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How An Idea Became A Team: The First Year With Team Dolly, Betty Adams, Stefanie Caloia, Nina Fawaz, Megan Hakala, Lori Rinaldi, Sarah Sorensen

Library Scholarly Publications

How an Idea Became a Team: The First Year with Team Dolly

Team Dolly will present how the Dolly Parton Imagination Library has progressed in the past year from an idea to a first-year funded and (soon-to-be) operational, long-term literacy project with opportunities for expansion. A focus will be placed on how we initiated the project with little previous experience. Come learn what we’ve learned this year, check out our progress, and get a sneak-peek at the next five years!

(Presenters: Members of Team Dolly)

Command Line Crash Course, Cole Hudson

Library Scholarly Publications

This workshop introduced participants to the basics of the command line, a text-based interface found in modern operating systems. This workshop took place at the Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners Fall 2018 meeting at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, MI.

Using Old Streets To Make New Inroads To Data: Part 1, Cole Hudson

Library Scholarly Publications

This presentation was given at the 2018 Code4Lib Midwest conference. It told of an ongoing project at Wayne State to digitize and convert a book full of useful street data into a digital form. This book contained information on the re-mapping of Detroit streets in 1923, and the aim of this project was to build a widely accessible web platform with which to query this information.

Archival Processing Science, Stefanie A. Caloia

Reuther Library Scholarly Publications

Archival collections come in all sizes, formats, and subjects, and it is impossible for any archival education program to cover all situations that professional archivists encounter. Proper planning is essential to processing and paramount when a collection comprises hundreds of linear feet, yet it is often difficult to develop and implement processing plans when drawing on your experience alone. This presentation details a method of conducting a pre-archival processing survey that can be useful through all processing stages, as well as some additional tips on handling archival materials.

What Is Consulting Services? Our Approach To Supporting The Needs Of The Scholarly Community, Allen Sprague

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

An outline of the thought and approach behind bepress's Consulting Services model.

Evaluating Scholarly Communication Services And Programs To Plan For Sustained Success, Jacklyn Rander, Matt Ruen

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

The scholarly communications program and institutional repository at Grand Valley State University began in 2008, and in its first seven years, grew rapidly. Our team, recently-expanded, now includes three full time positions, and through our repository we host open textbooks, open-access journals, and thousands of documents. Our initial growth was organic and opportunistic, which enabled this initiative to successfully take root in the University Libraries. The next challenge for our scholarly communications program is to make sure those early roots are strong and healthy, so that we can sustain our initial success through the next seven years and beyond.

In …

Pampering Uploaders: Easing The Metadata Upload Process, Craighton T. Hippenhammer

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

Impromptu Lightning Talk, listing five tips for configuring submission forms to ease the process of item upload for users.

Using Built-In Features, Stephanie Gaskins, Elizabeth Richardson

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

At Kent State, we work on Digital Commons all times of day so communication is important. We utilize many of bepress’s built-in features to facilitate this. Based on our conversations with other Digital Commons institutional repository managers, many of Digital Commons’ built-in features are not used or not used to their fullest potential. We are moving toward taking full advantage of built-in features in our workflow and hope to push beyond what is available and to suggest enhancements from bepress. We aim to use built-in features for training, internal communication within our team, external communication with authors and rights holders, …

"Make It Work": Patching Together A New Ir Workflow To Sustain Growth, Teresa Schultz

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

Growing an institutional repository at a small university library with limited resources brings a number of challenges, and VU is no different. The Christopher Center Library has no dedicated employees who work solely with its IR, ValpoScholar, and instead relies on a mix of interns and other employees to create records and upload works in their spare time. VU has had some success in finding faculty works for ValpoScholar through self-submissions for an annual celebration of faculty research and by searching databases but wanted to see if there was still a better way. In Fall 2014, the library began to …

How To, And How Not To Recover And Preserve Two Orphan Journals: A Case Study Of The Journal Of Communication Therapy And Insight And Hindsight, Paul Blobaum

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

The OPUS repository at Governors State University, University Park IL was launched in May, 2014. The Repository replaces Dspace. Materials in the University Archives were reviewed for possible candidates for digitization and utilization of the Digital Commons Journal series structures for optimal showcasing of archived content of these defunct journals that originated at the University. Copies of the Journal of Communication Therapy, and Insight and Hindsight, journal were discovered in the University Archives, and identified for recovery of the publication's opus (filling in missing issues), digitization, and archival preservation. A collaborative effort with Texas State University library was implemented to …

Academic Publishing Folklore: Finding A Unified Narrative For Open Access, Dave Johnston

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

There is often no systematic means by which information about open access and the scholarly publishing landscape is shared between faculty, students and administrators and the particular concerns can vary considerably from discipline to discipline. The patchwork of beliefs about open access and publishing on our campuses bears more similarity to a body of folklore, an academic publishing folklore. Like all folklore, it can contain elements of both misinformation and truth.

Working as a librarian in a scholarly communications role brings with it the responsibility of conveying the importance of open access to faculty members, students and administrators in order …

An Integrated Digital Services Model For Institutional Repositories, M Ryan Hess

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

DePaul University Library created a suite of digital services to support faculty projects which addressed common hurdles to repository adoption. In a faculty survey we ran in the fall of 2014, faculty reported an unawareness of the repository, uncertainty of how they might use it. However, they also reported that they placed value on the repository services we presented to them and a desire to hear more information. Anecdotally, we also heard the common refrain that faculty are too busy and too technologically challenged to engage with the repository on their own. In response, we defined several interrelated services to …

Accessing Library Literature On Your Ipad, Alexandra Sarkozy

Scholars Cooperative Brown Bag Series

Demonstration of Zotero, EndNote, and Browzine on iPads

Internship And Practicum Requirements In Archival Education, Gavin T. Strassel, Meghan M. Courtney

Reuther Library Scholarly Publications

Archivists have long debated the nature of archival internships and practicum requirements as components of archival education. Advocates cite these requirements as the best way for emerging archivists to acquire hands-on training, while critics worry they can be used to further student exploitation and a devaluation of professional archivists’ labor. This presentation examined requirements in graduate archives programs and compared them to accepted guidelines for internships in the archives profession and the American economy at large. These presentations draw on original survey data collected by the presenters from educational programs listed on the Society of American Archivists’ Directory of Archival …

Wtf (What’S To Fear)?!? Owning The Mistakes We Make And Learning From Them, Michael Priehs, Damecia Donahue, Mike Hawthorne

Library Scholarly Publications

Have you *$%#’d up? We have. Presenters will discuss some of the ways we’ve made mistakes and recovered. We’ll offer examples of our mistakes and what we learned. We’ll look at balancing individual initiative with the need to work within a team environment. Presenters will facilitate a fun, interactive, and lively session helping you turn your mistakes into opportunities. You’ll leave equipped with tools to think about mistakes, grow from them, and create better outcomes.

Hacking Dc: Using Dc's Native Features In Unintended Ways, Michael Priehs, Joshua Neds-Fox

Library Scholarly Publications

The Digital Commons software is relatively feature-rich, but as repository managers we often find ourselves thinking, "I wish I could..." This presentation, delivers at the Digital Commons Great Lakes User Group annual meeting at Valparaiso University, IN, outlines two relatively easy extensions of Digital Commons that use its native features in novel ways. One ("Preserving and Tracking Permissions in Digital Commons") takes advantage of the system to manage permissions recordkeeping, and the other ("Paper of the Day Emails") exploits the quarterly archive for an automatic marketing program. Attendees will discover sustainable ways to keep themselves in copyright compliance and their …

Accessible Interlibrary Loan For Users With Disabilities: An Open Discussion, Michael Priehs

Library Scholarly Publications

At its core, interlibrary loan is about access to information. But are we succeeding for our patrons with disabilities? Are our systems, practices, and deliverables meeting the needs of all of our users? While much has been written and explored concerning obtaining special format materials, less has been written concerning the usability of our resource sharing systems for disabled persons. Assistive, or mainstream, technologies and Universal Design are popular discussions among disability and web design specialists. Likewise, in a discipline where accessibility and technology often guide our progress, resource sharing librarians should be aware of these issues in regards to …

E-Volving Information Literacy Tutorials With E-Maginative And E-Ngaging Design, Damecia Donahue, Axa Liauw, Rebeca Peacock, Jill Wurm

Library Scholarly Publications

Presentation on May 22nd, 2014, at The Workshop for Instruction in Library Use (WILU), at Western University, Ontario, Canada.

Preparing For Preservation, Cole Hudson, Graham Hukill

Library Scholarly Publications

In this preservation, we explored the access/preservation dichotomy found in preservation work, and presented on how our work with access interfaces in Fedora Commons has lead to some unexpected preservation benefits.

Copyright: What Library Workers Should Know, Michael Priehs

Library Scholarly Publications

Michael Priehs, Coordinator for Scholarly Communications & Copyright at Wayne State University, provides library workers with an overview of copyright, including fair use and the public domain. Recent high-profile copyright cases will be discussed, along with implications for libraries. Suggestions for providing copyright assistance to library patrons will round out the talk.

Syncing Omeka With Fedora Commons, Cole Hudson

Library Scholarly Publications

This presentation is a lightning talk which covered the process in which users can batch upload content from a Fedora Commons repository over to Omeka and keep content between the two systems in sync. Code referenced was developed by Cole Hudson and Graham Hukill and can be found on Github.

Open Access: What We're Doing And How It Helps You, Sandra G. Yee, Joshua Neds-Fox, Michael Priehs, Nancy A. Wilmes

Library Scholarly Publications

Presentation to faculty in Wayne State University's (WSU) Department of Mathematics about Open Access Initiatives at WSU, and how to participate in Green OA as a matter of course in research and publication.

What Is Fedora Commons, And Why Should You Care?, Cole Hudson, Graham Hukill

Library Scholarly Publications

Presentation at the Michigan Library Association's 2013 Print to Digital Workshop in East Lansing, MI. Topics covered include the implementation of Fedora Commons at WSU, an overview of associated system architecture, and lessons learned.

Open Access: What We're Doing And Where You Fit In, Joshua Neds-Fox

Library Scholarly Publications

Presentation to faculty in Wayne State University's (WSU) Department of Communication about Open Access Initiatives at WSU, and how to participate in Green OA as a matter of course in research and publication.

Imagining An Ecosystem: Selecting A Digital Collections Platform For The Library, Graham S. Hukill

Library Scholarly Publications

This presentation was delivered at the event, "Converge and Ingest: Learning About Digital Preservation", organized by Wayne State University's National Student Digital Alliance (NDSA) student chapter.

Focusing on the research of a new digital collections platform, this presentation touched on some available open-source options, and what functionality and infrastructure is needed to manage, preserve, and provide access to digital collections.

Open Access Journals: A Good Way To Go?, Joshua Neds-Fox, Alexandra Sarkozy

Library Scholarly Publications

Presentation to the faculty of the Wayne State University College of Nursing, Office of Health Research Brown Bag Series, on issues pertaining to publishing in open access nursing journals and implications for tenure, citation, copyright, etc.

Putting Multimedia Exhibits In The Palm Of Your Hand, Damecia Donahue, Rachael Clark

Library Scholarly Publications

Presentation given by Rachael Clark and Damecia Donahue in November of 2012 at the Michigan Library Association Annual Conference in Detroit, MI. The discussion revolved around topics related to libraries creating exhibits using their own collections and resources; this included the idea of incorporating multimedia tools and web applications to creatively and interactively provide access to library materials.

What's So Special About Special Collections?, Suzan A. Alteri

Library Scholarly Publications

Presentation given to Wayne State University faculty on how they can integrate special collections material in their classrooms - either physically or online.

Accompanying website available at http://www.culturalportrayals.weebly.com

An Introduction To Digital Commons, Jeff Riedel

Digital Commons Information

This presentation outlines the Digital Commons resource and Institutional Repositories.