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Best Practices: An Exciting Showcase Of Inclusive, Innovative, & Interconnected Libraries In Asia And The Usa, Buenaventura (Ven) Basco, John Hickok

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Conference Presentation presented at PLAI 2019 National Congress in Tagaytay City, Philippines.

Libraries across the world—especially in the US and Asia—are rapidly changing. New technology, trends, and user needs are all driving libraries to adapt. This includes being more inclusive (meeting all users’ needs, of diverse backgrounds), more innovative (overcoming challenges and seizing opportunities), and more interconnected (forging partnerships and making creative connections). This paper presentation will showcase inspiring, real-life examples of just such libraries! The two co-presenters bring first-hand experience in featuring these showcased libraries. The first leads the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA), a professional library organization …

Falling Down The Rabbit Hole: Exploring The Unique Partnership Between Subject Librarians And Scholarly Communication, Buenaventura (Ven) Basco, Sandy Avila, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Conference Presentation presented at Charleston Conference 2019 in Charleston, South Carolina.

Subject librarians are uniquely poised to facilitate conversations and assistance about scholarly communication topics to faculty and students -- helping make the connections between scholarly communication and discipline-specific research. The University of Central Florida (UCF) Libraries offers a unique intersection between scholarly communication and subject librarians by implementing a robust subject librarian model that includes activities related to scholarly communication and partnering with UCF’s Office of Scholarly Communication to provide support on a variety of topics to the campus community. In particular, this model has been particularly effective with …

Getting The Word Out - Review And Best Practices From Textbook Affordability And Oer Websites, Katy A. Miller

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This is the slides and talking points for a presentation at the 16th Annual Open Education Conference.

Two hot topics in education are Textbook Affordability (TA) and Open Educational Resources(OER). These initiatives can be under one umbrella at an institution, a collaborative effort, or led by completely different departments.

To assess and improve the current Textbook Affordability website, the Student Success/Textbook Affordability Librarian conducted a review of websites on Textbook Affordability and Open Educational Resources. The review examined websites from US academic institutions who were members of SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). Using this sample group, over …

How Does Free Help Me? Useful Things Like Gps Software, Open Access Week Committee, Ucf Libraries

Open Access Week

How does free help me? Useful things like GPS Software

Once upon a time the only way to find an address was to look at a paper map. Remember your first day at UCF? How hard it was to find the right building? Did you get lost? That used to be true going pretty much any place new.

Now with GPS, you can have someone tell you how to get somewhere step by step. You can even select a British or Australian narrator. Like many conveniences in our lives, this is a result of the …

How Does Free Help Me? Mind-Blowing Things Like The Mapping Our Dna, Open Access Week Committee, Ucf Libraries

Open Access Week

How does free help me? Mind-blowing things like the mapping our DNA

Posted: October 24th, 2019

Ever hear of a little company called 23andMe? For around $100, you can get a breakdown of your global heritage. You can even get it for your dog or cat.

The availability to learn more about our own ancestry or genetic health markers is a result of the Human Genome Project. The original mapping of human DNA took thirteen years to complete, and involved 20 institutions around the globe. It is considered the world’s largest collaborative biological project, with a price tag of …

How Does Free Help Me? Funny Things Like Throwing Shade On Florida, Open Access Week Committee, Ucf Libraries

Open Access Week

How does free help me? Funny things like throwing shade on Florida

Posted: October 23rd, 2019

Florida is called the sunshine state for more than just the weather. It has one of the broadest public record laws in the nation, with origins dating back to 1909. On the bright side, this wide interpretation of public records provides transparency in state public agencies.

It could also be considered a factor in the creation of the internet meme “Florida Man.” This meme is based on strange news stories or crimes that take place in our home state and is …

How Does Free Help Me? Cool Things From Nasa, Open Access Week Committee, Ucf Libraries

Open Access Week

How does free help me? Cool things from NASA

Posted: October 22nd, 2019

Yesterday we talked a little bit about the Open Access movement to share research. Today we are going to focus on the benefits of having research freely available. Let’s look at a government agency right in our own backyard — NASA. You may not realize this, but NASA research and technology has contributed to the development of everything from LED lighting to temper foam mattresses. Unlike Area 51, NASA likes to share what it knows, and collaborates with industry partners in all kinds of ways. Here …

How Does Free Help Me? Informative Things Like Wikipedia, Open Access Week Committee, Ucf Libraries

Open Access Week

How does free help me? Informative things like Wikipedia

Posted: October 21st, 2019

We use it for everything – historical information, explaining movie endings, and biographies of our favorite celebrities. Wikipedia began in 2001, which is roughly the same time as a movement called Open Access, which we are celebrating this week.

Before Wikipedia, hard cover books with a collection of facts were printed. These encyclopedias were expensive and it was hard to keep the information current. Just as Wikipedia makes facts more easily available to everyone using the Internet, Open Access hopes to do the same thing. However, it …

Conducting A Signage Inventory To Improve Accessibility At The University Of Central Florida’S John C. Hitt Library, Rachel L. Edford

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Poster presentation at the 2019 FACRL Conference.

This poster documents the process of conducting an inventory of the current signage in the University of Central Florida’s John C. Hitt Library to determine ways to make the library space accessible to all users. It also presents suggestions for future signs, as the library undergoes a major renovation. This project grew out of my interest in a presentation on “Supporting Neurodiversity in the Academic Library” by Florida State University at the 2019 Florida Library Association conference. The presentation referenced the publication, Project A+: Serving Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Academic …

Copyright For Educators: Using Copyrighted Content In The Classroom, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Presentation for KnightEd Talk series on October 8, 2019.

Session Description:

Can you show a movie in class? Can you distribute copies of an article to your students? These are just a few questions that educators face when using copyrighted materials in the classroom. In this presentation, we will discuss copyright basics and explore copyright issues in both the physical and online classroom. The session will include real-world examples and provide attendees with resources they can use to help navigate copyright when teaching.

Why Every Librarian Should Know About Copyright: Creating Copyright Training Opportunities For Librarians At Your Institution, Sarah A. Norris, Barbara G. Tierney, Lily Dubach

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This book chapter addresses the importance of copyright training and education and aims to provide case studies and scenarios that demonstrate effective opportunities for engaging librarians in various library departments in issues of copyright. In particular, the chapter will explore the University of Central Florida’s (UCF) unique intersection between subject librarians and scholarly communication, as well as the Office of Scholarly Communication’s efforts to provide internal copyright training to librarians across the institution.

Open Access, Sarah A. Norris

Camp COMPASS

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Copyright, Sarah A. Norris

Camp COMPASS

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Creating Mail Art & Other Transformative Works: Understanding Copyright & Author Rights, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

A brief presentation on copyright and author rights considerations when creating mail art and other transformative works that was given during a Mail Art event held at UCF Libraries.

A Model For Quality Education To Support Stem Student Success, Sandy Avila, Buenaventura (Ven) Basco

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

In an evolving academic library environment, the duties of the subject liaison librarian are ever changing and being adapted as new responsibilities are added year after year. The Science Librarian and Engineering & Computer Science Librarian at the University of Central Florida are taking a model-based approach to handling these changes in STEM discipline support. During this session we will cover strategies for improving STEM student success based on a model for collaborative instruction, creative outreach, and cooperative service. This “STEM Team” based approach involves working closely on STEM based initiatives by facilitating and organizing related events and workshops which …

Entrepreneurship Programming: Building A Network Of Librarians, Students, And Entrepreneurs, Rebecca "Missy" Murphey, Min Tong, Sandy Avila, Buenaventura (Ven) Basco

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

We presented our program on July 12, 2019 at the inaugural Panhandle Academic Libraries Conference held at the Florida Virtual Campus in Tallahassee, FL. The event was live streamed and a video recording of our presentation can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImbB4bdJveI&feature=youtu.be

Conference Abstract:

Four librarians, all liaisons to very different departments, collaborated to plan an event series that serves their common audience: student entrepreneurs. Hear how they connected with other campus units and organizations–and each other–to cooperatively provide programs featuring local entrepreneurs, market research, intellectual property, and business coaches and mentoring.

Counter Revision 4 To 5 In 6, Athena Hoeppner

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

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Developing, Delivering And Redesigning Metadata And Data Documentation Workshop For Graduate Students, Sai Deng

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This presentation in Pecha Kucha format is part of the 2019 Library Faculty Showcase at the University of Central Florida. It presents the development, delivery and redesign of a metadata and data documentation workshop for university graduate students and researchers. The original workshop was in lecture style, and it covered large amount of information such as the status of data documentation and management as revealed by a campus survey, research data documentation basics, general and domain metadata standards, and data documentation practices in different disciplines. The redesign looks at students' experiences in previous workshops and also what the Metadata Librarian …

Supporting Access And Community-Building: The Cala Social Media Tag Library, Sai Deng, Esther Deleon, Jeannie Chen

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) Social Media Group initially created the CALA Social Media Tag Library in Fall 2017 to facilitate better navigation and search for social media channels, particularly the CALA Facebook public page and promote the organization’s programs and activities. The Social Media Group introduced the creation of the Tag Library to the CALA community in Summer 2018, but the tags were limited to member-only, internal use. In Spring 2019, the restructured CALA Social Media Committee reviewed, enriched, and standardized the Tag Library, and decided to make it publicly available for anyone interested in posting to CALA’s …

Online Faculty Profiles, Sarah A. Norris

Camp COMPASS

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Stars And Selectedworks, Lee Dotson

Camp COMPASS

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Summing Up: Counter R5 Overview, Athena Hoeppner

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

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Taking An Earth Day Winning Hand To The Next Level, Sandy Avila, Christina C. Wray, Kelsie Johnson

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Presentation was delivered on May 17, 2019 at the Florida Library Association Annual Conference held in Orlando, FL May 15-17th, 2019.

Abstract:

Join a team of two librarians, a faculty member and one of their support staff as they discuss the ins and outs of creating a well-attended group of library programming events about Earth Day and local habitat awareness. Attend this session if you want to learn more about how to create winning partnerships and make your programming a hit around campus or in your local community!

Academic Etiquette, Sandy Avila, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This is a mentoring and professional development presentation given at a University of Central Florida Libraries faculty meeting. It encompasses a variety of topics, including discussing library and academic codes of ethics in addition to covering ethical and courteous practices related to communication, publishing, presenting, and participating in search committees.

Why I Am Still Talking About Links, Athena Hoeppner

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

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Textbook Affordability At Ucf: A Report Of Research Using The Coup Framework And Practical Tips On Working With Faculty, Penny Beile, Sandy Avila

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Penny Beile and Sandy Avila presented at the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 2019 Conference in Cleveland, OH on April 11, 2019. The original conference program title was, "Impact on an OER Adoption in an American History Course: An Exploration of Impact on Student Outcomes and Behaviors."

Contributed Paper by: Penny Beile, Aimee deNoyelles, John Raible, and Sandy Avila

Conference Presentation Abstract:

Escalating textbook costs are of increasing concern to faculty and administrators. Survey responses of 1,975 students found that 53% “frequently” or “occasionally” had not purchased a textbook due to cost. This environment served as the impetus …

Library Support For Researchers, Tim Bottorff, Shane Roopnarine

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This presentation was given to faculty and graduate student researchers at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management on March 27, 2019. Topics include: about the UCF Libraries, finding materials, off campus access, getting help, citation management, STARS, publishing resources, copyright, research profiles, and research impact.

Open Educational Resources At The University Of Central Florida, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This presentation was a part of a panel at the FLVC OER Summit 2019 titled, "Integrating library funded resources into your courses" which included a panelists of Florida librarians.

The presentation highlights an open educational resource created at the University of Central Florida for an English Literature I course.

Returning From Wonderland, Sarah A. Norris, Christina Wray

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Workshop presented as a part of the Alice’s Adventures in Scholarly Conversations week-long event hosted by UCF Libraries.

Workshop summary:

When is a tweet as important as a journal article? Does it matter which journal an article is published in? Are books always better? Join us as we explore how the context in which a scholarly conversation happens can provide important clues about who can be trusted and when you are being hoodwinked. The final clue to Alice’s location will be revealed!

Tools For Successful Stem Outreach In The Digital Plus Era, Sandy Avila

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Presentation was delivered at the Sixth International Conference of Asian Special Libraries (ICoASL 2019) in New Delhi, India on February 15, 2019.

Complete program details can be found here:

http://www.slp.org.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Program.ICoASL.-2019-2-12.pdf

Conference Program Abstract:

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) outreach to include how to set up partnerships for joint programs and in getting the attention of faculty and students.