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Population Health Matters (Formerly Health Policy Newsletter)

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Value-Based Models Entering Specialties- The Oncology Care Model, Valerie P. Csik Mph, Cpps

Population Health Matters (Formerly Health Policy Newsletter)

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A Message From The Dean

Population Health Matters (Formerly Health Policy Newsletter)

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From Controversy To Conservation: How The Environmental Movement Shaped The Creation Of Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, Rainey Mckenna

Sustainability Seminar Series

Over the last 145 years, presidents and congress have established over 400 National Park Service sites to preserve and tell the story of our country. Collectively, these places preserve our ecological and cultural heritage and reflect our national values. Writer and historian Wallace Stegner called our national parks "the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst." Yet many of our national parks are forged in controversy. In this presentation, Rainey McKenna will examine how public protest and the emerging environmental movement shaped the creation of Delaware Water Gap …

Is The Book Really Better?: Comparing The Facets Of Fantasy Apparent In C.S. Lewis's The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe And Its 2005 Cinematic Adaptation, Brianna J. Manzano

The Kabod

“Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids” (Lewis 2). Sixty-eight years ago, these two simple lines introduced the world to the Pevensie children, who were destined to travel through a wardrobe into one of literature’s most creative, compelling, and enveloping fantasy worlds. Seven books later, the Pevensie children were kings and queens, yes, but considering the hugely expanded scope, they were merely inhabitants of the sprawling lore of The Chronicles of …

Closing Keynote: Platform Capitalism And The Governance Of Knowledge Infrastructure, Leslie Chan

Digital Initiatives Symposium

The dominant academic publishers are busy positioning themselves to monetize not only on content, but increasingly on data analytics and predictive products on research assessment and funding trends. Their growing investment and control over the entire knowledge production workflow, from article submissions, to metrics to reputation management and global rankings means that researchers and their institutions are increasingly locked in to the publishers’ “value chain”. I will discuss some of the implications of this growing form of “surveillance capitalism” in the higher education sector and what it means in terms of the autonomy of the researchers and the academy. The …

Shakespeare After Prison, Lesley Currier, Dameion Brown

Community Engagement Theme

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Service Dog-Human Relationship: Do Disabled Individuals Experience Separation Anxiety When Separated From Their Service Dog?, Jessica Griggs, Annie Shane

Undergraduate Library Research Awards

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Evaluating Morningstar Wide Moat Stocks Through The Business Cycle, Zachary Bishkin

Undergraduate Library Research Awards

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Willem Surenhuys’ Latin Translation Of The Mishnah: The Ideal City Of Panel 10, Jeannette A. Martinez

Undergraduate Library Research Awards

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Student Voices: Recording The First-Generation Experience, Jane D. Monson, Laura Uglean Jackson, Cynthia Mitchell

Digital Initiatives Symposium

In this session, an English instructor, digital initiatives librarian, and archivist at the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) will discuss an inter-departmental collaboration that integrates a digital story-telling project into undergraduate instruction. This project focuses on first-generation students, a population that is growing at colleges and universities across the nation. At UNC, approximately 40% of the undergraduate population is classified as first-generation. The UNC Libraries has partnered with the Center for Human Enrichment, which provides support for first-generation students through instruction, tutoring, and advising, to develop the Student Voices project. This innovative collaboration captures oral histories documenting the first-generation freshman …

What If We Get Open Access?: A New Case For Undergraduate Scientific Literacy, Aj Boston

Digital Initiatives Symposium

For the educators among us who care about the Open Access Movement, are we prepared for what comes in a post-OA world? Suppose that Plan-S (or another initiative with similar objectives) succeeds in making vast quantities of previously paywalled scientific literature openly available to anyone with an Internet connection.

On one hand, it's the utopia we've fought for: our best ideas, set free to circulate among the minds who will incorporate them toward solving the big issues humanity faces. On the other hand, what if scientific literature becomes weaponized in the same way that journalism has in recent years, where …

Using Free & Open Tools: A Holistic Selection Process Centered On Digital Literacy, Tim Miller

Digital Initiatives Symposium

This session will cover free and open tools as well as teaching strategies for creating and implementing digital/web literacy and digital media instruction. The session will also be useful for people looking for free and open tools for their own projects, including how to get started and how to learn necessary new skills. Considerations such as terms of use, privacy, accessibility and licensing can be as or more important than functionality. Additionally, adopting open tools can advance conversations about open licensing which, in turn, can promote the application of creative commons and public domain licenses to appropriate works. Knowing about …

Radical Collaboration: Designing Libraries To Advance Open Scholarship, Greg Eow

Digital Initiatives Symposium

In 2016, after a year-long effort involving over two dozen faculty from multiple disciplines, MIT released the MIT Future of Libraries Report, which articulates a vision for libraries that advances “the promise of a truly open and interactive digital library of knowledge.” Implementing this vision requires a reevaluation of nearly all aspects of library work, from organizational design, systems, and even a new articulation of core professional values and identities. This talk will focus on the concept of radical collaboration, in the context of remaking libraries to advance an open knowledge future.

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Greg Eow is the Associate Director for …

Margaret Chase Smith's 1972 Election: The Fall Of An Institutional Giant, Allison Kobzowicz

Senior Honors Theses

Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress and was well-known by her constituents in Maine as a principled, integrous public servant. In 1972, after 24 years in the Senate, Margaret Chase Smith lost her first ever election to democratic challenger, William Hathaway. An examination of the primary source documents available at the Margaret Chase Smith Library in Skowhegan, Maine, as well as local and national newspaper coverage, finds three main reasons that Smith suffered defeat: Smith was unwilling to let go of her traditional way of campaigning, she was berated by a press …

Elementary, My Dear Watson: An Undergraduate Comic Books Course Using Enterprise Ai And Tei, Steven W. Holloway, Brian Flota

Digital Initiatives Symposium

Two librarians taught an Honors course at James Madison University titled “Comic Books, Analysis, and Digital Scholarship.” This non-coding-requirement course introduced students to the critical study of comic books by way of DH and online tools like IBM Watson. JMU Libraries has a growing collection of comic books (more than 10,000 single issues) and a commitment to foster DH research, hence rationale for the course. Students were introduced to online annotation platforms and comic-book-extended TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), using spreadsheet entry to code a Golden Age comic book in the public domain. In addition, the students used enterprise AI (IBM-Watson) …

After The Literature Review And Before The Manuscript - Supporting The Middle Of The Research Lifecycle With Data, Gis, And Digital Scholarship Services, Annelise Sklar, Stephanie Labou

Digital Initiatives Symposium

Traditional library advisory services focus on the beginning and end of the research lifecycle, but what about students and researchers who need help with the steps in the middle? This talk will highlight UC San Diego's public service support for data collection, management, analysis, and visualization. In particular, we will highlight our Data & GIS Lab; Digital Media Lab; Digital Scholarship services, including KNIT, our digital commons; Software/Data Carpentry and other workshops; and consultation services for students and researchers.

Building A Community Learning Laboratory Through Digital Initiatives, Sonia Chaidez, Stephanie Carmona

Digital Initiatives Symposium

How can digital initiatives help to build a community of life-long learners? It begins with creative collaboration. We developed a partnership between the College Library and the Education Department to launch a learning laboratory that partners adult learners from our neighboring community with our undergraduate students to create authentic learning experiences centered on building digital literacy skills. From photo archives to digital storytelling to creating digital maps- this partnership is helping to build and contribute to digital platforms for the populations that will use them to continue the cycle of life-long teaching and learning. This process also helps to give …

Analog To Digital Preservation Of The “Women Trailblazers In The Law” Oral History Project, Camelia Naranch, Carol Wilson

Digital Initiatives Symposium

In November 2018, Stanford Law School Library unveiled to the public an online exhibit of more than 100 oral histories of American women lawyers, scholars, judges, and government officials who helped diversify the legal profession in the late twentieth century. Called the “Women Trailblazers in the Law” Oral History Project, it is a collaboration between Stanford Law School Library and the American Bar Association. Our presentation discusses the details of the analog to digital preservation process, whereby the physical collection was converted into digital formats suitable for long term archival storage as well as online access for the general public. …

Trust, Prestige, And Profit In Scholarly Publishing: Apcs, Green Open Access, And Hybrid Journals, Leila Belle Sterman

Digital Initiatives Symposium

In the evolving landscape of scholarly communication, there have been numerous attempts to shift general practice toward open. This session will investigate several models that increase open access, the pros and cons of each, and the lessons we, as practitioners, can learn from each as we continue to build and advocate for the structure of a more open scholarly ecosystem.

Metadata And Minerals : A Library – Museum Pilot Project, Christine Baker

Digital Initiatives Symposium

The Arthur Lakes Library and the Geology Museum at Colorado School of Mines (Mines) worked together to explore ways to promote the Museum’s unique collections. A task force formed to conduct a pilot project that involved creating digital access, via Mines Institutional Repository, to a set of the Museum’s mineral specimens from Creede Mining District. The Metadata Librarian collaborated with the Museum Collections Manager throughout this process to establish metadata requirements and workflows. This presentation explains how the pilot project came about and describes the preparation, metadata and workflow development, as well as the collaborative experience and evolution of this …

Embedded Instruction Collaboration: The Case Of The Ball State Digital History Portal, Douglas Seefeldt, Randi Beem, James Bradley

Digital Initiatives Symposium

This interdisciplinary panel will discuss a long-term project, “The Ball State Digital History Portal,” as a case study in digital initiatives in instruction and undergraduate research that features a collaboration between disciplinary faculty, an archivist, and a digital librarian. In this course, “History in the Digital Age,” undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of majors research, create, and build digital thematic research collection projects on topics in university history that aim to answer scholarly inquiries by conducting primary source research, selecting and digitizing archival materials, and creating metadata to accompany their curated items. An important part of the collaboration …

A Global Reach: Use Of The Nebraska Digital Commons In Developing Regions, Paul Royster

Digital Initiatives Symposium

An analysis of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Nebraska) Digital Commons data revealed that developing countries comprise over 33 percent of all downloads and 57 percent of international downloads. This presentation will summarize the use of the Nebraska Digital Commons by countries in South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific, and Sub-Saharan Africa, the three regions where the most developing country downloads occurred. This summary includes the types of resources being downloaded and the types of organizations where the downloads occurred.

Discussion will focus on how further research can be conducted on whether such use of the Nebraska Digital Commons by …

Lightning Talk: Pushing Pcp And Dismissing Diversity: Platforms, Competition, And Profit, Paige Mann

Digital Initiatives Symposium

As publishers grow into data corporations, their surveillance of what we do and how we compare with one another increases their ability to influence standards of excellence. This profitable arrangement pits scholar communities against one another on a global scale to the benefit of the wealthy West perpetuating our dominance in scholarship. This talk frames academic-led publishing as a strategy for diversity and inclusion in scholarly publishing.

Lightning Talk: The Language Archive: Migrating To An Easier, Sustainable Open-Source Solution., Jeroen Geerts

Digital Initiatives Symposium

The Language Archive at the Max Planck Institute Nijmegen (https://archive.mpi.nl) is an extensive online repository of language resources. The archive was developed using in-house solutions, including metadata creation tools, depositing tools and an archive-browser. Development had been going on for more than 15 years, but was difficult and expensive to maintain. Additionally, some of these tools had were fairly complex to use, not meeting current user needs. Therefore, the choice was made to migrate to a more sustainable open-source solution, easier to use, maintain and to develop upon.

This presentation will provide insight in choosing a new repository solution, …

Lightning Talk: Can This Be Redacted? Developing An Institutional Repository And Addressing Privacy Issues, Pamela Pierce

Digital Initiatives Symposium

“Can This Be Redacted? Developing an Institutional Repository and Addressing Privacy Issues” will explore privacy issues in terms of patient health information that have emerged as Oregon Health & Science University expands their institutional repository beyond theses and dissertations. The lighting talk presentation will focus specifically on student projects from the physician assistant program, School of Nursing, and the Northwest Native American Center, a center specifically focused on the health care needs of Native Americans in the U.S. The impact of a migration out of Bepress and into Samvera will also be discussed.

Lightning Talk: Re/Mapping The Archives: Repository Content For The Digital Humanities And Cartographer, Michael R. Howser

Digital Initiatives Symposium

The print map, once seen as a unique and preservation worthy collection treated uniquely as a collection housed within a separate library or library space, has seen a precipitous decline in usage since Google Maps and other online tools emerged on the scene starting in 2005. With many print map collections experiencing declines in researcher requests per year, this inevitable decline of print map usage underscores the difficulty in discovering maps via the library catalog, search engines, and/or via finding aids. As collection space is pinned against demands for student space, print map collections are targets for capturing additional space …

Lightning Talk: Lever Press: A Game Changer For Scholarly Publishing, Jennifer Nutefall

Digital Initiatives Symposium

Several years ago, a group of liberal-arts library directors decided to repurpose funds to support open access publishing and create the lever they lacked.

The result: The Lever Press.

The Lever Press offers a case study in how a group of librarians can seize the initiative and make the changes they wish to see in the scholarly monograph publishing industry—changes that have a big impact on our work as librarians and on the communities we serve. The Press devotes itself to producing the highest quality scholarship in an economically sustainable model, embodying and reflecting the values of the liberal arts, …

Dean's Panel - Digital Infrastructure: Paying For The Pipes, David Lewis, Alexia Hudson-Ward, Shan Sutton, Rhonda Huisman

Digital Initiatives Symposium

David Lewis will present his talk on Digital Infrastructure. Rhonda Huisman, Alexia Hudson-Ward, and Shan Sutton will provide responses.

Centering Humanity In Digital Scholarship (Featured Speaker), Yasmeen Shorish

Digital Initiatives Symposium

Advances in technology have brought computational power to our collections and expanded the ways that scholarship is researched and made available. Yet while library and information professionals continue to grapple with standards, storage, accessibility, and workflows to keep pace with existing digital scholarship demands, new innovations are waiting in the wings. Promises of linked data, machine learning, and AI have some of us eager for the new adventure and others concerned about capacity and expertise.

Entangled in all this technology are people. The people who do the foundational work, the people who produce the collections in an archive, the people …