2019 CTLC Conference
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Item Bring the Internet Home: Wi-Fi Hotspots at Fort Worth Public Library(2019) Combs, Katie; Duke, DeborahThis is the age where the internet is a necessity and libraries can meet that need by helping communities to bring the internet home. In January of 2018, the Fort Worth Public Library began the process of providing Wi-Fi hotspots to patrons using funds from the Friends of the Fort Worth Public Library. The program now provides 200 hotspot devices and has been a massive success in the Fort Worth community. This presentation will discuss choosing vendors that are right for every library, how to perform data profiles, programming and marketing for a hotspot program.Item Creating Creators(2019) Stayton, JennThis presentation will discuss strategies for working with students to impart project management and content creation skills. Student work drives many library projects, but too often students are not allowed to drive those projects. Instead of relying on comfort areas and ability to be contributors, the UNT Libraries have challenged students to be creators and are now leaving room in library projects for student creativity, innovation, and learning processes. The “Student Collaborators Bill of Rights” became a starting point to refine a system of project development and reporting that benefited both student and department. Letting students take the wheel was scary for UNT library staff at first, but that risk was worth the reward of seeing students go from cautious participants to confident practitioners.Item Meditative Mandala(2019) Vaidyanathan, RevathiThe word “Mandala” is an ancient Sanskrit word meaning symbols of unity and completeness. The principle of Mandala art has been utilized by various cultures around the world as a means of self-expression, spiritual transformation, and personal growth. The process of creating a mandala emphasizes focus and instills a calm mind. The skills learned by the making of a mandala can be readily applied to life. Because these projects require minimal resources, libraries can provide their communities with a means to produce art and promote self-care. The McKinney Public Library has incorporated the Meditative Mandala Program, which meets once a week, and has developed an art display and created a program for the tween/teens based on the community’s response.Item The Kempner Empire: Establishing Digitization Processes and Workflows for a Large-scale Collection(2019) Kellum, ChristinaWith support from the Harris and Eliza Kempner Fund and the Rosenberg Library, the University of North Texas Digital Projects Unit has taken on the job of digitizing the Kempner family’s business papers, which span decades. One of Galveston’s most iconic families, the Kempner family influenced the social and philanthropic landscape of Galveston, and its members created an expansive economic empire. This presentation will breakdown the procedures created for a collection broken up in yearly batches of roughly 18,000 pages over six years. The project moves through digitization and metadata creation onto the Portal to Texas History. Providing digitization and international access to the collection is an innovative project, and certainly the largest project of its type in existence. This collection brings forward interests in farming, banking, business, travel, exports/imports, and family operations.Item Implement and Maintain Your DDA Plan in 500 Easy Steps(2019) Siu, Natasha; Sanabria, Sarah; Barrett, HeatherWas setting up Demand Driven Acquisition at your library a memorable experience? After six years under a DDA ebook plan, the SMU Libraries began to fully reevaluate what had been turned on. With attractive new purchasing models and programs from different vendors, the SMU Libraries decided to move forward by implementing DDA through JSTOR in addition to a previous DDA plan primarily through ProQuest. Having multiple vendors set up the DDA program quickly lead to complications. While these programs are still ongoing and new issues could arise, this session will share lessons learned and what to know before getting started.Item Building a Coalition for Statewide OER Initiatives in Texas(2019) DeForest, Lea; Anaya, PhillipThe Statewide OER Coordinating Committee is comprised of staff members from a variety of academic libraries in the state including community colleges, ARLs, and the Texas Digital Library consortium. The committee is intended to “bridge the gap” between the OER Summit and a more formal coalition of institutional stakeholders that can act on the priorities set forth at the summit. Since January 2019, the committee has undertaken the writing of a white paper, investigating further meeting opportunities, coalition-building and advocacy efforts. This 25-minute presentation will inform participants of the work done by the committee so far and planned outreach and activities for the 2019-20 academic year.Item Knitting Together Qualitative and Quantitative Data About Your E-journals(2019) Harker, Karen; Hergert, ChristopherWhen it comes to developing collections, librarians have historically faced the dilemma of providing access to high quality resources versus those that are highly used. The Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is a tool that provides a series of metrics of journal quality or impact for more than 15,000 major research journals. While the validity of these metrics has been regularly debated, there are precious few other tools or metrics that are so easily accessible. This presentation covers a method using MS Access and Excel to combine JCR metrics with local usage to generate comparisons with only a modest amount of work. By the end of this session, attendees will be able to export data from JCR, clean it, match the JCR list with their list of e-journals, generate overlap rates by category, and compare external rankings with internal usage.Item DARTing Across North Texas(2019) San Antonio, AmyDallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) and the University of North Texas (UNT) Special Collections have teamed up to create the DART Historical Archive, which documents its history from August 1983 to the most recent technological endeavors. This presentation will address the building blocks of developing the archive from the ground up, the challenges of partnering with an outside agency or corporation, and the benefit of effective and clear communication, which is essential to developing trust and lasting relationships.Item Wellbeing at the Library: Collection Development and Programming(2019) Whitmer, Susan; Cox, Elaine; Rumohr, Suzie; Ward, Pamela; Reeves, Michelle; Elaine Cox, Suzie Rumohr, Pamela Ward, Michelle Reeves,This presentation describes and justifies wellbeing activities at an academic library. Working in collaboration with the University Wellbeing Director, academic librarians have created a culture that promotes wellbeing at the Texas Woman’s University Libraries. The Wellbeing at the Library panelists will describe their experiences creating collections and programming which include the creation of a Wellbeing Collection, yoga sessions during midterms and finals, and eye strain prevention practices for cataloging staff. As libraries evolve with the 21st century by expanding offerings, collection development and programming are keeping pace by taking on new responsibilities to help serve academic communities.Item 2019 Conference Program and Schedule(2019) CTLC Conference Planning Committee2019 CTLC Conference ProgramItem Building an Invested Student Staff(2019) Rinehart, TracyHow does a manager find, hire, train, supervise, and retain the best student workers? What makes it all work well? What are the ideas for keeping great students productive, happy and a part of the library team? This session is for anyone that supervises students or plans to do so in the future.Item Automating the Authority Control Process(2019) Wolf, StaceyAuthority control is an important part of cataloging and there are a variety of methods for providing it, ranging from time-consuming manual processes to the time-saving automated. However, automated processes often seem out of reach for small libraries when it comes to using a pricey vendor or expert cataloger. This presentation will introduce ideas on how to handle authority control using a variety of tools, both paid and free. The presenter will describe how their library handles authority control, compare vendors and programs, and demonstrate authority control using MarcEdit.Item Adding Some Bam! Pow! Boom! To Your Outreach with Comics(2019) Martin, John Edward; Griffith, Bobby; Condrey, CobyThis roundtable discussion will cover aspects of outreach with comics and graphic novels collections in an academic setting. Comics are lurking throughout libraries—in dedicated comic collections but also in government documents, rare or special collections, music collections, and media collections. Over the past two years, UNT Libraries has engaged its patrons and the wider community through education, outreach, and collection development initiatives using comics and graphic novels as the focus of conversation. Library staff have a comics studies reading group and blog, collaborate with faculty to produce programs, host events and exhibits, maintain social media channels, and routinely recommend and acquire additions to the collection. These efforts have provided a means to keep momentum energetic and discussions active that support teaching, learning and research using materials that may be relatively new to academic audiences.Item Developing Edge Librarianship: Digital Services Graduate Research Assistants at TWU(2019) Headrick, ElizabethElizabeth Headrick served as a Graduate Research Assistant for the Digital Services unit of the TWU Libraries during her time as a SLIS student. This presentation focuses on how her work as a GRA in Digital Services allowed her to become immersed in a variety of developing edge tasks that expanded her knowledge base well beyond the classroom. Topics covered include open access and open educational resources, the institutional repository, and copyright research.Item Creating & Executing a Website Re-Design Simultaneously: A Hyper Rational Approach(2019) Scott, JaneCan a web redesign project be executed and created simultaneously? Inspired by the architect of the Seattle Public Library’s innovative hyper-rational process, the UT Southwestern Library embarked on a similar approach to redesign their website in 2017. By harnessing web statistics, designers were able to make definitive choices about content and invest in better user experience design and technology. This approach fostered easy adoption and minimal training, while also inspiring innovation and improvement. By identifying core issues and taking the position that the website is a virtual librarian, UT Southwestern was able to determine what systems and products we should implement to maximize that experience. What resulted was a unique and customized site that adheres to our values, experiences, and service standards.Item Using Whiteboards to Build User Engagement(2019) Morris, AbbyThe Blagg-Huey-Huey Library has used their whiteboards to interact with students and facilitate engagement activities. Find out how you can use this low-cost strategy to reach out to library users and build a library community.Item Assessing an Academic Library Mentoring Program(2019) Harker, Karen; Keshmiripour, Setareh; McIntosh, Marcia; O'Toole, Erin; Sassen, CatherineA continuous cycle of assessment contributes to the success of a mentoring program, as illustrated in this case study from a large academic library. The Mentoring Competencies Assessment, the Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale, a satisfaction survey, and a focus group are used to assess the program. The assessment results indicate that the program is meeting its goals of facilitating the professional development of protégés, improving mentor competencies, increasing the confidence of participants, and expanding future participation in the program.Item The Venn Diagram of Teaching and Librarianship: Partnerships Between the Library and First-Year Writing Programs(2019) O'Neill, Ashley; McMichael, JonathanInformation literacy and first-year writing programs are a natural partnership. Most college composition courses include a research component, and collaboration with librarians on teaching important research skills is a logical step. But what if the collaboration went further? This presentation will examine, through anecdotal evidence, how the principles of librarianship and the information literacy framework established by the ACRL can strengthen first-year writing assignments, resulting in better outcomes for first-year students.Item Why K-12 school librarians belong in academic libraries(2019) Lanier, AmyThis lightning talk will give seven good reasons why school librarians make strong contenders for open positions within academic libraries.Item Inter-library Communication with Google(2019) Bartush, GingerPresentation on how the TWU Libraries' Interlibrary Loan department has used Google Apps to improve communication within the library.