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What Is In Those Compact Shelves? Auditing And Quantifying A Government Documents Collection, Jen P. Kirk

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

• Background & Purpose
• Methodology
• Planning & Resources
• Survey Instrument & Implementation
• Limitations
• Outcomes & Lessons Learned

Can You Scan This For Me?: Making The Most Of Patron Digitization Requests In The Archives, Jennifer Duncan, Andrea Payant, Darcy Pumphrey

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

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Investigating Open Education And Promotion & Tenure In The United States, Becky L. Thoms, Dylan Burns, Joshua J. Thoms

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

There are many avenues for researchers and practitioners working in higher education to become involved in the open education movement via their research (e.g., publishing in or editing open access (OA) journals), teaching (e.g., creating, adopting, or adapting open educational resources (OER) and/or engaging in open pedagogy and open educational practices), or service activities (e.g., serving on university, college, or departmental open education committees). However, the value assigned to these efforts by administrators in colleges and universities throughout the United States (US) is not always clear (Jhangiani, 2017). This points to a possible disconnect between faculty members' work in open …

Where The Sagebrush Grows: Capturing University History In Institutional Repositories, Dylan Burns

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

In the Spring of 2017, Utah State University's library went through a reorganization that placed its digital initiatives department under an umbrella with special collections and archives. Through this change librarians within Digital Initiatives saw new connections between their work and the work of archivists. The institutional repository (IR), once an island in the library, is becoming a showcase not just for research created on campus but for university history through collaboration with university archives. Propelled by this organizational realignment, librarians began large scale digitization projects to provide access to University commencement programs, alumni and departmental magazines, yearbooks, and student …

Building Collaborations For Student Research Through Open Access, Dylan Burns, Becky Thoms

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

Utah State University's decade’s long tradition of undergraduate and graduate student research is a point of pride, and it’s a source of recognition of institutional and student success as well as a recruitment tool. Yet, because of the ephemeral nature of student populations, it is difficult to build relationships that encourage participation. This presentation will explore collaborations between the library and the Research and Graduate Studies office at Utah State University as an opportunity to sustain the IR through the promotion and preservation of student research. Important is the library's role in ongoing research events on campus, such as Research …

Retooling Your Story: Using Visualizations To Demonstrate Impact, Andrea Payant, Becky Skeen, Liz Woolcott

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

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Virtual Reference Power Boost: Conducting A Chat Transcript Analysis At Utah State University, Teagan Eastman, Mckenzie Hyde, Katie Strand, Mckenzie Hyde

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

Chat reference at USU Libraries has decreased since introducing the service. In order to understand this trend, we analyzed a year’s worth of chat transcripts from August 2016 to August 2017. In addition to examining the types and timing of patron questions, we coded qualities of the chat interactions themselves. We will share how the results of our analysis might inform future changes to the chat reference service and staff training in an effort to “level up” the library’s virtual reference.

Assessment And Visualization Tools For Technical Services, Andrea Payant, Becky Skeen, Liz Woolcott

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

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The Charles Potts Collection: Cataloging A Cultural Movement, Becky Skeen, Kurt Meyer

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

Counter-culture poet, activist, entrepreneur, and publisher, Charles Potts donated his personal poetry library and papers to Utah State University’s Special Collections and Archives in 2011 During his time at Berkeley, Potts' describes himself as a ‘revolutionary hippie’ in the counter-culture poetry scene. Overall, this great American poet has spent nearly 50 years as an author of numerous books containing compilations of his postmodern poetry as well as full length novels and even a screenplay.

Creating A Government Information Network In Utah – Updates From The Regional Coordinator, Jen P. Kirk

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

• Introduction & unpack terminology
• Details about the Regional Collection and access points
• Details education and outreach
• Online resources and an activity
• "Government Information Network"
• Let's work together!

Uncovering The Soil Surveys, Sandra Weingart, Jen P. Kirk

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

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Unlocking Student Engagement: Success And Failure In Redesigning A First-Year Library Orientation, Pamela N. Martin, Katie Strand, Teagan Eastman

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

Are you struggling to find the balance between an informative and entertaining library orientation program? This interactive presentation will explore how librarians overcame numerous challenges to develop an engaging, scalable first-year library orientation session. During the orientation, students use the library’s virtual and physical spaces to solve clues and reveal a four-digit lockbox combination. Presenters will share strategies for adopting a similar session and lead attendees in a simulation of the lockbox activity.

Pizza With A Side Of Outreach: Re-Invigorating Library Outreach At Distance Campuses, Teagan Eastman, Erin Davis

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

In Fall 2016, we began hosting library open houses at our Regional Campuses (RC). In collaboration with our RC administrators and student government, these events serve as an ice-breaker for interactions between librarians and students. They raise awareness of library resources and services and ease anxiety about reaching out to the library for assistance, while providing food as an incentive to meet with us.

Bohemian Rhapository: Developing A Music Program Archive In The Ir, Rachel Wishkoski, Dylan Burns

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

The Caine College of the Arts (CCA) Music Program Archives preserves artifacts of student, faculty, and guest artist musical contributions to scholarly and creative activity at Utah State University. This collection recognizes the value of campus musical history and community through collaboration between the Music Department, its liaison librarian, and the digital scholarship librarian.

Founded in 2008, DigitalCommons@USU is the University's institutional repository (IR). It is currently the 3rd largest Digital Commons instance in the nation, containing over 63,000 items.

CCA and the Music Department are extremely underrepresented in the IR. This project - started March 2017 - is …

Building Expertise From Within: One Department's Look At New Ways To Cultivate Cataloging Knowledge For Their Staff, Becky Skeen, Liz Woolcott

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

USU Cataloging and Metadata Services Unit looked at new ways to cultivate cataloging knowledge for their staff.

The (Workflow) Map Is Not The Territory, Robert Heaton, Liz Woolcott

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

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Where Is Government Information? The Complex Relationship Between Libraries & Federal Repositories, Dylan Burns, Jennifer Kirk

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

Through data analysis and a survey, this research identifies the location of government documents departments/units in academic libraries – including their institutional orientation, current practices, & future plans.

This preliminary data analysis presents trends amongst the community of academic library participants in the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), of which they comprise 55% of the total. We identify common practices and priorities that might foster collaboration.