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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Two-w
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Cours
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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: [email protected]
LinkedIn:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/deemagnoni
Twitter: @deemagnoni
