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Where To Publish & Author Rights At A Glance, Sarah A. Norris Dec 2017

Where To Publish & Author Rights At A Glance, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Presented at the Fall 2017 Thesis & Dissertation Forum held at the John C. Hitt Library on Tuesday, December 12, 2017.

Abstract:

Learn to be a savvy author! This session will give you a general overview of criteria to use when considering submitting your work for publication and basic information about copyright as it pertains to publishing.


Open Humanities: Strategies For Creating Open Access Course Materials, John Venecek, Christian Beck, John Raible, Sarah A. Norris, Lily Flick Nov 2017

Open Humanities: Strategies For Creating Open Access Course Materials, John Venecek, Christian Beck, John Raible, Sarah A. Norris, Lily Flick

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

As textbook affordability and access to information become important topics on university campuses and within the population more generally, finding ways to decrease book costs in a humanities classroom while providing the best possible resources for students emerges as a multi-disciplinary strategy that requires cooperation across campus. Open Access texts are a way to offer content for free, but humanities assembling this type of text in the humanities is often restricted by copyright and intellectual property. Utilizing materials found in public domain or with a Creative Commons license, however, provides an opportunity to create Open Access texts. In spring 2016, …


The Challenges To Learning In A Digital Age: Exploring Issues Of Access And Equity, Sandy Avila, Sarah A. Norris Nov 2017

The Challenges To Learning In A Digital Age: Exploring Issues Of Access And Equity, Sandy Avila, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

As teaching and learning evolves to meet the demands of an increasingly digital world, we find these experiences transformed by hard unsolved problems and burgeoning opportunities yet to be explored and identified. Of critical importance to learning in the digital age are the issues of access and equity. These issues, while long prevalent in academia and beyond, have become increasingly more significant as the shift towards online and digital technologies provides new pedagogical possibilities we could not have predicted. Like faculty and students, libraries and librarians have equally felt this digital shift. The challenges faced provide an interconnected struggle that …


Istl9413 Lecture On Discovery Services, Athena Hoeppner Nov 2017

Istl9413 Lecture On Discovery Services, Athena Hoeppner

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Invited lecture for ISTL9413 Management of Elecronic Resources, taught by Instructor Chris LeBeau. Given each November 2015, 2016, and 2017.


You've Finished Your Research...Now What?, Sarah A. Norris, Christina C. Wray Oct 2017

You've Finished Your Research...Now What?, Sarah A. Norris, Christina C. Wray

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The research is complete and you’ve written your findings, now you’re ready to join the scholarly conversation, but you want to make sure you publish it in the right place to fit your future plans. This workshop, held during Open Access Week, explores the publishing options available and the pros and cons of each model. Learn more about traditional scholarly publishing, open access options and utilizing institutional repositories to make your research widely available.


Creative Commons 101, Christina C. Wray, Sarah A. Norris Oct 2017

Creative Commons 101, Christina C. Wray, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Calling all artists, musicians and writers! You’ve put your heart and a whole lot of energy into creating a new work and the next step is to share it with the world, but what’s the best way to do that, and keep it safe? This workshop, held during Open Access Week, explores the variety of licenses available for creative works, how to license your work, where to share it and retain your rights.


The Subject Librarian Newsletter, Sociology, Fall 2017, Rebecca M. Murphey Oct 2017

The Subject Librarian Newsletter, Sociology, Fall 2017, Rebecca M. Murphey

Libraries' Newsletters

No abstract provided.


The Subject Librarian Newsletter, Anthropology, Fall 2017, Rebecca M. Murphey Oct 2017

The Subject Librarian Newsletter, Anthropology, Fall 2017, Rebecca M. Murphey

Libraries' Newsletters

No abstract provided.


Rebellions Are Built On Hope: Joining Forces To Support Oer In A Restrictive Institutional Environment, Aimee Denoyelles, John Raible, Sarah A. Norris, Rich Gause, Penny Beile Oct 2017

Rebellions Are Built On Hope: Joining Forces To Support Oer In A Restrictive Institutional Environment, Aimee Denoyelles, John Raible, Sarah A. Norris, Rich Gause, Penny Beile

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Librarians and instructional designers (IDs) from a university in the U.S. will describe the partnership formed to promote no-cost textbook solutions (OER, library-sourced) in the face of a restrictive environment. The institution is divided in two tiers: the President's Office, which oversees non-academic functions such as Business Services, and the Provost's Office, which is responsible for teaching and learning. This creates an inherent tension concerning course materials and revenue, troubling the conception of education as a fundamentally shared practice. Our group aimed to promote change at the university level, while also collaborating to facilitate the efforts of faculty.

Typically, the …


Stay Savvy With Scholarly Communication: Open Access Tools, Athena Hoeppner Jul 2017

Stay Savvy With Scholarly Communication: Open Access Tools, Athena Hoeppner

Scholarly Communication Brown Bag Series

No abstract provided.


Making The Ucf Libraries Part Of Your Course, Sarah A. Norris, Barbara G. Tierney, Christina Wray Jul 2017

Making The Ucf Libraries Part Of Your Course, Sarah A. Norris, Barbara G. Tierney, Christina Wray

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Plenary presentation given to UCF faculty attending the Center for Distributed Learning's IDL Showcase on August 4, 2017 by Sarah Norris, Scholarly Communication Librarian, Barbara Tierney, Head of Research & Information Services, and Christina Wray, Digital Learning & Engagement Librarian.

The presentation highlights UCF Libraries services and resources available to faculty teaching courses online at the university.


Stay Savvy With Scholarly Communication: Altmetrics, Lily Flick, Buenaventura "Ven" Basco, Andrew Todd, Sarah A. Norris Jul 2017

Stay Savvy With Scholarly Communication: Altmetrics, Lily Flick, Buenaventura "Ven" Basco, Andrew Todd, Sarah A. Norris

Scholarly Communication Brown Bag Series

No abstract provided.


Last But Not Least: Ux Of Linking And Content Delivery, Athena Hoeppner Jun 2017

Last But Not Least: Ux Of Linking And Content Delivery, Athena Hoeppner

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.


Improving The Cala's Social Media Experience: The First Cala Social Media Survey, Sai Deng, Melody Leung, Anlin Yang, Chenwei Zhao Jun 2017

Improving The Cala's Social Media Experience: The First Cala Social Media Survey, Sai Deng, Melody Leung, Anlin Yang, Chenwei Zhao

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) currently uses three social media channels, CALA Facebook, WeChat, and YouTube. In order to improve their presence and better serve the CALA members, CALA's first social media survey was conducted at the end of 2016 to seek feedback from its members and friends. This poster will present the background information for the survey, its methodology, findings, recommendations and follow-up. 18 questions were compiled, added to LimeSurvey and distributed to the CALA members via its Listserv. These questions attempted to address the users' social media usage, participation level, time spent on the CALA's social media …


Handout For The Alcts Tsmal Interest Group Meeting, Sai Deng Jun 2017

Handout For The Alcts Tsmal Interest Group Meeting, Sai Deng

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.


Chinese American Librarians Association: Embracing Diversity And Outreaching To The Global Community, Sai Deng, Ying Zhang Jun 2017

Chinese American Librarians Association: Embracing Diversity And Outreaching To The Global Community, Sai Deng, Ying Zhang

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.


No, There Is No Ghost In The Campus Library Stacks, Meg K. Scharf May 2017

No, There Is No Ghost In The Campus Library Stacks, Meg K. Scharf

UCF Forum

Toward the end of an old favorite film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), a newspaper reporter tells Jimmy Stewart’s character, “This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”


Mlis Day 2017 Website, Mlis Day Committee May 2017

Mlis Day 2017 Website, Mlis Day Committee

MLIS Information Day

Website for the event.

The University of Central Florida invites you to the John C. Hitt Library, on Friday May 19th, 2017, for an honest and up-close look at Librarianship in today’s society. This full-day professional conference addresses some of the current problems facing MLIS graduates entering the job market, how new trends in technology are changing libraries, and how to cope in an ever changing library environment.

This FREE conference is open to anyone who is interested in, currently working on, or has already earned their MLIS degree. Along with the host of speakers, giving talks on a variety …


Where To Publish & Author Rights At A Glance, Sarah A. Norris Apr 2017

Where To Publish & Author Rights At A Glance, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Presentation given to graduate students participating in the Dissertation Forum on Thursday, April 27, 2017.

The workshop provides information about where to publish as a graduate student, as well as covers basic information about copyright and author rights.


Honors Undergraduate Thesis Submission Guide, Kerri Bottorff Apr 2017

Honors Undergraduate Thesis Submission Guide, Kerri Bottorff

STARS Documentation

Instructions for uploading an Honors Undergraduate Thesis to STARS.


Poking The Bear: Promoting Textbook Affordability In The Face Of A Restrictive Institutional Environment, Penny Beile, Aimee Denoyelles, Rich Gause, Sarah A. Norris, John Raible Mar 2017

Poking The Bear: Promoting Textbook Affordability In The Face Of A Restrictive Institutional Environment, Penny Beile, Aimee Denoyelles, Rich Gause, Sarah A. Norris, John Raible

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Librarians and instructional designers formed an informal partnership to promote low-cost textbook solutions in the absence of formal initiatives at a public, four-year institution. Learn how we negotiated institutional barriers such as bookstore contract prohibitions and protected revenue streams. Our case examples describe solutions and workflows undertaken to transform course materials, in addition to activities being pursued to make textbook affordability an institutional priority.


Changing Landscape Of Discovery: Content, Linking, And User Experience, Athena Hoeppner Mar 2017

Changing Landscape Of Discovery: Content, Linking, And User Experience, Athena Hoeppner

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.


Copyright Considerations Curating Across The Curriculum, Sarah A. Norris Mar 2017

Copyright Considerations Curating Across The Curriculum, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Presentation given to faculty participating in Curating Across the Curriculum on Friday, March 3, 2017.

This workshop covered a variety of copyright considerations related to online curation. This included basic aspects of copyright for use of content materials in courses. Topics covered include fair use, public domain, open access, Creative Commons licenses, and more.


Discovery Duo: Examining Eds And Encore Duet Discovery Options., Athena Hoeppner Mar 2017

Discovery Duo: Examining Eds And Encore Duet Discovery Options., Athena Hoeppner

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.


Copyright Considerations For Oers, Sarah A. Norris Feb 2017

Copyright Considerations For Oers, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Presentation given at faculty as a part of the Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning (FCTL) Open Educational Resources (OERs) Course Innovation Project on Monday, February 20, 2017 and Thursday, February 23, 2017.

This workshop covered a variety of copyright considerations when considering Open Educational Resources. This included basic aspects of copyright for use of content materials in courses. It focused primarily on copyright considerations for OERs, including selecting materials that can legally be incorporated into open textbooks and other open content. Topics covered include fair use, public domain, open access, Creative Commons licenses, and more.


Tomorrow's Technology Today: Imagining Better Eresource Access, Athena Hoeppner Feb 2017

Tomorrow's Technology Today: Imagining Better Eresource Access, Athena Hoeppner

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.


Overcoming The Challenges Of Implementing Standardized Metadata Practices In A Digital Repository, Sai Deng Jan 2017

Overcoming The Challenges Of Implementing Standardized Metadata Practices In A Digital Repository, Sai Deng

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

While implementing standards in cataloging digital collections is often a Metadata Librarian’s conscience or inner desire, sometimes it’s a challenge to do so if a system is not built to accommodate such standardized practices. This kind of dilemma is not uncommon in the metadata and digital repository arena. This presentation will address the various challenges in working with metadata in digital repositories such as, name authority control for authors, departments and colleges, type values selection, keywords and subject choices, whether to add linked data URIs to various fields in the records and data discrepancies in harvesting data into the OCLC’s …


Diving Into The University Knowledge Community: Navigating The Expanded Role Of The Metadata Librarian, Sai Deng Jan 2017

Diving Into The University Knowledge Community: Navigating The Expanded Role Of The Metadata Librarian, Sai Deng

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Metadata librarians' engaging in the university knowledge community is becoming a trend in recent years. In preparing for this change, it can be challenging for the metadata librarians to step out of the "back room", engage in scholarly communication and actively participate in the university knowledge community. This presentation discusses the shifting environment, the required changes for the metadata librarians such as developing professional and technical competency, acquiring new knowledge and skills and getting into the new world to be more connected to students, faculty and researchers, and various factors that will affect the situation. It concludes that the best …


Cd-Rom's Acquaintances: What To Do With The Skeletons In Our Academic Libraries, Jeanne Piascik, Kristine Shrauger, Lindsey Ritzert Jan 2017

Cd-Rom's Acquaintances: What To Do With The Skeletons In Our Academic Libraries, Jeanne Piascik, Kristine Shrauger, Lindsey Ritzert

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The University of Central Florida (UCF) Libraries had a large number of CD-ROMs accompanying books that had not circulated, did not work, or both. This article outlines the evaluation process of withdrawal.


Two Barcodes, Many Headaches, Jeanne Piascik, Kristine Shrauger, Lindsey Ritzert, Tina Buck, Ying Zhang Jan 2017

Two Barcodes, Many Headaches, Jeanne Piascik, Kristine Shrauger, Lindsey Ritzert, Tina Buck, Ying Zhang

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Against the backdrop of 40 Florida state colleges and universities transitioning together from Aleph to Sierra/Encore-Duet in 2016-2017, the University of Central Florida is planning to improve patron and librarian experience at its 10 joint-use libraries across central Florida. Joint-use libraries reside at a state college where UCF classes are being taught. Collections are shared, and services are provided to patrons at both sites, but acquisitions, cataloging, circulation, collection management, and resource sharing are too complicated. Sierra to the rescue?! Learn how UCF and its partners plan to use Sierra to create seamless patron and staff interactions for all.