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One Size Does Not Fit All: Self-Archiving Personas Based On Federally Funded Researchers At A Mid-Sized Private Institution, Meg M. Eastwood, Jennifer Bowers, Jenelys Cox, Jack M. Maness

University Libraries: Faculty Scholarship

Introduction: This mixed-method study analyzes the self-archiving behaviors and underlying motivations of researchers at an institution very recently recategorized by the Carnegie Classification system from “Doctoral– High Research Activity (R2)” to “Doctoral–Very High Research Activity (R1).”

Methods: A quantitative analysis of data provided by CHORUS, a multi-institutional open access (OA) infrastructure project designed to minimize the administrative costs of complying with federal public access mandates, was followed by semi-structured qualitative interviews with researchers to determine the underlying motivations for self-archiving research papers resulting from federal grant support.

Results: Fifty-one authors with federal research funding published 71 journal …

Intellectual Freedom, Cultural Exchange, And Nazi Germany: The Relationship Between The Deutsch-Ausländischer Buchtausch, University Of Denver, And Other Cultural Heritage Institutions, David Fasman

University Libraries: Staff Scholarship

Shortly after Hitler’s rise to power, the Prussian State Library was restructured, birthing a new entity – the Deutsch-Ausländischer Buchtausch (German Foreign Book Exchange, DAB). The DAB was responsible for exchanging books and serials with scholarly institutions worldwide. In 1936, the University of Denver (DU) received a gift of books from the DAB. Nearly fifty percent of the books would be categorized as Nazi propaganda or eugenics literature by current standards. Upon further research, it was discovered that the DAB’s relationships included Stanford, Yale, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the …

Data Set: "One Size Does Not Fit All: Self-Archiving Personas Based On Federally-Funded Researchers At A Mid-Sized Private Institution", Jennifer Bowers, Jenelys Cox, Meg Eastwood, Jack M. Maness

University Libraries: Data Sets

Data set for the upcoming article "One Size Does Not Fit All: Self-Archiving Personas Based on Federally-Funded Researchers at a Mid-Sized Private Institution."

Article is available at https://digitalcommons.du.edu/libraries_facpub/137 or https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.13886.

Undoing The Dyad: Re-Examining Mentorship With A Feminist Lens, Bailey Wallace, Melissa Dewitt, Elia Trucks

University Libraries: Faculty Scholarship

Academic libraries consistently use mentoring programs to integrate new employees by sharing organizational knowledge and providing support to advance in their careers. Traditional models of mentorship are tools that help support existing power structures and keep in power those benefiting from the associated privilege. One way to interrogate traditional mentorship models and their inherent inequities is to apply a feminist lens in examining the expectations and actions of mentors and mentees. This chapter discusses how the traditional dyad mentoring model does not support everyone equally and explores alternative, inclusive models of mentorship, such as group mentoring and peer mentoring. We …

Just Because We Can Doesn’T Mean We Should: On Knowing And Protecting Data Produced By The Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society, Jack M. Maness, Kim Pham

University Libraries: Faculty Scholarship

A recent project at the University of Denver Libraries used handwritten text recognition (HTR) software to create transcriptions of records from the Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society (JCRS), a tuberculosis sanatorium located in Denver, Colorado from 1904 to 1954. Among a great many other potential uses, these type- and hand-written records give insight into the human experience of disease and epidemic, its treatment, its effect on cultures, and of Jewish immigration to and early life in the American West. Our intent is to provide these transcripts as data so the text may be computationally analyzed, pursuant to a larger effort in …

From Host To Home: Reflections On Institutional Readiness, Denisse Solis, Carrie L. Forbes, Jack M. Maness

University Libraries: Faculty Scholarship

The creation of library residency programs, intended to diversify the library profession, has increased significantly over the last two years; for example, institutional membership in the ACRL Diversity Alliance grew from 36 to 53 from 20171 to 2019.2 As Dr. Alston notes in his research, “Diversity residency programs have become a popular way for academic libraries to demonstrate a commitment to diversity initiatives and to recruit and retain practitioners of color.”3 However, many host institutions and librarians rarely make significant efforts to deconstruct whiteness within themselves and at the organizational level.

This chapter is a reflective case study of the …

The Liaison Connection Issue 14, University Of Denver, University Libraries

The Liaison Connection

Fall 2021 issue of the Library Liaison Advisory Group newsletter from the University of Denver, University Libraries. The newsletter provides information about library operations, collections, services, exhibits, and research instruction.

Entre Mundos Y Fronteras: An Exploration Of Linguistic Visibility And Value In Libraries, Denisse Solis, Jesus Espinoza

University Libraries: Faculty Scholarship

In Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library, author and library historian Wayne A. Wiegand describes how the mass migration of seven million southern and eastern European migrants between 1893 and 1917 shaped public libraries. “As neighborhoods changed ethnic and racial profile, the public library – main or branch- often became a place where newcomers assimilated.”1 This assimilationist praxis, specifically when it comes to the conscription of the English language, is problematic for library workers and patrons for whom English is not their first or only language and who want to see themselves reflected in …

The Liaison Connection Issue 13, University Of Denver, University Libraries

The Liaison Connection

Winter 2021 issue of the Library Liaison Advisory Group newsletter from the University of Denver, University Libraries. The newsletter provides information about library collections, services, and research instruction.

Working Toward Human-Centered, Reparative Change Through Print Collection Development At The University Of Denver, Jennifer Bowers, Katherine Crowe, Peggy Keeran, Jack M. Maness, Denisse Solis, Shannon Tharp

University Libraries: Faculty Scholarship

In 2014, the DU Libraries began to address a lack of work by and about the Cheyenne and Arapaho people in its collections, and moved toward reparative change in response to historical traumas suffered by Indigenous Peoples. The history of this work and its origins—which led to the creation of the Libraries’ Collection Diversification Task Force (CDTF) and now informs the Libraries’ collection development philosophy and operational inclusivity—are discussed in the “Developments Leading to the Collection Diversification Task Force” section of this chapter. Further on, the “Collection Diversification Task Force” section clarifies methodology, recommendations, and self-discovery on the part of …

Creating An Open Works Workshop, Jenelys Cox, Nicolas Parés

University Libraries: Staff Scholarship

Learn how to use Creative Commons licensing, choose a hosting platform, and remix open resources. This workshop explores open resource repositories, examines Creative Commons licenses, remixes materials into a group creative work, and walks participants through considerations when hosting works. This workshop supplies valuable, hands-on experience for participants.

University Libraries Annual Report 2021, University Of Denver, University Libraries

University Libraries Annual Reports

2021 Annual Report from the University of Denver, University Libraries. The annual report highlights programs, projects, and activities that occurred during the year.

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.

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 …

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.

The Liaison Connection Issue 12, University Of Denver, University Libraries

The Liaison Connection

Fall 2019 issue of the Library Liaison Advisory Group newsletter from the University of Denver, University Libraries. The newsletter provides information about library collections, services, and research instruction.

The Liaison Connection Issue 11, University Of Denver, University Libraries

The Liaison Connection

Fall 2018 issue of the Library Liaison Advisory Group newsletter from the University of Denver, University Libraries. The newsletter provides information about library collections, services, and research instruction.

“If You Want The History Of A White Man, You Go To The Library”: Critiquing Our Legacy, Addressing Our Library Collections Gaps, Jennifer Bowers, Katherine Crowe, Peggy Keeran

University Libraries: Faculty Scholarship

In 1864, the same year the University of Denver was founded by John Evans, then the Territorial Governor of Colorado and the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, a group of U.S. militia attacked and killed vulnerable members of the Cheyenne and Arapaho nations at Sand Creek. Using Critical Race Theory and the feminist “ethic of care,” we critique our collections in terms of the Massacre and absent Native American voices, in order to develop a collecting philosophy and direction to acknowledge and address the gaps, and to formulate strategies for teaching students to interrogate a predominately white institutional archive to give …

The Liaison Connection Issue 10, University Of Denver, University Libraries

The Liaison Connection

Fall 2017 issue of the Library Liaison Advisory Group newsletter from the University of Denver, University Libraries. The newsletter provides information about library collections, services, and research instruction.

The Liaison Connection Issue 9, University Of Denver, University Libraries

The Liaison Connection

Fall 2016 issue of the Library Liaison Advisory Group newsletter from the University of Denver, University Libraries. The newsletter provides information about library collections, services, and research instruction.

The Liaison Connection Issue 8, University Of Denver, University Libraries

The Liaison Connection

Fall 2015 issue of the Library Liaison Advisory Group newsletter from the University of Denver, University Libraries. The newsletter provides information about library collections, services, and research instruction.

The Liaison Connection Issue 7, University Of Denver, University Libraries

The Liaison Connection

Fall 2013 issue of the Library Liaison Advisory Group newsletter from the University of Denver, University Libraries. The newsletter provides information about library collections, services, and research instruction.

The Liaison Connection Issue 6, University Of Denver, University Libraries

The Liaison Connection

Fall 2012 issue of the Library Liaison Advisory Group newsletter from the University of Denver, Penrose Library. The newsletter provides information about library collections, services, and research instruction.

The Liaison Connection Issue 5, University Of Denver, University Libraries

The Liaison Connection

Fall 2011 issue of the Library Liaison Advisory Group newsletter from the University of Denver, Penrose Library. The newsletter provides information about library collections, services, and research instruction.

The Liaison Connection Issue 4, University Of Denver, University Libraries

The Liaison Connection

Fall 2010 issue of the Library Liaison Advisory Group newsletter from the University of Denver, Penrose Library. The newsletter provides information about library collections, services, and research instruction.

The Liaison Connection Issue 3, University Of Denver, University Libraries

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Fall 2009 issue of the Library Liaison Advisory Group newsletter from the University of Denver, Penrose Library. The newsletter provides information about library collections, services, and research instruction.

The Liaison Connection Issue 2, University Of Denver, University Libraries

The Liaison Connection

Spring 2009 issue of the Library Liaison Advisory Group newsletter from the University of Denver, Penrose Library. The newsletter provides information about library collections, services, and research instruction.

Better, Faster, Stronger: Integrating Archives Processing And Technical Services, Gregory C. Colati, Katherine M. Crowe, Elizabeth S. Meagher

University Libraries: Faculty Scholarship

The University of Denver’s Penrose Library implemented a consolidated cataloging and archives processing unit for all materials, taking advantage of the structure, workflow design, and staff resources that were already in place for library-wide materials processing: acquisitions, cataloging, binding, and stacks maintenance. The objective of Penrose Library’s integrated approach was to efficiently create metadata that allow searches based on subject relevance rather than on collection provenance. The library streamlined archives processing by integrating digital content creation and management into the materials processing workflow. The result is a flexible, sustainable, and scalable model for archives processing that utilizes existing staff by …

The Liaison Connection Issue 1, University Of Denver, University Libraries

The Liaison Connection

Spring 2008 issue of the Library Liaison Advisory Group newsletter from the University of Denver, Penrose Library. The newsletter provides information about library collections, services, and research instruction.

An Evaluation Of Library Instruction Delivered To Engineering Students Using Streaming Video, Jack M. Maness

University Libraries: Faculty Scholarship

This paper evaluates the use of streaming video applications in the delivery of information literacy instruction to engineering students. It describes the University of Colorado at Boulder (UCB) Engineering Library's implementation of streaming video to support graduate distance programs in the Center for Advanced Engineering and Technology Education (CAETE), and reviews library literature regarding the use of streaming technology. As an initial evaluation of the project, the preliminary results of a survey (n=27) comparing satisfaction levels and learning outcomes between students who attended library instruction sessions in-class versus via streaming video are given. The results reveal no significant difference in …