Rigby, Miriam

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Miriam Rigby is Senior Librarian in the UO Libraries. She has worked at the University of Oregon since 2008, as subject specialist for the departments of Anthropology, Sociology, and Indigenous, Race & Ethnic Studies, and supports a number of other program areas. Her research includes open access, instruction, social media, librarianship as a profession and identity, and other aspects of librarianship.

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    Artificial imaginings: ChatGPT envisions its future in academic libraries
    (2023-07)
    Miriam: Many essays have been written recently about ChatGPT (https://chat.openai.com/) and its impact on higher education, not least of which is a review of the technology in C&RL News in March 2023. But how many have asked ChatGPT what it has to say on the matter? I set out to learn what ChatGPT thought it could contribute to academic libraries. ChatGPT: Hi there, I’m ChatGPT! As a language model, I wrote a fun essay on using ChatGPT in academic libraries. I generated the text using my natural language processing skills, which let me create text that sounds like a real person wrote it. It’s like magic! I used my programming and training to come up with the essay, and I’d love to answer any questions you have.
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    Open Secrets: Exploring Institutional Spending on Open Access
    (Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA), 2024-12-20) Rigby, Miriam
    A robust corpus exists on Open Access (OA) spending within libraries, however there is less literature on assessing OA expenditures across colleges and universities. Due to the nature of the fragmented and uneven investment in OA, researchers are likely not optimizing institutional resources on Article Processing Charges (APCs) as part of the open access environment. This article describes how personnel at University of Oregon Libraries built a Power BI model to encapsulate and visualize our institution’s open access outlay as well as apprise researchers of their options for selecting OA publication venues based on APCs and impact metrics.
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    Automating for Success: Making Invisible Work Visible
    (University of Oregon, 2023-10-27) Harlan, Lydia; Buxton, Kristin; Hayden, Gabriele
    Knowing 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.
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    Sudden Selector's Guide to Anthropology Resources (Pre-print)
    (2019-07-12) Rigby, Miriam; Russell, John
    This is the pre-print of the Sudden Selector's Guide to Anthropology Resources. Some layout and editorial changes may be made between the posting of this file and the final published version. The Sudden Selector's Guides series, sponsored by the Collection Management Section, is designed to help library workers become acquainted with the tools, resources, people, and organizations that can help them develop collections in new or unfamiliar subject areas.
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    Following the Yik Yak: Using Social Media Observations to Understand Student Needs on College Campuses
    (In the Library With the Lead Pipe, 2017-07-12) Emmelhainz, Celia; Rigby, Miriam
    What can social media tell us about our patrons? We look at Yik Yak through the lens of library ethnography, suggesting that anonymous social media can reveal not only complaints and commentary about library services and spaces, but also uncover students’ emotional and social experience with research and study space. Looking at social media posts on Yik Yak, we uncover common threads of social dynamics, expectations of quiet space, and frustration with studying, all of which increase our understanding of student experiences in US and international libraries.
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    Motivating Students on a Time Budget: Pedagogical Frames and Lesson Plans for In-Person and Online Information Literacy Instruction
    (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2019) Steiner, Sarah; Rigby, Miriam
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    Uploadable Content: Collaboration in a Video Game Advisory Team
    (Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association, 2016-06) Harlan, Lydia; Cloo, Derek; Smith, Kate Louise; Zeidman-Karpinski, Annie
    A misunderstanding led to the creation of University of Oregon (UO) Libraries’ video game collection. We thought we were replicating the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign’s (UIUC) Library collection. One UO subject specialist librarian got permission from her supervisor, gift money from an administrator, and since she wasn’t a gamer, asked around about what video games and consoles to buy and how to do it. As we set up this collection, we found out that UIUC didn’t let patrons take the games and consoles with peripherals home with them, as we were planning to do. With no space for the consoles in the library and a firm belief that material should circulate, this initial misunderstanding forced us to invent processes and procedures to handle the collection. What follows is our description of how our Video Game Advisory Team was formed, and how our team adds value to the gaming collection and culture at our library. We will discuss the evolution of our video game acquisition process, our circulation practice and statistics, and issues with the trend towards downloadable content.
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    Reader Response
    (2016-07) Defrain, Erica; Hathcock, April; Masland, Turner; Pho, Annie; Pagowsky, Nicole; Rigby, Miriam; Roberto, K.R.
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    Contextualizing Ourselves: The Identity Politics of the Librarian Stereotype
    (ACRL Press, 2014-06) Pagowsky, Nicole; Rigby, Miriam
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    We’ve Reddit, have you?: What librarians can learn from a site full of memes
    (Association of College & Research Libraries, 2013-11) Sanderson, Beth; Rigby, Miriam
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    Interlibrary Loan - Reference Collaboration: Filling Hard-to-Find Faculty Requests
    (Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery, and Electronic Reserves, 2011-01) Bean, Margaret; Rigby, Miriam
    We have implemented a successful in-house outsourcing program between University of Oregon Library departments. Collaboration between interlibrary loan staff and subject specialists appropriates ILLiad e-mail routing capabilities to enable subject specialists to join the workflow in processing difficult ILL requests. The goals of the program are to fill more requests, fill requests more quickly, give subject specialists the opportunity to learn more about their faculty members’ research needs, and to create a stepping stone to a purchase-on-demand program.
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    Social Networking 0.0: Cultivating casual collaboration
    (Association of College & Research Libraries, 2010-01) Rigby, Miriam