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The Database of Recorded American Music
By Lisa Kahlden
for layout only In the late 1990s, the consumer market for the compact disc, a format which had been a boon to the music industry through the earliest years of the decade, began to show signs of fatigue...
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The Afghanistan Digital Library Project
By The Afghanistan Digital Library Editorial Team
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Although Afghanistan's cultural heritage--monuments, art, and books--has suffered much damage and loss, particularly in the 1990s, much has remained protected in private and public collections outside the country...
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Library Instruction and Online Tutorials: Developing Best Practices for Streaming Desktop Video Capture
By Nadaleen Tempelman-Kluit & Ethan Ehrenberg
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Incorporating multimedia in online training modules and tutorials has the potential to significantly affect current methods of library-based instruction...
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SFX: Providing Easier Access to E-Journals and Other Digital Scholarly Resources
By Gloria Rohmann & Tom McNulty
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Have you ever had the experience of searching a database, finding a citation to an article you really want, and then wondering where to go to get the full text version? Is it in BobCat? Is it in one of those "packages" of e-journals, like JSTOR? Or maybe one of those huge general databases, like ProQuest?...
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Wired Classrooms Update: New Rooms, Easier Reservations
By John Bako
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The University has expanded the inventory of "wired" (technology-equipped) classrooms available to the NYU community. Over the winter recess, two newly acquired floors at 194 Mercer Street...
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The Next Big Thing? The Promise of E-Portfolios at NYU and Beyond
By Keith Adams
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Student portfolios have been a significant part of higher education for decades. Across disciplines, students create collections of work that demonstrate their accomplishments, talents, and knowledge...
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Software Applications Available @ ITS and ITS-Affiliated Labs
By Robyn Berland
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This table contains detailed information about the software packages available at the ITS and ITS-affiliated labs, grouped by category, with descriptions and additional information provided for each package...
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Developing an Image Database for IFA's Aphrodisias Project
By Matt Zimmerman, Lorna Hughes & Christopher Ratté
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For more than 40 years, teams of archeologists have been excavating and documenting the archeological site at Aphrodisias, Turkey. The Institute of Fine Arts (IFA) at NYU has been sending teams to participate in this activity since 1961...
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Lounge Lizards Online: Learning in a Blackboard Virtual Student Lounge
By Marilyn Lawrence
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When I enrolled in Tisha Bender's course on web-assisted teaching, Online Institute 5, sponsored in January 2002 by NYU's Center for Teaching Excellence, I was a skeptic. As a recent Ph.D., I knew that it was necessary to be familiar with teaching technologies...
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Using Cumulus to Manage Your Multimedia Assets
By Philip Galanter, Gary Shawver & Eric Stedfeld
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Once upon a time, academic work was expressed mostly in text, with the occasional illustration, graph, or chart prepared by editorial assistants...
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Recent Internet2 Performances and Programs
By Jeffrey Bary
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Since Fall 2001, the Arts Technology Group of NYU's ITS Academic Computing Services (ACS) has helped produce three very different Internet2 (I2) events...
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Structural Time Series Modeling with SAS Proc UCM and STAMP
By Robert Yaffee
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Structural time series analysis involves the decomposition of the series into unobserved components...
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SAS for SPSS Programmers
By Frank LoPresti
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SAS, like SPSS, is a popular statistical software package. These two statistical packages are the top ranked among the many used at NYU...
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Why is ArcGIS an Improvement?
By Antonio Lopez
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Unlike other versions of Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)'s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software, ArcGIS 8 is an integrated Geographic Information System...
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About "Mail Delivery Subsystem" E-mail Messages
By Eduardo De León
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I have been receiving e-mail messages for the past 2-3 months that are from "Mail Delivery Subsystem" and say "Returned mail: see transcript for details" in the subject line...
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What Are Full E-mail Headers?
By Eduardo De León
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All e-mails have two parts: a header and a body. The body is the main part of the e-mail, which contains the sender's message. The header is the part that contains technical information about the message...
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ITS and Global: Achievements and Opportunities
By Ben Maddox
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NYU's Global Academic and Research Centers offer many of the same information technology services that are available on NYU's Washington Square campus...
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