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We Can’T Trace Time And The Times Have Changed Us, Michael Levine-Clark, Jill Emery Oct 2020

We Can’T Trace Time And The Times Have Changed Us, Michael Levine-Clark, Jill Emery

Collaborative Librarianship

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Collaborative Coordination In A Crisis: Electronic Theses And Dissertations Services During Covid-19 At The University Of Pittsburgh, John Fudrow, Jonah Mcallister-Erickson, Lauren B. Collister Oct 2020

Collaborative Coordination In A Crisis: Electronic Theses And Dissertations Services During Covid-19 At The University Of Pittsburgh, John Fudrow, Jonah Mcallister-Erickson, Lauren B. Collister

Collaborative Librarianship

In this article, we share a report from the field about the collaborative model of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) program at the University of Pittsburgh, and how the program’s cross-departmental committee and distributed approvers model built a strong foundation that enabled success in the transition to remote operations during COVID-19. We review some of the ways that libraries are situated in the configuration of ETDs at different institutions, present a case study of the ETD process and support services at the University of Pittsburgh, and discuss how the configuration of ETD support and processing helped the University and …

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University Of Nebraska Medical Center: Collaborating With Campus Partners In Renovated Library, Emily J. Mcelroy Oct 2020

University Of Nebraska Medical Center: Collaborating With Campus Partners In Renovated Library, Emily J. Mcelroy

Collaborative Librarianship

The McGoogan Health Sciences Library at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) completed a 14-month renovation of two of its three levels, while its top-level remains under renovation. Besides standard library space for studying and collections, the library engaged with campus partners in bringing different services to the renovated library. The newly renovated space includes spaces managed by a range of faculty and student services, such as an E-Learning lab, simulation labs, Faculty Commons, Writing Center, Maker Studio, Reflection Rooms, and inclusion space. These spaces provide library users a suite of services for collaboration and consultation with the library …

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Engaging Stakeholder Networks To Support Global Oa Monograph Usage Analytics, Christina Drummond Oct 2020

Engaging Stakeholder Networks To Support Global Oa Monograph Usage Analytics, Christina Drummond

Collaborative Librarianship

Just as COVID-19 brought in-person meetings to a halt, the Open Access eBook Usage (OAeBU) Data Trust transitioned from a two-year stakeholder planning project to a two-year global pilot tasked with developing infrastructure use-cases, software code, sustainability models, and governance mechanisms to better enable the usage and impact analyses of OA monographs. This report introduces the array of stakeholders involved in OA book analytics and summarizes how this data trust effort worked to engage them during the first third of the project. Virtual network building and engagement strategies such as online stakeholder-oriented communities and collaboration tools are discussed alongside traditional …

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Libraries Are Open - Only The Buildings Are Closed, Lori Bowen Ayre, Jim Craner Jun 2020

Libraries Are Open - Only The Buildings Are Closed, Lori Bowen Ayre, Jim Craner

Collaborative Librarianship

Libraries should be developing solutions for effectively working remotely and expanding their ability to provide virtual services during closures and make sure the messaging matches the reality - that libraries are open and providing important services to their communities even when the buildings are closed.

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Collaboration In A Time Of Crisis: Lessons From Covid-19, Michael Levine-Clark, Jill Emery Jun 2020

Collaboration In A Time Of Crisis: Lessons From Covid-19, Michael Levine-Clark, Jill Emery

Collaborative Librarianship

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What Collaboration Means To Us: Access Is Lost - What Now?, Michael Ladisch, Beth Callahan Jun 2020

What Collaboration Means To Us: Access Is Lost - What Now?, Michael Ladisch, Beth Callahan

Collaborative Librarianship

In this column we describe the actions taken by the University of California, Davis Library to support and to communicate with the campus research community after the suspension of access to Elsevier's ScienceDirect platform.

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The Efficient Team-Driven Quality Scholarship Model: A Process Evaluation Of Collaborative Research, Johanna Alexander, Andrea Anderson, Sandra Bozarth, Heather Cribbs, Kristine Holloway, Christopher Livingston, Terezita Overduin, Ying Zhong Jun 2020

The Efficient Team-Driven Quality Scholarship Model: A Process Evaluation Of Collaborative Research, Johanna Alexander, Andrea Anderson, Sandra Bozarth, Heather Cribbs, Kristine Holloway, Christopher Livingston, Terezita Overduin, Ying Zhong

Collaborative Librarianship

The Efficient Team-Driven Quality Scholarship (ETQS) Model is a research and writing system, providing strategies for librarians and other faculty to complete scholarly research within a set time frame. ETQS includes a team-driven, collaborative approach, predetermined timelines, built-in quality controls, and concurrent research processes. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the ETQS Model to overcome common research obstacles and promote research success factors. Using the process evaluation method, the authors use the research and writing of this article to assess the ETQS Model. Team member reflections of the process are analyzed and ETQS strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) are …

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Freed Faces, Our Past Americans: Collaborations To Create, Digitize And Describe The “Former Slaves In Freedom” Collection, Gayle Porter Jun 2020

Freed Faces, Our Past Americans: Collaborations To Create, Digitize And Describe The “Former Slaves In Freedom” Collection, Gayle Porter

Collaborative Librarianship

The Chicago State University (CSU) Archives collaborated with the International Society of Sons and Daughters of Slave Ancestry (ISDSA), a Chicago-based lineage society, to digitize, describe, and make accessible online a collection of 359 private historic photographs of formerly enslaved African Americans, and 90+ brief family histories, submitted by descendants. This case study describes the benefits, processes, and challenges of this unique, unfinished collaborative project. The study also describes: 1. Creative, flexible approaches to collaborative digital projects by an academic institution and a community organization; 2. Balancing cataloging/metadata standards while respecting a curator’s goals for the collection.

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What Collaboration Means To Us: Trust, Laughter, & Scholarly Productivity, Monica Rysavy, Russell Michalak Jun 2020

What Collaboration Means To Us: Trust, Laughter, & Scholarly Productivity, Monica Rysavy, Russell Michalak

Collaborative Librarianship

This essay examines how collaboration is key to a successful scholarly partnership over an extended period. We firmly believe successful collaboration only works by trusting your colleague. Part of the balancing act of working on major projects and publications is deciding who will take the lead or take on the majority of the work, while the other person takes on a more supportive role. We share three successful ongoing projects (our information literacy assessment program, onboarding program, and inventory of the book collection with Agile methodologies) that could not have been completed without each other's knowledge and skills.

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Public Libraries Respond To The Opioid Crisis With Their Communities: Research Findings, Michele Coleman, Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Kendra Morgan Jun 2020

Public Libraries Respond To The Opioid Crisis With Their Communities: Research Findings, Michele Coleman, Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Kendra Morgan

Collaborative Librarianship

The nation is experiencing an ongoing opioid epidemic, and communities across the country are feeling the epidemic’s impact. Public health and human service organizations, professional associations, and nonprofits continue to implement responses to stem the rising overdose deaths; public libraries, too, are a part of this response. This article is the follow-up to Public Libraries Respond to the Opioid Crisis in Collaboration with Their Communities: An Introduction (Collaborative Librarianship, volume 11, Issue 1, 2019), and identifies, synthesizes, and shares knowledge and resources that will help public libraries and their community partners develop effective strategies to work together to …

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Quality: A Librarian And Instructor Compare How They Assess Students' Sources, Elizabeth Pickard, Sarah Sterling Jun 2020

What We Talk About When We Talk About Quality: A Librarian And Instructor Compare How They Assess Students' Sources, Elizabeth Pickard, Sarah Sterling

Collaborative Librarianship

This case study explores and compares how a librarian and an instructor evaluated the quality of bibliographies students produced for the instructor’s class. The ethnographic study attempted to unearth nuances in the respective practical approaches librarian and instructor took to assess a source’s quality as well as differences in what librarian and instructor might mean by “quality.” Themes emerged as indicators of quality that librarian and instructor applied differently in terms of frequency and weight. Findings also included that librarian and instructor looked to different aspects of citations to demonstrate common values, such as thoroughness, and to reflect the quality …

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Case Study In Collaborative Leadership: Joint Conference Of Librarians Of Color, Samantha Hines Jun 2020

Case Study In Collaborative Leadership: Joint Conference Of Librarians Of Color, Samantha Hines

Collaborative Librarianship

For collaborative leadership, the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color (JCLC) provides an excellent model of shared, collective leadership that advances both the profession and practitioners of librarianship. This paper describes how JCLC was founded to deal with issues of racial inequality in librarianship and how it exemplifies collaborative leadership from the perspectives of servant, adaptive, transforming and collective leadership.

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Context Is Key: Library And Archive Collaboration For Digital Projects, Joy M. Perrin, Robert G. Weaver Jun 2020

Context Is Key: Library And Archive Collaboration For Digital Projects, Joy M. Perrin, Robert G. Weaver

Collaborative Librarianship

Libraries and archives have different underlying philosophies towards items, metadata, goals, and core processes in their respective fields. With the proliferation of digital libraries and digitization efforts, both kinds of organizations can benefit from working together for the benefit of patrons and researchers. Presented in this article is a case study of a collaboration between the Texas Tech University Libraries Digital Resources Unit (DRU) and the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library (SWC), an archive of cultural heritage materials.

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Building A Library Search Infrastructure With Elasticsearch, Kim Pham, Fernando Reyes, Jeff Rynhart May 2020

Building A Library Search Infrastructure With Elasticsearch, Kim Pham, Fernando Reyes, Jeff Rynhart

University Libraries: Faculty Scholarship

This article discusses our implementation of an Elastic cluster to address our search, search administration and indexing needs, how it integrates in our technology infrastructure, and finally takes a close look at the way that we built a reusable, dynamic search engine that powers our digital repository search. We cover the lessons learned with our early implementations and how to address them to lay the groundwork for a scalable, networked search environment that can also be applied to alternative search engines such as Solr.

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A Vertical Cooperation Model To Manage Digital Collections And Institutional Resources, Jack M. Maness, Kim Pham, Fernando Reyes, Jeff Rynhart Apr 2020

A Vertical Cooperation Model To Manage Digital Collections And Institutional Resources, Jack M. Maness, Kim Pham, Fernando Reyes, Jeff Rynhart

University Libraries: Faculty Scholarship

The technology space of the University of Denver Libraries to manage digital collections and institutional resources isn’t relegated to one department on campus – rather, it distributed across a network of collaborators with the skills and expertise to provide that support. The infrastructure, which is comprised of an archival metadata management system (Archivespace), a digital repository (Node.js + ElasticSearch), preservation storage (ArchivesDirect), and a streaming server (Kaltura) is independently but cooperatively managed across IT, library departments and vendors. The coordinated eort of digital curation activities still allows each group to focus on the service they have the most vested interest …

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Embedding Information Literacy Support In A Peer Learning Program: An Exploratory Case Study, Jeffery Verbeem, Lynnette Harper Feb 2020

Embedding Information Literacy Support In A Peer Learning Program: An Exploratory Case Study, Jeffery Verbeem, Lynnette Harper

Collaborative Librarianship

The aim of this exploratory study was to investigate how librarians at a public university in Dubai could support the information literacy of student tutors through collaboration with a peer-to-peer learning assistance program. We sought to understand how peer tutors experience, develop and share their information literacy skills. We conducted workshops to help tutors become more aware of information literacy and to develop their fluency and confidence in applying these skills as students and as tutors. Data was gathered via a survey, a focus group and a quiz. Findings indicated that while there may have been some gains made in …

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What Collaboration Means To Us: Sharing Stories To Drive Open Scholarship, Rachael Samberg, Anneliese Taylor Feb 2020

What Collaboration Means To Us: Sharing Stories To Drive Open Scholarship, Rachael Samberg, Anneliese Taylor

Collaborative Librarianship

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Collaborating For Success: The Whole Is Equal To More Than The Sum Of Its Parts, Jill Emery, Michael Levine-Clark Feb 2020

Collaborating For Success: The Whole Is Equal To More Than The Sum Of Its Parts, Jill Emery, Michael Levine-Clark

Collaborative Librarianship

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Collaborating Across Consortial Boundaries, Jill Morris, Kirsten Leonard Feb 2020

Collaborating Across Consortial Boundaries, Jill Morris, Kirsten Leonard

Collaborative Librarianship

It is nearly a given that most academic library directors feel the need to collaborate with other libraries to contain costs, develop new programs, and accomplish their missions; and historically, many have done so by participating in a library consortium, and sometimes in multiple consortia. In this article, the executive directors of The Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI) and the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI), two long-standing academic library consortia, share their insights and experiences as they have observed the necessity for broadening consortial collaboration through cross-consortial partnerships, moving from coordinated efforts toward deeper collaboration across consortium …

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Herding Cats & Getting To Yes: Lessons Learned From University Of California Libraries’ New Cost Share Model Implementation, Mihoko Hosoi Feb 2020

Herding Cats & Getting To Yes: Lessons Learned From University Of California Libraries’ New Cost Share Model Implementation, Mihoko Hosoi

Collaborative Librarianship

Systemwide or multi-campus licenses provide many benefits such as favorable pricing, access to an expanded array of resources for all participants, and streamlined licensing. They also usually involve cost sharing among participating campuses. The licensing process can be labor-intensive and time-consuming. Successful collaboration among participants is essential in reaching consensus. In the past, the University of California (UC) libraries employed many cost models, and the California Digital Library (CDL) applied them for CDL-licensed subscriptions, both new licenses and renewals. After several years of discussion, the UC Libraries decided to implement an FTE-based model as the default cost share model, except …

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Sillvr: Streaming Interlibrary Loan Video Resources, Katy Divittorio, Philip Gaddis, Sommer Browning, Molly Rainard, Charissa Brammer Feb 2020

Sillvr: Streaming Interlibrary Loan Video Resources, Katy Divittorio, Philip Gaddis, Sommer Browning, Molly Rainard, Charissa Brammer

Collaborative Librarianship

This paper is an overview of SILLVR (Streaming Interlibrary Loan Video Resources), an innovative, collaborative pilot project that facilitates interlibrary loan (ILL) for streaming video. Conceived of by Auraria Library staff, SILLVR leverages partnerships with streaming video vendors and the Colorado Alliance for Research Libraries to enable library-to-library borrowing of streaming video media. This paper begins by briefly investigating the history and landscape of interlibrary loan, the loaning of electronic and “new” media, as well as how libraries collaboratively work towards increased ILL access and how this work supports equity. The second half of the paper details the creation of …

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Best Practices For The Collection Of Feedback From Campus Constituents Utilizing Campus And Community Partners, Maggie Mason Smith, Jessica L. Serrao, C. Lili Klar, Deanna Mcentire, Anne Grant, Gabriel Israel Feb 2020

Best Practices For The Collection Of Feedback From Campus Constituents Utilizing Campus And Community Partners, Maggie Mason Smith, Jessica L. Serrao, C. Lili Klar, Deanna Mcentire, Anne Grant, Gabriel Israel

Collaborative Librarianship

The Clemson Libraries Campus Feedback Task Force was created to collect feedback from a broad sample of campus constituents. This article outlines the Task Force’s approach and how the group effectively succeeded at the given charge. Seven Libraries employees, each with diverse expertise and a collaborative and supportive mentality, worked together to break down tasks and assign responsibilities based on members’ strengths, identifying and relying on outside partners as needed. This article will discuss the importance of collaboration within a library Task Force on a project that required skills in online and face-to-face campus interactions by examining the composition of …

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University Libraries Annual Report 2020, University Of Denver, University Libraries Jan 2020

University Libraries Annual Report 2020, University Of Denver, University Libraries

University Libraries Annual Reports

2020 Annual Report from the University of Denver, University Libraries. The annual report highlights programs, projects, and activities that occurred during the year.

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Portraits Of Professional Collaboration: Faculty-Librarian Teaching Partnerships, Carrie L. Forbes Jan 2020

Portraits Of Professional Collaboration: Faculty-Librarian Teaching Partnerships, Carrie L. Forbes

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Many regional accrediting organizations for higher education have embraced information literacy as a key component for both student success and student learning outcomes. Through embedded librarianship practices, librarians are now taking a leading role in developing and promoting users’ information literacy skills and in adopting an active classroom teaching approach. Faculty-librarian team teaching is a best practice for integrating information literacy into the higher education curricula, but the extant research has largely focused on the barriers to collaboration. Using Walsh and Kahn’s (2010) model of “collaborative working” as a conceptual framework, this dissertation explores the qualities and characteristics of four …

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