The Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) is an organization that supports libraries statewide. CLiC’s AspenCat Union Catalog allows over 100 small and rural libraries to share resources. Small libraries often cannot devote lots of time to work on their catalogs and only twelve CLiC staff serve all of Colorado. That’s where I came in. At time of submission, I had examined over 600 brief and duplicate catalog records—over 400 of which I resolved by merging and/or overlaying. After supporting CLiC staff at cataloging trainings, on May 15 I traveled to Rocky Ford, CO to assist in a hands-on staff training.

In her 60+ year career creating monumental public sculpture, American artist Beverly Pepper has generated thousands of production documents, negatives, photographs, films, videos, ephemera, catalogs and books. At 94, she is still making art but her studio in Todi, Italy lacks a digital collections management system to assist with cataloging and access. After assessing her studio collection, creating controlled vocabularies and test installing the CollectiveAccess CMS, this project presents the The Beverly Pepper Foundation with software evaluations, budgets and and metadata guidelines to begin the much needed and long overdue process of arranging the studio archive.

We created a toolkit based on Nancy Pearl’s four doorways approach to Readers’ Advisory, that may be used by any public library interested in creating or enhancing their RA program. Pearl’s approach is based on her own unique understanding of what appeals to readers, which helps library staff and patrons discover a wider array of books to select from. The Book Lust Readers’ Advisory Toolkit includes staff training, display materials, programming, a social media plan, and host website. All elements were implemented at the Kitsap Regional Library system and the Coeur d'Alene Public Library.

IN-PART is a startup established in the UK. The company provides collaborative opportunities for universities and industries to commercialize innovative technologies at an early stage. The growth of the company calls for a more efficient match of technology with industrial interests, as well as an automated visualization platform. Our capstone project is rooted in such needs from IN-PART. We analyzed user interaction data collected from its website to implement a recommendation system and created a visualization interface to provide universities with industry feedback and quantify commercial interest in their technologies.

In September 2016 the Wasilla Public Library moved into a new building with dedicated space for graphic novels, comics, and manga. However, the library had no clear goals for how they would develop the collection. This project was designed to create those goals by surveying library users, reviewing current literature on the medium, and developing policies and practices to suit the library's needs. In addition, over 200 titles were suggested for purchase to help build the library's collection.

Working collaboratively with Records Management Services (RMS) for UW Medicine, we created documents to aid RMS in their SharePoint 2013 adoption and migration initiative. In creating a workflow diagram, resource packet for new clients, and a variety of checklists, we have helped RMS define a streamlined course of action in their content management project. The key to success with any content management project is adoption. We designed compelling and useful resources for clients that will contribute to better adoption rates.

The A.C. Warner Collection was partially processed during the creation of a digital image database. However, because of the project’s limited scope, several aspects of archival collection processing remained incomplete over a decade later. For our project, we collocated duplicate photographs, removed photos outside of the collection’s scope, and incorporated relevant items that had yet to be inventoried. We rehoused materials in archival folders and sleeves, and developed a new organization scheme. Finally, we created a new finding aid using the EAD standard. The result is a better organized collection, paired with an improved finding aid for patron use.

Over the years, the Washington National Guard Museum has accepted donations amounting to several hundred books. These books were un-inventoried and taking up space in various storage areas. The Museum Board envisioned a Research Library to provide access to these books, but did not have the resources, or expertise to put that library together. Our team was able to catalog a large portion of the books, weed out items outside the scope of the library, and set up collection development and cataloging policies and procedures - giving the Museum tools to establish a Research Library and continue to manage the collection.

The Freeport Community Library has over 8,000 children’s books and finding age appropriate books at the correct reading level is hard for children and their caregivers. To solve this problem, a new shelving location was created for early chapter books. Early chapter books were moved to a new shelving location, provided new call numbers and spine labels, leveled using Fountas & Pinnell, and marked with identifying stickers to signify them early chapter books. By creating a separate section for early chapter books, children and caregivers are now able to find early chapter books at the right reading level.

Busy students and professionals spend too much time rereading material to study or learn. While notes help with studying faster — few people have the time to write notes for everything. This results in inefficient review of materials, the loss of precious time, and losing crucial information by skimming content. Enter Cicero, a cutting edge web service that leverages advanced technologies to auto-generate notes for individuals with heavy readings. With Cicero, users will be able to save time by generating customizable summarized notes of study material they have already read before.