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Open Textbook Publishing: Accelerating Scholarly Research And The Impact On Students, Karen Bjork

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

This presentation discusses the rising cost of textbooks in higher education, provides background on how Portland State University Library got started in open textbook publishing, discusses where we are with our program, provides detail on the services offered, and looks at the impact of open access textbooks on faculty and students.

Marketing For The Beginner: Resources From The Acrl Library Marketing And Outreach Interest Group, Lindsay Davis, Jen Park, Sabine Dantus, Chris Davidson, Bonnie Cohen Lafazan, Joan Petit

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Are you new to outreach work? Were you tasked with planning events highlighting your services, collections, or spaces and don’t know where to start? Do you need to create promotional materials but have no background in design? Is there little to no budget? The administrators of ACRL’s Library Marketing and Outreach Interest Group have put together a beginner’s guide that includes groups to join, blogs and websites to read, free and low-cost graphic design tools, collections of free images and icons, and other online resources that spark inspiration when you have hit the proverbial creativity wall.

Research Models, Primo, & The First Year Experience, Kimberly Willson-St. Clair

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Research can be daunting for freshman who are challenged to gather scholarly information beyond Google for their research projects. Applying and blending two research models, ASE (Analyze, Search, Evaluate) with BEAM (Background, Exhibit, Argument, and Method), students can think critically about their topics and strategically search PRIMO for relevant results. This approach addresses several ACRL Framework threshold concepts, especially research as strategic exploration and scholarship as conversation. In this presentation, I will show how effective Primo can be for first year experience students especially in regards to discovering keywords, understanding and organizing citations, finding relevant scholarly resources, and discovering other …

Streaming Video In Higher Education, Jill Emery

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Overview of streaming media use at an institution of higher learning in the United States. Shows the various ways streaming media is selected and utilized at a given institution.

Our Lives As Editors Of A Predatory Journal: Lessons Learned Publishing A Scholarly Open Access Journal, Jill Emery, Jonathan Cain, Michael Levine-Clark

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Provides an overview of editorial process used with a scholarly open access journal. Explored ways in which the work done as scholarly editors and publishers this work can be seen as predatory and ways in which we are attempting to address this criticism.

User Experience With Evidence Based Purchasing, Jill Emery

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Presentation given on Portland State University Library's experience with evidence based purchasing models. Covers evidence based acquisitions plans and the outcomes seem from these experiences.

Advancing Digital Skills For Problem Solving In Technology-Rich Environments, Jill Castek, Gloria Jacobs

Presentations and Publications

Digital and disciplinary literacies are not simply tools or cognitive behaviors. They have the potential to provide opportunities for students to better understand themselves, their communities, and their world. The presentation examines ways of conceptualizing and understanding digital literacies and disciplinary learning and consider implications for teacher education and community outreach efforts.

Diversity Of Acrl Publications, Editorial Board Demographics: A Report From Acrl’S Publications Coordinating Committee, Emily Ford, Wendi Arant Kaspar, Peggy Seiden

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

This study, conducted in 2016 by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Publications Coordinating Committee (PCC), surveyed demographics of ACRL publications' editorial board members. It recorded age, gender, race/ethnicity, geographic location, professional affiliation, institutional affiliation type, length of experience in the profession, faculty status, tenure status, and years experience on an editorial board. The findings reveal that, compared to the profession overall, both people of color and academic librarians serving at community, junior, and technical colleges are underrepresented on editorial boards. In contrast, males are over-represented on ACRL Editorial Boards.

Critical Library Management: Administrating For Equity, Candise Branum, Turner Masland

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Social justice and critical theory frameworks have been utilized to discuss library pedagogy and cataloging, but librarians have been slow in applying critical theory to how we actually manage libraries and lead staff. Management is not glamorous; rather, many still hold the traditional view of management as upholding hierarchical values. At its core, both libraries and management are about people, and library managers and administrators have the power to formulate and uphold the library’s values.

Libraries do not exist in a vacuum; we work to empower the communities we work with, and social justice issues directly impact our patrons. In …

Heard On The Net: We’Ve Seen The Future And It Is Us Working Together, Jill Emery

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Column on collaborative and cooperative work in librarianship.

Examining Adult Learners’ Digital Problem Solving In Libraries Using A Learning Typology, Jill Castek, Amy Honisett

Presentations and Publications

In this presentation, we shared our emerging findings around what constitutes digital problem solving and the approaches and strategies digital problem solvers use.

Librarians As Campus Partners: Supporting Culturally Responsive And Inclusive Curriculum, Kimberly D. Pendell, Robert Schroeder

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Diversity and inclusion initiatives are expanding on campuses across the United States. These initiatives can take many forms, such as the hiring and retention of diverse faculty, student recruitment, and a thoughtful examination of pedagogy and course curriculum. As a librarian, you may be aware of these efforts, but perhaps not as directly involved as disciplinary faculty, particularly in regards to course curriculum development and redesign. How librarians can participate and support this work on our campuses is not always clear; however, we found fertile opportunities for librarian involvement and leadership.

Research Models, Primo [Psu Library Catalog], And The First Year Experience, Kimberly Willson-St. Clair

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Research can be daunting for freshman who are challenged to gather scholarly information beyond Google for their research projects. Applying and blending two research models, ASE (Analyze, Search, Evaluate) with BEAM (Background, Exhibit, Argument, and Method), students can think critically about their topics and strategically search PRIMO for relevant results. This approach addresses several ACRL Framework threshold concepts, especially research as strategic exploration and scholarship as conversation. In this presentation, I will show how effective Primo can be for first year experience students especially in regards to discovering keywords, understanding and organizing citations, finding relevant scholarly resources, and discovering other …

Evaluative Criteria For Autoethnographic Research: Who’S To Judge? (Chapter 15), Robert Schroeder

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

This chapter is a exploration of autoethnography and shows how entrenched positivist assumptions are in our field. The chapter includes a reflection of the author's own experiences with research and to connect them in ways to my academic library community.

Data From: Diversity Of Acrl Publications, Editorial Board Demographics: A Report From Acrl’S Publications Coordinating Committee, Association Of College & Research Libraries Publications Coordinating Committee

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

This data includes a .pdf file from survey responses. This study, conducted in 2016 by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Publications Coordinating Committee (PCC), surveyed demographics of ACRL publications' editorial board members. It recorded age, gender, race/ethnicity, geographic location, professional affiliation, institutional affiliation type, length of experience in the profession, faculty status, tenure status, and years experience on an editorial board. The data includes 63 responses--a 73% response rate. The findings reveal that, compared to the profession overall, both people of color and academic librarians serving at community, junior, and technical colleges are underrepresented on editorial boards. …

Paradigms & Possibilities Of Incarceration-Related Records, Rhiannon M. Cates

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Founded and directed by activist Carole Pope (1944-2013), Our New Beginnings was a non-profit residential transitional and alternative sentencing program for women navigating corrections and criminal justice in Portland, Oregon that operated from 1980 to 1992. During this time, the program served over 3,000 women and their children at a non-recidivism rate of 84%. Through Our New Beginnings, Pope also worked with the Portia Project and Project Link-Up, two Oregon non-profit programs dedicated to connecting women in prison with legal and custodial support and services.

Recently donated to Portland State University Library Special Collections & University Archives, this multimedia collection …

Registering With Share, Talea Anderson

Northwest IR User Group

This lightning talk will describe recent activity surrounding SHARE—an open dataset supported by the Association of Research Libraries and the Center for Open Science. SHARE is working to aggregate metadata found in institutional and disciplinary repositories in order to improve discovery and access to scholarly research. This presentation will cover how to register a repository with SHARE, and will summarize projects recently undertaken as part of the SHARE Curation Associates program of 2016-2017.

The Dream Of Harvesting Is Alive In Portland: Harvesting Through Digital Commons, Ann Connolly

Northwest IR User Group

This summer bepress began its first foray into the world of harvesting content. We have access to more than 160 million objects from sources including PubMed, Elsevier’s ScienceDirect, Springer, IEEE, ArXiv, SSRN, RePEc, JSTOR, and many others. In early June we embarked on a pilot with several schools to harvest metadata for new faculty profiles within the Expert Gallery Suite, with plans to expand the scope of the feature over the coming year.

This talk will cover:

• A demonstration of the harvesting feature
• What we've learned from the pilot
• Plans for release and future improvements

Easier Author Identification, Joe Cera

Northwest IR User Group

This lightning talk would discuss our efforts to make it easier to identify authors and retrieve a full list of works in the repository. We rely on existing identifiers and standards resulting in no added costs and no new identifier systems. We are currently adding ISNI, VIAF, Library of Congress, and Institutional identifiers for each faculty member (where available). We have also added an indexed field in our Digital Commons instance to allow searching by those identifiers. The system can easily accommodate new identifiers and allows filtering that is not normally available in the Digital Commons search methods.

Integrating Docusign Into The Permissions Workflow, Amy D. Coughenour

Northwest IR User Group

This lightning talk will review the process of integrating the use of DocuSign for electronic signatures into the overall permissions workflow for institutional repositories. Subtopics include creating and using templates, routing to collection administrators and program managers, adjusting settings, prefilling forms, and processing the completed forms for the IR. Using an electronic process for permission forms saves time while increasing communication with creators and stakeholders.

Copyright, Sue Kunda

Northwest IR User Group

The IR: What’s Copyright Got To Do With It?

SHERPA/RoMEO provides IR managers with publishers’ copyright information, making the deposit of faculty research articles fairly straightforward. But what about all the other materials we’re now putting in the IR? Things like:

• Books and book chapters
• ETDs that include others’ copyrighted materials
• Undergraduate research
• Conference posters and presentations
• Archival materials
• Oral histories
• Digitized university collections

IR managers now need to understand the copyright issues surrounding a wide variety of materials and need to make well-reasoned decisions regarding their deposit into the IR. During this table talk, we’ll discuss copyright as it …

Digital Public Library Of America (Dpla) & Metadata, Anneliese Dehner

Northwest IR User Group

More Metadata: How do you evaluate the quality of your metadata? How do you determine where to put your energies when approaching a metadata cleanup project? What's in your metadata toolset and what's the best tool for the job? When is it a good idea to normalize your metadata to controlled vocabularies, and does your IR even allow this kind of normalization? Discussion of the nuts and bolts of metadata cleanup, and how to do it with limited staff time. Possible activity: uploading a sample dataset to OpenRefine (http://openrefine.org/), evaluating the set against the requirements of the Alliance …

Using The Ir Beyond Face Value, Jenny K. Oleen, Kim Marsicek

Northwest IR User Group

An institutional repository can be more than just a place to store theses or host faculty articles. An I.R. can also allow the library to collaborate with campus units to solve problems. By using a holistic approach to the I.R., libraries can go beyond the basics to support the communication needs of the university and local community. This presentation will illustrate how Western Libraries, at Western Washington University, used the implementation of Western CEDAR, Western’s institutional repository, to provide needed help in a variety of areas.

We will demonstrate how:

• Conference pages can be used to solicited information and volunteers …

The Ir, Web, And Marketing Departments: The Ultimate Triumvirate, Tina Ching

Northwest IR User Group

The IR is a great platform to complement the work of the web and marketing teams. In most institutions, however, instead of creating a natural alliance, these departments tend to conflict with competing priorities. What would happen if these three departments fell under one roof? This is the scenario at Seattle University School of Law where the IR, web, and marketing staff are a part of the small, but mighty Marketing & Communications team.

In this presentation, we will take a look at some of the ways an IR can be integrated into an institution's website while fulfilling the goals …

Hyrax, Hyku, Hywhat? Update On The Hydra-In-A-Box Repository Project And Demo Of A Live Application, Steve Van Tuyl, Mike Giarlo

Northwest IR User Group

In this presentation, we will give an update on the Hydra-in-a-Box project, introduce attendees to the features of the HyBox repository product (Hyku) and offer a live demo of the Oregon State University Institutional Repository, ScholarsArchive@OSU, recently migrated from DSpace to the Hydra application, Hyrax.

Using A Needs Assessment To Develop An Institutional Repository, Teresa Auch Schultz

Northwest IR User Group

Needs assessments can help librarians gain a better understanding of the scholarly communication practices and opinions of faculty within their communities, but they can also provide additional benefits. In the fall of 2016, two librarians at an R2 institution that had just started a scholarly communications program led a qualitative study of 18 faculty members at their institution in which liaison librarians conducted interviews with faculty in their departments. Although the main intent of the assessment was to better learn faculty views and opinions on scholarly communications-related issues such as open access, the librarians also used the study for several …

Exploring A Hybrid Model To Develop The Ir: Liaisons And Functional Specialists Collaborate To Engage And Support Scholarship, Jane Costanza, Benjamin R. Harris

Northwest IR User Group

Smaller institutions may not have full-time dedicated positions to provide technical support and campus engagement for their IR, therefore alternative strategies to grow a program supporting institutional scholarship may be necessary. For example, at Trinity University we do not have a Scholarly Communication Librarian or a dedicated IR Manager, but instead, depend on the collaboration of liaisons and technical services staff to engage and support institutional scholarship.

At Trinity, our low librarian-to-faculty ratio means that we have strong liaison relationships with our academic departments. While librarians at Trinity locate and create opportunities to communicate with students and teachers about digital …

From Pilot Project To Three Fte: Ubc's Decentralized Repository Staffing Model, Tara Stephens-Kyte

Northwest IR User Group

In 2011, cIRcle, the University of British Columbia’s open access digital repository, formally accepted a decentralized repository staffing model following a full day planning retreat with key Library stakeholders. Six years later staff has grown to include two FTE Digital Repository Librarians, one FTE support staff, as well as secured metadata review commitments from a Librarian and two cataloguers in Technical Services in addition to regular deposit support from student employees. With increased capacity has come robust and well-documented metadata standards that support interoperability; automated content ingest streams; improved permissions review support to meet growth in faculty requests; streamlined …

Creating An Open Textbook Publishing Program: Inside Pdxopen, Karen Bjork

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

A look inside Portland State University Libary's open textbook publishing initiative, PDXOpen. The presentation focuses on recruiting authors, author selection and lessons learned.

Creative Approaches To Information Literacy For Creative Arts Students, Leo Appleton, Gustavo Grandal Montero, Abigail Jones

Communications in Information Literacy

This paper discusses the information literacy requirements of art and design students, and how traditional approaches to information literacy education are not always appropriate for these particular students. The paper argues that different, creative, and innovative approaches to information literacy training need to be developed with the specific learning styles of this group of students in mind and that using a radical information literacy approach, incorporating the specific nature of the art and design information landscape, enables this. Using the University of the Arts London (UAL) as a specific art and design higher education institution, the paper shares three separate …