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Scholarworks Usage Report, 11-2015, Scholarworks Dec 2015

Scholarworks Usage Report, 10-2015, Scholarworks Nov 2015

Book Club: Orange Is The New Black, Central Washington University, Maureen Rust Nov 2015

Book Club: Orange Is The New Black, Central Washington University, Maureen Rust

Brooks Library Events

Discussion of the book, Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman. Part of Library Book Club.


Arc To Success: A Campus-Wide Collaboration Between Learning Support Services, Career Services, Information Services, And Research Services, Molly Allen Nov 2015

Arc To Success: A Campus-Wide Collaboration Between Learning Support Services, Career Services, Information Services, And Research Services, Molly Allen

Library Scholarship

This article details the establishment of the Academic and Research Commons (ARC), a collaborative project between Learning Support Services, Career Services, Information Services, and Research Services at the Central Washington University Library.


Library Dorm Pop-Up, Central Washington University Oct 2015

Library Dorm Pop-Up, Central Washington University

Brooks Library Events

Poster advertising research help for students where the librarians come to the dorms.


Scholarworks Usage Report, 09-2015, Scholarworks Oct 2015

What's Happening At Brooks Library: Fall 2015, Central Washington University Oct 2015

What's Happening At Brooks Library: Fall 2015, Central Washington University

Brooks Library Events

List of library events from the Fall quarter 2015.


Fall 2015 Notes From The Stacks, Central Washington University Oct 2015

Fall 2015 Notes From The Stacks, Central Washington University

Notes from the Stacks: CWU's Library Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Notes From The Stacks, October, 2015, Friends Of The Brooks Library Oct 2015

Notes From The Stacks, October, 2015, Friends Of The Brooks Library

Friends of the Brooks Library

No abstract provided.


Game Night At The Brooks Library September 2015, Central Washington University Sep 2015

Game Night At The Brooks Library September 2015, Central Washington University

Brooks Library Events

Game night in the James E. Brooks Library with refreshments.


Welcome Back Freezie Pops Fall 2015, Central Washington University Sep 2015

Welcome Back Freezie Pops Fall 2015, Central Washington University

Brooks Library Events

Advertisement for a table in the lobby of the James E. Brooks Library for Welcome Week Fall 2015, offering free freeze Pops and library information.


Banned Books Week 2015, Central Washington University Sep 2015

Banned Books Week 2015, Central Washington University

Brooks Library Events

The James E. Brooks Library sponsored 3 events for Banned Book Week, 2015. The first was a banned books table at the farmers market, the second was a Cards Against Humanity Game Night and the third was a Banned Books Read out in the SURC.


Scholarworks Usage Report, 08-2015, Scholarworks Sep 2015

Migration To Alma/Primo: A Case Study Of Central Washington University, Ping Fu, Julie Carmen Aug 2015

Migration To Alma/Primo: A Case Study Of Central Washington University, Ping Fu, Julie Carmen

Library Scholarship

This paper describes how Central Washington University Libraries (CWUL) interacted and collaborated with the Orbis Cascade Alliance (OCA) Shared Integrated Library System’s (SILS) Implementation Team and Ex Libris to process systems and data migration from Innovative Interfaces Inc.’s Millennium integrated library system to Alma/Primo, Ex Libris’ next-generation library management solution and discovery and delivery solution. A chronological review method was used for this case study to provide an overall picture of key migration events, tasks, and implementation efforts, including pre-migration cleanup, migration forms, integration with external systems, testing, cutover, post-migration cleanup, and reporting and fixing outstanding issues. A three-phase migration …


Scholarworks Usage Report, 06-2015, Scholarworks Aug 2015

Scholarworks Usage Report, 06-2015, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains statistics about downloads and hits on Central Washington University's ScholarWorks site for June 2015.


Scholarworks Usage Report, 07-2015, Scholarworks Aug 2015

Scat Table And Call Numbers Not In Scat, Ping Fu Jul 2015

Scat Table And Call Numbers Not In Scat, Ping Fu

Library Scholarship

This presentation provides an example to help analyze SCAT table in Millennium system.


From Millennium To Alma/Primo: Pre-Migration Preparation,Testing And Cutover, Ping Fu Jul 2015

From Millennium To Alma/Primo: Pre-Migration Preparation,Testing And Cutover, Ping Fu

Library Scholarship

This presentation describes how we prepared pre-migration clean up, how we organized and conducted testing, and how we prepared for cutover. This presentation will also share how we worked collaboratively with the vendors, the Orbis Cascade Alliance Implementation Team, and the university IT. The key elements to make the migration successful such as project management, team work, proactive participation, and communication will be addressed.


Harvesting A Local Digital Repository: Experiences And Lessons Learned, Ping Fu Jul 2015

Harvesting A Local Digital Repository: Experiences And Lessons Learned, Ping Fu

Library Scholarship

This presentation is particularly for new Primo users or those institutions who would like to move to Primo. This presentation will elaborate what configuration and steps should be set up in Primo Back Office in order to harvest local digital repositories such as bepress Digital commons, and talk about what lessons and experiences we have learned through the process. As a member of the Orbis Cascade Alliance, CWU moved to Alma/Primo from III’s Millennium on Dec 18, 2014. After a short-term Primo certificate training, we are able to successfuly harvest our local digital repository ScholarWorks to Primo so that our …


Alma Integrates With External Systems: Experiences And Lessons Learned At Cwu, Ping Fu Jun 2015

Alma Integrates With External Systems: Experiences And Lessons Learned At Cwu, Ping Fu

Library Scholarship

This presentation describes how we set up an SFTP server and enable patron load from the student information system, bursar out, invoices export to and payments import from the financial system. Experiences and lessons including communication with the vendor, peer institutions, university IT and other campus units will be covered.


Migrating To Alma: The Changing Role Of The Systems Librarian, Ping Fu Jun 2015

Migrating To Alma: The Changing Role Of The Systems Librarian, Ping Fu

Library Scholarship

This presentation will discuss how the roles of systems librarians are expected to change in migrating to Alma from other ILS systems such as Voyager or Aleph. Since Alma is deployed via cloud computing, Ex Libris will centrally implement applications, upgrades, enhancements, etc. Consequently, the roles and responsibilities of systems librarians will be changing, and systems librarians should re-engineer themselves accordingly so that they will be able to support more critical issues in the library.


Scholarworks Usage Report, 05-2015, Scholarworks Jun 2015

Scholarworks Usage Report, 05-2015, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page views statistics for ScholarWorks, May 2015.


Notes From The Stacks, May 2015, Friends Of The Brooks Library May 2015

Notes From The Stacks, May 2015, Friends Of The Brooks Library

Friends of the Brooks Library

No abstract provided.


Scholarworks Usage Report, 04-2015, Scholarworks Apr 2015

Scholarworks Usage Report, 04-2015, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, April 2015.


Scholarworks Usage Report, 03-2015, Scholarworks Apr 2015

Scholarworks Usage Report, 03-2015, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, March 2015.


Bilingual Poetry Series 2015, Central Washington University, Gerard Hogan Apr 2015

Bilingual Poetry Series 2015, Central Washington University, Gerard Hogan

Brooks Library Events

Poster advertising multiple bilingual poetry reading events held at the Brooks library in English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and French.


Scholarworks Usage Report, 02-2015, Scholarworks Apr 2015

Scholarworks Usage Report, 02-2015, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, February 2015.


Reflecting The Diversity Of Hispanic Cultures In Children's And Young Adult Collections, Ginny Norris Blackson Apr 2015

Reflecting The Diversity Of Hispanic Cultures In Children's And Young Adult Collections, Ginny Norris Blackson

Library Scholarship

This article discusses the importance of building culturally responsive Hispanic literature collections for children and young adults.


Streaming The Archives: Repurposing Systems To Jumpstart A Media Digitization Program, Talea Anderson Mar 2015

Streaming The Archives: Repurposing Systems To Jumpstart A Media Digitization Program, Talea Anderson

Library Scholarship

Presenting lessons learned by the archives at Central Washington University during the first year of its new media digitization program. This poster, presented in 2015 at ACRL's national conference, demonstrates how the archives jumpstarted its program by using available systems--an institutional repository and cloud-based streaming service--to disseminate digitized media. The poster presents advantages and disadvantages uncovered while using these repurposed systems, including consequences for metadata, workflow, interoperability, and discoverability.


Scholarworks Usage Report, 01-2015, Scholarworks Feb 2015

Scholarworks Usage Report, 01-2015, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, January 2015.