CNI Fall 2018 Membership Meeting

iZone is a collaborative hub of innovation for students to explore ideas and solve problems for social, cultural, community and economic benefit. iZone is a 21st century expression of early libraries where ideas were explored and knowledge created amidst a vibrant community and space, infused with expertise, technology and scholarly resources. This interactive presentation will describe the genesis of iZone in response to student demand, the user research that underpins iZone and provided the case for support, and the iterative process of program and service development that utilizes a student peer-led and collaborative model to deliver mission-critical activities. The presenters will share the mutual benefit of siting iZone in a research library, and how this is equipping library staff with greater comfort with risk-taking and ambiguity.

https://izone.lib.rochester.edu/

WE REGRET THAT, DUE TO WEATHER/TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES, THIS SESSION HAS BEEN CANCELED.

There is a constant and growing focus on impact, efficiency, and data-driven decision-making in higher education today. Academic and non-academic units alike must continually demonstrate their value and communicate their impact to multiple stakeholders. At the University Libraries, UNC (University of North Carolina) Chapel Hill, librarians are adapting services and building expertise to meet these needs. Librarians help faculty and staff demonstrate research impact and advance teaching using the same digital scholarship tools and methods used for research. In this session, we discuss some organizational changes made by the Libraries to focus and facilitate these new services. We also highlight recent examples of this type of work: conducting text analysis of syllabi and citation network analyses of publications to help administrators and faculty in the School of Pharmacy improve curriculum design; creating maps to demonstrate the global reach of campus programs; and preparing bibliometric analyses and citation network visualizations to assist the University's NIH (National Institutes of Health) Clinical and Translational Sciences Award (CTSA) unit in illustrating the impact and reach of CTSA-supported research at UNC-Chapel Hill.



The presenters would like to acknowledge additional colleagues who have contributed to this project:

Dr. Nandita Mani
Associate University Librarian for Health Sciences and Director of the Health Sciences Library


Joe Williams
Director of Public Services

Over the past few months, the governance and product development of SHARE has shifted focus to an open source community partner model. Initial technical development focuses on SHARE as a local tool for research administration and building the open source ecosystem to support it. With this latter goal in mind, we are working on developing tools that lower the barrier to entry for collecting, aggregating, remediating, and linking metadata. Further, we are exploring decentralized technologies that will serve to distribute and expand contribution as well as allow for combining private data with that made available publicly in order to better support local use-cases. We will discuss and demonstrate these efforts, as well as discuss our current plans with respect to community-building and decentralized product development.

http://share-research.org

Book scanning projects have made tremendous strides in bringing public domain literature online for the world's scholars and enthusiasts. Materials published after 1923, however, are still not widely available due to US copyright restrictions. The recently published "Position Statement on Controlled Digital Lending" describes a method for addressing this research gap. Through controlled digital lending, libraries can make twentieth-century scholarship available that is largely absent from their digital holdings in a way that respects the rights of authors and publishers. Publishers, too, can participate in controlled digital lending; projects between the Internet Archive, MIT Press, and other university presses are digitizing backlist and out-of-print books and making them available for controlled digital lending. This panel will bring together co-authors of both a related white paper and the position statement to provide an overview of controlled digital lending, as well as the perspective of the publishing community.

https://controlleddigitallending.org/


https://archive.org/details/inlibrary

Content reuse, defined as how often and in what ways digital library materials are utilized and repurposed, is a key indicator of the impact and value of a digital collection. Traditional library analytics focus almost entirely on simple access statistics, which do not show how users transform and remix materials found in digital collections. This lack of distinction, combined with a lack of standardized assessment approaches, makes it difficult to develop user-responsive collections or highlight the value of these materials. Developing a Framework for Measuring Reuse of Digital Objects, an IMLS-funded project (LG-73-17-0002-17) by the Digital Library Federation Assessment Interest Group (DLF-AIG), conducted a needs assessment of the digital library community to determine features of a future assessment toolkit that goes beyond use and traditional library metrics and focuses on transformation. This presentation will provide an overview of the mixed-methods approach used to generate data, share the results of this project, and discuss the next steps for implementation.

Co-Authors (in addition to presenters)

Elizabeth Joan Kelly


Digital Programs Coordinator


ejkelly@loyno.edu   


Loyola University New Orleans

 



Ayla Stein Kenfield


Metadata Librarian
astein@illinois.edu 


University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign





Liz Woolcott


Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services 


liz.woolcott@usu.edu  


Utah State University

https://reuse.diglib.org/

The Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Cooperative is an archival identity management program that began in 2010; with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the SNAC Cooperative has matured into an operational program focused on cooperatively maintaining archival identity management data and providing a web-based discovery service through the website snaccooperative.org. This project update will: demonstrate SNAC's research and editing interfaces, describe program accomplishments in the areas of technology, standards development, training, and outreach, and will outline future directions for a membership and business model.