http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/ucsd_libraries_books/rss Recent eScholarship items from Books and Book Chapters Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:46:02 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5738j23z When UX capacity is limited, academic libraries must find creative ways to advance user-centered design. This reflective case study examines a collaboration between a solo UX librarian and a team of undergraduate UX students at the University of California, San Diego Library. The partnership supported a comprehensive UX study of the library’s online help environment while simultaneously building organizational UX maturity and providing students with hands-on professional experience. Despite challenges related to project scope, timelines, and mentorship, the collaboration led to tangible service improvements and long-term institutional change. This article offers insights for libraries seeking sustainable, low-cost approaches to expanding UX practice through student partnerships. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5738j23z Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Ho, SuHui https://escholarship.org/uc/item/30v4t11m Designing library websites for diverse academic communities involves balancing competing user needs and institutional priorities. This article examines the 2017 UC San Diego Library website redesign, which prioritized diversity and inclusion as core UX principles. Using user research, personas, and audience prioritization, the project applied the “Middle Way” philosophy and progressive enhancement to balance accessibility, usability, and representation. Visual inclusion was emphasized through images reflecting the university’s racial and ethnic diversity. The case study shows that inclusive UX is achievable through reflective practice and equitable design decisions. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/30v4t11m Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Ho, SuHui https://escholarship.org/uc/item/77x892w7 <p>The book examines how preservation practices of the past affect the preservation of digitally published government information today, analyzes publishing and preservation data to characterize the current gaps in preservation, and looks to the future by charting a path to a distributed Digital Preservation Infrastructure for government information.</p><p>The book addresses technical issues without unnecessarily technical jargon. It is designed to be used by LIS students, front-line librarians and archivists, managers of libraries and archives, government workers who publish and preserve government information, and policy makers who design laws and regulations that affect the production, dissemination and preservation of government information.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/77x892w7 Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Jacobs, James A Jacobs, James R https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4hz6w8px UC Love Data Week as a Model for Building Grassroot Data Communities at Scale https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4hz6w8px Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Labou, Stephanie G Koziar, Katherine E Deardorff, Ariel https://escholarship.org/uc/item/57q4t4dw Teaching Instruction Librarians by Design https://escholarship.org/uc/item/57q4t4dw Thu, 3 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Turnbow, Dominique Roth, Amanda https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7b52z0c2 Three-Step Data Searching https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7b52z0c2 Wed, 3 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Sklar, Annelise https://escholarship.org/uc/item/60f281r1 Filling the Gaps: Data and GIS Services for the Undergraduate Researcher https://escholarship.org/uc/item/60f281r1 Wed, 3 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Sklar, Annelise https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1369q54s Census https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1369q54s Wed, 3 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Forte, Eric Smith, Kelly Sklar, Annelise https://escholarship.org/uc/item/61h5s0mr This is a comprehensive bibliography of works by and about William S. Burroughs, annotated so as to assist students and scholars in distinguishing between distinctive, and distinctively different, printings of individual works. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/61h5s0mr Tue, 15 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Schottlaender, Brian E.C. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jr8j3p3 With support from one of its Associate University Librarians, since the fall of 2007, the UCSD Libraries have offered midday yoga sessions in the library twice weekly for library staff.&nbsp; For the group of regular attendees and newcomers and those who join in periodically, the yoga program has helped to reduce stress at work – a perk that has been well needed, in particular, during the last several years which have seen significant continued budget cuts to the library, new strategic initiatives, and a complete organizational restructuring in the library. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jr8j3p3 Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Goodson, Kymberly https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0s270969 Creation of the new Learning Spaces Program at the University of California, San Diego Library in 2013 consolidated responsibility for much of the Library’s public computing and technology within the new program. Thereafter, Program staff established a four-pronged Public Technology Vision to guide the way they would serve and support user technology within the library. A complementary Computing Purchasing Plan was developed to support space and budget planning to update technology offerings across the library and to ease related decision-making. The plan included proposed purchases over each of three years for a variety of public computing options. These two documents are described in the chapter, along with highlighted technology-related actions stemming from them. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0s270969 Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Goodson, Kymberly https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7tk8h1s6 We all believe in sustainability and work to be green as individuals, but there’s power insharing our knowledge and values and working together. Grow your sustainability efforts beyond single events by creating an advisory, education, and outreach group. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7tk8h1s6 Tue, 26 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Myers, Rachel Ann Kane, Kim Singh, Gayatri https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4td1f2n7 Inspire users to actively engage with reducing, reusing, and recycling by hosting a DIY Makers’ Day. Chapter describes how to create this hands-on event that is jam-packed with DIY projects featuring creative reuse and sustainable ingredients. Participants leave with goodies they’ve made and recipes and instructions so they can continue creating at home. This is a great event for showcasing your library’s and community’s green resources. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4td1f2n7 Tue, 26 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Kane, Kim Myers, Rachel Ann Singh, Gayatri https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2bx9c7gd Celebrate local food, community, and thebounty of harvest as library folks gather toshare fruits, vegetables, seeds, preserves, gardening and food publications, and their own knowledge. Promote sustainability and nurture a robust community by bringing coworkers together to share produce from their own gardens. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2bx9c7gd Tue, 26 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Myers, Rachel Ann Singh, Gayatri Kane, Kim https://escholarship.org/uc/item/19v670nc A blueprint for hosting a free community swap. Watch trash become treasure as folks rummage through one another’s donated books, household items, andother goodies, taking what they want and giving what they don’t with absolutely no money involved. As an added bonus, items left over at the end of the day are donated to charity. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/19v670nc Tue, 26 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Myers, Rachel Ann Kane, Kim Singh, Gayatri https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0c51d983 <p>The design of information literacy instruction and the building of it are two distinct skillsets and processes; yet all too often everything gets mashed together, creating needless confusion and stress. In this book Turnbow, an instructional designer, and Roth, an instructional technologist, suggest a better way to organize the work. They shed light on the people, processes, and resources required to create a sustainable portfolio of online instruction. With the goal of fostering conversations in your library about the most streamlined and effective ways to get the work done.</p><p>Demystifying the instructional design and development process used to create online learning objects, this book will help you understand how instructional design principles and approaches can benefit your learners.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0c51d983 Tue, 26 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Turnbow, Dominique Roth, Amanda https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0g88c5tc <p>Scholarly communication is undergoing an ever accelerating evolution in how research and scholarship are being conducted, how scholarship is being disseminated, and who is included in the creation and communication of new knowledge. At the forefront of this evolution are libraries and academics who recognize that students are not only creating new knowledge that is valuable beyond the walls of the classroom but that there is a dire need to support and educate students and institutions about the impact of information sharing on a global scale. Students share and receive information on the internet with very little context and support for their roles as knowledge producers and global digital citizens.</p><p>This chapter discusses how acting on these opportunities benefit the student well after graduation by inspiring citizens who are information-literate advocates for education, intellectual engagement, and science. The undergraduate who is trusted and supported as a public scholar... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0g88c5tc Tue, 23 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Miller, Char Swift, Allegra K Kramer, Anna Hackenberger, Ben https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63k9k1gf <p>Along with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs was one of the founders and leading representatives of the “Beat” movement in American culture and literature.&nbsp;From the late 1950s through the late 1990s, Burroughs published voluminously; yet, it has been more than thirty years since a comprehensive bibliography has been issued of works by and about him. This publication, which will be updated regularly, remedies that.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63k9k1gf Tue, 21 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Schottlaender, Brian E.C. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gn7r9n2 In librarianship today, we encourage voices from our field to join conversations in other disciplines as well as in the broader culture. People who work in libraries and are sympathetic to, or directly involved in, social justice struggles have long embodied this idea, as they make use of their skills in the service of those causes. From movement archives to zine collections, international solidarity to public library programming, oral histories to email lists, prisons to protests —and beyond —this book is a look into the projects and pursuits of activist librarianship in the early 21st century. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gn7r9n2 Tue, 19 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Friedman, Lia G. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0711h3bf The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Library’s inaugural Learning Spaces (LSP) Program was formally established on July 1, 2013 through a library-wide reorganization process spanning 2012-2014. As a new program whose offerings remain in development, 2013-2014 presented the opportunity organizationally to initiate new library services and amenities and to adopt a new path based on the program’s initial strategic objectives.&nbsp; This chapter details several of the ways in which the program began during its first year to accomplish its goals of engaging library users, building a sense of community and patron ownership within the library’s learning spaces, establishing a culture of assessment among program staff, and developing library spaces where students feel welcomed and supported in their academic life.&nbsp; Activities detailed in the chapter are provided as examples for other libraries working toward similar outcomes.&nbsp; Additionally, a limited literature review... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0711h3bf Tue, 19 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Goodson, Kymberly https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0xj4d6bm This is a comprehensive bibliography of works by and about William S. Burroughs, annotated so as to assist students and scholars in distinguishing between distinctive, and distinctively different, printings of individual works. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0xj4d6bm Wed, 6 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Schottlaender, Brian E. C. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8nt5h1rj Using the University of California (UC) San Diego Library’s Environmental Sustainability Group as a case study, this chapter walks readers through establishing a need for sustainability efforts within an academic library, communicating that need to the library’s administration and other stakeholders, and launching an official library group to work on those issues. It also describes sustainability activities an academic library can undertake, and the resources needed—or not—to accomplish them and measure their success. This chapter is aimed at libraries just starting to plan environmental sustainability activities, or those who want to formalize their current endeavors into their library organization. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8nt5h1rj Fri, 27 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Kane, Kim Sklar, Annelise https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8mq028p5 <p>Along with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs was one of the founders and leading representatives of the "Beat" movement in American culture and literature. From the late 1950s through the late 1960s, Burroughs published voluminously; yet it has been more than thirty years since a comprehensive bibliography has been issued of works by and about him. This publication, which will be updated regularly, remedies that.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8mq028p5 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Schottlaender, Brian E.C. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5n73t7nb <p>Along with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs was one of the founders and leading representatives of the “Beat” movement in American culture and literature. From the late 1950s through the late 1990s, Burroughs published voluminously; yet, it has been more than thirty years since a comprehensive bibliography has been issued of works by and about him. This publication, which will be updated regularly, remedies that.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5n73t7nb Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Schottlaender, Brian E.C.