University Libraries Presentations Series

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Creating a Sustainable Workflow for Converting Online Finding Aids into MARC Records
(2019-01-01) Kardos, Ann
Data regarding library collections exists in many locations. While this often works for those researchers who know what they're looking for, one institution created a plan to convert online finding aids into MARC records for the discovery layer. The project makes additional avenues to discover unique collections but also gives opportunities to create Library of Congress name authority records for distinct entities or hidden individuals and groups. This project became a model for standardization of this work across the consortium, and brought together stakeholders from metadata, special collections, archives, digital collections and library IT.
The Open Hub: Six Years of a Collaborative OER Initiative
(2017-01-01) smith, jeremy
Presentation at the 2017 New England Faculty Development Conference
The Open Hub: How Libraries Facilitate OER
(2016-01-01) smith, jeremy
An examination of the role of libraries in the support of Open Educational Resources at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
MassPIRG Higher Ed Panel - Open Education at UMass Amherst April 2018
(2018-01-01) smith, jeremy
Empowering Through Staff Training and Team Skill Building
(2019-01-01) Eustis, Jennifer M.; Bergin, Meghan
This topic aims to open up a discussion on how staff training and skill building workshops can empower both veteran and new staff in technical services and cross train staff outside of technical services on metadata and cataloging projects. Training and skill building occur frequently in and out of the office. At UMass Amherst, several staff have moved on, new staff have arrived, and the library is preparing for a migration to a new Library Services Platform. These changes have led to staff taking on new responsibilities and well as several cross training opportunities. Workshops have been recently offered to learn new software such as Outlook calendar, Trello, and Slack. Other workshops have been offered to prepare people to better their use cataloging tools such as MarcEdit and OpenRefine. Documentation has been updated or created to help staff learn new workflows such as cataloging music, updating local holdings records with OCLC, cataloging archival books, or how to handle batch loading.
Welcome to Your New Job: Streamlining Inherited Workflows
(2020-01-01) Eustis, Jennifer M.
Inherited workflows and processes are common. In academic libraries, in particular state institutions like the University of Massachusetts, it takes time to either hire for a position or transfer job duties. There are also situations in which workflows need to be passed to a different person. Whether it’s a new hire or new job duties, the consequences are often the same: new backlogs, missing or non-existent documentation, or workflows that fit a different job or working style. At UMass Amherst, as a new hire in the Metadata Unit, I inherited batch loading responsibilities both for UMass Amherst and the Five College Consortium. Much of the knowledge was lost when the person who had those responsibilities left. Not only did a backlog begin to grow, documentation was limited, and workflows needed to be re-envisioned for a smaller staff. In this presentation, I’d like to address the ways in which the inherited batch loading process and workflows of bibliographic title sets are being streamlined and made more transparent. I’ll cover issues on: how we customized CORAL to reduce the number of spreadsheets to track loads; revamped documentation for both transparency and training; began an evaluation process to illustrate the process to our colleges, especially the liaisons; how this work is being adapted for our consortium batch loads.
MCCLPHEI Staff Development Summer Workshop Day 2016
(2016-01-01) smith, jeremy
A summary of the Open Education Initiative at UMass Amherst. Presented to the Massachusetts Commonwealth Consortium of Libraries in Public Higher Education Institutions, Inc.during their summer workshop.
Does Working in Batch Mean Sacrificing Quality Metadata?
(2019-01-01) Eustis, Jennifer M.
Batch processing metadata for electronic resources means working with records of varying quality. Common issues include titles in all sorts of cases, missing information such as publication, URLs, or fixed field data, lack of information needed for local best practices, or inconsistent vendor and/or OCLC numbers. These issues can be daunting and involve a significant amount of cleanup that can slow the batch processing down or make it ineffective. To help process title sets of records, I have begun using a suite of tools that include MarcEdit, OpenRefine, Excel, and Python. These tools help me address common issues and implement local practices in batch. The results are better quality metadata records that facilitate access and discovery. My presentation will highlight how I use these tools with examples. My hope is that attendees can learn from these examples and use these tools in their own batch processing.
Follow the TRAIL
(2019-01-01) Eustis, Jennifer M.
This presentation highlights the use of MarcEdit and Python to solve commonly encountered issues when dealing with electronic resources.
Reclassing Dewey to LC
(2018-01-01) Eustis, Jennifer M.
This presentation illustrations how Alma can be used in conjunction with MarcEdit, OCLC's API using MarcEdit, and MarcEdit's OCLC Classify service to reclass a large Dewey collection.
Describing Data Repositories
(2014-01-01) Eustis, Jennifer M.
With the rise of eScience, subject liaisons must become familiar with disciplinary data repositories to better serve their clientele. Research data can often be deposited in one or more repositories. For researchers who are not well informed or work in fields that have yet to develop a data repository existing lists such as DataBib, Registry of Research Data Repositories or OpenDOAR provide a combined list of up to 2000 data repositories but little information about each one. Subject liaisons at the University of Connecticut Libraries can help researchers find appropriate data repositories for data submission and discovery. However, with such a large listing, how do subject liaisons evaluate repositories in their disciplines? To support our subject liaisons better evaluate data repositories and to give them more confidence to help their faculty in eScience, we created the “Describe Your Data Repository” survey.
From Idea to Action: Creating a Research Data Services Program at the University of Connecticut
(2015-01-01) Eustis, Jennifer M.
The University of Connecticut Libraries (UCL) has long provided aspects of research data assistance to the UConn community focusing on education, training and consultations. UCL have a history of collaborating with UConn’s central IT, Sponsored Program Services and the Office of the Vice President for Research. Building on these efforts and collaborations, UCL has recently launched our Research Data Services Program in conjunction with building a Research Data Archive to service the needs of the research community. Our work is coming together into a unified set of library services.
Lifecycle of Data Management Best Practices Workshops at the University of Connecticut
(2013-01-01) Eustis, Jennifer M.
We held three broad Data Management Best Practices Instruction for Graduate Students workshops covering an array of topics, taught by Library, Office for Sponsored Programs (OSP) and University IT (UITS) staff. 1) Started with the UMM Data Management Curriculum Framework to construct 2.5 hour workshop highlighting major topics of need for those handling research data. Content included: organization, storage, metadata, archiving, sharing data, and legal and ethical matters. 2) Collaborated with the OSP and UITS on content and as instructors in organizing, storage, sharing and legal sections. Library staff instructed in metadata and archiving, and co-instructed in organizing, storage and sharing. 3) Workshop included the head of UTS to talk about the University Governance Committee on Research & Scholarship. 4) Previewed a “ManagingData” listserv to support research data management questions and answers. 5) Based on feedback we reduced time and modified content, including less focus on policies and funders, reworking metadata section, adding more about storage. We more clearly delineated data security (during collection and analysis of data) versus data sharing (data set is finished and available.) Next steps include single issue workshops (storage, security or software) and discipline-specific trainings in consultation with disciplinary IT and faculty.
Transforming Roles for Catalog/Metadata Librarians through New Intitiatives
(2016-01-01) Eustis, Jennifer M.
Like many academic libraries, new services and jobs are being driven by the latest developments in the worlds of science and the humanities. In a 2010 press release, the National Science Foundation announced that it would require a data management plan as a supplementary two page document to grant submissions. NSF’s decision was driven by e-Science. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as large scale and intensely computational science carried out often on the Internet and research shared across disciplines and with diverse data practices from different research communities. The second movement is the digital humanities, loosely defined as a learning community focused on reflexive engagements with digital tools and methods to investigate the humanities giving rise to a number of initiatives such as the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. Both compel academic libraries to re-assess how they serve researchers’ data needs and call for new service models. Innovative services from catalog/metadata units are particularly significant because both initiatives require knowledge of and seek help in metadata. In this chapter, I will explore the impacts of e-Science and the Digital Humanities that result in original services such as reference, consultation, instruction, planning, documentation, ontologies, or metadata creation and maintenance that allow for collaboration within the library and beyond.
Adopting a Method to Evaluate Bibliographic Electronic Resource Title Sets of Metadata
(2019-01-01) Eustis, Jennifer M.
This article briefly describes how a method to evaluate title sets of metadata that are batch loaded into the catalog is being developed.
Closing the Digital Divide: Sharing OER with Libraries, Schools, and Public Health Facilities in Africa and the World
(2017-01-01) smith, jeremy
Nearly 5 billion people around the world lack basic internet access, putting them at a severe disadvantage in terms of economic, educational, health, and social opportunity. While a number of providers are attempting to address this global digital divide, our panel will explore a collaborative effort to bridge this divide using several low-cost technological solutions, offering enormous potential for reaching the developing world. We will discuss our experiences using Outernet, Keepod, and RACHEL (Remote Area Community Hotspot for Education & Learning). These technologies allow our team to distribute open content to information-poor communities in a cost-effective and efficient way. In partnership with Outernet, a global broadcast data startup, an IT nonprofit in Malawi called ShiftIT, Salesforce/Heroku, and World Possible, University of Massachusetts Amherst librarians, students, and faculty are transmitting sought-after, openly licensed information to libraries and schools that have no, or very limited, internet access. Under the leadership of the UMass Amherst Libraries a student World Librarians group is providing residents of the developing nation of Malawi with access to information that would otherwise be out of reach. Sites in Malawi request information they want via Twitter and tag the UMass Amherst account. The advantage of Twitter being the reduced cost to cellular data plans. Tweets are then organized and managed within the Salesforce & Heroku Apps, allowing searchers to easily fulfill requests. The preliminary success of this pilot suggests that there is potential for it to be replicated on a much larger scale as well as expanded into other fields such as public health.
MarcEdit 101 An Introduction
(2022-01-01) Eustis, Jennifer M.
This presentation introduces the basics of MarcEdit to those who have never used or just started using MarcEdit.
Sampling Data, a Primer
(2018-01-01) Eustis, Jennifer M.
his handout provide a short introduction to the concept of data sampling or profiling.
Making Migration Less Mysterious: Developing a Migration Plan for ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst
(2023-01-01) Jerome, Erin
In January 2023, after years of environmental scans, interviews with stakeholders and other IR managers, and platform investigations and pilots, the UMass Amherst Libraries made the decision to migrate its IR from bepress' Digital Commons to a combination of Janeway and Atmire-hosted DSpace 7.x. We all love a good migration presentation, but for most of us, migration remains a mysterious process that's difficult to envision. In this talk, I will walk through my process of creating a migration plan for our rather large and unwieldy IR -- from interviews with IR managers who have been through migration, the beginning stages of data cleanup and standardization, and the fun -- Excel column limits! Items uploaded multiple times!--discoveries made along the way. I will also discuss how the cleanup and discoveries are shaping our IR policies moving forward.
Collaborations, Consortia, Conundrums
(2021-01-01) Eustis, Jennifer M.
Collaborating across departments can be both fruitful and challenging. Collaboration across institutions in a consortium can be even more worthwhile and presents more hurdles to cross. Collaboration across institutions in multiple countries on an open source project is definitely rewarding and has a number of demands. What happens when you have to navigate all of these types of collaborations to ensure that the migration to your new library service platform is as successful as possible? In this presentation, I will talk about these different types of collaborations at the University of Massachusetts Amherst which is part of the Five College Consortium as we as a consortium migrate to the open source library service platform FOLIO.

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