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Title: Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation in Nepal
Description: Disparities in access to care are greatly amplified in a developing country like Nepal due to social factors such as gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic background.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:18504

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: Contrasting soil-texture niches facilitate coexistence of two congeneric plants that differ in competitive ability
Description: We investigated how plant species' responses to soil texture might affect coexistence by analysing distributions, seedling emergence and performance, and competitive abilities of the winter annuals Clarkia speciosa ssp. polyantha and C. xantiana ssp. xantiana.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:26657

Title: Hyphens and Accents: The Hidden Violence of Assimilation
Description: This paper uses Mary Antin's memoir, Promised Land, to examine the issues of a hyphenated identity as a strategy of becoming an American.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:19508

Title: LaFexCo(1G?AEx)O3 Thin-Film Oxygen Reduction Catalysts Prepared Using Spray Pyrolysis without Conductive Additives
Description: LaFexCo(1G??x)O3 Thin-Film Oxygen Reduction Catalysts Prepared Using Spray Pyrolysis without Conductive Additives
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:26882

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: 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

Title: The Library Graduate Assistantship: A Crucial Supplement to an LIS Education.
Description: While undertaking their graduate studies, many library and information science (LIS) students seek pre-professional graduate assistantships. These assistantships can serve as excellent opportunities to complement student's education and influence their future careers by providing them with relevant on-the-job education and skills. Graduate assistantships are a crucial to LIS education in helping new LIS professionals develop skills and experiences needed to attain gainful, professional employment.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:18242

Title: The Political Economy of Collective Action and Radical Reform: A Proposed Conceptual Framework
Description: This paper presents a broad framework for analyzing radical reform in terms of a large set of collective-action problems faced by potential reformers. It merges concepts that often appear separately in the literature, including social preferences, power relationships, policy subsystems, institutional stability, types of institutional change, and types of agents.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:27809