http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/uc_libraries_lauc/rss Recent eScholarship items from Librarians Association of the University of California - LAUC Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:17:58 +0000 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/9pb9n2vc When tragedy strikes your community, few people think about preserving the objects associated with the social mourning process.&nbsp; This paper discusses a project to document our community’s response to a mass murder.&nbsp; It describes how we collected and organized materials from spontaneous memorials to make them accessible to scholars in the future.&nbsp; Material culture is not just the realm of archaeologists; it is also the domain of librarians, archivists, curators and historians.&nbsp; Our project demonstrates how a campus community can work together to preserve materials that tell the story of such an event and those who were affected by it. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9pb9n2vc Mon, 28 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Platoff, Anne M. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jr7w2mc The Space Shuttle Program was the longest-running human spaceflight program of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).&nbsp; Spanning three decades (1981-2011), the program consisted of 135 flights using a fleet of orbiter spacecraft.&nbsp; Throughout the history of the program, flags were used in many different contexts.&nbsp; The most traditional was using a flag as a national identifier on spacecraft, payloads, and spacesuits.&nbsp; In addition, flag motifs were used on the mission emblems designed by shuttle crews to represent their flights.&nbsp; On the emblems, flags indicated the nationalities of individual crew members, the use of hardware contributed by various nations, and the increasingly international nature of the program as it evolved from an American space program to a collaborative program where many nations cooperated to conduct individual missions and to construct the International Space Station.&nbsp; The Space Shuttle Program... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jr7w2mc Sun, 5 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Platoff, Anne M. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/16k0w5q1 <p>In the United States, the library residency (sometimes referred to as a fellowship or internship) is defined as a temporary, entry-level position in a library that targets post-library school graduates as part of a diversity recruitment and/or early career development program.&nbsp; There are fewer than 30 such programs in the USA.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>We conducted a nationwide survey of library residency programs in the USA.&nbsp; Questions &nbsp;addressed program planning and decision-making, attitudes toward various aspects of libraries and residents, and the effectiveness of residency programs in context.&nbsp; This information will be used to develop a model for libraries that have existing residency programs or that want to start a similar program.</p><p>&nbsp;Our research will paint a picture of the landscape of library residency programs in the USA.&nbsp; A comprehensive survey of both residency coordinators and residents has not been conducted before.</p><p>The workshop... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/16k0w5q1 Mon, 2 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Im, Suzanne Boyd, Angela Blue, Yolanda