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Reaching First- Generation And Underrepresented Students Through Transparent Assignment Design, Ryne Leuzinger, Jacqui Grallo Dec 2019

Reaching First- Generation And Underrepresented Students Through Transparent Assignment Design, Ryne Leuzinger, Jacqui Grallo

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This chapter discusses the findings of a national survey conducted to gain insight into academic librarians’ assignment design practices for one- shot and semester courses, with a focus on the degree to which librarians are utilizing elements of transparent assignment design.


Communicating Capacity And Expectations Using A Call For Proposals, Karen Bjork Oct 2019

Communicating Capacity And Expectations Using A Call For Proposals, Karen Bjork

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Starting an open textbook publishing initiative? This presentation focuses on communicating capacity and expectations through the Call for Proposals (CFP).


Three Paths To Scholarly Articles, Kimberly Willson-St. Clair Oct 2019

Three Paths To Scholarly Articles, Kimberly Willson-St. Clair

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Participants will gain a better understanding of how to introduce students to scholarly, peer-reviewed articles. Participants will actively engage in searching in order to face some of the pitfalls and highlights of the research experience.


Own It!: Helping Student (And All) Employees Provide High Value Public Service, Ellie Dworak Oct 2019

Own It!: Helping Student (And All) Employees Provide High Value Public Service, Ellie Dworak

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

When Boise State University adopted a one-referral standard as part of a strategic planning initiative, Albertsons Library was determined to meet and exceed the bar. But with 40 to 50 student employees and 58 permanent staff working throughout the Library, was it really possible to follow through on every referral and meet every patron need? By adopting five simple best practices, encouraging creative solutions, and investing in a climate of shared success, our answer is YES! Come and learn how in this energizing and interactive session.


Moving Peer Review Transparency From Process To Praxis, Emily Ford Oct 2019

Moving Peer Review Transparency From Process To Praxis, Emily Ford

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Scholarly publications often work to provide transparency of peer-review processes, posting policy information to their websites as suggested by the Committee on Publication Ethics’ (COPE) Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Publishing. Yet this falls short in providing peer-review transparency. Using examples from an interview-based qualitative study, this article argues that scholarly publications should move from peer-review process transparency to a praxis of transparency in peer review. Praxis infers that values inform practices. Scholarly publications should therefore use clear communication practices in all matters of business, and bolster transparency efforts, delineating rights and responsibilities of all players in …


Hot Neoliberal Commodities Or Tools For Empowerment? A Badges Case Study And Conversation, Emily Ford, Jost Lottes, Betty Izumi, Dawn Richardson Oct 2019

Hot Neoliberal Commodities Or Tools For Empowerment? A Badges Case Study And Conversation, Emily Ford, Jost Lottes, Betty Izumi, Dawn Richardson

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

In Fall term of 2014, three instructors of Portland State University’s School of Community Health, in collaboration with the school’s subject librarian, deployed digital badges to certify information literacy and critical thinking outcomes in their classes. The badge curriculum, which was developed by mapping library learning outcomes to course learning outcomes, was designed to teach and assess students’ understanding of and skills acquisition in website evaluation, information formats, database searching, citing and plagiarism, and contributing knowledge to the information landscape. Badges were issued using Credly, and before and after the term, students were asked to provide feedback about their learning …


Techniques For Electronic Resource Management: Terms And The Transition To Open, Jill Emery, Graham Stone, Peter Mccracken Oct 2019

Techniques For Electronic Resource Management: Terms And The Transition To Open, Jill Emery, Graham Stone, Peter Mccracken

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Growing Open Access (OA) options, Big Deal price pressure, fluid e-book purchasing models, and the need for ongoing assessment: it all adds up to a lot of moving parts. More than ever, you need a pragmatic framework for managing the many details of your online materials. TERMS—Techniques for Electronic Resource Management Systems—gave you one. Now its creators, incorporating five years of notes and input from many voices in the field, have updated their influential lifecycle model. In six sections you will circle through selection, procurement and licensing, implementation, troubleshooting, evaluation, and preservation and sustainability. Offering targeted guidance on both basic …


Putting Everyday Data To Use, Ellie Dworak Aug 2019

Putting Everyday Data To Use, Ellie Dworak

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

We generally think of data as the results of (usually scientific) research, but the truth is that data surrounds us and permeates our lives. By collecting, analyzing, and visualizing this everyday data, we can see patterns that may otherwise elude us.

This workshop will begin with a creative exercise to capture and visualize a “data snapshot,” followed by a discussion of the discoveries prompted by this type of noticing. We’ll then talk about how data visualization can be used to explore and find patterns in more formal data, and do a brief exploratory project using library survey comments.


Students Perception Of Open Textbooks, Karen Bjork Jul 2019

Students Perception Of Open Textbooks, Karen Bjork

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Textbooks have long been an integral learning platform in higher education. As the rising cost of textbooks continues to burden students, many libraries have begun to facilitate the creation and publishing of open textbooks. In 2013, with the support of a Provost-backed initiative, Portland State University (PSU) Library developed an open textbook publishing program that works with faculty to create open textbooks that are designed specifically for the courses that they teach. The publishing initiative, called PDXOpen, has published 21 open textbooks. The program has saved over 2,890 PSU students over $272,000 on the cost of their books.

PSU Library …


Asserting Librarian Expertise And Value In Strategic Marketing Efforts, Memo Cordova, Elizabeth Ramsey Jul 2019

Asserting Librarian Expertise And Value In Strategic Marketing Efforts, Memo Cordova, Elizabeth Ramsey

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This case study of librarian-led marketing efforts at a mid-size academic library examines workarounds to obstacles that librarians frequently encounter when taking on marketing for their libraries. These obstacles often stem from a combination of misunderstanding and/or misplaced priorities at both the unit and administrative levels. Challenges in this case study include a number of factors: no marketing strategy at the administrative level, a lack of understanding from colleagues generally, little time to complete tasks or improve marketing skills, and no dedicated funding. To address these challenges the authors embarked on an internal marketing campaign engaged extensively on social media …


Navigating The Sustainable Stream: Academic Libraries Keeping Pace With Streaming Content Demand, Joshua Keyes, Elsa Loftis May 2019

Navigating The Sustainable Stream: Academic Libraries Keeping Pace With Streaming Content Demand, Joshua Keyes, Elsa Loftis

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

With increasing student and faculty expectations of on-demand streaming video content, how are academic libraries keeping pace with costs and licensing models? As the common access models for video add additional subscriptions to the mix or feature Patron-Driven Acquisition (PDA) options that escalate costs as usage increases, collections librarians must perform a precarious balancing act to ensure vital information resources are available at sustainable cost levels. We will share the recent experiences of The Claremont Colleges Library and Portland State University Library, and how our models have adapted to meet growing demands on our budgets and staff time. This is …


Students Perception Of Open Textbooks: Students Tell Us What They Think About Open Textbooks In Their Courses, Karen Bjork, Kristi Jensen May 2019

Students Perception Of Open Textbooks: Students Tell Us What They Think About Open Textbooks In Their Courses, Karen Bjork, Kristi Jensen

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Textbooks have long been an integral learning platform in higher education. As the rising cost of textbooks continues to burden students, many libraries have begun to facilitate the creation and publishing of open textbooks. While many colleges and universities have surveyed students about their textbook purchasing habits and interest in open textbooks, fewer surveys have captured student feedback on their actual hands on experiences with their resources. Portland State University (PSU) Library and the University of Minnesota (UofM) Libraries have both collected date from students about their experiences with open textbooks selected and created specifically for their courses.

In 2013, …


The Impression That I Get: Reference & Instruction Uses / Preceptions Of Primo In A Consortial Environment, Anne M. Pepitone, Barbara Valentine, Molly Gunderson, Holli Kubly May 2019

The Impression That I Get: Reference & Instruction Uses / Preceptions Of Primo In A Consortial Environment, Anne M. Pepitone, Barbara Valentine, Molly Gunderson, Holli Kubly

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

The Discovery and User Experience Team conducted an open-ended survey designed to gather information about how Primo works within the context of the daily work of patron-centered staff and librarians. We felt that this information and feedback was important because it provided the only avenue in which reference and instruction librarians could give direct input to the Alliance about how to improve our current discovery interface. The survey asked reference and instruction librarians about their specific experiences with Primo with the goal of identifying ways that the Discovery and User Experience Team could better support these users.


Be An Ally For Accessibility: Tips For All Librarians, Shawn Mccann, Rebeca Peacock May 2019

Be An Ally For Accessibility: Tips For All Librarians, Shawn Mccann, Rebeca Peacock

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Accessibility is a concern for librarians in digital as well as physical spaces, and we have a responsibility to uphold the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). However, regardless of legal requirements, librarians endeavour to make content available to everyone. People with disabilities are no exception. While some of the more complex accessibility issues should be left to instructional technologists and web developers, there are plenty of things that anyone posting content online can do to increase content accessibility. Here are five tips that we have found useful for creating guides, posting handouts in our Learning Management System (LMS), building online …


Primo [Library Catalog]: Towards A Socially Just Search System, Kimberly Willson-St. Clair, Molly Gunderson May 2019

Primo [Library Catalog]: Towards A Socially Just Search System, Kimberly Willson-St. Clair, Molly Gunderson

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

At the Portland State University (PSU) Library, we value diversity, equity, and inclusion and have demonstrated this commitment by design with the new, responsive Primo. Designing the new Primo for ease of use for discovery and delivery for 30,000 students was the tantamount motivation for our new Primo launch, fall term 2016. In this session, we will cover why the PSU Library uses the open search field rather than scope selection on the homepage; what is an equitable approach to faceted navigation; and why a “less is more” design approach addresses accessibility and the affective for first generation college students, …


“All Stories True!”: The Nonfiction Western Magazine Collection At Boise State University, Alessandro Meregaglia, Gwyn Hervochon Apr 2019

“All Stories True!”: The Nonfiction Western Magazine Collection At Boise State University, Alessandro Meregaglia, Gwyn Hervochon

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This article describes the genre of specialized magazines known as “nonfiction western magazines.” These magazines focused on telling stories about the “Old West”—the nineteenth-century western United States. Joe Small founded the genre’s first magazine, True West, in 1953. Over the next thirty years, the magazine’s popularity increased and dozens of imitators were published. This article discusses the rise and decline of these magazines and also explores the magazines’ usefulness both as a source of western American history and as cultural artifacts themselves to study how the “Old West” was perceived during the period in which they were published.


Opening Up Open Access Institutional Repositories To Demonstrate Value: Two Universities’ Pilots On Including Metadata-Only Records, Karen Bjork, Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Ryan Otto Mar 2019

Opening Up Open Access Institutional Repositories To Demonstrate Value: Two Universities’ Pilots On Including Metadata-Only Records, Karen Bjork, Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Ryan Otto

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Introduction: Institutional repository managers are continuously looking for new ways to demonstrate the value of their repositories. One way to do this is to create a more inclusive repository that provides reliable information about the research output produced by faculty affiliated with the institution.

Description of Program: This article details two pilot projects that evaluated how their repositories could track faculty research output through the inclusion of metadata-only (no full-text) records. The purpose of each pilot project was to determine the feasibility and provide an assessment of the long-term impact on the repository’s mission statement, staffing, and collection development policies. …


Unlock The Value Of Open Content, Jill Emery, Swetta Abeyta, Danielle Bromelia Mar 2019

Unlock The Value Of Open Content, Jill Emery, Swetta Abeyta, Danielle Bromelia

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

The proliferation of open access content presents opportunities and challenges for libraries, publishers, and library service providers. This program provides a timely overview of the state of open access delivery, with examples of current solutions from the perspectives of librarians and library service providers.


Oer Authoring And Publishing, Karen Bjork, Amy Stanforth Mar 2019

Oer Authoring And Publishing, Karen Bjork, Amy Stanforth

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Explore the evolving landscape of open textbook publishing, share your own experiences creating or using open educational resources (not limited to textbooks), and learn what support is available from PSU Library to create Open Educational Resources (OER) to increase affordability and accessibility for students.


How Open Are You? Discussion About Oa Resources In Collection Development, Jill Emery, Peter Mccracken Jan 2019

How Open Are You? Discussion About Oa Resources In Collection Development, Jill Emery, Peter Mccracken

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Presentation provided at the The ALCTS Collection Management and Electronic Resources Interest Group (CMERIG) in Seattle, WA on 27 January 2019. The discussion will involve incorporating open scholarship into current collections management.


Pdxscholar Annual Report 2018, Karen Bjork, Sherry Buchanan, David Coate, Bertrand Robinson, Stacey Schlatter Jan 2019

Pdxscholar Annual Report 2018, Karen Bjork, Sherry Buchanan, David Coate, Bertrand Robinson, Stacey Schlatter

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This report details the eighth year of operation for PDXScholar, Portland State University's institutional repository, as well as the growth of Portland State University Library's publishing services. The report covers the period between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2018.


The More Things Change: The Collaborative Art Library, Elsa Loftis Jan 2019

The More Things Change: The Collaborative Art Library, Elsa Loftis

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

The academic library’s art collection has a history of fluidity and flux. Teaching and learning materials that support visual art education can range from traditional formats like image collections and monographs to the curious, the rare, and sometimes the downright unusual. Art library professionals must plan for the future of the academic library collection with intention and sensitivity to the learning styles of their students while adhering to the environmental realities of their governing institutions. One constant is clear, which is that art students are not content to be mere consumers of information and images; they are creators. It is …


Holistic Onboarding Of A Generation Y Team Member, Rebeca Peacock, Margie Ruppel Jan 2019

Holistic Onboarding Of A Generation Y Team Member, Rebeca Peacock, Margie Ruppel

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Onboarding a new faculty librarian should be done holistically, including integrating them into the organization and the team, and incorporating their individual strengths. Approaching onboarding holistically can improve team functionality in terms of communication, workflow, and strategic planning. This chapter focuses on one example: face-to-face onboarding of a new Generation Y instructional design librarian who joined the library at a medium metropolitan research university. Onboarding methods presented include formal campus orientations, weekly check-in meetings, a team building exercise, background information about the library and Instruction Team projects, and additional socialization strategies. A review of the relevant literature is included.


An Ongoing Treasure Hunt: One Library’S Practical Experiences Documenting Post-Cancellation Perpetual Access, Nancy S. Donahoo, Arthur Aguilera Jan 2019

An Ongoing Treasure Hunt: One Library’S Practical Experiences Documenting Post-Cancellation Perpetual Access, Nancy S. Donahoo, Arthur Aguilera

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Albertsons Library embarked on a practical effort this past year to document post-cancellation perpetual access for those electronic journal titles that had been or were part of large package purchases. Documenting entitled content was challenging and hampered by limits to accounting records maintained at the library and university; a change in the library’s integrated library system (ILS); limited or incomplete access to third-party subscription agent order and payment records; and changes or the demise of consortia. Decisions were made to work with the known more recent electronic journal content purchased, and to work backwards from there. Procedures for creating standardized …


Pogil Beyond Stem, Sue Joyner Guillaud, Margie Ruppel Jan 2019

Pogil Beyond Stem, Sue Joyner Guillaud, Margie Ruppel

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This chapter focuses on POGIL's extension and application in non-science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, building on the foundations of POGIL previously discussed in this book. The theory, process, guided inquiry, and evidence of student success are applicable to non-STEM disciplines; however, each discipline may require a few adjustments in content and delivery. Many non-STEM disciplines rely heavily on process skills, which are paramount to the POGIL process. Details on applications to the fields of second language (L2) learning and information literacy serve as case studies, with evidence of learning enhancement and similar foundational learning theories.


Heard On The Net: “Academic” And “Freedom” Are Two Words For Nothing Left To Lose, Jill Emery, Amy Buckland, Ashley Farley Jan 2019

Heard On The Net: “Academic” And “Freedom” Are Two Words For Nothing Left To Lose, Jill Emery, Amy Buckland, Ashley Farley

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Opinion piece on the use of Academic Freedom as an argument against open access publishing.