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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 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 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.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 Union Stewardship: A Space for Mid-career Librarian Leadership(ACRL, 2023) Thornhill, Kate; Peterson, Elizabeth; Shaffer, AnnIn the spring of 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic forced universities into a defensive crouch and administrators frantically looked for easy ways to cut costs, thousands of higher education jobs were suddenly at risk. At our institution, librarians were among 200+ faculty contracts under threat for non-renewal, representing a 25% overall cut in our librarian workforce. The crisis prompted us, three mid-career librarians and union stewards, to do whatever we could to save those jobs and to shore up colleagues’ morale through the uncertainty. We worked closely with our faculty union leadership to develop advocacy strategies and to engage allies and colleagues in the fight. As our work progressed and our mutual support network deepened, we realized we shared another common issue that encompassed broader and more existential concerns. After our early career years spent cementing job skills, building a professional profile, and pursuing promotion, we all found ourselves asking, “Where do I want to put my energies in the next phase of my work life? How can I make a meaningful impact?” Our experience demonstrates the value of engaging in labor union activism as a vital opportunity for the mid-career librarian to advocate for fellow colleagues and to further one’s own professional development. Throughout this book chapter, we will bring readers through our journey as three mid-career library union stewards. Although we are at different places on the mid-career spectrum and we each came to union steward work in different ways and for different reasons, we shared similar values: an interest in women’s worker rights and shared governance; a preference for collaborative feminist leadership style; and a desire to develop professionally through building partnerships and supporting our colleagues rather than pursuing advancement through a hierarchical management structure. With practical strategies and advice, we will share how we developed an advocacy plan to preserve jobs and raise the profile of librarians, and how we looked beyond the immediate crisis to enact organizing principles that we hope become normalized across the library faculty: collaboration, guidance, deep listening spaces, collective advocacy, and action-oriented practices that speak truth to the needs and rights of academic librarians.Item Open Access PRESSBOOKS @ UO: A Workshop Guide to Pressbooks, Hypothesis and H5P(Pressbooks, 2023) Service, Allia; Vieger, RayneItem 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 Restricted Creating a digital mindfulness resource guide for students(Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians L'Association canadienne des bibliothécaires en enseignement supérieur (CAPAL), 2022-06-06) Lockwood, Kayla; Maxson, Bronwen K.; Thornhill, KateCollege can be a stressful experience for students due to high costs of education, food insecurity, time management, and individual health conditions. With the recent global pandemic, the University of Oregon (UO) has pivoted many of its in-person mental health services to remote operations that include teletherapy, remote workshops, and other online resources such as mobile apps to provide students access to health services. One of the goals of UO Libraries’ instruction program is to teach students to critically evaluate information they find in various locations and formats. Specific to this effort, UO Libraries supported a DREAM Lab student employee to review campus-supported apps, create a digital mindfulness app evaluation rubric to aid students in decision making about their data privacy and care, and ultimately to create an online guide for the UO community. The student’s process included talking to institutional partners and medical professionals, researching the associated risks of data privacy and security within mHealth apps, researching mHealth app evaluation methods, and carefully reading the data privacy standards of suggested apps. The guide creators are assessing the guide’s impact on the student community through an embedded survey, as well as usage statistics. Preliminary results will be shared at the CAPAL Conference.Item Open Access “Thank you, once again, for assisting humble far flung independent researchers like me under all this duress. It is notable, and appreciated!”(University of Oregon, 2022-05-02) Goss, Lauren; Munsell, AustinUniversity of Oregon Libraries Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) provided over 61,000 free scanned images to researchers from around the world during the first phase of the pandemic (March 2020 - August 2021). During this time, a campus lockdown blocked all researchers from accessing any non-digitized SCUA materials. Recognizing the impact of a closed reading room on accessibility to primary sources, public services and collection management staff quickly pivoted from in person services to remote access via an ad hoc scanning service. The Public Services Librarian worked with researchers to refine their inquiries and identify portions of collections (up to 5 folders) integral to their research. The Collections Manager managed retrieval of identified materials from secured storage and remotely supported student workers in accessing SCUA during lockdown. Effectively, we offered free scans in lieu of an abridged research visit. To implement this service, undergraduate student workers (normally in public facing roles) were reassigned to perform digital capture on idle KIC Bookeye scanners transferred from the main library. Student workers were trained remotely on image capture and upload of PDF files to the department server. Microsoft Teams served as the platform for remote communication and assignment of scanning tasks. All PDF files (200dpi) were sent to researchers using WeTransfer. The service averaged an 11-day turnaround time even with a small staff of part-time student workers, staggered onsite work schedules, and quarantine protocols for all materials. Researchers were appreciative and grateful for access to materials vital to their research interests. Access to these primary sources meant they could proceed with writing articles, dissertations, and books regardless of geographical constraints. The end of the program coincided with the reopening of the library to the general public and the return of the scanners to use in public areas. Staffing and budgetary constraints prevent SCUA from continuing a similar scanning service in conjunction with the reopened reading room. However, it serves as a more equitable model of future access to primary source materials for all researchers regardless of ability to travel for an in-person research visit.Item Open Access Teaching Business Research Using Strategic Analysis Diagrams(ACRL Press, 2022-05) Snipes, GeniferThe ability to successfully research and analyze the business environment is a critical skill for any type of successful business project - whether in the classroom or in real life. However, students often assume their casual information-seeking habits will work equally well in academic business research, in the process missing, misunderstanding, or misapplying information as they build their propositions. In this chapter's activity, students use one of the major strategic analysis frameworks – SWOT, Business Model Canvas, or Five Forces, as a guide to identify which topics to research as well as where various business resources can be applied to the research process.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 Liaising in the 21st Century: The Shifting Role of the Education Librarian(Education Libraries, 2022) Donaldson, Katherine S.; Bonella, Laura; Becksford, Lisa; Kubicki, Josette M.; Parramore, SarahThis paper will examine the findings of a survey on the job roles and responsibilities of Education librarians (academic librarians with liaison responsibilities for the field of Education). Existing literature on Education librarianship has focused on particular facets of the job role, including the unique instructional needs of Education students and specific instruction and outreach initiatives. However, the literature lacks a comprehensive picture of the full spectrum of contemporary Education librarianship. This article provides a snapshot of the diverse educational backgrounds and varied responsibilities of Education librarians related to instruction and instructional design, reference, embedded librarianship, outreach, collaboration, and collection development.Item Open Access Lessons from a research trip to Mexico(De Gruyter, 2022) Maxson, Bronwen K.; Reyes, Betsaida M.As practitioners who work closely with international students, the researchers sought to understand the information literacy (IL) preparation that students coming from Mexico may have experienced prior to studying at US institutions. US researchers have done some work with Mexican information professionals related to collection development and cultural exchange, but less is known about their current training for and attitudes toward IL instruction. The researchers designed a cross-cultural and cross-national study to interview library and information professionals in Mexico to learn how they teach IL. On the surface, this seemed like a straightforward project: develop a research instrument, apply for IRB, and go. The reality proved more challenging as the researchers navigated the nuances of conducting research in another country. Throughout the project, the researchers engaged with questions about logistics, institutional review board requirements, their own positionality, cultural appropriateness and appropriation, and emotional labour. This chapter will detail the lessons learned about conducting research internationally, giving insights to other researchers who want to work in a similar context, suggest additional methods and approaches to avoid some of their pitfalls, and discuss the rewards of engaging with peers in another country.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 El diseño de la alfabetización informacional sobre la comunicación científica(XXXV Coloquio Internacional de Bibliotecarios, Feria Internacional de Libro de Guadalajara, México, 2021-11-29) Maxson, Bronwen K.Bronwen Maxson, y sus colegas, Alison Hicks del University College de Londres (UCL) y Betsaida Reyes de la Universidad del Estado de Pennsylvania, han realizado un estudio sobre las prácticas de los profesionistas de la información y bibliotecarios en México durante 2018 con respecto a la alfabetización informacional, es decir, el desarrollo de habilidades informativas. Bronwen hablará sobre el estudio que se publicó en octubre de 2021, la justificación del estudio, la metodología, los resultados y los temas para futuras investigaciones. El estudio tiene implicaciones para los bibliotecarios que enseñan alfabetización en comunicación científica.Item Open Access Creating a Spanish campus map at the University of Oregon(REFORMA National Conference, 2021-11-06) Maxson, Bronwen K.; Quarles, HeatherThis poster will describe the process and stakeholders involved in an effort to create a Spanish GIS map at the University of Oregon during the COVID-19 pandemic through an online asynchronous partnership with Spanish Heritage Language Students. The presenter(s) will describe the impetus for the project, their pedagogical approaches, the campus partnerships that made this project possible, and the process for structuring student work in two sections of Spanish 228, Herencia latina II: Nuestras voces en contexto. The presenters will suggest ways for other academic librarians to consider how to make their online spaces more inclusive.Item Open Access ILAGO 15th Annual Oregon Information Literacy Summit, Day 2 (Friday, May 21, 2021)(Information Literacy Advisory Group of Oregon (ILAGO), 2021-05-21) Tobiason, Anders; Irons, Lynda; Lowe-Wincentsen, Dawn; Powers, AllaON “DEVELOPING INFORMATION LITERATE ABILITIES”: UNCOVERING WHITENESS AT THE CENTER OF THE ACRL FRAMEWORK FOR INFORMATION LITERACY with Anders Tobiason What does it mean to be information literate? Who is the model information literate individual? Taking its cue from Critical Discourse Analysis and Antiracist Black Language Pedagogy, this presentation questions the foundational image of the information literate individual lying at the heart of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy. Using critical race theory and an understanding of how whiteness functions as a presumed neutral background in our society, we begin to understand the whiteness of this individual. In this presentation, I briefly outline how whiteness functions and then move on to show how whiteness functions within the Framework more specifically. One of the main features of the Framework is an emphasis on “developing information literate abilities.” But for BIPOC individuals this fundamentally involves code-switching. As many scholars have recently argued code-switching causes harm beyond a change in individual language. When one’s understanding of what knowledge is and how information is constructed clashes with the aspirational model, one begins to question the validity of one’s own identity. As we begin to understand how whiteness underlies the Framework, we can begin to problematize its concept of information literacy and eventually find ways to allow a variety of information literacies to flourish. TRANSPARENT TEACHING IN ACTION: DEVELOPING A FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR LESSON PLAN with Lynda Irons Attendees will learn how the presenter applied the transparent teaching principles to develop a transparent-friendly, step-by-step lesson plan to teach a one-shot instruction session on scholarly articles to freshmen students. The presenter used the Searching is Strategic Exploration ACRL Framework as the foundation for developing the lesson plan. By the end of the presentation, attendees will: Learn the transparent teaching principles and why they matter; Learn to differentiate between purposes and tasks; Leave with a strategy to apply transparent teaching principles to their own First-Year Seminar/Experience instruction. AN ADAPTIVE/ OPEN INFORMATION LITERACY MODEL FOR THE SCIENCES with Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen and Alla Powers Transparent course and assignment design gives students a framework with which to understand why the information is important and how it fits into the greater scheme of education and career. Open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogies use alternative copyright to make materials accessible and adaptable. This case study describes using these two principles to create an adaptable course module on information literacy. This case study will also talk about the request and need for more accessible materials during the covid period and beyond. As an open resource in an electronic format this case study will also discuss the possible uses outside of the local university environment.Item Open Access ILAGO 15th Annual Oregon Information Literacy Summit, Day 1 (Tuesday, May 18, 2021)(Information Literacy Advisory Group of Oregon (ILAGO), 2021-05-18) Thornhill, Kate; Wang, Andrew; Trott, GarrettFUNCTIONAL AND SUBJECT SPECIALISTS COLLABORATING IN THE REMOTE CLASSROOM with Andrew Wang and Kate Thornhill This presentation will describe a collaborative instruction session facilitated by Kate Thornhill (Digital Scholarship Librarian) and Andrew Wang (Art and Architecture Librarian) for an upper-level undergraduate/graduate course in the Historic Preservation program at the Portland campus of the University of Oregon. As the instructor of the course was still in the midst of finalizing the parameters of his assignment, Kate and Andrew were challenged to build a multi-part session that included both an asynchronous module and a synchronous remote session. The session incorporated multiple interactive and scaffolded components that ultimately helped shape the assignment itself. Moreover, this session has provided their institution with a model for: (1) innovative library instruction in the remote classroom; (2) an effective collaboration between a functional and subject specialist; and (3) incorporating several forms of assessment that meet a variety of learning outcomes. TALKING STORIES: AN OPEN PEDAGOGY COLLABORATION AND PARTNERSHIP with Kate Thornhill At the University of Oregon between July and December 2020, Dr. Michelle Scalise Sugiyama and four UO librarians under the leadership of Kate Thornhill, Digital Scholarship Librarian, collaborated to develop an open educational resource that incorporated WordPress and open pedagogy approaches aimed at showing how Indigenous peoples around the world use storytelling to transmit their traditional ecological knowledge. This collaboration supported first-year undergraduate students participating in Dr. Scalise Sugiyama’s Origins of Storytelling course, an online first-year seminar dedicated to developing content for the resource. Entitled Talking Stories: An Encyclopedia of Traditional Ecological Knowledge, this resource aggregates traditional narratives, explications of the ecological knowledge they encode, descriptions of their culture and habitat of origin, and links to related scholarly research. It is intended for use by educators around the world seeking to integrate traditional Indigenous literature and natural history into their courses, and by students and researchers investigating this body of knowledge. For this presentation, Kate Thornhill will discuss how Dr. Scalise Sugiyama and she approached their collaborative partnership to center students with an introduction to academic research, professional writing, and digital literacy within the Origins of Storytelling course. TRANSPARENT LIBRARY INSTRUCTION with Garrett Trott This session will provide a brief definition of transparency in addition to some examples of how transparency can be implemented in either face-to-face or online instruction. It will briefly discuss what makes transparency valuable for instruction as well.Item Open Access Instructional Collaborations in Diverse Cultural and Multilingual Contexts: Information Literacy Initiatives for the 21st Century(Association of College & Research Libraries, 2021-04-16) Maxson, Bronwen K.; Espinosa de los Monteros, Pamela; Alonso-Regalado, Jesús; Thornhill, KateThe growing importance of 21st century literacies in higher education is expanding the instructional reach of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LAC) librarians in instructional courses. LAC librarians are actively pursuing creative pedagogical approaches to support curricula and research that address important areas of linguistic diversity and social justice as well as critical issues including decolonization, global citizenship dispositions, and U.S. migration/immigration. This panel will highlight the diverse LAC pedagogy and instructional practices of three LAC librarians from the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) who will discuss their instructional design to information literacy instruction that is unique to area studies and also expanding into other areas such as digital scholarship and data services. This moderated panel will exchange ideas and approaches and reflect together on the potential of information literacy instruction to support global and critical issues.