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Indots Practices For Maintaining Pavement Marking Condition, David Boruff

Purdue Road School

On August 5, 2022, the FHWA published a final rule in the federal register adding new provisions to the MUTCD relating to maintaining minimum levels of pavement marking retroreflectivity. This session will answer the following questions. What are the new requirements? What are the methods for maintaining pavement marking retroreflectivity? What is INDOTs approach to maintaining pavement marking retroreflectivity?

Systemic Progress, Elijah Heindricks

Ideas: Exhibit Catalog for the Honors College Visiting Scholars Series

This artifact acts as a “concluding” piece for the group contribution to Ideas Magazine. Using material from Waterhouse’s published research and other works, this piece focuses on how to create systemic progress.

Dual-Campus Subject Librarians At University Of Central Florida, Barbara G. Tierney, Corinne Bishop

Charleston Library Conference

A new dual-campus subject librarian program is being rolled out at the University of Central Florida (UCF) whereby several subject librarians divide their time between two campuses, the legacy main campus in East Orlando and the new Downtown Orlando Campus. As of Fall 2019, four UCF subject librarians regularly travel to the new Downtown Campus to provide library support for academic programs, faculty, and students who recently relocated to the new facility. Dual-campus subject librarians are also maintaining support services for their assigned academic programs that remain at the UCF Main Campus. This article provides information and reflections about how …

Embrace The Hive Mind: Engaging Ill And Research Services In Unsubscribed And Oa Content Discovery, Jeffrey M. Mortimore, Ruth L. Baker, Rebecca Hunnicutt, Natalie Logue, Jessica Rigg

Charleston Library Conference

Deciding whether to support discovery of unsubscribed and Open Access (OA) content raises questions for technical and public services librarians, from the philosophical to the pragmatic. Doing so requires careful curation and monitoring of resources, and benefits from library-wide input. This paper describes the process at Georgia Southern University for vetting unsubscribed and OA resources with ILL and liaison librarians for inclusion in the discovery layer and on the A-Z database list. For the discovery layer, this involves a three-step evaluation of collections for overall metadata quality, likelihood of ILL fulfillment, and value to the library collection. For the database …

Piloting The Surge: Streaming Video And Academic Libraries, Joanna Kolendo, Azungwe Kwembe, Charlene Snelling

Charleston Library Conference

Chicago State University’s Gwendolyn Brooks Library decision to trial and acquire Kanopy, A Patro-Driven-Acquisition video streaming service, was completely a patron-demand-driven undertaking. The decision to obtain this service was led by faculty interest in the resource and ranged from the initial inquiry for a trial by a foreign language faculty member to its PDA model, which has allowed faculty to select the films purchased. The article discusses the acquisition process, set-up steps for making the trial and then the resource available to the CSU community, and the steps taken to promote the resource.

Safe Routes To Parks: Terre Haute And Indianapolis, Alison Redenz, Pete Fritz

Purdue Road School

This session presents lessons learned from Safe Routes to Parks action planning in both Terre Haute and Indianapolis, and how pedestrian safety data and site assessments were used to create safe and equitable access to parks.

Walking Toward Safety, Rick Drumm, Nathan Sheets, Alison Redenz

Purdue Road School

The safety of the most vulnerable of road users—pedestrians—has become a greater focus in Indiana. The data tell us a lot. Several initiatives have been rolled out that center on pedestrian safety. Attendees will gain a greater understanding, appreciation, and vision of pedestrian safety and what can be done about it.

Is Small Beautiful? The Position Of Independent Scholarly Publishers In An Environment Of Rapid Industry Consolidation, Charlie Remy, Steve Cohn, Richard Gallagher, George Leaman

Charleston Library Conference

The publishing industry continues to consolidate, with large multinational publishers acquiring journals and other content from academic societies and independent publishers. This panel provided candid insights into the challenges facing smaller publishers, including how/why they continue to exist in a business environment increasingly dominated by large companies. The discussion examined the advantages that smaller, independent publishers enjoy and addressed their adaptation strategies, business planning (including open versus paid access models), strategic partnerships, technical infrastructure, production procedures, relationships with libraries, and the work needed to meet the evolving needs of library end users. The impact of industry consolidation on libraries, including …

Apples To Oranges: Comparing Streaming Video Platforms, Steven Milewski, Monique Threatt

Charleston Library Conference

Librarians rely on an ever-increasing variety of platforms to deliver streaming video content to our patrons. These two presentations will examine different aspects of video streaming platforms to gain guidance from the comparison of platforms. The first will examine the accessibility compliance of the various video streaming platforms for users with disabilities by examining accessibility features of the platforms. The second will be a comparison of subject usage of two of the larger video streaming platform providers (Alexander Street Press and Kanopy) done at Indiana University Bloomington, a large public university.

Safety Performance Measures Target Setting, Roger D. Manning

Purdue Road School

In 2016 the FHWA issued new rules that govern performance management for a number of transportation areas. In this session we explore the new rules that apply to the area of traffic safety, in particular the requirements that both state DOTs and metropolitan planning organizations must set performance goals and begin reporting their annual progress toward meeting those targets.

Teaching The Library To Students Of Higher Education, Steven Weiland

Charleston Library Conference

The academic library and its digital transformation are ignored in graduate programs of higher education administration, which train a significant number of postsecondary professionals. A course in scholarly communications in the digital age recently introduced at one such program includes an invitation to aspiring administrators to study the contributions of the library to the ways that faculty members are coming to understand and capitalize on new technologies in teaching, research, and career development. The library is represented in the course in its traditional and new roles. It is an essential campus location for attention to what technological change means for …

Balancing Bananas: Collection Assessment Of Patron‐Driven Acquisitions, Gabrielle Wiersma, Rhonda Glazier, Denise Pan, Stephanie Spratt

Charleston Library Conference

The libraries in the University of Colorado (CU) System have been using patron‐driven acquisitions (PDA) to build a shared collection of e‐books for many years. This paper presents our experiences as both early adopters of PDA and libraries with longstanding PDA e‐book programs and describes an analysis of how PDA has impacted collections at each of the libraries in the CU System.

A Descriptive Analysis Of The Appropriate Use Of Cognitive Bias Terminology In Forensic Science Literature, Courtney A. Winters, Evelyn M. Buday, Trevor I. Stamper

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium

Cognitive bias occurs without a person’s awareness and can affect decision-making abilities. In forensic science, bias can be especially detrimental to making accurate decisions about the evidence in a criminal investigation. There are many academic studies in identifying, describing, and suggesting ways to mitigate cognitive biases in forensic science. Many authors will give a known cognitive science concept a new name or create their own bias. This is a problem in the literature because nobody knows for sure how many published studies are referring to or testing the same phenomena since authors are using different definitions or terminology to describe …

The Draft 2015 Indiana Strategic Highway Safety Plan, Roger D. Manning

Purdue Road School

Indiana’s ability to expend federal Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) funds requires implementing a data-driven Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP), which guides the types of roadway infrastructure countermeasures preferred for HSIP funding. Learn about what an analysis of the nearly two million police crash reports filed in Indiana since 2004 reveals about the state’s traffic safety improvement needs and what emphasis areas are targeted in the draft 2015 SHSP.

Indiana Criminal Justice Institute Traffic Safety Division, Ryan Klitzsch

Purdue Road School

Traffic safety is important for a local community’s protection, health, and economic well-being. There are a variety of options available to communities that can help improve traffic safety and meet needs which, ideally, should be based on data that is specific to the area. We will discuss where a variety of data can be found and used by everyone from community members to engineers in order to improve traffic safety. Some of the options that will be discussed in this presentation are grant opportunities for law enforcement to conduct traffic safety specific enforcement and partnering with local businesses, high schools, …

Freely Flowing: Openly Accessible Sources For Streaming Video, Deg Farrelly

Charleston Library Conference

There is considerable disagreement within the academic and library spheres as to what can be done to make streaming content available. The process of providing streaming content is expensive, labor intensive, and time consuming. This process, however, doesn’t always require prolonged licensing negotiations, expenditure of precious materials budgets, or large investment of personnel time and effort to digitize, upload, and maintain content. There are many websites that provide quality videos that libraries and media centers can both access and provide access to with minimal effort. This paper offers a list of these legal, openly accessible resources, along with a brief …

Library Building Renovations – Crucial Collaborations, Jc Henning

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This paper shares how important cross-sectional collaboration is to ensuring the successful planning of academic library buildings and facilities. The focus is on the nature of collaboration with internal stakeholders in the various stages of the process. It highlights the purpose of the collaboration in and at each stage, lists the relevant stakeholders and their roles, highlights the challenges and ultimately concludes with the benefits of the collaboration.

The specific relationships and agreements with internal stakeholders such as library staff, students, academics, Information and Communication Technology, Procurement and University Estates are presented. The paper briefly refers to collaboration with external …

Using Dash! For Digital Repositories: A Case Study Of The East Texas Baptist University Library, Cynthia L. Peterson

Charleston Library Conference

No abstract provided.

Weeding With Robots: Managing Collections In Automated Retrieval Systems, Patricia Bravender, Robert Kelly, Linda Masselink, Hazel Mcclure

Charleston Library Conference

No abstract provided.

Indiana Criminal Justice Institute, Ryan Klitzsch

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

Traffic Records Data Improvements, Neil Moore, Nils D. King

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

Toolbox Of Crash Data Analysis, John Nagle

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

Conflict Resolution, J Branch Walton

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

Violence In The Workplace, J Branch Walton

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.