Shawn W. Nicholson Associate Dean for Digital Initiatives Michigan State University Libraries 366 W. Circle Drive, W 431-14 East Lansing, MI 48824-1048 Phone: 517-884-6448 nicho147@lib.msu.edu

What I do

I serve as Associate Dean, and hold administrative responsibility for the Digital Initiatives Division comprising the following units and centers:

1. Data Services
2. Digital Development & Strategy
3. Digital Imaging Services
4. Gerald M Kline Digital and Multimedia Center
5. Metadata Strategies & Technologies
6. Systems
7. Turfgrass Information Center
8. G. Robert Vincent Voice Library (VVL)
9. Web Services

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My ORCID

Selected full text:

• Nicholson, S. W., & Bennett, T. B. (2021). Do Institutional Repository Deposit Guidelines Deter Data Discovery?. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 16(3), 2–17.
• Nicholson, S. & Bennett, TB (2017) The Good News about Bad News: Communicating data Services to Cognitive Misers. Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, Vol. 29, No. 3, 151-158.
  Preprint
• Bennett, TB & Nicholson, S. (2016) Dissemination and Discovery of Diverse Data: Do Libraries Promote Their Unique Research Data Collections?, International Information and Library Review, volume 48, number 2
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• Dissemination and Discovery of Diverse Data (2015 poster)
• Collaborative Approaches to Undergraduate Research Training: Information Literacy and Data Management
  (Preprint: Advances In Social Work, Fall 2014, 15(2))
• All [Global] data is local: How academic libraries are enabling discovery and access for institutional data collections (2014 poster)
• Opportunities Abound: ETDs as Harbingers of Institutional Change (2013 Poster)
• Storage & Access: The truth changes over time (2013)
• Unlocking Data Management: A Curriculum for Undergraduates (2012 Poster)
• Nicholson, S, Peiffer, Richard, & Shaw, John (2011) "Hardware in libraries: making informed choices"
  Preprint: Library Hi Tech, Vol. 29 Iss: 1
• Schmidt, L., Ghering, C. and Nicholson, S. (2011) Digital Curation Planning at Michigan State University. (Publisher Proof. Library Resources and Technical Services. 55(2))
• Nicholson, S & Bennett, T.B. (2011) Data sharing: Academic Libraries and the scholarly enterprise.(Publisher Proof: portal: Libraries and the Academy Vol 11, No 1.)
• Motivated to act(ualize): Using Maslow to gauge the state of data use and service (2010 Poster)
• Dissertation data discovery and dissemination: linking users to the datasets behind doctoral research (2008 Poster)
• Nicholson, S & Bennett, T.B. (2008) "Transparent Practices: Primary and Secondary Data in Business Ethics Dissertations," Journal of Business Ethics, DOI 10.1007/s10551-008-9717-0
• Bennett, T.B., & Nicholson, S. (2007) "Research Libraries: Connecting Users to Numeric and Spatial Resources," Social Science Computer Review August, vol. 25 no. 3 302-318
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Last Update: 1/11/2021