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Institutional Memory 2017

Institutional Memory

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

Annual Report 2017

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Institutional Memory - NPS Archive: Calhoun

Showcasing NPS History

A partnership between NPS Archive: Calhoun and Special Collections & Archives brings NPS history to your fingertips.

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Thanks to Calhoun, questions about NPS are answerable... and answers are sharable! 

Some answers we shared this year:
 

 

Larger projects this year included

  • research for interpretive signage planned for the NPS campus
     
  • a soon-to-be-published biography of a high-profile faculty member and
     
  • the development of new Finding Aids for archival materials in Special Collections & Archives

Visit our new Special Collections & Archives website.

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Institutional Memory - Historical Highlights

Historical Highlights

This year we continued to share Historical Highlights, a series of short, illustrated articles about NPS's history. Researched and contributed by Dudley Knox Library, they are published monthly in Update NPS. See a few of our favorites from this year's topics, below.

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HIstorical Highlight 1

CROSSROADS: Prepare for the Atomic Age

Atomic Age Image

A recent gift to Dudley Knox Library included a number of circa 1950’s aerology publications and “notes” (aka textbooks) prepared for NPS students learning how to analyze weather maps and charts. 

But it was the special Atomic Bomb Test Extra issue (dated 1 July 1946) of ALL HANDS: the Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin that caught our eye – an issue devoted to bringing the topic of “nucleonics” to the Navy, to coincide with atomic testing at Bikini Atoll to begin on that date...
Read more in Update NPS for Nov 2017

Historical Highlights 2

The Six-Legged Adaptive Suspension Vehicle

Walking Machine

During a recent visit to the library's Special Collections & Archives, a researcher handed this image to the librarian with a very puzzled expression. What is it? Behold: The six-legged all-terrain "Adaptive Suspension Vehicle". The ASV was a "land walker" robot that weighed over three tons and carried 16 onboard computers to control its legs. Designed to carry cargo for industrial and military applications, it could traverse rough, icy and muddy terrain, could hop ditches 9 ft. across and scale walls 7 feet tall...

Read more in Update NPS for Oct 2017

Historical Highlights 3

NPS as a Venue for Oversized Abstract Art?

Public Art at Dudley Knox Library

This giant sculpture was once located near the Library's then-back entrance, ahead and to the left of today's entryway.  What was its story?
Read more in Update NPS for June 2017

NPS Archive: Calhoun - slideshow

Discover NPS...every day!

NPS Archive: Calhoun is all about NPS:

  • NPS scholarship
  • NPS working documents
  • NPS history

See a few of the treasures we added in FY2017.

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Facts & Figures 2017

Facts & Figures

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What's NEW in Calhoun for FY2017? 

NPS Archive: Calhoun
# Total new NPS theses added this year 643
# Total NPS faculty publications added this year 917
# Total new items added this year 5,937
# Total filetypes available in Calhoun 32
# Total searches (includes faceted searches) this year 764,055
# Highest number of visits in single month* 55,729
# Total visits this year (Google Analytics) 591,896
# Total items in Calhoun at end of FY2017 55,158
*February 2017
Most-downloaded NPS authors of FY2017

Most-downloaded NPS Faculty Authors of FY17...by the Numbers

Calhoun ensures content is visible to Google Scholar, so it's easy to find work by NPS authors*. How many times were these NPS authors downloaded in FY2017? Take a look.  

 

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Who's in NPS Archive: Calhoun?

Top contributors to NPS Archive: Calhoun 

Calhoun presents NPS scholarship beginning with Prof. Guy K. Calhoun's 1910 Navigational tables.  Who are the five top contributors of all time?  Check out the work of these NPS authors (names are linked).

Author # Items in Calhoun
Chu, Peter C. 433 
Looney, Robert 357
Irvine, Cynthia E. 228
Zyda, Michael 212
Rowe, Neil C. 179
AR2017 - Top Searches in NPS Archive: Calhoun

Top Searches in NPS Archive: Calhoun

What did users most want to find in Calhoun this year?  Take a look at some top search terms for 2017:

 

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