James E. Walker Library

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Welcome to MTSU and the James E. Walker Library. This building, one of the most attractive on campus, was built in 1999 and was named after the 8th president of MTSU, Dr. James E. Walker. The library does have a lot of services, and does have a collection of well over a million volumes on the shelves and at least that much online, but we are dedicated to helping students feel successful and help break down any feelings of being overwhelmed by the size and scope of not only the library, but the whole college experience.

The Walker Library has over 1 million volumes, 33,134 serials and annual expenditures of $7,547,687. There are 26 faculty, 7 professional administrative staff and 34 classified staff working for the library.

In addition to our many services in the building and electronically, we also have this repository collection that provides free, open access to educational resources, research done in the library, and other library information.

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    All Aboard the STEAM Bus! Mobile Learning Labs Expand Math & Science Horizons
    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2015) Reed, Karen Nourse ; Carlton, Jennifer "Megan"
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    Assessment of Visual Arts Projects Produced by Library Student Employees
    ( 2018-12-05) Reed, Karen Nourse
    University libraries employ students to perform a variety of entry-level tasks. With planning and commitment from library personnel, this employment can provide additional educational opportunities for students through mentoring, reinforcement of coursework, and even support of career goals post-graduation. This poster will describe the research-in-progress at one public university library employing students to complete visual arts projects in support of library marketing and teaching initiatives. The focus of this research is on the use of portfolio assessment as a means to evaluate and guide student creative works produced as a function of their library employment. Presented at the Association of Research Libraries Library Assessment Conference 2018.
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    Book Tile: This Is Just An Example (full text)
    (Digital Scholarship Initaitives, Middle Tennessee State University, 2023)
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    Bringing art to the library: An undergraduate art education collaborative with the Curriculum Materials Center
    (Middle Tennessee State University, James E. Walker Library, 2017) Reed, Karen Nourse
    In 2013, one Curriculum Materials Center (CMC) located in an academic library in Tennessee began to examine ways by which to increase awareness of its collection among students, faculty, and the greater community. The CMC director initiated an art display program on a prominent wall outside the library unit. Over the past two and a half years, the program has transformed from a marketing initiative into an instructional program for the university’s College of Education students in which state K-12 standards and teaching pedagogy are emphasized. The art initiative has additionally changed from its inception by becoming a collaboration with undergraduate art education students. This case study will discuss the goals, achievements, and evolution of the art initiative. Future directions of the program will be discussed, as well as implications for assessment.
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    Chapter Tile of Specific Topic (Chapter 5)
    (Digital Scholarship Initaitives, Middle Tennessee State University, 2023) Name Name
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    Circulation
    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2014-10-14) Damaschun, Amanda
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    Create Lists
    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2016-10-11) Mangrum, Suzanne
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    Criteria for Digital Scholarship
    (James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2015) Miller, A.
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    Digital Project Preservation Plan: A Guide for Preserving Digital Humanities / Scholarship Projects
    ( 2019-02) Miller, A. ; Molly Taylor-Poleskey, Department of History, Middle Tennessee State University ; Amy Harris-Aber, Department of English, Middle Tennessee State University ; Susan W. Knowles, Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University
    A Digital Project Preservation Plan is designed to help with organizing preservation efforts for digital projects. Initially drafted as a companion guide meant to fill the gap on best methods for preserving digital scholarship or digital humanities projects, it can also be applied to digital projects outside the humanities. This preservation plan is most beneficial to those digital humanities (DH) project creators who need guidance on how to start a digital project with preservation in mind. Although the DH community has shared resources and case studies, the examples available tend to focus on DH development, and less on DH preservation. These resources are also located in disparate locations. The Digital Project Preservation Plan is a singular guide, focusing on DH preservation, as a starting point with references to more resources and related DH practices. This is a working document, available to practitioners in whole or part; ideally, it will be used in the early stages of project planning and consulted and revised regularly. The preservation infrastructure should be designed and built as a collaborative effort from the beginning of the project. As priorities, methods and technologies change, the preservation plan will need to be updated and modified accordingly.
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    Digital Scholarship Initaitives Infographic
    (Digital Scholarship Initaitives, Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2017) Digital Scholarship Initiatives
    Digital scholarship is scholarship enhanced by the design of digital projects, incorporation of digital tools, collaboration among digital partners, and dissemination through digital platforms. This infographic is an introduction to the Digital Scholarship Initiatives at Middle Tennessee State University's Walker Library. Read about our mission, collaboration with campus, and digital scholarship and digital humanities opportunities such as the digital seed, tools, and the seminar and workshop series.
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    Digital Scholarship Initiatives Highlights 2014-2015: A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment
    (Digital Scholarship Initiatives, Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2015-06) Digital Scholarship Initiatives
    A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment. Digital Scholarship Initiatives began at Walker Library several years ago as a way to build out the library’s collections digitally. More recently, other initiatives have been added including JEWLScholar; Journal Hosting services; the creation of a collaborative Digital Partners group; and a Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) dedicated to faculty and advanced students who enhance research by using digital tools, collaborating on digital projects, and disseminating research through digital platforms. What follows is an assessment of the past year's development.
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    Digital Scholarship Initiatives Highlights 2015-2016: A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment
    (Digital Scholarship Initiatives, Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2016-06) Digital Scholarship Initiatives
    A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment. Digital Scholarship Initiatives began at Walker Library several years ago as a way to build out the library’s collections digitally. More recently, other initiatives have been added including JEWLScholar; Journal Hosting services; the creation of a collaborative Digital Partners group; and a Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) dedicated to faculty and advanced students who enhance research by using digital tools learned in workshops, collaborating on digital projects, and disseminating research through digital platforms. What follows is an assessment of the past year's development.
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    Digital Scholarship Initiatives Highlights 2016-2017: A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment
    (Digital Scholarship Initiatives, Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2017-06) Digital Scholarship Initiatives
    A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment. Digital Scholarship Initiatives began at Walker Library several years ago as a way to build out the library’s collections digitally. More recently, other initiatives have been added including JEWLScholar; Journal Hosting services; the creation of a collaborative Digital Partners group; and a Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) dedicated to faculty and advanced students who enhance research by using digital tools learned in workshops, collaborating on digital projects, and disseminating research through digital platforms. What follows is an assessment of the past year's development.
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    Digital Scholarship Initiatives Highlights 2017-2018: A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment
    (Digital Scholarship Initiatives, Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2018-06) Digital Scholarship Initiatives
    A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment. Digital Scholarship Initiatives began at Walker Library several years ago as a way to build out the library’s collections digitally. More recently, other initiatives have been added including JEWLScholar; Journal Hosting services; the creation of a collaborative Digital Partners group; and a Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) dedicated to faculty and advanced students who enhance research by using digital tools and methodologies learned in workshops, collaborating on digital projects, and disseminating research through digital platforms. What follows is an assessment of the past year's development.
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    Digital Scholarship Initiatives Highlights 2018-2019: A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment
    (Digital Scholarship Initiatives, Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2019-06) Digital Scholarship Initiatives
    A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment. Digital Scholarship Initiatives began at Walker Library several years ago as a way to build out the library’s collections digitally. More recently, other initiatives have been added including JEWLScholar; Journal Hosting services; the creation of a collaborative Digital Partners group; and a Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) dedicated to faculty and advanced students who enhance research by using digital tools and methodologies learned in workshops, collaborating on digital projects, and disseminating research through digital platforms. What follows is an assessment of the past year's development.
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    Digital Scholarship Initiatives Highlights 2019-2020: A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment
    (Digital Scholarship Initiatives, Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2020) Digital Scholarship Initiatives
    A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment. Digital Scholarship Initiatives began at Walker Library several years ago as a way to build out the library’s collections digitally. More recently, other initiatives have been added including library publishing through JEWLScholar and Journal Hosting services; the creation of a collaborative Digital Partners group; and a Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) dedicated to faculty and advanced students who enhance research by using digital tools and methodologies learned in workshops, collaborating on digital projects, and disseminating research through digital platforms. What follows is an assessment of the past year's development.
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    Digital Scholarship Initiatives Highlights 2020-2021: A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment
    (Digital Scholarship Initiatives, Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2021) Digital Scholarship Initiatives
    A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment. Digital Scholarship Initiatives began at Walker Library several years ago as a way to build out the library’s collections digitally. More recently, other initiatives have been added including library publishing through JEWLScholar and Journal Hosting services; the creation of a collaborative Digital Partners group; and a Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) dedicated to faculty and advanced students who enhance research by using digital tools and methodologies learned in workshops, collaborating on digital projects, and disseminating research through digital platforms. What follows is an assessment of the past year's development.
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    DIGITAL SEED GRANT WINNERS AND FINAL PROJECTS 2017-2018
    (Digital Scholarship Initaitives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2018-07) Digital Scholarship Initiatives
    Walker Library Digital Scholarship Initiatives supports individual and collaborative digital scholarship projects in research, teaching, and public outreach from any discipline on campus. The Digital Seed Grant is an annual award for start-up funds, developed to encourage and create opportunities for faculty, staff, and graduate students to use digital technologies in their research or teaching. The Digital Seed Grant (dsi.mtsu.edu/dsgrant) had an impressive amount of applications for its inaugural year, which launched in 2016 (award period of 2017-2018). Due to the quantity and quality of proposals, the Digital Seed Grant Review Committee and Dean of Libraries decided to award three grants for the 2017 calendar year. The awardees were announced on the website at http://dsi.mtsu.edu/dsgrant17-18. Below are brief summaries of the winning projects (in no particular order) and a link to their individual outcomes.
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    Digital Seed Grant Winners and Final Projects 2018-2019
    (Digital Scholarship Initaitives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2019) Digital Scholarship Initiatives
    Walker Library Digital Scholarship Initiatives supports individual and collaborative digital scholarship projects in research, teaching, and public outreach from any discipline on campus. The Digital Seed Grant is an annual award for start-up funds, developed to encourage and create opportunities for faculty, staff, and graduate students to use digital technologies in their research or teaching. The Digital Seed Grant (dsi.mtsu.edu/dsgrant) had an impressive amount of applications for its second year (2018-2019 projects), which originally launched in 2016 (award period of 2017-2018). Due to the quantity and quality of proposals, the Digital Seed Grant Review Committee and Dean of Libraries decided to award two grants for the 2018 academic year. The awardees were announced on the website at http://dsi.mtsu.edu/dsgrant18-19. See the pdf for brief summaries of the winning projects (in no particular order) and a link to their individual outcomes.
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    Digital Seed Grant Winners and Final Projects 2019-2020
    (Digital Scholarship Initaitives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2020) Digital Scholarship Initiatives
    Walker Library Digital Scholarship Initiatives supports individual and collaborative digital scholarship projects in research, teaching, and public outreach from any discipline on campus. The Digital Seed Grant is an annual award for start-up funds, developed to encourage and create opportunities for faculty, staff, and graduate students to use digital technologies in their research or teaching. The Digital Seed Grant (dsi.mtsu.edu/dsgrant) had impressive applications for its third year (2019-2020 projects), which originally launched in 2016 (award period of 2017-2018). The Digital Seed Grant Review Committee and Dean of Libraries decided to award two grants for the 2019-20 academic year. The awardees were announced on the website at http://dsi.mtsu.edu/dsgrant19-20. See the pdf a brief summary and examples of outcomes and use.