Light Years of Lightning Talks - Session 3.2
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Date
November 9, 2022
Session Title
Light Years of Lightning Talks: IR Stories from the DC Community
Description
Join us for a series of inspirational and educational lightning talks by members of the Digital Commons community, for members of the Digital Commons community. Session 3.2 hosted by Luca Belletti, Digital Commons.
Rachel Evans, University of Georgia Law Library & Law School
Avoiding Total Eclipses in Your Repository: Leveraging Grants, Digitization, Consortia-OAI Harvesting, Digital Exhibits & PR Campaigns
Over the course of the last two years the University of Georgia School of Law and Library have pursued a variety of grant funding opportunities to increase digitization efforts of our special collections and archives. This lightning talk will touch on the grant writing process, discussing our rejections and successes, and give takeaways to others interested in digitization grants. This talk will culminate in the relationship building our grant writing has helped facilitate including the continued resource sharing with state and nation-wide partners the Digital Library of Georgia and Digital Public Library of America. Another practical takeaway will include the OAI harvesting used so that attendees are left with the Digital Commons documentation consulted as a primary resource to reformat our IR series URLs for successful ingest by the Digital Library of Georgia.
Erin Rushton and Caitlin Holton, Binghamton University Libraries
Collaborative IR projects with the Campus Community
There is a growing interest from departments and organizations on campus to use our Institutional Repository (IR), the ORB, to host creative works, digital publications, and supplemental materials for projects. Recently we began working with Harpur Palate, our University's acclaimed national literary journal, to support the digitization of their archives and to make these archives available through the IR. We will discuss how we provided access to our Digitization Lab to support the digitization of back issues and how we trained Harpur Palate staff to create metadata and submit content in the IR. By developing a workflow that defines the roles and responsibilities of the Libraries vs. those of contributors, we hope to have more collaborations with the campus community and expand the scope of the IR.
Jacob Nunnally, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University
10 Years and Counting: Law Journals at Hofstra University
We at Hofstra University School of Law are approaching 10 years on bepress Digital Commons and recently hit 3 million downloads. The purpose of my lightning talk is to discuss the IR architecture of our four law journals. One fairly unique thing we do at Hofstra is scan and upload the cover of each journal issue so that the online experience is identical to the print experience. It also makes each issue's landing page look pretty!
Ashley D.R. Sergiadis and Kyle Johnson, East Tennessee State University
Opting Out of Opting In: Switching Our Profile Workflow to Include Every University Faculty Member
Starting this semester, Charles C. Sherrod Library at East Tennessee State University (ETSU) began shifting our SelectedWorks service model from an opt-in (we create profiles for faculty who send us their CV) process to a quicker and easier opt-out (we create profiles for all faculty) model. Our lightning talk will provide an overview of this opt-out model and how we laid the groundwork for its success. We started by engendering support amongst the Deans, Faculty Senate, and University Research Council, detailing the benefits of a university-wide profile service and assuaging any fears or concerns that an opt-out model might generate regarding utility and privacy. We also undertook a substantial harvesting project as part of this project using Digital Common's PubMed and Scopus integration to harvest thousands of ETSU-affiliated records into our repository. We create these "instant profiles" by aggregating publicly assessable information (such as contact information, education, etc.) from available sources such as university departmental pages, LinkedIn, ResearchGate, etc. to complete their "About" information without needing a copy of their CV. We then import all available works into the profile from the aforementioned harvesting project. Once completed, we email the faculty member in question and give them two weeks to accept or decline their profile before going "live." This will greatly expand the reach of our department's service and further integrate our portion of the library into the academic community of the university.
Rachel Walton, Rollins College
Considering CV Review as an IR Service for Faculty: Is it worth it? The Perspective of A Small Liberal Arts College
CV Deposit is a high-touch service portal wherein faculty submit their CV to library staff who in turn complete all of the rights checking, publisher contact, and other review needed to make faculty work available openly within the IR. This kind of function is intended for faculty who are interested in depositing the whole of their scholarly body of work into the IR and requires a dedicated team of library professionals to execute fully. My lightning talk will introduce the concept of CV Deposit and Review, with a discussion of the existing literature, and outline the below positives and negatives of such a service model for a library of our size. Negatives -- such a concierge-like offering may be overwhelming and unmanageable Positives -- the chance to increase the discoverability and openness of faculty research and integrate with other OA outreach efforts across campus. Finally, my talk will end with some real-world feedback from librarian liaisons at my small liberal arts college who offer insights (encouraging and critical) about whether CV review is a viable service model for our campus community.
Recommended Citation
Belletti, Luca; Evans, Rachel; Rushton, Erin; Holton, Caitlin; Nunnally, Jacob; Sergiadis, Ashley D.R.; Johnson, Kyle; and Walton, Rachel, "Light Years of Lightning Talks - Session 3.2" (2022). Digital Commons North American Conference. 5.
https://dc.researchcommons.org/dcnoamconf/2022/nov9/5
Rachel Walton Presentation for Light Years of Lightning Talks - Session 3.2
Ashley Sergiadis Kyle Johnson ETSU DC Conference LT.pdf (970 kB)
Ashley Sergiadis & Kyle Johnson Presentation for Light Years of Lightning Talks - Session 3.2
Erin Rushton Caitlin Holton DC Conference LT.pdf (2713 kB)
Erin Rushton & Caitlin Holton Presentation for Light Years of Lightning Talks - Session 3.2
Jacob Nunnally DC Conference LT.pdf (499 kB)
Jacob Nunnally Presentation for Light Years of Lightning Talks - Session 3.2
Rachel Evans DC Conference LT.pdf (11617 kB)
Rachel Evans Presentation for Light Years of Lightning Talks - Session 3.2
Light Years of Lightning Talks - Session 3.2
Join us for a series of inspirational and educational lightning talks by members of the Digital Commons community, for members of the Digital Commons community. Session 3.2 hosted by Luca Belletti, Digital Commons.
Rachel Evans, University of Georgia Law Library & Law School
Avoiding Total Eclipses in Your Repository: Leveraging Grants, Digitization, Consortia-OAI Harvesting, Digital Exhibits & PR Campaigns
Over the course of the last two years the University of Georgia School of Law and Library have pursued a variety of grant funding opportunities to increase digitization efforts of our special collections and archives. This lightning talk will touch on the grant writing process, discussing our rejections and successes, and give takeaways to others interested in digitization grants. This talk will culminate in the relationship building our grant writing has helped facilitate including the continued resource sharing with state and nation-wide partners the Digital Library of Georgia and Digital Public Library of America. Another practical takeaway will include the OAI harvesting used so that attendees are left with the Digital Commons documentation consulted as a primary resource to reformat our IR series URLs for successful ingest by the Digital Library of Georgia.
Erin Rushton and Caitlin Holton, Binghamton University Libraries
Collaborative IR projects with the Campus Community
There is a growing interest from departments and organizations on campus to use our Institutional Repository (IR), the ORB, to host creative works, digital publications, and supplemental materials for projects. Recently we began working with Harpur Palate, our University's acclaimed national literary journal, to support the digitization of their archives and to make these archives available through the IR. We will discuss how we provided access to our Digitization Lab to support the digitization of back issues and how we trained Harpur Palate staff to create metadata and submit content in the IR. By developing a workflow that defines the roles and responsibilities of the Libraries vs. those of contributors, we hope to have more collaborations with the campus community and expand the scope of the IR.
Jacob Nunnally, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University
10 Years and Counting: Law Journals at Hofstra University
We at Hofstra University School of Law are approaching 10 years on bepress Digital Commons and recently hit 3 million downloads. The purpose of my lightning talk is to discuss the IR architecture of our four law journals. One fairly unique thing we do at Hofstra is scan and upload the cover of each journal issue so that the online experience is identical to the print experience. It also makes each issue's landing page look pretty!
Ashley D.R. Sergiadis and Kyle Johnson, East Tennessee State University
Opting Out of Opting In: Switching Our Profile Workflow to Include Every University Faculty Member
Starting this semester, Charles C. Sherrod Library at East Tennessee State University (ETSU) began shifting our SelectedWorks service model from an opt-in (we create profiles for faculty who send us their CV) process to a quicker and easier opt-out (we create profiles for all faculty) model. Our lightning talk will provide an overview of this opt-out model and how we laid the groundwork for its success. We started by engendering support amongst the Deans, Faculty Senate, and University Research Council, detailing the benefits of a university-wide profile service and assuaging any fears or concerns that an opt-out model might generate regarding utility and privacy. We also undertook a substantial harvesting project as part of this project using Digital Common's PubMed and Scopus integration to harvest thousands of ETSU-affiliated records into our repository. We create these "instant profiles" by aggregating publicly assessable information (such as contact information, education, etc.) from available sources such as university departmental pages, LinkedIn, ResearchGate, etc. to complete their "About" information without needing a copy of their CV. We then import all available works into the profile from the aforementioned harvesting project. Once completed, we email the faculty member in question and give them two weeks to accept or decline their profile before going "live." This will greatly expand the reach of our department's service and further integrate our portion of the library into the academic community of the university.
Rachel Walton, Rollins College
Considering CV Review as an IR Service for Faculty: Is it worth it? The Perspective of A Small Liberal Arts College
CV Deposit is a high-touch service portal wherein faculty submit their CV to library staff who in turn complete all of the rights checking, publisher contact, and other review needed to make faculty work available openly within the IR. This kind of function is intended for faculty who are interested in depositing the whole of their scholarly body of work into the IR and requires a dedicated team of library professionals to execute fully. My lightning talk will introduce the concept of CV Deposit and Review, with a discussion of the existing literature, and outline the below positives and negatives of such a service model for a library of our size. Negatives -- such a concierge-like offering may be overwhelming and unmanageable Positives -- the chance to increase the discoverability and openness of faculty research and integrate with other OA outreach efforts across campus. Finally, my talk will end with some real-world feedback from librarian liaisons at my small liberal arts college who offer insights (encouraging and critical) about whether CV review is a viable service model for our campus community.