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Description: Presenters from San Francisco State University and Cal Poly Pomona will share their perspectives on the benefits of creating collections in the ScholarWorks institutional repository, with a particular focus on increasing engagement with graduate student theses and dissertations. They will begin with a recap of the collections functionality available in DSpace as well as Digital Commons before sharing insights from interactions with members of their campus communities that resulted in requests for comparable features in the Samvera environment. This will lead into a demonstration of the automatic department facet in ScholarWorks and discussion of the shortcomings of that feature for the use cases identified. From there, the presenters will demonstrate how to create parent and child collections in ScholarWorks and discuss different options for organizing collections, such as by department or degree program in the case of theses and dissertations. They will also touch on usability and discoverability considerations as well as opportunities for further refining the metadata associated with the collections work form. Finally, the presentation will conclude with an overview of outreach opportunities once collections are in place, encompassing both direct outreach to specific departments and degree programs as well as more campus-wide communications intended to promote student work.
Presentation 9: Title TK
Presenters: Sean Visintainer, Ian Chan, and Jennifer Ho from CSUSM
Description: In collaboration with CSUSM’s Black Student Center (BSC), the University Library designed and conducted an oral history project where students conducted interviews with eleven individuals integral to the creation of the BSC, founded in 2017.
The creation of the BSC was a student-led movement which entailed raising awareness about the need of a center; lining up support within the university administration and student government; finding space; and in the early days of the BSC, focusing direction, programming, and related activities to facilitate student success.
In our presentation, we’ll begin with a brief overview of the BSC, telling the story of its founding. We’ll then discuss our project in detail; its design and implementation, including the project team and funding, the student interviewers, and the histories themselves. We’ll discuss the oral history documentation and its ties to student success: the learning outcomes of the student interviewers; the role the oral histories serve in telling the story of the BSC as a foundational space for Black student success; and how the project provides perspectives related to the Black experience at CSUSM. Next, we’ll discuss the digital aims of the project: an online exhibition of the oral histories which will scaffold into a digital collection containing the histories and a snapshot from our archives related to our campus Black experience. Finally, we’ll offer takeaways from the project and discuss refinements, with the aim of creating a sustainable ongoing oral history project documenting CSUSM’s campus and regional communities.
Lightning Talk 1: Making University Executive Memorandums (EM) available
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