Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Accurately Instructed In The Law: Finding State Jury Instructions, Jan B. Bissett, Margi Heinen

Library Scholarly Publications

No abstract provided.

The Elements Of Web Communication (For Amateurs), Joshua Neds-Fox

Library Scholarly Publications

Presentation given at the Michigan Library Association Annual Conference 2015, October 28th, in Novi, Michigan.

"Writing for the web is not the same as writing for other media. But your library website content is written by your library staff, who may be neither writers nor web professionals. This session will explore everyday strategies to improve your approach to writing for the web. Your web content will be more readable, your site will be more usable, and you will be more confident in your ability to reach patrons online."

Re-Thinking Information Literacy Instruction With The Acrl Framework, Judith Arnold, Veronica E. Bielat

Library Scholarly Publications

As academic librarians transition from a teaching and learning paradigm for Information Literacy (IL) that is reliant on the ACRL Competency Standards to the new ACRL Framework, how can librarians support and learn from each other as a community during this transition? This program will share the examples of reframing successful, standards-based IL instruction for two discipline-focused research assignments to a framework-based approach. Attendees will participate in a hands-on activity that helps them strategize how to re-think existing instruction to integrate the threshold concepts into instruction, and discuss options for assessing student learning as part of a new instruction paradigm.

Wsuls Digital Collections Api, Cole Hudson

Library Scholarly Publications

This presentation details the process by the WSU Digital Collections website retrieves and displays data onto the site...with an API. Code referenced was developed by Cole Hudson and Graham Hukill and can be found on Github.

Improving Our Reference Data, Or How We Killed The Hash Mark, Katrina B. Rouan, Graham S. Hukill

Library Scholarly Publications

All responsible academic libraries record their reference transactions. It is good practice to know how many patrons have been helped at your service points. For years we have participated in this record keeping with hash marks on paper, painstaking tallying, and manual spreadsheet entry for the purpose of saying, “we helped X patrons during Y month”. But, like most things academic, reference runs on its own calendar and requires more sophisticated tools to truly investigate and evaluate.

To generate more useful reference statistics, we created a simple, online tool for recording reference interactions. The tool is accessible anywhere reference is …

The Shoulders On Which We Stand, Jan B. Bissett, Margi Heinen

Library Scholarly Publications

No abstract provided.

Xsd: The Path From Excel To Xml: The Basics: Mapping Elements And Attributes, Amelia Mowry

Library Scholarly Publications

Working with metadata often means moving it between various formats. One problematic move to make is from a spreadsheet to an XML file. This paper will describe the basics of using an XSD to map a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to XML.

Moving metadata can be a messy process, especially when the data is older. Data often comes out of legacy systems as csv files, tab-delimited files, or Excel files. Moving data from these formats into XML can prove to be a challenge. I have also found it beneficial to do some initial data cleaning in spreadsheet form. This allows for …

Increasing Your Research Impact: Digital Commons And Altmetrics, Michael Priehs, Alexandra Sarkozy

Library Scholarly Publications

This presentation will discuss new options for extending your scholarship’s reach and for tracking your scholarly influence. DigitalCommons@WayneState is the University’s institutional repository, where we collect and provide perpetual open access to the intellectual output of WSU. Altmetrics, or “alternative metrics”, is a rising trend in scholarly communication, providing non-traditional metrics for assessing scholarly impact, including Twitter and popular news coverage. Two Wayne State librarians will demonstrate these tools, and explain how they can increase your research impact.

Copyright In Classroom Materials: Videos, Illustrations And Photographs, Michael Priehs, Joshua Neds-Fox

Library Scholarly Publications

A look at the educational provisions for use of copyrighted materials, especially video and images, in the physical and virtual classroom.

Librarian As Developer: Reconciling The Two With Big Ideas, Cole Hudson

Library Scholarly Publications

This presentation covers the overlap between ideas and ideals found in web development and librarianship

The League Of Librarians: Combining Our Powers To Create Sustainable Service, Judith Arnold, Veronica Bielat, Joshua Neds-Fox

Library Scholarly Publications

Recent ARL and Ithaka reports assert that changes in higher education demand we transform our thinking about liaison services. Liaison work is no longer a job for Lone Heroes. Meeting the changing expectations of students, researchers and faculty requires a Superteam of individuals equipped with an arsenal of expertise. This session features replicable strategies that demonstrate how to expand service through internal collaborative partnerships, empower liaisons through skill development, and leverage technology to sustain effort.

Digital Humanities In Ten Pages Or Less! Engaging Students With Digital Texts Through Sustainable Collaboration, Julie Thompson Klein, Judith Arnold, Graham S. Hukill

Library Scholarly Publications

Digital Humanities projects are somewhat new to many librarians, particularly those who are liaisons to faculty who are venturing into this area. Because of this “newness,” many librarians are unsure of their role in engaging with faculty or other librarian colleagues who are working with digital collections and editions, text mining, or other applications of technology to humanities scholarship. A digital humanities project need not be intimidating. Opportunities are nascent in everyday projects and technologies. Through the example of a digital humanities project integrated into a senior-level writing intensive course for English majors, this session will offer attendees a working …

How We Closed A Library And Opened Up Our Stacks: Providing Alternative Access Through Virtual Shelves, Cole Hudson

Library Scholarly Publications

This poster covers WSU's efforts to develop a virtual book shelf viewer modifying and adding to the Harvard Library's Stack View project. Code referenced was developed by Cole Hudson and Axa Liauw and can be found on Github.

Library Link Resolvers And Analytics: Using Analytics Tools To Identify Usage Trends And Access Problems With Electronic Resources In Libraries, Amelia Mowry

Library Scholarly Publications

Analytics have become vital to exploring the use of websites in the library world. They allow us to discover who is using our sites, when they are using them, and how they are using them. I believe this data will only become more important as libraries continue to prove their worth in the digital world.

However, there are some challenges with using analytics. One major issue is that some of the essential sites relating to the delivery of library materials do not actually belong to the library. One example of this is the link resolver, which attempts to connect patrons …

Escape Velocity: What We Built (Digital Collections Infrastructure), Graham Hukill, Cole Hudson

Library Scholarly Publications

A poster outlining the Library's current Python-based digital collections infrastructure, with an eye towards a potential Hydra-based infrastructure in the future.