The St. Lawrence University Environmental Archive will serve as a digital repository for scholarly works created by students, faculty and alumni. This body of work will be made available as a part of the Liberal Arts Scholarly Repository (LASR), an initiative for which St. Lawrence University is a participant.

We are currently in the process of digitizing and cataloging work by students and faculty from the period 1990-2008 and anticipate the collection of new materials as they become available during the 2008-2009 academic year. If you have work that you believe would be appropriate for this archive, please contact Eric Williams-Bergen (x5405).

St. Lawrence University has joined the Liberal Arts Scholarly Repository (LASR), a digital archive designed to feature the scholarship of students at Liberal Arts institutions.

Excerpt of draft from the mission statement: Scholarship is a conversation that depends on the work of others. Vital to this exchange of ideas is the accessibility of research, criticism, and other scholarly and creative work to the larger community of scholars. The Liberal Arts Scholarly Repository is an openly accessible archive that documents the scholarly and other creative activity of the students, faculty, and staff of the participating institutions. It provides individual scholars at those institutions (and beyond) the opportunity to share, explore, discover, and evolve the ideas, experience, enquiry fundamental to liberal education.

Link: Access LASR
Link: LASR Portal
Link: FOS Abstracts 2008
Link: Enhanced LASR Record - A
Link: Enhanced LASR Record - B

Working Drafts:

• Draft LASR workflow (PDF) (PNG)
• Draft LASR introduction (PDF)

The St. Lawrence University Libraries have been working with Innovative Interfaces Inc. (III) on a project to “harvest” the metadata associated with records from the University’s digital collections.  Records from the Liberal Arts Scholarly Repository project (LASR) and the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery’s ContentDM collections form the basis for the initial harvests.  You can try this functionality out by running a search for “Fox News” in Encore.

Examples:

• Using Encore discovery tool to link to CONTENTdm digital collections at St. Lawrence University (joint project of SLU Art Gallery and Library).
• Using Encore discovery tool to link to Google Books held by ConnectNY libraries.
• Using Encore discovery tool access to harvest from DSpace.

Eric Jansson leads CODEX, NITLE’s collaboration in digital assets management, and will be working with SLU faculty and staff to develop a comprehensive plan for the management of the University’s digital collections.

Jansson visited campus on September 6th and met with the working group and selected faculty and staff. A PDF of his presentation is now available. Several members of the working group will be attending NITLE’s upcoming workshop on LUNA Insight - one of several digital collection management software options that SLU is currently considering.