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Item Collaboration-as-Service: Humanities Librarians, Technologists, and Researchers(2018-03-11) Dohe, KateLiaison librarians of all disciplines must increasingly draw upon distributed functional expertise within their libraries to meet the shifting, complex demands of university faculty and students. As more research services, funded scholarship, and course projects are built upon digital resources and complicated technology, it becomes more essential for liaisons to translate user needs to developers, repository managers, and technical support teams. In particular, humanities librarians must deftly bridge sometimes large gaps in understanding and knowledge between scholars, students, and technologists to support these projects. However, the invisible emotional labor that supports collaboration within successful projects is often devalued by university administrators—and, crucially, prospective funding sources--in comparison to visibly working code. Further compounding the problem are differences in compensation for project-specific work, and buyouts that may be available to technical specialists, but not to the librarians who are “just doing their job.”Item Starting with “Yes, And...”: Collaborative Instructional Design in Digital Scholarship(Library Orientation Exchange (LOEX), 2016) Dohe, Kate; Pappas, ErinImprov principles and techniques are applicable in any instance of teaching: respect your partner, know your audience, work the room, jump in with both feet, agree agree agree. These techniques take for granted that this form of instruction and collaboration is new for both partners, that neither person is the expert, and that the content and situations will have to be recreated anew in every classroom and workshop. In this workshop, two librarians and former improv and theater instructors lead workshop attendees through some of the fundamentals of improv, and reflect upon how these same activities and principles help create an environment of collaboration and openness necessary to support the diverse goals of digital scholarship.Item Rooting skills and expertise in liaison work: Strategies for embedded librarianship(International Association of University Libraries (IATUL), 2017-06-19) Tchangalova, NedelinaAs needs for teaching and research faculty evolve, librarians must possess certain knowledge and skills in delivering quick service and expertise. Among those are having a professional subject background, faculty status, commitment and flexibility to provide innovative services, understanding of the research needs of scholars, and technical proficiency in managing electronic records. Building strong librarian-faculty relationships is also a key factor in offering assistance when and where it is needed. The author reviews the current literature on embedded librarianship, identifies best practices and models in faculty-librarian collaboration, and examines successful strategies implemented at the University of Maryland, College Park. Participants will be introduced to effective technologies for providing instructional support, reference assistance, and collaboration with faculty on research projects. In addition, the author shares insight from the application of three approaches: (1) Embedding information literacy sessions into online and face-to-face courses along with offering Librarian’s Office Hours outside of the library; 2) Providing subject specific resources from the library collections for the observance of the Social Justice Day, a campus wide project led by the former dean of the School of Public Health, and 3) Executing literature searches, managing citations and co-writing for a research project consisting of scholars from the United States, Canada and Europe.Item Patron-Driven Digitization on a Dime: Collaborative, Affordable Approaches using ILLiad & Aeon(2016-03-16) Thompson, HilaryInspired by the implementation of Aeon in Summer 2014, the Interlibrary Loan Services (ILL) unit at the University of Maryland Libraries sought to more actively contribute to the organization’s goal of expanding digitization. We used the Aeon implementation as an opportunity to build upon, and integrate with, existing workflows across the Libraries’ three divisions, enabling ILL to contribute to digitization efforts in meaningful yet manageable ways. We first partnered with Special Collections & University Archives (SCUA) and Digital Conversion & Media Reformatting (DCMR) to digitize university publications and public domain items held in Special Collections through the ILLiad-Aeon photoduplication workflow, then began using ILLiad data to identify public domain items requested from the general collection for outsourced digitization though the Libraries’ Digitization Initiatives Committee proposal process, with both methods resulting in upload to the Internet Archive. For each digitization method this poster will present the workflow; describe the partnerships involved; provide time and cost estimates; and analyze usage of files to determine impact of these efforts.Item A Very Embedded Librarian: Using Captive Audiences (and a Bus) to Build Collaborative Relationships(2014-07-16) Carroll, Alexander JThe first step to creating collaboration opportunities is building relationships with faculty. For science librarians at major research universities, this poses a significant challenge as research faculty often work at research sites far from campus. This talk will highlight the experiences of a science librarian who, along with several other new faculty hires, embarked on a statewide bus tour of a number of university affiliated research sites. The talk will demonstrate how taking advantage of captive audience opportunities can give a librarian access to faculty who otherwise might never open their doors to collaboration.Item Teach for Knowledge, Mentor for Success: Preparing Students to Enter the Workforce(SciTePress, 2011-07-26) Tchangalova, Nedelina; Stilwell, FrancyThe future well-being of any society arguably depends on the full knowledge potential students are able to transfer from academia to the workplace upon graduation. There are different mechanisms to transfer this knowledge, and at the University of Maryland, efforts are concentrated on establishing honors programs. These programs prepare students for the acquisition of lifelong skills such as research skills, team work and leadership skills by using emerging technologies in teaching and mentoring students through their course of study. The Gemstone program is one of the five honors programs on campus and its goal is “to give our students transferable skills that will be valuable for wherever life leads them.” This paper presents how campus collaboration may help with building the foundation of this academic knowledge and with transferring it later to the workplace.