Staying Vital in a Time of Change
Morning Sessions
Creating an Open Access Journal: A case study
Faculty and staff from UNC Greensboro are collaborating with other U.S. colleges and universities to publish several open access journals. The project to create the Journal of Learning Spaces will be discussed from its conception through its current state of development, covering topics such as publication model, management roles and organizational structure, and marketing. Immediate and potential benefits of the project, such as filling a perceived void in the current literature, increasing opportunities for collaboration across disciplines, supporting University and Libraries goals, raising awareness of scholarly communication issues, and marketing of the Libraries will all be discussed. Open Journal Systems (OJS), the journal management and publishing system used for this project, and the Journal of Learning Spaces will be demonstrated.
Joe Williams & Stephen Dew
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
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Put it to Use: Repurposing Archival Description for Digitization
The NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center is in the process of redesigning its digital program workflows in an attempt to make more digitized archival and manuscript content more readily available for researchers. The workflow creates a "stub," or brief, metadata record that re-purposes existing archival description from collection guides. Digital objects represented by stub records can be published to the web, and select stub records can be assigned to the Libraries' Metadata and Cataloging department for further description. The workflow integrates both digitization into existing SCRC workflows and the SCRC into the Libraries through interdepartmental collaboration. The presentation will include a case study from two architecture-related grant projects currently underway at the SCRC.
Brian Dietz & Jason Ronallo
North Carolina State University
Change is What Keeps It Interesting
Many libraries are experimenting with new positions: instruc-tional designers, scholarly communication librarians, emerging technologies, and information strategists, for example. This session will discuss trends in new positions, how these positions fit within the traditional work of the library, how librarians can adapt to learn these new skills, and what they mean for the future of the field.
Lauren Pressley
Wake Forest University
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Ten Libraries, One goal: Recruiting Future Librarians
The ALA Diversity Counts Report (2005) calls that the field is not recruiting or graduating enough ethnic minority librarians to replace the number expected to retire in the next two decades. In responding to this call, the University Libraries and the Department of Library and Information Studies (LIS) at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, along with nine academic libraries in North Carolina, have created the Academic and Cultural Enrichment (ACE) Scholars Program. This collaborative project assists with recruitment, provides internship opportunities, connects students with experienced academic librarians for mentoring, and offers students with cultural enrichment activities during their MLIS program. This session will present the implementation of the project and the university libraries’ roles in carrying out the Program.
Sha Li Zhang & Gerald Holmes
University of North Carolina, Greensboro