Recent uclalib_pubs items

Forbidden Music Regained Review

Tue, 9 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Forbidden Music Regained Review

A Pair of Wonderful Mentors, in Retrospect

Fri, 2 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A Pair of Wonderful Mentors, in Retrospect

Derogatory Term Analysis in University of California’s Catalog

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Using previous LCSH research on derogatory terms, we develop a strategy to identify derogatory subject items in the newly implemented consortial unified resource management system of one of the largest collections in the United States.

Collaborative research services: a peer-led cohort approach

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

Prior to 2020, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Library's research services spanned multiple service points. Multiple locations were staffed by Library Student Research Assistants (LSRAs) and each location was supervised independently. While efforts to increase collaboration had been underway, much of the work and services remained siloed and often duplicated training and service hours.

Design/methodology/approach

With the onset of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), UCLA Library rapidly transitioned from entirely in-person to entirely online services. With multiple service points pivoting, UCLA was redundant to have multiple online desks providing Zoom appointments and that quickly became apparent. Moreover, transitioning in-person student work to remote work was paramount to providing both normal services to users and allowing LSRAs to keep jobs during a time of uncertainty and insecurity.

Findings

While the authors' original...

UCLA Semantic Web and Linked Data LibGuide

Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The Semantic Web encompasses the technology that connects data from different sources across the Web as envisioned by Tim Berners-Lee and led by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). This Web of Data enables the linking of data sets across data silos on the Web by providing for machine-to-machine communication through the use of Linked Data. This Guide provides descriptions and links to resources used to implement this technology. It also provides links to instructional resources, books and articles, use cases, vocabularies, tools, and best practices.

Commentary on the “Cataloguing Code of Ethics”

Wed, 5 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Commentary on the “Cataloguing Code of Ethics”

Some Reflections on Antiracism

Thu, 15 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Some Reflections on Antiracism

The Community Workshop Series: A Case Study for Community-Engaged Learning in LIS

Fri, 21 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

For over a decade, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) has offered some variation of the Community Workshop Series (CWS), a partnership to provide digital literacy and computer technology classes to community members at local public libraries. Both authors have served as coordinators of the program as library science graduate students at the UNC School of Information and Library Science. We situate this program within existing literature on digital and information literacy, community engagement, and the graduate student experience to show the utility of this program and similar programs for training graduate students, enhancing the graduate student experience, supporting the needs of community members, and bolstering the capacities of public libraries. The authors provide an overview of the program and encourage others to start similar programs. To this end, the authors present a case study of the CWS, including discussion of creating the program and keeping...

Hospital and Health System-Level Interventions to Improve Care for Limited English Proficiency Patients: A Systematic Review.

Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Although federal legislation mandates the provision of qualified interpreters for limited English proficiency (LEP) patients, language services are consistently underutilized by health care providers even when readily available. The objective of this study was to systematically review the literature and summarize evidence for interventions at the hospital or health system level that improve communication with, quality of care for, or health outcomes of LEP patients.

The literature was systematically reviewed according to PRISMA guidelines to answer the following question: "For patients with limited English proficiency, which interventions at the hospital or health system level will result in improved communication, quality of care, or health outcomes?"

The search yielded an initial 16,686 references, 19 of which met the inclusion criteria. Baseline rates of language service utilization were extremely low and remained at low levels postintervention in multiple studies....

The Social Aspects of Identity Management Work

Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The Social Aspects of Identity Management Work

What Is Our Place in the Metadata Ecosystem?

Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

What Is Our Place in the Metadata Ecosystem?

User Engagement - A Matrix Reorganization

Thu, 9 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The User Engagement division was established during a recent reorganization aimed at bringing together public-facing library services under one associate university librarian (AUL). This affected thirty-five academic and career staff across several libraries, including the Arts Library, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld Management Library, Music Library, Powell Library, Science and Engineering Library, and the Charles E. Young Library Humanities and Social Sciences Division; each of these libraries had differing existing administrative structures and norms. The establishment of User Engagement required those staff to combine and divide units as well as workflow processes in order to successfully integrate and scale public services for patrons. A year later, John Kotter’s eight-step model of change provides an excellent framework to analyze the successes and ongoing challenges of the reorganization.

Level Up for Learning: Integrating Video Game Concepts into Information Literacy and Student Engagement Activities

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Level Up for Learning: Integrating Video Game Concepts into Information Literacy and Student Engagement Activities

Data Lake: Promoting a Mega-Tool for the Assessment Lifecycle

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

A recently created Library Strategic Plan at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) identified the need to integrate a culture of assessment throughout the organization in order to encourage more data informed decision-making processes. Our Assessment for Change Team (ACT) was formed and charged with spearheading this cultural evolution. This case study will discuss the development of a home-grown tool that assists with assessment brainstorming, and acts as a central repository for assessment products – the Data Lake.

The UCLA Library consistently ranks among the top academic libraries in the United States serving 45,000 students in125 majors. It employs approximately 100 librarians and 350 full-time staff working in more than a dozen library locations all over campus. Library units report to the University Librarian through her four Associate University Librarians and management staff.

Data Lake is an enterprise wide collaboration platform used for managing...

Promoting a Culture of Assessment throughout the UCLA Library Organization

Fri, 1 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

A recently created Library Strategic Plan at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) developed by all staff, identified the need to integrate a culture of assessment throughout all levels organization to encourage data informed decision- making. The Assessment for Change Team (ACT) was formed to spearhead this cultural evolution. This case study discusses how we create an assessment culture in a large, complex institution. The UCLA Library ranks among the top academic libraries in the United States serving 45,000 students in 125 majors. It employs over 100 librarians and approximately 350 full-time staff working in more than a dozen library across campus. Library units report to the University Librarian through four Associate University Librarians and management staff. ACT reaches out to the campus community units close to the university administration whose primary jobs employed assessment. We make campus ties to create an environment that influences and is influenced...

Tipping points: cancelling journals when arXiv access is good enough

Tue, 9 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Slides presented at Engineering Libraries Division Lightning Talk session of the 2019 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference in Tampa, FL.

Abstract: UCLA recently cancelled two subscriptions to long-standing and expensive physics journals due to declining usage of the publisher versions of record and open access availability of the same articles through arXiv. The OAISSN.py script, which uses the Crossref Rest and Unpaywall Rest APIs to analyze the number of legal open access versions of articles for a given journal's ISSN and year, was employed to help inform the cancellation decisions.

Relieving Libraries’ Culture-Data Tension with a Data Lake

Wed, 12 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Discusses how to create a data-informed, decision-making culture in a large, complex academic library by sharing strategies to obtain administrative support, promote data-savvy and staff buy-in, and translate assessment into action using centralized insights from an enterprise wiki, which supplies performance metrics, tools, reports, dashboards, and user stories.

Unburying Treasures: Teaching Archival Methods to Music Students

Wed, 12 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Unburying Treasures: Teaching Archival Methods to Music Students

Schol Comm For All! Reaching Diverse Populations with a Multipronged Scholarly Communication Outreach Strategy

Mon, 10 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The diverse populations that librarians serve on a college campus have different scholarly communication concerns about open access, academic publishing, author rights, and related issues. Many academic libraries expect their librarians to have some working knowledge of scholarly communication, but not all campuses have a dedicated functional specialist. Two librarians at a large research institution will demonstrate their methods for identifying and adequately addressing these issues in their campus community.

Taking the Carpentry Model to Librarians

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Library Carpentry is a growing community of instructors and lesson developers whose mission is to teach librarians the tools, techniques and best practices around working with data and using software to automate repetitive tasks. Using the pedagogical practices of live coding, pair programming, discussion and exercises, Library Carpentry creates a safe and collaborative space for important concepts in computing and data, including data manipulation and organization, using the computer to repeat things and the importance of text pattern matching. We teach these concepts using the Unix shell to repeat commands over text and data, regular expressions to match and operate on text strings, and OpenRefine to clean and standardize datasets. Not only do these skills help librarians create reproducible workflows and repeated operations for data-centric tasks, they give librarians a common language with researchers that can lead to a better mutual understanding of data issues and it paves...

Unpacking the Meaning of “NACO Lite”

Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Unpacking the Meaning of “NACO Lite”

Intersectionality at the Reference Desk: Lived Experiences of Women of Color Librarians

Tue, 24 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Intersectionality at the Reference Desk: Lived Experiences of Women of Color Librarians

Digital humanities curriculum support inside the library

Mon, 18 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Digital Humanities, Libraries, Subject Specialists

Community Collections: Nurturing Student Curators (in Students lead the library : the importance of student contributions to the academic library)

Mon, 18 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

With peer-assisted learning flourishing at many academic libraries, student involvement in reference and even instruction is becoming increasingly common in higher education. But can students play a similar role in collection development? Can undergraduate circulating collections benefit from the involvement of student curators?

Paying for Open: Open Access Subvention Funds at the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries

Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000

The University of Colorado Boulder Libraries, a prominent advocate for Open Access within the University of Colorado System and nationally, has been supporting CU Boulder faculty, students, and staff since 2012 in the payment of author and/or article processing fees and charges (APCs) to support publication of CU-Boulder research in gold open access journals.Nationally, when academic libraries chose to support Open Access publication costs, it is often an effort to contribute to publication models that allow for worldwide, freely available access to research.This poster explores and analyzes data collected from the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries’ Open Access Fund from July 2012 to December 2015, illustrating the disciplines and demographics of participants, venues of publication, as well as begin to explore the implications of the cost of this program over time.

UCLA Library Occasional Papers: Chicano Library Program

Mon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Based on the "Research Skills in the Library Context" program developed for Chicano High Pttential students in the Department of Special Educational Programs by Elena Frausto, Instructor, and Joseph A. Taylor, Instruction Specialist.

This is part of the UCLA Library Occasional Papers, Number 17, 1970.

Library Instruction Workbook: A Self-Directed Course in the Use of UCLA's College Library, 1981

Mon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Library Instruction Workbook: A Self-Directed Course in the Use of UCLA's College Library, 1981

Ph.D. Holders in the Academic Library: The CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Wed, 7 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

This essay provides a detailed report of the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program’s first four years and its outcomes, and draw conclusions about the role of this program in academic librarianship and in higher education more broadly. The experiences of CLIR Fellows are central to this analysis as they illustrate some of the challenges that programs of this sort will present, such as the need for new human resources categories, workflows, and procedures; new ways of capitalizing on the strengths of existing library professionals and providing retraining where needed; and new strategies for educating, retooling, and involving library users (especially faculty and other advanced scholars). Overall, this report shows that there is much that has worked well in the CLIR program for all involved. There is also much that could be improved, but in spite of this needed change, the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program embodies the transition that academic libraries, as a whole, are...