...
Presenters: Dr. Lissa Ramirez-Stapleton, Elizabeth Altman, and Steve Kutay, and Nicole Shibata from Northridge
Description: Led by Dr. Lissa Ramirez-Stapleton of CSUN’s Deaf Studies program, the Black Deaf Life in California project aims to preserve and expand access to stories and educational material about the Black Deaf experience. In 2021, the project received funding from a CSUN Diversity and Equity Innovation grant to conduct 15 oral (ASL) histories of Black Deaf CSUN alumni and Californians and design a complimentary digital exhibit and database hosted on the CSUN Library website. This panel will discuss techniques and reflect on lessons learned from the project team, with a particular focus on conducting and making ASL oral histories available through digital library platforms while maintaining accessibility standards, and working effectively with collaborators outside the library. The panel will include Dr. Lissa Ramirez-Stapleton (PI) ; and library collaborators, Nicole Shibata (Metadata Librarian), Elizabeth Altman (Web Services Coordinator), and Steve Kutay (Digital Services Librarian); and possibly a Deaf Studies student who worked on the project (depending on their availability).
Presentation 7: Measure Twice, Scan Once: Getting It Right the First Time with Still Image Digitization Standards
...
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: "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
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
...