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Textbook Affordability Options: Assessing Ebook Purchase Models For Value And Impact, Athena Hoeppner, Sara Duff
Textbook Affordability Options: Assessing Ebook Purchase Models For Value And Impact, Athena Hoeppner, Sara Duff
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
No abstract provided.
Prospects For Connecting Community And Engaging Students For An Academic Resource And Repository System, Sai Deng
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
CALASYS is the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA)’s academic resource and repository system. The purpose of the system is to collect, organize, and store scholarly publications, library and information science related resources created or contributed by CALA members and others in the library field. The CALASYS Committee will share the experiences of collecting data, creating metadata, and improving access to the data. As an all-volunteer committee, the group works with the CALA community which consists of members from different types of libraries and information professions. The committee also reaches out to other groups such as the LIS students to contribute …
Throwing The Doors Wide Open: The Library’S Role In Fostering Accessibility, Christina Wray
Throwing The Doors Wide Open: The Library’S Role In Fostering Accessibility, Christina Wray
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Libraries play a variety of important roles, but perhaps the most important is as a place where ALL members of our communities are welcomed. But, what does it really mean to be inclusive? How do we encourage our patrons to be inclusive outside the library walls? What impact are we having in the lives of our patrons? In this session we will explore how we can facilitate an inclusive mindset in our libraries and our communities.
Skipping The Hurdles, Athena Hoeppner
Skipping The Hurdles, Athena Hoeppner
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
No abstract provided.
Hijacked Journals And Conferences: Predatory Practices In Academia, Sarah A. Norris, Andrew Todd
Hijacked Journals And Conferences: Predatory Practices In Academia, Sarah A. Norris, Andrew Todd
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Presentation given to UCF College of Nursing Faculty on November 6, 2018 by Sarah Norris, Scholarly Communication Librarian. The presentation discusses predatory practices in open access journals and conferences. This presentation was created in collaboration with Andrew Todd, Nursing Librarian.
Get In The Game: Tips And Strategies For Navigating Open Access Publishing, Sarah A. Norris
Get In The Game: Tips And Strategies For Navigating Open Access Publishing, Sarah A. Norris
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
This presentation was given during Open Access Week 2018.
Open Access journals are becoming increasingly popular venues for publishing scholarly research. Yet, there are many challenges and misconceptions often associated with this publishing model. Scholarly Communication Librarian, Sarah Norris, discusses publishing in Open Access journals. This session examines publishing basics and explore challenging topics like journal quality, predatory publishing, and funding.
Linked Data In The Library & Openrefine, Sai Deng
Linked Data In The Library & Openrefine, Sai Deng
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Session on linked data and OpenRefine in "Stay Savvy with Scholarly Communication Brown Bag Lunch" at the University of Central Florida Libraries. It covers the following topics: Why does linked data matter? How can libraries and librarians embrace linked data? Linked Data in the Library and the Web (Cases, Standards and Vocabularies); Linked Data Design Principles, Building Blocks & Creation; Current Digital Repositories and Linked Data; Data Editing Tool: OpenRefine (Features, Examples); Possible Ways to Get Involved.
Framing Up Digital Literacy: Reviewing And Reframing Information Literacy Modules, Christina C. Wray, Rachel Mulvihill
Framing Up Digital Literacy: Reviewing And Reframing Information Literacy Modules, Christina C. Wray, Rachel Mulvihill
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
When it comes to updating Information Literacy modules, it can be a daunting task to know where to start. This article will explore utilizing the ACRL Information Literacy Framework to identify skill gaps in the modules, create learner-centered experiences, and incorporate 21st-century literacy skills.
Big Deals And Why I Like Them, Athena Hoeppner
Big Deals And Why I Like Them, Athena Hoeppner
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
No abstract provided.
If We Build It, They Will Come: Improving Cala’S Institutional Repository, Sai Deng
If We Build It, They Will Come: Improving Cala’S Institutional Repository, Sai Deng
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
The Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA)’s Academic Resources & Repository System (CALASYS) is an important initiative to curate its members’ research works, the organizational archival materials, and other cultural resources. CALASYS uses Omeka, an open source web-publishing platform, to store, link, display, and exhibit its collections. During its development, several aspects of the platform have been significantly improved due to the effort of the CALASYS Group and the CALA members.
To meet the emerging needs for improving data entry, description and access, the CALASYS group has explored and implemented multiple plugins. Among those implemented are Library of Congress (LC) Suggest, …
To Catch A Predatory Publisher: A Study Of Stem Faculty At The University Of Central Florida, Sandy Avila, Buenaventura (Ven) Basco
To Catch A Predatory Publisher: A Study Of Stem Faculty At The University Of Central Florida, Sandy Avila, Buenaventura (Ven) Basco
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
In today’s academic publishing environment, open access journals have become an increasingly common and used venue for publication by STEM faculty and researchers. Subject librarians at one of the largest public research institutions in the United States are tailoring workshops geared towards faculty to create awareness of predatory publishing. Our research question involved identifying STEM faculty at our institution who have published in questionable journals and bringing this to their attention through a series of faculty workshops.
This poster was presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference meeting for the Association of College and Research Libraries- Science Technology Section …
Building A Tag Library For The Cala’S Social Media Channels, Sai Deng, Min Tong
Building A Tag Library For The Cala’S Social Media Channels, Sai Deng, Min Tong
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
The Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) has created several social media channels since 2012 with CALA members and friends participating from around the world, including the CALA's Facebook public page, WeChat space, YouTube Channel, LinkedIn Group and the "CALA Members and Friends" Facebook private group. This poster will introduce these channels and discuss the CALA Social Media Group’s efforts in promoting them to better serve the users’ needs and connect its members and friends nationally and internationally. One big effort to be discussed is to build a tag library for the CALA’s social media channels for postings to be connected …
Build An Organizational Digital Scholarship Repository Using Omeka, Sai Deng
Build An Organizational Digital Scholarship Repository Using Omeka, Sai Deng
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
As a non-profit organization for librarians of color, Chinese American Librarians Association has members from all over the world. Materials that document the evolution of the organization and its scholarly activities pertain valuable information. There was an urgent need to establish an organizational digital scholarship repository to preserve these materials as well as to serve as a hub that provides valuable research information.
After careful comparison and selection, Omeka, a content management system for online digital resources, was chosen. Omeka is open source and thus free with a stable group of developers for a long time. While Omeka is an …
Handout For The Alcts Tsmal Interest Group Meeting, June 2018, Sai Deng
Handout For The Alcts Tsmal Interest Group Meeting, June 2018, Sai Deng
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
No abstract provided.
A Step Forward: Adding Linked Data Vocabularies To Digital Repositories, Sai Deng
A Step Forward: Adding Linked Data Vocabularies To Digital Repositories, Sai Deng
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Linked data has been a recent endeavor in the library community and various libraries have experimented with linked data in their traditional library catalog and digital collections. This presentation will review the different linked data practices especially focusing on those related to digital collections in academic libraries, explore the current digital library systems’ capabilities in accommodating linked data and present how linked data vocabularies have been added to the digital repositories at the University of Central Florida (UCF) Libraries. The UCF Libraries have been adding linked data vocabularies to its institutional repository from the Library of Congress’ authority files and …
Affordable Education Resources, Athena Hoeppner
Affordable Education Resources, Athena Hoeppner
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
No abstract provided.
To Infinity And Beyond: Reducing Textbook Costs Through Librarian/Faculty Collaborations, Sandy Avila, Christina Wray
To Infinity And Beyond: Reducing Textbook Costs Through Librarian/Faculty Collaborations, Sandy Avila, Christina Wray
EGS Content
Librarians and Faculty have a shared goal to reduce textbook costs by finding alternative ways to provide the same quality content, but at a price students can handle. One way to accomplish this is by utilizing electronic and open resources. This session will provide guidelines for librarians supporting faculty during this transition. Participants will learn how to collaborate with faculty to identify resource needs, evaluate when to utilize open textbook options, techniques to help reticent faculty make a smooth transition, and tips on how to support student access throughout the course.Learning Objectives:Participants will be able to identify key planning elements …
Read Stricted: The Dilemmas Surrounding Reading, Censorship, & Challenged Books, Sandy Avila
Read Stricted: The Dilemmas Surrounding Reading, Censorship, & Challenged Books, Sandy Avila
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Please join us for a lively and thought provoking discussion regarding reading, censorship, and the history of challenged books to commemorate the start of National Library Week 2018. UCF Research and Information Services Librarian, Sandy Avila will discuss the American Library Association’s Top Ten Frequently Challenged Books of 2017 while providing some background regarding the history of challenged books from around the world. This session is open to students and faculty and no RSVP is required. Meet us at the John C. Hitt Library (main campus) Room 223 to learn more about banned books and the dilemmas surrounding their censorship.
Hijacked Journals: How Open Access Journals Fall Into The Predatory Publishing Trap, Sarah A. Norris, Buenaventura "Ven" Basco, Sandy Avila
Hijacked Journals: How Open Access Journals Fall Into The Predatory Publishing Trap, Sarah A. Norris, Buenaventura "Ven" Basco, Sandy Avila
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
In today’s academic publishing environment, open access journals have become an increasingly common and used venue for publication by faculty, researchers, and students. However, open access publishing also prompts issues and concerns related to the publishing model and predatory publishing practices. In this session, Sandy Avila, Science Librarian, Ven Basco, Engineering Librarian, and Sarah Norris, Scholarly Communication Librarian will share information about open access, predatory publishing, and how to differentiate between credible and predatory journals, with an emphasis on STEM-focused publications. Areas to be explored will include how to identify spam email, fake metrics, predatory conferences, and other issues associated …
High Quality Courses: Copyright Overview, Sarah A. Norris
High Quality Courses: Copyright Overview, Sarah A. Norris
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Presentation given to Instructional Designers in the Center for Distributed Learning at UCF on March 12, 2018 by Sarah Norris, Scholarly Communication Librarian.
The presentation highlights copyright information and resources for UCF Faculty and Instructional Designers related to online teaching and learning.
Expanding The Metadata Librarian Horizon: Reflections On The Metadata Practices In The Web And Digital Repositories, Sai Deng
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
The growing amount of digital resources on the web and in libraries have been rapidly changing the ways data is organized, shared and discovered, and the Metadata Librarians’ roles and practices have been constantly reshaped under this larger environment. In light of related literature and the author’s experiences in web archiving and working with several digital repositories including CONTENTdm, Islandora, Digital Commons, DSpace and Omeka, this presentation will discuss the ongoing changes in metadata practices in various areas, such as identity management, authority control, repository design and capability, metadata, its presentation and discovery, and linked data. It will also reflect …
Handout For The Alcts Tsmal Interest Group Meeting, February 2018, Sai Deng
Handout For The Alcts Tsmal Interest Group Meeting, February 2018, Sai Deng
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
No abstract provided.
Free To Students: The Role Of Library Acquisitions In Textbook Affordability, Athena Hoeppner
Free To Students: The Role Of Library Acquisitions In Textbook Affordability, Athena Hoeppner
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
No abstract provided.
New Directions In Discovery, Athena Hoeppner
New Directions In Discovery, Athena Hoeppner
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
No abstract provided.
Copyright Considerations For Digital Storytelling, Sarah A. Norris
Copyright Considerations For Digital Storytelling, Sarah A. Norris
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Presentation given to ASH 4932 students on January 29, 2018.
This session covered a variety of copyright considerations when considering digital projects. This included basic aspects of copyright. It focused primarily on copyright considerations for digital historians, including examples of public domain and Creative Commons Licensed images and media that students can use practically in their projects.
Copyright Considerations For His 6165: Tools For The Digital Historian, Sarah A. Norris
Copyright Considerations For His 6165: Tools For The Digital Historian, Sarah A. Norris
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Presentation given to HIS 6165 students on January 24, 2018.
This session covered a variety of copyright considerations when considering digital projects. This included basic aspects of copyright. It focused primarily on copyright considerations for digital historians, including exploring fair use, digital humanities and history projects, creative commons licenses, and other copyright-related topics.
Extending And Measuring Scholarly Reach And Impact, Lee Dotson, Sarah Norris, Barry Mauer
Extending And Measuring Scholarly Reach And Impact, Lee Dotson, Sarah Norris, Barry Mauer
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
In this session, Scholarly Communication Librarian Sarah Norris and Digital Initiatives Librarian Lee Dotson will explain how faculty can further publicize, disseminate, and measure the reach of their scholarship through UCF’s Showcase of Text, Archives, Research & Scholarship (STARS). Benefits of using this digital repository of scholarship include enhanced searchability and tracking of impact using alternative metrics. The session will also feature faculty member Barry Mauer, who has created a successful author profile and collection in STARS.
Reimagining Research Services' Outreach To Faculty And Students: A Tale Of Two Research Departments (University Of Central Florida And Florida Gulf Coast University)., Barbara Tierney, Linda Colding
Reimagining Research Services' Outreach To Faculty And Students: A Tale Of Two Research Departments (University Of Central Florida And Florida Gulf Coast University)., Barbara Tierney, Linda Colding
EGS Content
Two academic Research Managers present innovative outreach strategies that they coordinate in their respective libraries (UCF serves 68,000+ students, FGCU serves 15,000+ students) to support faculty/student success.At UCF, Subject Librarians reach out to their faculty to help them design “Research Intensive” courses and identify “Textbook Alternatives.” They also identify customized resources to support interdisciplinary Faculty Cluster initiatives and grant-seeking research faculty. Subject Librarians also send their faculty discipline-specific e-newsletters and congratulatory emails for various successes.Some UCF Subject Librarians have been given “engagement assignments” whereby they coordinate outreach to targeted student constituencies such as First-Time-In-College Students, Transfer Students, Honors in the …
Reimagining Research Services As Part Of Major Academic Library Renovations: A Tale Of Two Research Departments (University Of Central Florida And Florida Gulf Coast University) No Title, Barbara Tierney, Linda Colding
Reimagining Research Services As Part Of Major Academic Library Renovations: A Tale Of Two Research Departments (University Of Central Florida And Florida Gulf Coast University) No Title, Barbara Tierney, Linda Colding
EGS Content
Two academic library research service managers discuss changes and innovations that they have coordinated in their respective libraries (University of Central Florida serving 60,000+ students http://library.ucf.edu/21st/[1] and Florida Gulf Coast University serving 15,000+ students http://library.fgcu.edu/admin/renewal.html[2]) due to major building renovations or other changes that their respective libraries are conducting.These changes and innovations include significantly downsizing print reference and other collections, relocating and redefining service points, reconfiguring public services, rethinking staffing models, adjusting subject librarian face-to-face activities, stepping-up online services, communicating with stakeholders, and keeping students and faculty in the loop so that their voices are heard and their needs met.Note: …