364 research outputs found
Law and Leyburn Librarians
No full textW&L Law librarians Stephanie Miller and John Jacob visit with librarians Alston Cobourn and Mackenzie Brooks from W&L\u27s Leyburn Library. W&L Law librarian Jack Bisset appears in the background.https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/scholarcelebration2013/1025/thumbnail.jp
An exact approach for evaluating the benefits from technological change
No full textIt is commonly believed that taxing agricultural commodities in developing countries, and subsidizing agricultural commodities in industrial countries, reduces incentives in the developing countries for both current production and longer-term investments in capital, knowledge, technology, and infrastructure. It is argued that distortions in agricultural markets have kept investments in research and development, and productivity rates low in agriculture in developing countries. Martin and Alston lay the theoretical foundation for empirical studies of how such distortions affect returns to agricultural research and development in developing countries. Earlier studies of the benefits from technological change have typically used partial equilibrium models with Marshallian welfare measures. Such models have not allowed for a general set of market distortions and market interactions. Techniques recently developed for evaluating welfare in the context of general equilibrium models better measure the implications of trade distorting policies. Martin and Alston describe how to harness these approaches to evaluate the benefits and costs of technological changes. They show that a modified trade expenditure function can be used to measure welfare changes exactly, with a model consistent with the optimizing behavior of both producers and consumers. They do so in a general setting that allows for multiple market distortions and multiple paths of general equilibrium feedback. They illustrate this approach using a quadratic form for a profit function that is a component of the trade expenditure function. They spell out, in principle, how to apply this approach with minimal requirements for additional information, using the results from a computable general equilibrium model. They provide a diagram to illustrate the application of the technique.Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Access to Markets,Markets and Market Access,Consumption
Tolstoy's guiding light
No full textThe philosophical writings of the author of War and Peace inspired followers from Moscow to Croydon and led to the creation of a Christian anarchist reform movement. Charlotte Alston examines the activities and influence of Tolstoy’s disciples
Investing in Organization: Tips, Tools, and Benefits
No full textOver the past year, East Carolina University’s University History and Records Department has been working smarter, not harder, through increased organization. On the whole, archives and records professionals are overworked, which can make even the task of staying organized overwhelming. This talk will share the ways our department has become better organized and the benefits that have yielded, including smoother transitions between projects, decreased stress in managing student workers, less confusion, and being able to meet more annual goals. I will discuss how we have used specific tools and modified procedures to become a more organized department. Attendees will leave the session energized with concrete ideas they could implement at their own institutions
Using Bulk Rename Utility and Photoshop to Increase Efficiency of Digital File Processing
No full text[Excerpt] The Special Collections and Archives Department at Washington and Lee University contains 2.5 FTE staff in addition to its department head. During each of the last two fiscal years these staff members created an average of 11,000 digital files while scanning materials from our collection to fulfill patron reference requests, which are received daily. Staff must also accession and process a steady stream of newly acquired materials and a substantial backlog of older materials, as well as prepare for and lead multiple visits to the archive each term by classes of students and groups such as university alumni. In short, it is a very busy department
Inventorying our Audiovisual Materials
No full textThis presentation reports on a project to inventory all of the audiovisual materials in East Carolina's University Archives collection for improved access to and preservation of the materials
GREAT EXPECTATIONS: How to Provide Service, Manage Change, and Reduce Stress in Archives and Information Organizations
No full textGREAT EXPECTATIONS: How to Provide Service, Manage Change, and Reduce Stress in Archives and Information Organizations
No full textCase Study: Washington and Lee\u27s First Year Using Archive-It
No full textThis case study reviews the planning, methodology, and lessons learned during the first year of Washington and Lee University Library\u27s web archiving program
Building Best Practice for Access to Born-Digital Records
No full textPresented at the 2018 Society of American Archivists Research Forum, Washington, D.C.Archivists have spent the better part of the past two decades working to establish standards and
best practices for acquiring, appraising, arranging, describing, and preserving digital archives. For
many reasons, however, methods of providing access have been more difficult to define. In 2017,
the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Born-Digital Access Working Group formed with the
intention of both researching current methods and creating a community of practice surrounding
these issues. With origins in working sessions at Society of American Archivists (SAA) annual
meetings in 2015 and 2016, the group has built upon foundational research in order to facilitate
defining best practices for born-digital access. Since the beginning of 2018, the group has focused
on two primary objectives: proposing recommendations for implementing a leveled approach to
various access-related activities, modeled on the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA)’s
Levels of Preservation document; and researching the behavior and needs of users of born-digital
resources. This report expands upon research presented at the 2018 SAA Research Forum,
including group development, informing scholarship, initial steps and findings, and next steps for
this ongoing project
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