Institutional Memory - Dudley Knox Library

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Annual Report - Institutional Memory

Institutional Memory

Assure Institutional Memory through a centralized repository for the NPS scholarly record and archives.

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Institutional Memory - Newly Digitized NPS Publications

Never before available: newly digitized NPS publications

FY2016 brought new breadth to our "Institutional Memory" by making newly-available an array of publications from NPS's remarkable history.

New in Calhoun this year:

Calhoun: The NPS Institutional Archive
Institutional Memory - Slideshow
NPS Scientific Instrument

Scientific Instruments Collection

Special Collections & Archives welcomed an undergraduate student from California State University Monterey Bay's Museum Studies course, who fulfilled his service learning requirement by spending over 40 hours in the library describing and cataloging our Scientific Instruments Collection. Some of these vintage instruments are of research value as they were once used at NPS decades ago and are of historical and research value. Our intern investigated the historic importance and then entered description information about them into Past Perfect, a museum software the Library uses to document and track materials that are part of Special Collections and Archives.

NPS Scientific Instrument

One of our projects in 2016 was to identify and catalog significant scientific instruments used in NPS research.  Some items traveled to Monterey from Annapolis in 1952.  Here is an example of one item of equipment we are researching.

Do you have information about this device?  Contact us.

 

Institutional Memory - Special Collections

Special Collections & Archives: Moving Foward!

The newly formed Special Collections and Archives (SCA) Team had big shoes to fill following the retirement of the SCA Manager in late 2015. The team strategized and developed a three-prong organization plan to

  1. conduct a thorough inventory, recording over 2,000 records, boxes and artifacts;
     
  2. identified new collections for future processing and preservation; and
     
  3. made the inventory list available to library staff and researchers via a new SCA Wiki page.
Institutional Memory - User Feedback

User feedback

"...Fascinating and exactly what we needed to show the history of this site.  How did you ever manage to find out so much?"

- response from a question about NPS building history


 

“I just got off the phone … about getting access to one of my students' restricted access theses, and had a great customer service experience.”

-Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Institutional Memory - Exhibit images

Collections in Calhoun

Classmate exhibit display case

Exhibit: The Classmate Magazine, a campus community publication, 1961-2001

MORS Oral History Interviews in Calhoun

Introducing Military Operations Research Society (MORS) Oral History Interviews

Institutional Memory - Historical Highlights

Historical Highlights

This year we continued to share Historical Highlights, a series of short, illustrated articles about significant points in NPS's history. Researched and contributed by Dudley Knox Library, they are published monthly in Update NPS. See a selection from this year's topics, below.
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First Female Instructor Frances Biadasz

First Female Instructor at NPS

Cmdr Frances Biadasz recieves "Gold Key"

In 1963, Cmdr. Frances Biadasz became NPS' only, and likely first, female instructor. Find out more about Biadasz in the Update NPS issue for November 2015.

Prof. Wayne Hughes

Professor Wayne Hughes

Wayne Hughes in his plebe year at the Naval Academy

A young Wayne Hughes, NPS Senior lecturer and retired Navy Captain, in his plebe year at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Find out more about Prof. Hughes in the Update NPS issue for June 2016.

NPS Supercomputer

NPS Supercomputer

NPS supercomputer with engineer

NPS installed the 48-bit "supercomputer," Control Data Corporation (CDC) 1604, Model #1, in January 1960. Find out more about the CDC 1604 supercomputer in the Update NPS for January 2016.

1916's "Swain Report" and NPS

1916's "Swain Report" and NPS

1916 illustration of naval officers

Just over 100 years ago, Secretary of the Navy J.H. Daniels charged Harvard Professor G.F. Swain, and a committee from the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education (SPEE) to visit and make recommendations about the work of the Post Graduate School at Annapolis. Find out more about the "Swain Report" in the Update NPS for July 2016.

Institutional Memory - Facts & Figures

Facts & Figures

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What's in Calhoun?

See the breakdown by percentage, in FY2016:

graph showing collections in NPS Archvive, Calhoun, by percentages

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Who's in Calhoun?

The Top Five: Who's in NPS Archive: Calhoun*?

Author # Items in Calhoun
429
Looney, Robert 355
Irvine, Cynthia E. 227
Zyda, Michael 211
Rowe, Neil C. 178

 

*Want to see your publications in Calhoun? Contact us.

NPS Archive: Calhoun 2016 Numbers

Take a look at a few numbers for the year:

NPS Archive: Calhoun
# Total new NPS theses added 694
# Total NPS faculty publications added 909
# Total new items added 3,151
# Total format types available 32
# Total searches, including facet searches 1,968,550
# Highest number of item page views in a single month* 280,993
# Total item page views for the year, via DSpace statistics 1,404,975
# Total pageviews for the year, via Google Analytics 739,990
# Total items in Calhoun at end of FY16 49,549

 

*January 2016

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Top Searches in NPS Archive: Calhoun

What did users most want to find out about in Calhoun, this year? Take a look at some of the most popular searches:Graph showing popular search terms in NPS Archive, Calhoun