Lorcan Dempsey. “Spring 2022 Closing Plenary: Lorcan Dempsey,” Closing plenary given at Coalition for Networked Information Spring 2022 Membership Meeting (March 29, 2022).
The American Congress Digital Archives Portal Project
Danielle Emerling
Associate Curator, Congressional and Political Papers Archivist
West Virginia University
The archives of the United States Congress document the democratic process, the development of public policy, and multiple narratives related to the country’s social, cultural, and political development. Congressional archives provide an essential underpinning for scholarship, yet there are major barriers to their use, including being geographically dispersed, large, and complex collections. The American Congress Digital Archives Portal will provide open access to congressional archives by bringing together these geographically dispersed and civically important sources from multiple institutions into a single online portal using open-source software. The portal will illuminate the connections across collections, provide opportunities for new scholarship and civics and history education, and make the archives of the “People’s Branch” more equitably available to the people. A pilot of the project received a Humanities Collections and Reference Resources foundations grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2021-2022), and now the project is planning to scale up by increasing the number of partners and amount of content, as well as shifting from a content hosting to a harvesting model.
Beyond Implementation: Positioning Maintenance as a Core Commitment in Libraries
Ruth Tillman
Sally W. Kalin Early Career Librarian for Technological Innovations
Pennsylvania State University
The 21st century academic library runs on an increasingly interconnected network of systems, from the traditional ILS to emerging technologies. While they support core library functions, these products are often implemented without a plan for their maintenance in the years or decades until their sunsetting or the next migration. Drawing from the emerging field of maintenance studies, this presentation will share results from qualitative interviews of 16 ILS maintainers and propose steps for building a workplace where core maintenance tasks are recognized and supported.
Building Resilience to Health Misinformation in Local Communities: A Public and Academic Libraries Partnership in San Diego County
Jeffery Loo
Clinical Librarian
University of California, San Diego
Erik Mitchell
Audrey Geisel University Librarian
University of California, San Diego
Oscar Gittemeier
Program Manager for Innovation and Community Engagement
San Diego Public Library
Margaret Henderson
Health Sciences Librarian
San Diego State University
Amanda Kalish
Health Sciences and Psychology Librarian
California State University San Marcos
Tricia Lantzy
Health Sciences and Human Services Librarian
California State University San Marcos
Karen O’Grady
Nursing Librarian
University of San Diego
Melissa Solis
Adult Services Librarian
San Diego County Library
In 2021, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors declared health misinformation a public health crisis – acknowledging its negative impact on informed health awareness and choices during the COVID-19 pandemic. OBJECTIVE: To support the County’s campaign to counteract health misinformation, San Diego Circuit, a consortium of public and academic libraries, aims to develop health information literacy and health misinformation resilience in our regional communities. APPROACH: Employing an inclusive, participatory process, we prioritized eight information initiatives to pursue in 2022. They align with national and county guidelines for mitigating health misinformation. We ensured the new initiatives would complement established library services and match our member libraries’ diverse missions and expertise. OUTCOMES: We developed a logic model to connect our libraries’ resources, activities, and outputs to the impact areas recommended by public health and government bodies. This model ensures that our library initiatives – to disseminate health information to the public, partner on strategic initiatives with health experts and public officials, provide educational services about health misinformation, and engage community groups around information literacy – will directly support the County’s campaign. Our project briefing will reflect on the alignment of our unique partnership to the collective impact model – a social innovation concept whereby a network of community members, organizations, and institutions coordinate to advance equity and facilitate social change.
CreateUK: A Review and Recommendations for Growing and Enhancing Campus Collaborations
Jennifer Hootman
Digital Humanities Librarian
University of Kentucky
In 2017, University of Kentucky (UK) Libraries formed the Digital Scholarship Center Task Force (DSCTF) to identify current services that address digital scholarship teaching and learning needs, explore opportunities to strengthen existing services, and recommend new initiatives. The task force findings confirmed a significant gap in equitable access to web-hosting options. Thus, UK Libraries recognized a strategic opportunity in piloting CreateUK, a web-hosting service. In our first year of this pilot (2019-2020), CreateUK became more than a web-hosting service for campus. It provided an entrée to building new and meaningful relationships with colleges, departments, and campus services for whom common purpose with the libraries is not always easily visible or determined. To nurture these relationships and to support this work we developed a suite of workshops, online tutorials, and consultations. Offering a web-hosting platform with built-in open source applications ready to use that is sufficiently flexible enough to accommodate diverse usage, positioned UK Libraries as not only a service provider but also a collaborator in digital pedagogical practices and projects with faculty, staff, and students. With the pilot ending in June 2022, this presentation will provide a review of our assessments, project and curricular examples, and recommendations for next steps.
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