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Expanding Our Reach: Incorporating Government Resources In Poster Presentations, Raquel Estrada
Expanding Our Reach: Incorporating Government Resources In Poster Presentations, Raquel Estrada
University Library Publications and Presentations
With the overall success of the poster presentations being created by the UTRGV University Library for different occasions and themes, we opted to bring government resources whenever possible into new poster presentations to reach a wider audience. After careful consideration, creating a slide(s) where we added links and QR codes to various resources including government resources worked best and could easily be replicated and fit within many of the poster presentations or displays being planned. Adding the FDLP logo was an added bonus that helped identify FDLP resources as well as promote the library as a depository library.
Publishing Without Publishing: The Case For Utrgv Library Poster Displays, Shannon Pensa, Raquel Estrada, William Flores
Publishing Without Publishing: The Case For Utrgv Library Poster Displays, Shannon Pensa, Raquel Estrada, William Flores
University Library Publications and Presentations
During the pandemic, our library, like many others, made the switch to promote library resources for an online centric world. Book displays were reimagined in the form of LibGuides, online flyers and social media posts became more commonplace to reach our patrons. Yet throughout all this online marketing, we had overlooked our institutional repository (IR) to disseminate our creative works. That changed in 2021, when we decided to start uploading poster presentations created to promote library resources and realized that in effect, we became content creators. While the posters are not the traditional form of research and publication, we are …
Getting In On The Library Poster Presentation Bandwagon: Creating Posters For Constitution Day, Samantha Bustillos, Raquel Estrada
Getting In On The Library Poster Presentation Bandwagon: Creating Posters For Constitution Day, Samantha Bustillos, Raquel Estrada
University Library Publications and Presentations
With the success of the virtual poster displays created by the library typically aligning with national themes and celebrations, we decided to create a virtual poster display for Constitution Day. Our Constitution Day posters cover a variety of formats as well as subjects including the ideologies of U.S. founding fathers, women in the American Revolution, constitutional ratifications over time, and implications of constitutional law on minorities. As a Hispanic Serving Institution, we created a slide to highlight and celebrate the first Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor. The virtual posters are a new tool to promote library resources, including …
Lasting Changes On Etextbook Acquisitions For Textbook Affordability Due To Covid-19, Justin White
Lasting Changes On Etextbook Acquisitions For Textbook Affordability Due To Covid-19, Justin White
University Library Publications and Presentations
When the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley University Library started purchasing etextbooks for required courses in 2018, we were one of the few in the UT System who had an explicit program. Now, it’s becoming a more common practice for libraries to put funds usually reserved for course reserves or other faculty requests into ebooks. As COVID began to shut down our physical operations we began to receive a large influx of etextbook requests from faculty. Luckily, the library had a student savings tracking process in place for required etextbook purchases, and a fund designated for these purchases. The …
Reflecting On A Year And A Half Of Progress: Scholarworks At Utrgv, William Flores
Reflecting On A Year And A Half Of Progress: Scholarworks At Utrgv, William Flores
University Library Publications and Presentations
April 2021 marks the year and a half of the implementation of the UTRGV ScholarWorks institutional repository. This poster presentation focuses on workflows, marketing campaigns, common questions, total outreach emails, total responses, emails that ended in successful deposits or withdrawals, and most popular article downloads.
How Much Did You Spend On Textbooks This Semester?, Justin White
How Much Did You Spend On Textbooks This Semester?, Justin White
University Library Publications and Presentations
This poster template was created by Justin White to facilitate campus discussions among students about OER, textbook costs, access codes, and other issues that may come up. It is a piece of library programming that can be used in a wider range of outreach to students and faculty. It asks students to place a dot (usually a sticker) in the price range that best indicates the total amount they spent on books/course materials.
Whose History?: Expanding Place-Based Initiatives Through Open Collaboration, Sean Visintainer, Stephanie Anckle, Kristen Weischedel
Whose History?: Expanding Place-Based Initiatives Through Open Collaboration, Sean Visintainer, Stephanie Anckle, Kristen Weischedel
University Library Publications and Presentations
This chapter is the case study of a collaboration between the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s Teaching & Learning Program and the University Library’s Special Collections. The collaboration, Whose History? uses place-based education (PBE) as the pedagogical underpinning of a multi-stage project of student-developed research, creation, and teaching. While PBE underpins the project, “openness” is the framework around which Whose History? is built. Teaching & Learning undergraduate students, referred to hereafter as teacher-candidates, use special collections resources to conduct research into regional history and culture, and then create open lesson plans from their findings. Select teacher-candidates teach their lesson …
Link Rot, Reference Rot, And Link Resolvers, Justin White
Link Rot, Reference Rot, And Link Resolvers, Justin White
University Library Publications and Presentations
From the earliest days of the web, users have been aware of the fickleness of linking to content. In some ways, 1998 was a simpler time for the Internet. In other ways, like basic website design principles, everything old is new again. Jakob Nielson, writing “Fighting Linkrot” in 1998, reported on a then-recent survey that suggested 6% of links on the web were broken. The advice then hasn’t changed: run a link validator on your site regularly, and update or remove broken links. Also set up redirects for links that do change. The mantra for Nielson was “you are not …
Pirate Philosophy: For A Digital Posthumanities, By Gary Hall Reviewed By Justin M. White, Justin White
Pirate Philosophy: For A Digital Posthumanities, By Gary Hall Reviewed By Justin M. White, Justin White
University Library Publications and Presentations
Gary Hall’s work aims to explore a “pirate philosophy” for critical humanists that approaches the digital humanities in such a way that they no longer will only consider how open data, digitization, and networked computing affect or define them. Instead, the chapters meander through the ways in which the (post)humanities provide a narrative concerning how information is shared and created that will have a profound impact on their own disciplines as well as the material and conceptual ways our society approaches scholarly communication. While the concept of pirate philosophy is woven throughout the book, the chapters can each stand alone …
Communication Or Piracy? Library Values, Copyright, And Cloud Computing, Justin White
Communication Or Piracy? Library Values, Copyright, And Cloud Computing, Justin White
University Library Publications and Presentations
Advances in computing in the twenty-first century has shifted the late twentieth century model of computers that act as independent processing machines, back to the more archaic model of terminals that have processing done by a larger, centralized network. This shift has come about because of the growth of Cloud computing, which, for this chapter, will be defined as a model of computing as infrastructure. Whether the drive to Cloud solutions was driven by the limited resources of mobile devices, or the need to collectively share and store data across multiple platforms, or even a desire to offload software itself …