http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/uc_libraries/rss Recent eScholarship items from University of California Systemwide Libraries Wed, 2 Sep 2026 15:19:16 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/95r7x067 This presentation will introduce UC San Diego Library's campus research outputs data dashboard. The interactive dashboard provides a novel, library-centric view of UC San Diego's scholarly ecosystem by consolidating and visualizing data from multiple sources across campus and the UC system.The dashboard began as a proof of concept to better visualize and advertise UC San Diego researcher outputs available in Dimensions, a campus-licensed research intelligence platform that aggregates metadata and metrics about publications, grants, datasets, and patents. The Library’s Research Data Curation group had been receiving questions from campus partners about researcher collaboration, departmental publication counts, and other research metrics, and while answers to these questions could be found in Dimensions, the process was time-consuming and required enough technical expertise to be challenging.We realized that what we needed was a flexible, multi-purpose dashboard that could address... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/95r7x067 Tue, 1 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Labou, Stephanie https://escholarship.org/uc/item/35j676bh Motivations ● BIBFRAME has evolved to v3.0, introducing bf:Hub to support aggregation and collocation ● Community efforts have focused primarily on Creating BIBFRAME data ● Limited attention to reconciling entities transformed from legacy MARC data ○ MARC-to-BIBFRAME transformations typically generate Work and Instance ○ How reconciliation should be done ○ Where it should occur ○ How entities should be managed over time https://escholarship.org/uc/item/35j676bh Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Han, Myung-Ja K. Heng, Greta Lampron, Patricia Kudeki, Deren https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5vs983sk Navigating Machine-Driven Research Landscapes: A Comparative Approach https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5vs983sk Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tranfield, Wynn Caldwell, Christy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9gh9j5j8 <p>In Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun, Crystal Mun-hye Baik blends different genres, from narrative prose to epistles to ancestral mourning rites, to offer an intimate cultural history of war, illness, and estrangement through the experiential lens of her family.</p><p>This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support of the University of California Libraries.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9gh9j5j8 Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Mun-hye Baik, Crystal https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8n14f2rj <p>This book argues that major patterns of variation across languages are structured by general principles of efficiency in language use and communication. Evidence for these comes from languages permitting structural choices from which selections are made in performance, e.g. between competing word orders and between relative clauses with a resumptive pronoun versus a gap. The preferences and patterns of performance within languages are reflected in the fixed conventions and variation patterns across grammars, leading to a ‘‘Performance–Grammar Correspondence Hypothesis.’’ The general theory that is laid out in Hawkins’s Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars (OUP) is extended and updated. New areas of grammar and of performance are discussed, new research findings are incorporated that test Hawkins’s earlier predictions, and new advances in the contributing fields of language processing, linguistic theory, historical linguistics, and typology are addressed. This efficiency approach... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8n14f2rj Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Hawkins, John A https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9bk8k9gk <p>Migration is a dramatic behaviour distinct from other movements. It is an important component of life histories of biodiverse organisms including terrestrial and marine vertebrates, insects, many invertebrates, and the propagules of some plants. This sequel discusses migration across a wide range of groups and species drawing comparisons to illuminate migratory life cycles and their evolution. It takes an integrative approach to migration as a physiological and behavioural phenomenon with important ecological consequences. Part I defines migration in relation to other movements, provides examples, and includes an updated chapter on recent results from newly developed electronic tracking and other methods. Part II surveys proximate mechanisms including physiology, morphology, constraints, the use of winds and currents, and new discoveries regarding the ability to orient and navigate. Part III on the evolution of migratory life histories is the longest section of the book. It... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9bk8k9gk Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Dingle, Hugh https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9px4j6kw <p>This book examines the 20-year aftermath of the 1989 assaults on established, state-sponsored socialism in the former Soviet bloc and in China. It brings together prominent experts on Eastern Europe and China to examine the respective trajectories of political, economic and social transformations that unfolded in these two areas, while also comparing the changes that ensued within the two regions. The volume features paired comparisons, with one chapter on the countries from the former Soviet bloc and one on China for each of the following themes: the reinstitutionalization of politics, the recasting of state-society relations, the reform of economic systems, changes in economic behavior, and transformations of social institutions. Even if they differ in their specific substantive focus and in their disciplinary grounding, the chapters share a concern with the fate of the state in postsocialism. They elaborate on topics such as the transformations of the old socialist state... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9px4j6kw Wed, 1 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8rx981q0 <p>Drawing lessons from the intersection of literature, photography, cinema, television, dance-drama, and ethnography, this book presents a unique analysis of Indian activist thought spread over two centuries. It discusses two presuppositions of liberal individualism: personal autonomy and ethical autonomy. Besides, it argues that the ‘individual’ has been creatively indigenized in modern non-Western cultures: thinkers attentive to gender in postcolonial cultures embrace selected ethical premises of the Enlightenment and its human rights discourse while they refuse possessive individualism. Debating influential schools of postcolonial and transnational studies, the chapter provides radical argument through a rich tapestry of gender portrayals drawn from two moments of modern Indian thought: the rise of humanism in the colony and the growth of new individualism in contemporary liberalized India. From autobiographical texts by nineteenth century Bengali prostitutes, point-of-view... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8rx981q0 Wed, 1 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 De, Esha Niyogi https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7k74t0s3 <p>This book presents a roadmap for an evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It brings together theory from biology and cognitive science to show how the brain can be composed of specialized adaptations, and yet also be an organ of plasticity. Although mental adaptations have typically been seen as monolithic, hardwired components frozen in the evolutionary past, this book presents a new view of mental adaptations as diverse and variable, with distinct functions and evolutionary histories that shape how they develop, what information they use, and what they do with it. The book describes how advances in evolutionary developmental biology can be applied to the brain by focusing on the design of the developmental systems that build it. Crucially, developmental systems can be adaptively plastic, designed by the process of natural selection to build adaptive phenotypes using the rich information available in our social and physical environments. This approach bridges... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7k74t0s3 Wed, 1 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Brodbeck, David https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7d5678ps <p>This book provides an introduction to the field-theoretic methods and computer simulation techniques used in the design of structured polymeric fluids for a wide variety of applications. By such methods, the principles that dictate equilibrium self-assembly in systems ranging from block and graft copolymers, to polyelectrolytes, liquid crystalline polymers, and polymer nanocomposites can be established. Building on an introductory discussion of single-polymer statistical mechanics, the book provides a detailed treatment of analytical and numerical techniques for addressing the statistical properties of polymers subjected to spatially-varying potential fields. This problem is shown to be central to the field-theoretic description of interacting polymeric fluids, and models for a number of important polymer systems are elaborated. Self-consistent field theory is treated in detail, which is a collection of analytical and numerical techniques for obtaining solutions of polymer... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7d5678ps Wed, 1 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Fredrickson, Glenn https://escholarship.org/uc/item/72w2g65n <p>This book covers the essential elements of engineering mechanics for mechanical elements in tension-compression, torsion, and bending. Its approach emphasizes a fundamental bottom-up approach to the subject for a concise and uncluttered presentation. Each problem class is firmly rooted in its underlying kinematic assumption, and the concepts of equilibrium and material response are carefully separated. The technical theory is connected to the three-dimensional theory with a careful emphasis on kinematic assumptions and the selected use of material models for plastic response, as well as composite or inhomogeneous material distributions. Buckling phenomena and the principles of stationary potential energy and stationary complementary potential energy are covered in detail for both exact as well as approximate solutions. The principles of virtual work – virtual displacements and virtual forces – are treated, and their relation to potential energy methods as well as the basic... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/72w2g65n Wed, 1 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Govindjee, Sanjay https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6nq5r1gz <p>Seemingly every day society faces a new ethical challenge raised by a scientific innovation. Human genetic engineering, stem cell research, face transplantation, synthetic biology – all were science fiction only a few decades ago, but are now all are reality. How do we as a society decide whether these technologies are ethical? For decades professional bioethicists have served as a mediator between a busy public and decision-makers, helping people understand their own ethical concerns, framing arguments, discrediting illogical claims and lifting up promising ones. These bioethicists operate in multiple venues such as hospital decision-making, institutions that conduct research on humans, and recommending ethical policy to the government. While functioning quite well for many years, the bioethics profession is in crisis. Policy-makers are less inclined to take the advice of bioethics professionals, with many observers saying that bioethics debates have simply become partisan... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6nq5r1gz Wed, 1 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Evans, John H https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5wb930nx <p>How can “Speaking Rights to Power” construct political will to respond to human rights abuse worldwide? Examining dozens of cases of human rights campaigns, this book shows how communication politics build recognition, solidarity, and social change. The book presents an innovative analysis of the politics of persuasion, based in the strategic use of voice, framing, media, protest performance, and audience bridging. Building on twenty years of research on five continents, this comprehensive study ranges from Aung San Suu Kyi to Anna Hazare, from Congo to Colombia, from Arab Spring to Pussy Riot. It includes both well-chronicled campaigns like the struggle to end violence against women, as well as lesser-known efforts, such as interethnic human rights alliances in the United States. Cases of relative success are carefully compared with unavailing struggles. The author's analysis is grounded in the concrete practice of human rights campaigns and derives testable strategic guidance... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5wb930nx Wed, 1 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Brysk, Alison https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5rv7b17h <p>Forty years ago, managerialism dominated corporate governance. In both theory and practice, a team of senior managers ran the corporation with little or no interference from other stakeholders. Boards of directors were little more than rubber stamps. Today, corporate governance looks very different. In particular, several trends have coalesced to encourage more active and effective board oversight. Much director compensation is now paid in stock, for example, which helps align director and shareholder interests. Courts have made clear that effective board processes and oversight are essential if board decisions are to receive the deference traditionally accorded to them under the business judgment rule, especially insofar as structural decisions are concerned (such as those relating to management buy-outs). Third, director conduct is constrained by an active market for corporate control, ever-rising rates of shareholder litigation, and, some say, activist shareholders. As a... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5rv7b17h Wed, 1 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bainbridge, Stephen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5r80h5td <p>This book uses documents that allow an intimate look at two crises that wracked and ultimately destroyed the convent of La Purísima Concepción in San Miguel el Grande, New Spain (Mexico). At the heart of each rebellion was an attempt by some nuns to impose a regimen of strict observance of their vows on the others, and the resistance mounted by those who had a different view of the convent and their own role in it. Would the community adopt as austere a lifestyle as they could endure, doing manual labor, suffering hunger and physical discomfort, deprived of the society of family and friends? Or would these women be allowed to lead comfortable and private lives when not at prayer? Drawing on an abundance of sources, including numerous letters written by the bishop and local vicar as well as nuns of both factions, this book gives us not just the voices but the personalities of the nuns and other actors.</p><p> <em>This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5r80h5td Wed, 1 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Chowning, Margaret https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5557j1g2 <p>This book presents the most comprehensive study yet of a problem that has puzzled physicists and philosophers since the 1930s. The standard theory of quantum mechanics is in one sense the most successful physical theory ever, predicting the behaviour of the basic constituents of all physical things; no other theory has ever made such accurate empirical predictions. However, if one tries to understand the theory as providing a complete and accurate framework for the description of the behaviour of all physical interactions, it becomes evident that the theory is ambiguous, or even logically inconsistent. The most notable attempt to formulate the theory so as to deal with this problem, the quantum measurement problem, was initiated by Hugh Everett III in the 1950s. This book gives a careful and challenging examination and evaluation of the work of Everett and those who have followed him. The informal approach, minimizing technicality, makes the book accessible and illuminating... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5557j1g2 Wed, 1 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Barrett, Jeffrey A https://escholarship.org/uc/item/53j5p0pb <p>This book offers a new approach to longstanding philosophical puzzles about what colors are and how they fit into the natural world. The author argues for a role-functionalist treatment of color — a view according to which colors are identical to certain functional roles involving perceptual effects on subjects. The author first argues (on broadly empirical grounds) for the more general relationalist view that colors are constituted in terms of relations between objects, perceivers, and viewing conditions. He responds to semantic, ontological, and phenomenological objections against this thesis, and argues that relationalism offers the best hope of respecting both empirical results and ordinary belief about color. He then defends the more specific role-functionalist account by contending that the latter is the most plausible form of color relationalism.</p><p> <em>This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support of the University of California... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/53j5p0pb Wed, 1 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Cohen, Jonathan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3rq4m6hx <p>Most Americans are insulated from the poor; it is hard to imagine the challenges of poverty, the daily fears of crime and victimization, the frustration of not being able to provide for a child. Instead, we are often exposed to the rhetoric and hyperbole about the excesses of the American welfare system. These messages color our perception of the welfare problem in the United States and they close the American mind to a full understanding of the complexity of family poverty. But who are these poor families? What do we know about how they arrived in such desperate straits? Is poverty their fate for a lifetime or for only a brief period? Faces of Poverty answers these questions as it dispels the misconceptions and myths about welfare and the welfare population that have clouded the true picture of poverty in America. Over the course of a year, the author spent numerous hours as a participant-observer with five women and their families, documenting their daily activities, thoughts,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3rq4m6hx Wed, 1 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Berrick, Jill Duerr https://escholarship.org/uc/item/37j366j5 <p>Drawing inspiration from the philosophy of Pragmatism, this book argues for a new “problem-solving democracy,” where public agencies build consent for public policy by engaging the public in active problem-solving. More so than legislatures, public agencies serve as linchpins between popular sovereignty and on-the-ground governance. For pubic agencies to play a different role in democracy, we must re-imagine how they function as organizations and interact with the public. The Pragmatist philosophy associated with Charles Peirce, William James, John Dewey, George Herbert Mead provides a framework for re-imagining that role. Pragmatism advances an evolutionary, learning-oriented perspective that stresses problem-driven, reflexive, and deliberative public action. The book uses this evolutionary learning perspective to analyze how public agencies might overcome tensions between centralization and decentralization, engage in more strategic problem-solving, and facilitate collaborative... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/37j366j5 Wed, 1 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Ansell, Christopher K https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1xv856gf <p>This book presents a roadmap for an evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It brings together theory from biology and cognitive science to show how the brain can be composed of specialized adaptations, and yet also be an organ of plasticity. Although mental adaptations have typically been seen as monolithic, hardwired components frozen in the evolutionary past, this book presents a new view of mental adaptations as diverse and variable, with distinct functions and evolutionary histories that shape how they develop, what information they use, and what they do with it. The book describes how advances in evolutionary developmental biology can be applied to the brain by focusing on the design of the developmental systems that build it. Crucially, developmental systems can be adaptively plastic, designed by the process of natural selection to build adaptive phenotypes using the rich information available in our social and physical environments. This approach bridges... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1xv856gf Wed, 1 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Barrett, H. Clark https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1x14f1d3 <p>The European Union's (EU) market integration project has dramatically altered economic activity around Europe. This book presents evidence on how trade has increased, jobs have been created, and European business has been reorganized. The changes in the economy have been accompanied by dramatic changes in how people from different societies interact. This book argues that these changes have produced a truly transnational European society. The book explores the nature of that society and its relationship to the creation of a European identity, popular culture, and politics. Much of the current political conflict around Europe can be attributed to who is and who is not involved in European society. Business owners, managers, professionals, white-collar workers, the educated, and the young have all benefited from European economic integration, specifically by interacting more and more with their counterparts in other societies. They tend to think of themselves as Europeans. Older,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1x14f1d3 Wed, 1 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Fligstein, Neil https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jw7s62s <p>Since the late 19th century, Jews and Arabs have been locked in an intractable battle for national recognition in a land of tremendous historical and geopolitical significance. While historians and political scientists have long analyzed the dynamics of this bitter conflict, rarely has an archaeology of the mind of those who reside within the matrix of conflict been attempted. This book not only offers a psychological analysis of the consequences of conflict for the psyche, it develops an innovative, compelling, and cross-disciplinary argument about the mutual constitution of culture and mind through the process of life-story construction. But the book pushes boundaries further through an analysis of two peace education programs designed to fundamentally alter the nature of young Israeli and Palestinian life stories. This book argues that these popular interventions, rooted in the idea of prejudice reduction through contact and the cultivation of “cosmopolitan” identities,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jw7s62s Wed, 1 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Hammack, Phillip L https://escholarship.org/uc/item/17c6k4bm <p>The impact of antitrust law on sports is in the news all the time, especially when there is labor conflict between players and owners, or when a team wants to move to a new city. And if the majority of Americans have only the vaguest sense of what antitrust law is, most know one thing about it—that baseball is exempt. This book illuminates the series of court rulings that resulted in one of the most curious features of our legal system: baseball's exemption from antitrust law. The book provides a history of the game as seen through the prism of an extraordinary series of courtroom battles, ranging from 1890 to the present. The book looks at such pivotal cases as the 1922 Supreme Court case which held that federal antitrust laws did not apply to baseball; the 1972 Flood v. Kuhn decision that declared that baseball is exempt even from state antitrust laws; and several cases from the 1950s, one involving boxing and the other football, that made clear that the exemption is only... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/17c6k4bm Wed, 1 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Banner, Stuart https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8hv8c7r5 At the UC Libraries Forum 2025, “Standing Up &amp; Standing Out: Libraries in Turbulent Times,” the UC Council of University Librarians (CoUL) will host and participate in a discussion panel moderated by UC San Diego AUL Roger Smith on Tuesday, October 21 from 10:45 am to 12:15 pm. CoUL members and Roger look forward to discussing approaches to and shared priorities for advancing collaborative library work, including during turbulent times. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8hv8c7r5 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Smith, Roger Waibel, Günter Wones, Suzanne Shaffer, Chris Tanji, Lorelei Jackson, Athena Li, Haipeng Moxham, Tiffany Mitchell, Erik Grappone, Todd Cowell, M. Elizabeth Garrity, William https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8br9p2rx <p>In times where turbulence is amplified, how do the archives we sustain, sustain us as keepers of history, culture, and memory? From family photos to library collections to seedbanks, how do these archives prepare us? Along with offering material resources and guidance for everyday thriving, how do the archives we grow <em>require</em> other(ed) ways of knowing such as storytelling, communal reflection, and ecological wisdom? Ways of knowing that can further support collective sustenance in these times? For this keynote talk, Dr. Naya turns to diverse ways of knowing to reflect on these questions - and to create space for pause. Grounded in Black ecologies, BIPOC feminisms, and the Mojave Desert where she lives, she interweaves <em>testimonio</em> or personal testimony about co-creating community archives with insights from desert plants who know much about surviving uncertainty. Throughout, participants will have opportunities to personally reflect on archive-inspired prompts... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8br9p2rx Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Armendarez Jones, Naya, PhD https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5460491n As restrictive licensing, and privatization reshape our digital world, the library mission, to provide preservation and access to knowledge, has never been more urgent. In this keynote, Kyle K. Courtney will explore how the intertwined forces of copyright, licensing, and information control shape what we can know, and who gets to decide. Librarians must reclaim their role as defenders of access, privacy, and intellectual freedom, standing up for knowledge with courage, creativity, and conviction. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5460491n Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Courtney, Kyle K., Esq. Garrity, William Davidson Squibb, Sara Chau, Selena https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4kg293nq <p>Challenges have always surrounded OERs, today we are faced with even more challenges as we navigate a landscape of budget cuts, lack of grant opportunities, and attacks on DEIA. Amid this negative climate we are more than ever in a space to bring about something positive for our students in the UC system.</p><p>At UC Irvine, we recently completed a faculty incentive initiative to move course materials to open or library-licensed materials. We awarded three grants in as many years. However, in exploring this topic further we were able to see the vast work that the faculty are doing behind the scenes. More than half of the bookstore’s grid each quarter for the last fiscal year are courses with no required textbooks, and those noting their course uses open educational resources (OER) is slowly increasing.</p><p><strong>We are interested in hearing how other UC campuses approach affordability efforts and library-licensed course materials, including</strong>:</p><ul> <li>How does... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4kg293nq Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Carpenter, Nicole Cullen, Carrie Avila, Antoinette https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4281k3vf <p>Academic library workers are facing a test of our commitment to the core professional values with the alarming, widespread acts of U.S. government censorship and budgetary and legal attacks on higher education institutions and the national research infrastructure. This situation impacts the equitable exercise of intellectual freedom and freedom of expression in academic libraries, including the University of California Libraries, and in our campus and broader communities.<br><br>This critical conversation session will be an opportunity for UC library workers to discuss how to uphold our professional ethics and values as articulated by the American Library Association in the face of day to day challenges to research, publishing, teaching, and learning; the larger threats to scholarly inquiry, knowledge, and education; and questioning of efforts aimed at creating more inclusive, diverse, and equitable libraries and library related services.<br><br>As UC libraries weather shifting... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4281k3vf Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Schiff, Lisa Garzón Vargas, Carly https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9qs8g0nx <p>At UC San Diego, facing significant state, university, and library budget constraints this year, collection strategists were asked to reduce local collections spending by approximately half of their $3 million spend within about two months.<br><br>At UC Berkeley, the collections budget had to be reduced by $1.7 million over the course of two years starting in 2022, driving the arts and humanities division to cut 14% across their funds.<br><br>This presentation will cover two main aspects of these projects: First, a summary overview of each project will include a discussion of the parameters and restrictions, how targets were developed for spending reductions across acquisition models and formats, the data used for decision-making, and the communication process with colleagues and campus. Second, the panel members will explore the differences in approach across a full range of subject areas when allocating funds and determining which subscriptions to keep or cancel. This will... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9qs8g0nx Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Scheel, Abby Schmitt, Dave Chen, Xi Ngow, Zemirah Sklar, Annelise Vogel, Teri Ostermiller, Hillary https://escholarship.org/uc/item/82d8d70b <p>Launched in 2011, Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History Project, is home to over 400 oral histories, 221 oral histories are currently available online via Calisphere. The Viet Stories collection is by far our most frequently accessed digital collection with an estimated 2,606,575 total visits (~20,000 visits per month). It is used worldwide by K-12 educators, higher education, researchers, artists, students, and community members. There are over 200+ remaining oral histories with audio, video, documents and photographs we are working on processing (retrieving files off hard drives, transcribing, translating, writing abstracts, etc.). These new additions required taking into consideration how new technologies can be utilized to efficiently and effectively process and sustain the collection.<br><br>As part of the mission of the Southeast Asian Archive founded in 1987, the project contributes to expanding archives on Vietnamese Americans with the primary goal of capturing... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/82d8d70b Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Dickerson, Madelynn Eagle Yun, Audra Huynh, Julia Arroyo-Ramírez, Elvia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7z02r37w The Northern and Southern Regional Library Facilities (the RLFs) were established in the 1980s to cost-effectively preserve and provide continuing access to UC’s library collections. By design, these facilities and their expert teams directly advance UC’s academic mission, while lessening campus space crises and securing significant operational efficiencies at scale. Now, an important strategic and operational transition is underway to transform the RLFs into fully Systemwide Library Facilities (SLFs). This transformation is a direct reflection of the value of these facilities to the long-term goals and resiliency of the UC Libraries. A panel of UC leaders will come together to present on the path that led to this key strategic shift, how it reinforces critical infrastructure, and the opportunities for UC Libraries moving into the future – both internally and in partnership with libraries across the country. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7z02r37w Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tanji, Lorelei Wones, Suzanne Jackson, Athena Wohlers, Alison https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6w17d5pn Includes three presentations of 15 minutes each. A study investigating undergraduate students’ feelings of welcomeness in UC Santa Cruz Library study space and the themes that emerged. A library-wide effort to cultivate welcoming students-centered library spaces with the UC Irvine Libraries’ Student Displays Programs. An empathic design model applied to the UC San Diego Library’s Spaces Lending &amp; Access (SLA) program to create a more efficient, supportive, and inclusive work environment. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6w17d5pn Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Waggoner, Jess Bruner, Victoria Fowler, Nicholas Baltes, Cheryl Santos, Leialani Motil, Glen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/67n589v3 Includes three presentations of 15 minutes each. A presentation describing partnership between the Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) Library and the Internet Archive on a large-scale digitization project known as the Local Government Documents Digitization Project (LoCAL Dig Project). A presentation outlining the importance of making research data trustworthy and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) alongside a description of a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) to establish a library-centered rescue effort (not recorded). An overview of a collaborative initiative to address threats posed to Ukrainian state records through web archiving using platforms such as the Internet Archive. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/67n589v3 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Kasianovitz, Kris Stine, Kathryn Janée, Greg Brun, Julien Pendse, Liladhar R. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5251t4qf <p>Soaring economic constraints on library budgets, coupled with efforts by publishers to curtail use of content for computational research or with AI tools, mean that UC libraries must be savvier than ever in employing licensing strategies to protect scholars’ rights to use the materials on which we spend more than $60 million each year. Entry barriers to licensing work—including concerns about the legal expertise required, and the fear of “messing up”—can mean that library staff shy away from digging in. We invite you to join a half-day, practical, and hands-on workshop to hone your licensing skills and build confidence. By the end of the session, you will be able to understand key provisions of electronic resource agreements, and learn to revise agreements in ways that protect scholars’ interests while complying with UC policy.</p><p>The workshop will be taught and facilitated by licensing experts from UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and UC Irvine, UC Riverside, and California Digital... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5251t4qf Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Samberg, Rachael Teremi, Samantha Henry, Elizabeth Spagnolo, Lisa Goessling, Evelyn Ryan, Carly Arbagey, Carla https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4sz0x5jk Includes three presentations of 15 minutes each. The California Digital Library (CDL) describes its multi-faceted strategy to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title II web requirements. The UC Berkeley Library shares the approaches taken, tools used, and challenges faced to create fully inclusive online spaces through its digital accessibility program. Presenters share the collaborative origins and growing connections between the UC Berkeley Library and Research IT to establish the Research Data Management (RDM) Program to support data-driven research. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4sz0x5jk Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lu, Rachael Loesberg, Jesse Foster, Erin Sackmann, Anna https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4dd5q44r Following a UC systemwide commitment in 2018 to leverage the size of our coalition and our investment in library collections to negotiate for agreements which make UC research outputs openly available, a cross-institutional working group including faculty, university librarians, associate university librarians, and library staff was formed to oversee the shift from subscription content licenses to open access publishing agreements. In this panel session, several members of this working group will offer reports on the progress, impacts, and outlook of this negotiation effort, including its successes, failures, and lessons learned. Panelists will offer their unique perspectives on what this effort has meant for UC researchers, for the UC libraries, and for the global research community. Attendees will have the opportunity to gain insight into this important UC library initiative and ask questions of those who are deeply engaged in this work. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4dd5q44r Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bennett, Miranda Willmott, Mathew De Prano, Maria Ladisch, Michael McClung, Sarah Mitchell, Erik Schneider, Rich https://escholarship.org/uc/item/49m7n539 Includes two presentations of 15 minutes and two lightning talks of five minutes. UCLA Library Special Collections (LSA) shares its implementation of a high-density storage project pilot to consolidate bibliographic materials to maximize storage space. The departments of Special Collections &amp; University Archives and Digitization &amp; Conversation Strategies at UC Riverside partner to classify space allocations based on size and materials needs for art / object storage and choose CatalogIt to document its art and object collection. The UC Berkeley Library Preservation Department shares a project to identify microfilm reels of acetate and convert those to polyester microfilm. The UC Berkeley Library describes the steps it took to confirm the presence of heavy metals in 19th century books and then to develop and implement protocols and procedures to allow for continued use but to prevent chronic exposure and mitigate health concerns. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/49m7n539 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Jacobs, Courtney Connick, Abigail Hodge, Neil Ives, Zoe Bean, Christina Geiser, Jessica Sallee, Rosemary Tashjian, Hannah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gb5h75s Includes four presentations of 15 minutes each. Presenters highlight the effective UC Libraries collaboration for purchase of electronic collections and propose that there are additional opportunities for collaborative print collections based on a collection overlap analysis using Choreo, GreenGlass, and Alma Analytics (UC Berkeley). An overview of methods to conduct a diversity audit of an academic collection including typical outputs, advantages and disadvantages including the implementation of a checklist method to improve collection diversity (UC Davis). Use of Alma Analytics to harvest usage of electronic data across platforms that is fed into a customizable dashboard in order to provide up-to-date insights and inform collection development decisions (UC Berkeley). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gb5h75s Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Çelik, Osman Silva, Jesse Craig, Cory Dezember, Jason Ho, Ronald Gallucci, Joseph Dessem, Yasmin https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2fm2p20b Three presentations explore the following topics: UCLA Film &amp; Television Archive highlights the digital restoration of the 1970s film WE’RE ALIVE, initiated by UCLA Women’s Film Workshop which saw student filmmakers documenting the lives of incarcerated women in the California Institute for Women (CIW). The development of a flexible and innovative granting program from the Hugo and Christine Davies Fund that has supported a myriad of music-related projects under the auspices of the Rubsamen Music Library at UCLA. Creating culturally relevant teaching to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion through framing library instruction and programming at UC Davis Library from a non-western epistemological lens. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2fm2p20b Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Borders, Jillian Vest, Matthew Hamori, Kate Hernandez, Rebecca https://escholarship.org/uc/item/28z5h6t1 <p>In line with the University of California values, eScholarship’s open access journals program works to embed diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) in its training materials. In the last year, the eScholarship team has implemented a required webinar for all journal editors that provides an overview of major DEIA topics in scholarly publishing. These topics include diversifying editorial boards, staff, author pools, and peer reviewers; implementing inclusive language and style guides; and meeting accessibility standards – all important for inclusive and accessible design; representing the diversity of campus communities; reaching out to underserved communities; developing codes of conduct that protect against discrimination and harassment, and giving editorial staff the tools to confront the challenges of our current context.<br><br>In this proposed session, we will describe our goals for creating and conducting this DEIA webinar for eScholarship journal editors,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/28z5h6t1 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Karby, Amanda Mitchell, Catherine Roh, Charlotte https://escholarship.org/uc/item/22w6g0x9 The UC Libraries has charged the Digital Preservation Working Group to develop a framework for digital preservation for the UC Libraries, focused on services, tools and products in this area. The framework will be informed by the known best practices in the field and will include the results of the high-level gap analysis survey DPWG conducted in the winter of 2024. The gap analysis was modeled after the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) Rapid Assessment Model and identifies the services, structures, or staffing needed in the UC Libraries to support digital preservation. The DPWG proposes to share with the UC Libraries community the way that we approached our work and share an update on our work. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/22w6g0x9 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 McAulay, Elizabeth Lin, Emily Chesley Perry, Sue https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jr6b12f <p>UC Santa Cruz Special Collections and Archives has a rich tradition of engaging students across disciplines in archival practice through programs designed for both graduates and undergraduates. Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, the Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) supports graduate student development through immersion in archival processing, research, and exhibition curation, while new models like our Undergraduate Internship Program aims to provide a similar experience to an undergraduate interested in pursuing graduate education in libraries and archives. Through these programs, archivists collaborate and share expertise in order to provide meaningful, practical experiences to students, while students share their content expertise in helping to make our archival collections accessible through collection guides and exhibitions.</p><p>The panel will include both archivists and students, who will present on three case studies: 1) processing the papers... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jr6b12f Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Norton, Alix Knox, Kelsey Gudmundson, Emily Berry, Annika Havstad, Lou https://escholarship.org/uc/item/12q7g7km <p>In 2023, the UC Libraries Direction and Oversight Committee (DOC) signaled a green light to implement a prototype of Lyrasis’ Palace ebook reader at a UC campus to allow for further evaluation. Benefiting from work at New York University and Columbia University, UC Davis launched a pilot in Spring 2025 delivering a mobile ebook reading service with over 140,000 scholarly ebook titles available to students and faculty. Additionally, a new partnership with the California State Library Palace Project, added another 300,000 ebooks and audiobooks to the collection.<br><br>This session reveals how launching a disruptive technology is only one step towards creating resilient library infrastructure.While the easy-to-use app utilizes library-developed open-source software, the project ran into substantial challenges with collection development, acquisition and metadata. The pilot’s reliance on one for-profit publisher nearly resulted in disruption as the business announced their upcoming... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/12q7g7km Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Polchow, Michelle Brantley, Peter English, James Lin, Nancy Heyer-Gray, Robert https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0hv8h2sg <p>As our library systems adapt to ever-growing volumes of data and new security vulnerabilities, several UC Library Development Teams are adopting DevOps (Development Operations) practices to meet these challenges. DevOps practices promise to enable teams to tackle problems at a “cloud” scale. The adoption of DevOps practices comes with a significant learning curve. The traditional roles of software developers and systems administrators are blurred in the process. How ready are our library development teams to adapt to these changes?</p><p>This panel will feature presenters from development teams at CDL, UCB, SCSB, UCSC and UCSD. Each of the represented teams are at different stages of adoption of DevOps practices. Each panelist will provide a brief introduction to the DevOps practices that their teams have in place as well as their teams plans and hopes for future adoption. Each panelist will describe the challenges they are encountering in implementing these practices. Lastly,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0hv8h2sg Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Brady, Terry Critchlow, Matt Schwab, Ryan Dunn, Alex Schmidt, Dan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/03c4w425 <p>Hospital mergers and acquisitions (M&amp;As) have become increasingly common in academic medical centers, UC included. They are often driven by financial pressures, strategic realignment, and/or efforts to expand services. While much attention is paid to the operational and clinical ramifications of these changes, their impact on institutions’ libraries is often overlooked. Libraries are rarely included in early stage campus discussions about M&amp;As, despite the long range effects these additions have on everything from licensing to service points to resource access.</p><p>This panel discussion will be facilitated by three librarians from UC campuses currently navigating the complexities of hospital M&amp;As: San Francisco, San Diego, and Irvine. With backgrounds primarily in collection development, we will share how mergers have affected resource pricing, licensing negotiations, and collections scope at our respective campuses. We will then invite participants to share their... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/03c4w425 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 McClung, Sarah Ngow, Zemirah Perez-Gilbe, Hector https://escholarship.org/uc/item/01c7c69w Standing Up for Colleagues by Creating Inclusive Spaces and Growth Opportunities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/01c7c69w Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Miraglia, Elizabeth Saber-Bilder, Luna Garcia Mazari, Sheila Hare, Sarah Crumrine, Seth Tranfield, Wynn Norton, Alix Wilmot, Moni https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8xh82703 <p>Indigenous Archives&nbsp;analyzes the modes through which young Guatemalan Mayas in Los Angeles and Guatemala make sense of and respond to transnational structures of settler colonialism. Drawing on in-depth analysis of cultural production and interviews with Guatemalan Maya youth and young adults, Floridalma Boj Lopez examines how Mayas in diaspora craft and circulate narratives about their experiences across borders. Citing a more active practice of “archives in formation,” Boj Lopez depicts Indigenous archives as a cross-generational, collective conversation rooted in memory, survival, and cultural expression where Indigenous cultural practices and artifacts move, adapt, and assert their presence in the contemporary.&nbsp;Indigenous Archives&nbsp;invites readers to consider Indigeneity as a process, lived experience, and historical perspective, rather than as a static identity, and shows how extending analysis across borders is critical to understanding Latinidad and Indigeneity.</p><p> ... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8xh82703 Tue, 3 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Boj Lopez, Floridalma https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7bg2m3b2 <p>Lauren Derby explores storytelling traditions between the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, focusing on shapeshifting spirit demons called baka/bacá as a way to reckon with a shared history of enslavement, colonialism, and exploitation.</p><p> <em>This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support of the University of California Libraries.</em> </p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7bg2m3b2 Tue, 3 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Derby, Lauren https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9r22k58w The University of California (UC) Libraries<em> Advancing Open Monograph Opportunities at UC</em>&nbsp;public report provides a comprehensive strategic framework for advancing open access (OA) monograph publishing across the University. It recognizes that UC, as a global research leader, is uniquely positioned to influence the future of open monograph publishing by fostering sustainable, equitable, and high-impact models that align with the University’s mission of research excellence, equity, and public service. This report, which was developed through a multi-track open monographs initiative launched by the UC Libraries in Spring 2025, builds on the foundation of the <a href="/uc/item/5gc4r5mg">2018 Pathways to Open Access toolkit</a>. While that earlier work analyzed open models, frameworks and strategies broadly, this 2025 analysis addresses the distinct challenges and opportunities associated with OA monographs and supporting UC authors at scale. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9r22k58w Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Uziel, Lidia Mitchell, Erik T. Bennett, Miranda Kehr, Bryan Ladisch, Michael Stone, Scott M. Swift, Allegra van Rijn, Erich https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7rf4m22k <p>In <em>The Aesthetic Character of Blackness</em>, Jemma DeCristo theorizes the means by which black art liberates the free world but does not and cannot liberate black people. Drawing on Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alain Locke and as well as the aesthetic thought of Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schiller, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Theodor Adorno, DeCristo critiques the exaltation of black culture and art’s saving power by analyzing the violence underneath aesthetic production. She tracks black music’s representational and anti-representational capacities in projects of black non/humanization from nineteenth-century abolitionism and the founding of the recording industry to the emergence of black queer blues performers and the rise of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Theorizing the contemporary neoliberalization of black audio-visual spectacle, DeCristo ultimately demonstrates that the voluptuous world of black aesthetics beautifies an anti-black world that wields... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7rf4m22k Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 DeCristo, Jemma https://escholarship.org/uc/item/58c466zc <p><em>The Invasion</em>, a novel originally published in 1932, marked the debut of historical novelist Janet Lewis, who went on to write numerous poems and short stories as well as the novels The Wife of Martin Guerre and The Trial of Soren Quist. Lewis grew up in the Lake country of the Old Northwest and The Invasion is based on family stories she heard as a child. The Invasion displays well-researched historical accuracy, an innate understanding of and feeling for Native American culture enhanced by the author's fluency in the Ojibway language, and an economy of style that is remarkable for a first novel. In 1790, John Johnston, a cultivated young Irishman, came to the far corner of the Northwest Territory to make his fortune intending to spend only a year. Instead he married Ozhah-guscoday- wayquay (The Woman of the Glade), daughter of the Ojibway chief Waub- ojeeg, and settled on the St. Mary's River. Together they founded a family that was loved, respected, and famous throughout... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/58c466zc Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Lewis, Janet https://escholarship.org/uc/item/45m888rs <p>This landmark anthology is an essential guide to the histories of Native women’s lives in earlier centuries. Sixteen classic essays, plus new commentary—many by the original authors, describe a broad range of research methods and sources offering insight into the lives of Native American women. The authors explain the use of letters and diaries, memoirs and autobiographies, newspaper accounts and ethnographies, census data and legal documents. This collection offers guidelines for extracting valuable information from such diverse sources and assessing the significance of a such variables as religious affiliation, changes in women’s power after colonization, connections between economics and gender, and representations of Native women.</p><p> <em>This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support of the University of California Libraries.</em> </p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/45m888rs Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4197m447 <p>"The White Man does not understand the Indian for the reason that he does not understand America. He is too far removed from its formative process. The roots of the tree of his life have not yet grasped rock and soil." The words of Lakota writer Luther Standing Bear foretold the current debate on the value of Native American studies in higher education. Studying Native America addresses for the first time in a comprehensive way the place of this critical discipline in the university curriculum. Leading scholars in anthropology, demography, English and literature, history, law, social work, linguistics, public health, psychology, and sociology have come together to explore what Native American studies has been, what it is, and what it may be in the future.</p><p>The book's thirteen contributors and editor Russell Thornton, stress the frequent incompatibility of traditional academic teaching methods with the social and cultural concerns that gave rise to the field of Native American... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4197m447 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/39h821vt <p>Clifford Trafzer's disturbing new work, Death Stalks the Yakama, examines life, death, and the shockingly high mortality rates that have persisted among the fourteen tribes and bands living on the Yakama Reservation in the state of Washington. The work contains a valuable discussion of Indian beliefs about spirits, traditional causes of death, mourning ceremonies, and memorials. More significant, however, is Trafzer's research into heretofore unused parturition and death records from 1888-1964. In these documents, he discovers critical evidence to demonstrate how and why many reservation people died in "epidemics" of pneumonia, tuberculosis, and heart disease. Death Stalks the Yakama, takes into account many variables, including age, gender, listed causes of death, residence, and blood quantum. In addition, analyses of fetal and infant mortality rates as well as crude death rates arising from tuberculosis, pneumonia, heart disease, accidents, and other causes are presented.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/39h821vt Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Trafzer, Clifford E https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2g9888jn <p>In <em>The Possible Form of an Interlocution</em>, Nahum Dimitri Chandler provides an epistemological and theoretical elaboration of the correspondence between W. E. B. Du Bois and Max Weber in 1904 and 1905. Their interlocution took place under the heading of Du Bois’s famous formulation “the problem of the color line.” This study takes as its incipient reference Weber’s statement to Du Bois that “I am absolutely convinced that the ‘color-line’ problem will be the paramount problem of the time to come, here and everywhere in the world.” Chandler provides a concise statement of Du Bois’s thought of “the problem of the color line” as a general formulation for understanding African American matters within modern historicity on a worldwide scale. He then examines Weber’s earliest writings to understand in just what way “the ‘color-line’ problem", served as a problematization for Weber in both his thought and itinerary, across the 1890s and through the time of their interlocution.</p><p> ... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2g9888jn Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Chandler, Nahum Dimitri https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27w9v0jm <p>In <em>Queer Traffic</em>, Jennifer Tyburczy traces how sexual dissidents across the Mexico-Canada-US borderlands transport the objects and experiences that nourish their sexual and social lives. She situates the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as a pivot point in the formation of panics aimed at stamping out these outlaw sex practices. Highlighting NAFTA’s erotic investments in hetero- and homonormativity, racial capitalism, markets of dispossession, and neocolonialism, Tyburczy directly engages with art, activism, and archives to revisit the struggles of people who invented circuits of sexual exchange through four decades of violence and criminalization. In conversing with actors from bureaucrats to pornographers and in studying choreographies, social movements, and street vocabularies, she examines an array of tactics that undermine the market logics of trade law and policy. Dreaming of other forms of living that go beyond mere survival, Queer Traffic guides... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27w9v0jm Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Tyburczy, Jennifer https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1vm5w3rw <p>In Knowing as Moving, Susan Leigh Foster theorizes how the act of moving in and through the world creates the potential for individual and collective bodies to connect. Starting from the assertion that knowing takes place through bodily movement, Foster moves away from the Western philosophical traditions of dance, critiquing the Cartesian mind-body duality and its colonizing politics. She draws on Native and Indigenous studies, ecological cognitive science, disability studies, phenomenology, and new materialism to explore how knowledge is neither static nor storable. Thinking is a physical action and the product of an entire neuromuscular system with its mobile postural and gestural configurations, perceptual systems, and brain activity. Foster outlines how reading, examining, talking, and remembering are all forms of moving and contends that any process of knowing establishes one’s identity and relationality. By focusing on the centrality of bodily movement to thought and... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1vm5w3rw Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Foster, Susan L https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7267t5bk <p><em>American Pentimento</em> traces the history of colonization and exploitation in the Americas coming to demonstrate how contemporary native struggles are decisively limited by embedded cultural assumptions this history has incorporated into the very constitution of the Americas. As Seed writes, “the most enduring popular images of native Americans originated in common economic ambition shared by Anglo-Saxon or Iberian colonizers.” This book focuses on the European colonies whose rules for acquiring riches have most profoundly influenced the present-day options of most natives of the Americas: England, Spain, and Portugal. Seed brings her argument into the present by warning of the continuity in economic motives between our colonial past and our national present. Throughout the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand today, native communities’s rights to wealth are governed by a host of modern regulations that seem to have deleted traces of the earlier colonial rules. But underneath... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7267t5bk Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Seed, Patricia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0913c3b5 UC ETAS and Lending Task Force - Final Report and Updates https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0913c3b5 Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 UC ETAS and Lending Task Force https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ct9c2kw Assessing the publishing priorities and preferences among STEM researchers at a large R1 institution https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ct9c2kw Wed, 21 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Ali, Ibraheem Burton, Jason Tranfield, M. Wynn https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7xw3m9zj The literature on academic librarian morale is burgeoning, yet less attention has been paid to the workplace experiences of staff. This research team, which included library staff and librarians, conducted 34 structured online interviews with academic library staff across the United States. A theoretical model and interview findings are presented, which reveal the ways in which organizational culture, library hierarchies, and management style affect staff morale. Recommendations are offered, suggesting that, while change can present substantial challenges, efforts to address equity in compensation, provide professional growth opportunities, and create more collegial work environments are essential to improving staff morale. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7xw3m9zj Wed, 21 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Glusker, Ann Emmelhainz, Celia Estrada, Natalia Dyess, Bonita https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7cb6641c In the summer of 2016, the Earth Sciences &amp; Map Library at the University of California, Berkeley, purchased a Magic Planet digital globe in a collaboration with the departments of Geography and Earth &amp; Planetary Science. This 30” diameter 3D display supplements and expands the library’s instruction and outreach services in GIS, data visualization and modeling. Faculty and graduate students were surveyed regarding their interest in using the globe for teaching and research projects. Based on this feedback, librarians developed a basic training plan for using the globe in the classroom, as well as an assessment tool to rate the effectiveness of instruction with the digital globe. Student and faculty responses at the end of fall semester (2016) were evaluated for suggestions to increase the variety of data sets and animations available to view on the globe. Curriculum and guides for visualizing custom and interactive data sets will be developed and made available based on... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7cb6641c Wed, 21 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Teplitzky, Samantha Powell, Susan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8zc0h365 Four of the themes of the Eleventh International Conference reinforce the subject of this paper. They include 1) the impact of GreyLiterature on Net Citizens, 2) uses and applications of subject based Grey Literature; 3) Grey Literature Repositories Revisited; and 4) Open Access to Grey Resources. E-Science is among the latest forms of literature that has largely been born in the public domain and funded with federal dollars to explore large scale computing potential for the challenges of basic research in the physical sciences, life sciences, medical and clinical sciences, engineering, information sciences and technology, and most recently as it influences public policy. This emergence of eScience demonstrates that the data poses new challenges in its needs to find a home that is safe, open for repurposing, reuse and additional applications. Data can be classified in many ways utilizing a range of appropriate metadata descriptors to enhance its utility for different and future... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8zc0h365 Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Julia, Gelfand https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8nt7s3jn Researchers in the field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) use large data sets, many of which are combined with additional data sets to analyze and display information. Data relating to research is usually collected in the field and combined with layers of data from other sources. These sources are often credited within the text of an academic paper, but are not reported in the list of references. Citation of data is important in order to acknowledge and validate the source, and to create ease of access for other users. This study assesses the rates of GIS data citation in a sample of peer-reviewed academic journal articles from the years 2002 and 2012 to illuminate trends in citation patterns. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8nt7s3jn Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 LaBonte, Kristen B https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7bq61487 NIH Public Access Policy requires that published journal articles resulting from NIH-funded research be made available to the public no later than 12 months after the date of publication. The public access mandate has been extended to NSF-funded research as well, and the government is moving toward making it a requirement for ALL federal funding. Non-compliance with this policy affects researchers because federal funding could be withheld. This presentation will introduce best practices for achieving compliance, and provide access to helpful resources, like the NIH Public Access Compliance video produced by UCI’s Office of Research. The presentation by Brown was supported by funding from a LAUC (Librarians Association of the University of California) Mini-Grant for Travel and Presentation. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7bq61487 Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Frazer, Kim Kim, Hanna Brown, Mitchell C https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3366-1281 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/74h0g9gk A study conducted midway through a collaborative pilot using linked data at the University of California, Irvine. Focus is on teamwork, workload, situation awareness, and communication with an emphasis on how these concepts relate to technological projects. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/74h0g9gk Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Spring, Kelly https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5ht6725m Copyright Hot Topics for College and Research Libraries https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5ht6725m Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Vollmer, Timothy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4t82x1v7 The UC Davis School of Medicine was proposing curriculum change that would have resulted in a reduction in curricular time for course content delivered by UC Davis Library (the “Library”). Since the Library continually monitors the curriculum, we seized this opportunity to connect with education leaders and re-envision Library content on evidence-based practice (“EBP”) at an even more developmentally appropriate place, earlier in the curriculum. Resultantly, we collaborated on a teaching session focusing on specialized information resources and the “Ask” and “Acquire” components of the EBP framework early in this new longitudinal thread on population health and evidence-based practice. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4t82x1v7 Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Capdarest-Arest, Nicole Van Noord, Megan Fausak, Erik Studer, Amy Abbott, Bruce https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3h55v6xs Latin for Rare Materials Catalogers https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3h55v6xs Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Nelson, Jennifer https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0zw526h7 My name is Selena Chau. I’m a librarian and a retired performing artist. I performed with a dance company that held rehearsals and concerts at this building, the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, at 14th and Alice Street in downtown Oakland. This building is over 90 years old and is now a city-managed arts center. Through continued care of its theater and studio spaces, civic and performing arts companies have drawn audiences to dance and theater concerts held in this building at 1428 Alice Street. For the first forty years, the building’s ownership and uses were exclusively for White Protestant society–first by the Women’s City Club and then by the Oakland Moose Lodge. Eventually, this building became a significant location for Black and African-American performing arts companies. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0zw526h7 Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Chau, Selena https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7mw1h8zq This form, used at UCI from September 2005 through September 2012, was based on the form used at UCLA. The form was opened as part of the morning's login at the reference desks. Reference activitives were recorded throughout the day; the form was closed when the reference desk closed. Langson Library reference had separate forms for ON and OFF the desk statistics, as did the reference desks in the other UCI Libraries, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7mw1h8zq Fri, 16 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Woo, Christina Johnson, Cynthia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/74p3c955 The ability to decode, interpret, create, question, challenge and evaluate texts that communicate with visual images as well as, or rather than, words. Visually literate people can read the intended meaning in a visual text such as an advertisement or a film shot, interpret the purpose and intended meaning, and evaluate the form, structure, and features of the text. They can also use images in a creative and appropriate way to express meaning. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/74p3c955 Fri, 16 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Allison, Virginia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0xb8s204 UCI Digital Scholarship Services and Cataloging &amp; Metadata Services have been collaborating on a demonstration project to examine the possibilities of using bibliographic metadata in digital humanities research. his presentation provides an overview of our goals and workflows, and questions about how our system-wide bibliographic data may or may not be useful to researchers beyond record discovery, especially in the context of the Systemwide ILS Project (SILS). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0xb8s204 Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Kane, Danielle Dickerson, Madelynn https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2xh8868j Alma Annual Statistics Analytics Project Team&nbsp;May 2023 Report: Recommendations for standardizing, harmonizing and centralizing the UC Libraries / UC Office of the President Annual Statistics https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2xh8868j Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Augustiniak, Ellen Agrawal, Akshay Boone, Susan Hernandez, Heather Lanius, Alison Li, Chan Nip, Daisy Potter, Michele Riemer, John Sheets, Sarah Stone-Logan, Gem Watters Westbrook, Danielle Wong, Lisa https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2rq679qx University of California Libraries Digital Reformatting Guidelines https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2rq679qx Wed, 8 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Elnabli, Stefan Fogel, Paul Milenkiewicz, Eric Chesley Perry, Susan Rissmeyer, Chrissy Tashjian, Hannah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/06b4t2gj A panel discussion with the Council of University Librarians of&nbsp;UC Libraries Systemwide Plans and Priorities.&nbsp;&nbsp; https://escholarship.org/uc/item/06b4t2gj Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Mitchell, Erik Antelman, Kristin Li, Haipeng Tanji, Lorelei Smith, KacKenzie Manville-Gamble, Steven Steel, Ginny Cowell, Elizabeth Waibel, Günter https://escholarship.org/uc/item/926288n3 Presentation on&nbsp;classifying Chinese pre-modern books by machine, a supervised machine learning approach. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/926288n3 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Lin, Haiqing https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6cg7201q This talk provides an overview of the work of the Oral History Center of The Bancroft Library and opportunities for collaboration. The Oral History Center puts stories in the historical record that hadn’t been there before and might otherwise be lost. We preserve thousands of voices from all walks of life, political perspectives, national origins, and ethnic backgrounds through oral history interviews. We also produce interpretive materials, such as podcasts; train scholars in the field through educational initiatives, including workshops and internships; create curriculum for K–12; and write articles for scholarly and lay audiences. During shelter-in-place, we pivoted to remote interviewing, created a toolkit and hosted a webinar to train practitioners. We are committed to open access and all of our transcripts, articles, and podcasts are accessible online or in-person at no cost. We partner with other universities and organizations, such at the National Park Service and California... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6cg7201q Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Schlessinger, Jill https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6bs761p9 The Metadata Services Program (MS) at the UC San Diego Library partnered with Wikipedia Edit-a-thon organizers focused on creating a more diverse and inclusive Wikipedia to create a Wiki-Relay where MS staff create Wikidata entries for Wikipedia articles created during Edit-a-Thons. This lightning talk will review the benefits, the structure, lessons learned and future plans. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6bs761p9 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Sotelo, Aislinn https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6111g85g In the wake of the racial violence occurring in the United States in 2020, the UC San Diego (UCSD) Library created a collaborative, non-hierarchical, employee-led group that allowed for a new way of sharing and listening across the organization. The Library Community Collective (LCC) is a collaboration between the Library Community Building Committee and the Library Diversity and Inclusion Committee and has provided an ongoing platform for challenging discourse on topics such as white supremacy, allyship, anti-asian violence, fat phobia, race and health disparities and microaggressions. In hopes of providing a model and inspiration for other libraries to pursue similar initiatives, we will provide background on the LCC and its creation, methods, outcomes and challenges. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6111g85g Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Friedman, Lia Moore, Alanna Aiko https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4sq7h3c8 Since March 2021, the UCSB Library's Research Data Services (RDS) became the first UC campus to be part of Dryad's workflow and responsible for curating campus affiliates' deposits to the repository before public release. Our assistance ranges from data files and metadata inspection to more involved processes, including data transformation and documentation augmentation to maximize deposited data's reproducibility and potential reuses. This experience has allowed our department to establish a closer relationship with researchers and better understand their data-related needs while helping us promote data literacy and make our services more well-known on campus. This presentation will cover our internal workflow and curation steps; a debrief of the most common curatorial actions performed, the feedback we have received from depositors, and how we plan to move forward with our curation services. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4sq7h3c8 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Curty, Renata Janee, Greg https://escholarship.org/uc/item/40k7s6zs Research interests in African Studies range from anthropology to zoology, with source material produced in an array of languages -- indigenous, colonial European and Arabic. To support this research, the Library of Congress collects and catalogs material from 29 African countries, and both UCLA and UC Berkeley participate in their Cooperative Acquisiton Program. This year, for the first time, UCLA and UCB created a shared collection development approval plan, taking advantage of the new integrated library system and fulfillment network to provide a richer and more diverse information ecosystem to students, faculty and independent scholars. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/40k7s6zs Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Edwards, Susan Bell-Gam, Ruby https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2k805175 Call for collaboration surrounding use of the Alma/Primo APIs and tools for automation. At UC Santa Cruz, we have used the program Postman to automate the process of deleting electronic collections in bulk. As part of the P2E process of our migration from Millennium, some records had electronic collections created as inventory, instead of electronic portfolios. For proper display in Primo, they needed to be converted to electronic portfolios. As a librarian with limited coding experience, Postman allowed me to use the Alma API to automate some of this work. As we complete the SILS migration, I believe it could be valuable to create a space or community to share work around the Alma/Primo APIs and tools that we find helpful. Postman allows for the use of workspaces and easy sharing of API work without sharing institution-specific information, and there are other library-developed tools that utilize the Alma/Primo APIs. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2k805175 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Pilko, Tamara https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1977b7d4 UC Davis participated in the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Wikidata Pilot, to investigate the use of wikidata as an authoritative source for cataloging. From that experience, we hope to use the Wikidata items created for UCD organizations, such as departments, colleges, and research centers, etc, in our Aggie Experts project as our source for our campus academic organizational structure. This lightning talk describes why that’s a good idea and how to do it. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1977b7d4 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Hart, Quinn Kao, T.J. Li, Xiaoli https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0kz5g06c Presentation on usage data for&nbsp;HathiTrust's Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0kz5g06c Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Ewing, Renata https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0f62q9xv <p>Tens of thousands of HathiTrust volumes are closed for reading access simply because they lack the metadata necessary for HathiTrust’s automated rights algorithm to make a confident assessment. In the spring of 2020, HathiTrust’s Copyright Review Manager eyed an opportunity and stepped into gear to create a simple project that would enable volunteers from HathiTrust’s member institutions to open up more HathiTrust volumes for reading access while working from home due to Covid19 closures. And the Publication Date Project was born!</p><p>Three staff from the UC Santa Cruz library volunteered to join the project and were trained by a CDL staff member who is an expert reviewer in HathiTrust’s Copyright Review program.</p><p>Our lightning talk will focus on our experience working on this project.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0f62q9xv Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Ewing, Renata Gupta, Maya Bush, Shelby McCarthy, Caitlin https://escholarship.org/uc/item/04548035 Presentation on archiving email records using ePADD. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/04548035 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Norton, Alix https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9z05411q I will present information about the University of California, Santa Cruz’s Becoming Better Allies Group that I launched in 2020. Library staff who are interested meet on Zoom to collaborate on allyship for the BIPOC and LGBTQ population. This is an independent group that meets biweekly. We share, explore, and discuss various articles, books, and videos that call attention to marginalized communities and steps to make changes within ourselves and our communities and institutions. I will discuss the importance of creating a Statement of Intention (with examples) for folx who wish to start their own anti-racist library group. We will also look at how creating a bibliographic website helped us track and choose the anti-racism issues we wanted to work on. In addition, participants of this lightning talk will be able to access my slides and extra resources including our website: Becoming Better Allies: Committed to Equity in University Libraries. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9z05411q Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 McMullen, Wendy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9rx715k3 Through the COVID-19 Community Response Oral History Project, UC Berkeley's Oral History Center (OHC) is documenting the regional response to the global pandemic, and evaluating its effectiveness as it relates to public health, health equity, community, and politics. OHC interviewers Shanna Farrell and Amanda Tewes will discuss the importance of establishing partnerships on and off UC campuses, cultural competency when approaching narrators in BIPOC and immigrant communities, documenting the effectiveness of the regional response to COVID-19, and increasing community engagement with the OHC's collections. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9rx715k3 Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Tewes, Amanda Farrell, Shanna https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8td6x8sb The collaborative effort between the UC San Diego Library and the UC Santa Barbara Library (called Project Surfliner, after the train that connects the two cities) to share development teams that work on common strategic products is still going strong after almost three years. In this panel, we will chat with the two campus project leads, as well as some of the product owners to discuss working within this model. Find out what’s changed after sharing resources and product development goals over the last year. What needs more work, where are we finding our strengths, and how haven’t we run out of train puns yet? If you’re looking to learn how to collaborate with another UC, this is the session for you. Panelists: Matt Critchlow, UC San Diego Alexandra Dunn, UC Santa Barbara Jessica Hilt, UC San Diego Tim Marconi, UC San Diego Chrissy Rissmeyer, UC Santa Barbara Amy Work, UC San Diego https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8td6x8sb Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Hilt, Jessica Rissmeyer, Chrissy Marconi, Tim Brittnacher, Tom https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8s76869q <p>Between the Fall of 2018, and the winter of 2020, the Direction and Oversight Committee (DOC) charged the Digital Preservation Strategy Working Group (DPS WG), consisting of representatives from a majority of the UC campuses, with tasks outlined across multiple phases representing approximately 12 months of work. The initial charge for Phase 1 was to develop a practical, shared vision of digital preservation for library content and outline a roadmap to guide the UC Libraries in advancing that shared vision. The first DPS WG report observed that:</p><p>For the majority of UC libraries, there is no dedicated digital preservation unit or staff There is a lack of resources for digital preservation at most campuses There is a need for defined digital preservation policies, workflows, guidance, training, and collaboration.</p><p>In 2019, the Digital Preservation Strategy Working Group (DPS WG) focused Phase Two activities on identifying the steps needed to build a community of practice... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8s76869q Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Schaefer, Sibyl Peltzman, Shira https://escholarship.org/uc/item/83v0x3m7 <p>Officially launched November 1, 2019, Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) is an international, multi-institutional, 3-year project that intends to transform Open Access (OA) monograph publishing by delivering significant improvements to the infrastructures used by publishers, and by developing the best practices for transitioning nonprofit, academic, independent and scholar-led publishers to OA. Funded for £3.5 million by Research England and the Arcadia Fund, the project has been designed to enable smaller non-profit publishers in the Humanities and Social Science to publish OA books and get them into the existing distribution channels and library systems.</p><p>Towards that goal, COPIM pilots a range of interventions, from developing open, transparent, sustainable, and community-governed infrastructures for the curation, dissemination, discovery, and long-term preservation of open content and open data, to following the best practices for... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/83v0x3m7 Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Uziel, Lidia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7tq6z920 <p>This presentation will share how members of the UC San Diego Library Special Collections &amp; Archives staff responded to California’s sudden work from home order due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including remote project development, management tools, and collaborator involvement. Presenters will provide a brief timeline of events leading up to the work from home order, the development of a list of remote projects, and the assignment of priorities and responsibilities. They will describe examples of these projects and discuss how they progressed from ideation to execution, including workflow development and management tools. They will also examine the opportunities and obstacles of rapid project development, as well as training and managing the work of staff and student employees from other library units who volunteered to assist in archives-related tasks.</p><p>Presenters will further discuss reopening, highlighting the need for flexibility and acknowledging seemingly competing... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7tq6z920 Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Maches, Tori Christensen, Marlayna Sullivan, Kiera https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7h5801c0 <p>Blockeley University is the collaborative effort of hundreds of students who in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, sustained their community by building the UC Berkeley campus in Minecraft, a sandbox video game. Their extraordinary effort is being preserved by The Bancroft Library. This presentation will discuss the selection of the collection and the challenges and opportunities in preserving this unique project.</p><p>The Blockeley effort was recognized by the Chancellor’s Office and a virtual commencement ceremony was conducted in the Blockeley University Minecraft server. Other universities have built their campuses in Minecraft before but what was extraordinary about this build was that it was an innovative effort to specifically keep the UC Berkeley community together during the shelter-in-place period. The Bancroft Library felt this was an effort worth preserving.</p><p>In this presentation, Kathryn M. Neal, The Bancroft Library’s Associate University Archivist, will... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7h5801c0 Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Neil, Kathryn M. Velazquez Fidler, Christina https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7cb0z5nc <p>Aggie Experts is a joint partnership between the Office of the Provost and the UC Davis Library. whose purpose is to create a central registry of UC Davis faculty, researchers, experts and creators and showcase the scholarship created at the university. The use cases for the project include expertise discovery for collaborations and reducing administrative workload by replacing manual data entry.</p><p>The project has brought us in contact with multiple offices on campus, jump-starting partnerships with programs that want to showcase the work of their affiliates, and has the potential to continue expanding as we build out functionalities for data reuse. We are applying the principles of FAIR to public institutional data. Using the VIVO platform as inspiration, and a source for a schema of scholarly outputs, we have developed an innovative digital platform to showcase and navigate an aggregation of existing authoritative sources of information, including UCPath for names, titles... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7cb0z5nc Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Hart, Quinn C Ensberg, Vessela https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7162b53j Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committees do not have to be another box to check for diversity’s sake. In this presentation we will be looking at a case study of the UC Riverside Library’s Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. In this presentation, we will look at how the committee’s own best practices evolved from its inception in 2017 and how collaboration became valuable during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7162b53j Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Aguilera, Raul https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6zt2h9tm New attention to the power of data in research has brought new kinds of data questions to the university research library. This study seeks to understand the character of research data questions in order to help research libraries develop the structures, technologies, collections, and professional skills needed to meet the needs of the research communities. It employs two original metrics to analyzes 42 cases: The Data Question Typology, which allows for the organization of data questions into categories based on researcher objectives, and the Modified READ Scale for Data Questions (MRSD), which is used to record the magnitude of difficulty presented by each case. It finds that data questions differ significantly across academic fields and that successful research assistance often requires partnerships between subject specialists librarians and technological or computational experts. It concludes with a recommendation on how research libraries can facilitate a collaborative process... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6zt2h9tm Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Michalski, David https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63g651jh In 2018, UC Davis launched digital.ucdavis.edu, our Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) for library special collections. The UC Davis Digital Collections is a locally developed digital repository designed to store and manage the digital assets of UC Davis. These Digital Collections are intended to increase access to previously undiscoverable digital assets held by the University Library. The DAMS is built on the Fedora Linked Data Platform and extended with services to provide; a Client UI, IIIF viewing, indexing and synchronization. The new Fedora 6 platform, with its underlying Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL) based storage, in encouraging us to rethink some of the overall design of our system, in particular to better support archival processes and object sharing. In this talk we review the overall architecture of the DAMS and describe how we might leverage Fedora 6 and OCFL to simplify and standardize our digital archives. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63g651jh Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Hart, Quinn Hescock, Kimmy Merz, Justin Miller, Kevin Nebeker, Eric https://escholarship.org/uc/item/60f7q0rs As COVID-19 upended our activities as librarians in unprecedented and unexpected ways, the LAUC-B conference committee was faced with the prospect of organizing a successful bi-annual virtual conference. The use of virtual technologies in conference planning during public health-mandated work from off-campus remains minimally documented. Several studies, such as Romano (2020); and Peters and Dickinson (2020), focus on in-person conference planning workflow, but none address the processes of organizing a virtual scenario. The organizing committee, led by Corliss Lee and Shannon Kealey, formed a distinct subcommittee, composed of Kristina Bush, Natalie Marquez, and Liladhar Pendse, to investigate virtual platforms. In this presentation, Natalie and Liladhar will narrate the story of the subcommittee’s work in choosing a virtual platform that would simulate and embody normal and important in-person conference activities and experiences. To establish a baseline, the subcommittee scanned... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/60f7q0rs Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Marquez, Natalie Pendse, Liladhar https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4wt6721v In 2019 The ALA Racial Equity Task Force was formed and charged with developing a framework for libraries to implement. As part of this goal, a wide-reaching survey was designed and analyzed by a small research team in 2020. The goal of the study was to assess public and academic libraries racial equity efforts, employees’ perception of those efforts as well as their experiences with racial equity and inequity within their library. Utilizing an online survey, the data was used to identify areas of improvement in regard to racial equity efforts in public and academic libraries and seeks to answer the question: How are libraries moving towards transformation and justice in regard to racial equity? While the overwhelming majority of the 717 participants believe their institutions have a responsibility to address racial equity, the data also reveals that our practices are not aligned with our values. In this session, Caragher and Bryant will discuss the disaggregated results of the... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4wt6721v Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Bryant, Tatiana Caragher, Kristyn