Library Scholarship Copyright (c) 2013 California Polytechnic State University All rights reserved. http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac Recent documents in Library Scholarship en-us Sun, 02 Jun 2013 01:33:01 PDT 3600 The DigitalCommons@CalPoly: A Case Study on the Development and Implementation of the Institutional Repository http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/97 http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/97 Fri, 31 May 2013 12:51:33 PDT Academe first took notice of institutional repositories (IRs) in 2002, when universities began offering in-house services to manage and disseminate digital materials created by students and faculty. These repositories developed in response to profound changes, both in the needs of faculty and students and in scholarly communication itself. As the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) notes, “…This increased visibility [and] demonstration of value can translate into tangible benefits, including the funding – from both public and private sources – that derives in part from an institution's status and reputation.”1

The Cal Poly Provost and the Library Director viewed an IR as a mechanism to increase the visibility of - and access to - scholarship by Cal Poly faculty, students and campus constituents. At the same time, Cal Poly would join its peers in higher education by contributing to the emerging model of distributed, interoperable repositories that provide the foundation for the new model of scholarly publishing. The Provost pledged an initial 3-year funding commitment to the Library, with expenses from subsequent years to be covered by other means.

At the request of the Provost, a Task Group consisting of Library and Campus Information Technology Services convened in 2006 to investigate the feasibility of launching an IR at Cal Poly. After investigating the resources required to launch a campus IR using open-source and hosted repository options, the committee arrived at the recommendation of using a hosted repository system (Berkeley Electronic Press’ DigitalCommons platform), and hiring two positions (Digital Repository Librarian and Library Assistant).

The Kennedy Library deliberately chose a hosted software solution from Berkeley Electronic Press to keep new staffing at minimum and to focus on contributor recruitment and content management. The Digital Repository Librarian would reach out to contributors and to manage digital assets and their metadata. A support staff position would secure intellectual property permissions and communicate with publishers. Using student assistants, the repository staff members would manage the internal process of bibliographic searching and digitizing articles for ingest into the repository. Organizationally, DigitalCommons staff was located in Special Collections & University Archives to benefit from existing collections and knowledge of the campus. A later reorganization has relocated staff to report to the Director, Information, Resources and Archives within the Library.

1Crow, Raym (2002). The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper. The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). Retrieved from http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/ir_final_release_102.pdf

]]> Marisa Ramirez “Turn Your Cell Phones On” Mobile phone polling as a tool for teaching information literacy http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/96 http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/96 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:32:09 PDT While mobile technologies are ubiquitous among students and increasingly used in many aspects of libraries, they have yet to gain traction in information literacy instruction. Librarians at Champlain College piloted mobile phone polling in a first-year classroom as a less expensive and more versatile alternative to clickers. By utilizing a technology that virtually all students have in their pockets, librarians found that it increased engagement from previous iterations of the session. In addition, by asking poll questions about students’ experiences, librarians were able to facilitate in-depth inquiry into information literacy topics. Ultimately, from direct experience in over 30 different classes, we found that mobile phone polling is a useful tool for any librarian to have in their pedagogical toolbox.

]]> Andy Burkhardt et al. “Real Deal” Information Literacy http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/95 http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/95 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:02:28 PST Janet Cottrell et al. Fun, Thoughtful Technology in the Classroom http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/94 http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/94 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:42:14 PST Andy Burkhardt et al. The Librarian Says… Turn Your Cellphones ON! Piloting Mobile Phones and Polling in Inquiry-Based Information Literacy Instruction http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/93 http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/93 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:42:11 PST Andy Burkhardt et al. Building Brick by Brick: A Pragmatic Approach to Measuring Impact http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/92 http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/92 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:42:09 PST Illustrates pragmatic approaches to building meaningful information literacy impact measures in an imperfect environment.

]]> Sarah Faye Cohen et al. ePortfolios: Good for the Student, Good for the Institution http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/91 http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/91 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:42:07 PST Presentation on the possibilities and pitfalls of an ePortfolio assessment system. Uses our course-embedded, information literacy rubrics as an example of how ePorts can make a difference in teaching and in gaining faculty buy-in.

]]> Jennifer Vincent et al. Social Media: What is it Good For? http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/90 http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/90 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:42:02 PST On the power of 2.0 tools in communication.

]]> Sarah Faye Cohen Percolating the Power of Play http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/89 http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/89 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:42:00 PST The Champlain College Library asked students from our Electronic Game Design Program and the Emergent Media Center to create a game to complement our Information Literacy (IL) program. Little did we know that this collaboration would lead us to question and re-envision what we mean by information literacy. Through the library-student collaboration, it became clear to the Library that words like authority, credibility, reliability, and currency were being used superficially. Clearly, our information literacy efforts needed to focus more on which factors were needed rather than prescribed. In a more abstract environment, like a game, the focus shifts from filling in the right answer to seeking and using the best information in a non-traditional context, as a demonstration of the game will show. Champlain’s IL program now encourages students to recognize and apply information literacy across multiple contexts. By identifying, discussing, and analyzing the information they use every day, students articulate their expectations and goals for the information they use. Those expectations and goals influence their information seeking in all situations, thereby bringing information literacy into students’ lives, not just their assignments. Game Design students’ reactions and understanding of information literacy have shaped the pedagogical approach to information literacy on our campus. Our information literacy program capitalizes and expands on students’ prepossessed knowledge and asks them to be cognizant of these skills in all situations. In doing so, we have an information literacy program that we think will make a difference in students’ lives.

]]> Sarah Faye Cohen et al. Too Much Information: Helping Students Effectively Deal with Information Overload http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/88 http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/88 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:41:57 PST How to help students deal effectively with information overload.

]]> Cyndi Brandenburg et al. Taking 2.0 to the Faculty http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/87 http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/87 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:41:51 PST Presented at Computers in Libraries 2008 about ways to present and discuss 2.0 with your faculty.

]]> Sarah Faye Cohen Rabelais and the Abbey of Saint-Victor Revisited http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/86 http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/86 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:32:31 PDT The seventh chapter of François Rabelais’s Pantagruel concludes with a list of books attributed to the Abbey of Saint-Victor. The chapter’s brief narrative foregrounds the catalog by touching on aspects of intellectual life in Paris, mentioning both the “great University of Paris” and the “seven liberal arts.” It is not surprising, then, that critics have viewed the catalog as a broad critique of scholasticism. Evidence presented here warrants the addition of a further layer of nuance to this critique that is directly related to this abbey’s contributions to education, reading, textual organization, and library classification.

]]> Brett B. Bodemer Early Career Issues in Academic Librarianship http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/85 http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/85 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:36:58 PDT Are you early in your career (< 5 years) as an academic librarian or a library school student thinking about pursuing a career in academic librarianship? Do you have questions or concerns about how to plan your career and stay on track (RPT, anyone?) or even how to land that first job as an academic librarian? Bring your questions, concerns, thoughts, and more and let’s talk! We’ll get out that “elephant in the living room” and have a discussion about the issues that matter most to early career librarians and library school students. Are you an experienced librarian with some advice and suggestions for those early in their careers or just starting out? Please join us and share your thoughts on how to navigate successfully through the bends and turns of the first few years as an academic librarian.

]]> Katherine O'Clair Sell What They're Buying - Marketing Information Literacy http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/84 http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/84 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:36:56 PDT Katherine O'Clair "Our Man Scapin" By Molière. Translated by Brett B. Bodemer http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/83 http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/83 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:55:43 PDT 2012 American translation of Jean Baptiste Poquelin’s Les Fourberies de Scapin. Some liberties taken to mute frequent exclamatory oaths, and no attempt whatsoever to render one character’s dialect into some arbitrarily selected contemporary American equivalent. Any attendant loss of comedic value for some may be seen as a gain in taste by others.

]]> Brett B. Bodemer Champlain College's Miller Information Commons http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/82 http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/82 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:35:41 PDT Sarah Faye Cohen Taking 2.0 to the Faculty: Why, Who, and How http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/81 http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/81 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:35:39 PDT Sarah Faye Cohen Even an Ocean Away: Developing Skype-Based Reference for Students Studying Abroad http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/80 http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/80 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:35:37 PDT Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline the development of a Skype-based, study abroad reference service.

Design/methodology/approach – The paper discusses the criteria used for technology and situates the project in the literature on study abroad reference services.

Findings – Using Skype, a free video-conferencing software, allows librarians to offer reference services to study abroad students effectively, easily, and without new technologies or significant cost.

Originality/value – The paper offers other librarians strategies for developing and launching similar programs and shares challenges encountered to prepare librarians for success in their own projects.

]]> Sarah Faye Cohen et al. The Importance of Search as Intertextual Practice for Undergraduate Research http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/79 http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/79 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:34:32 PDT By first reassessing the role of search in the literacy event of the lower division undergraduate paper, this article argues that searching is not a lower order mental activity but a concurrent, integral component of the research-writing process. This conclusion has large implications for information literacy instructional design, and several practical applications to further support undergraduate research-writing are outlined.

]]> Brett B. Bodemer A Study of Faculty Data Curation Behaviors and Attitudes at a Teaching-Centered University http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/78 http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/78 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:44:38 PDT Academic libraries need reliable information on researcher data needs, data curation practices and attitudes in order to identify and craft appropriate services that support outreach and teaching. This paper describes information gathered from a survey distributed to the College of Science and Mathematics faculty at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly), a Master’s-granting, teaching-centered institution. There was a 60%+ response rate to the survey. The survey results provided insight into the science researchers’ data curation awareness, behaviors and attitudes, and what needs they exhibited for services and education regarding maintenance and management of data. It is important that professional librarians understand what researchers both inside and outside of their own institutions know so that they can collaborate with their university colleagues to examine data curation needs.

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