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Item Back to the Future: From Book Warehouse to Library Learning Commons(Infosources Publishing, 2016-10) Uzwyshyn, RaymondThis article reviews learning commons possibilities in academic libraries, looking at the shift in academic libraries from book warehouses to libraries housing a wide spectrum of technologies. The article explores new paradigm for academic libraries with, themed moveable centers, unique infrastructure designs ranging from makerspaces and physical computing to visualization walls, library epresses,new internet of things possibilities and imagineering design. Prototyping and scaling needed to build these new types of buildings and infrastructures are also explored with prescriptive suggestions. .Item Can I Upload this Movie to My Class Site? Developing a Workflow for Streaming Video(2018-06-23) Towery, Stephanie; Cowen, Karen E.How can we help faculty offer students access to streaming content without infringing copyright and violating user agreements for personal streaming services like Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon? Learn how one academic library developed a workflow for streaming requests (including requests to convert VHS and DVDs to streaming) that involved cross-departmental collaboration. With a workflow in place Acquisitions, Collection Development, Instructional Technology Support, Subject Liaison Librarians, and the Copyright Office created a seamless way for faculty to get students access to streaming content.Item Can We Get Some Order Here? The Application of Principles of IT Project Management for Online Library Projects(Texas State University Libraries, 2012-01) Uzwyshyn, RaymondThis article overviews principles of IT project management for online library projects. It reviews project management methodologies, SWOT analysis, stakeholder documents, agile programming and project management methodologies for library IT and other large library projects reflecting on efficacy and necessity on these projects, especially in the case of large technology projects.Item Developing a Successful GIS Services Program(2016-10) Elliott, RoryThis poster presents the Alkek Library's successful implementation of GIS Services, including marketing strategies, recommended hardware and software, graphs of consultations, and a guide containing government sources for geospatial data.Item "Feed Me Seymour!": Technical Services Cooks Supporting Public Services Wait Staff(2020-11-05) Bostwick, Lynn; Brown, Jodi; Hopper, Misty; Price, Amanda N.It is not a new reality that in libraries, especially in large libraries, one tends to think and perform duties in siloed workflows. We have our horse blinders on and forget that there are units in our peripheral vision. Technical services staff tend to hide out in the proverbial secluded kitchen while subject librarians face the frontlines serving the hungry masses. Have you ever lamented that teamwork was lacking in your library or that there was a disconnect between the two worlds? Often, an abundance of literature can be found related to specialized technical services software/systems etc. Likewise, much has been written on the ACRL Framework and information literacy instruction. Yet, little information exists on how the two units can work together to support the larger mission. Technical services and public services librarians at Texas State University Libraries have faced this dilemma as well and have formed solutions to this great divide.Item Steps Towards Building Library AI Infrastructures: Research Data Repositories, Scholarly Research Ecosystems and AI Scaffolding(International Federation of Library Associations, 2022-07-21) Uzwyshyn, RaymondArtificial Intelligence possibilities for Deep Learning, machine learning, neural nets and natural language processing present fascinating new AI library service areas. Most of these areas will be integrated into traditional academic library ‘information’ and ‘digital’ literacy programs and university research environments to enable research faculty, students and library staff. Most university faculty, graduate students and library staff working outside of Computer Science disciplines will require help to enable their data and research towards new AI possibilities. This research overviews methodologies and infrastructures for building new AI services within the ‘third interdisciplinary space’ of the academic library. A library is a very suitable space to enable these new ‘algorithmic literacy’ services. This work utilizes the pragmatic steps taken by Texas State University Libraries to set up good foundations. Data-centred steps for setting up digital scholarly research ecosystems are reviewed. Setting needed data-centred groundwork for library AI services enables research, data and media towards wider global online AI possibilities. Library AI external scholarly communications services are discussed as well as educational methodologies involving incremental steps for foundational AI scaffolding. Bootstrapping tools build on present systems and allow for the later enablement of future AI insights. Pathways are clarified from data collection to data cleaning, analytics and data visualization to AI applications. Focused steps needed are forwarded to move library staff, research faculty and graduate students towards these new AI possibilities. Data-centred ecosystems, retooling and building on present library staff expertise are reviewed. Data research repositories, algorithmic and programmatic literacy are recommended for later AI possibilities. Preliminary AI library working groups and R&D prototype methodologies for scaling up future library services and human resource infrastructures are considered. Recommended emergent pathways are prescribed to create library AI infrastructures to better prepare for a currently occurring global AI paradigm shift.Item Tattoo You! An Academic Library Tattoo Design Contest(2019-06-23) Ballengee, Megan; Segoria, Emily; Sisemore, LizA subgroup of the Texas State University Libraries Promotions team, the Tattoo Design Contest Team created a contest allowing students to enter original tattoo designs inspired by Alkek Library. The purpose of the contest was to increase student engagement, reduce student library anxiety, and market the library. The team promoted the contest through social media and their results garnered multiple submissions. The contest submission terms created a copyright question that the team resolved through consultation with the copyright librarian. At the conclusion of the contest, the team printed stickers of the winning tattoo design as promotional giveaway. Months later one student turned the winning submission into an actual tattoo. The team posted a story about the contest winner and tattoo recipient to the library webpage and on social media. The poster includes outreach strategies including flyer designs, social media polls, and interaction statistics, images of the winning tattoo design, photos of the winner used for promotion, details about the student who actually has the winning design tattooed on their arm, and information about the academic article that members of the team have written.Item TDR Survey of Institutional Dataverse Liaisons(2019-02) Chan-Park, Christina; Waugh, Laura; Lindsey, Nerissa; McElfresh, Laura Kane; Tmava, AhmetThe Texas Data Repository (TDR) Steering Committee's Assessment Working Group (AWG) is tasked with evaluating the progress of the TDR. In Fall 2017, the AWG began an assessment to identify the needs for reporting on the TDR by addressing the following research questions: (1) Which usage and descriptive information about the TDR will be most valuable? (2) What process for gathering and distributing these metrics/information will be most useful? The AWG administered a survey to aid in prioritization of assessment needs for the TDR Dataverse. The purpose of this survey is to identify the levels of institutional capacity at member institutions and provide recommendations on future assessment needs, metrics, and reporting moving forward. Data from this assessment is structured to anticipate potential usage of the TDR Dataverse and guide future work and needs in assessment, training, and continued growth. Because the most valuable usage metrics should allow for comparative assessment across repositories globally, the AWG also compiled descriptions of metrics recommended by three sources which suggest best practices for tracking the impact of research data, including the Make Data Count Project's "Code of practice for research data usage metrics." The results from this compilation of best practices has been combined with the results of the survey to determine a prioritized list of metrics.Item The Southwest Texas State College Library Considers "Books for College Libraries"(Texas Library Association, 1968-10) Snowden, Dorothy P.Before a copy of Books for College Libraries was received by the Southwest Texas State College Library, reference librarians had searched library literature for reports of library holdings compared with what had become known as "the California list." It was with interest and enthusiasm that the reference department in November 1967 began checking the SWTSC public catalog against the 53,400 titles on the 897 pages of titles in Books for College Libraries. By the time this task was completed in May, 1968, no comparison between a college library collection outside of California colleges and BCL had been nationally published.Item Transforming Academic Libraries for the New Millennia: From Book Warehouses to Technology-Centered Learning Commons(LRC Publications, 2016-03-24) Uzwyshyn, RaymondThis presentation overviews building learning commons for academic libraries. The presentation reviews offsite repositories, themed moveable centers, learning commons technology inclusive of visualization technologies and 3D environments with pragmatic examples of working labs. It then overviews academic and library makerspaces, new epress possibilities for libraries and emerging internet of things connections. The presentation secondarily discusses interactive museum technologies, smart rooms and staff workspaces, imagineering design for libraries and security needed for technology rich environments.Item Video Streaming Licenses: Using a Decision Tree and Workflow Chart(Clemson University Press, 2019-01) Towery, Stephanie; Price, Amanda N.; Cowen, Karen E.This paper documents the results of a three-year process at a university library to develop a workflow for acquiring streaming video for use in face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses. The authors of this paper created two tools that guide their library in acquiring streaming video: the Streaming Resources Decision Tree (SRDT) and the Streaming Video Workflow Chart (SVWC). This paper describes the SRDT in depth, and the SVWC in brief. This paper describes the legal rationale behind the SRDT, which explores the limits of the right to fair use in U.S. copyright law.