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An Integrated Digital Services Model For Institutional Repositories, M Ryan Hess

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

DePaul University Library created a suite of digital services to support faculty projects which addressed common hurdles to repository adoption. In a faculty survey we ran in the fall of 2014, faculty reported an unawareness of the repository, uncertainty of how they might use it. However, they also reported that they placed value on the repository services we presented to them and a desire to hear more information. Anecdotally, we also heard the common refrain that faculty are too busy and too technologically challenged to engage with the repository on their own. In response, we defined several interrelated services to …

Wsuls Digital Collections Api, Cole Hudson

Library Scholarly Publications

This presentation details the process by the WSU Digital Collections website retrieves and displays data onto the site...with an API. Code referenced was developed by Cole Hudson and Graham Hukill and can be found on Github.

Accessing Library Literature On Your Ipad, Alexandra Sarkozy

Scholars Cooperative Brown Bag Series

Demonstration of Zotero, EndNote, and Browzine on iPads

H-Index: Assessing An Author's Impact, Katherine Akers

Scholars Cooperative Brown Bag Series

Description of the h-index and discussion of its strengths and weaknesses

Apis And The Library: What, Why?, Graham S. Hukill

Scholars Cooperative Brown Bag Series

APIs (Application Programming Interface): What are they? Why are they? Introduction to APIs and their role in the Library

Why Don’T Library Science Students Want To Become Managers?, Robert P. Holley

School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications

Very few students who have taken Wayne State University's required management course from me have any interest in library careers in management. Some are even more firm in their decision after taking the course though most graduates will have management responsibilities in their first library position and some will manage a small library. I polled current students and recent graduates about this reluctance. The sixteen responses considered the following possible causes: personality traits, a preference for traditional library activities, a dislike of managerial responsibilities, prior management experience, and salary. Additional, more systematic research is needed to test this hypothesis.

Review Of "The Scholarly Kitchen," By David Crotty, Robert P. Holley

School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.

Internship And Practicum Requirements In Archival Education, Gavin T. Strassel, Meghan M. Courtney

Reuther Library Scholarly Publications

Archivists have long debated the nature of archival internships and practicum requirements as components of archival education. Advocates cite these requirements as the best way for emerging archivists to acquire hands-on training, while critics worry they can be used to further student exploitation and a devaluation of professional archivists’ labor. This presentation examined requirements in graduate archives programs and compared them to accepted guidelines for internships in the archives profession and the American economy at large. These presentations draw on original survey data collected by the presenters from educational programs listed on the Society of American Archivists’ Directory of Archival …

Op Ed — Random Ramblings — Don’T Forget About Small Libraries, Robert P. Holley

School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications

Bob expands on the fact that small libraries don’t get the respect that they deserve.

Improving Our Reference Data, Or How We Killed The Hash Mark, Katrina B. Rouan, Graham S. Hukill

Library Scholarly Publications

All responsible academic libraries record their reference transactions. It is good practice to know how many patrons have been helped at your service points. For years we have participated in this record keeping with hash marks on paper, painstaking tallying, and manual spreadsheet entry for the purpose of saying, “we helped X patrons during Y month”. But, like most things academic, reference runs on its own calendar and requires more sophisticated tools to truly investigate and evaluate.

To generate more useful reference statistics, we created a simple, online tool for recording reference interactions. The tool is accessible anywhere reference is …

The Shoulders On Which We Stand, Jan B. Bissett, Margi Heinen

Library Scholarly Publications

No abstract provided.

Xsd: The Path From Excel To Xml: The Basics: Mapping Elements And Attributes, Amelia Mowry

Library Scholarly Publications

Working with metadata often means moving it between various formats. One problematic move to make is from a spreadsheet to an XML file. This paper will describe the basics of using an XSD to map a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to XML.

Moving metadata can be a messy process, especially when the data is older. Data often comes out of legacy systems as csv files, tab-delimited files, or Excel files. Moving data from these formats into XML can prove to be a challenge. I have also found it beneficial to do some initial data cleaning in spreadsheet form. This allows for …

Increasing Your Research Impact: Digital Commons And Altmetrics, Michael Priehs, Alexandra Sarkozy

Library Scholarly Publications

This presentation will discuss new options for extending your scholarship’s reach and for tracking your scholarly influence. DigitalCommons@WayneState is the University’s institutional repository, where we collect and provide perpetual open access to the intellectual output of WSU. Altmetrics, or “alternative metrics”, is a rising trend in scholarly communication, providing non-traditional metrics for assessing scholarly impact, including Twitter and popular news coverage. Two Wayne State librarians will demonstrate these tools, and explain how they can increase your research impact.

Librarian As Developer: Reconciling The Two With Big Ideas, Cole Hudson

Library Scholarly Publications

This presentation covers the overlap between ideas and ideals found in web development and librarianship

Copyright In Classroom Materials: Videos, Illustrations And Photographs, Michael Priehs, Joshua Neds-Fox

Library Scholarly Publications

A look at the educational provisions for use of copyrighted materials, especially video and images, in the physical and virtual classroom.

Random Ramblings — Rational Individual Decisions That Lead To Irrational Global Consequences, Robert P. Holley

School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications

Bob says that when making rational individual decisions one shouldn’t worry about diffuse global consequences.

Health Disclaimers And Website Credibility Markers: Guidance For Consumer Health Reference In The Affordable Care Act Era, Deborah H. Charbonneau

School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications

This article reports on the current state of health disclaimers, online health resources, and credibility markers provided on public library websites (N = 105) for those seeking health information. In light of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), these findings have implications for consumer health reference services in public libraries. Approximately half of the public library websites in the study sample (n = 52, 49.5%) referred users to the ACA Health Insurance Marketplace website (HealthCare.gov). When referring to online consumer health resources, a small number of public library websites identified the authors of online health content (n = …

Libraries In Moldova: The Road To Renewal In Hard Economic Times, H.G.B. Anghelescu, Eugenia Bejan

School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications

The transition from a communist to a democratic society has affected the entire social map of Moldova, including the library network. For over two and a half decades, Moldovan libraries have undergone major changes and reforms: from closed- to open-access stacks; from ideological institutions serving political platforms to public squares in support of democracy; from repositories of propaganda books to information centers serving the information needs of the communities they serve. This paper examines the changes in, and challenges faced by, Moldova’s libraries from 1991, the year that marks the country’s independence, to the present. Various projects—government-sponsored or assisted by …

Regime Change In Romania: A Quarter-Century Impact On Libraries, H.G.B. Anghelescu, Elena Chiaburu

School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications

This paper takes a fresh look at the transformative events that marked the development of the library scene at the twenty-fifth anniversary of regime change in Romania. It examines their significance for the country’s postcommunist trajectories by linking the past, present, and future of library development. Libraries of all types have been affected in either a positive or negative way during the past twenty-five years. Currently, there is no strategy at the national level to coordinate library development or to establish priorities and directions for growth. Due to significant financial aid from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the public …

The League Of Librarians: Combining Our Powers To Create Sustainable Service, Judith Arnold, Veronica Bielat, Joshua Neds-Fox

Library Scholarly Publications

Recent ARL and Ithaka reports assert that changes in higher education demand we transform our thinking about liaison services. Liaison work is no longer a job for Lone Heroes. Meeting the changing expectations of students, researchers and faculty requires a Superteam of individuals equipped with an arsenal of expertise. This session features replicable strategies that demonstrate how to expand service through internal collaborative partnerships, empower liaisons through skill development, and leverage technology to sustain effort.

How We Closed A Library And Opened Up Our Stacks: Providing Alternative Access Through Virtual Shelves, Cole Hudson

Library Scholarly Publications

This poster covers WSU's efforts to develop a virtual book shelf viewer modifying and adding to the Harvard Library's Stack View project. Code referenced was developed by Cole Hudson and Axa Liauw and can be found on Github.

Digital Humanities In Ten Pages Or Less! Engaging Students With Digital Texts Through Sustainable Collaboration, Julie Thompson Klein, Judith Arnold, Graham S. Hukill

Library Scholarly Publications

Digital Humanities projects are somewhat new to many librarians, particularly those who are liaisons to faculty who are venturing into this area. Because of this “newness,” many librarians are unsure of their role in engaging with faculty or other librarian colleagues who are working with digital collections and editions, text mining, or other applications of technology to humanities scholarship. A digital humanities project need not be intimidating. Opportunities are nascent in everyday projects and technologies. Through the example of a digital humanities project integrated into a senior-level writing intensive course for English majors, this session will offer attendees a working …

Library Link Resolvers And Analytics: Using Analytics Tools To Identify Usage Trends And Access Problems With Electronic Resources In Libraries, Amelia Mowry

Library Scholarly Publications

Analytics have become vital to exploring the use of websites in the library world. They allow us to discover who is using our sites, when they are using them, and how they are using them. I believe this data will only become more important as libraries continue to prove their worth in the digital world.

However, there are some challenges with using analytics. One major issue is that some of the essential sites relating to the delivery of library materials do not actually belong to the library. One example of this is the link resolver, which attempts to connect patrons …

A Prediction Modeling Framework For Noisy Welding Quality Data, Junheung Park

Wayne State University Dissertations

Numerous and various research projects have been conducted to utilize historical manufacturing process data in product design. These manufacturing process data often contain data inconsistencies, and it causes challenges in extracting useful information from the data. In resistance spot welding (RSW), data inconsistency is a well-known issue. In general, such inconsistent data are treated as noise data and removed from the original dataset before conducting analyses or constructing prediction models. This may not be desirable for every design and manufacturing applications since every data can contain important information to further explain the process. In this research, we propose a prediction …

Escape Velocity: What We Built (Digital Collections Infrastructure), Graham Hukill, Cole Hudson

Library Scholarly Publications

A poster outlining the Library's current Python-based digital collections infrastructure, with an eye towards a potential Hydra-based infrastructure in the future.

Informing Authors: Outreach Strategies For Engaging Faculty In Scholarly Communications Issues At Your Institution, Michael Priehs, Joshua Neds-Fox

Library Scholarly Publications

This presentation communicates three approaches at a research institution to engage faculty around scholarly communication issues. Attendees will come away better equipped to develop their institutional repositories and create a stronger scholarly communications program.

Library Planning And Budgeting: A Few Underappreciated Principles, Robert P. Holley

School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications

In this issue, Robert P. Holley, Professor of Library and Information Science at Wayne State University, looks at several important points about library planning and budgeting from his twenty five years’ experience as a library administrator. He chose these topics because they most often come as a surprise to students in his library management classes as well as his library colleagues. Understanding these few underappreciated and less than obvious management principles can help library managers grasp how libraries are different from for-profit organizations and how they can avoid some planning and budgeting traps.

Random Ramblings — One Small Step For Smashwords, One Giant Leap For Self-Publishing (Perhaps), Robert P. Holley

School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications

The article focuses on the electronic publishing company Smashwords and is partnership with digital distributor OverDrive to offer electronic book packages to libraries. Topics include how the partnership will impact the distribution of self-published materials and the availability of self-published materials at academic libraries.

Wtf (What’S To Fear)?!? Owning The Mistakes We Make And Learning From Them, Michael Priehs, Damecia Donahue, Mike Hawthorne

Library Scholarly Publications

Have you *$%#’d up? We have. Presenters will discuss some of the ways we’ve made mistakes and recovered. We’ll offer examples of our mistakes and what we learned. We’ll look at balancing individual initiative with the need to work within a team environment. Presenters will facilitate a fun, interactive, and lively session helping you turn your mistakes into opportunities. You’ll leave equipped with tools to think about mistakes, grow from them, and create better outcomes.

Starting From The Ground Up: How We Created Our Own Digital Collections Platform, Axa Liauw, Cole Hudson, Graham Hukill

Library Scholarly Publications

We recently released our new digital collections platform, based around an implementation of Fedora Commons, the open-source digital repository software. By building a system from the ground up, we have learned a great deal about interface design, workflow management, the evaluation of pre-existing tools and systems, as well as building and using APIs (Application Programmable Interfaces) to our advantage. At this session, we will outline specific software and technologies we used and why, as we discuss our experience of creating a digital collections platform.

Audience members will come away with a better sense of what, for one library, it meant …