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10(+) years of Deep Blue at the University of Michigan

March 29, 2017

Jim Ottaviani
Librarian and Repository Manager for Deep Blue
University of Michigan

Deep Blue, the University of Michigan’s institutional repository service, launched in 2006. It now provides access to over 100,000 articles, theses, and other scholarly works written by U-M authors. We have succeeded in many ways (some replicable, some not, perhaps) and have also failed to meet our goals in others (many of them typical). In 2016 we launched an additional service, Deep Blue Data, to better handle the data needs of the University. So, as we plan to merge the original and the data services version on the Hydra/Fedora platform, we would like to share our experience and metrics, learn about how other experts are managing and enhancing what they offer, and discuss their plans for the future.

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu

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Advancing Accessibility through Libraries

March 29, 2017

Laura C. Wood
Director of Tisch Library, Associate University Librarian for Research
Tufts University

Joseph (Jody) D. Combs
Visiting Program Officer for Accessibility, Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
ARL/Vanderbilt University

Beth Sandore Namachchivaya
Associate University Librarian for Research
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Chances are that your institution has a significant and growing number of accessible, digital course materials and they are not in a searchable collection in the library. Nearly every college or university is busy meeting accommodation requests from students with disabilities. Libraries can bring needed expertise and coordination to this work and contribute to student success for students with disabilities, a growing population that exceeds 10% of the student body. This panel will provide an update and discussion on three accessibility initiatives: an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) planning grant for repository services, the Association for Research Libraries (ARL) captioning initiative, and a pilot at the University of Illinois to contribute DAISY files to the HathiTrust Digital Library. The IMLS grant has studied the needs of Disability Resources & Services (DRS) staff and documented the needs and opportunities for libraries and DRS offices to work together, manage content nationally, and share accessible content to reduce duplication of effort. We will review lessons learned and outline steps forward. The ARL captioning initiative focuses on issues regarding mixed media and accessibility. It is currently researching issues regarding the tools, integration, interoperability, scope and infrastructure for different possibilities for developing shared or individual repositories of captioned files.

http://tischlibrary.tufts.edu/AccessibilityRepository
http://www.arl.org/news/arl-news/4176-joseph-d-combs-jr-appointed-arl-visiting-program-officer-for-accessibility

 

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2017 Project Briefings, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility, Information Access & Retrieval, Project Briefing Pages, User Services
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Bibliometrics and Research Impact at University of Waterloo: An Exciting Campus Partnership

March 29, 2017

Alison Hitchens
Acting Associate University Librarian, Research & Digital Discovery Services
University of Waterloo

Annie Bélanger
Associate University Librarian, Information Resources & Academic Excellence
University of Waterloo

In 2012, the Bibliometrics Working Group at the University of Waterloo, composed of the Library, the Office of Research, Institutional Analysis and Planning (IAP) and faculty representatives, began its work. In 2015, a new campus position was created, Bibliometrics and Research Impact Librarian, and the white paper “Measuring Research Outputs through Bibliometrics” was released. This specialist librarian also supports the Ranking Working Group and the Research Impact Working Group and is responsible for bibliometrics education across campus for our students and faculty. This Librarian has also been working to create a North American community of practice for bibliometrics work. This project briefing will highlight this campus partnership, lessons learned so far, and questions for future directions and infrastructure requirements for support. Additionally, we will explore possible connections between bibliometrics work, citation analysis and evidence-based collection development practices for a research-intensive University.

Presentation

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Building a Deeper Bench: Training Students to Provide Digital Scholarship Support

March 29, 2017

Joe M. Williams
Interim Associate University Librarian for Collections and Services
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

This program highlights one new way that University of North Carolina Libraries services are enabling pedagogical and curricular change: by training Library student employees to provide substantial digital scholarship support. Historically, the Libraries have helped drive pedagogical change in four ways: 1.) Working directly with instructors on courses, assignments, and in curricular groups, 2.) Partnering with campus support organizations (e.g., teaching & learning center) to deliver programming, 3.) Introducing students to new skills and technologies through direct consultation and instruction, and 4.) Providing and integrating technology-enabled spaces into research and instruction. Recently, we have identified a fifth method: training and mentoring student employees in the delivery of digital scholarship research assistance. Training students to provide significant digital scholarship support gives them a hands-on work experience, engages them in new types of research, and develops their skills with emerging tools and practices. It also allows the Library’s many digital scholarship services to scale more readily, providing librarians with more time to engage with researchers on larger, complex projects and questions. In this session, we discuss the kind of work our students engage in, the growth of our training programs, and the curriculum that is beginning to emerge through our experience. We will draw from three examples: o Graduate students in the Science Library’s Makerspace providing 3D printing and 3D scanning consultations and instruction to faculty and students. 
 o Graduate students in the Undergraduate Library developing tutorials and teaching workshops on digital media creation, including social media graphics and infographics.
 o Graduate and undergraduate students in the Davis Library Research Hub providing consultations and project support on a range of tools, from Tableau to Python.

 Co-authors, not presenting: 
 Suchi Mohanty, Head, R.B. House Undergraduate Library Amanda Henley, Head, Digital Research Services
 Danianne Mizzy, Head, Kenan Science Information Services

http://library.unc.edu/hub/project-gallery/
http://skillful.web.unc.edu/
http://library.unc.edu/events

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2017 Project Briefings, Project Briefing Pages, Teaching & Learning, User Services
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Building Data Refuge: From Bucket Brigade to Sustainable Action

March 29, 2017

Laurie Allen
Assistant Director for Digital Scholarship, Libraries
University of Pennsylvania

Kimberly Eke
Director for Teaching, Research & Learning Services, Libraries
University of Pennsylvania

Elizabeth Foster
Public Policy and Social Sciences Librarian
Georgetown University

Delphine Khanna
Head of Digital Library Initiatives
Temple University

Catherine Morse
Government Information, Law and Political Science Librarian
University of Michigan

Beginning late in 2016, a large collaborative group of volunteers began to work together to back up vulnerable climate and environmental data at events around the country. In this panel, key organizers of this endeavor will discuss the Data Rescue events, the workflow that was developed to support these distributed activities, and some of the challenges encountered. They will also describe the emerging collaborative effort to move towards a more sustainable model, bringing together public participation, research libraries, and the open data community. To be successful, such a model will need to draw on the long-standing commitment from the library community to support digital preservation and access to federal data, as well as on more recent partnerships that we are forming with members of the open data movement in response to the urgency of the current situation and the myriad challenges of preserving access to these complex sources.

http://www.ppehlab.org/
http://librariesnetwork.org

Presentation (Eke)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2017 Project Briefings, Digital Curation, Digital Preservation, Project Briefing Pages
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