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Catalyzing Student Success: How to Center Digital Literacy, Access to Technology, and Interdisciplinary Communities of Practice in Innovative Library Spaces

Jennifer Nichols
Director, CATalyst Studios
University of Arizona

As noted in CNI’s Program Plan, research libraries are transforming to address the changing nature of teaching and learning, the need for technical skills by undergraduate and graduate students, and the pressure to accommodate a multitude of changing needs of users with updates to facilities, staffing, and partnerships. This presentation will address how the University of Arizona Libraries has partnered in a unique collaboration across campus units to create the Student Success District, and within that, the CATalyst Studios. CATalyst Studios is a dynamic space fostering creativity across domains, in the areas of data science, digital scholarship, fabrication, and entrepreneurship. Featuring a data visualization wall, a virtual reality/augmented reality studio, a green screen room, and a maker studio, this innovative space within the main library and at the heart of the Student Success District supports students and faculty through all stages of their academic career. This talk will discuss critical frameworks for decision-making and prioritization, drawing from lessons shared across institutions, as well as a five-year local pilot, and visions for long-term models of sustainability.

Presentation

https://new.library.arizona.edu/catalyst
https://successdistrict.arizona.edu/

 

Central Washington University’s OER and No-cost Textbook Initiative

Rebecca L. Lubas
Dean of Libraries
Central Washington University

Maura Valentino
Scholarly Communications Librarian & Head of Digital Initiatives
Central Washington University

In the fall of 2018, Central Washington University (CWU) Libraries was awarded a grant to incentivize faculty to stop using an expensive textbook in a course and use a free or open access resource instead. This grant had a very short timeline, from January 2019 to September 2019. In this same time frame, faculty was re-designing courses for the new General Education curriculum to be implemented in fall 2019. So, it seemed a perfect confluence to create a path through the General Education curriculum where a student would not have to purchase a textbook. The program was very successful and 26 courses in General Education now required no textbook purchase, creating many ways for a student to complete the entire program with no textbook costs. The next step was to publicize the success of the project. Our Faculty Senate runs the General Education program and we asked for time before the Faculty Senate Executive Committee, which includes the provost and the university president. When university leadership became aware of the program’s impact, the CWU Libraries were asked to work on a three-year, campus-wide, open educational resources (OER) initiative. This plan involves a bridge program of textbooks on reserve for the top 50 enrolled courses, building a culture open to OER by opening a dialogue with faculty chairs and partnering with early adopter faculty to be champions.

http://libguides.lib.cwu.edu/OER

CWU OERs CNI Spring 2020 Presentation

Collaboration and Community: Creating the Atla Digital Library for Collecting and Connecting in Religion and Theology

Christine Fruin
Scholarly Communication and Digital Projects Manager
Atla

Kevin Kochanski
Client Liaison
Notch8

In 2017 Atla partnered with Notch8 to create a Samvera-based digital library. Members of Atla contribute metadata for their existing digital collections in furtherance of the goal of creating an open access portal to search and discover diverse resources in all aspects of religion and theology to support research, education and information needs of the Atla Digital Library’s users worldwide. Through Atla’s collaboration with Notch8, a variety of metadata importers were created to facilitate ingest of metadata from libraries who may have collections in everything from Internet Archive to Omeka to ContentDM. Further, the partnership saw the implementation of an IIIF viewer to not only support a CLIR funded project of the Christ Church Preservation Trust but also potentially enhance interaction with other capable collections. During this presentation, attendees will learn more about this unique digital library configuration supported by a library member association and consortium and how the partnership with Notch8 supports open infrastructure through the contribution of code and other resources back to a software community.

Presentation

https://dl.atla.com

Connecting the Dots: Using ORCID to Consolidate Research Information for Reporting and Assessment

Jan Fransen
Service Lead for Research Information Management Systems
University of Minnesota

Jane Scott
Manager, Digital Services & Technology Planning
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Hilary Davis
Head of Collections & Research Strategy
North Carolina State University

Jason Ronallo
Department Head, Digital Library Initiatives
North Carolina State University

Sheila Rabun
ORCID US Community Specialist
LYRASIS

Research institutions are increasingly looking for ways to connect the dots between their researchers, funding, activities, and research contributions in efforts to improve reporting and assessment processes for all parties involved. Proposed solutions must balance the accuracy and dependability of persistent identifiers with individual researchers’ need for control over their scholarly record, all while making it as easy as possible to move information between systems and workflows. As an open, non-profit, community-driven platform that supports all of these stipulations, ORCID’s popularity is on the rise. ORCID replaces static document-based CVs and repetitious form-filling with a universal, interoperable, online CV. This panel will focus on cross-campus collaborations geared towards shifting to ORCID as a central data source to help streamline local workflows for reporting and assessment, as well as to meet external grant application and reporting requirements. Case studies from three ORCID US Community institutions will explore the opportunities and challenges for using ORCID to support both internal activity reporting and a public-facing portal (University of Minnesota), student activity reporting and compliance with institutional mandates (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center), and preparing faculty to meet grant application and reporting requirements, specifically with the new National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) requirements for grant applicants to use the SciENcv platform to create biosketches (North Carolina State University).

Presentation

https://www.lib.umn.edu/researchsupport/orcid
https://library.utsouthwestern.edu/main/portals/orcid/main.aspx?create
https://ci.lib.ncsu.edu/

Crowd-Sourced Unlatching of Curricular Books: A Joint Pilot by the California State University, Knowledge Unlatched, and the Internet Archive

Mark G. Bilby
Scholarly Communications Librarian
California State University, Fullerton

BPCs (Book Processing Charges) to publish specific books Open Access (OA) usually are reserved for front-listed items and funded by one or a few sponsoring organizations. More often than not, such funds underwrite scholarly monographs that do not directly substitute for required course textbooks. BPCs do not typically cover the republication or relicensing (“unlatching,” “unlocking,” or “flipping”) of back-listed and out-of-print titles, even though such titles represent a massive amount of scholarly knowledge restricted by copyright, confined to print format, and yet still used in course curricula. This presentation will unveil an innovative, collaborative pilot between the California State University (CSU), Knowledge Unlatched, and the Internet Archive. As a global leader in Affordable Learning $olutions to save students money on textbooks, CSU proposed this pilot, provided a list of 18,000 ISBNs from required readings across its 23 campuses, and supplied matching kick-starter funds. Knowledge Unlatched combed through the CSU ISBN list to identify backlisted titles and negotiate pre-agreed price points at which publishers would unlatch these books. Finally, the Internet Archive ensured the availability of a digitized copy of the book on its Open Library platform, made it available for check-out via Controlled Digital Lending, and also coordinated book-specific, crowd-funding campaigns through a centralized list and on decentralized book record pages. Even publishers stand to benefit from this novel approach to OA publishing with its built-in capacity to gauge demand and monetize books that are not currently sources of revenue.

Presentation

https://als.csuprojects.org/
https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/
https://openlibrary.org/

 

 

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