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Item Assessing the Texas Data Repository: Determining What to Measure and How(2019-05-22) Chan-Park, Christina; Lindsey, Nerissa; Waugh, Laura; McElfresh, Laura KaneThe Texas Data Repository (TDR) is guided by a Steering committee of liaisons from 11 universities in Texas. From 2017 – 2019, The TDR Assessment Working Group (AWG) evaluated reporting metrics including a survey of TDR Steering Committee Members, comparison with an institutional repository reporting metric (Texas ScholarWorks), and two emerging standards of best practice for research data reporting: COUNTER Code of Practice and Google Analytics. This poster presents the findings of this AWG study, a comparison of potential reporting metrics for research data, and the recommendations for the TDR Steering Committee reporting moving forward.Item Assessing the Texas Data Repository: Determining What to Measure and How(2018-12-05) Chan-Park, Christina; Dabrowski, Anna J.; Lindsey, Nerissa; Waugh, Laura; McElfresh, Laura KaneBackground: The Texas Data Repository (TDR) was launched in Spring 2017. The TDR is built on the Dataverse software platform and hosted by the Texas Digital Library (TDL)—a consortium of higher education institutions in Texas. Currently, 11 institutions participate in the TDR, and liaisons from these institutions serve on a TDR Steering Committee to provide feedback and guide the direction of the repository service. The Assessment Working Group (AWG) is a sub-group of the Steering Committee and is tasked with evaluating progress of the TDR. Purpose: 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? Approach: The first step in determining the most valuable usage metrics was distributing a survey to all TDR institutional liaisons. The survey was vital in identifying the widely varying resources and needs of the participating institutions as well as the information the liaisons were interested in seeing both institutionally and consortially.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 Digital Preservation Steps with Archivematica: A Cross-Departmental Approach(2021-05) Goodley, Lauren; Critchley, Nicole; Kennedy, Laura; Long, Jason; Mazzei, Erin; Peters, Todd C.; Price, Amanda N.; Waugh, LauraArchivematica is a strong tool that requires a strong team and team members. Follow along as we tell our tale: from deciding on Archivematica as a tool for creating AIPs through installation and implementation. Hear from a digitization specialist on workflows that work for everyone, and from archivists and librarians from several departments on their successes and learning moments. IT specialists share communication strategies and technical expectations of Archivematica. Our goal is to provide our experiences to further develop the preservation community, and offer ideas, solutions, and points of conversation to our colleagues.Item From VHS to MP4: Improving Access to 40 Years of Literary Recordings(2018-10-04) King, Liz; Towery, Stephanie; Waugh, LauraThis poster presentation outlines the collaboration between the academic community involved in this collaborative project, including representatives from a student-run, free, online literary journal as well as university librarians. A main focus is the potential impact on the research community - both scholarly and public - who will benefit from accessing the previously unpublished audiovisual materials. Details include how to ensure this remain a fully-open and accessible resource for anyone interested in digital humanities research. Considerations include budget and costs, digitization of outdated media, long-term preservation and storage, copyright, metadata, and creating a user-friendly, searchable website using open source tools.Item Integration of Off-Site Repository Software with the Library Catalog and Interlibrary Loan(2018-05-16) Peters, Todd C.; Rentz, Paivi; Long, JasonIn September 2017, Texas State University opened the Archives and Research Center (ARC). It is a 14,000 square-foot, off-site, state-of-the-art facility that will preserve decades of university treasures and library resources, collections, and research materials. The University Libraries selected Caiasoft from CAIA Software & Solutions as the repository management software for the facility. University Libraries staff constructed scripts to integrate Caiasoft with our Integrated Library System, Sierra, and our Inter-Library Loan system, ILLiad. This allows patrons to request materials from the ARC through the catalog, and allows document delivery and inter-library loan article requests to be fulfilled electronically from the facility using Odyssey. This poster explains how the integration was set up and diagrams the workflows involved.Item Open Journal Systems: A Look at Impact and Increased Visibility(2023-05-16) Park, Kristi; Van Diest, Kristin; Elkins, Susan; Hoover, SusanOpen Journal Systems (OJS) is an open-source publishing software for the management of open access peer-reviewed academic journals, created and developed by the Public Knowledge Project. There are over 34,000 journals hosted in OJS around the world, including 75 journals hosted through the Texas Digital Library (TDL) OJS hosting service at member institutions. This poster presents data collected to show the prevelance of use of persistent identifiers, such as DOIs, ISSNs, and ORCID in TDL hosted journals. As well as where the journals are indexed, whether or not they use keywords and if so, how many, and the number of article downloads and abstract views. Recommendations are then made to increase journal visibility and use.Item Riddle Me This: Gamifying Student Worker Training at an Academic Library(2018-04-03) Ballengee, MeganAlkek Library at Texas State University has a strong foundation for providing excellent customer service to the campus community by ensuring the student workers in Research and Learning Services (RLS) are knowledgeable about library services, resources, spaces, and staff members. In the past year, RLS has transformed its lecture based training to create innovative, gamified training sessions for student workers in public service settings throughout the library. Based on the film "Batman Forever," students worked together to solve puzzles left by "The Riddler" in a 45-minute library scavenger hunt and a 45-minute escape room session. The learning outcomes of the training are: building confidence to continuously learn about the library, foster team building, and create an enjoyable gaming experience that is interactive and cooperative. Included will be tips for participants to create their own gamified training that can be used for employees, volunteers, and patrons.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 Texas Data Repository Usage up to April 2019(2019-05-22) Chan-Park, Christina; Waugh, LauraThe Texas Data Repository (TDR) was launched in Spring 2017. The TDR is built on the Dataverse software platform and hosted by the Texas Digital Library (TDL)—a consortium of higher education institutions in Texas. Currently, 11 institutions participate in the TDR, and liaisons from these institutions serve on a TDR Steering Committee to provide feedback and guide the direction of the repository service. This poster will track the use of the TDR from June 2017 through April 2019. We present data for both individual institutions and in aggregate over time. Metrics cover users, collections, datasets, and downloads. These data will form the baseline for tracking usage of TDR going forward.Item The ARC: Building, Moving and Relocating Special Collections to Offsite Storage(2018-06) Sigler, Karen B.This poster presentation illustrates how an academic library reached the decision to build our own offsite archive and research center, and the inherent issues associated with meeting archival standards. While the site was being planned, the library team addressed archival concerns, including a quarantine area and storage for framed art and artifacts. One of the key components was software for use at the site that was compatible with the library's online catalog. Once preliminary issues were addressed, my cataloging unit was tasked with re-cataloging more than 33,000 special collection records, along with rehousing, preservation and removal to the offsite storage site.Item The Board of Regents Reports and Minutes: A Digitization Case Study(2017-05) Moore, Jeremy D.; North, Megan; Peters, Todd C.; Mazzei, ErinAlkek Library's Digital & Web Services Department at Texas State University is digitizing the University Archives' Board of Regents Reports and Minutes collection. The collection is comprised of an estimated 45,000 pages including bound books, most of which can be unbound for rapid sheet-feed scanning, and loose-leaf onion skin pages. This presentation will describe the project lifecycle starting with why it was prioritized for digitization, the development, testing, and validation of scanning workflows using FADGI standards, and the creation of custom software to automate processes. We will also explain why our student technicians were more than happy to rescan over 700 images and why it was the best decision to make for consistency, speed, and quality.Item Track Down Top Lit with MathSciNet(2017-11) Morganti, DiannaMathSciNet is a valuable tool to save time for the Math Graduate Student. MathSciNet is both an index of Mathematics literature as well as a collection of reviews of the literature. Use MathSciNet to save yourself time in searching for research, finding supplemental learning resources, and learning new topics.