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Meet Scite, “Chatgpt For Research”, A New Artificial Intelligence (Ai) Tool Available Via Clemson Libraries, Jennifer Groff, Shelby Carroll

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Collection Assessment: Taming The Beast, Renna Redd

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At Clemson University, each subject librarian has a yearly goal to perform collection assessment and development duties as part of their work with their assigned departments; however, CU Libraries has been without a dedicated Collection Development and/or Management Librarian since prior to the pandemic. As a result, collection development, management, and assessment activities are somewhat piecemeal due to a lack of time, support, and staffing. After a library-wide reorganization in 2022, a 25% time position was created for an existing librarian to take on collection-related duties and start a formal collection assessment program with subject librarians. The Collections Sharing and …

Teach A Man To Fish Or Nourish Them To Grow? Debating Delivering Owned Articles Through Document Delivery Services, Rosemary Humphrey, Renna Redd

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The age-old proverb “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime” has been used for years in libraries when it comes to discussing how far to go when helping researchers obtain the materials they need. Educating library users on how to find reliable information resources is our shared ultimate goal, but how much should we realistically expect them to know and retain when ILSs are increasingly complicated, inaccurate, and full of library-centric jargon? The presenters will share the results of a survey they administered …

“What I Learned @ Ala 2023…And Other Summer Conferences”, Shelby Carroll, Michelle Colquitt, Anne Grant, Jennifer Jones, Amanda Mcleod, Angela Nixon, Renna Redd, Ed Rock, Suzanne Rook Schilf, Sally Smith

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The Idea Book Club And Tigers Advance: Bringing Faculty And Staff Together To Discuss Equity In Higher Education, Renna Redd

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The IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Awareness) Book Club was established during the Fall 2019 semester by former Director of Diversity Education Moryah Jackson and Interlibrary Loan Librarian Renna Redd as a continuing education initiative for employees to create a shared syntax and expand collective awareness of the complexities within higher education in South Carolina and the United States through reading and discussing a common text. One of the goals of the initiative was to provide free copies of the selected book to participants so that they could participate without financial commitment, not increase screen time unnecessarily, and share the …

Exploring Edi Strategies In Metadata And Cataloging, Tomeka Jackson, Jessica Serrao

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This webinar examines equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) strategies and challenges in metadata and cataloging. The presenters first investigate what EDI is and why it is essential to the field of librarianship. Next, they explore a brief historical timeline that shaped the events of EDI in metadata and cataloging. After exploring its origins, they then examine the strategies academic institutions have formulated, and particularly the work at Clemson University with the Libraries' Digital Collections metadata. This webinar aims to explore, analyze, and understand EDI techniques in librarianship and how they can be added to or addressed in participants' collections. The …

Acquisitions And Collections Or Access And Public Services: Where Does Resource Sharing Fit In An Academic Library?, Renna Tuten Redd

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At the 2018 Southeastern Resource Sharing Conference I gave a lightning talk titled “Where Do We Belong? Where Does Resource Sharing Fit in an Academic Library?” to share the results of an informal survey to find where resource sharing departments are found in academic library organizational structures. Since then, Clemson University Libraries engaged in a reorganization and the resource sharing team will be moved (as of July 1, 2022) from the new Teaching, Learning, and Research Division (a division centered around public services) to the new Collections and Discovery Division (a more technical services-based division). This lighting talk will share …

Goofus And Gallant’S Guide To Textbook Cataloging, Scott Dutkiewicz

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Though a long-neglected genre in academic libraries, acquisitions of textbooks are on the rise. But textbooks often do not receive adequate cataloging attention. How can catalogers improve their practices? Inspired by the Highlights for Children comic strip, this presentation discusses five “goofs” and five “gallant” practices when cataloging textbooks.

Clemson University Libraries Latinx Health Research Resources And Services, Edward J. Rock, Sally Smith

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The Clemson University Libraries provides top-tier research services to faculty, students, and staff in all research areas. Librarians also act as key research partners by providing in-depth literature searching consultations that strengthen the reproducibility and rigor of scientific research. This poster explores the variety of research tools, databases, and services that the Libraries provide to support Latinx research and researchers in the Health Sciences. Get a blueprint to take your Latinx research to the next level!

Primed For Primove, Michelle Colquitt

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Making Friends Wherever We Go: International Librarian Networking, Michelle Colquitt, Diana Pukite

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Into The Unknown: Working Together To Forge A New Department In A Library Reorganization, Michelle Colquitt, Renna Redd, Chris Vidas

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Although libraries regularly change in response to personnel turnover, budget constraints, and user needs, a full-blown library reorganization can be a process full of uncertainty and anxiety. This poster will discuss an ongoing reorganization at an R1 university that merges the E-resources Team, the Continuing Resources and Government Documents Team, the Collection Management Team, and Resource Sharing Team into one department of 17 employees. The poster will demonstrate how the three supervisors of these teams are working with their respective groups to mindfully engage with the change process at hand with the goal of mitigating some of the stress involved …

What I Learned...At Ala, Rodger Eugene Bishop, Michelle Colquitt, Amanda Mcleod, Renna Redd, Edward J. Rock, Alydia Sims

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Out Of The Frying Pan And Into The Campfire - How To Successfully Navigate A Library Reorganization And Not Get Burned, Michelle Colquitt, Renna Redd, Chris Vidas

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Library reorganizations can be daunting. In this session we will discuss an ongoing reorganization that merges the E-resources, Serials, and Resource Sharing Teams into one department. We will discuss developing coping strategies, communication, and relationship building to assess team structures and workflows to mindfully avoid the pitfalls of historic reorgs.

Assessing The Library Needs Of Unique University Transfer Students, Jessica Kohout-Tailor, Suzanne Rook Schilf

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Creating A Mindfulness Virtual Book Study To Support Student Wellbeing, Jessica Kohout-Tailor

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Grow Your Own: Creating A Professional Network From Home, Michelle Colquitt, Wendy Pothier

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Clemson Libraries: Discover, Collaborate, Create, Christopher Cox

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Decolonization In The Libraries Ii, Clemson Libraries

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Creating Lesson Plans For One Shot Sessions, Anne Grant, Jessica Kohout-Tailor

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In this presentation, teaching librarians will learn about the value of creating lesson plans, resources for building lesson plans, and share examples with each other.

Managing Occupancy Through Tech Solutions During Covid-19 At Clemson University, Suzanne Rook Schilf, Kelsey Sheaffer, Christopher Vinson

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This project briefing detailed three occupancy-management technologies, and their accompanying policies and procedures, that were deployed by Clemson Libraries to address the challenges of operating a physical library during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

Clemson’s main library, Cooper Library, tracked occupancy through a combination of novel and existing solutions: 1) a home-grown access management system that uses institutional IDs, 2) a real-time entry/exit automatic counter, 3) seat and appointment booking through Springshare. The three-pronged approach allowed for immediate control and oversight, while providing safe and equitable access to the Clemson University community. Each project required unique policy and procedure planning. …

“All The World’S A Stage” And Each Has A Role To Play: A Collaborative Cross-Unit Metadata Project In Five Acts, Jessica Serrao, Scott Dutkiewicz, Charlotte Grubbs, Krista Oldham, Lisa Bodenheimer, Jessica S. Scott, Allison Shultz

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting shift to working from home proved a boon for digital collections. At Clemson University Libraries the metadata team facilitated a work-from-home project, during which 14 employees across two units described a collection of over 2400 photographs. From the standpoint of both the metadata reviewers and metadata creators, we will provide an overview of the project and workflows, including how training, communication, metadata creation, and quality control were managed remotely. This presentation reflects a balanced cross-unit perspective on what worked well and what could be improved for future virtual collaborative projects.

Research Design Challenges Of An Early Career Edi Researcher, Jessica Serrao

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Research doesn’t always go as planned. There are the usual challenges of balancing resources and shifting timelines to accommodate the unexpected. Throw in the learning curve of an early career researcher and the multi-faceted understanding and application of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in archives, and designing a research project becomes a complex journey of understanding. This presentation will outline challenges the researcher faced in designing and modifying a research project examining EDI initiatives in digital collections metadata practices. More specifically, it will address the challenges of: defining and operationalizing equity, diversity, and inclusion; ensuring the design is inclusive itself …

Best Practices For A Great Workplace Culture: Dei And The Workplace Culture At Clemson Libraries, Alydia Sims

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Let's Play Twister (Resource Sharing Style), Maggie Mason Smith, Renna Redd

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Presented at the Information Delivery Services Project Conference.

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Copyright Considerations, John Morgenstern

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The Day The Crayons Quit: Team Management Suggestions, Renna Redd

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Metadata-From-Home: A Digital Collections Project During Covid-19, Scott Dutkiewicz, Jessica Serrao, Charlotte Grubbs

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting shift to working from home (WFH) and online education proved a boon for digital collections. Not only can digital collections provide researchers remote access to rare and unique archival materials, but the metadata work that facilitates its discovery can be adapted to a WFH environment. At Clemson University Libraries, the metadata team facilitated a WFH project where 15 Libraries employees across two units are helping to describe a collection of over 2400 photographs. This project rose to the challenges of providing meaningful work to colleagues while working from home, empowering them to learn new …

Got Metadata In Your Future? Lessons Learned From Describing A Unique Image Collection, Scott Dutkiewicz, Jessica Serrao, Charlotte Grubbs

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This practical session covers how Clemson University Libraries’ metadata team describes their largest digital collection of historical images. It focuses on what the team has learned from this project thus far. This includes developing workflows and strategies for describing images, creating and using a controlled vocabulary of local headings, and leveraging expertise across the libraries to streamline metadata creation. The team walks through the metadata management tool CollectiveAccess, shares image examples from the collection, and discusses the benefits of metadata documentation. The team concludes with challenges they still face, such as selecting appropriate subject headings, managing entities, and describing images …

Project Management And Trello, Joshua Morgan

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Presentation provided to CU Libraries employees on the basics of project management and how Trello can help manage projects, as well as a slide of Microsoft Planner offering similar features.