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Title: Collaborating for metadata creation on digital projects: using Google Forms and Sheets
Description: When working with faculty, students, and staff on digital projects, librarians at the Grinnell College Libraries need to provide these constituents with tools to create robust metadata for these digital projects. The Grinnell College Libraries sought to create a user-friendly alternative. The landed on using Google Forms and Sheets to facilitate metadata creation.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:20234

Title: Collaborating on Oral Histories, Digital Oral Histories
Description: The Grinnell College Libraries has collaborated on digital oral histories with the Grinnell College Office of Development and Alumni Relations, the Drake Community Library, and a mental health advocacy project.
Date Created: 2018
PID: grinnell:26653

Title: Current Perspectives on Porgy and Bess
Description: A conversation between Randye Jones and George Shirley at the time of the celebration of the 75th anniversary of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
Date Created: 2011
PID: grinnell:231

Title: Grinnell - in - Grinnell: 150 Years of Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Special Collections and Archives exhibit brochure to accompany the exhibit Grinnell - in - Grinnell: 150 Years of Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa.
Date Created: 2009
PID: grinnell:6039

Title: Grinnell Science Project: Motivating First-Year Students to Persist in Scientific Inquiry, Motivating First-Year Students to Persist in Scientific Inquiry, the Grinnell Science Project
Description: Librarians Kevin Engel, Liz Rodrigues, and Rebecca Ciota discuss the library instruction session portion of the Grinnell Science Project, a program to promote diversity in STEM majors at Grinnell College.
Date Created: 2019
PID: grinnell:23739

Title: Let's Talk About Collections and Space.
Description: In order to make room for a much needed classroom on the 2nd floor of Burling Library nearly 325,000 volumes of materials were handled and relocated.
Date Created: 2018
PID: grinnell:21182

Title: Metadata for Digital Scholarship: New Roles for Technical Services Librarians
Description: Along with the rise of digital scholarship librarians have taken on new roles in working with faculty, students, and staff in a variety of ways including consulting on metadata. Grinnell College librarians utilize a variety of tools including Google forms to sheets.
Date Created: 2018
PID: grinnell:21181

Title: Setting a Course: Using Google Forms for Navigating Metadata for Digital Projects.
Description: Working with faculty and staff to create digital projects requires a complex group of skills and activities. Potential collaborators often jump to the end vision without fully grasping the need for proper description & metadata. Using Google Forms & Sheets is perceived as neutral and less frightening than working in a repository platform or using other proprietary productivity software.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:18460

Title: Surveying Current Perspectives of Porgy and Bess
Description: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess celebrated its 75th anniversary with nearly as much controversy as when it premiered in 1935.
Date Created: 2011
PID: grinnell:230

Title: The Digital Potential: Making Digital Objects More Than a TIFF Image and a MODS Record
Description: Many institutions digitize their physical collections. Unfortunately, once these items are digitized, they reside in a repository and act merely as digital representations of their physical counterparts. I discuss how libraries can make greater use of their homegrown electronic resources through collaborations between scholars, students, and the general community.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:18491