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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:
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"We need it for us by us." Documenting the advocacy and creation of the Black Student Center at California State University San Marcos
Presenters: Sean Visintainer, Ian Chan, and Jennifer Ho from CSUSM
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