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The Dynamic And Diverse Scholarly Information Landscape: What's Next?, Theresa Borchert, Virginia Connell

Library Technology Conference

We believe that there have been recent fundamental changes in how faculty gather scholarly information, collaborate with others, and teach students. We created a faculty survey to discover how these trends are changing, how they affect access delivery, and how they might impact our teaching at a small liberal arts college. Considering these changes, are the tools we pay for and use in libraries still cost effective? If we believe scaffolding information literacy instruction is important, how should we bring students through our education systems and beyond? These are the kinds of questions we had about faculty research trends. We …

Lightning Round: Linking Users, Resources And Data Driven Decisions With Openathens, Kate Gabrio, Christopher Holly

Library Technology Conference

OpenAthens is not only a gateway between the online world of subscription-based content and those who want to access it, but it is the dashboard that can make librarians’ lives less complex. Learn how libraries of all types and sizes can utilize OpenAthens’ flexible management options to enhance your patrons’ experience with seamless access to digital libraries like HathiTrust and countless others by providing single sign-on for both on-site and remote users. We will also take a peek at how OpenAthens’ reporting features can support data driven decisions at your library.

From Name Authority To Identity Management And Scholarly Communication, Anchalee Panigabutra-Roberts

Library Technology Conference

The impact of linked data and the increasing use of researcher identifiers, such as ORCID, can be seen in the shift from the national authority control to the global and web-based identity management with linked data capability (PCC Task Group on Identity Management in NACO, 2016; Durocheret al., 2016). The presenter will discuss her evaluation of various researcher identity management systems and their metadata and a possible metadata model that is inclusive of metadata from such diverse systems. Researcher identifiers systems under evaluation are those used in the United States, with international coverage in their scopes, including both closed and …

Talking, Tools, And Trials: Building A Physical And Digital Presence For Digital Humanities In The Library By Daring Greatly, Kent Gerber

Library Technology Conference

The presenter pursued conversations, learned tools, and experimented with spaces and services at the intersection of libraries and digital humanities for the last seven years. These efforts led to a partnership in the proposal of a digital humanities major and the hiring of a new faculty member specifically for digital humanities, new teaching partnerships, and the introduction of a makerspace in the Library. This session will discuss the process and lessons learned as the Bethel University Library grew from an interested party in digital humanities to a key partner and leader on campus. We valued core concepts like committing to …

From Beast To Beauty: How We Tamed And Trimmed Our Wild Subject Research Guides, Aubrey Butlett, Heather Westerlund

Library Technology Conference

Walden University students rely heavily on the Library’s popular subject research guides to direct them to the best library resources and to build their research skills. These guides had the potential to positively impact student success, but suffered from information overload and outdated design. Over the course of several months, data was collected and analyzed via Google Analytics, heat map software, anonymous session replays, and feedback solicited from students and staff. This session will discuss the data and analysis, our design process, and the final product, including a discussion about our initial findings post-redesign.

Watson Beyond Jeopardy!: A Look Inside Next-Generation Search Engines, Jay Achenbach, Brooke Roegge

Library Technology Conference

Most popular search engines rely on keywords: a user submits an inquiry to the search engine and results that match the inquiry is returned. Next-generation search, however, moves beyond keywords and expands search into new territories. In this session, we'll explore how next-generation search engines use cognitive computing, natural language processing, and other features to serve up results that are tailored to the client and anticipate their data needs - in some cases, before a search is even performed. We'll also take a peek under the hoods of Tensorflow, Google Cloud Platform, and IBM's Watson Explorer, a next-generation search engine …

The Wild And Unwieldy World Of Retractions, Amy Riegelman, Caitlin Bakker

Library Technology Conference

Scholarly publications are retracted for a plethora of reasons (e.g., irreproducible research, data fraud, fake peer review, honest error), and have been trending upward in recent years. The Committee on Publication Ethics and other associations have guidelines for how retractions should be identified, and studies have found the notifications to be inconsistent across platforms. Come to this session to learn about the various complexities of retractions and gain an awareness of tools that help users discover status changes. The presenters will demonstrate CrossMark, Retraction Watch Database and more!

Add A Little Flair To Your Library: An Incentive Program For Student Workers, Mackenzie Morning

Library Technology Conference

Are your student workers unmotivated? Do you struggle with consistency of service depending on who is doing the job? Are you searching for a way to show your appreciation to your employees? Maybe you just need to add a little Flair! Library Flair is a non-monetary student worker incentive program developed at Winona State University’s Krueger Library. Grounded in the knowledge that appreciation and recognition are the cornerstones of workplace motivation, Library Flair created friendly competition among student workers, which resulted in increased workplace morale and improved job performance. Including student perspectives, this presentation will cover policy changes that spurred …

We Can't Do It Alone: Collaborating Across Campus To Support Data Management, Cara Martin-Tetreault, Sue O'Dell, Barbara Levergood

Oberlin Digital Scholarship Conference

Meeting growing compliance requirements for researchers and institutions and providing the institutional resources and infrastructure within a liberal arts setting necessitates innovative collaborations and creative outreach. The presenters from the College’s Library and Office of Sponsored Research described how they work across departments to provide resources for data management, facilitate faculty understanding and compliance, and offer outreach. In addition, they led a discussion about how and where to start a cross-campus collaboration, the role of an institutional repository on a small campus, and lessons learned.

Free For All: Opening Collections And Supporting Multi-Institutional Efforts With Internet Archive, Patrick R. Wallace

Oberlin Digital Scholarship Conference

Patrick Wallace led a collaborative, information-sharing session on integrating Internet Archive (IA) into digital archive workflows and technical infrastructures. Key topics included how IA fits alongside other digital archive and repository platforms, using scripts & software to support batch processing and API interactions, and leveraging IA to help support coordinated digital preservation projects with smaller memory institutions.

Omeka Mania, Megan Mitchell

Oberlin Digital Scholarship Conference

The number of students whose Omeka work is supported in some way by the Oberlin College Library has gone from 5 in the spring of 2013 to 145 in the 2015-2016 academic year. Learn how the library went from managing a handful of Omeka-based projects in a three year period to seven classes in one year, covering growing awareness of the Omeka platform on campus, faculty consultations, student training, documentation, peer student support, and more.

At The Intersection Of Technology And Special Collections: A Program Approach To Collaborative Teaching And Student Engagement, Benjamin Panciera, Rebecca Parmer

Oberlin Digital Scholarship Conference

Staff from the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives discussed their participation in a program to facilitate the introduction of new technologies into the classroom. In 2014-2015 they engaged two East Asian history courses in a project to digitize, transcribe, and annotate a 19th century journal detailing the voyage of a young man from Connecticut to Hong Kong. The project was selected as an ideal means to connect students with tools and techniques critical to primary source research and to use emerging technologies to bring archival resources to new audiences.

The Next Thousand Days: Planning For Digital Scholarship Engagement Into The Future, Kris Macpherson

Oberlin Digital Scholarship Conference

A discussion that focused on the incorporation of digital scholarship into reference/research and instruction departments, including if/how our new undertakings broaden our mission and learning outcomes, our roles and job descriptions, and the ways we collaborate with other groups in our libraries, IT and across campus. How does the inclusion of DS in campus courses complement, incorporate or compete with information literacy? How do we see ourselves moving forward -- what are we adding and what are we dropping, and how are we retraining ourselves to incorporate digital scholarship into our programs?

Enriching Student Learning With Data Visualization, Adam Konczewski, Louis Johnston, Diana Symons, Bennett Frensko

Oberlin Digital Scholarship Conference

In this workshop, participants were led through our collaborative process: how we divided up tasks; identified appropriate learning objectives; crafted assignments; selected data sets; and decided on software (Tableau). We discussed what’s worked, what still needs tweaking, and how we plan to expand data visualization support to faculty members in other departments. Participants left this session with a better understanding of how they can support data visualization in the classroom, and we’ll provide lists of resources and training opportunities that will help them get started.

Lever Press Panel, Rebecca Welzenbach, Teresa Fishel, Karil Kucera

Oberlin Digital Scholarship Conference

This panel introduced and discussed the Lever Press, a new publishing initiative for peer-reviewed, open access, digitally native scholarly monographs supported by more than 40 liberal arts colleges.

• Rebecca Welzenbach, University of Michigan, "A Place to Stand: Fulcrum and Lever Press"
• Terri Fishel, Macalester College, "Lever Press: From Start to Present"
• Karil Kucera, St. Olaf College, "Publish or Perish: A Faculty Perspective on Digital Publishing"

Seeking Serendipity With Summon: How Web Scale Discovery Changed How We Think About Teaching And Reference, Jennifer Dejonghe, Michelle Filkins, Alec Sonsteby

Library Technology Conference

Has your library struggled to justify purchasing a discovery tool? Are you skeptical that they do all they claim to do? Librarians at Metropolitan State University implemented a Web Scale Discovery tool in 2012 after becoming convinced that we needed to radically change how we provide access to our collections. In this presentation we will discuss how we implemented Serials Solutions Summon and how it is transforming the way we approach reference, instruction, and acquisitions.

Dataverse: A Free, Hosted Solution For Social Sciences Data, Linda Eells, Julie Kelly, Amy West

Library Technology Conference

Scientists are being asked to keep and share their research data, and librarians are beginning to have a role in the curation of that data. Working with a small economics association, the librarians who coordinate AgEcon Search worked with the data services librarian at the University of Minnesota to select Dataverse (http://thedata.org/, hosted at Harvard) for the data related to the association’s journal. Dataverse is free, has good documentation, and is optimized for social sciences data. This poster presentation will give the reasons for our selection of Dataverse and give an overview of our implementation of this project.

Accidentally Embedded, Amy Dumouchel

Library Technology Conference

Enrollment in one Suffolk University’s graduate political science programs has provided this Electronics Resources Librarian with a view of faculty, graduate, and undergraduate information behaviors from ‘in the wild.’ This poster presentation will document how this experience has not only served to provide better hands on understanding of the department’s needs, it has also served to identify an under-used method of library outreach.

Basic Elements Of Responsive Web Design, Jason Bengtson

Library Technology Conference

Mobile sites are a clunky way to solve a common problem; engaging with mobile users. Responsive Web Design offers ways to create a single site that responds dynamically to the device viewing it. Learn the basics of how to employ this approach, including the use of media calls and tools such as "smartlinking" to make your site work on all sorts of devices!

Low-Skilled Adult Learners And Learning Technologies: Strategies Supporting Inclusion, Tom Cytron-Hysom, Adam Kieffer, Julia Tabbut, Jen Vanek, Jennifer Weaverling

Library Technology Conference

Lower-skilled adult learners likely lack print or digital literacy skills to independently use self-directed interactive websites like LiveMocha and learning systems like MOOCs. The rapid pace of technological development is increasing the digital divide, further limiting participation of lower-skilled people in higher-education and employment. In the session participants will consider strategies for addressing the issue and learn about efforts in Minnesota to provide support for lower-skilled adults working to become self-directed, digitally literate learners.

The Art Of Redirection: Putting Mobile Devices Where You Want Them, Jason A. Bengtson

Library Technology Conference

Mobile technology has exploded, with many libraries experiencing a surge in access to their resources through mobile devices. In response, many institutions have created or are creating mobile sites designed to accommodate themselves to the unique strictures of these devices. One hurdle faced by these organizations, however, is getting mobile users to those sites. One solution is mobile redirect scripts, which automatically redirect mobile users from a regular page to a mobile page. These scripts come in various forms and present unique challenges to libraries. How are these scripts created? What triggers can or should be used to activate them? …

Optimizing The Ipad - Apps That Help You Work Smarter, And Some Just To Have Fun!, Beth Hillemann, Teresa Fishel

Library Technology Conference

We will be presenting on various apps that are available for personal and professional productivity on an iPad. Although our focus will be on use in higher education, this session will be informative for any library worker interested in knowing more about the iPad. For example, we know iPads are being distributed to children in elementary schools throughout Minnesota. We'll be covering applications that include:

• Readers - pdf, RSS, and e-books
• Document/Image editing
• Video production
• Whiteboard displays (AirSketch)
• Recording/Note Taking (Notability)

and lots more to explore! We will mainly be presenting various options, without hands on. We will provide a …

E-Books 411, Kim Edson, Brian Lind, Frances Singh, Kate Borowske

Library Technology Conference

Learn about how two libraries - Rochester Public Library and Hamline University - manage the e-books that they offer to their user communities. During this hands-on session, we will discuss eBook best practices for a library setting and the challenges and opportunities in offering this type of content.

The Rochester Public Library's OverDrive and NetLibrary digital collections will be demonstrated with the focus on the downloadable ePub ebook format. Participants will be provided with the opportunity to download a digital title from the Rochester Public Library's digital collection and will have a variety of eReaders on hand for demonstration purposes. …

Using Libguides For Community Center Outreach, Chris Childs

Library Technology Conference

The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences collaborated with the University of Iowa s Institute for Clinical and Translational Science s Community Engagement program to provide access to consumer health information for patients and their families at four Iowa community health centers based across the state in Davenport, Waterloo, Des Moines, and Sioux City. These communities were targeted based on the number of underserved populations in the area.

The goal of this project is for the patients to better understand their health issues and be more active in their health care or their loved one s care. This will be …

Turning The Page: New Access Strategies For Historical News Content, Jane Wong, Dennis Meissner, Noah Skogerboe, Sarah Quimby

Library Technology Conference

Faced in 2009 with the loss of its microfilming program the Minnesota Historical Society has sought to rethink how it will provide access to the rich and popular content found in Minnesota newspapers. Several linked digital projects are emerging to both mitigate the loss and to move historical news content access to Web space, perhaps to the ultimate benefit of public audiences. Three speakers from MHS will summarize the emergent projects and will offer an early evaluation of the benefits and liabilities of each. These projects include the repository s National Digital Newspaper Program participation (and a couple related local …

E-Book Management – It Sounds Serial!, Carolyn J. Deluca, Dani L. Roach

Library Technology Conference

Beyond the issues of how e-books are viewed or used by patrons, challenges exist for the library staff managing them. From acquisition to delivery, this hybrid may behave more like an e-journal or a database than a book. E-books make us stretch existing management tools to accommodate them.

Is an e-book more like an e-journal or printed book, or a different creature altogether? Is it possible to manage e-books within existing e-resources infrastructure? Our presentation will review the main issues surrounding purchasing, delivering and managing e-books. We will share the strategies and decisions that have worked for us.

Showcasing Student, Faculty, And Campus Publications In A Small Liberal Arts College Institutional Repository, Janet Sietmann

Library Technology Conference

Institutional Repositories (IRs) offer a place to showcase student, faculty and staff scholarship. In addition, they provide an opportunity to have campus-wide discussions about many topics related to scholarly publishing.

In this presentation I will share Macalester’s experience in planning the IR, beginning with the need to provide open access for student honors projects, and I will highlight the expansion of our collections to include student award winning papers, PowerPoint presentations, and transcripts of college oral histories. I will tell how our efforts to populate our IR led to new opportunities to work collaboratively with faculty. And I will share …

Digital Textbooks: Reading The Landscape, Frederic W. Murray

Library Technology Conference

The migration of books to electronic screens has been accelerating with the introduction of mobile reading on Kindles, i Phones and Sony Readers and the growing power of Google's Book Search engine. The advent of digital textbooks is already upon us. The workshop will survey the current landscape; examine the potential benefits, and confront existing barriers surrounding the technology of digital textbooks. We will examine how other institutions of Higher Education have incorporated this technology into their existing framework and what steps your University or School might take to benefit from the advances being made in the digitization of textbooks.