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Papyrus is a Web 2.0 design for a personalized library interface that increases the usage of library content by making library content easier to access and more relevant. It accomplishes these goals with a single interface featuring a dynamic, personalized feed of library content shared by those relevant to the user such as instructors, librarians and friends. Users take advantage of tags to quickly filter their feed or subscribe to new content relevant to them. Library content can be imported from anywhere across the web using MLibrary tools such as the catalog, bookmarklets, browser extensions or cloud computing tools and, once added, Papyrus leverages existing MLibrary tools such as the catalog, metasearch engine, reference management software and research guides.

Papyrus was developed by Masters students at the University of Michigan School of Information Jennifer Balaco, Gaurav Bhatnagar, Greg Grossmeier and Lisa Wheeler for the University of Michigan 2009 Library 2.0 Student Design Competition.

For more information, check out our flyer. Questions, comments, feature ideas? Feel free to email us.

Note: The prototype below is not fully featured, but highlights Papyrus's quick filtering system using tags. Try it out by clicking on tags anywhere! This prototype works best in Firefox 3.

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Journal: American Anthropologist

American Anthropological Association, 2009

"American Anthropologist is the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association, reaching well over 12,000 readers with each issue. The journal advances the Association's mission through publishing articles that add to, integrate, synthesize, and interpret anthropological knowledge; commentaries and essays on issues of importance to the discipline; and reviews of books, films, sound recordings and exhibits."

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Research Guide: Resources on Anthropology

Jennifer Nason Davis, UM Library, 2009

"Hatcher Graduate Library houses the University of Michigan's main anthropology collections, including approximately 300 active journal subscriptions. For research assistance contact Jennifer Nason Davis, selector for anthropology, at 734/764-5198 or jnasond@umich.edu"

Article: How Do You Know that?: An Investigation of Student Research Practices in the Digital Age

McClure, Randall, Clink, Kellian - Portal: Libraries and the Academy, Jan 2009

"This study investigates the types of sources that English composition students use in their research essays. Unlike previous studies, this project pairs an examination of source citations with deeper analysis of source use, and both are discussed in relation to responses gathered in focus groups with participating students and teachers. The researchers examine how students negotiate locating and using source material, particularly online sources, in terms of timeliness, authority, and bias. The researchers report on how teachers struggle to introduce these concepts and how students fail to perceive authority and bias in their sources."

Research Guide: Resources on English Language and Literature

Judy Avery, 2009

"Research guide for English Language and Literature provided by the subject specialist librarian, Judy Avery."

Article: Of Clues and Signs: The Dead Body and Its Evidential Traces

Zoe Crossland, American Anthropologist, 2009

"Taking the conflict over the remains of Ned Kelly as a starting point, in this article I trace the various conceptions of the, body as evidence within the intertwined histories of anthropology, criminology, and medicine to explore how anthropological practice brings the dead into being through exhumation and analysis. I outline the popular rhetorical tropes within which evidentiary claims are situated, exploring how the agency of people after death is understood within the framework of present-day forensic anthropological practice and how this is underwritten by a particular heritage of anatomical analysis. [Keywords: archaeology, forensic anthropology, materiality, semiotics of the body]"

Book: Using Google App Engine

Chuck Severance, O'Reilly, 2009

"With this book, you can build exciting, scalable web applications quickly and confidently, using Google App Engine -- even if you have little or no experience in programming or web development. Using Google App Engine provides an overview of the tools necessary to use Google App Engine, including Python, HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and HTTP. You'll also learn what's required to deploy your applications to Google servers."

Article: Factors in Information Literacy Education.

Williams, Michelle Hale, Evans, Jocelyn Jones - Journal of Political Science Education, Jan 2008

"This article assesses student learning of information literacy skills analyzing data collected from three semesters of the Introduction to Comparative Politics course. Variables such as major discipline, gender, class year, and grades on several performance indicators are used to identify key patterns in successful information literacy learning among students. Through analysis of our data, we isolate the most significant factors in student learning of information literacy skills. Our data suggest that information literacy knowledge is content sensitive. Not only is information literacy significantly associated with several performance indicators, information literacy appears to be discipline specific."

Book: Nabokov: The Man and His Work

L. S. Dembo (Ed.), University of Wisconsin Press, 1967

"A biography of the Lolita author. Contents: Vladimir Nabokov, an introduction / L.S. Dembo -- An interview with Vladimir Nabokov / conducted by Alfred Appel, Jr. -- Notes on Nabokov as a Russian writer / Gleb Struve -- The artist as failure in Nabokov's early prose / Andrew Field -- Despair and the lust for immortality / Claire Rosenfield -- The mirrors of Sebastian Knight / Charles Nicol -- Bend sinister: Nabokov's political dream / L.L. Lee -- Lolita: the springboard of parody / Alfred Appel, Jr. -- The double pnin / Ambrose Gordon, Jr. -- Pale fire and the fine art of annotation / John O. Lyons -- Nabokov's dialectical structure / Carol t. William -- Illusion, reality, and parody in Nabokov's plays / Simon Karlinsky -- Nabokov's Pushkin and Nabokov's Nabokov / Clarence Brown -- The flaunting of artifice in Vladimir Nabokov and Jorge Luis Borges / Patricia Merivale -- Vladimir Nabokov's critical reputation in English: a note and a checklist / Jackson R. Bryer and Thomas J. Bergin, Jr."

Webpage: 21A.100 Introduction to Anthropology (MIT OCW)

Prof. James Howe, MIT OpenCourseWare, 2004

"This class introduces students to the methods and perspectives of cultural anthropology. Readings emphasize case studies in very different settings (a nuclear weapons laboratory, a cattle-herding society of the Sudan, and a Jewish elder center in Los Angeles)."

Journal: BioOne

BioOne, 2009

"BioOne is a global, not-for-profit collaboration bringing together scientific societies, publishers, and libraries to provide access to critical, peer-reviewed research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences."