2024 Digital Repositories Meeting (Online)
- Carmen Mitchell
- David Walker
Our annual meeting is an opportunity to showcase the great work being done on individual campuses as well as system-wide to further various digital repositories, digital archives, digital publishing, and scholarly communication objectives. We take a very broad view of each of these areas and welcome proposals that encompass non-traditional approaches. The 2024 meeting is streaming over Zoom. Recordings will be available soon after the meeting ends.
Date | June 18, 2024 |
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Time | 9:30 am - 4:30 pm |
Lead | @Carmen Mitchell @David Walker |
Registration | Registration is now closed. |
Agenda
Time | Presenter | Title | Description |
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9:30 | @Carmen Mitchell | Welcome | Information for meeting attendees, the CSUSM land acknowledgement, and grounding in. Additional meeting monitors: Nicole Shibata and Erik Beck. |
9:40-10:00 | @David Walker |
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10:00 - 10:30 | Kyle Morgan | In 2016, the first two students joined the Press at Cal Poly Humboldt and so started an experiment in student-based full-service publishing. Scholarly Communications and Digital Scholarship Librarian Kyle Morgan will talk about how the Press added and integrated students into workflows, developed students’ skills, and expanded services to the campus and community. The presentation will also frankly share the drawbacks of relying on students in a paraprofessional manner as well as cover the many benefits of student-based operations, some unanticipated. This presentation should be applicable to anyone who has wondered if press services (journal hosting, book publishing, etc.) could be extended to their campus on the efforts of student labor, but also to anyone managing student employees with an eye towards developing their post-graduation preparedness. | |
10:30-11:00 | Amy Carpenter | Centralizing the Fine Print: Share your Paper’s Bulk Checker | Expanding access to research by uploading faculty works into Institutional Repositories is a vital step towards breaking barriers and expanding access to scholarship. Faculty at our institutions create and curate this research, and it should be available to our communities. However, actually uploading faculty works can feel like a never ending litany of questions. Is the Journal Open Access? Does the publisher allow the final PDF to be uploaded or only an Accepted Manuscript? Is there a required deposit statement? What about a Creative Commons License or an Embargo? At CSUSM we have been utilizing Share your Paper’s Bulk Checker for Libraries as part of our workflow for Faculty works to assist in identifying and centralizing necessary information regarding access and permissions. Amy Carpenter will showcase this tool, explaining how it is integral to our workflow and illustrating how other libraries and campuses might benefit from this resource.
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11:00-11:15 |
| Stretch break! |
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11:15 | Jennifer Beamer | In November 2023, the US Repository Network (USRN), a project of SPARC and COAR, launched a pilot project involving 20 repositories. This one-year initiative aims to improve the discoverability of articles in repositories. The pilot members represent various institutions, software types, and repository models. Jennifer Beamer, Scholarly Communication Librarian at CSUSB, is one of the pilot members. She will briefly discuss the goals of the USRN and her role in the pilot. The USRN has identified three main areas for action that will affect our CSU repositories. We must adopt tools and practices to prepare for the OSTP Memorandum mandating free, immediate, and equitable access to federally funded research and compliance in the short term. In the medium and long term, we can develop a network governance model and build community and external relationships. | |
11:30-12:30 |
| LUNCH | The Zoom room will be open for folks who might want to socialize or eat lunch together. |
12:30-1 | Pam Kruger, JoAna Brooks, Chris Painter | Getting graduate students to the finish line through campus collaborations | The collaboration between the Meriam Library ScholarWorks team and Office of Graduate Studies led to improving and streamlining the graduate student master’s thesis and project experience, empowering students to understand and engage with the digital aspects of their scholarly work and fostering a deeper sense of ownership and connection. The team assessed existing workflows, programs, and resources by adopting a student-centric approach. Employing a backward-design methodology ensured alignment with student needs and supported collaboration while eliminating technical and structural obstacles. The team will share initiatives such as the Grad Café, aimed at bolstering student success, and the implementation of transparent workflows to enhance responsiveness to student requirements. Additionally, the creation of digital life/formatting workshops, resources that enhanced digital accessibility, including a Universal Design for Learning-based formatting guide as part of a website revision, and user-friendly templates. |
1:00-2:00 | Dr. Sidorkin | Plenary speaker | Dr. Alexander "Sasha" Sidorkin is the Chief AI Officer at Sacramento State University and the founding Director of the National Institute on AI in Society. He is the author of Embracing Chatbots in Higher Education: The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Teaching, Administration, and Scholarship, Routledge, 2024. Dr. Sidorkin has a blog on AI in Society and is leading a professional learning community on designing writing assignments with the use of AI.
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2:00 | Michaela Keating | This lightning talk will describe the a project undertaken at our campus to move an extensive collection of materials from the open source archive, Zenodo into ScholarWorks. To complete this task, I worked with our library systems specialist to create a code that helps to automate this system. This will allow for more efficient uploads going forward. | |
2:10-2:30 |
| Stretch break! |
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2:30 | Kate Pham Daisy Muralles Trix Welch | From Outreach to Collaboration: Library Ambassadors Partnering for Inclusive Resources | Cal State East Bay's Library Student Ambassadors empower students! This program consists of undergraduate students who lead in the creation and promotion of library resources. In this talk, the Library Ambassador team will share their recent collaborations with student and campus partners to create resources that are representative of student voice and lived experience, such as digital exhibitions like the Muwekma Ohlone Walkway, Building Community: PASA (Pilipinx American Student Association) 1972-2023, and Queers East Bay: Student Exhibition. Join us to see how students are leading the way in creating inclusive resources that reflect their interests and perspectives! |
2:40 |
| The CSU Open Journals program: An overview This presentation will NOT be recorded. | Since 2018, the CSUDH Digital Initiatives Librarian Dana has been active in establishing and supporting a centralized open journals publishing program for the CSU. The CSU Open Journals program uses the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform, an open source journal management system available for all faculty and students in the CSU to establish, manage, and publish academic journals. This presentation will introduce the program, demonstrate the features and functionality of OJS, share documentation created for journal editors, and outline the support the CSU Chancellor’s Office can offer libraries who currently do not have the capacity to support library publishing services.
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3:10 | Tanya Hollis | | Presentation on an ongoing collaboration to create Canvas modules to support primary source instruction on labor-related themes by Tanya Hollis, Interim Director of the Labor Archives and Research Center at San Francisco State University, and Michelle Morton, Instruction Librarian at Cabrillo College Library. The session, presented by Hollis, will include: a brief walk through of various modules, including two modules on the Watsonville Canneries Strike, a general educational module about unions and how they are formed, and other in-process modules on labor-related topics; an overview of the process and workflow of creating the modules and incorporating input from instructional faculty; and using Canvas Free-for-Teacher to facilitate collaborations across institutions. |
3:40 | Erik Beck | In this talk I will pick out the choicest bits from the PMBOK Guide on project management that are most relevant to how we work in libraries. We will discuss common faults with the way academic libraries conduct projects and look to the project management discipline to identify better practices. Presentation slides. | |
4:10 | @Carmen Mitchell | Meeting wrap up |
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4:30 |
| Adjourned! |
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