http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/uclf2021_presentations/rss Recent eScholarship items from Presentations Fri, 15 May 2026 08:03:43 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0xb8s204 UCI Digital Scholarship Services and Cataloging &amp; Metadata Services have been collaborating on a demonstration project to examine the possibilities of using bibliographic metadata in digital humanities research. his presentation provides an overview of our goals and workflows, and questions about how our system-wide bibliographic data may or may not be useful to researchers beyond record discovery, especially in the context of the Systemwide ILS Project (SILS). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0xb8s204 Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Kane, Danielle Dickerson, Madelynn https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9z05411q I will present information about the University of California, Santa Cruz’s Becoming Better Allies Group that I launched in 2020. Library staff who are interested meet on Zoom to collaborate on allyship for the BIPOC and LGBTQ population. This is an independent group that meets biweekly. We share, explore, and discuss various articles, books, and videos that call attention to marginalized communities and steps to make changes within ourselves and our communities and institutions. I will discuss the importance of creating a Statement of Intention (with examples) for folx who wish to start their own anti-racist library group. We will also look at how creating a bibliographic website helped us track and choose the anti-racism issues we wanted to work on. In addition, participants of this lightning talk will be able to access my slides and extra resources including our website: Becoming Better Allies: Committed to Equity in University Libraries. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9z05411q Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 McMullen, Wendy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9rx715k3 Through the COVID-19 Community Response Oral History Project, UC Berkeley's Oral History Center (OHC) is documenting the regional response to the global pandemic, and evaluating its effectiveness as it relates to public health, health equity, community, and politics. OHC interviewers Shanna Farrell and Amanda Tewes will discuss the importance of establishing partnerships on and off UC campuses, cultural competency when approaching narrators in BIPOC and immigrant communities, documenting the effectiveness of the regional response to COVID-19, and increasing community engagement with the OHC's collections. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9rx715k3 Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Tewes, Amanda Farrell, Shanna https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8td6x8sb The collaborative effort between the UC San Diego Library and the UC Santa Barbara Library (called Project Surfliner, after the train that connects the two cities) to share development teams that work on common strategic products is still going strong after almost three years. In this panel, we will chat with the two campus project leads, as well as some of the product owners to discuss working within this model. Find out what’s changed after sharing resources and product development goals over the last year. What needs more work, where are we finding our strengths, and how haven’t we run out of train puns yet? If you’re looking to learn how to collaborate with another UC, this is the session for you. Panelists: Matt Critchlow, UC San Diego Alexandra Dunn, UC Santa Barbara Jessica Hilt, UC San Diego Tim Marconi, UC San Diego Chrissy Rissmeyer, UC Santa Barbara Amy Work, UC San Diego https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8td6x8sb Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Hilt, Jessica Rissmeyer, Chrissy Marconi, Tim Brittnacher, Tom https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8s76869q <p>Between the Fall of 2018, and the winter of 2020, the Direction and Oversight Committee (DOC) charged the Digital Preservation Strategy Working Group (DPS WG), consisting of representatives from a majority of the UC campuses, with tasks outlined across multiple phases representing approximately 12 months of work. The initial charge for Phase 1 was to develop a practical, shared vision of digital preservation for library content and outline a roadmap to guide the UC Libraries in advancing that shared vision. The first DPS WG report observed that:</p><p>For the majority of UC libraries, there is no dedicated digital preservation unit or staff There is a lack of resources for digital preservation at most campuses There is a need for defined digital preservation policies, workflows, guidance, training, and collaboration.</p><p>In 2019, the Digital Preservation Strategy Working Group (DPS WG) focused Phase Two activities on identifying the steps needed to build a community of practice... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8s76869q Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Schaefer, Sibyl Peltzman, Shira https://escholarship.org/uc/item/83v0x3m7 <p>Officially launched November 1, 2019, Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) is an international, multi-institutional, 3-year project that intends to transform Open Access (OA) monograph publishing by delivering significant improvements to the infrastructures used by publishers, and by developing the best practices for transitioning nonprofit, academic, independent and scholar-led publishers to OA. Funded for £3.5 million by Research England and the Arcadia Fund, the project has been designed to enable smaller non-profit publishers in the Humanities and Social Science to publish OA books and get them into the existing distribution channels and library systems.</p><p>Towards that goal, COPIM pilots a range of interventions, from developing open, transparent, sustainable, and community-governed infrastructures for the curation, dissemination, discovery, and long-term preservation of open content and open data, to following the best practices for... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/83v0x3m7 Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Uziel, Lidia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7tq6z920 <p>This presentation will share how members of the UC San Diego Library Special Collections &amp; Archives staff responded to California’s sudden work from home order due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including remote project development, management tools, and collaborator involvement. Presenters will provide a brief timeline of events leading up to the work from home order, the development of a list of remote projects, and the assignment of priorities and responsibilities. They will describe examples of these projects and discuss how they progressed from ideation to execution, including workflow development and management tools. They will also examine the opportunities and obstacles of rapid project development, as well as training and managing the work of staff and student employees from other library units who volunteered to assist in archives-related tasks.</p><p>Presenters will further discuss reopening, highlighting the need for flexibility and acknowledging seemingly competing... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7tq6z920 Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Maches, Tori Christensen, Marlayna Sullivan, Kiera https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7h5801c0 <p>Blockeley University is the collaborative effort of hundreds of students who in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, sustained their community by building the UC Berkeley campus in Minecraft, a sandbox video game. Their extraordinary effort is being preserved by The Bancroft Library. This presentation will discuss the selection of the collection and the challenges and opportunities in preserving this unique project.</p><p>The Blockeley effort was recognized by the Chancellor’s Office and a virtual commencement ceremony was conducted in the Blockeley University Minecraft server. Other universities have built their campuses in Minecraft before but what was extraordinary about this build was that it was an innovative effort to specifically keep the UC Berkeley community together during the shelter-in-place period. The Bancroft Library felt this was an effort worth preserving.</p><p>In this presentation, Kathryn M. Neal, The Bancroft Library’s Associate University Archivist, will... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7h5801c0 Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Neil, Kathryn M. Velazquez Fidler, Christina https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7cb0z5nc <p>Aggie Experts is a joint partnership between the Office of the Provost and the UC Davis Library. whose purpose is to create a central registry of UC Davis faculty, researchers, experts and creators and showcase the scholarship created at the university. The use cases for the project include expertise discovery for collaborations and reducing administrative workload by replacing manual data entry.</p><p>The project has brought us in contact with multiple offices on campus, jump-starting partnerships with programs that want to showcase the work of their affiliates, and has the potential to continue expanding as we build out functionalities for data reuse. We are applying the principles of FAIR to public institutional data. Using the VIVO platform as inspiration, and a source for a schema of scholarly outputs, we have developed an innovative digital platform to showcase and navigate an aggregation of existing authoritative sources of information, including UCPath for names, titles... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7cb0z5nc Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Hart, Quinn C Ensberg, Vessela https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7162b53j Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committees do not have to be another box to check for diversity’s sake. In this presentation we will be looking at a case study of the UC Riverside Library’s Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. In this presentation, we will look at how the committee’s own best practices evolved from its inception in 2017 and how collaboration became valuable during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7162b53j Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Aguilera, Raul https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6zt2h9tm New attention to the power of data in research has brought new kinds of data questions to the university research library. This study seeks to understand the character of research data questions in order to help research libraries develop the structures, technologies, collections, and professional skills needed to meet the needs of the research communities. It employs two original metrics to analyzes 42 cases: The Data Question Typology, which allows for the organization of data questions into categories based on researcher objectives, and the Modified READ Scale for Data Questions (MRSD), which is used to record the magnitude of difficulty presented by each case. It finds that data questions differ significantly across academic fields and that successful research assistance often requires partnerships between subject specialists librarians and technological or computational experts. It concludes with a recommendation on how research libraries can facilitate a collaborative process... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6zt2h9tm Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Michalski, David https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63g651jh In 2018, UC Davis launched digital.ucdavis.edu, our Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) for library special collections. The UC Davis Digital Collections is a locally developed digital repository designed to store and manage the digital assets of UC Davis. These Digital Collections are intended to increase access to previously undiscoverable digital assets held by the University Library. The DAMS is built on the Fedora Linked Data Platform and extended with services to provide; a Client UI, IIIF viewing, indexing and synchronization. The new Fedora 6 platform, with its underlying Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL) based storage, in encouraging us to rethink some of the overall design of our system, in particular to better support archival processes and object sharing. In this talk we review the overall architecture of the DAMS and describe how we might leverage Fedora 6 and OCFL to simplify and standardize our digital archives. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63g651jh Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Hart, Quinn Hescock, Kimmy Merz, Justin Miller, Kevin Nebeker, Eric https://escholarship.org/uc/item/60f7q0rs As COVID-19 upended our activities as librarians in unprecedented and unexpected ways, the LAUC-B conference committee was faced with the prospect of organizing a successful bi-annual virtual conference. The use of virtual technologies in conference planning during public health-mandated work from off-campus remains minimally documented. Several studies, such as Romano (2020); and Peters and Dickinson (2020), focus on in-person conference planning workflow, but none address the processes of organizing a virtual scenario. The organizing committee, led by Corliss Lee and Shannon Kealey, formed a distinct subcommittee, composed of Kristina Bush, Natalie Marquez, and Liladhar Pendse, to investigate virtual platforms. In this presentation, Natalie and Liladhar will narrate the story of the subcommittee’s work in choosing a virtual platform that would simulate and embody normal and important in-person conference activities and experiences. To establish a baseline, the subcommittee scanned... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/60f7q0rs Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Marquez, Natalie Pendse, Liladhar https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4wt6721v In 2019 The ALA Racial Equity Task Force was formed and charged with developing a framework for libraries to implement. As part of this goal, a wide-reaching survey was designed and analyzed by a small research team in 2020. The goal of the study was to assess public and academic libraries racial equity efforts, employees’ perception of those efforts as well as their experiences with racial equity and inequity within their library. Utilizing an online survey, the data was used to identify areas of improvement in regard to racial equity efforts in public and academic libraries and seeks to answer the question: How are libraries moving towards transformation and justice in regard to racial equity? While the overwhelming majority of the 717 participants believe their institutions have a responsibility to address racial equity, the data also reveals that our practices are not aligned with our values. In this session, Caragher and Bryant will discuss the disaggregated results of the... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4wt6721v Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Bryant, Tatiana Caragher, Kristyn https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4t12t34b <p>The UC Common Knowledge Groups (CKGs) provide an inclusive environment for sharing knowledge and information across the campuses that enrich communication among library staffs, expand resources and benefit library users in equitable ways. Reinforced by the structure of the California Digital Library (CDL), and in the spirit of all things related to equity, diversity and inclusivity (EDI), the intention is to foster innovation and continuous improvement by providing an open venue to exchange ideas and collaborate on systemwide initiatives.</p><p>The UC system currently has about 20 subject-based CKGs; these are the focus of this presentation. Subject-based CKGs contribute to UC acquisitions, licensing, processing, staff training, utilization of new and emerging technologies and implementation of new services that benefit and advance the University of California in fundamental ways. Subject CKGs also advise and give feedback on UC initiatives (e.g. shared print, the eScholarship... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4t12t34b Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Gelfand, Julia Craig, Cory Potter, Michelle https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4bj1x0hw <p>This presentation shares the work at the UC Davis Library, Research and Learning Directorate to revamp our process for collecting research consultation metrics - to give us better insight into who our users are, and how they engage with our consultation services.</p><p>We will share how we renovated our research consult metrics gathering process, including 1) identifying shortcomings of our previous processes, 2) gaining institutional buy-in to revamp the process, 3) forming a representative team and inclusive feedback process, 4) determining which metrics to gather, 5) working with IT to assemble a technological stack for data input, tiered data access and visualization, and 6) workforce training and rollout.</p><p>We will also share the results of our informal survey of how research consult metrics are collected and used across the UC Libraries - including whether UC Libraries: 1) use a centrally organized or standardized process for collecting research consult metrics 2)... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4bj1x0hw Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Kiyoi, Stephen Ladisch, Michael https://escholarship.org/uc/item/33p2j4r9 This presentation provides an overview of the work done by a cross-unit team at UC Merced to document and preserve the campus's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the campus was forced to abruptly shift its operational activities, a working group composed of librarians and records managers developed strategies to track, archive, and provide access to the scores of materials that illustrate the collective decision making activities of the various working groups that were created to confront the effects of the pandemic. Jordan Thaw, Records Analyst in the Office of Legal Affairs, and Jerrold Shiroma, University Archivist and Librarian for Special Collections will discuss the inception and goals of this project, and the across-campus collaborations that the project initiated. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/33p2j4r9 Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Shiroma, Jerrold Thaw, Jordan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/32f730x4 <p>In response to the need for real-world implementations of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) data for Open Science, the FAIR Island Project offers an established, working field station as a controlled environment to experiment implementing FAIR data policies and workflows. Through a UC-focused, community-oriented, open approach, the FAIR Island Project explores, develops, and showcases generalized place-based tools and methods for FAIR data management. All researchers working on the Tetiaroa field station are required to create data management plans (DMPs) for their proposed projects to study the island, and said DMPs are updated as data collection advances.</p><p>The FAIR Island Project builds interoperability between pieces of critical research infrastructure -- Data Management Plans (DMPs), research practice, DOIs, and publications contributing to the advancement and adoption of Open Science. The California Digital Library (CDL)’s leading work on transforming... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/32f730x4 Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Praetzellis, Maria C Chodacki, John Chodacki Nancarrow, Catherine Riley, Brian Davies, Neil Robinson, Erin https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2wk6z9m4 In the spring of 2021, the UCSF Library organized an online 7-part workshop series on reproducibility for biomedical researchers. The series, offered in partnership with the UCSF Graduate Division, was the second iteration, having originally been taught in-person in the fall of 2019. The workshops were designed to translate reproducibility principles and best practices from societies, publishers, and funders into actionable steps and training that could be immediately implemented into research practice. Graduate students could also meet NIH Responsible Conduct of Research training requirements by participating in all seven workshops. When the COVID-19 pandemic forced us to move our teaching online, it presented an opportunity to rethink our approach to the series to emphasize collaboration at all levels. We formed a planning team of two UCSF librarians and one visiting (virtual) fellow from the UNMC McGoogan Health Sciences Library and met regularly to sketch out the workshop... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2wk6z9m4 Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Westmark, Danielle Deardorff, Ariel Taylor, Anneliese https://escholarship.org/uc/item/22j0g6n9 <p>ETAS Implementation, Impact, Implications</p><p>* Implementing&nbsp;and Promoting ETAS for UC users (Sarah Lindsey UCSC)* Assessing ETAS use at UC * Contextualizing/characterizing use (Carla Arbagey UCR) * Learning from user's experiences, use cases (Chan LI UCB)Takeaways * Cross-system assessment (Rachel Hu CDL) * Expanding access to digitized print content (Renata Ewing CDL) * Q/A and facilitated discussion</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/22j0g6n9 Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Stine, Kathryn Arbagey, Carla Hu, Rachael Li, Chan Lindsey, Sarah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/109057fp <p>Academic librarians have increasingly gone public with their experiences of low morale and burnout, yet less attention has been paid to the workplace experiences of library staff. As Kaetrena Davis Kendrick notes in her work on the persistent harm of low morale among librarians, “the cost of silence can be high.”</p><p>We decided to examine that gap in the research. In exploring the landscape of library staff morale, we hypothesized that the nature of the academic library’s hierarchies, and staff roles within them, would be major factors in levels of morale. We also sought to investigate questions of organizational culture, opportunities for professional development, and management style.</p><p>Our research team, including library staff, former library staff, a recent MLS grad and MLIS student, and librarians, conducted 34 structured interviews with academic library staff nationwide (purposefully excluding UC staff). The interviews took place during a three-week period in May-June... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/109057fp Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Glusker, Ann Dyess, Bonita Emmelhainz, Celia Estrada, Natalia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0x51q3g9 A presentation on the migration of the University of California to a Systemwide Integrated Library Systems (SILS)&nbsp;in 2021. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0x51q3g9 Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 McAulay, Elizabeth https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0jt2r0wz This presentation will distill a book length study on this topic by the presenter that was published in 2020. The topic deals with library services for those with ID, a population whose case has large implications for the profession as a whole. ID is defined as a condition of intelligence quotient (IQ) of 70 or below together with significant difficulties in learning, communication, and self-care. Insofar as diversity, equity, and inclusion involve redressing disadvantages, no population is more deserving of attention than those with ID. However, they also represent almost insuperable challenges to serve. Notwithstanding technological change, the mission of libraries remains to provide textual information: reading. So how does one serve individuals who not only have limited or nonexistent reading skills but face large obstacles to acquiring those skills? Coupled with a lack of training in special education together with a pervasive strain imposed by reduced budgets, the difficulties... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0jt2r0wz Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Conner, Matthew https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8w83t2g6 <p>In Fall 2019, UC Irvine’s Special Collections &amp; Archives (SCA) technical services team moved to using Airtable (from Confluence) for tracking our current and pending archival accessioning and processing work. Airtable is a cloud-based spreadsheet-database hybrid service that enables easy collaboration between members of the SCA team through visually-pleasing and easily-manipulatable spreadsheets, forms, and kanban boards.</p><p>To develop our tables, we copied pertinent collection data from ArchivesSpace and Confluence into Airtable, and customized the tables using many of Airtable’s powerful “field types,” making the data easily filterable, sortable, and shareable with our team. We developed a “Pre-custodial” table, for curators and technical services staff to share information about upcoming or potential acquisitions, and created an “Accessions table,” to queue our work and be able to easily collect stats on work done and in progress. And we developed a shared table with... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8w83t2g6 Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Beiser, Jolene https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8jp9b8q0 <p>The Merritt Digital Preservation System consists of 8 microservices deployed to 23 production servers. Conceptually, the Merritt team is intrigued by the thought of redesigning the system to be deployed to production as a stack of Docker containers. At the present time, our team does not have plans or the expertise to deploy docker containers in production. We imagine that other library development teams are similarly intrigued by the concept of containerization but not yet committed to running containers in production.</p><p>The migration to a stack of containers is not an all-or-nothing proposition. The Merritt team has replaced a deprecated development server environment with a stack of docker containers, and we have already seen many benefits (expected and unexpected) from using containers in our software development processes.</p><p>The process of modifying our services in Docker for the purpose of enabling end-to-end automated testing has delivered significant benefits... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8jp9b8q0 Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Brady, Terry Lopatin, Eric Strong, Marisa https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8h3863tp What is Misinformation and where does it come from? How can librarians evolve their instruction to teach students to evaluate and verify sources of online information? What are others doing to combat Misinformation? How do we make all this information relatable and palatable for students, librarians, and instructors? These questions and more drove the project with the intention to provide students, librarians, and instructors with analytical tools to combat misinformation. The creation of the Misinformation research guide stemmed from patron inquiries. As information professionals, we tried to fully understand concepts surrounding misinformation in order to be able to pass the knowledge onto our university community. We picked through an information overload of misinformation resources that assisted in our understanding and is partially reflective of the authors’ research and learning that is ongoing. The guide collects initial concepts to jumpstart critical thinking and asks... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8h3863tp Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Marquez, Natalie Carpenter, Nicole https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8462d0dd This panel presents the work of UC Berkeley’s Oral History Center (OHC) of The Bancroft Library in building up multimedia materials and assignments for Grades 11 and 12, and for lower-division college courses in California classrooms. Berkeley’s OHC has been collaborating with the UC’s California History-Social Science Project to further develop and refine the online content we already have. Following a brief description of collaborations and our development efforts in this area, we hope to generate interest in new partnerships across the UC libraries. The questions we'll explore include: How can we use digital oral histories and other UC Library materials to create multimedia curriculum content and assignments for California high school classrooms and lower-division college courses? What has already been done? And how can we collaborate further with other partners across the UC Library system and beyond? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8462d0dd Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Eardley-Pryor, Roger Burnett, Paul Holmes, Todd Brooks, Shelley https://escholarship.org/uc/item/81c0n5gz <p>The means to accuratly digitize physical spaces and objects have become affordable and accessible, producing high resolution 3D models. This kind of data is increasingly common-place across disciplines but rarely shared in a way which preserves complexity or enables re-use. File sizes, arcane formats, and ever-shifting proprietary software dependencies present significant barriers to the use of 3D data outside of the creator’s own research silo.</p><p>The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) has provided a foundation on which we can view, share, and annotate images. These same capabilities can be extended to 3D data using the WebGL based Three.js viewer and powerful multiresolution asset loaders. Files are broken into component tiles, which can be streamed and embedded in custom interfaces living on external servers.</p><p>We present a system extending this model to 3D data and media, employing versatile multi-resolution web-viewers to present 3D data in an... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/81c0n5gz Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 McAvoy, Scott https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7gv0d5pv <p>This presentation will provide an overview of our work to date on the 2021 LAUC Research Grant project, “A review of publishing and sharing practices for machine learning objects for informing library curation practices.” We will cover the motivation behind this project, our research methods, and preliminary findings from our work.</p><p>Machine learning (ML) is a field of study that combines computer science and statistical techniques to achieve goals by “learning” iteratively through experience, and is becoming more common across a range of disciplines. Creating an ML research object is resource intensive, often requiring large amounts of training and test data and processing power. In addition, ML reproducibility depends on rigorous documentation but often falls short as a consequence of incomplete and/or poorly described components (e.g., training data, source code, algorithms), properties (parameters, methods, workflows, provenance), and computing environments (software... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7gv0d5pv Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Pennington, Abby Labou, Stephanie Yoo, Ho Jung Baluja, Michael https://escholarship.org/uc/item/75q805xd <p>As part of a Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) grant-funded project supported by the National Park Service, UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library is leading a project to digitize nearly 210,000 pages of War Relocation Authority (WRA) Form 26 individual records of Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII. During the war, the WRA used this two-page census-type document to collect a wide array of sociological, demographic, and biographical data about the incarcerated population. This data was coded to punch cards by the WRA and deposited at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the Bancroft Library at the end of the war. The Bancroft Library was involved in transferring the punch card data onto magnetic tape in the 1960s. The resulting data file was used in 1988 to award reparations to Japanese Americans before being transferred to the National Archives, where it is now available online as the Japanese American Internee Data File. The existing data file... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/75q805xd Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Friedman, Marissa https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3p255133 The Mapping the Bay Exhibit and Mapmaking Contest is an innovative library initiative constructed during the pandemic that relies on the collaborative efforts of librarians and staff. It is a library event that invites not only undergraduate students but also the greater Bay Area community to participate. The presentation will demonstrate how libraries with distinct collections can use their unique resources to create an outreach program that engages their students and community. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3p255133 Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Newcome, Erica Dyess, Bonita Muhr, Heiko Powell, Susan Teplitzky, Samantha https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2929z9s3 <p>Assessment of monographic resources is a critical prerequisite for the development of user centric and sustainable monograph collections in academic libraries. A novel way of a holistic assessment is to examine the relationship between acquisitions methods and its impact on monograph usage, which this research intends to investigate in a comparative style. It is designed to include cataloging, acquisitions, and usage data at UC Berkeley and UCLA Libraries for print monographs acquired between 2005-2019 fiscal years. The dataset includes various acquisitions methods, bibliographic data, and multiple categories of usage statistics of monograph collections that allow us to assess various acquisitions methods - blanket, approval, firm, demand-driven acquisitions-DDA – which helps determining user-centricity of various acquisitions for print monographs at both libraries.</p><p>Both English and non-English monographic collections have been built through various acquisitions methods.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2929z9s3 Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Celik, Osman https://escholarship.org/uc/item/12p7n91s <p>The GOES-R ReBroadcast (GRB) is a powerful data delivery system for NOAA.&nbsp; Operating at 31 Mbps, which is about 15 times faster the the previous GVAR system, GRB delivers Level 1b and Level 2+ lightning detection products using GOES East and West satellites as relays.&nbsp; With proper application development, the GRB stream can act as the headwaters to a stream of data products.&nbsp; In addition to serving as input to national valued-added products, this data stream can be tailored to communities with specific regional and thematic needs.&nbsp; The near real-time nature of the GRB&nbsp; stream allows for processing pipelines that can deliver simplified products and notifications for events requiring quick evaluation and response.</p><p>The Library is developing a streaming data processing platform that will simplify and consolidate core GOES data product and imagery requirements for the State of California, and to serve as the source of a notification and alert system... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/12p7n91s Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Merz, Justin https://escholarship.org/uc/item/12f1t8j0 This presentation will summarize UC Davis' PCC Wikidata Project experience as a continuous exploration of linked data implementation. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/12f1t8j0 Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Kao, T.J. Li, Xiaoli Hart, Quinn https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0qg465zb <p>In today’s library settings, there is an increasing focus on data skills and data literacy. In fact, many library job seekers consider data skills a ticket to success, and many believe that data-related competencies are more central than ever for the activities of library workers (this term includes all: library staff, librarians, student workers, etc.)</p><p>Library leaders now encourage widespread acquisition of data skills in order to have a corps of data-savvy library workers. But what happens to the data-hesitant library worker in this scenario? While data literacy is seen as a universal good and universally attainable, data-related training often assumes competency levels that are above the “rank beginner” status advertised. This means that for any push towards data-savviness, there are both library workers who resist, whatever the reasons for their hesitation, and library workers who want to engage but have barriers/uncertainty around beginning.</p><p>The questions included... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0qg465zb Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Glusker, Ann https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9qb7x3xc In this panel, presenters from Santa Barbara, Berkeley, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Davis will describe their efforts to foster collaboration within their campus libraries as well as across campuses and the whole UC system, to address research data management, data science training, and education in data literacy. We will discuss approaches, activities, successes and challenges, and identify how others can participate in these activities. Speakers include: Santa Barbara: Greg Janée, Renata Curty, and Torin White; Berkeley: Anna Sackmann and Erin Foster and Amy Neeser; San Francisco: Ariel Deardorff; Los Angeles: Ibraheem Ali and Leigh Phan; Davis: Pamela Reynolds. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9qb7x3xc Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Janée, Greg Curty, Renata White, Torin Sackmann, Anna Foster, Erin Nesser, Amy Deardorff, Ariel Ali, Ibraheem Phan, Leigh Reynolds, Pamela https://escholarship.org/uc/item/76h0521d UC graduate students write thousands of dissertations and theses every year, making unique contributions to scholarship. Newly authored works are submitted digitally and find global audiences online, but what about the older ones languishing in print and microformats in high density storage facilities? These materials are essentially unavailable to all but those who have the resources to travel to a library to read a physical copy or who can pay for digital scans. Because of the timeless and ongoing value of theses and dissertations, and to make these scholarly resources more equitably available, three UC campuses and CDL have been exploring paths to make these “vintage” works accessible worldwide via eScholarship and/or HathiTrust. Speakers on this panel from UCSF, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, and CDL will describe the legal, technical, and logistical issues they faced when pursuing this goal. Different strategies were employed in each of these projects, resulting in different outcomes.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/76h0521d Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Fogel, Paul Fortney, Katie Grigsby, Lynne Gunasekara, Sara Lopatin, Eric Miller, Kevin Taylor, Anneliese https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6p6672nb In 2020, like many universities, UC Berkeley Library moved all reserves from print to electronic. However, over 50% of the requested books could not be found electronically so it was decided that we would digitize and submit to HathiTrust so these items would be available through HT ETAS. This would help ensure affordability of books to students who might otherwise be unable to buy the e- or print versions of these items and would enable access to these books, that are used mostly for teaching purposes, for other HathiTrust members. We collaborated with CDL to adjust workflow steps to result in faster submission-to-delivery turnaround, and with HathiTrust to understand their processes so we could optimize workflows to sync with theirs. The panelists will discuss the process, including digitization, development, ingest, delivery and lessons learned. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6p6672nb Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Grigsby, Lynne Fogel, Paul Huhn, Christine Pollock, Alvin https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5xv1n8pr Across the disciplines, from physical sciences to social sciences to digital humanities, researchers are pursuing new and innovative research with big data and data science methodologies. In response, libraries and other campus units have begun to implement instruction, consultation, and curation services to support researchers in planning, managing, sharing, and publishing their data. However, many libraries have not yet fully assessed the needs of big data researchers, much less developed services specifically tailored for researchers producing and working with big data. In order to provide a better understanding of the state of the big data research landscape in higher education, the Ithaka S+R Project on “Supporting Big Data Research” brought together twenty-one U.S. institutions to conduct and analyze interviews with big data researchers on their campuses. Teams at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego each assembled rosters of interviewees across domains and ranks to examine practices,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5xv1n8pr Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Quigley, Brian Glusker, Ann Foster, Erin Otsuji, Reid Minor, David Labou, Stephanie https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4277q64p This presentation will discuss the development, implementation, and value of a cross-University of California campus workshop model that breaks down institutional silos and increases open education training for both instructors and learners. During the Fall 2020 Quarter, a team of instructors consisting of librarians, staff, and researchers from UC San Diego, UC Los Angeles, and UC Berkeley, planned and taught a virtual suite of foundational computational programming workshops over the course of three weeks to a diverse group of learners from all three UC campuses. This remote, distributed open educational workshop approach combined and leveraged the instructional strengths of each campus to reach significantly more learners while using less staff time than would be possible with individual, campus-focused workshops. This approach to online instruction also enabled the team of instructors to teach to a scale that maximized enrollment by allowing everyone waitlisted for the workshop... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4277q64p Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Peterson, Scott Otsuji, Reid Labou, Stephanie Dennis, Tim https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3zm91783 COVID-19 has exposed fissures, frictions, and tensions in library resource sharing models. Will we convert this crisis into an opportunity for collectively determining international collections and their access? This panel examines new and old models for collaboration to ensure that the UC Libraries’ international collections responsibly retain their “distinctiveness”—and their excellence, as we head deeper into the future. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3zm91783 Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Potts, Claude Bell-Gam, Ruby Osorio, Jennifer Siegel, Adam https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3r84z4bj During the COVID-19 pandemic, libraries needed to abruptly and iteratively adjust operations to safeguard library employees while continuing to support the students, faculty, and researchers we serve. At the UC Davis Library (comprising the Peter J. Shields Library in Davis, the Carlson Health Sciences Library in Davis, and the Blaisdell Medical Library in Sacramento), our Library Response Team, a standing group focused on emergency preparedness and response, collaborated to redesign our spaces and services in order to remain available to UC Davis students and employees throughout the pandemic. This panel presentation will highlight lessons learned, including what we would have done differently and what went so well we plan to continue it into the coming year. Specific aspects of this work include: ● Alignment with rapidly changing and often ambiguous or conflicting national, state, local, and campus guidance regarding health and safety ● Establishment of key principles that remain... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3r84z4bj Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Capdarest-Arest, Nicole Gustafson, Robin Nusbaum, Jessica Sisneros, Derek https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0hx945fx <p>How are early-career researchers using Zotero? Which features do they consider to be advanced and would our including them in a future workshop be helpful? What common features are they not using? What are the differences and similarities across the disciplines?</p><p>These are the questions we sought to answer by interviewing a dozen of our campus graduate students with the help of a LAUC mini-grant to fund small incentives. We will share our recommendations for Zotero workshops based on our research.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0hx945fx Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Caldwell, Christy Orlando, Lucia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0fc5t2kz <p>In the wake of a series of events, including the death of George Floyd last summer, the entire country yet again, started to discuss the challenges of racial justice in our communities. In response to this ongoing conversation was the decision by the UC Berkeley Library leadership to formally create a taskforce to look into the issue of racial justice in our Library environment, services and practices. The Task Force on Racial Justice is composed of 13 members of the UC Berkeley Library community, representing a wide range of departments, and inclusive of staff, librarians and a faculty member.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The task force convenes this panel as an opportunity to share insights into the process, challenges and opportunities inherent in doing this sort of work in a Library organizational structure. We will provide staff and librarians to discuss the issues we identified in our work; the challenges we faced and the strategies we used in narrowing our focus with such a large... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0fc5t2kz Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Grant, Sheehan Light, Brian Monroe, Shannon Grant, Sheehan Shiraishi, Naomi Velazquez Fidler (UCB), Christina