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The Japanese American Confinement Sites Collection: A Conversation With Gina Murrell, Grace Lemon, Gina Murrell

Gleeson Library Faculty and Staff Research and Scholarship

An interview with Gina Murrell about Gleeson Library's collaboration with the National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS) on the Japanese American Confinement Sites Collection.

View the collection here: https://digitalcollections.usfca.edu/digital/collection/p15129coll10

Better Together: Student-Led Collaborative Media Creation, Renee Romero, Doug Worsham, Annie Pho

Gleeson Library Faculty and Staff Research and Scholarship

It’s 2019. You work at a library and are interested in collaborating with campus partners to create interactive media. Maybe you have grand plans, maybe you aren’t sure where to start. Either way, this presentation will help you make those plans a reality. Join us to learn how a team of librarians without any formal experience in media production collaborate with a group of library student employees and campus partners to produce award-winning instruction, outreach, and reference media that is culturally responsive, student-centered, and relatable to the institution’s student body.This conference paper is based on the 2019 LOEX presentation, "Better …

Throw Out Your Books: Designing Libraries For Their New Roles, Shawn P. Calhoun, Karen A. Cribbins-Kulkin, Joey Favaloro

Gleeson Library Faculty and Staff Research and Scholarship

Designing libraries based on student experience rather than book storage provides the potential to cater to a wider variety of students and learning styles, transforming libraries from an afterthought for prospective students to an asset for recruitment. This session will use recent library projects to study the effect of major program shifts on student behavior and discourse. We will look at both larger capital improvement projects and “small wins” that can be readily executed.

Learning Outcomes

1. Pilot small library design projects on campus to see how students react and engage.
2. Create a dialogue with library administrators and admissions/recruitment professionals to …

Short On Staff And Time: An Openathens Implementation, Sherise Kimura, Anders Lyon

Gleeson Library Faculty and Staff Research and Scholarship

The University of San Francisco subscribed to OpenAthens (EBSCO) for authentication in March 2018 and launched in July. This presentation outlines major steps and tasks—managed using low-tech tools—from planning, configuring the OpenAthens connector, communicating with stakeholders, migrating resources, creating a user guide, and shares lessons learned.

Critical Librarianship In Health Sciences Libraries: An Introduction, Claire Sharifi, Jill Barr-Walker

Gleeson Library Faculty and Staff Research and Scholarship

The Medical Library Association recently announced its commitment to diversity and inclusion. While this is a positive start, critical librarianship takes the crucial concepts of diversity and inclusion one step further by advocating for social justice action and the dismantling of oppressive institutional structures, including white supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism. Critical librarianship takes many forms but, at its root, is focused on interrogating and disrupting inequitable systems, including changing racist cataloging rules, creating student-driven information literacy instruction, supporting inclusive and ethical publishing models, and rejecting the notion of libraries as neutral spaces. This article presents examples of the application of …