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Item Open Access Lori Robare: Tribute in honor of her retirement(Nelson Poynter Memorial Library, 2024-04-18) Hixson, Carol G.Originally published as a blog posting on April 18, 2024 in honor of Lori Robare's retirement from the University of Oregon Libraries.Item Open Access Outshine with the Superfine Frankenstein Pipeline at Timberline: Visualizing Cost Per Use in Power BI(The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge, Oregon, 2024-05) Harlan, Lydia; Buxton, Kristin; Hayden, GabrieleLooking to establish a current and reproducible cost per use analysis for continuing resources, three members of University of Oregon Libraries explored ways to ingest, store, and visualize cost and usage data. Our presentation describes how we developed a pipeline using Alma, COUNTER5, SUSHI, APIs, Python, and Power BI to create an easily refreshed dashboard for collections assessment. Our tool shifts the time investment from manually harvesting usage statistics to interpreting the data and sharing it with stakeholders. By establishing this automated pipeline, we created an up-to-date dashboard and reproducible model that we can share with others and improve upon in future permutations. We hope that attendees of this presentation will feel inspired to use visualization to tell stories and become curious about constructing a data pipeline of their own.Item Open Access Automating for Success: Making Invisible Work Visible(University of Oregon, 2023-10-27) Harlan, Lydia; Buxton, Kristin; Hayden, GabrieleKnowing your value and optimizing your time can help meet your professional and institutional goals. We describe how an ad-hoc team of people from three different departments, with three different primary goals, were able to successfully complete a project to automate the collection and dissemination of cost-per-use data for continuing resources, saving our colleagues many hours of work, and creating a dashboard that requires little maintenance. In the process we learned a bunch of current technology—Power BI, APIs, and data visualization, to name a few that we can apply to other projects.Item Open Access Afterword(UC Berkeley, 2022-02-01) Lee, Corliss S.; Lym, BrianWhile working on this book, we encountered other intriguing writings that also offered practical approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion in libraries. We also found ourselves asking more questions that we hope other library researchers will someday answer. This afterword is by no means a comprehensive overview of DEI initiatives in libraries. Although recommendations are summarized here, the articles all deserve a fuller reading.Item Open Access Introduction(UC Berkeley, 2022) Lee, Corliss S.; Lym, BrianAcademic library workers often make use of systemic, bureaucratic, political, collegial, and symbolic dimensions of organizational behavior to achieve their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals, but many are also doing the crucial work of pushing back at the structures surrounding them in ways small and large. Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion captures emerging practices that academic libraries and librarians can use to create more equitable and representative institutions. 19 chapters are divided into 6 sections: Recruitment, Retention and Promotion Professional Development Leveraging Collegial Networks Reinforcing the Message Organizational Change Assessment Chapters cover topics including active diversity recruitment strategies; inclusive hiring; gendered ageism; librarians with disabilities; diversity and inclusion with student workers; residencies and retention; creating and implementing a diversity strategic plan; cultural competency training; libraries’ responses to Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action; and accountability and assessment. Authors provide practical guiding principles, effective practices, and sample programs and training. Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion explores how academic libraries have leveraged and deployed their institutions’ resources to effect DEI improvements while working toward implementing systemic solutions. It provides means and inspiration for continuing to try to hire, retain, and promote the change we want to see in the world regardless of existing structures and systems, and ways to improve those structures and systems for the future.Item Open Access Using Podcasts for Assessing Information Research(City University of New York, 2010) Yannotta, Lauren; Lym, Brian; Kung, Shiao-ChuanThis paper reports on the use of podcast audio recordings to assess learning in a hybrid information research course. Evidence of learning that appeared in the audio recordings and how the project affected student learning were investigated. Findings suggest that student-created podcasts can be beneficial in that instructors can see what students learned from the podcast content; students can see evidence of own learning by looking at before and after podcasts; and that students see methods used by other students and reflect on own methods/knowledge.Item Open Access How the presentation of electronic gateway pages affects research behavior(City University of New York, 2006) Finder, Lisa; Dent, Valdeda; Lym, BrianPurpose – The paper aims to provide details of a study conducted at Hunter College Libraries in fall 2005, the focus of which was how presentation of initial digital resource pages (or gateway pages) on the library’s web site impacted students’ subsequent steps in the research process. Design/methodology/approach – A group of 16 students from English and History classes at Hunter College were recruited to participate after having had basic library instruction. They were given computer-based key tasks to perform in a proctored classroom setting, using the library’s homepage. A second group of students was recruited to participate in two small focus groups. The methodology and exercises were developed in part using guidelines from a taxonomy of user behavior developed by librarians at Hunter College, and recommendations from usability literature by Krug, Neilsen and Rubin. Findings – Results from the computer-based key tasks exercises were bifurcated. Completion rates for computer-based key tasks using the in-house developed Hunter College Library database grid, with less than 80 percent (37 percent-73 percent) students successfully completing all the tasks, was inferior compared to performance using the Serial Solutions access page and the Academic Search Premier database, both commercially-developed products, with most of the tasks successfully completed by at least 80 percent of the students. Originality/value – This study is unique in that the focus is not on the usability of an entire library web site, rather, on the presentation of select, highly visible gateway pages that get a lot of use.Item Open Access PRESSBOOKS @ UO: A Workshop Guide to Pressbooks, Hypothesis and H5P(Pressbooks, 2023) Service, Allia; Vieger, RayneItem Open Access Beyond the Subject: Non-Topical Facets for Exploration and Discovery(Oregon Library Association, 2019-08-14) McGrath, KelleyNew developments in the cataloging world can help libraries better answer questions like: What music do you have for string quartets? What young adult fiction do you have by African American male authors? Do you have any diaries written by pioneer women in Oregon in the late nineteenth century? Do you have any recent movies from China? Historically, the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) have included terms both for what something is about (topic) and for what something is (genre or form). Many users are looking for something either as a topic, or as a genre or form, and not for the two things mixed together. Sometimes LCSH makes a clear, albeit not intuitive, distinction. Starting in 2007, the Library of Congress (LC) began work on a new vocabulary, now known as Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT), to use for genre and form instead of LCSH. In addition, they created two additional new vocabularies: Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus for Music (LCMPT) for instruments and voices and Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms (LCDGT) for audiences and creators. This article investigates the application and results of using these new, faceted vocabularies.Item Open Access Musings on Faceted Search, Metadata, and Library Discovery Interfaces(Taylor & Francis, 2023-06-21) McGrath, KelleyFaceted search is a powerful tool that enables searchers to easily and intuitively take advantage of controlled vocabularies and structured metadata. Faceted search has been widely implemented in library discovery interfaces and has provided many benefits to library users. The effectiveness of facets in library catalogs depends on a complex interaction between facet vocabularies, metadata quality and structure, and the library discovery interface’s capabilities. This article provides a holistic overview of challenges for optimally implementing facets in library catalogs. This supports a systematic approach to refining and enhancing the capacity of faceted search to improve searching and exploring bibliographic metadata.Item Open Access THOMAS FIELDING SCOTT: PIONEER BISHOP OF THE AMERICAN NORTHWEST(University of Oregon, 2023) Crumb, Lawrence N.Thomas Fielding Scott was the Episcopal Church’s first bishop in the Pacific Northwest. He served for only thirteen years (1854-1867) and left thinking he had been a failure. But despite his feeling of failure, there were many successes, all the more remarkable because of the difficult conditions that included staffing, financial support, and primitive means of transportation. The story of Bishop Scott is the story of a missionary who was sent to a new field without adequate support and yet was able to make significant accomplishments.Item Open Access Teaching Copyright through Pop Culture for Public Scholarship-Based Instruction(Rowman & Littlefield, 2022-10-15) Gaede, Franny; Thornhill, KateAs instructors have embraced project-based learning and students have engaged in remix and creator culture, digital scholarship librarians at the University of Oregon have sought to build digital fluency and technological self-efficacy through instruction. While instructors frequently seek support for teaching technology tools, many who wish to create public-facing projects with their students recognize the importance of introducing fair use, copyright, and the ethics of engaging with different kinds of intellectual property, including traditional knowledge within closed cultural systems. While specific lessons are as diverse as the disciplines adopting public scholarship, copyright and fair use instruction in the United States tends to rest on the same basic principles. There exist many free course modules ready for adaption and adoption if asynchronous instruction is possible and we have found that heavy emphasis on the four factors guiding fair use outside of class provide an excellent foundation for in-class activities and discussion. Case law in the United States has shaped our understanding of fair use and that case law is embedded in our cultural history. That being said, in the 2020s, many of the parties involved have been relegated to history and/or irrelevancy, so finding of-the-moment examples on social media and in the news becomes more important. These modern examples allow students to consider copyright from the perspective of both creators and consumers and as scholars and private individuals. We have paid special attention to working with traditional knowledge in the context of copyright and fair use, noting that just because one may have legal permission to use something doesn’t mean that it’s ethical – the case of Navajo Nation vs. Urban Outfitters Navajo Nation v. Urban Outfitters as one example. We pay particular attention to the work of Trevor Reed in this context. We teach Local Contexts Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Biocultural (BC) Labels and how to read and interpret rights statements from cultural heritage institutions to determine permissions for reuse. Other case studies included in this chapter include: using Creative Commons-licensed materials in a student project; licensing a student-created project with a Creative Commons license; leading a class discussion based on a pop culture fair use activity; and integrating open access and scholarly communication into discussions of copyright in pop culture contexts.Item Open Access Fear Of “The Other” -- Rhode Island(Carol G. Hixson, 2022-03-23) Hixson, Carol G.Provides a brief introduction and links to selected articles and other Internet-accessible items from December 2009 to March 2022.Item Open Access Fear of “the Other” — North Carolina(Carol G. Hixson, 2022-02-28) Hixson, Carol G.Provides a brief introduction and links to selected articles and other Internet-accessible items from October 2015 to January 2022.Item Open Access The Censoring of Critical Thinking in the United States – the Fear of “the Other”(Carol G. Hixson, 2022-02-24) Hixson, Carol G.Provides a brief introduction and links to selected articles and other Internet-accessible items published between May 2013 and February 2022 about activity in the U.S. states from Alaska through New Mexico (listed alphabetically).Item Open Access Fear of “the Other” – New York State(Carol G. Hixson, 2022-02-26) Hixson, Carol G.Provides a brief introduction and links to selected articles and other Internet-accessible items from March 2017 to February 2022.Item Open Access Fear of "the Other" -- South Carolina(Carol G. Hixson, 2022-04-04) Hixson, Carol G.Blog posting on Lifetime Musings from April 4, 2022. Provides a brief introduction and links to selected articles and other Internet-accessible items from July 2014 to March 2022.Item Open Access Fear of "The Other" -- South Dakota(Carol G. Hixson, 2022-04-14) Hixson, Carol G.Blog posting on Lifetime Musings from April 14, 2022. Provides a brief introduction and links to selected articles and other Internet-accessible items from March 2014 to April 2022.Item Open Access Censorship, Florida Style(Carol G. Hixson, 2022-07-19) Hixson, Carol G.Personal blog posting that provides a brief commentary and links to selected news articles, videos and other Internet-accessible items that document censorship efforts within Florida from December 2017 through June 2022.Item Open Access A Citation Analysis of Television Archives Materials Data Set(2023-02-10) Peterson, ElizabethThis data set compiles the results of a citation analysis study of scholarly journal articles related to television historiography. The study examines the use of archival materials related to television in media scholarship in ten television, media, and communications studies journals from 2016-2021. The data collected in this citation analysis documents the extent to which media scholars use television archives relative to other types of sources, as well as the types of libraries and archival repositories from which scholars accessed materials.