Digital Commons Network^™

Collection Assessment: Taming The Beast, Renna Redd

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At Clemson University, each subject librarian has a yearly goal to perform collection assessment and development duties as part of their work with their assigned departments; however, CU Libraries has been without a dedicated Collection Development and/or Management Librarian since prior to the pandemic. As a result, collection development, management, and assessment activities are somewhat piecemeal due to a lack of time, support, and staffing. After a library-wide reorganization in 2022, a 25% time position was created for an existing librarian to take on collection-related duties and start a formal collection assessment program with subject librarians. The Collections Sharing and …

Teach A Man To Fish Or Nourish Them To Grow? Debating Delivering Owned Articles Through Document Delivery Services, Rosemary Humphrey, Renna Redd

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The age-old proverb “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime” has been used for years in libraries when it comes to discussing how far to go when helping researchers obtain the materials they need. Educating library users on how to find reliable information resources is our shared ultimate goal, but how much should we realistically expect them to know and retain when ILSs are increasingly complicated, inaccurate, and full of library-centric jargon? The presenters will share the results of a survey they administered …

Stories Of Selfcare In A Service Profession: Mindfulness For Librarians, Heather Simmons, Josette Marie Kubicki

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Presenters will share the story of how they each found mindfulness and how it has changed their lives. Participants will experience different types of short mindfulness practices in a safe, non-judgmental environment. Handouts include a Myths of Mindfulness infographic and a list of resources.

“What I Learned @ Ala 2023…And Other Summer Conferences”, Shelby Carroll, Michelle Colquitt, Anne Grant, Jennifer Jones, Amanda Mcleod, Angela Nixon, Renna Redd, Ed Rock, Suzanne Rook Schilf, Sally Smith

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Linked Data Via Vivaldi: A Musical Journey From Wikidata To The Library Catalog, Emma Clarkson, Steven Folsom, Huda Khan, Kevin Kishimoto, Astrid Usong, Rachel Evans

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In collaboration with the Music Library Association Linked Data Working Group (MLA LDWG), and as part of the Linked Data for Production: Closing the Loop (LD4P3) grant, Cornell University and Stanford University explored the integration of Wikidata properties describing musical works into a Cornell library catalog prototype. In this presentation, we will briefly describe the MLA LDWG’s project to add thematic catalog codes and other information to musical works represented in Wikidata. We will review the design, development, and usability testing of a Cornell library catalog prototype that integrated these Wikidata properties.

We will also discuss the specific choices we …

Hosting A Homeschool Happening: Outreach With Optimism, Mandy Mastrovita, Rachel Evans

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Homeschooling parents, students, and instructors across the state all know that it can be tricky to connect authentically with this underrepresented community, and that traditional outreach, promotion, and participation formats can present design and instruction challenges. So, in February 2023, librarians from the Digital Library of Georgia in connection with members of the Firefly Homeschool Community, delivered a hybrid online webinar/workshop built to seek strategies to improve academic outcomes.

We have developed a case study from our most recent efforts, and plan to discuss our timeline from brainstorming our initial event, to implementing future ideas and plans, and discovering new …

The Idea Book Club And Tigers Advance: Bringing Faculty And Staff Together To Discuss Equity In Higher Education, Renna Redd

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The IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Awareness) Book Club was established during the Fall 2019 semester by former Director of Diversity Education Moryah Jackson and Interlibrary Loan Librarian Renna Redd as a continuing education initiative for employees to create a shared syntax and expand collective awareness of the complexities within higher education in South Carolina and the United States through reading and discussing a common text. One of the goals of the initiative was to provide free copies of the selected book to participants so that they could participate without financial commitment, not increase screen time unnecessarily, and share the …

Prioritization Matrices For Digital Preservation Planning, Annie Benefiel

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Appraisal strategies can be leveraged to inform decision-making around digital preservation planning, lending curatorial oversight to an area that is often perceived as highly technical. A prioritization matrix is a project management tool to help you narrow down multiple project or task options, and identify the highest-priority areas. They facilitate decision making, are customizable, and easy to read. This poster presentation explores the prioritization matrix methodology used by GVSU Special Collections & University Archives in digital preservation planning.

How To Train Your Digital Commons, Savanna Nolan, Wendy Moore

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Creating and managing institutional repositories using tools like Digital Commons can seem large and intimidating at first, but you too can train these monsters to do your bidding! The UGA Law Library will discuss three strategies we've used to be more efficient, create new workflows, and increase public discoverability by partnering with state and national digital libraries. We will focus on the ingestion of law school journals, digitization of historical photographs, recordings, and treatises, and the metadata to facilitate wider access.