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Item How many graduate degrees does it take to figure out if it’s Open Access?(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-18) Winkler, Heidi; Henry, Cynthia; Hight, AlexaDespite the Open Access (OA) movement’s progress over the past few decades, publishing costs, faculty understanding, and the nuances of Open Access can cause challenges. In this presentation, we will discuss some of the more persistent challenges of Open Access issues including: faculty understanding of OA, the publishing system related to tenure and the ever-increasing cost of gold OA, and the nuances of OA publishing such as gold vs. green, embargos, versions of the published document, etc. We welcome attendees to share their challenges as well!Item OpenTheatreSource.com: an open community among graduate students to promote innovation In theatre technology(2010-05) Tolin, David Joseph; Glavan, James; Cloyes, Rusty; Habeck, Michelle M.Collaboration is at the foundation of modern theatre practices. All of the individuals involved in a production share their contributions with their immediate colleagues for the benefit of the production. Reoccurring or very similar technical challenges often arise in productions no matter where they are produced. Sharing the creative solutions to these problems among graduate technical theatre students will benefit the theatre industry by increasing the possibility for innovation. An information-sharing infrastructure should be developed in a way that will ease the burden for the individuals who wish to share their innovations with the broader community, while including a way to receive acknowledgment for their contributions. This paper looks to the theories of Eric Von Hippel on “innovation communities” and the ideas and motivations for “free revealing”. The theories are related to the specific characteristics and needs of the community of Master of Fine Arts graduate students in theatre technology programs. Six techniques currently used for the sharing of information will be analyzed for their benefits and limitations. Topics such as open source software development, the principles of the organization Public Library of Sciences, and the practice of creating online instructional videos are all explored for successful techniques that can be applied to technical theatre innovation sharing. In addition, the protection of authorship will be discussed including: a broad history of copyright law in America, the cultural property theories of Lawrence Lessig, and the Creative Commons. I plan to compile all of the necessary information to lay the foundation for the development of a new approach to sharing information in theatre technology. Open Theatre Source will be the name for the proposed infrastructure. It will provide an online meeting place among the potential innovators in MFA programs. The infrastructure will employ new sharing techniques and will use innovative technologies to the community. The primary objective of Open Theatre Source will be to facilitate a dialogue among individuals who are studying within the many different programs. The dialogue will transcend institutional boundaries, which will benefit and improve the entire community of academic institutions. Open Theatre Source will create a valuable case study for future research in open sharing infrastructures for theatre technology. Through its successes or failures, the information gathered could then be applied to other areas of the theatre community, including the professional industry.Item Session 3A | If you want something done right, do it yourself: Do Graduate Assistants (GAs) help or hinder in Institutional Repository (IR) projects?(2022-05-25) Hight, AlexaIn this show and fail, Alexa Hight will discuss the various projects for the Institutional Repository (IR) at TAMU-CC where either one or multiple Graduate Assistants (GAs) were enlisted. In the almost two years since the pandemic began, GAs have been tasked to help with IR projects during library closures, downtimes (such as summer), and a GA specific to help on Scholarly Communication projects was hired. In this time, I have somewhat learned how to manage a GA, I’m learning how to be a manager, I’m learning how to teach not only how to use DSpace, but also teaching the complexities and nuances of open access and what versions of works can be added to the IR, as well as what copyright or Creative Commons license we can apply. My experiences can help others new to managing an IR, as well as managing people (or trying to). I’ve also learned how to come up with metadata and other projects with short notice. I’m still learning how to balance supervision and quality control with my other responsibilities, as well as how to mentor and empower the GAs to be better employees and humans.Item What is Digital Librarianship? An Interview with Daniel Alemneh(Texas Digital Library, 2021-11-29) Santiago, Chloe; Coleman, Misha; Gunnells, AliItem What is Digital Librarianship? An Interview with Gabby Hernandez(Texas Digital Library, 2021-11-29) Santiago, Chloe; Gunnells, Ali; Coleman, Misha