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Role And Opportunity Of Library In The Context Of Open Science, Jitka Dobbersteinova, Jozef Dzivak

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The role of libraries on Open Science has been recognised and discussed at multiple fora and have been accepted publicly by international organisations and stakeholders. It is natural, as academic libraries are already supporting a knowledge sharing and build a common good. In Slovakia, the National Research Library plays a key role in open science movement as we work as the national body strategically coordinating open science issues accross Slovakia. We participated very actively in the bottom-up project, which is Slovak National strategy for Open Science adopted by the Slovak Government in 2021. The Strategy for years 2021 – 2028 …

Doctoral Students’ Research Data Management Competencies Based On The Quality Of Their Data Management Plans, Jukka Rantasaari

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Many international, national, and institutional principles and policies as well as a growing number of funders and publishers recommend or mandate researchers to write data management plans (DMPs) or share the underlying research data upon which the research articles are based. At the core of these alignments is to enhance research transparency, reproducibility and reliability, and the reuse of research data by bringing the data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). To help researchers fulfill this task, they need education in research data management (RDM).

The goal of this preliminary paper is to find out the quality of the DMPs …

Reckoning With Organizational Identity And Innovation In Research Libraries, Neil Romanosky

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Who or what an organization thinks it is—its sense of identity—greatly informs the choices it makes. Yet an organization’s identity, which provides coherence and stability, may constrain or enable an organization’s capacity for innovation, which at its core is about doing new or different things. This paper explores the dynamics of organizational identity and innovation through a qualitative study involving leaders from eleven U.S. and Canadian academic research libraries—organizations and a profession that are experiencing an abundance of change and identity threats. A major finding of this research is that the very process of scoping and defining innovation can enable …

Change-Readiness Scale For Library Managers: Development And Analysis, Christine M. Abrigo, Efren Jr Torres

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This study focuses on developing a scale that encompasses aspects of readiness to change by library management in dealing with the next normal in libraries. It investigates measuring change readiness in terms of library service operations, workflows, administration, programs, and spaces, which can give an overall view of a library institution's preparedness to meet new roles and expectations. While there were several readiness-for-change instruments constructed for various organizations and institutions, this study uses a two-phase approach, attempting to design an instrument and validate the items in this scale. The scale, referred to as Change-Readiness Instrument for Library Managers (CRILM), was …

Decolonizing Your Library: Metadata That Empowers, Kelley Rowan, Annia Gonzalez

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This article explores the impetus, progress, and challenges encountered in developing and managing a library-wide decolonial metadata project at Florida International University (FIU) Libraries. The goal of this initiative is to develop inclusive metadata within our digital collections and finding aids that represent the communities we serve and to develop a metadata remediation plan that ameliorates the harm done by antiquated language. In thinking about the current metadata in our collections, we are engaging a post-colonial mindset that incorporates methods of coping with the ongoing oppression of vulnerable communities. In contrast, our metadata analysis and remediation process is focused on …

Digital Fluency For Open Educational Resources: The Active Role Of Libraries In Establishing Oer In Germany's Higher Education Sector, Margaret Plank, Britta Beutnagel

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Free access to education, information and knowledge is a declared educational policy goal that all state universities in Germany strive to achieve. Open Educational Resources (OER) make an important contribution to this, as their use is open to all teaching staff and learners. The development, use and distribution of OER is currently focused by several government funding grants, but still has not fully arrived in the country’s educational practices. Reasons for this include the fact that dealing with OER requires sound knowledge much of which relates to copyright and licensing law. In addition, for the technical design and provision of …

Library-Based Data Curation, Management And Interdisciplinary Research At Florida International University: Reciprocal Use Of Data Through Collaboration, Zhaohui J. Fu, Levente Juhasz, Jill Krefft, Diana Ter-Ghazaryan, Boyuan Guan

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This paper shows the Florida International University (FIU) Libraries' efforts in research data management, implementation, and practice. The FIU Library-based data team has led research projects that are directly built upon institutional and other data repositories, data hubs, and data visualization tools, through collaboration with the user community. We will present the technology setup and configuration of such a data framework, which includes Dataverse, ESRI’s ArcGIS Data Hub, and other data collection and visualization tools. We will also discuss the fiscal and organizational structure needed to support research data management initiatives. Using a couple of our applied research projects, we …

Weaving Open Dialogue Using Canada’S Open Science Roadmap Framework, Heather Cunningham, Christina S.Y. Kim

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Open science (OS) as a movement has transformative potential in making the process of scientific research transparent and collaborative as well as the outputs freely accessible to all in society. However, these opportunities and challenges are subject to biases and entrenched in power disparities. In addition, the very broad nature of open science also invokes challenges in having meaningful discussions. In 2020, the Government of Canada unveiled a national framework, Roadmap to Open Science, which provided overarching principles and recommendations to allow federal science to be open to all. The University of Toronto (U of T) used this national open …

Towards A New Era Of Journal Publishing: The Coalition Of Diamond, Reiner Kallenborn, Tamara Froehler

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Since the early 1990s, the term Open Access has been synonymous with the principle of publishing the scientific results of taxpayer-funded research at low cost and making them available to the public free of charge. In response to increasing academic demand for at least some degree of unrestricted access to research results, this idea of Open Access has been taken up by commercial publishers and harshly altered to accommodate finance models that allow global access to scien-tific and scholarly articles on payment of a publication fee.

This has exacerbated the financial burden on universities with a strong publishing portfolio while …

Citizen Science Education In Slovak Research Library: Case Study From Central Europe, Zuzana Stozicka, Maria Habrmanova, Silvia Sofianos, Matej Harvat, Jitka Dobbersteinova, Josef Dzivak

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Citizen science (CS) as the tool engaging people in scientific projects has a great potential for strengthening valuable relationships between academic community and public, democratization of science, building new specific competencies on both sides and supporting the values of civil society. Just now Slovakia, Central European country, is starting to discover its potential. Academic libraries have a unique position to promote CS. All over the world, many academic libraries take on the role of citizen science centers. The benefits include adding an attractive reason to visit the library, opportunities to gain new skills, networking library staff with scholarly community, increasing …

Faculty Perceptions Of Oa A Quantitative Analysis, Kara Jones, Alanna Ross, Jeneice Lusk, Veronique Lecat

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

A quantitative survey of faculty perceptions of Open Access (OA)

publishing was conducted at the American University of Sharjah (AUS), a

small liberal arts style University in the United Arab Emirates.

The survey aimed to assess faculty perceptions of the credibility and

quality of OA publishing. We were curious to discover the range of

interpretations and understanding of OA amongst our faculty members

in order to inform ongoing outreach and scholarly communications

activity.

Library Research & Adobe Scholars: Lifelong Learning Through Mentoring, Ava Brillat, Lauren Fralinger, Vanessa Rodriguez

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

i. The Library Research Scholars program pairs librarian faculty mentors with undergraduates on a yearlong journey of engaging with research and creating an intellectual product on a topic of their own devising. Each librarian mentor is paired with a Library Research Scholar whose research area of interest coincides with the librarian’s own area of expertise. As mentors, librarians work actively to guide their mentees through an open-ended, research inquiry process. Librarian faculty members from all departments of the library, including Technical Services, have served as mentors to Library Research Scholars. Librarian faculty mentors guide Research Scholars through a process of …

Zoomed Out? How Burnout Was Associated With Affect, Personality, And Job Satisfaction Among Library Employees During The Pandemic, Barbara M. Sorondo, Christopher M. Jimenez, Sarah J. Hammill

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In March 2020, many libraries transitioned from onsite to remote work in an “abundance of caution” due to the coronavirus pandemic. Almost overnight, the varied interactions previously occurring across classrooms, conference rooms, offices, staff lounges, and cafes transformed into endless Zoom sessions. Many library employees consequently noted feeling greater stress, fatigue, and burnout, the latter of which is characterized by emotional exhaustion, cynicism, alienation from work activities, and reduced job performance. We measured how burnout related to affect, personality, job satisfaction, and various characteristics among library employees during this transition to remote work.

We distributed a survey to all library …

Weaving The Libraries Future Beyond Traditional Activities, Sarah J. Hammill

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This poster will share different ways to engage students and

faculty beyond the traditional activities of instruction and

collections. It will explain how one urban public research

university library has become the nexus for sharing culture,

language, and music by connecting students and faculty from

diverse backgrounds through karaoke, trivia, conversation, and

more. It will detail how libraries of all sizes, budgets, and

locations can celebrate the diversity of the campus community

through a variety of events online and/or in person. Learn how

to create a campus buzz about the library beyond study rooms

and laptops. Included in the poster …

“A Sick Eagle” And “I Am”: Hymns To Sculpture By Keats And Rilke, Ya-Feng Wu

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

At the turn of eighteenth and nineteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, sculpture came to serve as an emblem of humanity’s response to the challenges of the times. John Keats and Rainer Maria Rilke, felt compelled at their encounters with ancient Greek sculpture in the museum to reflect upon their vocation in an age disrupted by political upheaval and rampant commercialization respectively. Keats’s sonnet, “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” (1817), registers an intimation of his latent grandeur in the form of a “sick eagle,” confronting “a shadow of a magnitude.” To overcome this experience, Keats made attempts at epic on the …

Female Bonding And Marginality In Shang Wanyun’S Novella “Xialihe” (1978), Antonio Paoliello

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

This article explores the representation of homosociality between two marginalized female characters in “Xialihe” (夏麗赫) (1978), a novella by Sinophone Malaysian writer Shang Wanyun (商晚) (1952-1995). Although some scholars have suggested that the writer’s preoccupation with the intimate world of women started only in the 1980s, I argue that “Xialihe” already highlights issues such as female intimacy and women’s social marginalization. The text represents, therefore, a link between her earlier nativist production and her later more feminist approach. Additionally, I contend that, writing from a marginal position at the periphery of Malaysia’s national literary system and from a doubly-conservative environment …

The Extinction Race: Techniques Of The Human In Proust, Via Houellebecq, James Dutton

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article, “The Extinction Race: Techniques of the Human in Proust, via Houellebecq” James Dutton “reads” identity and race from the point of view of technics. Namely, he does so through the work of two nominally “Eurocentric” authors, Marcel Proust and Michel Houellebecq, observing how familial and racial resemblance is a living inscription of “lost time.” This inscription comes about through the technical means available to and constitutive of the categories which bind them. Thus, instead of furthering unfinishable racial distinctions which only serve to support discourses of racism, this article follows assertions made in the novels of …

The Silmarillion By J.R.R. Tolkien And Shahnameh By Firdausi: A Sadraic Interpretation Of Free Will And Determinism, Mohsen Hanif, Masoud Tadayoni

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Fate, doom, and free will have always proved to be controversial terms among philosophers. The chief problem is whether a deterministic power prescribes the destiny of creatures or they possess pure free will in shaping their destinies. Mulla Sadra, a 17th century Iranian philosopher, believes in a blending of determinism and free will which he develops in the terms of Qaza and Qadar respectively. He introduces a model of fate through which determinism and free will equally participate. Using the human soul as a model, Mulla Sadra points out that people meet their fate through several factors, one of which …

Poetics Of The Crystal-Image: Dreams In Mirror And Ashes Of Time Redux, Yuh-Yi Tan

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

This paper delves into recurrent dreams and related recollections in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Mirror and Wong Kar-wai’s Ashes of Time Redux. Gilles Deleuze has called Mirror a film of “turning crystal” because it reflects the two sides of the protagonist’s relationship with his mother and ex-wife by juxtaposing them in a mysterious labyrinth of past-present-future. The crystal imaging refracts four sides of two couples by showing the bonding of the parents along with the connection to his ex-wife and son. The same structure is apparent in Ashes of Time Redux where another set of two bilateral symmetries is initiated between …

The Turn Toward The Nonhuman In Susan Straight’S A Million Nightingales, Katarzyna E. Nowak-Mcneice

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

This article proposes a reading of Susan Straight’s 2006 novel A Million Nightingales in the light of critical posthumanities, focusing specifically on references to nonhuman animals. It does so in order to place Straight’s writing within the context of the recent posthumanist debate concerning the distinction between human and nonhuman animals (cf. Donna Haraway, Cary Wolfe). I claim that while addressing the “fused” discrimination (after Carol J. Adams) of sexism, racism, and speciesism, Straight’s prose can be seen as a proposition of a reconfigured subjectivity, one based on “entanglement” and “intra-action” (Karen Barad). A Million Nightingales, which – together …

Cooling Down Transmedia Storytelling, Jan Baetens, Domingo Sánchez-Mesa

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In this article we propose a reading of “Dead End Street”, one of the most successful songs of one of the most popular British pop groups of the 60s, The Kinks. However, we will not discuss the song as such, but its remediation as a music video (a practice that did not have to wait for MTV to make its appearance in mass media culture). The analysis will briefly contextualize the group, the song and the clip, but its major objective is to use the Kinks example to open a new question in the larger debate on intermediality and transmediality …

Extending The Frontiers Of The Detective Novel In Adaora Ulasi’S The Man From Sagamu, Onyeka Odoh

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Part of the beauty of detective literature is the mental engagement and psychological contest it stages between the author and the readers, as well as its fascinating probe into the nature and dynamism of crime. However, of greater import are the formulaic structural elements that define the genre—a crime, the detection of the crime, an omniscient detective who intelligently investigates the crime, and a justified resolution of all. Though the structure of Adaora Ulasi’s The Man from Sagamu does not exactly fit into the above model, it is still a detective novel. Therefore, this essay aims to propose a new …

Precarity In The Times Of Partition: Personal Vs Communal Love In Khushwant Singh’S Train To Pakistan And Saadat Hasan Manto’S “Gurmukh Singh Ki Wasiyat”, Ayesha Perveen

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

The paper studies how various shades of love respond to precarity in anarchic times by comparing the narrative representation of the aftermath of the Partition of the British colonized Subcontinent into independent countries of India and Pakistan in 1947 with particular focus on Sikh-Muslim relationships in Punjab as presented in Khushwant Singh’s novel Train to Pakistan and Saadat Hasan Manto’s short story “Gurmukh Singh ki Wasiyat.” Employing Judith Butler’s concept of precarity, the paper analyzes how both the writers sketch precarity in partition times ensuing in post-Partition communal violence and effacement of love. The selection of the texts is significant …

A Qualitative Study Of Emotions Experienced By First-Year Engineering Students During Programming Tasks, Zahra Atiq, Michael C. Loui

School of Engineering Education Faculty Publications

In introductory computer programming courses, students experience a range of emotions. Students often experience anxiety and frustration when they encounter difficulties in writing programs. Continued frustration can discourage students from pursuing engineering and computing careers. Although prior research has shown how emotions affect students’ motivation and learning, little is known about students’ emotions in programming courses. In this qualitative study of first-year engineering students taking an introductory programming course, we examined the emotions that these students experienced during programming tasks and the reasons for experiencing those emotions. Our study was grounded in the control-value theory of achievement emotions. Each research …

Implementing An Iso Standard For Snowboarding Wrist Protectors, Caroline Adams, Thomas Allen, Othmar Brugger, Heather Driscoll, Peter Gyger, Nick Hamilton, David James, Gemma Leslie, Chloe Newton-Mann, Keith Winwood

International Sports Engineering Association – Engineering of Sport

No abstract provided.

Fabrication Of Auxetic Foam In A Pressure Vessel For Sports Applications, Olly Duncan, Gemma Leslie, Stephen Moyle, David Sawtell, Tom Allen

International Sports Engineering Association – Engineering of Sport

No abstract provided.

A Fuzzy Controller Design For A Mechatronic Ski Binding, Aljoscha Hermann, Dirk Baumeister, Patrick Carqueville, Veit Senner

International Sports Engineering Association – Engineering of Sport

No abstract provided.

Does The Body Mass Influence The Winning Time In Skeleton And Luge Competitions?, Franz Konstantin Fuss

International Sports Engineering Association – Engineering of Sport

No abstract provided.

The So What Of So In Writing Center Talk, Jo Mackiewicz, Colin Payton

The Writing Center Journal

Even small, taken-for- granted words can have a strong influence on the pedagogical effect of a writing conference. In this study, we examined how experienced and trained writing center tutors’ use of the discourse marker so helped them to connect ideas and to manage their conferences with students. We examined the extent to which tutors’ use of six types of so varied according to the English L1 (EL1)/ English L2 (EL2) status of their interlocutor. We studied 26 conferences: 13 involved eight tutors working with 13 EL1 students, and 13 conferences involved eight tutors working with 13 EL2 students. We …

Decisions Squared: A Deeper Look At Student Characteristics, Performance, And Writing Center Usage In A Multilingual Liberal Arts Program In Russia, L. Ashley Squires

The Writing Center Journal

This article contributes to the ongoing discussion of student characteristics and usage/nonusage patterns in the writing center. Using a sample of 107 economics students from a selective, bilingual liberal arts program in Russia, the author finds statistically significant relationships among GPA, gender, English-language proficiency, and writing center usage. Namely, writing center usage predicts higher GPA and closes two achievement gaps related to gender and English proficiency. These findings complicate the picture presented by Lori Salem (2016), whose research showed gender, low SAT score, and being an English language learner to be strong predictors of writing center usage and produced a …