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The Academic Library as IT Partner: Supporting Sponsored Research at Auburn University

January 3, 2020

Aaron Trehub
Assistant Dean for Technology, Auburn University Libraries
Auburn University

Mallory Lucier-Greer
Associate Professor, College of Human Sciences
Auburn University

Denise Baker
Information Technology Manager, Auburn University Libraries
Auburn University

Academic libraries are seeking new ways to better align with current university research practice and to engage as vital partners in campus research. For the past two years, the Auburn University Libraries have supported the University’s research enterprise in a new way: by adopting a new collaborative model and serving as high-level information technology (IT) and data-management consultants to faculty researchers who are pursuing external funding. The Military REACH Project at Auburn University is a successful example of this model in action. Funded by the Departments of Agriculture and Defense (USDA/NIFA Award No. 2017-48710-27339), the project has resulted in an ongoing functional partnership between the library, a research team in another college, and federal funding agencies. Working closely with the Military REACH team in the College of Human Sciences, the library’s IT department contributed to the original funding proposal and has provided guidance on network architecture, web development, IT tools and solutions, sustainability, data management, accessibility, usage statistics, and automated methods for identifying recently published research. The Military REACH Project is now in its third year at Auburn University and seems likely to continue; indeed, it has highlighted the library’s value as an IT partner and led to research partnerships and collaborative funding proposals with other units on campus. Associate Professor and project Principal Investigator Mallory Lucier-Greer will describe the functional partnership between her college and the library from the researcher’s perspective, with input from library IT managers Denise Baker and Aaron Trehub. We believe that this project briefing will serve as a useful segue into the one-day Mellon-funded symposium on “Critical Roles for Libraries in Today’s Research Enterprise” on Wednesday, December 11.

https://militaryreach.auburn.edu/#/

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Filed Under: CNI Fall 2019 Project Briefings, Economic Models, Project Briefing Pages, User Services
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Accessibility Task Force: Determining Compliance and Organizing Action

January 3, 2020

Suzanne Wones
Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies and Innovation
Harvard University

Claire DeMarco
Associate Director for Digital Strategies and Innovation
Harvard University

In June of 2019, Harvard University announced that it would be adopting a campus-wide digital accessibility policy as of December 1, 2019. With a host of systems and digital offerings, the Library needed a comprehensive way to audit our user-facing products and create actionable deliverables for remediation, both by developers and content authors with varying levels of technical expertise. Having had much success working in the agile framework for development projects in the Digital Strategies and Innovation group, we proposed running the review work as a set of Digital Accessibility sprints from July to November. We quickly put together a 12-person, cross-functional team of librarians, UX experts, designers, and developers to review systems, identify issues, and set priorities. The end result will be actionable deliverables to facilitate remediation of library digital products and serve as a framework for ongoing accessibility compliance. This approach reflects our commitment to iterative, innovative work and we hope it will be a model for other institutions adopting similar policies and prioritizing universal accessibility.

http://library.harvard.edu

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Filed Under: Assessment, CNI Fall 2019 Project Briefings, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility, Information Access & Retrieval, Project Briefing Pages, User Services
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Acknowledging Core Facilities and Collections Use with ORCID

January 3, 2020

Eric Olson
Engagement and Partnerships Lead
ORCID

Many research institutions and universities manage or host core facilities and collections, resources that researchers utilize to generate data and run experiments supporting their work. Unfortunately, acknowledgment of this use is inconsistent, making it difficult to demonstrate value without arduous manual searching. The ORCID research resources workflow seeks to reduce this burden by enabling facilities and collections to add awarded support to researchers’ ORCID records, which can then be collected by publishers and connected to the related papers. This session will demonstrate this workflow and discuss the application that is already in use by the Department of Energy and National Science Foundation facilities across the United States.

https://orcid.org/organizations/research-orgs/resources

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Filed Under: CNI Fall 2019 Project Briefings, Identity Management, Project Briefing Pages
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Almost Open: Benefits, Challenges, and Design of an Authorized-access Research Data Enclave

January 3, 2020

Jeffrey R. Spies
Principal
221B Consulting

Rick O. Gilmore
Professor of Psychology
Pennsylvania State University

Openness with minimal restrictions is ideal but sometimes not feasible. For example, openness can be impractical or impossible when identifiable data about human subjects must be protected. Furthermore, the research community has a long way to go until openness is both normative and adequately resourced. Regardless of the practical or cultural barriers to unmitigated openness, it is still critical to promote reuse, reproducibility, and replicability to increase the quality and efficiency of the research process and the breadth and depth of research impact. Research data enclaves, where access is restricted to a trusted network of individuals, can foster these values while providing an iterative step toward wider openness.

In this talk, we will discuss our experience in designing, running, and now updating the technology behind the free, open-source behavioral video repository and restricted-access, authorized research environment Databrary, which has been in operation at New York University since 2014 and now includes 540 authorized institutions. In particular, we will focus on the pathways we are developing to promote wider openness wherever possible and our current curation-first design principle. More broadly, we will explore the benefits and challenges of such environments and discuss “almost open” as a strategy for the open community.

https://nyu.databrary.org/

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2019 Project Briefings, Economic Models, Project Briefing Pages, Research Data Management
Tagged With: cni2019fall, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

Artificial Intelligence: Impacts and Roles for Libraries

January 3, 2020

Keith Webster
Dean, University Libraries
Carnegie Mellon University

Jason Griffey
Director of Strategic Initiatives
National Information Standards Organization

Jason Griffey will present on the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) and potential impacts on libraries, drawing upon his recent book on the topic. Keith Webster will present on the opportunities for libraries to support AI education and research, based on work at Carnegie Mellon, the most prolific AI research institution in the United States. He will also touch on opportunities afforded by AI to advance library priorities.

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Filed Under: CNI Fall 2019 Project Briefings, Emerging Technologies, Project Briefing Pages
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