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Liaison And Scholarly Communication Librarians Collaborating To Support Faculty And Students, Sarah A. Norris, Sandy Avila, Buenaventura (Ven) Basco

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Chapter 18 of the ACRL publication titled, Approaches to Liaison Librarianship: Innovations in Organization and Engagements edited by Robin Canuel and Chad Crichton.

Sustaining Connectivity & Shifting To Remote Services During The Covid-19 Crisis: Stories From The Ucf Libraries, Corinne Bishop, Sandy Avila, Barbara Tierney

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This poster was presented at the virtual Florida Association of College & Research Libraries Annual Conference on Friday, October 16, 2020. The conference poster session abstracts are listed below.

Conference Poster Session Long Abstract:

In response to administrative goals to provide remote support for constituents of the University of Central Florida and the need for connectivity of staff during the COVID-19 disruption, the UCF Libraries’ Research and Information Services (RIS) Department planned several ways to maintain high-quality services and provide professional skills training at a distance. This poster will illustrate the work of the RIS task force in the reopening …

Taking A Grassroots Approach: Creating A Future For Steam Based Research, Data, And Tools Support At The Ucf Libraries, Sandy Avila, Sarah Norris, Lee Dotson, Ven Basco

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This session will explore the impetus for UCF Libraries interest in developing a research data management (RDM) workshop series, specific infrastructure concerns (such as scalability and staff resources), key partnerships leveraged, and how the pilot workshops series has provided valuable lessons learned as the Libraries develops additional workshops on research data management. What do you do when your library does not have a formal RDM team or positions dedicated to this area of research support? How can you leverage existing campus partnerships to create robust and scalable services? Come to this session to find out more.

Data Visualization & Why It Is Important To Get It Right: Tools You Can Use, Sandy Avila

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This was presented at STELLA (Science, Technology, and Engineering Library Leaders in Action) Unconference 2020 for their Lightning Round session on Friday, October 9, 2020. The presentation abstract is below:

Have you ever asked yourself why spending the time to visualize your data findings is important and where to start when looking for data visualization tools? How about wondering what kind of chart or slide might make a more compelling visualization to showcase your data? In this informative lightning round session, useful tools and resources will be shared along with why it is important to get it right. Don’t be …

Tips For Looking And Sounding Your Best On Video, Rachel Edford

EGS Content

Presentation on tips for effective lighting, camera positioning, audio, and backgrounds when creating videos at October 5, 2020 UCF Libraries Faculty Affairs Committee meeting.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Go... Zoom!, Sandy Avila

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This session was presented at a UCF Libraries' monthly faculty meeting, in order to share tips for virtual presenting. My presentation focused on five expert Zoom tricks to know ahead of any virtual presentation, meeting, library instruction, or formal online event. Feel free to reach out to me for questions: savila@ucf.edu.

Full Steam Ahead: Piloting Graduate & Faculty Rdm Workshops, Corinne Bishop, Lee Dotson, Buenaventure Basco, Sarah Norris, Sandy Avila

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The University of Central Florida (UCF) Libraries has developed a series of research data management sessions to provide support and promote awareness of available resources to the campus community, with an emphasis on outreach to graduate students and faculty. The Libraries does not have a formal research data management team or dedicated positions, and with this in mind, a team of librarians from Reference & Information Services, Digital Initiatives, and Scholarly Communication collaborated to plan opportunities for RDM programming.

This team developed a STEAM Bootcamp series piloted in 2019-2020 with a four-part series of RDM workshops ranging from STEAM-focused literature …

Navigating The New Normal At The Ucf Libraries: A Spotlight On Our Reopening Process, Sandy Avila

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This presentation was given for the Eurasian Academic Libraries Conference on October 2, 2020. The conference was to be held in Kazakhstan but was conducted virtually due to the pandemic. The session highlighted the reopening of the UCF Libraries and discusses the broad COVID-19 response on campus, spotlighting the 'new normal' of working and serving library patrons during the pandemic. Information is shared that may be useful to outside organizations in planning the reopening of their library spaces.

Streamlining The Format Review Process: Best Practices And Lessons Learned, Kerri Bottorff, Padmini Coopamah Waldron Dr., Amanda Ammirati

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Honors undergraduate theses are modeled after Master's theses, and formatting review is an important part of the process. The Office of Honors Research (OHR) at the University of Central Florida (UCF) has, in the last two years, worked with the UCF Libraries to streamline the format review process in its Honors Undergraduate Thesis (HUT) program by making use of Digital Commons, the online platform used for the publication of theses and dissertations. Format review was previously done in person, then via email. Since Digital Commons was originally developed for journal article submission, it allows for submission of manuscripts, the return …

A Practical Guide To Scholarly Activity For Health Sciences Librarians, Terri Gotschall, Shalu Gillum, Nadine Dexter

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This guide to scholarly activities provides early- and mid-career health sciences librarians with a path to immersing in scholarly activities. The four levels walk librarians through increasing stages of scholarship. Early-career librarians will begin at the first level, navigating from discovering mentors and areas of research interest to level two, publishing a resource or book review and finding their first public speaking opportunity. More experienced librarians will find where they are on the path and continue to build their scholarship all the way to conducting and publishing original research and becoming leaders in their field.

A Glimpse Into Metadata Inclusiveness: A Preliminary Literature Review Using Nvivo, Sai Deng

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This study investigates social and metadata inclusiveness, on whose voices are underrepresented, how biases are presented, in which way and which domain, and how it affects the library community. It is based on a preliminary analysis of literature in this topic, and the text analyzed includes title, author, abstract and keywords for 26 articles and books. Their bibliographic information was extracted from my Zotero library to NVivo, and over 200 nodes were coded from the different literature, with 5, 6, 10 or more nodes for each literature entry. Additional names were added when terms in the text didn’t seem to …

Humanities In The Open: The Challenges Of Creating An Open Literature Anthology, Christian Beck, Lily Dubach, Sarah A. Norris, John Venecek

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This book chapter was a part of the publication, "Open Pedagogy Approaches: Faculty, Library, and Student Collaborations." It highlights a case study from the University of Central Florida of creating an open literature anthology.

Growth And New Directions: Cala Academic Resources And Repository System, Sai Deng, Weiling Liu, Suzhen Chen, Mingyan Li, Meng Qu

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The Chinese American Librarians Association’s Academic Resources & Repository System (CALASYS) was established in 2013 and has been growing gradually ever since. To seek sustainable and greater growth in the future, the CALASYS 2019-2020 Committee reviewed previous efforts and explored new potentials in the repository’s content development, interface and functionality improvement and community engagement. This presentation will cover several issues that the Committee has addressed since its forming: developing new content for CALASYS such as a new top-level collection called ”Chinese Culture Heritage & Chinese Studies” and its children collections including the CALA Best Book Award Collection; starting or resuming …

Textbook Affordability Efforts At The University Of Central Florida, Katy A. Miller

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Presentation to the Textbook Affordability/Open Educational Resources Standing Committee of the Members Council on Library Services.

Data Documentation, Databases & Statistical Software, Sai Deng, Xiang Zhu

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Workshop on data documentation, databases & statistical software delivered at the University of Central Florida’s Graduate Student Center. “Join a Statistician and a Metadata Librarian for an introduction to data documentation, databases and statistical software. Learn about research data, datasets and data documentation for data sharing, re-use and long-term preservation. This session introduces best practices and recommendations for documenting and analyzing research data. Moreover, it includes real-world examples and a discussion of data tools for data documentation and analysis, such as NVivo for qualitative data and SPSS/SAS/STATA/R for quantitative data.”

Rosen Research Guides, Chicago (17th Ed.), Judy Kuhns, Tim Bottorff

Libraries' Documents

This guide is designed to get you started with the Chicago citation style. For more information, please consult the official source, The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed. (2017).

Rosen Research Guides, Apa 7th Edition, Judy Kuhns, Tim Bottorff

Libraries' Documents

This guide is designed to get you started with or refresh your memory about the APA citation style. For more information, please consult the official source—the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th ed. (2019) (commonly called the “APA Manual”)—which is available in the library at: Rosen Reference BF76.7 .P83 2020. Please keep in mind that some of the APA guidelines are intended for articles published in scientific journals. You may need to check with your professor for applying these guidelines to your class papers.

Lights, Camera, Action: Tips And Tricks For Librarian Videographers And Video Managers, Rachel L. Edford

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Published conference proceedings for 2020 Charleston Conference.

As librarians, we are often asked to fill roles outside of our areas of expertise, and that is particularly true now when we are trying to find innovative ways to engage with our users. While my institution has created library videos in the past, there is certainly an increased demand now to create and also manage our video collection. This paper will provide practical advice and tips for librarians who find themselves serving as videographers, producers, or video administrators. We will explore the different types of instructional video options as well as the …