Library Conference Presentations and Speeches Copyright (c) 2013 University of Nebraska - Lincoln All rights reserved. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks Recent documents in Library Conference Presentations and Speeches en-us Sat, 27 Apr 2013 01:39:05 PDT 3600 Stealth Librarianship: Creating Meaningful Connections Through User Experience, Outreach & Liaising http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/91 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/91 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:36:27 PDT Description: Relationships are at the heart of providing a satisfactory user experience and delivering library services and programs that match with what our users want and need. Many libraries have traditionally spoken with users only when necessary or when a problem has occurred. Looking at user experience, outreach, and liaison librarianship from the perspective of relationship-building between librarians and faculty, staff, or students allows librarians to provide more targeted and desired services while increasing positive perceptions of libraries. This live webcast investigates the benefits of relationship-building in a holistic manner. Instead of focusing on one aspect of librarianship, public, technical, and outreach services are examined as different means to the same end: better services through better campus relationships.

Join three academic librarians specializing in user experience, outreach, and liaison librarianship to discover how they use relationship-building to enhance their work. Learn how user experience research, outreach, and stealth librarianship can be used to create meaningful connections within the campus community. Presenters will examine the benefits of strong personal relationships and how they can improve the visibility and reputation of the library on campus. Additionally, hear how quality relationships can lead to the acquisition of new resources and the evolution of services to better meet users needs. Participants will perform a brief environmental scan, help to create an open access list of outreach activities, and share their own tips for successful stealth librarianship.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Learn to create a practical strategy in order to consciously shape and deliver positive user experience with the library staff in person and online.
  • List specific outreach activities which will engage users in order to build positive relationships between the library and its users.

Analyze nontraditional opportunities for engagement in order to prioritize and maximize the impact of time allotted to nontraditional engagement.

]]> Kiyomi D. Deards et al. Open Access Publishing— An Opinionated, Non-Canonical Tour: The Video http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/90 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/90 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:45:21 PDT How does one define open-access publishing? What are the implications of the debate between libre vs. gratis open access? What are the new economic models for "Green" and for "Gold" open access? What are the licensing issues, and why does it matter? How are commercial and university presses adjusting or adapting? Who else is doing it? What is the role for libraries as publishers, and how does this change their relations to the university faculty and to the world of scholarly communications? What are libraries publishing in the way of journals and monographs and forms of scholarship yet to be invented or defined? How quickly are things changing, and what does the future hold? Will it be chaos or utopia?

Link goes to Marquette University's institutional repository site. Video can be played from front page there, or (more reliably, perhaps) downloaded (147 MB) and played locally. It is about 1 hour, including Q&A.

]]> Paul Royster Open Access Publishing— An Opinionated, Non-Canonical Tour http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/89 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/89 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:16:03 PST What is “open access”? “Gratis OA” vs "Libre OA" The difference in the 2 definitions derives from their different economic bases.

There are two recognized business models of Open Access: Green OA vs Gold OA

My beef with Gold and Hybrid OA: • We are giving our money to the same folks who have been holding our content for ransom for the past 50 years. • What if we put these resources into developing our own means of production and distribution?

Questions: 1) Does scholarly communication have to be a commercial transaction? 2) Is “open access” just a way to provide an alternate income stream for commercial publishers?

Open Access literature may suggest … That “open access” is all about sitting around the campfire singing “Kumbaya”.

But … The two schools of thought are engaged in a somewhat bitter disagreement: “Gratis OA isn’t open access at all; it’s merely free access.”

“From now on, Open Access means CC-BY.” Heather Joseph, SPARC Repositories Meeting, Kansas City, March 2012 “It is about time to stop calling anything Open Access that is not covered by CC-BY, CC-zero, or equivalent.” Jan Velterop (Elsevier, Springer, BMC, & AQnowledge), LIBLICENSE listserve, March 2012

Open access publishing needs to be a “big tent” and accommodate different definitions, models, flavors, and opinions.

At UNL, we have supported and promoted “open access” for 8 years.

Zea Books & examples.

Peer review & Creative Commons licenses -- admission or exclusion to the OA fraternity.

We do not use Creative Commons licenses. We do not insist on peer review. But we feel we are doing what is best for us and for our authors.

MOOCs will represent either: 1) A need for open access scholarly and educational materials, such as e-textbooks, or 2) A massive windfall for some commercial publishers.

I don’t think you have to destroy the Elseviers … You just need to make the academic market unprofitable for them. Then they will depart on their own accord. They have no deep commitment to scholarship per se.

Can we separate scholarship from the profit economy? Or must it always be monetized? Will the academy take back control of its own intellectual production? Will libraries lead the way?

Download button links to pdf version of PowerPoint presentation. PowerPoint slides are attached below as Additional file.

]]> Paul Royster Library Monograph Publishing http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/88 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/88 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:38:25 PST Library monograph publishing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: how it began and evolved. The Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology, the Early American Texts series, Hopi Nation, Zea Books. Libraries as Publishers. The anomalies of traditional monograph publishing. The digital plus print-on-demand business model. Advice for digital publishers. Authors and contracts. Re-publishing out-of-print works. Book design. Peer review. Distribution. Vision statement.

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]]> Paul Royster Author Rights http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/87 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/87 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 09:05:07 PST Copyright: Creative vs. non-creative Works, Pre-existing works, Words and phrases, trademark. Copyright is property. Joint ownership. Federal law. Copyright registration.

Suppose you've written an article. Terms of agreement: permission to publish vs. copyright transfer. Give-backs. Read the contract before you sign it. Negotiability. The SPARC Addendum. Creative Commons licenses. Campus mandates.

The author rights you want. Advice, consultation, etc.

NOTE: "Download" button links to PDF version of PowerPoint slides. Original slides are attached below as an additional file.

]]> Paul Royster Cresting toward the Sea Change, A Tale of Adventure: Writing a Literature Review for <i>LRTS</i> http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/86 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/86 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:36:07 PDT Slides for a talk given on writing a commissioned literature review for Library Resources and Technical Services, sponsored by the Academic Activities Committee, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, October 23, 2012.

]]> Sue Ann Gardner Open-Access Week -- Meh http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/85 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/85 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:49:21 PDT How the author went from “OA—Hooray” to “meh.” There are 2 kinds of “open access”: gratis vs. libre. Publishers and membership organizations disrespect gratis because it does not use CC license to convey unlimited re-use rights. Institutional repositories hold many types of materials under many different permission or license terms, and cannot automatically convey re-use rights they do not control. The promoters of Open Access Week tend to gloss over their re-use stipulations and adopt a Gold OA publisher approach to access in the name of a “good cause.” While open access is undoubtedly better than toll-access or no access, those who have labored in the vineyard for a number of years but now find themselves excluded by the radical “CC-BY or nothing” wing can be excused for opting out of the fluffy celebrations and self-congratulations. Our philosophy is we support the authors and work for the widest dissemination of their work; we don’t support paying publishers to ransom back content, and we don’t believe the world needs unlimited rights to re-distribute or re-use authors’ works without permission.

]]> Paul Royster Preserving Faculty Research: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Data Repository http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/84 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/84 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:46:08 PDT Data curation has become an integral requirement for research. To address increasing requirements by funders for comprehensive data management the University Libraries provides data curation services ranging from consultations to creating the interface for a campus wide data repository. Additionally, the Libraries have established a new campus wide data policy to build awareness about the need for data management, preservation and access. To promote open access the policy and data repository interface encourage researchers to make their data publicly available—if possible. The presentation will begin with the development of the Libraries data curation services. Including a demonstration of the Data Repository and provide detail regarding researchers’ options retention, access, rights, and metadata for data deposits. The promotion of this online tool on campus, authenticating researchers, and the integration of the tool with other UNL resources will also be discussed.

]]> Kiyomi D. Deards Preserving the Present to Inform the Future: Issues in Data Preservation and Access http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/83 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/83 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:36:08 PDT The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries data curation committee has worked to educate Library staff about data curation and to highlight strategic opportunities for library engagement on data curation matters. The UNL Libraries have become central to the support of data archiving on campus by designing the interface for the UNL Data Repository. Additionally, the committee established a new data policy for campus that not only builds awareness about the importance of archiving data but promotes open access.

Related Link: http://libraries.unl.edu/datacuration

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]]> Kiyomi D. Deards Open-Access Journals and Institutional Repositories http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/82 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/82 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:33:46 PDT What is Open Access?

Gratis vs. Libre OA

Green vs Gold OA

Creative Commons

IR's

Mandates

Dissertations & theses

Downloads & usage

]]> Paul Royster Scholarly Publishing in the U.S., Then and Now: A Brief History and Implications for the Future http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/81 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/81 Wed, 16 May 2012 12:38:46 PDT Slides for a presentation on the history of scholarly publishing in the United States and implications for the future of academic publishing. Covers book and journal publishing, publishing economics, and the opportunities and threats associated with publishing in the digital age.

]]> Sue Ann Gardner DigitalCommons Update for UNL Libraries All-Staff Meeting, May 8, 2012 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/80 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/80 Tue, 08 May 2012 13:15:27 PDT Republic of Nauru

More Faraway Places

Most Frequent Visitors

January–April 2012 Totals

What do they want ?

We’re (still) #2 !

We’re now doing Books !

]]> Paul Royster Building the UNL Digital Repository http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/79 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/79 Tue, 01 May 2012 09:21:11 PDT Objectives of an institutional repository vs. traditional library

Why DigitalCommons ?

Campus Outreach

The "self‐archiving" fallacy (fishing metaphor)

So I improved the offer

work‐study students

Lester A. Larson Tractor Museum

A Third Strategy

Reaching "critical mass"

Years 1 - 6 statistics

Rank in US

Keys to repository popularity

Who has most articles/most downloads?

Every month authors get an email with:

Keys to successful faculty buy-in

4 approaches to recruiting faculty works

Services UNL Digital Commons provides

Copyright & Permissions

Good & Evil (publishers)

Original publications: Zea Books

The Library as publisher

What’s been different: UNL vs. other repositories

Taking back scholarly communication

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]]> Paul Royster The Trouble with MARC, and Metadata Alternatives http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/78 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/78 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:02:49 PDT Slides for a 50-minute session about the reasons the MARC format does not extend to the World Wide Web environment, and a discussion of the metadata options that may eventually replace MARC, such as the Metadata Object Description Standard (MODS) or Dublin Core, among many others. Included some explanation of the Semantic Web, the Resource Description Framework (RDF), and RDF triplets.

]]> Sue Ann Gardner What Is Broken About Scholarly Publishing … and How to Fix It http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/77 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/77 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:50:34 PDT Our hearts are broken because things aren't like they used to be.

The functions and (uncertain) future of scholarly publishing.

The issues that threaten:1. Library budgets vs. acquisitions costs 2. Outmoded distribution networks 3. Missing common infrastructure 4. Future of professional evaluation.

There have never been greater opportunities for scholarly publishing, especially the library as publisher.

New types of Scholarly Communication.

University Press culture vs. Library culture: When worlds collide.

At UNL Libraries, we publish book‐length works that presses considered unpublishable.

Vision Statement: 1. University faculties can take back scholarly publishing. 2. Academic libraries can be leaders of this effort.

]]> Paul Royster Institutional Repositories (for the Nebraska Library Association) http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/76 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/76 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:52:03 PDT Theory and practice of institutional repositories. Definition, features, objectives, mission, number rank, content types, copyright & permissions, and publishers' policies.

How content gets in: 4 models of content acquisition; self-archiving; mandates; services.

How content goes out: usage and downloads; most popular series and papers.

How you can use it: searches and traffic sources

Why we do it: good for faculty, dissemination, feedback, keys to buy-in; good for the institution, raising profile, extending reach; good for the state; good for the library.

The struggle over scholarly communication: commercial publishers and repositories.

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]]> Paul Royster Setting up a Library-Led Publishing Program http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/75 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/75 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:51:15 PDT Brief history of monograph publishing efforts at University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries 2005-2012, including Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology, Hopi Nation, Electronic Texts in American Studies series, and Zea Books. Includes discussions of advantages of electronic publishing, business anomalies and disadvantages of traditional paper "dead-tree" publishing, advice for the library publisher, details of Zea Books contract terms and its print-on-demand supplier (Lulu.com), and various comments along the way.

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]]> Paul Royster The Cataloger’s Future in the 21st-Century Research Library: What Will We Do and How Will We Do It? http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/74 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/74 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:00:11 PST Representation of the author's perspective on the cataloger’s future in the 21st-century research library: what will we do and how will we do it? Includes information about the history of the Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC) format and non-MARC metadata.

]]> Sue Ann Gardner So You Have to Write a Paper? Consider Writing a Literature Review http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/73 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/73 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:18:14 PDT Overview of the purpose and scope of literature reviews, the methods used to prepare them, and discussion of preparation of a commissioned literature review on bibliographic cataloging and classification for Library Resources & Technical Services.

]]> Sue Ann Gardner Zea E-Books: Digital Imprint of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/72 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/72 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:43:00 PDT Zea E-Books is the open-access digital works imprint founded by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries in 2010. Intended to complement, not compete with, the University of Nebraska Press, it gives a voice to scholars whose works would not meet the financial publication demands of a traditional press. Not limited to Nebraska authors, titles to date include De bestiis marinis, or, The Beasts of the Sea (Steller), the Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology (Maggenti, Maggenti and Gardner), and A Nebraska Bird-Finding Guide (Johnsgard). Operations are overseen by the publisher, Paul Royster, and executive editor, Sue Ann Gardner. An adjunct board of advisors includes the Director of the University of Nebraska Press, the Dean of the Libraries, and UNL faculty.

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