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Utilizing Student Workers For Digital Commons Projects, Ellen Amatangelo, Elizabeth Parret
Utilizing Student Workers For Digital Commons Projects, Ellen Amatangelo, Elizabeth Parret
Faculty Publications
This lightning talk was presented by the Scholarly Communications Coordinator and the Scholarly Communications Student Supervisor from Brigham Young University at the Digital Commons North American Conference 2023. It provides an overview of how student workers at the BYU Library are involved in Digital Commons projects and discusses the types of projects and processes that students work on, including an outline of student supervisor responsibilities. The purpose of the presentation is to get other Digital Commons administrators excited about expanding the possibilities of their repositories by collaborating with student workers.
White House Memo And Faculty Cvs, Ellen Amatangelo
White House Memo And Faculty Cvs, Ellen Amatangelo
Faculty Publications
This information was presented to the Subject Librarians Council. The "Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies" from the Executive Office of the President concerning "Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research" was discussed. The presentation also includes a portion on how faculty publications are added the BYU's institutional repository.
Fall Conference 2022 Panel Presentation, Ellen Amatangelo
Fall Conference 2022 Panel Presentation, Ellen Amatangelo
Faculty Publications
This presentation was part of a panel discussing ways in which work done by employees at the Brigham Young University Library focuses on Christ. Collections and articles in BYU's institutional repository that focus on religious topics are highlighted.
Byu Scholarsarchive Open Access Journals, Ellen Amatangelo
Byu Scholarsarchive Open Access Journals, Ellen Amatangelo
Faculty Publications
Brigham Young University's institutional repository, ScholarsArchive, is currently home to over 40 Open Access scholarly journals run by faculty, students, and societies. This presentation will highlight some of the journals' features, explore how the library's Scholarly Communications team works with editors, discuss the requirements for having a journal housed in the repository, and examine readership statistics and discoverability.
Learning objectives:
Learn more about the process of managing online journals
Tips for working with journal editors
Scholarsarchive Urc Presentation May 2021, Ellen Amatangelo
Scholarsarchive Urc Presentation May 2021, Ellen Amatangelo
Faculty Publications
Managed by the Harold B. Lee Library, ScholarsArchive is Brigham Young University’s open access institutional repository for scholarly and creative content produced by BYU faculty, staff, and students. The repository is intended to make material such as research, publications, data, and historical documents openly available to a global audience.
Poster Competitions In A Pandemic: The Value Of Going Virtual, Megan Frost, Michael C. Goates, Gregory M. Nelson
Poster Competitions In A Pandemic: The Value Of Going Virtual, Megan Frost, Michael C. Goates, Gregory M. Nelson
Faculty Publications
Science librarians at Brigham Young University have hosted a student poster competition for the past several years to showcase student research on campus and to promote science information literacy and scholarly communication skills. As part of this competition, students receive constructive feedback on both their poster design and their oral presentation skills during an in-person open house. In 2020, COVID-19 threw a curveball as the campus shut down just two weeks before the scheduled competition open house. Rather than throwing in the towel, the librarians scrambled to turn this previously in-person competition into a completely virtual event. Despite the substantial …
Scholarsarchive Student Journals, Ellen Amatangelo
Scholarsarchive Student Journals, Ellen Amatangelo
Faculty Publications
BYU's institutional repository, ScholarsArchive, hosts several student-run academic journals. These open access journals provide opportunities for students to learn about the academic publishing process through editing, peer review, design, and research.
Publisher-Vendor-Library Relations Interest Group: A Discussion Of Topics Intersecting The Needs Of Publishers, Vendors, And Libraries, Ellen Amatangelo, Carolyn Morris, Ajaye Bloomstone
Publisher-Vendor-Library Relations Interest Group: A Discussion Of Topics Intersecting The Needs Of Publishers, Vendors, And Libraries, Ellen Amatangelo, Carolyn Morris, Ajaye Bloomstone
Faculty Publications
The Publisher-Vendor-Library Relations Interest Group provides connectivity between publishers, libraries, and vendors. We strive to bridge gaps in communication among these groups by supplying ongoing training opportunities, hosting discussion groups, and presenting information on current and future trends through ALA programs and eforums.
What Are They Saying? How To Use Interviews For Research And Assessment In Libraries, Dan Broadbent
What Are They Saying? How To Use Interviews For Research And Assessment In Libraries, Dan Broadbent
Faculty Publications
- Assessment in libraries is an essential part of managing library resources to meet the needs of patrons and stakeholders.
- How to do it?
- Interviews can provide more deep and rich information than simple surveys.
- But... they are also more complicated and time consuming.
Decision-Based Learning For Info Literacy One-Shots, David Pixton
Decision-Based Learning For Info Literacy One-Shots, David Pixton
Faculty Publications
An online instructional framework, called “decision-based learning,” helps students learn to think like an expert through making a series of simple decisions that the expert has trained into his or her thought patterns. This framework is currently being tested in one-hour information literacy workshops for engineering and technology students. This lightning talk briefly describes the decision-based learning method and results of this study so far.
Collection Weeding: Breaking New Ground With Innovative Processes And Tools, Gregory M. Nelson, David Pixton, Megan Frost, Dan Broadbent, Michael C. Goates
Collection Weeding: Breaking New Ground With Innovative Processes And Tools, Gregory M. Nelson, David Pixton, Megan Frost, Dan Broadbent, Michael C. Goates
Faculty Publications
- Intro
- Criteria
- Tools
- Feedback
- Lessons Learned
Separating The Wheat From The Chaff: Weeding The Collection Is A Collaborative Affair, Gregory M. Nelson, Meg F. Frost, Betsy S. Hopkins, Mark W. Jackson, Jed Johnston, David Pixton, Michael C. Goates
Separating The Wheat From The Chaff: Weeding The Collection Is A Collaborative Affair, Gregory M. Nelson, Meg F. Frost, Betsy S. Hopkins, Mark W. Jackson, Jed Johnston, David Pixton, Michael C. Goates
Faculty Publications
A library construction project led our library’s Science & Engineering Department to take on a massive evaluation of the entire science print collection and reduce the collection footprint by at least 36% within a 12 month period. In order to improve access, reduce the footprint, strengthen the robustness of our collection, and complete the project in an effective and timely manner, a methodology of how to choose, select, evaluate, and move the entire collection of over 360,000 items had to be established and vetted. A plan was developed between the library’s Science & Engineering Department and teams from collection development, …
Small Data Management: Master Data For Better Collection Analysis, Jared L. Howland
Small Data Management: Master Data For Better Collection Analysis, Jared L. Howland
Faculty Publications
While librarians often speak about data management for external data, little has been said about managing internal data in a systematic manner. Information about the need, along with tools and methodologies, for starting a small-scale data management program for internal collection analysis and assessment purposes was discussed.
Originally presented at the 2018 Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference held in Austin, TX.
"Wozu Outreach In Dürftiger Zeit? Fallstudie An Einer Ub In Den Westlichen Usa", Richard Hacken
"Wozu Outreach In Dürftiger Zeit? Fallstudie An Einer Ub In Den Westlichen Usa", Richard Hacken
Faculty Publications
A German-language presentation at the library school of the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, on June 30, 2009. The English translation of the title is: "What's the Point of Outreach in Lean Times? Case Study at a University Library in the Western USA." During the recession after a worldwide housing bubble, this presentation was itself about library outreach as well as library outreach itself, using the case of the Harold B Lee Library. A Power-Point presentation, outline to oral presentation and bibliography on the topic are all included.