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When Deia Meets Faith In Heightened Tensions: Deia Initiatives At Catholic-Serving Institutions, V. Dozier, Martha Adkins, Alejandra J. Nann

Copley Library: Faculty Scholarship

Copley Library at the University of San Diego launched the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Committee in August 2020. The committee was developed in an effort to identify and work through the DEIA-related challenges affecting our country and our local community. Three librarians from the committee endeavored to explore what USD is currently doing as well as how libraries at Catholic-Serving Institutions are providing resources and services in regard to DEIA. Our approach was to survey USD faculty, staff, and administrators who participate or engage in DEIA efforts. The external survey was intended for librarians who work at Catholic-serving …

From Paywalls To Public Works: Information Policy Infrastructure For More Inclusive And Impactful Scholarship, Will Cross

Digital Initiatives Symposium

As the academy is increasingly invested in making scholarship open, many practitioners have focused on open licensing as the defining legal mechanism for openness. While licenses are critical for removing many barriers of cost, open scholarship requires much more in order to meet its mission as ethical, inclusive, and impactful. Open and public scholarship requires intentional design for public engagement that leverages the full suite of permissions, exceptions, and limitations built into the law. In this session we will explore the legal and policy tools available to scholars and the opportunities they create to build a system of scholarly communication …

Stepping Back To Move Toward A More Equitable Future For Digital Library Users And Workers, Jennifer Ferretti

Digital Initiatives Symposium

Libraries were actively set up to be inhospitable to racialized individuals including barring them from physical buildings, structuring rules and systems to value and uphold whiteness, and evidenced by the lack of racialized individuals in the library profession. Digital libraries, while comparatively newer, suffer from the legacy of these structural inequities and the same lopsided demographics. We need to take a step back and examine these legacies so that this avenue of library work has a chance to become more equitable. This discussion on examining the profession with race and power embedded is relevant for anyone in the profession whether …

Planning And Managing For Digital Projects In Libraries And Archives, Dinah Handel

Digital Initiatives Symposium

All library initiatives benefit from planning and structure, whether you’re organizing an outsourced, grant-funded digitization project or an internal digital collections initiative that includes digitization, descriptive metadata creation, and an online exhibit. In this two-hour workshop, participants will acquire concrete skills and new approaches to ensure that digital projects of any size are completed on deadline and without issues. The workshop will also survey specific tools that assist with project management and digital projects. Project managers of all skill-levels are welcome at this workshop, although the content will be geared towards beginners and those with some familiarity in managing a …

You Got Your Scholarly Communications In My Information Literacy! Teaching New Concepts And Mindsets In Library Instruction Programs, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

Digital Initiatives Symposium

This workshop will explore the evolving world of scholarly publishing and identify strategies for integrating scholarly communications concepts in library instruction programs and information literacy courses. Participants will share current practices as well as collaboratively develop pedagogical approaches in order to incorporate concepts such as preprints, open access, retractions, persistent identifies, and the like into their teaching and learning initiatives.

Evaluating Publisher Open Access Agreements, Allison Langham-Putrow

Digital Initiatives Symposium

Librarians are highly experienced in analyzing subscription renewal offers. However, more often libraries are receiving offers from publishers for agreements that incorporate fees for "read" access (i.e., traditional subscription access) with open access "publish" payments. In this workshop, we will provide participants with an overview of types of transformative agreements and factors to consider when analyzing offers that include an open access component. These will be applied to scenarios from different types of publishers. If time, there will be a hands-on portion in which participants will learn how to access usage data beyond COUNTER reports. This will include accessing APIs …

Basic Cataloging With Rda Post-3r, Luiz H. Mendes

Digital Initiatives Symposium

The cataloging standard Resource Description and Access (RDA) has undergone changes to its content and the Toolkit as a result of the 3R Project (RDA Restructure and Redesign Project) and realignment with the IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM). Workshop will provide a brief introduction of the Library Reference Model (LRM) and an overview of the newly redesigned and restructured RDA Toolkit for cataloging with RDA post-3R.

Toward Engaged Scholarship: Knowledge Inclusivity And Collaborative Collection Development Between Academic Libraries And Archives And Local Public Communities, Amanda Y. Makula, Laura S. Turner

Copley Library: Faculty Scholarship

In Open and Equitable Scholarly Communications, ACRL calls for more diverse and inclusive collection development (CD) by academic libraries and archives. Meanwhile, higher education is increasingly committing to community-engaged scholarship. This study investigated the extent to which academic libraries and archives are collecting, curating, and/or preserving knowledge produced by their local public communities. Researchers administered an electronic survey to relevant listservs and conducted follow-up interviews to develop a case study of one library’s efforts. Ninety of the initial 118 survey respondents (76%) indicated that their academic library intentionally collects, curates, and/or preserves materials created or owned by the local …

Critical Analysis Of Arl Member Institutions’ Diversity Statements, V. Dozier, Adebola Fabiku, Sandra A. Enimil

Copley Library: Faculty Scholarship

In March 2018, the Board of Directors of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) approved a new mission statement that includes a call to “promote equity and diversity” and lists “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) as one of its four priorities. ARL encourages but does not mandate similar visible commitments from its member institutions. This is evident by the resource webpage that ARL maintains entitled, “ARL Library Statements and Signs Affirming Our Core Beliefs.” The listed members represent approximately 19% of ARL’s membership. After reading the existing statements, the authors noticed a similar pattern in terms and context. This led …

Copley Library Annual Report 2021-2022, Helen K. And James S. Copley Library, University Of San Diego

Copley Library Annual Reports

Message from the Dean; Students Return to the Classroom but Streaming Video Prevails; Lessons Learned: Pandemic Convenience Becomes Necessity; Don’t Panic! Digital Initiatives in a Pandemic; Information Literacy Instruction: Resuming In-person Classes and Growing Online Workshops; Moving Forward with Embedded Librarianship; Archives, Special Collections & Digital Initiatives Department Turned Upside Down; Flexibility and Collaboration Ensure Access Services Success During Global Pandemic; Successfully Navigating Toward Sustainability; The Collections, Access, and Discovery Department –Great Service, Greater Understanding; Baja California Human Rights Commission Archives Project; Pontem Partnership Resumes; 2021-2022 Roy and Marian Holleman $1,000 Scholarship Winners; 2022 Copley Library Undergraduate Research Award Winners; …

Academic Library Succession Planning In The University Of California (Uc) System, Crystal Goldman

Dissertations

The Library and Information Science (LIS) literature has made clear that academic libraries in the U.S. have experienced decades of hiring freezes and budget cuts that reduced staffing overall and eliminated many middle management positions. Consequently, now that baby boomer library managers and administrators are beginning to retire, there are few qualified applicants to replace them. Thus, many in the LIS field have called for better succession planning by top-level library administrators (e.g., Deans, Directors, University Librarians). Few studies, however, have directly addressed this issue by examining these administrators’ perceptions or behavior regarding succession planning. This study begins to fill …

Closing Keynote: Academy-Owned Non-Profit Open Access Publishing: An Approach To Achieve Participatory And Sustainable Scholarly Communications, Arianna Becerril García

Digital Initiatives Symposium

The prevailing science communication system has showed little success in making science a global, participatory and equitable conversation. At the same time, a very robust ecosystem of science communication has been built in the Latin-American region, one that is intrinsically open, non-commercial and academy-owned. However, this “regional” approach has remained outside the legitimated channels of scholarly communication.

AmeliCA’s and Redalyc’s approach is based on the fact that scholarly communication in control of the academy is a strategy much healthier and sustainable for the development of science and society. Why is it that commercial publishers are a pivotal actor in science …

Where Is The Social Democracy In Subscription Paywalls? Effects And Impact Of Transitioning Journals From Subscriptions To Open Access On Researchers In Developing And Transition Economies, Colleen Campbell, Rick Burke

Digital Initiatives Symposium

Nearly 20 years after the Budapest, Berlin and Bethesda Declarations on open access, the global academic community continues to struggle toward realizing its objective of an open information environment in which the world’s scholarly and scientific literature is freely available and at the service of society to accelerate research, enrich education and lay the foundation for a common, global intellectual exchange. Championing the cause, stakeholders in some geographic contexts have succeeded in delivering open access publishing options for their research outputs by fostering highly-regarded, locally-developed journals, platforms and repositories, yet a an enormous portion of the world’s scholarly literature continues …

Maintaining Your Identity: Supporting Our Own Faculty's Publishing While Participating In A Funded Consortia Publishing Program, Jennifer Coronado

Digital Initiatives Symposium

In May 2019, the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana was awarded a $525,000 grant from Lilly Endowment to improve student success and retention by supporting the use of open course materials across the 24 private institutional members. Since then, the PALSave administration team has reached over 100 faculty members across Indiana, created an adoption pilot program, and received over 40 faculty reviews for the Open Textbook Library. Now, PALSave is developing a publishing program, with full funding for five textbook creations over five years. The Butler University Libraries’ Scholarly Communication Team conducted a Digital Needs Assessment Survey and found …

From Vision To Action And Assessment: Creating An Open Educational Resources (Oer) Strategic Plan And Measuring Its Impact, Regina Gong

Digital Initiatives Symposium

The implementation of OER initiatives in higher education institutions typically begins with setting up a vision and establishing goals for the project. This process entails developing a strategic plan to help guide institutions on how to start an OER initiative to gain buy-in and support from campus stakeholders. The strategic plan helps translate the vision into concrete actions that are attainable as well as measurable. Furthermore, while cost savings to students are what institutions commonly report to indicate the impact of OER, adoption and usage goes beyond cost savings calculations. This presentation will discuss the OER strategic planning process and …

Student Success: Open Access Repository Work Impacts University Libraries' Student Employees, Kelly Visnak Dr., Yumi Ohira

Digital Initiatives Symposium

This presentation will identify new methods for in the libraries student employment program related to Open Access repository work. The hands on learning opportunities are focused on publishing production workflows, including: CV checking; author rights and permissions for depositing faculty papers in the UTA’s institutional repository; and creating a research metrics report to provide alternative impact measurements of the faculty’s publications in support of tenure and promotion packet of materials. Additional production processes include learning layout design and project management in publishing monographs and journals through a variety of publishing tools, such as: Open Journal Systems (OJS), Pressbooks, and InDesign. …

Mapping Renewal: How An Unexpected Interdisciplinary Collaboration Transformed A Digital Humanities Project, Elise Tanner, Geoffrey Joseph

Digital Initiatives Symposium

Funded by a National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Foundations Grant, the UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture’s “Mapping Renewal” pilot project focused on creating access to and providing spatial context to archival materials related to racial segregation and urban renewal in the city of Little Rock, Arkansas, from 1954-1989. An unplanned interdisciplinary collaboration with the UA Little Rock Arkansas Economic Development Institute (AEDI) has proven to be an invaluable partnership. One team member from each department will demonstrate the Mapping Renewal website and discuss how the collaborative process has changed and shaped …

Featured Speaker: Facilitating Oa Transformation Through Publisher Engagement: The Uc Experience, Ivy Anderson

Digital Initiatives Symposium

Libraries across the globe have been pursuing open access for decades, but until recently, progress has continued to be painfully slow. Transformative open access agreements with publishers have begun to change this, as institutions in Europe and increasingly in the US as well are now negotiating open access agreements with major publishers. By transitioning major journal license expenditures from ‘read access’ to support open access publishing, we can begin to achieve open access at scale, supporting our authors in all of the journals in which they choose to publish. This talk will discuss UC’s experience in negotiating transformative open access …

Crowdsourcing Metadata: The Revolutionary Cataloging Interface And How It Can Help Your Library Expose And Promote Hidden Collections, Samuel T. Barber

Digital Initiatives Symposium

The crowdsourcing of metadata to expose and promote hidden collections is a significant and growing development in libraries, archives and museums, and offers hitherto unparalleled mass-collaborative potential for digital humanities projects. Originating from the field of citizen science, the online Zooniverse platform has been successfully utilized for this purpose by institutions including the Imperial War Museum, the Folger and the Huntington. This session presents recently published original research¹ in order to analyze and explain the automated quality control features of this major metadata crowdsourcing digital platform. The results, it is argued, are truly revolutionary. We conclude with a brief …

Beprexit To Nowhere: The Institutional Repository Platform Landscape From The Perspective Of Small-To-Mid Sized Private Institutions, Shannon Kealey, Jennifer Beamer

Digital Initiatives Symposium

Is your institution planning or hoping to plan a beprexit? If so, you are not alone. Many colleges and universities are seeking alternatives to Digital Commons since the August 2017 acquisition of bepress by Elsevier. The Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) Institutional Repository (IR) Subcommittee formed in late 2017 to perform an environmental scan of current and emerging institutional repository platforms and the ways in which they meet the needs and match the values of SCELC member institutions, the majority of which are small to midsize private colleges and universities that do not have the staff or infrastructure to …

Deans' Panel: Digital Collections And Institutional Repositories, Jennifer L. Fabbi, Maggie Farrell, Larry Alford

Digital Initiatives Symposium

Three library deans/chief directors from public universities representing different sizes and missions will address how their unique places in their communities have influence the choices they make around digital collections and institutional repositories. Each panelist will share contextual information and an example of an initiative that reflects the needs of the defined community and furthers the libraries’ goals and values.

Supporting Faculty In Digital Landscapes, Elaine Thornton, Joel B. Thornton

Digital Initiatives Symposium

Faculty endeavors in digital landscapes continue to broaden as interests in research methods and teaching modalities expand. The library can play an important role in introducing these digital voyagers to pertinent information, tools, and resources that will help them meet their goals. In this session, the presenters detail their roles in guiding and supporting faculty seeking to access digital publishing approaches and tools as open educational resources (OER) creators and researchers venturing into text and data mining using library subscribed content. Sharing knowledge of available resources and platforms with faculty and applying focused project management strategies will also be discussed.

Mapping Manuscript Migrations: Building And Using A Linked Open Data Environment For Medieval And Renaissance Manuscript Studies, Lynn Ransom, Toby Burrows

Digital Initiatives Symposium

“Mapping Manuscript Migrations” is a digital humanities project that brings together three distinct data sets about the histories of more than 215,000 medieval and Renaissance manuscripts for browsing, searching, and visualization. Four leading institutions from Great Britain, France, Finland, and the United States collaborated on this project, pooling their expertise in Semantic Web technologies and medieval manuscript curation and research, as well as contributing their own data from the three contrasting datasets. The Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania, the Medieval Manuscripts Catalogue at the University of Oxford, and the Bibale database from the Institut de recherche …

Copley Library Annual Report 2020-2021, Helen K. And James S. Copley Library, University Of San Diego

Copley Library Annual Reports

Message from the Dean; The Collections, Access, and Discovery Department — We Make Access to Collections Discoverable!; Copley’s Streaming Media Explosion; Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives; One Million Downloads—and Counting!; Librarians Combatting Disinformation through Education; Collection Development to Support SOLES Teaching, Learning, and Research; The Hahn Librarian Advocates for Collections; Access to New York Times for Faculty and Staff; Reference Collections; BibliU: Expanding Textbook Access During the Pandemic; Reading for Fun: Copley’s Light Reading Collection; Moving Copley Library Through the Various Stages of the Renovation; Meet Copley Library’s Renovation Project Management Team; Roy and Marian Holleman $1,000 Copley Library …

“Donuts & Downloads” Or (If Not Using Donuts) “Top Three In [The Name Of Your Ir]”, Amanda Y. Makula

Copley Library: Faculty Scholarship

This Open Access Week activity celebrates the top three most-downloaded items in the institutional repository (IR) by awarding the departments that produced the content with an official letter of recognition and a complimentary box of donuts from the library.

Open Access Campus Conversations Cohort, Amanda Y. Makula

Copley Library: Faculty Scholarship

The Open Access Campus Conversations Cohort is a discussion series for faculty members across campus, representing a variety of academic disciplines and unique perspectives, that meets regularly throughout the course of an academic year. The cohort seeks to establish a community where faculty members who are interested in issues related to open access and changes in the scholarly publishing ecosystem can gather, share information, learn from one another, and take actionable steps to provoke positive change at their institutions. While many scholarly communications outreach efforts are isolated, individual, or one-shot activities, the Open Access Campus Conversations Cohort is designed to …

Scholarly Communications And Open Access: An Introduction For Upper-Level Undergraduates, Amanda Y. Makula

Copley Library: Faculty Scholarship

This one-shot library instruction session is designed for upper-level undergraduates and can be applied to courses in a variety of disciplines. It is especially relevant for courses with a social justice component or where students are hoping to publish their work. The particular course at the University of San Diego (USD) in which this lesson was situated was an upper-level Ethnic Studies course: “Native American Indigenous Activism.”

A Few Kind, But True Words: Using The Research Consultation To Empower Marginalized Grad Students Struggling With Imposter Syndrome, V. Dozier

Copley Library: Faculty Scholarship

Dozier, V. (2021). A few kind, but true words: Using the research consultation to empower marginalized graduate researchers struggling with impostor syndrome [Conference proceedings]. LOEX 2021.

Campus Conversations On Scholarly Communications: May 2020 Report, Paige Mann, Jennifer Beamer, Sonia Chaidez, Darren Hall, Amanda Makula, Lev Rickards

Copley Library: Faculty Scholarship

Campus Conversations on Scholarly Communications was created as a mini-grant program to foster institutional dialogue. Funded by the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) Project Initiatives Fund (SPIF) and managed by the Scholarly Communications Committee, grants of up to $800 were used by member and affiliate libraries to engage diverse constituents on topics about licensing contracts, open access, or other scholarly communication topics. This dialogue is needed to address complex issues such as price increases, library budgets, market dominance, social justice, accessibility, sustainability, and relevance. Grant recipients share their work and reflections, inevitably impacted by COVID-19, in this report.

Copley Library Annual Report 2019-2020, Helen K. And James S. Copley Library, University Of San Diego

Copley Library Annual Reports

Message from the Dean; Students go to the library; The Collection, Access, and Discovery Department Succeeds when Students Do; Roy and Marian Holleman Copley Library Student Assistant Scholarship Winners; Access and Outreach Services and Student Success; Access Services Staff Contributes to Student Success; Copley Library and Undergraduate Student Success; Social Media and Student Success; Student Employees Boost Copley's Social Media; Embedded Education Librarian SOLES and Graduate Student Success; Embedded Nursing Librarian Hahn School of Nursing and Graduate Student Success; Copley Library Renovation Photos; Behind the Scenes in Digitization; Digital Initiatives and Student Success; Hidden Collections: Archives, Special Collections, Digital Initiatives …