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Montana State University Library (MSU Library) is the academic library of Montana State University, Montana's land-grant university, in Bozeman, Montana, United States. It is the flagship library for all of Montana State University System's campuses. In 1978, the library was named the Roland R. Renne Library to honor the sixth president of the university. The library supports the research and information needs of Montana's students, faculty, and the Montana Extension Service.
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Item Data-Driven Improvement to Institutional Repository Discoverability and Use(Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2018-09) Arlitsch, Kenning; Kahanda, Indika; OBrien, Patrick; Shanks, Justin D.; Wheeler, JonathanThe Montana State University (MSU) Library, in partnership with the MSU School of Computing, the University of New Mexico Library and DuraSpace, seeks a $49,998 Planning Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services through its National Leadership Grant program under its National Digital Platform project category to develop a sustainability plan for the Repositories Analytics & Metrics Portal that will keep its dataset open and available to all researchers. The proposal also includes developing a preliminary institutional repositories (IR) reporting model; a search engine optimization (SEO) audit and remediation plan for IR; and exploring whether machine learning can improve the quality of IR content metadata.The project team expects work conducted in this planning grant to make the case for advanced research projects that will be high-impact and worthy of funding.Item A National Forum on Web Privacy and Web Analytics: Action Handbook(Montana State University, May 2019) Young, Scott W. H.; Clark, Jason A.; Mannheimer, Sara; Hinchliffe, Lisa JanickeThis is a practice-oriented action handbook that provides background, resources, and good practices to guide libraries in ethically implementing web analytics with a view towards privacy.This guide contains two main parts, followed by a references section. In Part 1, we detail technical strategies for implementing privacy-aware web analytics. In Part 2, we focus on communication strategies for building support for privacy-aware analytics practices.Item A Roadmap for Achieving Privacy in the Age of Analytics: A White Paper from A National Forum on Web Privacy and Web Analytics(Montana State University, May 2019) Young, Scott W. H.; Mannheimer, Sara; Clark, Jason A.; Hinchliffe, Lisa JanickeA National Forum on Web Privacy and Web Analytics is an IMLS-funded, community-fueled effort to shape a better analytics practice that protects our users’ privacy from unwanted third-party tracking and targeting. The main Forum event was held September 2018 in Bozeman, Montana, where 40 librarians, technologists, and privacy researchers collaborated in producing a practical roadmap for enhancing our analytics practice in support of privacy. Forum participants co-created eight Pathways to Action for enhancing web privacy. Forum activities also informed the development of an Action Handbook that contains practical skills and strategies for implementing privacy-oriented, ethical web analytics in libraries. This white paper provides an overview of the project, with a summary of the Pathways to Action and the Action Handbook. We present these resources to the wider community to remix, reuse, and apply towards action.Item Infographic Assignment for the Health Sciences(2017) Shanks, Justin D.; Izumi, Betty; Sun, Christina; Martin, Allea; Byker Shanks, CarmenThe infographic assignment was developed and pilot tested in summer 2016 and revised and retested in fall 2016. Students create an infographic focused on a health issue. The assignment objectives are to (1) understand the purposes of and potential uses for infographics, (2) cultivate creative visual communication skills, and (3) disseminate information about a complex health topic to diverse audiences. The assignment is divided into four steps: (1) brainstorming, (2) developing, (3) designing, and (4) finalizing. In the brainstorming step, students familiarize themselves with the infographic genre, selected a topic, used research skills to identify professional sources of information about their topic, and began drawing their infographic. In the developing step, students use software to develop their infographic. In the designing step, students select fonts and colors for their infographic. As part of the finalizing step, students market test their infographic with friends, family, peers, and faculty.Item Establishing Managment under the Taylor Grazing Act(1981-06) Carpenter, F.R.Editor's Note: In this historical issue of Rangelands we thought it appropriate to publish verbatim and in its entirety a talk the author gave in 1962 telling of his early work with the U.S. Grazing Service. It is in Ferry 'sown words and style. Those who knew him will recognize that it sounds just like him.Item Montana State University Research Data Census Instrument, Version 2(Montana State University ScholarWorks, 2016-04) Clark, Jason A.; Llovet, Pol; Mannheimer, Sara; Sheehan, JerryMontana State University developed the Research Data Census (RDC) to engage our local research community in an interactive dialogue about their data. The research team was particularly interested in learning more about the following issues at Montana State: the size of research data; data storage needs; data sharing and publication behaviors; and interest in existing services that assist with the curation. Version 1 of the RDC (http://doi.org/10.15788/m2h59m) was distributed in January 2015. Version 2 was distributed in spring 2016.Item Montana State University (MSU) Library Social Media Survey(2015-12) Young, Scott W. H.; Rossmann, Doralyn; Shanks, Justin D.This survey is designed to produce demographic and usage data for a community of social media users.Item Library Lingo January 2016(MSU Library, 2016-01) MSU LibraryInformation in this newsletter includes: 1.) Library History; 2.) Brain Teaser; 3. January Workshop ScheduleItem Library Lingo December 2015(MSU Library, 2015-12) MSU LibraryInformation in this newsletter includes: 1.) Relaxation Week; 2.) Paws to de-Stress schedule; 3.) Library Limerick; 4.) December Workshop ScheduleItem Library Lingo November 2015(MSU Library, 2015-11) MSU LibraryInformation in this newsletter includes: 1.) Paws to de-Stress; 2.) WriteNight; 3.) Novel Trivia; 4.) November Workshop Schedule