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Should We Flip The Script?: A Literature Review Of Deficit-Based Perspectives On First-Year Undergraduate Students’ Information Literacy, Tatiana Pashkova-Balkenhol, Mark Lenker, Emily Cox, Elizabeth Kocevar-Weidinger

Library Faculty Publications

This mixed method systematic review considers recent literature on the information literacy (IL) skills of first-year undergraduate students. The review uncovers the following themes: faculty and librarians perceive first-year students as lacking IL skills; students have varying perceptions of their IL skills; assessment studies yield conflicting findings on first-year students' IL; communication between high school and college librarians is challenging; and some IL researchers emphasise and leverage first-year students' prior knowledge and experience in IL instruction. These themes emerge from extensive searches in four research databases for scholarly and professional articles written in English within the past ten years. With …

Reframing Library Student Employment As A High-Impact Practice: Implications From Case Studies, Erin Rinto, Rosan Mitola, Kate Otto

Library Faculty Publications

The purpose of this paper is to discuss how academic libraries can directly contribute to campus student success initiatives through student employment programs. Case studies from the perspectives of two supervisors demonstrate how library student employment programs can intentionally incorporate the characteristics of High-Impact Practices. This paper builds upon a previously published systematic review of the academic library literature on student employment, which found a significant gap in the discussion of employment as a mechanism for learning and retention. This paper aims to address this gap by focusing on practical applications for creating more learner-centered student employment programs.

Inclusive Lgbtqia+ Education: Why It’S Important And How To Be An Advocate For Change, Amanda Melilli

Library Faculty Presentations

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“That’S Not Real Reading”: Making The Case For Graphic Novel Inclusion In Every Classroom, Amanda Melilli, Kate Covintree, Alicia Abdul

Library Faculty Presentations

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Merged Nces Academic Library Survey 1996 - 2016 Dataset, Starr Hoffman Phd, Samantha Godbey

Library Faculty Datasets

This data set consists of data on academic libraries in the United States from 1996-2016. Multiple data sources from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) were merged, as detailed in the comments below. See also Hoffman, S., & Godbey, S. (2020). US Academic Libraries' Staffing and Expenditure Trends (1996–2016). Library Management, 41(4/5), 247-268.

See also: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/lib_datasets/4/.

In-House Vs. Outsourced Digitization: Similarities, Key Differences And Pitfalls To Avoid, Marina Georgieva

Library Faculty Presentations

With the rise of digitizing archival collections across academic and public libraries, more librarians are getting involved in project management, but not all of them have expertise or relevant background in digitization or managing projects. In this 60-minute webinar, you’ll gain tips and strategies for managing digitization projects.

This 60-min webinar is designed to help professionals relatively new to digitization and project management as it outlines some similarities and key differences between managing in-house digitization projects vs outsourcing large-scale digitization projects. Digital project management and digitization expert Marina Georgieva compares and contrasts some important project components such as technology selection, …

From Responsible Custody To Responsible Stewardship, Michelle Light

Library Faculty Publications

Light analyzes "responsible custody," one of eleven core values of archivists as described by the Society of American Archivists. After reviewing professional literature about postcustodial debates in the electronic records environment, advocacy for cultural sensitivity in native or colonial archives, and new models for stewardship associated with the community archives movement, Light proposes to revise this core value as "responsible stewardship."

Information Literacy: What's The Question?, Mark Lenker

Library Faculty Publications

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You Have To Work For It: Transitioning From Passive To Active Diversity Recruitment, Amy E. Tureen

Library Faculty Presentations

Perhaps the most interesting thing about UNLV Libraries' transition from passive to active diversity recruitment is that the transition has been the organic & iterative. Individual choices made by specific hiring managers & search committees were repeated and improved upon by subsequent committees & hiring managers, slowly filtering up the organization until such choices were codified by HR and administration. In our experience, anyone can participate in promoting active diversity recruitment. Such initiatives do not need to come exclusively from the top down.

Honoring The Unique Strengths Of First-Gen Students Through Community-Based Participatory Research, Rebekah D'Amato, Priscilla Gutierrez, Bibi Lopez, Eduardo Martinez, David Ramos Candelas, Chelsea Heinbach, Rosan Mitola

Library Faculty Presentations

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Successful Management Of An Outsourced Large-Scale Digitization Newspaper Project, Marina Georgieva

Library Faculty Publications

This article uses the case study of the Nevada Digital Newspaper Project (https://nvdnp.wordpress.com/), an extension of the National Digital Newspaper Program (https://www.loc.gov/ndnp/), to introduce proven strategies on how to successfully manage a large-scale digitization project. It provides tips on how to stay within the timeline and deliver products with outstanding quality, leveraging limited human resources, and engaging an external digitization vendor. It discusses practical project management techniques and tools, strategies for establishing collaborative vendor partnerships, and strategies for efficient communication with stakeholders.

Virtual Cohorts As A Team Building And Problem-Solving Tool, Amy E. Tureen, Erick Lemon, Joyce Martin, Starr Hoffman, Mindy Thuna, Willie Miller

Library Faculty Presentations

Foster nascent relationships forged at LIAL 2018. Expand participants' understanding of the "four frames" of academic leadership. Increase comfort writing and assessing case studies. Explore different approaches to common leadership scenarios. Use technology to develop cohort culture.

For First-Gens By First-Gens: A Student Led, Strengths-Based Study To Guide Teaching And Outreach Practices In Academic Libraries, Chelsea Heinbach, Bibiana Lopez, Eduardo Martinez-Flores, David Ramos, Rebekah D'Amato, Priscilla Gutierez, Rosan Mitola

Library Faculty Presentations

We are first-gen students, from an array of backgrounds, working in the Mason Undergraduate Peer Research Coach Program. This program creates an environment for college students to achieve academic success, personal growth, and excel in their chosen field of study. We co-teach alongside librarians and lead library outreach initiatives as student ambassadors.

Scholarly Communication Initiatives Department Jan 2018 - June 2019 Report, Scholarly Communication Initiatives

Scholarly Communication Initiatives Department Reports

This report highlights the major accomplishments of the Scholarly Communication Initiatives Department (SCI) with a special emphasis on statistics from Digital Scholarship@UNLV, our institutional repository. The report reflects activities from January 2018 through June 2019.

The significant highlights during this time include the 5 millionth download of a digital item from Digital Scholarship@UNLV, adding over 3,000 full-text theses and dissertations written at UNLV from 1977-2008, establishing pilot projects to support open access and research data management efforts, releasing the 2013 and 2017 Solar Decathlon collections, and hosting an ambitious and engaging Open Access Week slate of activities.

Incubating Innovation: How Hospitality Librarians Support Entrepreneurship, Lateka J. Grays, Robert Rippee

Library Faculty Presentations

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Standards: How Unlv Libraries Provides Access, Susan B. Wainscott, Richard Zwiercan

Library Faculty Presentations

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Library Subscriptions And Open Access: Highlights From The University Of California Negotiations With Elsevier, Cory Tucker, Andrea Wirth, Annette Day

Library Faculty Publications

On February 28, 2019, the University of California (UC) System announced the cancellation of their $50 million journal subscription deal with Elsevier. The impetus behind the UC decision comes from two issues. Firstly, the increasing costs of journal subscriptions in a landscape where library budgets remain flat. Secondly, the effort to shift the journal publishing model away from subscriptions to a sustainable open access model. The following paper will provide background on issues with the scholarly communication process, academic library budgets and open access initiatives. Additional information will focus on the impact of journal subscription deals with large commercial publishers …

Data Remediation At Scale: How To Clean Up Your Metadata Quickly And Effectively Using Excel, Marina Georgieva

Library Faculty Presentations

Metadata remediation is inevitable – at some point or another all institutions need to clean-up legacy metadata of their digital collections so it conforms to new standards and to updated metadata application profile, or simply to prepare it for migration. Optimized metadata is vital for improved search experience and easy discovery of digital objects. This session will demonstrate how Excel can be a very handy tool for manipulating and cleaning up exported non-MARC metadata from ContentDM. The presenter will manipulate a metadata spreadsheet from a real digital collection demonstrating the following:

• Data remediation using some advanced Excel functions that allow …

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Metadata: An Overview For Digital Collections, Marina Georgieva

Library Faculty Presentations

Overview of the metadata role in resource description, resource discovery and website faceting. The presentation discusses metadata consistency, granularity and types (descriptive, administrative and structural) with emphasis on technical and preservation metadata. The presentation introduces Dublin Core element set as well as other popular metadata schemas and their applications. The presentation also outlines the benefits of metadata reuse and the significant role of the Metadata application profile in structuring, normalizing, disambiguating and making metadata consistent and interoperable. Additionally, it points out the significance of using controlled vocabularies and their role in disambiguating words, synonym control and consistency across collections. Introduces …

Engaging Student Veterans As Researchers: Libraries Initiating Campus Collaborations, Mark N. Lenker Iii, Melissa Bowles-Terry

Library Faculty Presentations

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Discover A New World Of Reading: Making The Case For Graphic Novels As "Real" Books In Secondary Education, Amanda Melilli

Library Faculty Presentations

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Career Readiness & Development: What To Expect When You’Re Expecting To Graduate With A Mlis Series, Lateka J. Grays

Library Faculty Presentations

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Creating An Outreach Story: Assessment Results, Strategic Planning, And Reflection, Rosan Mitola, Amy Wainwright

Library Faculty Publications

Academic library outreach and student engagement initiatives often strive to connect students to learning spaces, resources, and experts. Librarians do this work to raise awareness of services and to remove barriers so students feel more comfortable seeking help. Additionally, these activities promote the academic library as a hub of engagement, innovation, and continual learning to various user groups. Unfortunately, because these learning experiences can often be unique or serendipitous, measuring how these efforts are contributing to the library’s teaching, learning, and research missions can be difficult. This paper focuses on how academic librarians can align their outreach to strategic goals …

The Librarian Parlor: Demystifying The Research Process Through Community, Chelsea Heinbach, Charissa Powell, Hailley Fargo, Nimisha Bhat

Library Faculty Publications

Academic LIS researchers have inconsistent research responsibilities and support depending on their institution and position. Some are offered time, mentorship, and professional development funding in order to accomplish goals, while others are asked to conduct research on their own. This paper identifies gaps in our profession’s support for those interested in pursuing, developing, and publishing library research. Presenters also share the process they went through and lessons learned from creating an online community for new LIS researchers called LibParlor.

From Temporary To Transformative: Leveraging Externally-Funded Special Collections Projects As Organizational Learning And Development Opportunities, Cory K. Lampert, Marina Georgieva

Library Faculty Presentations

This poster proposes an academic library approach to addressing temporary project staffing in Special Collections and Archives with a focus on organizational transformation, professional development, and mentoring. The strategy includes both managerial perspective and insights from a visiting faculty librarian on key aspects of hiring, supporting, and leveraging temporary professional staff for impactful organizational development. While the focus of temporary projects is often completing deliverables on time, this poster presents three areas of layered learning outcomes that leverage project work as a catalyst for organizational development, managerial development, and new professional mentoring.

Creating Websites And Leading Librarians To A New Level Of Project Engagement, Marina Georgieva

Library Faculty Presentations

The 90-min workshop covers the main website components and some fundamental tools for static web design. The session has a practical component with hands-on activities - during that part the participants can actively build a custom WordPress website.

The session is divided as follows:

Part I (45 min) features 20 min presentation of basic web design concepts, tools and technologies and 25 min demo of the back-end of 2 static WordPress websites (free and paid versions)
Part II (45 min) features hands-on guided activities to design a new WordPress website from scratch

Attendees will learn web design fundamentals and some …

Metadata Remediation: Updates, Procedures, Workflows, Marina Georgieva

Library Faculty Presentations

The presentation is a brief update on ongoing metadata remediation projects, procedures and workflows. It discusses some patterns emerging from data clean-up and possible ways for streamlining the process by developing more efficient workflows.

University Libraries Co-Curricular Outreach Plan July 2017 – June 2019, Rosan Mitola

Instruction Session and Workshop Materials

The purpose of this document is to align new co-curricular outreach efforts for undergraduate and graduate students with the University Libraries’ Strategic Framework

July 2017 - June 2019. The University Libraries contribute to student learning that takes place outside of the curriculum through a number of ways, throughout the academic year. This plan will be adapted and updated as needed to stay in alignment with the work of the Educational Initiatives department and the University Libraries.

Digitization Workflows: Streamlining The Digitization Process And Distinguishing The Peculiarities In Capturing Various Archival Materials, Marina Georgieva

Library Faculty Publications

A case study based on one librarian’s experience that shares some of the practices, issues, challenges and tips related to making the digitization process more robust. They are universal and equally helpful for large-scale and smaller scale digitization projects.

Indignation In Political Discourse Thoughts Toward An Information Literacy Curriculum, Mark N. Lenker Iii

Library Faculty Publications

Indignant speech blares throughout our polarized political climate, particularly in the press, in social media, and in campaign messaging. Indignation and polarization reinforce each other: defensiveness toward dissenting perspectives gets voiced as angry judgment, and fire-breathing rhetoric on wedge issues drives individuals more deeply into one ideological camp or another. A recent Pew study suggests that prevailing habits among consumers of political media, particularly selective exposure to media that confirms one’s existing outlook, serve only to accelerate the cycle of outrage and division.1 This pervasive and growing dynamic is essentially an information problem; as such, a timely and relevant education …