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    Data Against Youth of Color in the Information Policing Era: How Gang Databases are Deepening Inequality
    (2020) Triola, Sydney Mariel; Shilton, Katie; Geography/Library & Information Systems; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    This paper examines how labeling gang members without consistent criteria for inclusion in law enforcement’s gang databases systemically leads to negative outcomes, also known as data violence. The concept of data violence allows for an analysis of the systemic consequences of the overrepresentation of adolescents of color in gang databases. Current gang data collection practices within law enforcement have at least one major problem, a culture of presumed criminality when interacting with adolescents of color. Data maintenance processes were also found by Propublica to have inconsistent labeling practices. Additionally, when looking through the data made available by Propublica, it is clear that there is disregard for a law entitled, 28 C.F.R. § 23. This law mandates all gang database entries that have not been renewed as a result of a criminal investigation, conviction, or adjudication, must be destroyed after five years. Another major finding, particularly emphasized by Forman and Vitale, is that police gang-tracking initiatives have an overly punitive focus for individual adolescents. In order to mitigate the need for overly punitive practices, the author recommends additional research tracking demographic trends within push factors, also known as reasons why a person might be motivated to join a gang, in order to better utilize intervention methods. Ida B. Wells and the National Black Census serve as examples of how people and communities of color have managed their own datasets when law enforcement’s criminal justice data inaccurately overrepresented their community members as criminals. The author concludes that libraries have an opportunity to disrupt data violence through education initiatives for both victims and perpetrators of data violence. Future research should continue to analyze and improve potential interventions for this data violence, both inside and outside of law enforcement.
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    User Interfaces for Online Public Access Catalogs: A Research Workshop
    (1992-04) Hahn, Trudi Bellardo
    Describes a workshop held at the Library of Congress in fall 1991 on the design of user interfaces for online library catalogs.
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    Education and Training for On-Line Searching: A Bibliography
    (1979) Hahn, Trudi Bellardo; Jackson, M. Virginia; Pikoff, Howard
    This annotated bibliography is intended to be used by searchers, educators, library administrators, and other reference department staff who must plan or provide for the training and continuing education of on-line searchers. It was compiled for the MARS Committee on the Education and Training of Search Analysts.
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    Impacts of Mass Digitization Projects on Libraries and Information Policy
    (American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2006-10) Hahn, Trudi Bellardo
    This article summarizes highlights from a symposium presented in March 2006 by the University of Michigan Library and the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS). The title of the symposium was "Scholarship and Libraries in Transition: A Dialogue about the Impacts of Mass Digitization Projects."
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    Mass Digitization: Implications for Preserving the Scholarly Record
    (Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, 2008-01) Hahn, Trudi Bellardo
    Libraries and archives have a critical role in preserving the scholarly record; many players in the publication cycle depend on them for this. Preservation of scholarly books that are being digitized has lagged far behind preservation initiatives for electronic journals. The issue has become more critical, as large commercial companies such as Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft have begun mass digitization of millions of books in research libraries. Since December 2004, the pace of developments has been rapid, involving great risks on Google’s part over the copyright issue. Google and certain participating libraries have not addressed the issue of whether or not all this effort to digitize huge numbers of books indiscriminately will serve students’ and scholars’ needs in the long run. Quality, secrecy, and long-term stability are all issues that suggest it may be foolish to expect that commercial companies will share librarians’ values and commitment to digitized material preservation. The information profession must exert strong leadership in setting policies, standards, and best practices for long-term preservation of the scholarly record.
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    ETDs and Digital Repositories--a Disciplinary Challenge to Open Access?
    (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006-10) Lowry, Charles B.
    The University of Maryland Libraries have managed a repository using D-Space software for over two years, providing faculty a service for posting their research work and a foundation for moving the labor intensive management of paper dissertations and theses to the digital environment. Close cooperation with the Graduate School has been an essential feature of moving to a uniform requirement that theses and dissertations be presented in PDF format and posted in the Digital Repository at University of Maryland (DRUM). At an early stage, intellectual property issues began to emerge as an important policy dimension of managing DRUM—as they have for virtually any institution that gets into the digital repository business.
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    Creating a Culture of Security in the University of Maryland Libraries
    (The Haworth Press, Inc., Johns Hopkins University Press, Library of Congress, 2003) Lowry, Charles B.; Goetsch, Lori
    A critical part of building a shared culture of mutual responsibility for security and safety is a thorough understanding of all the elements of a library’s security environment. To address the need for a more coherent approach to library safety and security that reinforces a philosophy of shared responsibility among all staff, the University of Maryland Libraries embarked upon an assessment of policies, procedures, and facilities in partnership with the Association of Research Libraries. Begun in the fall of 1997, the security study and subsequent development of practice and policy were implemented over a two-year period and serve as a model comprehensive approach for a large academic library system.