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Item A Catalyst for Social Activism: The Digital Black Bibliographic Project at Texas A&M University(2016-05-26) Potvin, Sarah; Hankins, Rebecca; Ives, Maura; Earhart, Amy; Texas A&M UniversityWhat can we learn from bibliographies? A proof of concept currently underway at Texas A&M University, the Digital Black Bibliographic Project (DiBB) poses bibliographies as sites of and tools for activism, allowing new fields and communities to quickly categorize and organize themselves. This presentation considers Dorothy Porter’s A catalogue of the African collection in the Moorland Foundation, Howard University Library (1958) and Abdul Al-Kalimat’s The Afro-Scholar Newsletter (1983-91); reviews a historical schism in libraries between bibliographies and subject categorization; and outlines the goals of DiBB, which seeks to diversify the digital cultural record and produce a robust dataset for black cultural research.Item Providing Effective Information Services for RCN CE3SAR Project(2013-03-21) Xu, Hong; Texas A&M UniversityThe research coordination network (RCN) – Climate, Energy, Environment and Engagement in Semiarid Regions (CE3SAR) is a NSF funded project. The overarching goal of the RCN CE3SAR is to form a robust research, educational and engagement network of regional universities, research centers and institutes. The project has extensive information needs such as project presence, data preservation, digital repositories, scholarly communication, project management, information retrieval, and bibliography service. Texas Digital Library and the library of Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi have played important roles in providing services to meet the needs of the RCN CE3SAR project. This presentation aims to share the experience of providing information services to RCN CE3SAR project from the following aspects: Outreaching RCN CE3SAR team; Identifying the project users’ needs; Providing information services; Engaging the project users; Discussing challenges and opportunities.