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2022 ALA-CORE National Binding Survey Report
(2023-02-07) Doyle, Beth; Coulbourne, Mark; Brim, Richenda; Ellenburg-Kimmet, Joyce; Chapman, Joyce
The American Library Association (ALA) Core Preservation Administration Interest Group (PAIG) held a Symposium on the Future of Library Binding in 2022. Following the symposium, the ALA Core Library Binding Practices Survey Team (hereafter, “Team”) was convened to explore issues that arose during the symposium. The Team members volunteered to create a survey on current library binding practices to gain a better understanding of who is using library binding as a preservation and access method, how they are using such services, and the challenges that face the community.
3D Tour Project: Modeling McKeldin's Map Collection
(2024-06) Garcia, Jose Anza; Shanker, Stella; Abban. John; Budhathoki, Milan
At McKeldin library, we are lucky to have one of the largest map collections of any college library in the world. With over 350,000 print maps, including government maps provided through the Federal Depository Library Program, the collection's size and complexity can make it a daunting task to explore and find materials. To tackle this problem, the 3D Tour Project seeks to create a 3D model of McKeldin's map collection, which is located in the west wing of the 4th floor. Using cutting edge GIS software such as ArcGIS Pro, we have created a sample model of a row of the library's cabinets (including individual drawers), each of which has detailed information about the maps contained within. The project will, in the future, be available online and thus accessible to any visitor who wishes to find materials within the collection. Eventually, this project will be expanded to model the entire map collection area and will have more advanced capabilities added through JavaScript programming, including an ability to search through categories of materials.
A Content Analysis to Inform Engineering LibGuide Overhaul
(2024-06-05) DiCiesare, Leah; Weiss, Sarah
LibGuides are a commonly used tool for aggregating library resources by topic, but they can vary widely. Before making a concerted effort to update and improve the LibGuides at our institution, we are conducting a content analysis to discover current trends in the composition of engineering LibGuides at other R1 institutions. In this lightning talk, we will detail the beginnings of this project: the reasoning for this study, a review of the literature, decisions about what LibGuides we are choosing to look at, and our proposed methodology.
A Quick Guide to Academic Publishing
(2024) Wilson, Michelle
This short guide functions as a teaching aide in workshops and other settings where scholarly communications are being taught. Geared toward graduate students, this guide suggests several starting points for evaluating scholarly publications, managing your scholarly work, and setting up a scholarly online presence.
The ABCS of Strategic Assessment: Building Blocks for Creating a New Plan in Challenging Times
(2015-06-28) Gammons, Rachel; Edwards, Jamie; Conlin, Kristin; Barnachea, LuLu; Singh, Madhu
The University of Maryland Libraries embarked on a journey to create a new assessment plan while a leadership transition loomed and campus budget cuts promised new priorities. The Libraries needed to harness its many assessment activities into a strategic coordinated program. The foundation of the new program derives from key building blocks: research, stakeholder engagement, best practices, skills and resources, and integration with strategic planning. To support this growth, the Libraries created a new model for developing assessment capacity: Assess-Build-Cultivate (ABC). The ABC model defines how the Libraries will identify their needs for assessment skills and resources, build their capacity, and cultivate a culture of strategic assessment. Building the new plan and program from the ground up required extensive collaboration inside and outside the organization. The Libraries formed a task force to coordinate this work and recommend how assessment can be deeply integrated into both everyday work and the organization’s strategic planning cycle. The results of the task force’s internal and external research revealed a dire need for coordination, training, and resources. The task force recommended best practices, a new assessment development plan, and the framework for a strategic assessment plan—to be evaluated soon by library management and staff. These building blocks represent what a library in a challenging environment can potentially do moving from limited resources and rapidly changing priorities to the promise of a new vision supported by assessment. The poster will provide charts of the team’s research and figures illustrating the ABC model and strategic framework.
Academic Authors and Copyright: Recent Developments in Scholarly Communication
(2010-10-21) Carroll, Michael W.
Michael W. Carroll's presentation slides on copyright, scholarly communication, author rights, and Open Access. Carroll is a professor of law at American University, Washington College of Law.
Academic Libraries in the Time of Pandemic and Thereafter: What changed and what is here to stay?
(2022-05-24) Luckert, Yelena
This presentation discusses the University of Maryland Libraries' response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the immediately following period of resuming operation. Did the pandemic teach us anything? Are there things that have changed us forever? Libraries all over the world have had to deal with these issues. We are one example of many. But coming this far, we are happy to share our experiences and learn from others in hopes that we can help each other cope and serve our users to the best of our abilities.
Accepted version of Instructor Use of Educational Streaming Video Resources
(2018) Horbal, Andrew
Although a substantial majority of academic libraries now provide streaming video, the literature contains few studies which focus on how such resources are used. This article presents the results of a qualitative research study consisting of in-depth interviews with 18 instructors who use of one category of streaming video resources, educational videos, which are important because they are sold a higher price than most individuals can afford, and thus are typically only available to instructors through the library. The study’s main findings are that instructors think educational streaming video resources compare favorably to commercial and non-streaming alternatives in most respects and use them whenever possible, that the primary benefit of these resources is to facilitate better use of limited class time by enabling instructors to assign videos as outside-of-class viewing, and that the library is not the primary means instructors use to discover new educational streaming video resources. Additional insights are provided into factors that academic libraries should consider when deciding which resources to invest in, which acquisition models to pursue, and what marketing strategies to employ to ensure maximum usage.
Accessibility in Open Access Institutional Repositories
(2016-10) Carter, Caitlin
Presentation from the Conference on Inclusion and Diversity in Library and Information Science (CIDLIS) at the University of Maryland on October 21, 2016. Despite the implied “access” in open access institutional repositories, digital repositories overall lack consistency in how they make information and content accessible to users. Inconsistency in metadata does not promote interoperability or discoverability between repositories and within the repository itself. Moreover, several institutional repositories do not make great effort to ensure content is accessible to users with disabilities by ignoring best practices in universal web development. Finally, repository users often lack a clear understanding of how to deposit their items into a repository with enriched metadata, what items the repository accepts in terms of file types, and what will be done to protect their data so it can be retrieved in the future. Therefore, within the greater umbrella of accessibility, the following areas should be prioritized: metadata standards to ensure universal discoverability; web development standards to ensure access to users with disabilities; policy development to provide transparency; and along with the aforementioned priorities, preservation standards to ensure that research is maintained for future generations.
Accidental Project Management in a New Library Storage Facility
(Emerald, 2018) Hackman, Timothy; Loebe, Margaret
This chapter will discuss the project to investigate, recommend, and create user-focused solutions for opening and operating Severn Library, a high-density storage facility, at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. The chapter takes the case study approach, discussing the practical application of project management techniques to various stages of a large-scale project to plan for a high-density storage facility. Although the Severn Library project began with a large project team, lack of formal project management expertise and the massive nature of the project led to its breakdown into smaller constituent projects, with the two authors filling the roles of “accidental project managers” to complete the work on time. Although this approach was ultimately successful, the overall success of the project could have been improved through more formal application of project management techniques. This chapter will be valuable to library managers interested in project management techniques in libraries, and/or in planning for high-density library storage facilities.
Acquiring Content: Adding ETDs to Your Digital Repository
(2008-06-30) Owen, Terry M.
ACS Library and Information Center: Evolving from a collection to a service.
(American Chemical Society, 2000) Baykoucheva, S
The role of the ACS Library and Information Center (previously, ACS Library Services) has dramatically changed. In addition to performing all typical library duties, the ACS Library is now offering many new services. These include a New Digital Imaging Center; publishing the ACS newsletter; staff training; serving the public through the Chem. Health & Safety Referral Service; providing a content-rich chem. information on the ACS Web page (http://www.acs.org/infocenter.html); and participating in the speakers service for local ACS sections. The challenges of imposing a new model to a traditional special library - and of making it work - will be discussed.
Activation of the ATPase of Bacillus subtilis 168 with phospholipids
(1987) Baykousheva, S; Ilieva, K
Adobe Spark Your Social Media to Enhance Your Communications
(2018-06-14) Spangler, Emily; Rufus, Leah
Creating a profile for your library with a distinct personality can be a challenge, especially in the current digital age where social media and mobile platforms are patrons' main sources of interaction and information-gathering. How do libraries manage this hurdle and connect to the varying demographics of their patrons? The Priddy Library is using Adobe Spark to upgrade its social media to engage with patrons at their level through the platforms they frequent the most, such as Instagram. Our goal is to have a unique profile with a strong voice that attracts patrons, but also provides them with the resources they need from the library. Adobe Spark allows our social media team to create captivating posts, pages and videos that connect users with library services, inclusive and diverse experiences, along with other tools they will need to be successful. Through trainings we offer on the use of Adobe Spark for students, faculty and staff, it can not only enhance our users' experience with social media but in a variety of other aspects of their life, such as personal milestones, business ventures, professional promotion, and academia. Attendees will walk away with practical knowledge on using Adobe Spark and social media practices that can help take your library's digital marketing to an entirely new level.
Advocacy by Design: Moving Between Theory & Practice
(2017-06-08) Lindblad, Purdom
How can librarians, archivists, and digital practitioners practice an Ethic of Care, in explicitly anti-racist and anti-violent ways? How can libraries contribute to the infrastructures needed to define, scope, and practice care? This talk focuses on research practices to do the speculative work of imagining what the infrastructures of an Ethic of Care could and should be. Advocacy by Design (AbD) is a design framework for critical engagement centered on advocacy. AbD articulates a series of principles—transparency, openness, polyvocalism (resisting one narrative, opening possibility of many points of view, many narratives around a single event), stewardship, etc.—and a series of applied techniques to realize these principles throughout the project’s cycle. This talk will first describe the broad focus of Advocacy by Design, with a particular attention to how it is a framework to help prompt reflection and articulation of the purposes of the project (any project from system design to creating a working group to helping at the reference desk), then to outline what the principles are for Advocacy by Design, highlight several ‘elements’ for each principle for a few example projects—within the Library and liaison-collaboration with researchers; and finally point towards why the library might care about centering design, particularly AbD, in our work, from the ways we think about and invite users to the library, to discovery interfaces, and to collaborations in digital projects.
After Fedora: Linked Data and Ethical Design in the Digital Library
(Library Juice Press, 2023-07) Dohe, Kate
One of the most common applications of linked data technology within the library community are for digital library projects, many of which are deep into their second decade. For nearly as long, practitioners have raised implementation concerns about linked data in digital projects: that transforming and maintaining linked data requires expensive programming expertise, that the application stack is complex and fragile with many interdependencies, and that the maintenance communities are often made up of only a handful of qualified volunteers. Such technical issues present very real ethical dilemmas for digital library practitioners - is the cost of implementing linked data systems so high as to be inaccessible to all but the wealthiest organizations? Is the meticulous nature of designing around linked data worth the inevitable slowdowns in making digital content accessible? Is the level of effort of large-scale migration to linked data and maintenance over time actually sustainable in cash-strapped academic libraries? On balance, do these applications meet the needs of users as they evolve over time? These questions took on new urgency in the digital library community in 2015, when the newly-released Fedora 4 repository application implemented the Linked Data Platform specification and initiated a sea change in the digital library application landscape. Any conversations about the practical applications of linked data are inevitably shaped by the design, features, and functionality of the systems that store and serve that data to end users. Systems and application design is itself an expression of values by the people and organizations who build and maintain these products, and consequently, the choices and practices of those communities directly influence the creators and consumers of linked data. This chapter explores the landscape of linked data applications in digital libraries, with particular focus on the Fedora Commons community and related projects after the move to linked data. Furthermore, the chapter will examine the values and priorities of the communities that support these systems, and propose frameworks for future design of digital library projects that close the gaps between end users, implementers, and engineers. By drawing upon the author’s experience managing linked data digital initiatives at a major research university, and emerging practices in design justice and inclusive design principles, the chapter will link practical experience with critical theory to advocate for concrete actions in the digital library application communities.
Against the odds: Reflections on Asian American identity and multicultural, shared leadership in academic libraries.
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group., 2017) Lim, Adriene
AJL Presents Member Authors : Yelena Luckert presents "The Globalized Library"
(2021-03-14) Luckert, Yelena
A conversation about a recent book: Luckert and Carpenter, eds. The globalized library: American academic libraries and international students, collections, and practices. ACRL, 2019
Alhambrismo! The Life and Music of Isaac Albéniz
(2004-12-02T13:01:58Z) Fineman, Yale
A 7,000 word essay derived from Yale Fineman's 1994 Master's thesis at Tufts University, Isaac Albéniz and the Andalusian Musical Idiom.
Analyzing and Identifying Patterns of Temperature and Crime in Chicago
(2024-06) Budhathoki, Milan; Murlidhar, Ashish; Hans, Abhimanyu; Benjamin, Alice; Harp, Ryan; Sharma, Ashish
This study investigates the relationship between temperature and crime rates in Chicago over a 20-year period, both at the city level and at the granular census tract level to examine spatial and temporal correlations across different neighborhoods. Crime and temperature data were analyzed at the census tract level to examine spatial and temporal correlations. The study tested the hypothesis that certain crimes increase with warmer temperatures while others rise with colder temperatures, and that higher temperatures predict higher crime overall. Urban climate data from the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) and public crime data were compared to identify census tracts sensitive to seasonal temperature changes. Different crime types were found to correlate with a heat vulnerability index based on socioeconomic and health metrics. The findings aim to help law enforcement, urban planners, and stakeholders locate areas of heat stress and develop interventions to reduce violence and structured racism in the highly crime-prone neighborhood, with a focus on understanding trends at the census tract level. This novel investigation of the overlooked links between climate, geography, and crime can inform strategies to mitigate urban heat impacts on public safety across different communities.

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