentation will explain the catalog search strategies to identify print/online equivalent materials in a collection when starting a withdrawal project. It will also discuss how a library can easily continue this as an ongoing process. There will be information provided on how all new GPO e-resource records are run against a script that identifies if the library owns a tangible equivalent, which then could be a candidate for withdrawal
Poster presented to the 2014 Charleston Conference to describe an open-source, homegrown web application to support purchasing operations at the University of Cincinnati Libraries.
Poster submitted to 2014 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative International Conference. Stemming from a project to convert metadata from Dublin Core to VRA, the University of Cincinnati Libraries outlines a successful workflow to improve vendor-generated metadata for a large digital collection of archival materials.
The data stored in this collection were collected during a series of 3 experiments I conducted between 2013 and 2014 to evaluate the effects of population-level extinction within spatial population networks.
For each experiment, I used experimental protozoan population networks (microcosms) that used the common pond species Paramecium caudatum as the focal organism. Each network contained five populations aligned linearly and connected to one another through a migration corridor (see image files).
The experiments were similar in their basic methods. For example, each experiment consisted of three 10-day periods: pre-extinction, extinction, and reestablishment. In addition, each experiment used 8 networks: four treatment networks and four control networks. During the 10-day extinction period, extinction was maintained on the center population of 4 treatment networks. During the reestablishment period, the center population was allowed to reestablish. The 4 control networks had no extinction imposed.
During each experiment I estimated the density of each population within all networks daily as the mean number of paramecia captured in three 0.25 mL samples. The data included in these files shows these density estimates. All calculations used to assess changes in population abundance and dynamics due to extinction were derived from these density estimates.
Additional background for each of the 3 experiments (e.g., how the experiments differed) can be found in the ReadMe file. Detailed methods and results from each of these experiments are documented in Chapters 3, 4, and 5 of my dissertation (see Dissertation file).
During the last three years new leadership at the University of Cincinnati (UC) in many senior administrative positions has resulted in a rare culture of collaboration. This presentation will focus on the dynamic that has evolved among the Dean of Libraries, Vice President for Information Technology, and the Vice President for Research; discuss the development of the Research Hub@UC, which will deliver a profile-based customized suite of programs to researchers and scholars throughout the lifecycle; and explore a specific initiative (Scholar@UC) that demonstrates the depth of collaboration and its impact on the partners’ cultures, particularly the libraries’ at all levels. UC’s research support ecosystem has been disjointed, incomplete, ignored, or simply hidden. To grow the university’s research enterprise, these leaders realized that support programs throughout the research lifecycle had to be improved, expanded, and promoted. Presenters will discuss the successes and challenges of bridging different work cultures, funding development in a fiscally austere environment, and establishing collaborative models for operational support. To demonstrate the value and challenges of the partnership, including its impact on the cultures of each partner, presenters will explore two projects that have been enabled by the partnership, including the aforementioned Research Hub@UC and Scholar@UC, a faculty self-submission repository. Using these as case studies, presenters will discuss how agile (including open source) software development projects and broad system integration needs have enabled the partners to develop nimble, user-driven processes and a strong sense of risk taking to deploy new enterprise-wide systems in an environment of lean staff and resources.
