Research works and presentations included here have been selected by the LAUC Research and Professional Development Committee of the UC San Diego Library.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 can become a more empathetic and productive digital citizen. The authors; a scholarly communications librarian, a liberal arts professor, and an undergraduate alumna discuss and relate experiences of how addressing this educational opportunity through 1) classroom assignments, 2) instruction, and 3) publishing has created space for a deepened engagement with the affordances and challenges of being a public scholar and global citizen.
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.
