Creating a Materials Samples Collection

To Support the Engineering Curriculum

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About Olin

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About Olin’s Library

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Early Collection Concept

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Course Integration

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in: Materials

Science

Design

Sustainability

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The Interim Solution

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Inventables Material Connexion

Ecolect

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Physical Organization: Lessons from Visits

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Display

“Public” Storage

Workroom Storage

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Materials Science Student Work

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Faculty interviewsStudent interviewsCollection organizational philosophy

Metadata thoughts for the database

Challenges

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Virtual Storage: The Database I

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Virtual Storage: The Database II

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• Site built in the Django framework

• Runs on Python

• Administration panel can be edited and updated without

programming knowledge

• Flexible categorization system

• Ability to create custom metadata types

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Lessons Learned, Moving Forward

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Purchasing versus Building

A pedagogically useful collection cannot exist in a vacuum.

Plans in place…

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THANK YOUContact:

Dee Magnoni

E-mail: dianna.magnoni@olin.edu

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