Creating research infrastructures in the 21st-century academic library: Conceiving, funding, and building new facilities and staff, Aug 2015
The shifting landscape of scholarly communication and lack of a university wide institutional rep... more The shifting landscape of scholarly communication and lack of a university wide institutional repository led the University of Central Florida (UCF) Libraries to develop a unique approach to supporting faculty and student research and scholarship. The Research Lifecycle at UCF model was created to connect researchers at UCF to existing institutional support services and illustrate the need for new services.
The Research Lifecycle at UCF comprises four sub-cycles: the Planning cycle, the Project cycle, the Publication cycle, and the 21st Century Digital Scholarship cycle. The sub-cycles illustrate existing traditional services and needed new services. The library’s efforts in reshaping and promoting these services and resources to users are central to this concept. The expanding role of librarians in providing research support, shaping library services, collaborating within the library, and partnering with other campus units provides opportunities to develop evolving and new services within the construct of an institutional Research Lifecycle.
Metadata and data management support are examples of developing services in response to identified unmet needs. Emphasis is placed on refining services, defining the scope, analyzing the components, and discussing potential resources to provide these services with existing staff and assets.
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In Spring 2019, the restructured CALA Social Media Committee reviewed, enriched, and standardized the Tag Library, and decided to make it publicly available for anyone interested in posting to CALA’s social media channels. The poster presents a brief history of the Tag Library, illustrates its structure and content, and provides instructions on its usage. It will examine over 1000 postings on CALA’s Facebook page from 2012-2019, identify postings with the highest impact, and perform analysis on tags and full-text. What are the benefits and challenges of utilizing a Tag Library for tagging posts in Facebook, and how can these tags influence reach, user search and discovery?
Through this research, the group hopes to better serve the organization, its members and the library community at large. The Tag Library supports diversity in LIS by encouraging community expression through user-centered, user-generated dialogue and allowing users to utilize and contribute their own tags. Not only that, it can be used as an effective toolkit to elevate CALA’s community outreach, presence, and connections to the other ethnic caucuses and to ALA as a whole.
After careful comparison and selection, Omeka, a content management system for online digital resources, was chosen. Omeka is open source and thus free with a stable group of developers for a long time. While Omeka is an easy-to-use tool, which accommodates a wide range of customizable themes and a plethora of plugins. For example, Avantgarde was the currently used theme to make the appearance more attractive. One of the plugins in active use is the CSV Import plugin, which enables metadata bulk import. The workflow of using this powerful plugin has the potentiality to be replicated beyond our building instance as it integrates well with common library operations and leverages the system without data preparation cluttering internal settings.
Through the poster, we would like to share how Metadata Guidelines has been developed, contents collection strategized, Omeka implemented and configured, and data preparation process used as one channel for outreach. The audience will walk away with our experience.
To meet the emerging needs for improving data entry, description and access, the CALASYS group has explored and implemented multiple plugins. Among those implemented are Library of Congress (LC) Suggest, CSV Import, and Zotero Import. LC Suggest facilitates the cataloging process by offering auto-completion of subjects; it is linked to various authorities and is synchronous to updates thus helps improve the quality and consistency of metadata. CSV Import and Zotero Import both are instances of batch upload. This poster will demonstrate the improvements brought by plugins as well as the pros and cons of the selected plugins.
Meanwhile, the CALASYS group has been diligently building its collections by reaching out to the CALA members, chapters, committees and task forces. They have also been proactively promoting the platform among the CALA members via mailing lists and social media channels, showcasing it in conferences and involving more members and student volunteers in using the repository and contributing metadata. CALASYS is positioned as the organization’s institutional repository and its development will be an ongoing process to meet the needs of the organization and its members in the future.
The selected presentations highlight innovative and successful library outreach initiatives and programs. The theme of this year’s fair was “Inclusive Outreach: Providing Services to the Underserved and Marginalized.” As part of the program, the Chinese American Librarians Association presented "Embracing Diversity and Outreaching to the Global Community."
The Research Lifecycle at UCF comprises four sub-cycles: the Planning cycle, the Project cycle, the Publication cycle, and the 21st Century Digital Scholarship cycle. The sub-cycles illustrate existing traditional services and needed new services. The library’s efforts in reshaping and promoting these services and resources to users are central to this concept. The expanding role of librarians in providing research support, shaping library services, collaborating within the library, and partnering with other campus units provides opportunities to develop evolving and new services within the construct of an institutional Research Lifecycle.
Metadata and data management support are examples of developing services in response to identified unmet needs. Emphasis is placed on refining services, defining the scope, analyzing the components, and discussing potential resources to provide these services with existing staff and assets.
Information representation is a term increasingly used to refer to all activities relating to describing or organizing knowledge or information. Chapter 3 reviews research and developments in cataloging, metadata, classification, subject indexing, ontology and the Semantic Web, as well as information architecture. Each of the topics is further explored with a focus on its major issues, recent publications, and future directions.