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Item Bourdieu's First Year: First-Generation Students. Habitus, and Retention(2017-02-06) Sly, JordanThis presentation will investigate the use of theory, in particular Pierre Bourdieu’s Habitus, in researching library populations and developing a complex, multi-dimensional understanding of an important library community. By utilizing the framework of Habitus, we seek to investigate Pierre Bourdieu’s thesis of Habitus, which is to say, a social theory of determinism that centralizes behavior without essentializing groups. The aim of the project is to study first-generation students and the issue of retention. Habitus, in many respects, speaks to an unwritten language, sense, or code (le sens practique) in which certain members of a group are naturally and unconsciously conversant and which other members must constantly use cognitive energy to work within. The hope is to investigate some aspects of this language by studying both college-normative students (i.e., those for whom college was a foregone conclusion) and first-generation students to understand, perhaps, an aspect of the difference in experience and to use some of the findings to propose some sort of library intervention. Of interest to attendees: application of theory to a practice, new methods of analysis of library populations, sharing of research methods, and possibly issuing a call for papers for an edited monograph on this topic.Item Bourdieu’s First Year: First-Generation Students, Habitus, and Retention(2017) Sly, JordanThis presentation will investigate the use of theory, in particular Pierre Bourdieu’s Habitus, in researching library populations and developing a complex, multi-dimensional understanding of an important library community. By utilizing the framework of Habitus, we seek to investigate Pierre Bourdieu’s thesis of Habitus, which is to say, a social theory of determinism that centralizes behavior without essentializing groups. The aim of the project is to study first-generation students and the issue of retention. Habitus, in many respects, speaks to an unwritten language, sense, or code (le sens practique) in which certain members of a group are naturally and unconsciously conversant and which other members must constantly use cognitive energy to work within. The hope is to investigate some aspects of this language by studying both college-normative students (i.e., those for whom college was a foregone conclusion) and first-generation students to understand, perhaps, an aspect of the difference in experience and to use some of the findings to propose some sort of library intervention.Item Brutal Hands and the Shaping of Historical Memory: How Digital History Can De-Archive Material for Increased Access and Responsible Stewardship(2021-07-06) Sly, JordanIn Arlette Frage’s classic work The Allure of the Archives, she discusses the notion of the “brutal” hand of the archivist collecting, storing, and classifying the material in their care. Frage is discussing the utilitarian nature of the archive as a storage facility for access to the past, but no organizing structure can be neutral. We can expand this notion of the “brutal” into a more provocative usage if we are considering the archivist’s hand as an additional force in history preserving but also obscuring history through the acquisitions, descriptions, colocation, and retention practices. Hierarchies and institutional biases privilege access to certain stories over others which can create an obscuring effect despite the best efforts and intentions of archivists. Additionally, the confines of the archival box or folder can belie important nuances of history swept aside to privilege alternate narratives. In this paper I will discuss how digital history allows for a “de-archiving” of valuable material in a way that not only adds to more general accessibility, but also allows for new interpretations, comparisons, and from of analysis. To do this I will provide a brief survey of the trends in archival literature beginning with classics of archival theory, associated movements such as the so-called “New Museology,” and trends into the more recent postcolonial and social justice inspired methods in recent archival literature. Additionally, I will discuss associated trends in digital history and the digital humanities which seek the remediation of primary archival materials to favor access and a grander scale of digital analysis. I will briefly discuss my previous project titled The Recusant Print Network Project as an example, some of the lessons learned from this experience, and how these lessons can be applied to a document analysis project like the Slavery, Law, and Power project.Item The Closed-Loop: Academic Publication Data Conundrum(2022-06-08) Koivisto, Joseph; Sly, JordanIn this talk we will discuss the problems inherent in the publications-as-data model of large publishing and educational technology platforms. The datafication of scholarly communications establishes a closed-loop pipeline endangering library values and university goals through the narrowing of impact-ratio focused research and the development of a surveillance publishing model. These new methods of extracting value from scholarly content producers and consumers could dramatically impact the future of academic freedom for students, faculty, and libraries. Universities are in a unique position as we have become both the data source and the consumer for publications and data regarding the use of the publications. We will look at distinct aspects of these content models and the ways in which they present problems to the diversity of university research, library acquisitions, and data security for library users.Item Comment on Marjoleine Kars, “Poisoned Lives: Living in Slavery in Dutch Berbice”(2022-04-01) Sly, JordanComments in response to the author's presentation of her forthcoming workItem Defining and Redefining Outreach to Special Populations(2018-02-02) Sly, JordanOutreach is one of those inaccurate words that can vary in meaning in different contexts. This presentation will address the specific and tailored approach I have taken at the University of Maryland to define outreach in order to make it both a manageable goal and an impactful project. Specifically in this presentation I will outline and explain the methods I used to determine the “right-fit” for outreach efforts through assessment, research, and shot-in-the-dark guessing. While I will be focusing on a specific feature of the UMD campus, I believe the process is applicable to most academic librarians trying to find a good fit within diverse programs on campus. The bulk of my presentation will be on what we call “Living and Learning” programs, but I will also address work with other offices such as the student support office and the office for transfer students. I hope to share some methods for success as well as some areas for growth and how to learn from failures in order to find the right fit with other programs. I will be contrasting new and traditional forms of librarianship and discussing how “outreach” is and should continue to become a shared effort across all departments of the library.Item Developing library programming for non departmental student programs (video)(2020-08-14) Sly, JordanOf interest to attendees, this presentation will demonstrate usable strategies and ways of developing meaningful and mutually beneficial outreach and program development to groups outside the traditional academic departmental structure. Video of the presentation detailed here, http://hdl.handle.net/1903/26365 Video available here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcf3NcjJl4c&list=PL_Om9ECe0E2lbxssjd2NNj4RPDiijGRfB&index=14Item Did the Pandemic Alter Faculty Expectations of Library Instruction?(2022-05-25) Sly, JordanThrough the pandemic I found that teaching faculty requests became far more rudimentary and focused on specifics of access as opposed to larger notions of information literacy. While this focus on the practical elements of access –especially access to material in alternative formats as necessitated by the pandemic– reflected the needs of the moment, in the return to the classroom, I have noticed a lingering sense of wanting to stick to the bare essentials in library instruction. For this brief presentation I will conduct a focus group of colleagues in my institution to see if they have experienced a similar backsliding in the depth of library instruction or if their instruction methods have continued to expand as a result of the pandemic restrictions and changes now that we are in a more in-person environment.Item Digital Approaches to Understanding the Recusant Printing Network(2018-04-07) Sly, JordanThis project illustrates how the use of data-driven visualizations of sixteenth and seventeenth-century title page imprint information can illuminate aspects of the recusant printer network in the era of high-recusancy, c.1558-1640. This period represents the era of the Recusancy Acts which made non-conforming- that is non-Protestant- practice of faith illegal. Recusant literature, therefore, represents the body of literature designed to maintain the faith (through both materials for hidden priests and or personal devotion) of the Catholic communities in England to actively work to subvert the message of the Protestant Church). This project is largely one of experimental remediation with the goal of investigating whether new insight into an established field can be gained by collating, analyzing, and graphically displaying like information —in this case Recusant literature— that is distinct from traditional forms of scholarship. I argue that by removing the impediments of shelf-bound and geographically separated volumes and by quantifying elements of their creation, the network and nature of recusant literature is made more immediate by illustrating trends and anomalies at the same level of access and visibility and thereby potentially opening new avenues of research. Additionally, the aim is to combine methodological approaches of traditional book history — in this case merging bibliographic studies with quantitative history— and also utilizing new methods of corpus mining and data visualization to help make the obscure known. While much has been written about recusancy, there are still new stories to be told by investigating new forms of evidence made available through newer methods of humanities scholarship. New methods can potentially lead to new evidence to help settle old historiographical debates.Item Digital Humanities and the Recusant Printing Network: An Experiment in Research Format(2017-11-11) Sly, JordanItem Mastering Attribution(2016-08-09) Sly, JordanThis presentation explores the successes and the challenges with cross-campus collaboration and the development of an active learning instruction workshop for first-year students. This presentation serves as a follow-up from an ACRL Assessment in Action project and uses the data previously presented at the ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco in 2015. Please find the abstract from that poster below: Citation Master is a game-based learning approach to teaching students about the importance of academic attribution. This workshop does not focus on idiosyncratic, style-based rules, but instead focuses on the broader skills, philosophies, and ethics behind proper citation and good writing. We assessed the students’ ability to identify the need for citation through a pre and post-test writing prompt. Our goal was to understand if students had an increased understanding of attribution and a more sophisticated framework for understanding the process and ethics of academic writing. Our data supports our hypothesis that students lack a fundamental understanding not of citation mechanics, but of the essential philosophical elements underlying proper academic attribution.Item Mastering Attribution: Adapting Citation and Anti-Plagiarism Instruction into a Competitive and Active Game-Based Learning Activity(2015-06-10) Sly, JordanCitation Master is a game-based learning approach to teaching students about the importance of academic attribution. This workshop does not focus on idiosyncratic, style-based rules, but instead focuses on the broader skills, philosophies, and ethics behind proper citation and good writing. We assessed the students’ ability to identify the need for citation through a pre and post-test writing prompt. Our goal was to understand if students had an increased understanding of attribution and a more sophisticated framework for understanding the process and ethics of academic writing. Our data supports our hypothesis that students lack a fundamental understanding not of citation mechanics, but of the essential philosophical elements underlying proper academic attribution.Item National Humanities Alliance Annual Meeting and Humanities Advocacy Day, March 19-21, 2023.(2023-06-07) Luckert, Yelena; Sly, JordanThe NHA Annual Meeting brings together faculty, administrators, and representatives from scholarly societies, museums, archives, libraries, and other humanities organizations to build their capacity to advocate for the humanities. On Humanities Advocacy Day (this year on March 21, 2023), state-based delegations, including Maryland's, traveled to Capitol Hill to meet with Members of Congress and their staff to ensure federal humanities funding in 2023.Item Reading 19th Century Handwriting(2022-06-14) Sly, JordanA brief overview of methods, strategies, and resources for using historical documents for researchItem The Recusant Print Network Project Phase 1: Experimentation in Research Format(2017-06-08) Sly, JordanThis project illustrates how the use of data-driven visualizations of sixteenth and seventeenth-century title page imprint information can illuminate aspects of the recusant printer network in the era of high-recusancy, c.1558-1640. This period represents the era of the Recusancy Acts which made non-conforming- that is non-Protestant- practice of faith illegal. Recusant literature, therefore, represents the body of literature designed to maintain the faith (through both materials for hidden priests and or personal devotion) of the Catholic communities in England to actively work to subvert the message of the Protestant Church). This project is largely one of experimental remediation with the goal of investigating whether new insight into an established field can be gained by collating, analyzing, and graphically displaying like information —in this case Recusant literature— that is distinct from traditional forms of scholarship. I argue that by removing the impediments of shelf-bound and geographically separated volumes and by quantifying elements of their creation, the network and nature of recusant literature is made more immediate by illustrating trends and anomalies at the same level of access and visibility and thereby potentially opening new avenues of research. Additionally, the aim is to combine methodological approaches of traditional book history — in this case merging bibliographic studies with quantitative history— and also utilizing new methods of corpus mining and data visualization to help make the obscure known. While much has been written about recusancy, there are still new stories to be told by investigating new forms of evidence made available through newer methods of humanities scholarship. New methods can potentially lead to new evidence to help settle old historiographical debates such as the lingering tails of the John Bossy and Christopher Haigh debate that still consumes much of the scholarship on recusancy.Item The Recusant Print Network Project, Phase I [poster](2017-01-30) Sly, JordanThis project illustrates how the use of data-driven visualizations of sixteenth and seventeenth-century title page imprint information can illuminate aspects of the recusant printer network in the era of high-recusancy, c.1558-1640. This period represents the era of the Recusancy Acts which made non-conforming- that is non-Protestant- practice of faith illegal. Recusant literature, therefore, represents the body of literature designed to maintain the faith (through both materials for hidden priests and or personal devotion) of the Catholic communities in England to actively work to subvert the message of the Protestant Church). This project is largely one of experimental remediation with the goal of investigating whether new insight into an established field can be gained by collating, analyzing, and graphically displaying like information —in this case Recusant literature— that is distinct from traditional forms of scholarship. I argue that by removing the impediments of shelf-bound and geographically separated volumes and by quantifying elements of their creation, the network and nature of recusant literature is made more immediate by illustrating trends and anomalies at the same level of access and visibility and thereby potentially opening new avenues of research. Additionally, the aim is to combine methodological approaches of traditional book history — in this case merging bibliographic studies with quantitative history— and also utilizing new methods of corpus mining and data visualization to help make the obscure known. While much has been written about recusancy, there are still new stories to be told by investigating new forms of evidence made available through newer methods of humanities scholarship. New methods can potentially lead to new evidence to help settle old historiographical debates such as the lingering tails of the John Bossy and Christopher Haigh debate that still consumes much of the scholarship on recusancy.Item The Recusant Print Network Project: Experimentation in Research Format(2018) Sly, Jordan