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Streamlining Digital Project Management, Marsha Miles
Streamlining Digital Project Management, Marsha Miles
Michael Schwartz Library Publications
Presentation to the Ohio Digitization Interest Group on how Cleveland State University's Michael Schwartz Library streamlined digital project management using Microsoft SharePoint.
Technical Services Going Mobile, Ning Han
Technical Services Going Mobile, Ning Han
Ning Han
The article discusses how technical services librarians can benefit from integrating mobile technologies and devices into their daily workflow.
Open-Source Opens Doors: A Case Study On Extending Archivesspace Code At Unlv Libraries, Cyndi Shein, Carol Ou, Karla Irwin, Carlos Lemus
Open-Source Opens Doors: A Case Study On Extending Archivesspace Code At Unlv Libraries, Cyndi Shein, Carol Ou, Karla Irwin, Carlos Lemus
Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Libraries is in its third year of implementing the open-source archival collection management application ArchivesSpace, and is sharing UNLV-developed code that extends ArchivesSpace’s built-in functions. The case study demonstrates how adopting and building upon community-created code and developing original local code is improving critical workflows that support creating collection descriptions, cleaning up metadata, and disseminating finding aids that are easier for researchers to comprehend. UNLV discusses how using an open-source application has opened up opportunities for cross-departmental collaboration, moving UNLV further down the path toward full implementation and closer to the goal of …
Streamlining Archives Reference Through Online Task Management, Jay-Marie Bravent, Daniel Weddington
Streamlining Archives Reference Through Online Task Management, Jay-Marie Bravent, Daniel Weddington
Library Faculty and Staff Publications
Following an organizational shift that flattened the hierarchy and prioritized security, use, and collection management, research services at UK Libraries SCRC continued to face logistical roadblocks to meeting patron reference and research needs. Specifically, SCRC relied on an often chaotic system of listserv streams monitored by 10-15 team members to manage patron interaction and internal communication. This approach left no easily discernible way for the research services team to assign tasks, facilitate collaboration, monitor progress, or derive statistics. This article will discuss how SCRC successfully implemented a streamlined, task management approach to archives reference using freely available online tools.
Using Automated Workflows To Grow Your Institutional Repository, Shilpa Rele, Jessea Young
Using Automated Workflows To Grow Your Institutional Repository, Shilpa Rele, Jessea Young
Jessea Young
Conducting copyright clearance and ingesting appropriate versions of faculty publications can be a labor intensive and time consuming process. At Loyola Marymount University (LMU), a medium-size, private institution, the Digital Library Program (DLP) began exploring and experimenting with automated processes to manage copyright clearance and ingest workflows with regards to faculty publications. The goal of such experimentation was to increase efficiency in our processes to ingest more faculty publications in LMU's institutional repository. In this lightening talk, we highlight our workflows and tools used to manage the automated workflows, some of the issues and challenges we experienced during this exploratory …
The Long And Brief Of It: Brief Levels And Normalization Rules To Streamline Shelf-Ready Workflows, Emily Gross
The Long And Brief Of It: Brief Levels And Normalization Rules To Streamline Shelf-Ready Workflows, Emily Gross
University Libraries Faculty & Staff Presentations
Seeking a balance between streamlining shelf-ready workflows without sacrificing record quality checks, Western Michigan University implemented a combination of Brief Levels and Normalization Rules in ExLibris’ Alma to automate much of the check process. This presentation describes the configuration at WMU and how it has improved the workflow.
Using Automated Workflows To Grow Your Institutional Repository, Shilpa Rele, Jessea Young
Using Automated Workflows To Grow Your Institutional Repository, Shilpa Rele, Jessea Young
LMU Librarian Publications & Presentations
Conducting copyright clearance and ingesting appropriate versions of faculty publications can be a labor intensive and time consuming process. At Loyola Marymount University (LMU), a medium-size, private institution, the Digital Library Program (DLP) began exploring and experimenting with automated processes to manage copyright clearance and ingest workflows with regards to faculty publications. The goal of such experimentation was to increase efficiency in our processes to ingest more faculty publications in LMU's institutional repository. In this lightening talk, we highlight our workflows and tools used to manage the automated workflows, some of the issues and challenges we experienced during this exploratory …
Preservation Appraisal And Selection: How We Determine What Actually Needs To Be Preserved, Jeremy Myntti, Tawnya Keller
Preservation Appraisal And Selection: How We Determine What Actually Needs To Be Preserved, Jeremy Myntti, Tawnya Keller
Faculty Publications
Presentation of Preservation Apprasial and Selection.