Library Research & Innovative Practice Forum

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The Library Research & Innovative Practice Forum is an annual event in June featuring lightning talks, presentations, and poster sessions by UMD Libraries’ librarians and staff.

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    White House Correspondents Association Pool Reports Digital Collection
    (2023-06-08) Cossard, Patricia Kosco; Howell, Chuck; Kanke, Timothy; Schumer, Mathew
    In May 2023, the University of Maryland Libraries announced a major upgrade to the Pool Reports Digital Collection Website. This release marks a milestone in the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) project as it moves from a prototype pilot to a dynamic and active collection now available for the study and teaching of US Presidential reporting. The collection can be accessed at https://whpool.lib.umd.edu/. This new iteration is greatly enhanced with content about the White House Correspondents' Association. It includes profiles of past and present White House pool reporters; feature stories on a variety of related topics, complete news & press releases; resource lists of materials both within the UMD Libraries Collection; and important material beyond the Libraries' walls. This presentation provides an overview of the project timeline, milestones, content, and innovative digital tools being developed. As part of the Pool Reports Collection, the University Libraries are developing such a tool not only for this collection but for future digital collections. The UMD email processing and redaction tool, SCUTES (named for the protective scales on a turtle's shell), will auto-redact Personal Identification Information (PII) and reformat emails so that they are uniformly displayed in the collection regardless of the email service provided.
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    Fearlessly Forward: Applied Research Librarianship
    (2022-06-09) Cossard, Patricia Kosco; White, Gary W
    What does it mean to be a faculty Librarian at a Research University? Defined as a university that is committed to research as a central part of its mission, and faculty responsibilities are defined as teaching/librarianship, Research/Scholarship/Creativity, and Service, what applied research responsibilities do faculty Librarians have? UMD has published a new strategic plan "Fearlessly Forward." The Provost, Office of Faculty Affairs, and the Division of Research have initiated a number of attendant programs focusing on promoting the pillars of the plan: "Reimagining Learning," "Humanities Grand Challenges," "Investing in People and Communities," and "Partnerships for Advancing the Public Good." This panel will provide an introduction to these faculty initiatives and discuss the role of UMD faculty Librarians along with instructional, research, and PTK faculty in achieving the strategic goals of "Fearlessly Forward."
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    Solar Decathlon data management: Curating the legacy of Team Maryland
    (2018-06-14) Durden, David; Cossard, Patricia Kosco
    University of Maryland Libraries are taking the lead in archiving and curating data sets for the UMD Solar Decathlon Team Maryland (2002, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2017, and Solar Decathlon Europe 2019). A 2017 report from the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), Insights on Technology Innovation - A Review of the U.S.Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Competition Entries 2002-2015 (Simon, 2017) found that over time, the technologies developed, demonstrated, and perfected for the competition series have become more commonplace in industry. While more than 500 books, thesis, reports and articles have been written about the individual competitions in its sixteen years of existence, to date, there has been no systematic archiving of the research, scholarly, and creative work created by these competitions. Patricia Cossard and David Durden (DSS-Digital Programs & Initiatives) are working with the U.S. Department of Energy (all competition deliverables/documents have recently been transferred from NREL to DOE with no developed maintenance plan), the OECD's International Energy Agency (the Solar Decathlon Knowledge Base (SDKB)), and Team Maryland to develop a data management standard and best practices for international dissemination to all teams and agencies, past, present and future.