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The im+m eLibrary Major Collections

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Most of the documents collected to support im+m's research are found in the General Archive. im+m has separated audio and video content into a special Media Library. im+m converts audio into mp3 to facilitate use on mp3 players; video is converted into mp4, the format most frequently found on video pods or vpods.

Relevant information standards and specifications, and hardware and software manuals may be found in the Education and Information Technology Collection. Superseded standards and specifications and manual are placed into a special collection of Superseded Editions to avoid older versions from being retrieved in a general search.

Recently im+m was requested to include financial information for certain U.S. non-profits. im+m also has public financial data for selected companies providing software and services to colleges and universities. This collection is being developed as a special archive called "Corporate Financial and Legal Records." Documents are being added as organizations of interest are identified and the records become available. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is the primary source of documents for non-profit organizations. The Security and Exchange Commission is the primary source for profit-making organizations.

Information on U.S. student financial aid from earlier work is included in a special collection. Because of anticipated research, documents are again being added to this collection. Also information about Canadian student financial aid is being added as well as the two countries share technology.

Background

The eLibrary began in 1998 distributed to our users on CD-ROM. It continues to be a research resource for im+m and our partners. The focus is on topics relevant to our current projects, so coverage of any specific source or topic varies from time to time. The eLibrary is intended to be used in conjunction with other sources. We collect documents for two reasons: Document links tend to disappear from the Web after some time; we wanted to be able to retrieve references used in our work. We wanted a full-text index-rare in 1998-limited to the documents in our library. The documents are now indexed using Adobe Acrobat version 8; because of size the collection earlier versions failed. An immagic.com domain restricted search on Google now works very well.

Beginning in 2001 we included documents referenced in blogs and on lists believing they were especially authoritative if our colleagues selected them for comment. We include blogs where we had permission or the author used Creative Commons licensing-increasingly true, or considered permission implicit from the blog content itself, and where the blog adds substantively to the dialogue. Some documents have limited distribution. The license to include those documents is generally linked to the source itself. IBM Corporation and Microsoft Corporation have been especially prompt in providing these permissions.

With these understandings, please use our eLibrary.

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eLibrary New Acquisitions
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30 Aug 2009 - "NSF Project Proposal 'Thebes Distributed Middleware Project'," Arnie Miles, Georgetown University, 11 August 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/GTOWN_US/G090811M.pdf

29 Aug 2009 - "The NBER Digest July 2009," National Bureau of Economic Research, 1 July 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/NBER_US/D090701D.pdf

29 Aug 2009 - "Empirics on the Origins of Preferences: The Case of College Major and Religiosity," Miles S. Kimball, Colter M. Mitchell, Arland D. Thornton and Linda C. Young-Demarco, 9 July 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/NBER_US/N090709K.pdf

29 Aug 2009 - "Using Genetic Lotteries Within Families to Examine the Causal Impact of Poor Health on Academic Achievement," Jason M. Fletcher and Steven F. Lehrer, National Bureau of Economic Research, 17 July 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/NBER_US/N090717F.pdf

29 Aug 2009 - "The Complementarity Between Cities and Skills," Edward L. Glaeser and Matthew G. Resseger, National Bureau of Economic Research, 23 June 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/NBER_US/N090623G.pdf

29 Aug 2009 - "The Internet and Local Wages: Convergence or Divergence?" Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein, National Bureau of Labor Statistics, 19 February 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/NBER_US/N090219F.pdf

29 Aug 2009 - "The NBER Patent Citations Data File: Lessons, Insights and Methodological Tools," Bronwyn H. Hall, Adam B. Jaffe, and Manuel Trajtenberg, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1 October.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/NBER_US/N011001H.pdf

29 Aug 2009 - "Information Technology and Research and Development Impacts on Productivity and Skills: Looking for Correlations on French Firm Level Data," Nathalie Greenan, Jacques Mairesse, and Agnes Topiol-Bensaid, National Bureau of Economic Research, 8 January 2001.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/NBER_US/N010108G.pdf

29 Aug 2009 - "The Impact of Information Technology on Scientists' Productivity, Quality and Collaboration Patterns," Waverly W. Ding, Sharon G. Levin, Paula E. Stephan, and Anne E. Winkler, National Bureau of Economic Research, 18 August 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/NBER_US/N090818D.pdf

29 Aug 2009 - "Playing the Admissions Game: Student Reactions to Increasing College Competition," John Bound, Brad Hershbein, and Bridget Terry Long, National Bureau of Economic Research, 12 August 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/NBER_US/N090812B.pdf

29 Aug 2009 - "Do Expenditures Other Than Instructional Expenditures Affect Graduation and Persistence Rates in American Higher Education," Douglas A. Webber and Ronald G. Ehrenberg, National Bureau of Economic Research, 11 August 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/NBER_US/N090811W.pdf

29 Aug 2009 - "Estimating Treatment Effects from Contaminated Multi-period Education Experiments: the Dynamic Impacts of Class Size Reductions," Weili Ding and Steven F. Lehrer, National Bureau of Economic Statistics, 22 July 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/NBER_US/N090722D.pdf

29 Aug 2009 - "Is the U.S.Losing Its Pre-eminence in Higher Education?" James D. Adams, National Bureau of Economic Research, 12 August 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/NBER_US/N090812A.pdf

29 Aug 2009 - "School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A cautionary Tale of Late," Rashmi Barua and Kevin Lang, National Bureau of Economic Research, 11 August 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/NBER_US/N090811L.pdf

29 Aug 2009 - "The Americanization of European Higher Education and Research," Lex Borghans and Frank Cörvers, National Bureau of Economic Research, 11 August 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/NBER_US/N090811B.pdf

15 Aug 2009 - "Quotations from References on Research," Jim Farmer, instructional media + magic inc., 13 June 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/IMM/I090616F.pdf

15 Aug 2009 - "Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group Summer Meeting 2009," Art Pasquinelli, SUN Microsystems Inc., 26 June 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/SUN/S090626M.pdf

15 Aug 2009 - "Usage and Impact Study of JISC]funded Phase 1 Digitisation Projects & the Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources (TIDSR)," Eric T. Meyer, Kathryn Eccles, Michael Thelwall and Christine Madsen, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 20 July 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/AACRAOUS/O090720M.pdf

15 Aug 2009 - "LeRoy Rooker presenting at AACRAO's 2009 Technology Conference," AACRAO Consulting, American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, March 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/AACRAOUS/A090300R.pdf

15 Aug 2009 - "LeRoy Rooker Joins AACRAO as Senior Fellow and Consultant," AACRAO American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, 23 February 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/AACRAOUS/A090223R.pdf

15 Aug 2009 - "March 24, 2008 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, as amended Docket ID ED-2008-OPEPD-0002," Jerome H. Sullivan, American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, 8 May 2008.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/AACRAOUS/A080508S.pdf

15 Aug 2009 - "2009 AACRAO Technology Conference," AACRAO American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, 21 Jun 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/AACRAOUS/A090621C.pdf

15 Aug 2009 - "email Farmer to Cameron 14 Aug 2009 Letter to FSA," Jim Farmer, instructional media + magic inc., 13 August 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/IMM/I090814F.pdf

15 Aug 2009 - "2009 Software Developers Conference, Questions and Answers," Jim Farmer, instructional media + magic inc., 13 August 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/IMM/I090813F.pdf

8 Aug 2009 - "Thebes and the Concepts of Middleware," Arnie Miles, Georgetown University, 12 January 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/GTOWN_US/G090112M.pdf

8 Aug 2009 - "Globus Toolkit Technical Preview Series," Globus Alliance, 24 Jun 2005 Charles Bacon, The Globus Alliance, 24 June 2005.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/GLOBUS/G050624B.pdf

8 Aug 2009 - "Key Assumptions being from the Architecture Group," Chris Raasc, LETSI, 6 August 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/LETSI_US/L090806R.pdf

8 Aug 2009 - "AWG Scope Definition," Allyn J. Radford, Learnilities Prty Ltd for LETSI, 17 November 2008.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/LETSI_US/L081117R.pdf

8 Aug 2009 - "Services and SCORM 2.0," Daniel Standage, Brigham University for LETSI, 17 March 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/LETSI_US/L090317S.pdf

8 Aug 2009 - "LETSI Web Services for Learning Run-Time Communication," Chuck Allen, LETSI (Learning Education Training Systems Interoperability Federation (US)) 1 August 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/LETSI_US/L090801A.pdf

8 Aug 2009 - "Time to Rethink Your Corporate Blogging Ideas," Josh Bernoff, Forrester Research Inc., 9 December 2008.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/FORR_US/F081209B.pdf

8 Aug 2009 - "Notes from the RS3G (Rome Student Systems and Standards Group) Workshop, 22 June 2009," Jim Farmer, instructional media + magic inc., 5 August 2009.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/IMM/I090805F.pdf

8 Aug 2009 - "A Summary of 'Crossing the Chasm'," Jonathan S. Linowes, Parker Hill Technology Group, Lyman, New Hampshire USA, 8 September 2003.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/GENREF/P030908L.pdf

8 Aug 2009 - "Rethinking 'Crossing The Chasm'," Alex Iskold, ReadWriteWeb, 6 August 2007.
www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/BLOGS/I070806I.pdf

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