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Does A Nextgen Catalog Imply A Nextgen Library?, James T. Shaw

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Much has been written about Next Generation (or, NextGen) catalogs and their implications for searching and retrieval. The NextGen ideal moves beyond a discovery layer or federated search to approach a single database offering seamless access to all library resources. Criss Library at the University of Nebraska at Omaha is now four years into its experience with OCLC’s WorldShare Management Services (WMS), a NextGen catalog which merges the library’s WorldCat holdings with records from other sources ported in through a Knowledge Base. This presentation addresses several technical curiosities that users may encounter in WMS, but it also steps back to …

Collaborative Approaches To Digital Projects: Enhancing Collections Through Effective Access And Promotion, Yumi Ohira

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Academic libraries house a variety of primary historical materials in their archives and special collections. Increasingly, archivists and librarians charged with curation have turned to digitization, an effective access tool that addresses institutional constraints while offering worldwide access to collections. In addition, these digital collections can support the teaching and research mission of the university by ensuring the accessibility of the university’s historical materials of enduring value. Moreover, by using existing digital collections as a foundation for digital scholarship and digitizing physical collections in order to enhance their accessibility and visibility, libraries promote their teaching and research mission. Digitization facilitates …

Ghosted By Faculty: When You Build It And They Don’T Come, Meghan Salsbury, Heidi Blackburn, Tammi M. Owens

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Have you ever built a great online module or LibGuide only to have the collaborating faculty vanish after it’s finished? Moving face-to-face content into an online environment is a daunting task. This is especially true when the library takes on the task without prompting from the academic colleges on campus. The effort of producing engaging, interactive digital learning objects can make any librarian take pause, so when a faculty member requests it for a course, it can feel like half the battle is over. How about when you design an awesome student or faculty workshop only to have an empty …

We Can See Ourselves Here: Strategically Building A Library Collection To Support Women In It, Heidi Blackburn, Meghan Salsbury

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Representation of positive role models of all genders, races, and ethnicities is crucial for the recruitment, promotion, and retention of females in IT fields. Whether ages five or twenty-five, exposure to positive portrayals in media inspires curiosity, enhances ideas of what a career in IT could look like, and encourages young women to explore this field in school. Fiction, non-fiction, and biographical texts can highlight careers and social impacts while debunking myths, stigmas, and misconceptions about females in IT. The STEM librarian and Education librarian teamed up to change the library's outdated collection to better represent women of all backgrounds …

Academic Blasphemy: Providing Access To Textbooks In The Library, Heidi Blackburn, Tammi Owens

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

As textbook prices and tuition continue to soar, academic libraries offering textbooks as part of their circulating or reserves collections are valuable contributors to student recruitment and retention. Students need affordable and convenient access to textbooks for reasons including delayed financial aid, personal economic hardships, and just-in-time use. Textbooks at the library can fill those needs. Criss Library’s Summer 2017 Textbook Reserves Pilot Project brought together a team from several departments across campus, selected textbooks for a small number of general education courses, and marketed the program to our student success outreach partners. The goal of the project was to …

Uno Open Access Fund Statistics: What Do They Tell Us?, Yumi Ohira

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Institutional digital repositories provide open access to research outputs created within a university or research institution. Many institutions currently support open access by paying article processing charges (APC) for their affiliated faculty and researchers. The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) Libraries started the Open Access (OA) Fund program in 2014 to help cover the APC of tenure-track UNO authors. The fundamental goals of the UNO OA Fund is to include and encourage the UNO community to publish their research in an OA journal and platform, DigitalCommons@UNO (http://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/).

This poster focuses on sharing the OA Fund management and …

3,000 Post-Its: Minute Papers As Formative Assessment In Business Writing Courses, Heidi Blackburn, A. L. Walker

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

This presentation focuses on the implementation of this assessment method in the business classroom, data analysis of over 3,000 responses, and emergent themes such as student preparedness for business report writing and use of library resources. Changes to curriculum and ways instructors might use this in their own classrooms will also be shared.

Show Us Your Omaha: Combating Lgbtq+ Archival Silences, Angela J. Kroeger, Yumi Ohira, Amy Schindler

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) Libraries offers a variety of unique and specialized collections in the Archives & Special Collections (ASC) for UNO and Omaha community members. In 2015, ASC began planning for preserving and providing access to Omaha’s LGBTQ+ history through the Queer Omaha Archives. Archival silences were defined by archivist Rodney Carter as the manifestation of the actions of the powerful in denying the marginalized access to archives with further definition by archivists and researchers expanding this definition. The UNO Libraries has invested in developing digital engagement as a strategic priority through building infrastructure and expanding …

Building On Success: Using Assessment To Expand Library Outreach Services, Katie Bishop, Tammi Owens

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Discussion:

• A needs assessment intake form standardizing program director interviews is important; original system of interview notes was not viable long-term.
• Workshops were well-attended when marketed to students who were rewarded for attendance: TLC primary audience in fall, Comp II in spring.
• Unpopular fall workshops were removed from the spring schedule.
• Because roving was less successful at OMVS we will teach library skills to their peer tutoring staff.
• Data sharing with OMVS uncovered unfilled need; led to outreach plan to support underachieving Comp II students.

Poster Presentation: "The Good (Digital) Life: Promoting Diverse Educational And Archival Materials Through Exhibits", Lori Schwartz, Yumi Ohira, Jacqueline Mitchell, Angela Kroeger

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Archivists and librarians from the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) propose a poster for colleagues who promote, or would like to promote, educational and archival material through exhibits using digital platforms. It is intended for archivists and librarians who are not experts in this area and lack abundant IT support, but seek to use various technologies to expand engagement and outreach in the course of their jobs. Our content would be threefold:

1) Not all digital platforms are suitable for promotion of all types of material. Each comes with benefits and drawbacks. We will discuss our use of Omeka, …

Helming The Change: Navigating The Murky Waters When Combining Service Points, Katie Bishop, Joyce Neujahr

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Getting your crew on board; Setting sail; Course correction; and Full steam ahead.