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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Start date: 2015End date: 2019

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    Triumph-Exhibit-Presentation
    (2018-06-14) Barker, Drew
    This presentation was given at the UMD Libraries sponsored Library Research & Innovative Practice Forum 2018. It described the exhibit and the collaboration needed.
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    Implementing Project Management Tools and Strategies
    (2018-06-06) Pike, Robin; Gammnos, Rachel Wilder; Corlett-Rivera, Kelsey; Thompson, Hilary
    Many people are stretched thin at work because it's difficult to balance many competing priorities. In this panel, learn from four of your colleagues how they have implemented project management tools to stay organized, track projects and milestones, balance priorities, update stakeholders, delegate tasks, and more.
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    Digital Approaches to Understanding the Recusant Printing Network
    (2018-04-07) Sly, Jordan
    This 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.
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    Creating a culture of research and innovative practice: 5 years of the UMD Libraries Research and Innovative Practice Forum
    (2019-06-11) Hanson, Heidi
    The Library Research and Innovative Practice Forum launched in 2015, making the Forum in 2019 the 5th annual Forum. This poster reflects on the origin of the LRIPF and how it has developed through the years, including: • Who made the LRIPF happen – partnerships of committees, etc. • Format of the program over the years 2015-2019 • Number and nature of presentations, presenters • Assessing the impact of the LRIPF on the culture of scholarship and innovation in the Libraries This poster also serves as a kickoff of sorts for a future research project on the impact of the LRIPF in the University of Maryland Libraries.
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    Endangered Data Preservation: Organizing and Visualizing Thoreau's Botanical Observations
    (2019-06-11) Coalter, Jodi H.
    Identification and preservation of boutique sets of historical botanical data poses several unique problems in research data management. For example, Henry David Thoreau's journals contain invaluable data on spring blooming of thousands of species in and around the Massachusetts area. However, with each year that passes, botanical identification of those species have shifted to their current taxonomic name. The aim of this research was to capture historical botanical data from an at risk website developed in the early aughts and transform it into a usable, easily accessible and manipulable format, essentially creating a "living data set" that can be updated easily as botanical nomenclature shifts. This poster will discuss issues in identifying at risk boutique data sets with high value, scraping the website to gather the data, and transforming it into a usable set.
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    Managing Metadata Overload: Automating E-Resource Workflows with Computer Scripts
    (2019-06-22) Bradley, Benjamin
    This poster illustrates how I have incorporated three different computer scripts into e-resource workflows to manage the large sets of metadata used to provide access and discovery of the library’s electronic resources and increase the volume of the work. The poster will illustrate the three different workflows and provide screenshots of the computer code and the scripts in action. The first script I will present is the E-Resource Access Checker developed by Kristinia Sprugin which I have edited to meet my library’s needs and use to ensure our patrons are presented with functioning URLs to access an e-resource, cutting down on dead or incorrect links in our discovery system. The second script is one I developed in collaboration with collection development librarians to assist with making decisions about e-resources. The script enables a librarian to input a list of titles being considered for cancelation, and the script then uses the WorldCat Knowledge Base (WCKB) API to find the different means of access and their associated coverage dates, thus making is easier to get the information needed for their decisions. The last script automates batch searches of WorldCat using the WorldCat Search API. I use the script to harvest metadata to enrich publisher-provided metadata in the WCKB and to create new collections in the WCKB to provide access to e-resources which we couldn’t previously. The poster will help facilitate discussions about these kinds of innovative practices and facilitate collaboration on related projects.
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    KBQuery's Got Your Coverage!
    (2019-06-11) Bradley, Benjamin
    KBQuery is a Python script I created that uses the WorldCat Knowledge Base API to automate batch searches of our holdings in the WorldCat knowledge base. The script outputs coverage information which can then be used to support collection management. For example, the script can be used on a list of titles under consideration for cancelation to understand what other avenues the libraries have to access the title (such as an aggregator database or from an open access source). The script can also search on list of entitlements to see if a titles are missing from the KB, so we can identify those missing titles and add them, providing access to those titles. My lightning talk will give an overview of the script, present some real-world applications for the script, and close by discussion some opportunities to further develop the script.
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    Preserving Archival Collections while Preserving the Environment: Has High-Density Storage Made SCUA More Energy Efficient?
    (2019-06-11) Johnson, Charlotte M.; Caringola, Elizabeth M.
    In 2016, Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) began moving collections from their stacks in Hornbake Library to high-density offsite storage at Severn Library. When Severn Library is at capacity, at least half of the Libraries' space will be dedicated to storing materials from SCUA. Our poster will outline how storing collections at Severn Library has affected SCUA's carbon footprint when compared with the energy consumption of onsite storage and how this change fits into wider campus goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 50% by 2020 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. We will use data provided by Sustainable UMD's energy dashboard and UMD Facilities Management to determine the energy consumption of each facility and determine whether moving collections to Severn has reduced our unit's energy consumption.