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Adding Linked Open Data To A Digital Humanities Collection In Alma, Sai Deng, Lee Dotson

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Working with Digital Initiatives, digital humanities and history faculty members, the Metadata Librarian at the University of Central Florida Libraries has added Linked Open Data (LOD) to Ex Libris’ Alma for the PRINT Migration Network: Pemberton Correspondence Collection. Wikidata entries on people and places in this collection are created and their Uris are linked to the cataloging records. Meanwhile, Library of Congress (LC) linked open data vocabularies, such as LC Subject Headings, LC Name entities, FAST headings and genre headings are also added to the records. GeoNames are incorporated into the University Libraries’ Institutional Repository records and are under consideration …

Forging Relationships & Building Digital Collections: Outreach Strategies To Promote And Populate The Institutional Repository, Tim Bottorff, Kerri Bottorff, Lee Dotson

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

“If you build it, they will come,” asserts the omniscient narrator in the movie Field of Dreams. This magical sentiment rings true in a baseball setting, where zealous fandoms believe ardently in their teams and heroes. In the field of institutional repositories, however… well, it takes a little more time and effort! Specifically, you have to build it, promote it, populate it, and consistently demonstrate the value of it to students and faculty!

This poster describes how a subject librarian partnered with institutional repository managers to build and grow the digital scholarly presence of a college within the university’s …

Supporting Equity, Diversity And Inclusion In The Library, Sai Deng

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This session discusses Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in the library context. EDI are fundamental values of the library profession and community. The session addresses EDI cases and resources covering various library activities, including library retention, strategies and statements, access services, collection development and metadata creation. It especially focuses on metadata and resource description, as well as introduce the Inclusive Metadata & Conscious Editing Resources List of the Sunshine State Digital Network (SSDN). The purpose is to generate more awareness, interest, and discussion in the library, and create a more inclusive and diversified environment for the library and its served …

Copyright In A Post-Covid World: How Remote Teaching Has Informed Copyright And Licensing Support, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Lightning Talk presented at the Kraemer Copyright Conference 2021.

The COVID-19 pandemic rapidly changed the teaching environment and has provided both challenges and opportunities for copyright and licensing support. This lightning talk will reflect on the public health crisis’ impact on online teaching, explore copyright and licensing challenges faced by educators, share examples from the University of Central Florida, and provide best practices and tips for outreach and support for those who facilitate copyright information at their institution. It will also reflect on how the pandemic has provided increased interest in open access materials, including openly licensed works and open …

Adapting To Faculty & Student Needs For Data And Support For Social Justice And Other Projects, Sarah A. Norris, Corinne Bishop, Sandy Avila, Buenaventura (Ven) Basco, Lee Dotson

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Presentation given at RDAP Summit 2021.

During 2020, the need for access and equity has been more important than ever, particularly with data. At the University of Central Florida (UCF), a group of librarians representing various library units, including Research & Information Services, Scholarly Communication, and Technology Solutions & Digital Initiatives has been engaged in data services and outreach forming a working group in 2019. This group undertook several projects in 2020 related to open access data and social justice resources. One such project included creating an interdisciplinary research guide to identify data resources around topics, such as diversity and …

Spark A Conversation On Metadata Inclusiveness, Sai Deng

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This session introduces the context for metadata inclusiveness and presents some of the efforts the speaker has been involved with, including helped create the Inclusive Metadata & Conscious Editing Resources List as a member of the Sunshine State Digital Network (SSDN) Metadata Working Group, and organized “Embracing Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in Library Cataloging” for the ALA Core Interest Group Week in Spring 2021. It focuses on describing cases, examples and other resources from the SSDN Resources List, so as to give librarians and staff members in Technical Services at the University Central Florida Libraries a better understanding and …

Liaison And Scholarly Communication Librarians Collaborating To Support Faculty And Students, Sarah A. Norris, Sandy Avila, Buenaventura (Ven) Basco

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Chapter 18 of the ACRL publication titled, Approaches to Liaison Librarianship: Innovations in Organization and Engagements edited by Robin Canuel and Chad Crichton.

Humanities In The Open: The Challenges Of Creating An Open Literature Anthology, Christian Beck, Lily Dubach, Sarah A. Norris, John Venecek

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This book chapter was a part of the publication, "Open Pedagogy Approaches: Faculty, Library, and Student Collaborations." It highlights a case study from the University of Central Florida of creating an open literature anthology.

Data Documentation, Analysis & Statistical Software, Sai Deng, Xiang Zhu

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Workshop on data documentation, analysis & statistical software delivered online to the University of Central Florida (UCF)’s graduate students. This workshop is conducted by a Statistician at the College of Medicine and the Metadata Librarian at UCF. It includes five modules which focus on data basics, data documentation, dataset metadata, data analysis and statistical software. The data basics section introduces data, research data and dataset, the need for documenting and preserving research data. The data documentation and dataset metadata sections touch on researchers’ data practices and offer some general recommendations for a researcher’s research lifecycle. They also discuss documenting data …

Growth And New Directions: Cala Academic Resources And Repository System, Sai Deng, Weiling Liu, Suzhen Chen, Mingyan Li, Meng Qu

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The Chinese American Librarians Association’s Academic Resources & Repository System (CALASYS) was established in 2013 and has been growing gradually ever since. To seek sustainable and greater growth in the future, the CALASYS 2019-2020 Committee reviewed previous efforts and explored new potentials in the repository’s content development, interface and functionality improvement and community engagement. This presentation will cover several issues that the Committee has addressed since its forming: developing new content for CALASYS such as a new top-level collection called ”Chinese Culture Heritage & Chinese Studies” and its children collections including the CALA Best Book Award Collection; starting or resuming …

Library Support For Course Materials, Sara Duff, Rich Gause, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Whether you’re teaching online or face-to-face, UCF Libraries provide access to a variety of materials that can support your courses — from journal articles, streaming videos, e-books, and more. But, these materials have a wide variety of access models that are not always evident. In this session, UCF Librarians Sara Duff, Rich Gause, and Sarah Norris will share how to navigate the plethora of resources available to support teaching and learning with a particular emphasis on resources that can be used during remote teaching during emergency circumstances. How to access these materials and ensure they’re accessible by students, as well …

Copyright, Fair Use & Online Teaching During Emergency Circumstances, Sarah A. Norris, Rich Gause

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The session will provide a bit of information on fair use (exploring the four fair use factors in depth) and other components that will be helpful for faulty as they consider the materials they need when teaching online, especially during the public health crisis related to COVID-19.

Copyright & Fair Use In The Time Of Covid-19, Sarah A. Norris, Rich Gause

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This session provides information to library staff and instructional designers about assisting faculty with navigating copyright and fair use during emergency situations, such as the public health crisis related to COVID-19.

Seek And Find: Tips On Exploring Stem Journal Evaluation & Metrics, Sandy Avila, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Presentation & Discussion on journal evaluation and metrics for the UCF Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning Cohort: Writing Your STEM Journal Article in 12 Weeks.

Data Documentation, Databases & Statistical Software, Sai Deng, Xiang Zhu

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Workshop on data documentation, databases & statistical software delivered at the University of Central Florida’s Graduate Student Center. “Join a Statistician and a Metadata Librarian for an introduction to data documentation, databases and statistical software. Learn about research data, datasets and data documentation for data sharing, re-use and long-term preservation. This session introduces best practices and recommendations for documenting and analyzing research data. Moreover, it includes real-world examples and a discussion of data tools for data documentation and analysis, such as NVivo for qualitative data and SPSS/SAS/STATA/R for quantitative data.”

Know Your Rights: A Copyright Discussion For Faculty, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Join the College of Graduate Studies and UCF Libraries for a faculty discussion about copyright. Learn how to better protect your works as an author, determine copyright status, advise students on copyright issues, and increase the impact of your work by utilizing institutional repositories and/or online faculty profiles.

Finding And Evaluating Journals, Terri Gotschall, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Presentation for the UCF Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning (FCTL) Teaching and Learning Days in Spring 2020.

How do you decide which journals are the best fit for your research? This workshop will discuss a variety of topics to help you navigate the publishing process including publishing goals and criteria to consider when planning where to submit your work for publication. It will explore how to evaluate a journal to ensure that the journal you are considering is one of quality and rigor within your discipline. We will also discuss open access publishing and how to avoid predatory publishers.

Falling Down The Rabbit Hole: Exploring The Unique Partnership Between Subject Librarians And Scholarly Communication, Buenaventura (Ven) Basco, Sandy Avila, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Conference Presentation presented at Charleston Conference 2019 in Charleston, South Carolina.

Subject librarians are uniquely poised to facilitate conversations and assistance about scholarly communication topics to faculty and students -- helping make the connections between scholarly communication and discipline-specific research. The University of Central Florida (UCF) Libraries offers a unique intersection between scholarly communication and subject librarians by implementing a robust subject librarian model that includes activities related to scholarly communication and partnering with UCF’s Office of Scholarly Communication to provide support on a variety of topics to the campus community. In particular, this model has been particularly effective with …

Copyright For Educators: Using Copyrighted Content In The Classroom, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Presentation for KnightEd Talk series on October 8, 2019.

Session Description:

Can you show a movie in class? Can you distribute copies of an article to your students? These are just a few questions that educators face when using copyrighted materials in the classroom. In this presentation, we will discuss copyright basics and explore copyright issues in both the physical and online classroom. The session will include real-world examples and provide attendees with resources they can use to help navigate copyright when teaching.

Why Every Librarian Should Know About Copyright: Creating Copyright Training Opportunities For Librarians At Your Institution, Sarah A. Norris, Barbara G. Tierney, Lily Dubach

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This book chapter addresses the importance of copyright training and education and aims to provide case studies and scenarios that demonstrate effective opportunities for engaging librarians in various library departments in issues of copyright. In particular, the chapter will explore the University of Central Florida’s (UCF) unique intersection between subject librarians and scholarly communication, as well as the Office of Scholarly Communication’s efforts to provide internal copyright training to librarians across the institution.

Creating Mail Art & Other Transformative Works: Understanding Copyright & Author Rights, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

A brief presentation on copyright and author rights considerations when creating mail art and other transformative works that was given during a Mail Art event held at UCF Libraries.

Developing, Delivering And Redesigning Metadata And Data Documentation Workshop For Graduate Students, Sai Deng

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This presentation in Pecha Kucha format is part of the 2019 Library Faculty Showcase at the University of Central Florida. It presents the development, delivery and redesign of a metadata and data documentation workshop for university graduate students and researchers. The original workshop was in lecture style, and it covered large amount of information such as the status of data documentation and management as revealed by a campus survey, research data documentation basics, general and domain metadata standards, and data documentation practices in different disciplines. The redesign looks at students' experiences in previous workshops and also what the Metadata Librarian …

Supporting Access And Community-Building: The Cala Social Media Tag Library, Sai Deng, Esther Deleon, Jeannie Chen

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) Social Media Group initially created the CALA Social Media Tag Library in Fall 2017 to facilitate better navigation and search for social media channels, particularly the CALA Facebook public page and promote the organization’s programs and activities. The Social Media Group introduced the creation of the Tag Library to the CALA community in Summer 2018, but the tags were limited to member-only, internal use. In Spring 2019, the restructured CALA Social Media Committee reviewed, enriched, and standardized the Tag Library, and decided to make it publicly available for anyone interested in posting to CALA’s …

Open Educational Resources At The University Of Central Florida, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This presentation was a part of a panel at the FLVC OER Summit 2019 titled, "Integrating library funded resources into your courses" which included a panelists of Florida librarians.

The presentation highlights an open educational resource created at the University of Central Florida for an English Literature I course.

Returning From Wonderland, Sarah A. Norris, Christina Wray

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Workshop presented as a part of the Alice’s Adventures in Scholarly Conversations week-long event hosted by UCF Libraries.

Workshop summary:

When is a tweet as important as a journal article? Does it matter which journal an article is published in? Are books always better? Join us as we explore how the context in which a scholarly conversation happens can provide important clues about who can be trusted and when you are being hoodwinked. The final clue to Alice’s location will be revealed!

Predatory & Deceptive Publishing Pitfalls And Practical Tips: Helping Faculty & Students To Identify & Avoid Questionable Publishing Practices, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

In today’s academic publishing environment, open access journals have become an increasingly common venue for faculty and students, to publish scholarly research. However, this publishing model often prompts many issues and concerns -- one of which is predatory (or, deceptive) publishing practices. These publishers rely on a variety of strategies and deceptive tactics to give the illusion that they are credible and high quality. With this in mind, it is often difficult for faculty and students to distinguish between a credible open access journal and a predatory one. This presentation will provide practical tips on how to facilitate information about …

Bibliometrics And Research Evaluation: Uses And Abuses, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Measuring the impact of research and publications (bibliometrics) has become increasingly common for libraries, academic institutions, and scholars. Libraries use bibliometric measures, such as citation analysis, when considering which journals to acquire and retain. Faculty use them to demonstrate the value of their research in the tenure process. Academic institutions are beginning to use them to demonstrate institutional ranking and prestige (Pagell, 2014; Chen & Liao, 2012). In today’s data driven environment, bibliometrics play a critical role. As with any type of metric, bibliometrics are not without their challenges and issues. Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation: Uses and Abuses aims to …

Prospects For Connecting Community And Engaging Students For An Academic Resource And Repository System, Sai Deng

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

CALASYS is the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA)’s academic resource and repository system. The purpose of the system is to collect, organize, and store scholarly publications, library and information science related resources created or contributed by CALA members and others in the library field. The CALASYS Committee will share the experiences of collecting data, creating metadata, and improving access to the data. As an all-volunteer committee, the group works with the CALA community which consists of members from different types of libraries and information professions. The committee also reaches out to other groups such as the LIS students to contribute …

Hijacked Journals And Conferences: Predatory Practices In Academia, Sarah A. Norris, Andrew Todd

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Presentation given to UCF College of Nursing Faculty on November 6, 2018 by Sarah Norris, Scholarly Communication Librarian. The presentation discusses predatory practices in open access journals and conferences. This presentation was created in collaboration with Andrew Todd, Nursing Librarian.

Get In The Game: Tips And Strategies For Navigating Open Access Publishing, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This presentation was given during Open Access Week 2018.

Open Access journals are becoming increasingly popular venues for publishing scholarly research. Yet, there are many challenges and misconceptions often associated with this publishing model. Scholarly Communication Librarian, Sarah Norris, discusses publishing in Open Access journals. This session examines publishing basics and explore challenging topics like journal quality, predatory publishing, and funding.