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Informing Authors: Outreach Strategies For Engaging Faculty In Scholarly Communications Issues At Your Institution, Michael Priehs, Joshua Neds-Fox

Library Scholarly Publications

This presentation communicates three approaches at a research institution to engage faculty around scholarly communication issues. Attendees will come away better equipped to develop their institutional repositories and create a stronger scholarly communications program.

Modeling Object Relationships In Fedora Commons Using Rdf, Graham Hukill

Library Scholarly Publications

Modeling digital object relationships with RDF statements is perhaps the single most important thing we do in creating our digital collections infrastructure. This presentation provides a brief overview of RDF, "triples", how they are utilized in Fedora Commons for modeling relationships between objects, and some future goals.

Uelma: The Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act, Marlene Coir, Virginia C. Thomas

Library Scholarly Publications

At the federal, state, and local levels, primary legal materials are increasingly being made available to the public in electronic format. It is a matter of great concern to attorneys and legal researchers that these electronic resources routinely include caveats and disclaimers regarding their authenticity and official status. Until recently, however, state and local governments have seldom guaranteed that these resources would be updated, maintained, and securely archived for the benefit of their citizens. In July 2011, the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws approved the text of the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act (UELMA). As drafted, this …

Starting From The Ground Up: How We Created Our Own Digital Collections Platform, Axa Liauw, Cole Hudson, Graham Hukill

Library Scholarly Publications

We recently released our new digital collections platform, based around an implementation of Fedora Commons, the open-source digital repository software. By building a system from the ground up, we have learned a great deal about interface design, workflow management, the evaluation of pre-existing tools and systems, as well as building and using APIs (Application Programmable Interfaces) to our advantage. At this session, we will outline specific software and technologies we used and why, as we discuss our experience of creating a digital collections platform.

Audience members will come away with a better sense of what, for one library, it meant …

Wayne State University Libraries Digital Collections Platform: A New Home For Research On Detroit, Amelia Mowry, Joshua Neds-Fox, Cole Hudson, Graham Hukill

Library Scholarly Publications

The Wayne State University Libraries have recently developed a new Digital Collections platform for our growing set of images, publications, and manuscripts, many of which relate to the Detroit area. Based on the Fedora digital object repository, with an Apache SOLR search layer and a lightweight PHP front-end, the platform represents a solid technological and content infrastructure for research and innovation in Detroit-related Digital Humanities.

Driven by technology, metadata, and rich content from Detroit and beyond, the platform can serve as a workspace for Digital Humanities projects. The architecture and metadata allow for parsing, faceting, and curating across collections. And …

Researching Environmental Justice: A Conversation, Virginia C. Thomas, William W. Lefevre

Library Scholarly Publications

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency defines environmental justice as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.” The concerns that arise in this complex environmental context extend beyond the scope of traditional legal research resources to include historical, social, scientific, and governmental documents that reside in unique archival collections.

Through the conversation that follows, senior archivist William LeFevre of the Walter P. Reuther Library shares his experience and insights on how archival resources can provide essential support …

Fishing With The Crowd: Catch And Release?, Jan B. Bissett, Margi Heinen

Library Scholarly Publications

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Visualizing Our Book Shelves: How We Took Harvard’S Stack View And Made It Our Own, Cole Hudson

Library Scholarly Publications

This presentation 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.

Wayne State University’S Digital Collections Infrastructure, Graham Hukill

Library Scholarly Publications

At Wayne State University, we are in the process of building a digital collections infrastructure using Fedora Commons to store our digital objects, Solr as our primary search mechanism, and a combination of HTML / CSS / Javascript for the front-end user interface. These components are “glued” together with a Python based server that handles search, limited management of objects, and other specific functions. The missing piece in our digital collections infrastructure is a robust, reliable, sustainable, and easy-to-use tool for managing our digital collections and objects in Fedora Commons and Solr. This lightning outlined and demonstrated a python based …

Adapting To The Academic Environment: 5 Lessons From The Yogi, James E. Van Loon

Library Scholarly Publications

Observations on the differences between academic and corporate environments, and on adaptations that can ease the transition from corporate to academic worlds.

Engaging Faculty In Information Literacy, Judith M. Arnold, Veronica E. Bielat

Library Scholarly Publications

How can librarians engage faculty in information literacy? This session demonstrates how a faculty workshop can be used as a strategy to motivate change in how faculty design research assignments. We will discuss using current research to draw faculty into the information literacy conversation, perform assignment analysis to illuminate the “burdens” placed on the student, and illustrate how assignment re-design can mitigate the subsequent student struggles that may lead to patchwork papers or plagiarism.

Cleared For Deposit! Tool For Reviewing Faculty Cv's And Depositing Articles In An Institutional Repository, Graham Hukill

Library Scholarly Publications

This poster will focus on a tool we have made to streamline the process of reviewing faculty publications, most often via their CV, for deposit and self-archiving in a Institutional Repository. The tool uses an HTML/CSS webpage for the front-end, a MySQL backend, and pulls in publisher self-archiving policies via the SHERPA/RoMEO API.

Many libraries are beginning to review faculty CVs for publications that can be deposited in their Open Access Institutional Repository. SHERPA/RoMEO, "...a searchable database of publisher's policies regarding the self- archiving of journal articles on the web and in Open Access repositories," is primarily how librarians decide …

Re-Emagining Library Guides For Independent E-Learning, Judith Arnold, Veronica E. Bielat

Library Scholarly Publications

E-magine the learning possibilities in a library guide! Learning theory tells us that learners need more than one way of interacting with content. Potential lies in the multimedia and design capabilities available in the apps and platforms used to host library guides. This presentation will take a fresh approach to guide design that re-envisions the guide as an e-learning tool that enhances learning as it supports the goals of a specific assignment.

Prospecting For Digital Nuggets: Research Gems On The Web, Jan B. Bissett, Margi Heinen

Library Scholarly Publications

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The University Press: Trends, Initiatives, And Collaborations Over The Past Several Years, Clayton Hayes, Robert P. Holley

Library Scholarly Publications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine recent trends that have affected University Presses. The increased reliance on digital resources and fiscal constraints within higher education has forced University Presses to re-evaluate their position with the scholarly communication system. Responses include an increased focus on partnerships, new forms of publication, changing business models, and better meeting customers’ needs.

Design/Methodology/Approach – The authors have reviewed publications on University Presses from the last five years and added their viewpoints on current and future trends.

Findings – University Presses must adapt to resource scarcity and current trends in scholarly communication …

The Future Of Cloud-Based Library Systems, Steven K. Bowers, Elliot J. Polak

Library Scholarly Publications

The limits of the now-aging integrated library system (ILS) software model are constraining the presence of the library within the new reality of the Internet and interconnected World Wide Web. Whether they are called cloud-based ILS or library services platforms, developing and future systems will move beyond shared library resources on shelves to establishing a shared technological infrastructure for supporting all that libraries do. Cloud-based systems will provide means for management of all library systems, including circulation, cataloging, acquisitions, serials, electronic resources, authentication, the public interface, and analytics for data in the system. All this will allow for greater cooperation …

Information Literacy Skills As A Critical Thinking Framework In The Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum, James E. Van Loon, Heather L. Lai

Library Scholarly Publications

Information Literacy (IL) instruction embedded into the engineering design curriculum can provide a framework for the development of critical thinking skills which are essential for students to master to solve open-ended engineering problems. At Wayne State University, a lecturer in biomedical engineering (BME) and a science librarian are collaborating in an ongoing effort to integrate IL instruction into the BME undergraduate design curriculum. The paper will provide a vision and rationale for integrating IL instruction into the engineering design curriculum, and discuss aspects of the Wayne State effort to effect this integration. A review of the place of critical thinking …