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Item Animating Digital Libraries(2016-05-24) Williamson, James; Southern Methodist UniversityCultural heritage institutions and archival repositories are increasing their presence online with social media and are working to make a bigger impact online while making the best use of staff time. One of the ways that these institutions have been successful in reaching communities on social media has been through the adoption of internet communication and language. Significantly, more institutions are using frame animation to create GIFs (Graphic Interchange Format). GIFs created from movies, TV shows, artwork, etc. are ubiquitous on the internet. By taking physical and digital materials from their collections and manipulated them to create looping videos, animated artwork, and 3D models, institutions have found a way to adapt this internet currency to promote their archival holdings. This workshop will instruct participants on how to use image editing tools to create 3 types of GIFs used by cultural heritage institutions and archival repositories on the web. The instructor will lay out the underlying techniques that go into creating these GIFs step by step. The first part of the workshop will facilitate the use of several still images of an object to create a 3D like model. The second part of the workshop will help participants work with digitized video to create a looping video. The third part of the workshop will train participants to animate a piece of artwork. The workshop will conclude with a discussion on the issues surrounding the use of these techniques and how they can be addressed. The workshop will last 2 hours. Participants in the workshop will need to bring their own laptop along with a version of either Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. Both are available as a trial version for 30 days. To better facilitate hands on instruction, the number of participants will need to be capped at 25Item Conceptualizing and implementing a webinar series: lessons learned from the Mountain West Digital Library Webinar Series(2014-03-14) Cummings, Rebekah; University of UtahWebinars are a low-cost and efficient training model that allow librarians to disseminate valuable information, connect with colleagues, and build and expand their communities beyond geographic and institutional boundaries. Yet, while many information specialists attend webinars on a regular basis, the task of hosting a webinar series may seem like a daunting and opaque challenge, even for enthusiastic webinar participants. In this poster session, Rebekah Cummings, Outreach Librarian at the Mountain West Digital Library, will demystify the process of implementing a successful webinar series including content creation, recruiting guest speakers, software selection, promotion, hosting the webinar, and follow-up. This session will include practical advice on how to host a webinar or webinar series, the costs and benefits associated with hosting webinars, and lessons learned from the Mountain West Digital Library’s Webinar Series.Item Data Management Planning and Faculty Outreach - The Baylor Experience(2016-11-15) Peterson-Lugo, Billie; Chan-Park, Christina; Baylor UniversityItem 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 Integrating the Classroom and the Digitization Center: An Innovative Approach(2013-06-28) Ames, Eric; Baylor UniversityFollowing several successful years of building increasingly larger, highly impactful digital collections, the Baylor University Digital Projects Group chose the Spring 2013 semester to take the next step in its development by creating a new graduate level course for the Department of Museum Studies called Technology and Outreach in Museums. Taught by Eric Ames, Curator of Digital Collections and a lecturer in the department, the course is an innovative approach to integrating classroom lectures and philosophical exploration of the topic with hands-on, intensive training on current digitization and outreach methods using the resources of the Electronic Library’s Riley Digitization Center. The purpose of the course is to give graduate students the opportunity to select materials from non-digitized archival collections; curate the materials for inclusion in a digital exhibit/collection; digitize the materials using the scanning equipment of the Riley Center; create a digital exhibit; and formulate a marketing plan to promote the exhibit to scholars, faculty and the general public. This presentation will focus on the development, proceedings and lessons learned over the course of the semester. Ames will also present tips for institutions interested in following a similar path, including how to manage the interests and skill levels of 15 graduate students in a working digitization center, challenges to implementing technological solutions and students’ perspectives on the course. If possible, a graduate student from the course will be invited to attend and lend his/her perspective on the course.Item Integrating the Classroom and the Digitization Center: An Innovative Approach(2013-03-21) Ames, Eric; Baylor UniversityFollowing several successful years of building increasingly larger, highly impactful digital collections, the Baylor University Digital Projects Group chose the Spring 2013 semester to take the next step in its development by creating a new graduate level course for the Department of Museum Studies called Technology and Outreach in Museums. Taught by Eric Ames, Curator of Digital Collections and a lecturer in the department, the course is an innovative approach to integrating classroom lectures and philosophical exploration of the topic with hands-on, intensive training on current digitization and outreach methods using the resources of the Electronic Library’s Riley Digitization Center. The purpose of the course is to give graduate students the opportunity to select materials from non-digitized archival collections; curate the materials for inclusion in a digital exhibit/collection; digitize the materials using the scanning equipment of the Riley Center; create a digital exhibit; and formulate a marketing plan to promote the exhibit to scholars, faculty and the general public. This presentation will focus on the development, proceedings and lessons learned over the course of the semester. Ames will also present tips for institutions interested in following a similar path, including how to manage the interests and skill levels of 15 graduate students in a working digitization center, challenges to implementing technological solutions and students’ perspectives on the course. If possible, a graduate student from the course will be invited to attend and lend his/her perspective on the course.Item Outreach Beyond the Basics: Finding Innovative Ways to Connect Users to Digital Collections Assets(2017-05-25) Ames, Eric; Baylor UniversityCreating engaging digital collections goes beyond robust metadata and user-friendly interfaces. Connecting our collections to user groups means finding new ways to make the raw data relevant in unexpected ways. This session will explore ways the Baylor University Digital Projects Group has created programming, outreach opportunities and graduate-level courses based on its Digital Collections. Attendees will learn the process for creating public events (a concert and an art exhibit), a multi-disciplinary collaboration (a Civil War game/app for middle school students) and a graduate course on digitization and archival technology. Curator of Digital Collections Eric S. Ames has been at the center of planning and executing each of these projects and will share tips and strategies for mining existing digital assets for unique outreach opportunities.Item Session 1D | BOAF: Open Educational Resources (OER) Outreach(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-24) Zerangue, Amanda; Fairweather-Leitch, Taylor; Louis, Lisa; Morrison, Ashley; Ivie, Dee AnnDespite the limitations placed upon outreach and programming due to the pandemic, libraries engaged in institutional-level outreach in support of OER, with success stories varying from grant workshops, faculty course redesign stipends, OER training in the context of the pandemic, and department-specific programming. In this Birds of a Feather, representatives from institutions across Texas will each briefly one successful OER outreach activity. We hope to hear from other institutions regarding their OER activities and discuss ideas for cross-institutional collaboration.Item Session 2B | Campus Partnerships for Research Data(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-25) Boehm, Reid; McEniry, Matthew; Morganti, Dianna; Trelogan, Jessica; Watts, JohnChat with fellow library professionals about the successes and lessons learned in developing cross-campus partnerships around Research Data. Whether you've succeeding in expanding services with your Office of Research or failed at pitching a partnership to your Grad College, we want to learn from each other. Share your stories and hear others' in this free-form birds of a feather discussion.Item The Sweet Smell (and Taste) of Success: Incentivizing ORCID iD Sign-Ups Among Faculty and Graduate Students(2015-04-28) Chan-Park, Christina; Peterson-Lugo, Billie; Baylor UniversityORCID identifiers (ORCID iDs) are a persistent unique identifier for researchers and scholars and enable the automation of links to research objects such as publications, grants, presentations, data, patents and more -- a DOI for researchers and scholars. ORCID iDs also help research offices oversee the research activities of campus scholars. However, in order to reap the benefits of having a unique identifier, most scholars must sign up individually for a free ORCID iD. As ORCID iDs become the de rigueur id, institutions have an increased need for a record of their researchers’ ORCID iDs, and many who have the resources have joined as institutional members which allows them both to assign ORCID iDs and to mine information from the ORCID registry. For example, in 2014 personnel at the Texas A&M libraries implemented a system, using the Vireo electronic theses and dissertations software, to mint ORCID iDs for more than 10,000 graduate students. They also assign ORCID iDs to any faculty who request one. (http://tinyurl.com/mdbr8x5) The Baylor University Libraries do not have the resources to take on the assignment of ORCID iDs at this level. However, we know Baylor researchers are encountering the need to establish ORCID iDs when they submit articles for publication or apply for grants. We also see value in new researchers (graduate students) establishing ORCID iDs early in their research careers. Consequently, personnel in the Baylor University Libraries developed a cost-effective, low-tech ORCID iD campaign with input from ORCID. The campaign had two projected outcomes: * Raise awareness of ORCID iDs and their benefits with Baylor faculty and graduate students; and * Have at least 300 Baylor faculty or graduate students (10% of the research population) establish their ORCID iDs. We believe that the concepts and processes we used for our ORCID campaign can be transferred to other institutions that face comparable resource challenges. This 24x7 presentation will cover the processes (and incentives) we used during our Spring 2015 campaign to entice faculty and graduate students to obtain ORCID iDs and to help them add content to their ORCID accounts. In addition, we will analyze the perceived success of the campaign and discuss our plans and ideas to keep the momentum going.Item The Texas A&M University Libraries Bridge Group: First Year Report(2008-06-09) Goodwin, Susan; Weimer, Kathy; Koenig, Jay; Furubotton, Lisa; Jaros, Joe; McGeachin, Robert; Tucker, Sandy; Texas A&M UniversityThe Texas A&M University Libraries Bridge Group was formed in 2007 and charged to "support the developing infrastructure of the Texas A&M University's and TDL's Repositories" by increasing the awareness among library staff of the Texas A&M institutional repository and other Texas Digital Library services, and to promote, facilitate, and support their use by the academic community at Texas A&M. The group consists of faculty librarians from a diverse set of backgrounds and functional areas within the library. As background, the Libraries communication approach is decentralized, which relies on each subject librarian, in their role as liaison, to communicate services to their assigned departmental areas. This concept extends to the communication of the concepts of open access, scholarly communication, repositories and TDL services, so it is imperative that all librarians have a certain level of understanding of the issues. This report will chronicle the building of the group's two-part strategy; first, to educate themselves on the issues of repositories and scholarly communication and secondly, creating a plan for and conducting library wide educational initiatives. Further, the report will include an overview of the ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication, which was attended by two of the group's members in December 2007, and the impact of that conference on the direction and focus of the group.Item “This is totally going on our blog.” Using WordPress and Edublogs to Enhance Access to Digital Collections(2013-03-26) Ames, Eric; Baylor UniversityFrom its first post on November 9, 2011 to the present, the Baylor University Libraries Digital Collections Blog has been access 10,630 times by users around the world. Increasingly, the blog serves as a major entry point into the collection, with users’ Google searches leading them to its posts detailing everything from in-depth looks at a particular digital collection to professional musings and analysis of the processes behind the creation of digital collections. This poster presentation will provide an in-depth look at how the Digital Projects Group uses the blog to achieve a number of goals, such as: Providing context for collections Establishing a resource for small museums and archives to receive information on digitization trends and processes Presenting unique stories and items from the Baylor University Libraries Digital Collections Serving as a central clearinghouse for information related to the DPG The poster presentation will be of interest to institutions that are considering starting a blog in conjunction with their digital collections; institutions that are currently using a blog but are looking for new ways to utilize them; and anyone interested in how to mine existing digital collections for stories to present via a blog.Item Train to Share: Statewide Interoperability Training for Cultural Heritage Institutions(2009-05-28) Plumer, Danielle; Frizzell, Karen; Texas State Library and Archives CommissionIn 2008, the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, working with the University of North Texas Libraries, Amigos Library Services, and a variety of additional partners and participants, was awarded an IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Grant to develop “Train to Share: Interoperability Training for Cultural Heritage Institutions,” a project of the Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative (THDI). In this three-year project, we will address the need, identified nationally but equally evident at the local level, for quality sharable metadata, metadata produced within specific traditions of practice that can nonetheless be shared to create rich experiences for both today’s user and the user of tomorrow. Through activities including outreach, observation, education, and production, the “Train to Share” project will assist metadata specialists in envisioning, developing, and sustaining digital products that can be combined seamlessly to provide a rich experience for the ultimate audience of the project, the end user community consisting of students, teachers, and researchers interested in Texas history and heritage. In this presentation, we will review our project goals and objectives, introduce the ten participant teams that will be involved in the training, and invite feedback from conference attendees to assist us as we develop our training workshops and supplemental materials. The “Train to Share” project activities will include three phases. In the first phase, outreach and observation, we will work with separate communities of practice from libraries, archives, museums, government agencies, and other cultural heritage institutions. Our goal will be to identify training needs and to establish the depth of resources, skills, and knowledge already available. In the second phase, education, trainers from TSLAC and Amigos Library Services will adapt the “Digital Library Environment” workshop series from the Library of Congress to incorporate the needs and traditions of the separate communities of practice. Participant teams and other interested individuals will be trained using the adapted workshop series, which will require a minimum of five two-day workshops offered at locations across the state, plus two additional online-only offerings. In the final phase, production and evaluation, our participant teams will put what they have learned into practice through the development of a total of ten digital products. The three-phase structure of the project is designed to provide maximum support to learners as they acquire new skills and develop trust in the partnerships that will be fostered as a consequence of this project. The intended outcomes of the “Train to Share” project will be significant increases in knowledge by and among participating metadata specialists, as measured by improved metadata quality and consistency; improved access to the rare and unique materials held by cultural heritage institutions, as measured by the number and type of objects available from project participants at the end of the project; and new and sustainable partnerships vital to the ongoing development of digital projects across the state.Item Zine Party! Collaborating across UT Libraries to Experiment with Methods, Workflows & Tools, Build Awareness of a Collection, and Teach Metadata Literacy(2015-04-28) Hecker, Jennifer; Pad, Rebecca; Choate, Aaron; Cofield, Melanie; Schwartz, Laura; Marchock, Ann; University of Texas at AustinRecent donations of two large collections of zines* to UT’s Fine Arts Library have highlighted the need to improve access to the zines and, at the same time, staff across the Libraries have become more and more interested in exploring new ways to think about describing resources, crowdsourcing, metadata literacy, community engagement, software development, and gamification. Identifying an opportunity to build awareness of the zine collection, and deepen student and community engagement with the Libraries, we created an event that would allow us to explore these topics, while also doing some PR for the zine collection. The resulting Zine Party! event kicked off with an overview of the world of zines, zine collections and zine librarianship around the country, and a primer on how UT Libraries catalogs zines, then introduced attendees to the xZINECOREx metadata schema and invited them to input catalog metadata using a gamified interface we adapted for local use. The diverse goals of the various collaborators came together in this event: the event provided an opportunity to ask questions related to public relations, community outreach and engagement, the Libraries’ desire to increase engagement with community software development models, and the incorporation of crowdsourcing into some of our metadata workflows. The profession as a whole has been abuzz with talk of educating the public about what we do as a path to building greater support for the missions of libraries, archives and museums, and we hope we have made a dent in this larger goal as well. Our panel will include representatives from each of the involved departments who will share their work on the project, and discuss their motivations and takeaways. *magazines made for love, not money