Library Technology Conference Copyright (c) 2018 Macalester College All rights reserved. http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf Recent documents in Library Technology Conference en-us Tue, 12 Jun 2018 07:10:57 PDT 3600 Virtual Reality in Practice: Exploring Programs and Outreach http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/19 http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/19 Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:15:00 PDT Virtual reality provides opportunities for experiential learning and facilitating connections between people, places, and technology. Hear about Dakota County Library’s journey from proposal to program as we explored virtual reality in the library. Discuss a variety of considerations in model types, maintenance, and sharing logistics; then learn about different practical uses for VR in programs and outreach. Try some different VR experiences yourself; from interactive puzzle games and building a VR world, to photography and library tours.

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Julia Carlis et al.
Story Spaces: Engagement Practices for the 21st Century Library http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/16 http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/16 Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:00:00 PDT In the past 25 years, StoryCenter (formerly the Center for Digital Storytelling) has developed a number of programs for education, human service and civic organizations in using story to build community, and transform lives. In the last three years, the Berkeley, CA-based organization has been in partnership with the California State Library in bringing story-based engagement projects to some 50 local libraries as part of the California Listens project (californialistens.org), creating a statewide archive of well produced digital stories (https://archive.org/details/storycenter). StoryCenter founder Joe Lambert will present perspectives on the strategic role of story-based efforts for today's libraries, review the lessons of California Listens and share a portion of the documentary created about the project, and share the newest initiative of StoryCenter in the oral history/community memory project field, the iPad-based recording kit, The Listening Station, and Listening Station Plus app. (storycenter.org/listening-station)

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Joe Lambert
Lightning Round: Opportunities for Librarian and Instructional Technologist Collaboration http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/15 http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/15 Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:15:00 PDT Hear how the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI) is fostering group and individual collaboration between librarians and instructional technologists and some of the projects currently underway including: LMS evaluations, tech tools, online/blended course assessments, and a project to develop an open reading list LTI tool.

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Noah Brubaker
Lightning Round: Linking Users, Resources and Data Driven Decisions with OpenAthens http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/14 http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/14 Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:15:00 PDT OpenAthens is not only a gateway between the online world of subscription-based content and those who want to access it, but it is the dashboard that can make librarians’ lives less complex. Learn how libraries of all types and sizes can utilize OpenAthens’ flexible management options to enhance your patrons’ experience with seamless access to digital libraries like HathiTrust and countless others by providing single sign-on for both on-site and remote users. We will also take a peek at how OpenAthens’ reporting features can support data driven decisions at your library.

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Kate Gabrio et al.
Lightning Round: We Took the Plunge. Now What?: Update on a LibGuides-Canvas Integration Project http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/13 http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/13 Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:15:00 PDT Last year, John Hernandez presented on Northwestern University Library’s project to integrate LibGuides content into their Canvas course management system. Come hear a quick update on our progress along with some tips for those considering taking the plunge!

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John Hernandez
Building Online Exhibits with the Islandora Digital Asset Management Solution http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/12 http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/12 Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:15:00 PDT PALS supports a growing community of partners using the open source Islandora digital asset management solution. We have worked to build digital repositories for Minnesota State University Mankato, Southwest Minnesota State University, Bethany Lutheran College, Winona State, The College of St. Scholastica, St. Cloud Technical and Community College, Luther College, and we are working on implementing Leech Lake Tribal College's repository. Islandora provides a strong, viable option that can fit unique needs. We are happy to show new functionality that PALS has developed to help make Islandora even more appealing. This feature gives a general administrative user the ability to build online exhibits within Islandora. One can either set up a new collection or use existing collections to create an exhibit and choose one of three displays: timeline, map browse, or slideshow. Once the collection is created it only takes a few steps to setup the exhibit. There is no need to learn new software and it can be done by someone without technical expertise. This presentation will show how Islandora meets local digital asset management needs, and how the exhibit module can be used. We will also touch on strategies for getting started with digital asset management, and how to justify such an initiative.

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Alex Kent
The Wild and Unwieldy World of Retractions http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/6 http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/6 Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:30:00 PDT Scholarly publications are retracted for a plethora of reasons (e.g., irreproducible research, data fraud, fake peer review, honest error), and have been trending upward in recent years. The Committee on Publication Ethics and other associations have guidelines for how retractions should be identified, and studies have found the notifications to be inconsistent across platforms. Come to this session to learn about the various complexities of retractions and gain an awareness of tools that help users discover status changes. The presenters will demonstrate CrossMark, Retraction Watch Database and more!

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Amy Riegelman et al.
Digital Preservation Day at the Library: A How-To Guide http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/3 http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/3 Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:00:00 PDT Individuals in your communities hold their own treasures such as photographs, slides, letters, and more that are at risk. Libraries can play a role in educating our communities about preservation. But, how do you start? The presenters will describe one model for hosting family history preservation days at the library. You will learn about what hardware and software libraries use for digitization/scanning when they borrow the Minitex/Minnesota Digital Library portable kits, types of collaborations with community groups, and topics of education you can offer to your community. During the second half of the session, the presenters will hold a mock scanning event, integrating an overview of digital image basics and tips on preserving content after it is digitized.

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Sara Ring et al.
Capturing Graduate Research: Creation of the Graduate Online Symposium at Minnesota State University, Mankato http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/2 http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/2 Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:30:00 PDT In 2017, Library Services at Minnesota State University, Mankato, in collaboration with our College of Graduate Studies and Research, launched the first annual Graduate Online Symposium. This event was designed to showcase the research, scholarly and creative activities of our graduate students. Rather than presenting at an on-campus forum, we gave our graduate students (both on-campus and off-campus) an opportunity to be able to share their research in an open, online environment. The Graduate Online Symposium allowed our graduate students the chance to record brief 15-minute presentations about their research and creative activities. These digital presentations were then made available through our institutional repository, Cornerstone. This presentation will talk about our process and share the tools we used to help preserve and share the work of our masters and doctoral candidates.

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Heidi Southworth
The Library as Publisher: A Liberal Arts College Experience http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/68 http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/68 Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:00:00 PDT Scholarly publishing is moving beyond the physical monograph and journal. In today's changing academic publishing models, digital monographs, journals, digital projects, and OER materials are all now part of the projects being produced creating even more roles and opportunities for libraries. In this session, Macalester College librarians will break down their current scholarly publishing program and share how it's shaped by being at a small liberal arts college with limited staff and resources. In each of our publishing areas (digital monographs, journals, digital projects, and OER materials) we'll examine our current philosophy, tools being used, and highlight some of our existing projects.

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Ron Joslin et al.
Lightning Round: We Be Jammin': Jamboard Meets Library Instruction http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/66 http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/66 Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:15:00 PDT A Jamboard arrived on campus along with a retrofit of our second floor. People can try it out in the library after the presentation, and during lunch each day of the conference--it is located on Level 2.

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Dave Collins
Your GPS for Project Management: Know Where You've Been, Where You Are, and Where You're Going and Bypass Roadblocks Along the Way! http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/63 http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/63 Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:15:00 PDT A 2014 Project Management Institute report names poor communication as one of the leading causes in project failure. Lapses in communication can cause your projects to fail, be inefficient, or take longer than they should. As librarians take on more and more tasks, committee work, and overall responsibility, it becomes crucial to recognize where there are traffic jams, and how you can keep everyone moving on the same journey. You will need a way to keep colleagues up to date, improve the accountability of work, and increase transparency with administration and other stakeholders. The final destination should encourage staff reflection and knowledge sharing, foster teamwork, and improve communication.

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Rachael Cohen
Minnesota Digital Library: Today and Tomorrow http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/61 http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/61 Wed, 14 Mar 2018 15:30:00 PDT This session will explore how the Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) has evolved from a small collaborative project into a robust statewide digitization program that partners with almost 200 of Minnesota’s cultural heritage organizations, including museums, county historical societies, archives, colleges, and similar organizations. We will focus this session on our recent innovations and plans for the future. We will provide an overview of the following topics: technological changes and innovations, the establishment of metadata standards and retrospective metadata work, the challenges and opportunities associated with working with our partner organizations, and our pioneering involvement with the Digital Public Library of America. We will also introduce some of our more recent projects, such as the development of our Primary Source Sets project, the Geospatial project, and the MDL Rights project. Attendees will learn more about what we are doing, how they can be involved, and gain information they can take back to their organizations and apply to their workflows.

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Greta Bahnemann et al.
Creating Future Ready Media Centers http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/58 http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/58 Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:30:00 PDT It is hard to look around at all we've created, built, and collected in our media centers and think, "This needs to be updated" but let's face it; they all do. Curation of all things media includes both letting go and updating. Let's talk about weeding, updating layout and furniture, providing access to technology and literature, enhancing programming, and channeling student creativity in our spaces. The driving force behind all that we do needs to be supporting collaboration, reflecting the 21st Century Model, and the goals of being a Future Ready Librarian. I can share my experiences updating two media centers in the last three years, with very different budgets and resources. I will also share how I learned about 21st century collaboration spaces, my weeding process, and getting support from your teachers and administration. I will share data about how the space is used now compared to before the 21st century renovation efforts. Link to Google Presentation including notes (which explains the slides and pictures)

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Amy Carney
From Collection Analysis, to Reimagined Spaces: How One Collection Management Project Led to Enhanced Student-centered Spaces http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/55 http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/55 Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:15:00 PDT In October 2017, the CALD (Council of Academic Library Directors) reviewed a proposal for a cooperative approach to managing print collections. One objective in the proposal is to “[a]llow participating libraries to reclaim space for local needs and other purposes that are beneficial for their community members.” As more libraries evaluate their space needs versus maintaining large collections of print materials that are not circulating, this presentation will provide an overview of one academic library’s experience in reclaiming and repurposing space for much-needed teaching as well as learning spaces. This presentation will provide background on our collection analysis project, our original goals, our vision, and how a fortuitous need elsewhere on campus led to the development and completion of an entire new look on the second floor of the DeWitt Wallace Library, Macalester College in less than 8 months. Participants in this session will have an opportunity to imagine a space in their own libraries and identify how they might create “neighborhoods” for development; Neighborhoods being spaces such as those to reflect, tinker, meet, collaborate, learn, and showcase.

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Rebecca Celis, AIA et al.
HathiTrust: Ten Years, 16 Million Volumes, and the Road Ahead http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/50 http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/50 Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:30:00 PDT In 2008, the HathiTrust was launched with the mission: "To contribute to research, scholarship, and the common good by collaboratively collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, and sharing the record of human knowledge." Now in its tenth year, HathiTrust has evolved into an organization of over 125 research libraries partnering to develop services and and a range of transformative programs enabled by working at a very large scale. A sketch of the HathiTrust profile reveals a trusted digital preservation service enabling the broadest possible access worldwide, including over 16 million total digitized items (volumes), 7.7 million book titles, 428,000 serial titles, over 1 million U.S. federal government documents, and a copyright review program that has contributed to the determination of 5.9 million items for open viewing via public domain status or Creative Commons licensing. To further leverage the benefits of HathiTrust as a large-scale digital library, the partnership is developing a massively-scaled shared print program and continues to build out the HathiTrust Research Center, which is positioned to offer scholars high-performance computational access to the 5.5 billion pages of text from the digital library for visualization, analysis, and research. This session will offer an overview of HathiTrust, its current programs, strategic directions, and the significant challenges it is undertaking.

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John Butler
Does Your Mom Download? Taking Your Library Podcast to the Next Level! http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/47 http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/47 Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:30:00 PDT Podcasts are a great way of sharing information and making connections. As they become more mainstream, even your mom can download episodes – so we think your community is ready for more from you. An increasing number of libraries are dipping their toes into the podcasting, and we have to say: Come on in! The water’s fine! Many libraries do not anticipate the amount of work it takes to create, host, produce, and share a podcast. So they try an episode or two, and then move on to something else that sounded excellent. We get it. This is a lot more work than we anticipated too. But: Don’t give up yet! We want to lure you back! Our experience with creating not one, but two library podcasts has given us some hard-earned knowledge (Find us at “Linking Our Libraries” and “Books and Beverages”). We are going to help you move from having a few stray episodes floating around out there, to creating some truly useful content to share with your community. Join us! Let’s workshop out some strategies, solve some problems, and share some information. (And yeah – we are going to talk about this on our podcast! You won’t want to miss it!)

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Angie Gentile-Jordan et al.
Lightning Round: Not Quite Crowdsourcing http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/46 http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/46 Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:15:00 PDT Like the idea of crowdsourcing but not sure it's right for you? Are you able to digitize materials but need more help preparing files for access? Wish you had a volunteer program to let folks work directly with your collections? ME TOO, and I’ve got something that just might help you out.In this lightning session, I'll walk you through a volunteer program at the Minnesota Historical Society that is designed to be flexible, affordable, and move terabytes of unprocessed scans to fully-indexed online access. We’ll talk about digitization partnerships, image processing, metadata and indexing, quality control, access platforms, working with volunteers, process improvement, and more!

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Sarah Barsness
Virtual Collaboration: Exploring New Frontiers http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/41 http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/41 Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:15:00 PDT Librarians looking for professional development opportunities, especially in states like North Dakota where many serve small populations in rural areas, will benefit from thinking creatively about organizing a conference. Two sections of the North Dakota Library Association (NDLA) used Blackboard Collaborate Ultra as a platform to produce a fully online conference. This virtual “unconference” was interactive and robust, with speakers from across the state, interactive whiteboards, poster rooms, meeting space for special interest groups, and more. In this workshop, we will share what we have learned about Collaborate Ultra, including its strengths and weaknesses. We hope to brainstorm and discuss other potential applications, including classrooms, professional development, online meetings, group work, and supporting distance students and colleagues. Please bring your device and join us in a working session where you will experience Collaborate Ultra first-hand and discover how this tool can facilitate learning and collaboration and impact the work you do.

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Kristen Borysewicz et al.
Talking, Tools, and Trials: Building a Physical and Digital Presence for Digital Humanities in the Library by Daring Greatly http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/40 http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2018/sessions/40 Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:30:00 PDT The presenter pursued conversations, learned tools, and experimented with spaces and services at the intersection of libraries and digital humanities for the last seven years. These efforts led to a partnership in the proposal of a digital humanities major and the hiring of a new faculty member specifically for digital humanities, new teaching partnerships, and the introduction of a makerspace in the Library. This session will discuss the process and lessons learned as the Bethel University Library grew from an interested party in digital humanities to a key partner and leader on campus. We valued core concepts like committing to conversation as a service model (David Lankes’ Mission for New Librarians) and the Web as a key service point for teaching and scholarship (Mita Williams’ keynote address to the Library Technology Conference in 2014). Researching the practitioners, concepts, and tools (TimelineJS, Omeka, and CONTENTdm) of digital humanities and building local relationships based on that knowledge was crucial to being able to move deeper into conversations. Through this learning, we were able to support more faculty who wanted to experiment with their teaching or pursue projects and later provide those opportunities to their students. This session will encourage, inspire, and equip others to pursue digital humanities conversations in their own organizations.

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Kent Gerber
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