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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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    No Such Thing as a Free Lunch: Google Analytics and User Privacy
    (2016) Young, Scott W. H.; OBrien, Patrick; Benedict, Karl
    Patron privacy is sometimes the price we pay for free services. This trade-off is part of Google Analytics, the free web tracking tool. This session shares research into analytics implementations of DLF institutions, discusses relevant privacy issues, and offers recommendations for enhancing users' web traffic privacy through configuration and education.
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    Optimizing Cyclist Parking in a Closed System
    (Montana State University, 2016-10) Qingge, Letu; Smith, Killian
    In this paper, we consider the two different aspects of the bike parking problem; namely the assignment of bike racks to locations, and the selection of the minimal number of bike rack locations satisfying some maximum walking distanced. The first sub-problem considered was the assignment of bike racks to individual buildings in the attempt to satisfy the needs of the total number of cyclists expected to reside within a building during the course of an average day. We show that the case of assigning a finite number of bike racks to all buildings on a campus is NP-Hard, and propose a greedy algorithm to obtain a solution. The case of allowing for additional bike racks to be purchased is shown to bePolynomial-Time solvable. The second sub-problem, finding the minimal number of bike rack locations, is shown to be NP-Hard, and a method to use approximation algorithms for the Maximum Independent Set to find solutions is demonstrated.
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    All Aboard! The Party's Starting: Setting a Course for Social Media Success
    (2013-08) Hansen, Mary Anne; Rossmann, Doralyn; Tate, Angela; Young, Scott W. H.
    Social media is more than a way to inform users; social media is a powerful way to build community online. In this webinar hosted by the Library and Information Technology Association, presenters from Montana State University Library will go beyond the basics by demonstrating how to create a social media guide for developing communities on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Pinterest. We will explore data tracking and assessment tools such as ThinkUp, HootSuite, Google Analytics, focus group data, and survey methods. We will also discuss strategies for integrating social media efforts into your organization’s strategic plan and educating peer organizations about best practices.
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    ScholarWorks and Open Access Scholarship at Montana State University
    (2013-02) Young, Scott W. H.
    This presentation addresses the contemporary issues of scholarly publishing, open access and Montana State University's Institutional Repository, ScholarWorks. As research dissemination has moved from print to digital over the last three decades, the existing access model of journal subscriptions is proving unsustainable due to exorbitantly increasing costs. In the face of subsequently reduced access, which affects researchers, students, and the public alike, ScholarWorks and other open access institutional repositories serves as an alternative model providing greater access and visibility of research, increased opportunities for collaboration, faster dissemination of research, long-term stable archiving, and the possibilities of increased impact and rates of citation. In essence, ScholarWorks is a central point of discovery enabling MSU scholarship to be citable, shareable, and findable through the web.
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    Library Commons Assessment Report
    (2013-01) Frank, Jacqueline; Hansen, Mary Anne; Hodges, Mike; Strittmatter, Connie; Zauha, Janelle
    The focus of this report is to assess how the summer 2011 renovation of the first floor of Renne Library into a Library Commons has impacted users, library staff, and library services, and, when possible, to gather information about further needs and directions for the area. The Commons opened in late August 2011 and data gathering took place between April and December of 2012 but focused on use of the Library from August 2011 through August 2012.
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