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Item A Geospatially Oriented Humanities Exhibit: Dick Reavis and the National Tour of Texas(2016-05) Peters, Todd C.; Dede-Bamfo, Nathaniel; Long, JasonOn January 1, 1987 Texas Monthly writer Dick Reavis set out on a year-long journey to drive every road on the official map of Texas, and report his experiences in a series of articles. The Dick Reavis Papers at The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University holds a large collection of postcards, color slides, a travel log book, and several hundred pages of typewritten notes from the journey. The Digital and Web Services Department and The Wittliff Collections are building an innovative web exhibit using Reavis’ own shaded highway map to navigate digitized items from the collection by using ArcGIS, Google Maps and web scripting. This presentation will discuss the overall development of the project, digitization of materials, the use of ArcGIS to create shapefiles, and the creation and integration of the website with Google Maps.Item A Novel Workflow for Large Scale Thesis Digitization(2016-05) Peters, Todd C.; Moore, Jeremy D.; Long, JasonTexas State University recently began digitizing approximately 6,000 theses to create digital preservation copies and electronic versions that may eventually be used for patron access. This presentation will discuss our novel workflow that allows student workers to rapidly scan, process, and perform quality control on the images while managing the metadata necessary for future ingest into our institutional repository. In brief, the process begins with students debinding and scanning theses, downloading MARC records with MARCEdit, and using an in-house web application to sort images based on content. Students then process the images with a combination of BASH scripts, ImageMagick, and Adobe Photoshop as they perform quality control and fix any errors found. The resultant preservation TIFFs are OCR’d and combined into PDFs using ABBYY FineReader 12. A final quality control step is performed by the Digital Media Specialist at which point the electronic conversion has been completed. The workflow allows a student to process approximately 50 theses in a 20-hour work week.Item Academic ePresses and Online Universities: Envisioning Futures(Texas State University Libraries, 2014-01) Uzwyshyn, RaymondThis presentation explores the integration of 21st century academic presses and academic publishing and possibilities for academic libraries. It overviews online library possibilities, changing university press and academic publishing possibilities and models for publishers, libraries and universities. The presentation explores the integration of the online library with the online classroom and changing publishing and production models reviewing service models emerging and new genres of online library press services. The presentation also explores open access resources and award winning course guide application possibilities through synergies between faculty, librarian staff and traditional press staff.Item Academic Researcher Profiles: Getting Started and Tips for Success(2020-11-12) Ancelet, Lisa; Waugh, LauraAre you publishing or presenting research in your discipline? Do you want to make the most of the impact of your research? Develop an online researcher profile and make your research more discoverable by researchers globally. Online tools such as ORCID, ResearchGate, Web of Science, and Google Scholar Citations can be useful for establishing a successful online academic profile. They can increase the impact of your research, ensure credit for your work, and streamline the publishing and grant-funding process. In this webinar, we will show some examples of successful online researcher profiles and the impact you can make by managing your online academic environment.Item Academic Researcher Profiles: Getting Started and Tips for Success(2022-03-24) Ancelet, Lisa; Waugh, LauraAre you publishing or presenting research in your discipline? Do you want to make the most of the impact of your research? Develop an online researcher profile and make your research more discoverable by researchers globally. Online tools such as ORCID, ResearchGate, Web of Science, and Google Scholar Citations can be useful for establishing a successful online academic profile. They can increase the impact of your research, ensure credit for your work, and streamline the publishing and grant-funding process. In this Shop Talks session, we will show some examples of successful online researcher profiles and the impact you can make by managing your online academic environment.Item Academic Researcher Profiles: Getting Started and Tips for Success(2023-03-22) Zhou, Xuan; Van Diest, KristinAre you publishing or presenting research in your discipline? Do you want to make your research more impactful? Develop an online researcher profile and make your research more discoverable by researchers globally.. Online tools such as ORCID, ResearchGate, Web of Science, and Google Scholar Citations can be useful for establishing a successful online academic profile. They can increase the impact of your research, ensure credit for your work, and streamline the publishing and grant-funding process. In this Shop Talks session, we will show some examples of successful online researcher profiles and the impact you can make by managing your online academic environment.Item Academic Researcher Profiles: Getting Started and Tips for Success(2019-02-13) Ancelet, Lisa; Waugh, LauraAre you publishing or presenting research in your discipline? Do you want to make the most of the impact of your research? Develop an online researcher profile and make your research more discoverable by researchers globally. Online tools such as ORCID, ResearchGate, Web of Science, and Google Scholar Citations can be useful for establishing a successful online academic profile. They can increase the impact of your research, ensure credit for your work, and streamline the publishing and grant-funding process. In this webinar we will show some examples of successful online researcher profiles and the impact you can make by successful management of your online academic environment.Item Academic Researcher Profiles: Getting Started and Tips for Success(2019-02-13) Ancelet, Lisa; Waugh, LauraAre you publishing or presenting research in your discipline? Do you want to make the most of the impact of your research? Develop an online researcher profile and make your research more discoverable by researchers globally. Online tools such as ORCID, ResearchGate, Web of Science, and Google Scholar Citations can be useful for establishing a successful online academic profile. They can increase the impact of your research, ensure credit for your work, and streamline the publishing and grant-funding process. In this webinar, we show some examples of successful online researcher profiles and the impact you can make by management of your online academic environment.Item Accessibility of Content in Institutional Repositories: Going Beyond Open Access(2018-05-17) Lyon, Colleen; Deems, Christopher; Waugh, Laura; Lindsey, NerissaAcademic libraries play an important role in meeting the needs of their campus communities, including providing access to digital resources for all patrons. Making content accessible often includes collaboration with academic departments, administration, ADA offices, information technology, and other stakeholders. Approaches to accessibility for digital resources vary by institution depending on available resources, infrastructure, and the digital tools being used. In many cases the concern is not just with newly submitted material, but also existing content that may have been added over a course of several years. This panel will discuss accessibility efforts at three different campuses as it relates to audio and video digital content in their institutional repositories. Each institution will share the approach they’ve taken, what resources they have focused initial efforts on, and what they anticipate next steps to be. The panel will also share perspectives from users of content, and why accessibility efforts are so important.Item Accessibility of ETDs: Raising the Bar(2021-04-15) Johnson, Liz; Lyon, Colleen; Waugh, LauraAccessibility of online content is of a focus of effort for many higher ed institutions. Electronic theses and dissertations are no exception to this, and graduate school and library staff have been working to improve the accessibility of content submitted by their graduate students. As part of the spring 2021 TxETDA webinar series, staff from Montana State University, Texas State University, and the University of Texas at Austin will describe the current status of accessibility in institutional repositories (based on a 2020 survey), talk about gaps in accessibility for ETDs, and share templates and workflow ideas for improving ETD accessibility.Item An Attempt at Metadata Enhancement through Machine Learning(2022-05) Peters, Todd C.; Long, JasonThis presentation will share what learned about machine learning and applicability to generate metadata to enhance discoverability during a pilot project. Object detection through neural networks is a rapidly developing field. Using machine learning large sets of images can be analyzed, objects detected and classified. We used the pretrained models COCO, Inception, ResNet, VGG19, and Xception to classify objects in images in our San Marcos Daily Record newspaper negative collection. Our initial use of these models did not yield usable metadata, however it did provide a useful first step into machine learning and knowledge to develop future research.Item Beyond TIGER Files: Federal Government Geospatial Data Sources to Support GIS Research Needs(2016-10) Elliott, RoryThis presentation featured the numerous federal government data sources available to researchers for further analysis in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), including shapefiles, numeric data, and imagery, as well as selected online interactive maps and mobile sites/apps.Item Bringing Linked Data into Libraries via Wikidata: PCC Wikidata Pilot Project at Texas State University(2021-12) Aycock, Mary; Critchley, Nicole; Scott, AmandaThe promise of linked data to free library data from closed silos and promote more open scholarship possibilities through better global access has generated excitement over the past decade but proven elusive for libraries to implement. This impasse may be changing as “Linked open data technologies are reaching a very promising point” (CNI Program Plan, 2019-2020) and new possibilities are now realizable on pragmatic implementation levels. Wikidata offers a low barrier gateway for GLAM institutions and academic research libraries to easily contribute to this linked data platform. As part of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging Wikidata pilot, Texas State University Libraries has embarked on new linked data projects: authority work for faculty, an oral history project, and linked data for special collections archives. This presentation will outline methodologies and discuss new opportunities and obstacles presented by these projects, as well as how Wikidata can promote identity management, digital scholarship, and historical research on wider global online levels.Item Build it! Share it! Taking a Campus OER Community of Learning to Open(2022-03) Ancelet, Lisa; Price, Amanda N.; Towery, Stephanie; Waugh, LauraIn Fall 2020, the Texas State University Libraries’ Scholarly Communications Committee designed a foundational course, the OER Community of Learning, to develop a baseline of knowledge about OER for library staff as well as the broader university community members. The Community of Learning consists of self-paced Canvas modules developed by the committee, and then peer reviewed by library staff, university staff, faculty, and administrators to assure needs-based, quality content covering a broad range of perspectives in teaching and learning. These self-paced modules include instructional content, quizzes, and supplemental live workshop sessions with content creators, cohort participants, and invited speakers for active discussions on OER related topics. A team of Texas State librarians wanted to take the project further and share this successful campus initiative of foundational OER course material, full of modules and quizzes, to the wider community by converting the Canvas-based modules into an open course hosted on the OERTX repository platform. The content could then be accessible for others to use either for learning the basics of OER themselves, remixing content components for their teaching, or sharing in its entirety with the communities they serve. Most importantly, OERTX offers a range of accessibility features not available elsewhere. Special features allow users to change the display of certain elements of the site to meet unique viewing preferences; pages on the OERTX repository are compatible with screen readers and accessible to keyboard navigation; and authoring tools include Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) long descriptions, image captions, and embedded A11y accessibility mode microdata that support specific learning modes such as auditory, visual, or textual. Our presentation outlines the considerations, planning, and work involved to make this content open, as well as the challenges and successes. It provides a framework for other librarians to make their own OER programs available to share on an Open Educational platform.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 Caption This! Accessibility Law and Providing Captioning Services in Your Library(2019-03-06) Cowen, Karen E.; Price, Amanda N.; Towery, StephanieThis session demonstrates that captions for streaming video should, and can, be part of every library’s suite of services. It provides information on accessibility law, and how its provisions should guide libraries to more robust services for all. It also covers licensing and vendor relations, and suggests workflows that can enable implementation of captioning services.Item Chronicling COVID: Capturing expression, promoting resources(2020-11-05) Brown, Jodi; Kennedy, Laura; Towery, Stephanie; Waugh, LauraPandemic has become our existence; we live and breathe history every day. During this difficult period, it is important for libraries to facilitate finding space in our lives to focus on the human element. It is the vocation of libraries to collect and make accessible these cultural artifacts. Many libraries and museums are focusing on capturing the times of Covid-19 and addressing the need for creative expression and discussion. The University Archives and library Collection Development (with assistance from Digital Collections and Copyright librarians) at Texas State University have seized this opportunity to launch the collaborative project, “Chronicling COVID.” This project incorporates many of the same facets as other libraries. However, the uniqueness of Chronicling COVID is in both artifact and audience. Our goal is to bring together the voices and experiences of both the academic and the public communities of San Marcos, TX because the university and the city are not two separate worlds, but one community surviving together. Faculty, students, staff and community members are encouraged to submit their works to archive this historical moment. These expressions may take many forms: journals, blogs, music, artwork, etc. Chronicling COVID is also focused on sharing and promoting the resources of the university libraries for both COVID-19 and the 1918 Influenza pandemic. This project demonstrates the power of software/tools already used in libraries to capture history and promote library collections.Item Community Building: Using Peer Review to Engage Librarians and Faculty in the Design of an OER Community of Learning(2021-03-11) McClean, Jessica; Price, Amanda N.; Morganti, Dianna; Towery, Stephanie; Waugh, LauraHow can faculty become engaged - and more importantly - involved, in the use and promotion of OER? What kind of program will meet an important need and encourage long-term buy-in? How can faculty contribute to the enrichment and sustainability of OER so that it continues to grow and evolve? The answer is a community built around peer review. By incorporating a familiar and significant concept that faculty value in their own research and career paths, Texas State’s Scholarly Communications Team developed a program that coupled rewarding professional benefit with a sense of community, professional knowledge, and continued learning.Item Community-driven Collaboration: Texas Data Repository Updates and Activities(2019-06-21) Waugh, Laura; Mumma, CourtneySince last year's Dataverse Community Meeting, the Texas Data Repository (TDR) has increased our contributions to the Dataverse community by hiring a contractor to contribute software improvements, joining the Global Dataverse Community Consortium, completing a reports assessment, beginning a Core Trust Seal audit, an open webinar series called Topics in Research Data Management featuring several research data experts and Dataverse implementers, improving our TDR user documentation, and sharing resources and training materials. Laura Waugh, Chair of the TDR Steering Committee, and Courtney Mumma, Deputy Director of the Texas Digital Library, will share about all of these efforts and some plans moving into the next year.Item Creating Infrastructures for Long Term Digital Preservation for Libraries, Museums and Memory Institutions(2021-10-28) Uzwyshyn, RaymondIn the new millennium, long term digital preservation infrastructures have become important areas for libraries and memory institutions. Academic libraries have particularly taken these areas to heart because of their unique historical role as stewards of knowledge. This presentation provides a pragmatic focus and overview on how to build these new frameworks for digital preservation storage infrastructures in the new millennia for museums, libraries and memory institutions. Best practice models currently implemented at Texas State University Libraries are shared. This includes reviewing requirements for forming a Digital Preservation Working Group to surveying digital preservation tools (i.e. Archivematica, cloud based storage space models). How to conduct a digital storage needs estimate are discussed as well as reviews of consortia and commercial digital storage possibilities (Amazon Web Services, Duracloud, Texas Digital library). The importance of environmental scans in making storage provider recommendations are also emphasized. Outsourcing, working with in-house staff and hybrid options are considered, as well as rationales for long term digital preservation, emerging media standards and new tools for website archiving and archiving unique digital formats.