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    Text Mining “Re-” in Victorian Poetry
    (2023-11-11) Mazel, Adam
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    Creative Means of Deconstruction: Teaching and Learning the UnEssay to Explore Artistic Modes of Inquiry in a Graduate LIS Course
    (American Library Association, 2022-06-25) Scheving, Caroline; Peters, Joshua; Krabbe, Marloes; Deogracias, Micaela; Carter, Sarah
    This visually-engaging poster presents a case study of an art librarianship graduate course in which students engaged in an UnEssay assignment. While many library and information science (LIS) graduates have undergraduate degrees in art history, fewer have degrees in studio arts, and therefore, less first-hand knowledge of artistic practices. This is problematic because approaches to artistic modes of inquiry vary significantly compared to predominantly text-based research practices used throughout other areas within the humanities. The UnEssay, as defined by Marc Kissel, gives students space to “choose not just the topic but the medium in which they can best present their ideas.” Students chose an area of interest within art librarianship and undertook a project which allowed them to express their learning by making something. The poster will include photos of student projects in various media, including fiber arts, GIS mapping, and collage. It will also share students’ reflective writing about their learning experience in which they share how their UnEssays related to specific competencies found in the "Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) Core Competencies for Art Information Professionals" publication as well as any new skills they learned creating their UnEssay project. Poster viewers will learn practical and theoretical impacts of assigning an UnEssay project at the graduate level. Viewers will also leave with an expanded knowledge of incorporating the UnEssay into a course design.
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    Faculty Publication Timelines: An Indiana University Service to Junior Faculty
    (Special Libraries Association, 2014-06-10) Noel, Robert E.; Batra, Urvashi
    Swain Hall library is one of 12 subject libraries on the Indiana University, Bloomington campus. Established in 1950, it has been the lifeline for Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics, Computer Science, and the School of Informatics. Apart from traditional information services, including collection development, examining faculty publishing activities has been one of our primary goals. We have received positive feedback from scholars and committees as we summarize those contributions to those unfamiliar with the science itself. We used Microsoft Excel to create these timelines, a YouTube describing how to do this can be found on the web with the title “Create a timeline in Microsoft Excel”. Timelines offered a condensed, single view of Publications, Citation count, and Journal Impact. The results of this analysis may assist committee member in compiling individual publications; and it may enable assessment committees in decisions related to faculty promotion and tenure. Citation databases consulted to build citation count for each journal article were: SCOPUS, Google Scholar, and Web Of Science.
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    How to Eat an Elephant: Strategies for Using Student Workers to Tackle Backlogs
    (2018-10-09) McClanahan, Allison; Johnson, Ryan; Ward, Sarah; Weaver, Lindsay
    This poster will address strategic hiring of students and creative ways of thinking and outreach to tackle challenging backlog projects, describing the following: determining the scope of the ATM’s nebulous backlog; seeking students with skills outside of the traditional music library skillset; implementing new procedures for capturing statistics. ATM students will also discuss their part of “the elephant in the archive”.
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    School of Informatics Fall, 2022 Borrowed Books, Pop-Up Library, 9/6-9/7/2022
    (2022-09-14) Noel, Robert E.
    Approximately 200 books from computer sciences and social sciences were included from the Sciences Library, the Wells Library, and the ALF. The majority of books were published over the past 5 years. Unlike most Informatics pop-up libraries, this pop-up included roughly half of its content from call number ranges outside computer science and coding texts. It also was approximately double in size than most pop-ups. An IUCAT search was conducted that narrowed the date range to 2018-2022, and included books with keywords “computing”, “analytics”, “big data”, and “intelligen*”. There were some small exceptions where older titles were included, e.g. python books from the past decade, and operations research titles from authors such as Stafford Beer. In addition, some new book titles entirely outside of computing, but related to science in general were also displayed. The following were titles checked out at the pop-out, largely by masters students in the School of Informatics, but included some undergraduates and a small number of faculty. While this is not representative of all new science titles collected on the Bloomington campus in the past five years, it is a good sample of what has been collected in "print”, as opposed to e-books. The results of this pop-up library can help us understand the types of books we may want to purchase in the future in both print and e-formats.
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    Web Accessibility in the Institutional Repository: Crafting User-Centered Submission Policies
    (NASIG 2020, 2020-06) McLaughlin, Margaret; Hoops, Jenny
    As web accessibility initiatives increase across institutions, it is important not only to reframe and rethink policies, but also to develop sustainable and tenable methods for enforcing accessibility efforts. For institutional repositories, it is imperative to determine the extent to which both the repository manager and the user are responsible for depositing accessible content. This presentation allows us to share our accessibility framework and help repository and content managers craft sustainable, long-term goals for accessible content in institutional repositories, while also providing openly available resources for short-term benefit.
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    Building a Foundation for Sustainable Library Publishing: Quantitative Tools & Practical Methods
    (Library Publishing Forum 2020, 2020-05-07) Hoops, Jenny; Tavernier, Willa
    As library publishing programs continue to expand, developing a sustainable framework for onboarding journals and publishing new content has become imperative. In 2019 the Indiana University Libraries open access publishing program reached over 50 journals. To cope with this workload, we recognized the need to develop a methodology for sustainable publishing. Up to that point, we onboarded new journals as soon as the editors were ready, and went to great lengths to accommodate new feature requests and technical changes. Meanwhile, library employees were spending a disproportionate amount of time on publishing maintenance and routine, repetitive editorial queries. To alleviate these issues, we developed a quantitative assessment for our journals that assigned points correlating to the number of work hours a given task took to complete. We then assessed all existing journals and decided on the amount of FTE workforce we could dedicate to journal publishing. This allowed us to calculate the number of points that could be added each quarter, and establish a queue system - any journals projected to exceed this amount would be onboarded in a future quarter. We also created new FAQs addressing common user issues. The strain on our department immediately lessened, and we have already seen a more consistent and sustainable workflow. This system also allowed us to set stable timelines to process requests, and focus on doing more collaborative work with editors rather than automatically completing tasks for them. This session will present a case study of the Indiana University Libraries Scholarly Communication department’s quantitative methods for onboarding and maintaining journals. Participants will have the opportunity to apply our methodology to their own programs, and brainstorm how to develop methodologies that would fit with their own needs and resources. We will also provide time to discuss long-term projections for library publishing programs.
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    Shedding Disciplinary Divides: Using an ethnographic AV collection across disciplines in student learning
    (2019-10-25) McClanahan, Allison
    The Archives of Traditional Music (ATM) at Indiana University holds collections from a breadth of disciplines such as Ethnomusicology, Popular Music, and Jazz, as well as non-music-focused disciplines such as Folklore, Anthropology, and African Studies. This scope of collections allows for bridging ethnographic disciplines with the wider academic scope, including arts and humanities. This presentation will discuss outreach efforts by ATM staff to engage students and faculty at Indiana University across various disciplines, examples of ways ATM collections have been utilized by faculty and students to engage student learning, and approaches to and design of class activities.
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    Into the Wild: Born Digital AV Preservation
    (2019-05-23) Shallcross, Mike
    Key considerations and issues related to the preservation of born-digital audiovisual materials.
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    Documenting Digital Forensics Workflows
    (2019-04-30) Shallcross, Mike
    In recent years, the digital preservation and archives communities have increasingly integrated forensics tools in workflows for the acquisition and ingest of content. While such tools help ensure the authenticity and integrity of content, the documentation of our workflows—what actions we’ve taken and when—are significant factors in capturing the digital provenance of archival materials. In this short presentation, I will discuss my work refining and extending Python scripts from the digital preservation community to create PREMIS metadata for actions such as disk image creation, forensic feature analysis, and file format identification.
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    Workflow Pain Points and Opportunities for Machine Learning
    (2019-07-25) Shallcross, Mike
    Overview of digital preservation ingest procedures used in the Indiana University Libraries's 'Born Digital Preservation Lab' with discussion of challenges and opportunities related to workflow development.
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    Bringing BitCurator Tools and Strategies to Windows
    (2019-10-24) Shallcross, Mike
    Indiana University started using the BitCurator Environment in 2015 and by 2017 staff had deployed two dedicated workstations in our Born Digital Preservation Lab. The benefits of this approach are no doubt obvious to members of the BitCurator community: in addition to a pre-installed suite of digital forensics and data analysis tools, the Linux-based operating system allowed staff to recognize and extract content from multiple file systems. At the same time, our local desktop support services were limited to Windows and so digital preservation staff were responsible for addressing hardware and software issues. As a result, when the workstations were scheduled for replacement in 2018, we elected to replace them with Windows machines and implement many of the tools found in the BitCurator Environment. In this presentation, I would like to share our approach to implementing a BitCurator-like environment on Windows and how we were able to adapt resources--in particular, Tim Walsh’s Brunnhilde and Disk Image Processor--to automate significant portions of our content migration and analysis workflows (and at the same time capture associated preservation metadata). While more work is needed to refine our procedures, our progress thus far highlights the value of a shared community of practice in the advancement of local digital preservation goals.
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    Open Educational Resources and Libraries: Current Trends and Future Directions
    (2018-09) Hare, Sarah
    Current undergraduate students are estimated to pay over $1,000 each academic year on their course materials, impacting students' ability to learn and engage with course content. This session provides an introduction to one potential solution to this issue, Open Educational Resources (OER). In addition to discussing the benefits of OER and the barriers to widespread adoption, the session provides an overview of the spectrum of ways that libraries are supporting OER creation and use. After providing some context, the session outlines important future directions for consideration, including pedagogy, government support, accessibility, and labor.
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    Taking the Leap: Experiences Planning and Implementing a Migration to OJS 3
    (2018-05) Hare, Sarah; Molls, Emma; Polley, Ted
    The Public Knowledge Project announced the release of Open Journal Systems (OJS) 3 in August 2016. In addition to a more streamlined interface OJS 3 offers important functionality, including more flexible roles, new plugins, and even the ability to operationalize XML-first publishing. However, almost two years after the official release, several library publishers have not yet migrated to the newest version of OJS. In addition to the technical support needed to successfully plan and execute the migration, implementation often involves extensive outreach to editors on system changes and new functionality. At the same time, library publishers that do decide to migrate often work in isolation, asking colleagues on listservs, Github, or other online forums for advice or information about their experience migrating. There are no formal community-developed outreach materials for library publishers to share communally and implement locally. This session, presented at the 2018 Library Publishing Forum, presents three case studies on the transition to OJS 3. One case study, from the University of Minnesota, explores the migration from bepress to OJS 3. Two others, from Indiana University and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, explores migrating a multi-site instance from OJS 2 to OJS 3. Each case study is grounded in information about the library publishing program, timeline, size of the department, and level of technical support available. The presentation includes tangible outreach materials on the update. These include communication templates, training outlines, videos, and wikis created to support journal editors transition to OJS 3. The session also presents obstacles to success.
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    Publishing Literacy in the For-Credit Classroom: Assessing Indiana University Journal of Undergraduate Research Student Editors
    (2018-05) Hare, Sarah
    Library publishers are in a unique position to educate undergraduate students on publishing and scholarly communication concepts. In addition to being experts in ethical publishing practices and open access funding models, library publishers often offer a publishing platform that is open to everyone affiliated with their institution, including undergraduate students. In Fall 2017, the Scholarly Communication Librarian at Indiana University took undergraduate outreach a step further by developing a one-credit hour course for the student editorial board of the Indiana University Journal of Undergraduate Research (IUJUR). The course attempted to balance practical fundamentals—for example, learning OJS and evaluating submissions using IUJUR-specific rubrics—with larger concepts, including understanding and critiquing various peer review models, comprehending the value of open access, and grappling with ethical dilemmas. This presentation, given at the 2018 Library Publishing Forum, discusses how including undergraduates in library publishing outreach efforts can promote a publishing program while also furthering the library’s information literacy goals (ACRL, 2015) and the institution’s student retention ambitions (Council on Undergraduate Research, 2017). It also describes the readings, case studies, and discussion prompts used throughout the course. While not every librarian will be able to create a for-credit course, these active-learning materials are modular and can easily be integrated into other outreach endeavors. Finally, the session discusses the instrument used to assess student learning. The presentation will build upon other work on assessing undergraduate publishing literacy and student confidence before and after library outreach (Weiner & Watkinson, 2014) to present formative and summative assessment strategies participants can adopt. References ACRL. (2015, Feb 2). Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework Council on Undergraduate Research. (2017). Fact Sheet. Retrieved from https://www.cur.org/about_cur/fact_sheet/ Weiner, S., & Watkinson, C. (2014). What do students learn from participation in an undergraduate research journal? Results of an assessment. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 2(2).
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    Raise Your Research Profile
    (2019) Hare, Sarah; Tavernier, Willa
    An introduction into specific ways Indiana University faculty and researchers can broaden the impact of their research and increase awareness of their work. The program discusses how to best take advantage of Open Access publishing, and IU Libraries' CV Service, as well as explore access to resources that successful faculty use to describe the impact of their work. IU Libraries, the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs, the Office of the Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, and the Center for Excellence for Women in Technology co-hosted this event.
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    Furthering Open: Tips for Crafting an IR Deposit Service
    (Academic Libraries of Indiana, 2018-10-26) Hare, Sarah; Hoops, Jenny
    Throughout the 2017-2018 academic year, Indiana University Bloomington piloted a CV Service to all faculty members interested in depositing their scholarly body of work into the institutional repository. The goal of the pilot was to streamline deposit for faculty, promote repository ease of use and helpfulness of staff, and provide a clear mechanism for faculty interested in depositing and promoting a large amount of their work at once. The CV Service Pilot was an important strategic addition to the department’s suite of services, which also includes data publishing assistance, an open access journal publishing program, and, most recently, assisting with the operationalization of a campus-wide open access policy. We will utilize statistics collected from the pilot and synthesize lessons learned for communicating with publishers and faculty, estimating resources needed, and promoting the service. We will also present modules of the CV Service workflow for participants interested in streamlining deposit but without the resources needed to launch a dedicated service. For example, the service utilized an assistance authorization form, which gave library staff permission to complete all of the rights checking, publisher contact, and deposit needed to make faculty work available openly. This form could be immediately adopted by librarians interested in increasing deposits. Most importantly, our presentation will summarize how the CV service shaped departmental open access outreach to make it more proactive and realistic, centering faculty strategies for retaining author rights and retention of article versions (i.e. pre-prints and post-prints) in order to make open possible.
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    Dissertations and Open Access
    (2018-11) Hare, Sarah
    A presentation about making graduate dissertations open access, given to School of Education students in course L700.
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    Open Source Discovery at the Indiana University Libraries​
    (2018-05-30) McDonald, Robert H.
    An overview of the current discovery system at the IU Libraries with a look towards future developments that was presented at the BTAA Library Initiatives Conference: Discovery in 2018: Issues and Trends​ held at the University of Illinois on May 30, 2018.