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.
When tragedy strikes your community, few people think about preserving the objects associated with the social mourning process. This paper discusses a project to document our community’s response to a mass murder. It describes how we collected and organized materials from spontaneous memorials to make them accessible to scholars in the future. Material culture is not just the realm of archaeologists; it is also the domain of librarians, archivists, curators and historians. 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.
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.
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.
In the summer of 2016, the Earth Sciences & Map Library at the University of California, Berkeley, purchased a Magic Planet digital globe in a collaboration with the departments of Geography and Earth & 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 researcher and student interests. We are excited about partnering with our departments and engaging our students in the possibilities of 3D visualization, and look forward to sharing lessons learned.
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.
The Space Shuttle Program was the longest-running human spaceflight program of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Spanning three decades (1981-2011), the program consisted of 135 flights using a fleet of orbiter spacecraft. Throughout the history of the program, flags were used in many different contexts. The most traditional was using a flag as a national identifier on spacecraft, payloads, and spacesuits. In addition, flag motifs were used on the mission emblems designed by shuttle crews to represent their flights. 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. The Space Shuttle Program also spawned new flags to represent each orbiter, specific payloads, or selected missions. Finally, the Space Shuttle was the largest spacecraft designed to ferry both astronauts and equipment into orbit. This provided a unique opportunity to carry large numbers of flags into orbit. This paper will discuss these varied uses of flags during the Space Shuttle Program, documenting specific flags and demonstrating the dynamic role of flags in human spaceflight.
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,
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.
