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May 2023 Table Of Contents Newsletter - Depauw Scholarship Celebration, Kayla Birt Flegal May 2023

May 2023 Table Of Contents Newsletter - Depauw Scholarship Celebration, Kayla Birt Flegal

Table of Contents Newsletter

A celebration of the Faculty Achievement and Author Book Signing event (a collaboration between the DePauw Faculty Development Coordinator and the DePauw Libraries) and the inaugural Senior Research Symposium. The libraries celebrates all faculty and student scholarship by archiving research and creative projects in our institutional repository.


Content Management Analysis Of Indian Institutes Of Science Education And Research (Iisers) Libraries: A Comparative Study., Rajendra Singh Mr., Pravish Prakash Dr. Sep 2021

Content Management Analysis Of Indian Institutes Of Science Education And Research (Iisers) Libraries: A Comparative Study., Rajendra Singh Mr., Pravish Prakash Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to discover the most suitable framework used by the libraries in institutes of Higher education. Design/methodology/approach – We have adopted the online survey method to analyze the services and resources which are being offered. The study also emphasizes the usability of resources. A deep immersed checking has been done to check the hypertext links given at each IISER Library’s website in form of percentage and natural numbers. While making observation broadly six research questions have been formulated covering of all areas of knowledge management, the study tried to find suitable answers to formulated questions. The analysis also …


Facing Truths: Facial Recognition Software In Digital Archives, Rebecca Bakker, Kelley Flannery Rowan Jun 2021

Facing Truths: Facial Recognition Software In Digital Archives, Rebecca Bakker, Kelley Flannery Rowan

Works of the FIU Libraries

This presentation discusses research conducted on various facial recognition software and was funded by a LYRASIS Catalyst Fund grant. The goal of the research was to determine whether facial recognition software could be adapted to work with older, often faded or discolored historical photos and still accurately identify faces in photographs. Such software capabilities would be highly beneficial for librarians and archivists in creating quality metadata by identifying unknown people in photos. It would also assist archivists in finding the photos patrons and partners are seeking. The research brought to light the many ethical controversies associated with facial recognition technology, …


Integrating Student Assistants Into Digital Repository Workflows: Challenges And Best Practices, Christina M. Miskey, Kelsey Lupo Mazmanyan, Cory K. Lampert, Andrea Wirth Jan 2020

Integrating Student Assistants Into Digital Repository Workflows: Challenges And Best Practices, Christina M. Miskey, Kelsey Lupo Mazmanyan, Cory K. Lampert, Andrea Wirth

Library Faculty Publications

The Scholarly Communication Initiatives and Digital Collections departments within the University of Nevada, Las Vegas adapted staff workflows to become student-centered, where workers create digital content for the University Libraries’ digital repositories. Each department has a diverse set of needs; Scholarly Communication Initiatives hires students to help with the creation of metadata records, review open access options for sharing each work, and upload items into the institutional repository. Digital Collections relies on students to scan, create metadata, and upload images online that reflect physical holdings in Special Collections and Archives. Utilizing student workers also provides more time for full-time staff …


Transforming Acquisitions And Collection Services, Michelle Flinchbaugh, Chuck Thomas, Rob Tench, Vicki Sipe, Robin Barnard Moskal, Lynda L. Aldana, Erica A. Owusu Sep 2019

Transforming Acquisitions And Collection Services, Michelle Flinchbaugh, Chuck Thomas, Rob Tench, Vicki Sipe, Robin Barnard Moskal, Lynda L. Aldana, Erica A. Owusu

Purdue University Press Books

This book explores ways in which libraries can reach new levels of service, quality, and efficiency while minimizing cost by collaborating in acquisitions. In consortial acquisitions, a number of libraries work together, usually in an existing library consortia, to leverage size to support acquisitions in each individual library. In cross-functional acquisitions, acquisitions collaborates to support other library functions. For the library acquisitions manager, technical services manager, or the library director, awareness of different options for effective consortial and cross-functional acquisitions allows for the optimization of staff and resources to reach goals. This work presents those options in the form of …


Time Traveling With Timelines: Web Apps For Storytelling In Libraries, Sharon Bradley, Rachel S. Evans Jul 2019

Time Traveling With Timelines: Web Apps For Storytelling In Libraries, Sharon Bradley, Rachel S. Evans

Articles, Chapters and Online Publications

From online embeds to interactive displays, timelines can serve many purposes and tell powerful stories. At the University of Georgia’s Law Library we have teamed up with faculty and staff to bring history to life, engage students, and preserve scholarly and institutional milestones. Through trial and error we have found a variety of tools for creating timelines digitally. In this article we share our four favorite web-based applications for creating timelines including Tiki-Toki, TimeToast, Prezi and Piktochart.


Implementing Google Analytics For A Consortial Digital Repository, Greg Vogl, Yongli Zhou, Daniel C. Draper, Mark Shelstad Sep 2016

Implementing Google Analytics For A Consortial Digital Repository, Greg Vogl, Yongli Zhou, Daniel C. Draper, Mark Shelstad

Daniel Draper

No abstract provided.


Playing Well With Others: Integrating Your Institutional Repository With Third-Party Products, Ashley D. Lowery, Jeb Barger Jun 2016

Playing Well With Others: Integrating Your Institutional Repository With Third-Party Products, Ashley D. Lowery, Jeb Barger

Ashley D.R. Sergiadis

Institutional repositories are using third-party products to entice more users and contributors. Most repositories have some sort of integration, even if it is simply embedding a YouTube video. Over the last two years, Zach S. Henderson Library has worked with the Office of Research and Economic Development to provide a robust set of services for their faculty by integrating multiple products. While Zach S. Henderson Library provides Digital Commons@Georgia Southern and its SelectedWorks profiles, the Office of Research and Economic Development sponsors PlumX Metrics and the Expertise Search. The Expertise Search is a tool for users to find faculty members …


Much More Than Storage: Re-Positioning The Repository As A Cornerstone Of Campus Collaboration, Amanda Makula, Connie Ghinazzi Jun 2016

Much More Than Storage: Re-Positioning The Repository As A Cornerstone Of Campus Collaboration, Amanda Makula, Connie Ghinazzi

Library and Information Science: Faculty Scholarship & Creative Works

“Repository” belies the dynamic potential of the IR. Much more than a publishing mechanism for campus scholarship and an archive of college history, it is an opportunity to partner with nearly every entity across campus in order to advance the institution’s mission and goals, to build community by uniting disparate groups around a common purpose, and to call attention to the library’s unique ability to facilitate campus-wide collaboration. More specifically, the IR can play an important role in recruiting new students, strengthening institutional engagement among alumni, enhancing partnerships with the surrounding community, and more. But to come to fruition, these …


Unintentional Scholarly Communications Librarians: What You Need To Survive A Launch, Autumn Johnson, Sarah Kirkley Jun 2016

Unintentional Scholarly Communications Librarians: What You Need To Survive A Launch, Autumn Johnson, Sarah Kirkley

Digital Commons Southeastern User Group Meetups

As newbies to scholarly communications, Autumn Johnson and Sarah Kirkley launched Savannah State’s repository, Tiger Scholar Commons, in 2015. Using the platform Open Repository, they were involved in all aspects of planning, executing, and promoting the repository within a calendar year. These are the lessons they learned and recommended resources for institutions launching their first repository.

This presentation will include information on the following topics.

  • Strategies for workflows (building a team, developing a timeline, assigning duties)

  • Working closely with vendor to build/customize repository

  • Developing a mission statement and key submission processes

  • Identifying stakeholders with key departments and faculty

  • Creating outreach …


Playing Well With Others: Integrating Your Institutional Repository With Third-Party Products, Ashley D. Lowery, Jeb Barger Jun 2016

Playing Well With Others: Integrating Your Institutional Repository With Third-Party Products, Ashley D. Lowery, Jeb Barger

Digital Commons Southeastern User Group Meetups

Institutional repositories are using third-party products to entice more users and contributors. Most repositories have some sort of integration, even if it is simply embedding a YouTube video. Over the last two years, Zach S. Henderson Library has worked with the Office of Research and Economic Development to provide a robust set of services for their faculty by integrating multiple products. While Zach S. Henderson Library provides Digital Commons@Georgia Southern and its SelectedWorks profiles, the Office of Research and Economic Development sponsors PlumX Metrics and the Expertise Search. The Expertise Search is a tool for users to find faculty members …


New Strategies For Aligning Libraries With Institutional Goals, Roger Weaver, Kathleen Spring, Maggie Trish Feb 2016

New Strategies For Aligning Libraries With Institutional Goals, Roger Weaver, Kathleen Spring, Maggie Trish

Faculty & Staff Presentations

Aligning the library’s activities with larger institutional goals is key for library deans and directors. For many, integrating with larger campus priorities is a necessary step to strengthen the relevance of the library. Repository initiatives can play an important role here, at both large and small institutions. But how?

The libraries at Missouri University of Science and Technology and at Linfield College have provided support for many of the top-level strategic initiatives through innovative repository services, including student recruitment and retention, community engagement, and research and data support. In this presentation, Roger Weaver, Kathleen Spring, and Maggie Trish discuss how …


Cross-Border Implementation Of Institutional Repository: A Case Of Aga Khan University, Mary Ngure, Ashraf Sharif, Peter Gatiti Aug 2015

Cross-Border Implementation Of Institutional Repository: A Case Of Aga Khan University, Mary Ngure, Ashraf Sharif, Peter Gatiti

Libraries

Institutions globally have increasingly embraced Institutional Repositories (IRs) to collect, showcase, archive, and preserve their intellectual and scholarly output. Many benefits are gained from implementation of the platform including: the institution’s visibility, status and reputation is increased; authors get wider public access and visibility thus more citations for their work; long-term preservation of research; and the library benefits from its new role in information creation and distribution thus the opportunity to re-assert its importance in the face of declining user dependence on libraries for simple access to information (Sharif 2013).

Despite the high uptake of IRs to manage institutions’ digital …


Harvesting A Local Digital Repository: Experiences And Lessons Learned, Ping Fu Jul 2015

Harvesting A Local Digital Repository: Experiences And Lessons Learned, Ping Fu

Library Scholarship

This presentation is particularly for new Primo users or those institutions who would like to move to Primo. This presentation will elaborate what configuration and steps should be set up in Primo Back Office in order to harvest local digital repositories such as bepress Digital commons, and talk about what lessons and experiences we have learned through the process. As a member of the Orbis Cascade Alliance, CWU moved to Alma/Primo from III’s Millennium on Dec 18, 2014. After a short-term Primo certificate training, we are able to successfuly harvest our local digital repository ScholarWorks to Primo so that our …


Understand And Analyzing Learning Objects: A Foundation For Long-Term Substantiality And Use For E-Learning, Hsin-Liang Chen, Joi L. Moore, Weichao Chen Jun 2015

Understand And Analyzing Learning Objects: A Foundation For Long-Term Substantiality And Use For E-Learning, Hsin-Liang Chen, Joi L. Moore, Weichao Chen

University Libraries Faculty Research & Creative Works

In this paper, we investigated the genres of learning objects (LOs) within eight e-learning courses that provide boating safety instruction in the United States. Guided by findings from our literature review, five genres of LOs emerged during the analysis, including interactive and non-interactive graphics, interactive and non-interactive animations, and interactive text feedback. We surveyed the use of each genre of LOs within the courses and found that more non-interactive LOs than interactive LOs were adopted. Also, interactive text feedback was the most popular interactive genre available for seven courses. In our discussion, we explore potential management mechanisms of LOs in …


Libraries Can Help: Institutional Repositories, Yolanda P. Jones Jan 2013

Libraries Can Help: Institutional Repositories, Yolanda P. Jones

Journal Publications

Law libraries can assist law journals beyond citation help, Westlaw and Lexis training, and gathering resources; law libraries can help with resource discovery and publication-process analysis. Specifically, libraries can guide law journals in implementing, maintaining, and expanding publication technologies through institutional repositories to stay current in this digital age.


Marketing Your Repository With The Power Of Google Analytics, Hillary Corbett May 2011

Marketing Your Repository With The Power Of Google Analytics, Hillary Corbett

Hillary Corbett

Google Analytics offers powerful web metrics to help IR managers track the usage of their content. But it’s also full of excellent material to help market the IR. For example, the data that Google Analytics provides shows how depositers can reach a global audience: use a Google Maps mashup to highlight trending topics in your IR in particular parts of the world, or point out to a reluctant professor that her colleagues’ work is being downloaded in emerging markets worldwide – get creative and find out what Google Analytics can do for you! We learned through Google Analytics that an …


Scholarly Communication Services: Repository-Based Library Publishing, Adrian K. Ho Feb 2011

Scholarly Communication Services: Repository-Based Library Publishing, Adrian K. Ho

Adrian K. Ho

This presentation discusses strategies for building a user base of the online publishing platform provided by Western Libraries at The University of Western Ontario. It also describes support services for platform users.


Scholarly Communication Services: Repository-Based Library Publishing, Adrian K. Ho Feb 2011

Scholarly Communication Services: Repository-Based Library Publishing, Adrian K. Ho

Western Libraries Presentations

This presentation discusses strategies for building a user base of the online publishing platform provided by Western Libraries at The University of Western Ontario. It also describes support services for platform users.


Scholarly Communication: A Presentation For Fims Lis9630, Adrian K. Ho Jun 2010

Scholarly Communication: A Presentation For Fims Lis9630, Adrian K. Ho

Western Libraries Presentations

This presentation provides a brief overview of these topics:
• Scholarly communication
• Copyright management
• Openness and open movements
• Institutional repository
• Online journal publishing
• New roles for academic libraries


Developments In Library Scholarly Communication Services, Adrian K. Ho Jun 2010

Developments In Library Scholarly Communication Services, Adrian K. Ho

Adrian K. Ho

This presentation discusses the strategies used to develop a scholarly communication program at The University of Western Ontario. It also touches on how academic librarians can get involved in scholarly communication services.


Developments In Library Scholarly Communication Services, Adrian K. Ho Jun 2010

Developments In Library Scholarly Communication Services, Adrian K. Ho

Western Libraries Presentations

This presentation discusses the strategies used to develop a scholarly communication program at The University of Western Ontario. It also touches on how academic librarians can get involved in scholarly communication services.


Scholarly Communication Initiatives At The University Of Western Ontario, Adrian K. Ho May 2010

Scholarly Communication Initiatives At The University Of Western Ontario, Adrian K. Ho

Adrian K. Ho

No abstract provided.


Collecting For Digital Repositories: New Ways To Disseminate And Share Information, Susanne Clement, Adrian K. Ho, Feng Shan Jul 2009

Collecting For Digital Repositories: New Ways To Disseminate And Share Information, Susanne Clement, Adrian K. Ho, Feng Shan

Adrian K. Ho

No abstract.


Collecting For Digital Repositories: New Ways To Disseminate And Share Information, Susanne Clement, Adrian K. Ho, Feng Shan Jul 2009

Collecting For Digital Repositories: New Ways To Disseminate And Share Information, Susanne Clement, Adrian K. Ho, Feng Shan

Western Libraries Publications

No abstract provided.


Scholarly Communication Presentation For Lis9630, Adrian K. Ho Jun 2009

Scholarly Communication Presentation For Lis9630, Adrian K. Ho

Adrian K. Ho

No abstract provided.


Scholarly Communication Presentation For Lis9630, Adrian K. Ho Jun 2009

Scholarly Communication Presentation For Lis9630, Adrian K. Ho

Western Libraries Presentations

No abstract provided.