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A Classroom Of Our Own: An Exploratory Case Study Of Archivists Teaching Outside The Archives, Claire Du Laney, Lori Schwartz

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Conversations about archivists teaching a Public History course started in 2021, and in earnest in 2022-2023.

We Can Do It! But Should We? Reflecting On Projects And Priorities, Claire Du Laney, Wendy Guerra, Amy Schindler, Lori Schwartz

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

What happens when you combine archivists and non-archivists with good intentions, unprocessed collections, institutional push to seek grants, competing pressures and deadlines? At the University of Nebraska at Omaha Archives and Special Collections, this familiar scenario occurred during a period focused on prioritizing Latinx collections including personal papers, Office of Latino and Latin American Studies Records, and oral histories. During our presentation, we will share how archivists attempted to wrangle multiple funding streams to meet processing, outreach, and digitization goals while internal and external forces took a toll. These included stakeholder expectations, the complexities of student employment, campus events, and …

Copyright And Creative Commons, Jennie Tobler-Gaston

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

This workshop discussed the basics of copyright such as the purpose of copyright, what is and is not copyrightable, how copyright is obtained, the public domain, and the exceptions to copyright - specifically fair use. It also discusses the basics of Creative Commons and the 6 licenses and two tools.

Digital Commons And Open Access: Utilizing Digitalcommons@Uno And Uno's Open Access Publishing Agreements To Make Your Work Open And Accessible, Jennie Tobler-Gaston

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

This presentation covered the University of Nebraska at Omaha's institutional repository, DigitalCommons@UNO, the basics and different types of Open Access and this many open access publishing agreements available for UNO authors.

A Balancing Act In The Archives: Increasing Access To The Great Plains Black History Museum Collections, Wendy Guerra, Lori Schwartz

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections is temporarily housing a portion of the Great Plains Black History Museum’s (GPBHM) archival collection as a result of an ongoing community partnership. The GPBHM’s stated mission is “…to preserve, educate, and exhibit the contributions and achievements of African Americans with an emphasis on the Great Plains region, as well as provide a space to learn, explore, reflect and remember our history” (https://gpblackhistorymuseum.org/). It was founded in 1975 and has since served as a rich resource for Black history in the Omaha community. UNO has a history of …

Balancing Act In The Archives: Increasing Access To The Great Plains Black History Museum Collection, Lori Schwartz, Wendy Guerra

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Our unit has been working for several years in various capacities with the Great Plains Black History Museum in North Omaha, a community museum located in a predominantly and historically Black area of our city. The Museum is a rich exhibit-based resource for Black history in Omaha and the region. Their stated mission is to “preserve, educate, and exhibit the contributions and achievements of African Americans with an emphasis on the Great Plains region, as well as provide a space to learn, explore, reflect and remember our history.” They mount rotating exhibits, give in-person and virtual tours to school and …

Digital Libraries As Digital Third Place: Virtual Programming In The Age Of Loneliness, Stephen Craig Finlay

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Brick-and-mortar libraries are commonly cited as examples of “third places:” community building spaces outside of home and work which embody qualities of equity and access without placing demands upon those who use them. However, as libraries increasingly invest in digital services, can they continue to serve in that role through virtual programming? Amid what public health officials are currently referring to as a “loneliness epidemic,” with the highest self-reported rates of loneliness and social isolation measured since sociologists began tracking it in the 1970s, the community-building role of libraries is perhaps more essential than ever. While much has been written …

Open Access Week Slide Show, Jennie Tobler-Gaston

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Slide show to celebrate International Open Access Week: Community over Commercialization. This slide show presented the basics of open access, traditional and open access publishing models, open access types, Creative Commons, and UNO's institutional repository DigitalCommons@UNO.

Make Your Work Accessible: Utilizing Digitalcommons@Uno And Uno's Open Access Publishing Agreements To Make Your Work Open And Accessible, Jennie Tobler-Gaston

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

This presentation cover UNO’s institutional repository, Digital Commons at UNO, how to deposit your scholarly work in the repository and the benefits of doing so, the basics and different types of open access, and the four Open Access Publishing Agreements that are available and their requirements so you can publish your work open access at no cost.

Practice, Patience, And Persistence: Integrating Growth Mindset Prompts In First-Year Writing Information Literacy Instruction, Omer Farooq, Tammi M. Owens

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Overview of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, library, and information literacy program. Discuss the Growth Mindset literature, and how it was integrated into our First-Year Writing information literacy instruction.

Balancing Act In The Archives: Increasing Access To The Great Plains Black History Museum Collection, Lori Schwartz, Wendy Guerra

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Our unit has been working for several years in various capacities with the Great Plains Black History Museum in North Omaha. Our latest collaboration involves arrangement, description, and selective digitization of their archives. This project is ongoing though paused at the moment.

In this talk, Wendy and I are going to summarize our current development of a research topic in the archival profession stemming from this Great Plains Black History Museum project–that of ensuring access to a community archive through a partnership. Along the way, we’ve been thinking through issues like resource allocation, sustainable access to community archival collections, hosting …

War In Iraq, 2003-2011: An Exhibit From The Hagel Archives, Lori Schwartz

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

I’m the Chuck Hagel and Technical Services Archivist at UNO. I manage the Hagel Archives. Hagel was a U.S. senator in 1997-2009 and SecDef in 2013-2015. Lesser known is that he was deputy administrator at the VA in 1981-82.

Topics for which the Hagel Collection has dozens of cubic feet include the War on Terror broadly, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, economic downtown of 2007-2009, and climate change. The abundance of records in these areas is because Hagel was on Foreign Relations, Banking, and Intelligence.

Please Interact: Reworking A Digital Exhibit For Student Engagement Using "Free" Software, Claire Du Laney

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

In these increasingly post-pandemic and budgetary times, we at Archives and Special Collections are exploring dynamic ways of engaging audiences with our collection materials using resources, ie hardware and software that we have already or will require minimal costs.

One example of this, and the project I will be sharing about today, is an interactive exhibit of one of our collections that we display selected materials from on a large touch screen monitor located right outside the Archives and Special Collections department on the first floor of Criss Library.

In this presentation I will trace the history of how I …

Digitalcommons@Uno And Building Your Scholarly Profile, Jennie Tobler-Gaston

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

This workshop presented the details of what the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Institutional Repository, DigitalCommons@UNO, is and how to get work uploaded to the repository. It also covered how to build a scholarly profile using the PINPOINT (Portfolio, Institutional repository, Network, Publishing, Open access, ID, Name, and Tracking) method.

A Call For Help: Tailored Training For Suicide Prevention In Libraries, Marina Hand, Lacey Rogers

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

In 2018, 48,000 deaths by suicide were reported out of 1.4 million attempts in the United States. Those most at risk are Native Americans, Veterans, people living in predominantly rural areas, and LBGTQ+ Youth. Of these at-risk demographics men are 3.7% more likely to commit suicide than women. In the state of Nebraska alone suicide occurs in 12.5 per 100,000 people, keeping in line with the national average of that year. Within the last year, the number of staff reporting alarming phone calls from distressed patrons has grown. The pandemic has exacerbated mental health issues among the population, which lends …

Anatomy Of A Creative Commons License, Jennie Tobler-Gaston

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

This infographic explains the different parts and components of a creative commons license, as well as each of the licenses.

Public Witnessing As Catalyst For Community Repair: Partnerships And Processing In The Archives., Lori Schwartz

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

UNO’s status as a Metropolitan University informs much of its character. UNO’s serious focus on community engagement reflects this and aligns well with the work of my department, Archives and Special Collections (ASC) in UNO Libraries.

Until a decade ago, our collections were not representative of our communities. When my boss came on board in 2014, she was the first archivist to serve as department head. I came the following year. She brought a fresh perspective with a desire to collect more broadly than the collections from white, cis, male, wealthy donors that were typical. Obviously, we need some of …

Copyright: The Basics You Need To Know, Jennie Tobler-Gaston

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

This presentation covers the basics of copyright, including what copyright is, what is copyrightable, how to obtain a copyright, and the exceptions to copyright law in the United States of America.

The Dos And Don'ts Of Zoom Interviews: A New Librarians Navigating A New Normal, Isabel Soto-Luna

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Poster presentation at the Nebraska Library Association College and University division conference and TSRT Spring Meeting. Poster covers the dos and don'ts of Zoom interviews for both interviewers and interviewees.

Charting Our Path: Celebrating 50 Years Of Black Studies, Claire Du Laney, Paul Jensen

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

“Charting Our Path: Celebrating 50 Years of Black Studies” celebrates the 50th anniversary of the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Department of Black Studies. Created through student activism and community involvement, and encountering periods of challenges, UNO’s Department of Black Studies remains one of the oldest Black Studies departments in the country. This traveling exhibit highlights important moments in the department’s history including its origins in the 1960s, institutional conflict, and triumphs of a thriving department. Items reproduced here are primary sources, materials made during specific time periods. The materials may refer to individuals, groups, and events in ways that …

Intentional Design: Crafting A Mutually Beneficial Internship Program In A University Archives And Special Collections, Wendy Guerra, Claire Du Laney, Lori Schwartz

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

At the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) Criss Library, archivists in Archives and Special Collections work with students at varied levels, from student employees to interns, and engagement through instruction. These interactions and employment opportunities manifest in various types of projects, ranging from long-term processing work to more individualized assignments based on the parameters of practicums and internships. In the past, most of this work was based on in-person experiences.

In early 2020, UNO archivists rushed to modify and create digital projects that would sustain them and their students during an unknown stretch of working from home. As the …

The Queer Omaha Archives: The First 5 Years, Amy C. Schindler

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Kick-off LGBTQ+ History Month by learning more about Nebraska’s LGBTQ+ history and how archivists and librarians are preserving and sharing the past today. Presentation for the NCompass Live, a program of the Nebraska Library Commission. The Queer Omaha Archives in UNO Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections launched in 2016 as the first dedicated LGBTQ+ archival and book collection in Nebraska. In the collecting initiative’s first 5 years it has grown to over 80 cubic feet and 3 GB of personal papers and organizational records, 50 oral history interviews, and 3,000 books. In this session, you will be introduced to some …

The Librarian’S Guide To Zines For Classroom And Community, Claire Du Laney, Monica Maher, Amy Schindler

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Zines continue to benefit from a resurgent interest from their 1990s heyday, including in libraries. A zine can serve as a pedagogical tool and are a low-cost addition to collections and programming in libraries. Over the course of the last three semesters, UNO librarians have collaborated with faculty on zine creation as a creative alternative to a typical research paper project for a course. Creating zines as assignments presents students with the opportunity to demonstrate research skills, exercise creativity, express compassion and empathy, and other outcomes. These outcomes have been illustrated by the classes that have created zines and presented …

Dismantling The Knowledgeopoly: An Open Research Future, K. M. Ehrig-Page

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

A library plays an integral part in the community because its doors are usually open to everyone, at least in non-pandemic times. However, access to education, to research or, more broadly, to knowledge is often siloed and hidden behind subscriptions so that knowledge monopolies start to grow. In “Dismantling the Knowledgeopoly: An Open Research Future”, and in celebration of October’s Open Access Week that promotes free, immediate access to peer reviewed scholarship, we will look at ways you can broaden the scope of Open Access and move towards Open Research.

The idea for this presentation arose through working in the …

Presentation: Small Teaching: Effective Techniques To Scaffold Student Learning In Information Literacy Sessions, Omer Farooq

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

This presentation highlights ways to incorporate specific questioning prompts as a pedagogical tool, including examples of prompts in deconstructing a topic, identifying resources, platforms, and knowledge gaps, and synthesizing ideas from multiple sources. The focus of this presentation is to illustrate and develop a praxis on how to integrate these examples of question prompts in information literacy instruction sessions for both undergraduate and graduate level courses.

Using An Ala Carnegie Whitney Grant To Support Women In Stem: A Bibliography Project, Heidi Blackburn

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Use Google to search “Women in STEM in higher education” and see what comes up. Researching women in STEM is extremely difficult because of the onslaught of public interest pieces, news sources, scholarly articles, blog commentaries, and dissertations written on the subject. Additionally, the word “stem” has several meanings in the scientific community from “plant stem” to “stem cell.” What if you were helping a teacher trying to write a grant to expose female students to careers in IT? Or helping a parent trying to advise a student club for women interesting in coding? In recent years, the spotlight on …

Active—Constructive—Interactive: A Taxonomy For Designing Learning Activities For Subject-Specific Information Literacy Instruction, Omer Farooq

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

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Lgbtqia-R: Creating A Diverse And Inclusive Medical Collection, Heidi Blackburn, Omer Farooq

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Information about the LGBTQIA population is difficult to collect because of the sensitive nature of the topic of sexual preference and gender identity. This poster explores our weeding project and collection development efforts to provide health care information for the LGBTQIA community at a Midwestern metropolitan university.

This subject was further explored in a published article found here.

This poster was presented at the Association of College and Research Libraries Conference on April 10-13, 2019 in Cleveland, OH.

Crafting Relevant Community Partnerships Using Archives, Amy C. Schindler, Laurinda Weisse

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Historically, archives have told the stories of the dominant society. Increasingly, archives are exploring and filling some of the silences left by the exclusion of many voices. Oral history is a way of actively collecting stories which may not exist in written form. Both the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s LGBTQ+ Voices: The Queer Omaha Archives Oral History Project and the University of Nebraska at Kearney Archives and Special Collections’ Coming to the Plains: Latin@ Stories in Central Nebraska project engage members of diverse communities in telling their own stories. This session will talk about the origins of each project, …

Using An Ala Carnegie-Whitney Grant To Support Women In Stem: A Bibliography Project, Heidi Blackburn

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

In the last decade, the spotlight on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education has resulted in hundreds of studies on various themes. Categorizing the literature on the status of women in STEM is challenging: the word “STEM” can be ambiguous and the topic is intersectional. A comprehensive bibliography could guide users to the relevant research. By understanding the intersectionality of issues facing women in STEM in higher education, librarians can help their organizations engage in local, regional, and national recruitment and retention efforts. Additionally, libraries can develop collections to support students and faculty conducting research in this area.