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LIS 620 Spring 2018 Showcase
Academic Libraries
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Presenter: Shane Wolfram Practicum Location: Memorial Library, Madison, WI This paper explores how Library of Congress linked data for subject headings can be used to improve users’ ability to search the UW Madison catalog via the online search interface and thereby access collection materials. I will first give a brief overview of LC Subject Heading Linked Data. I will then argue specifically that a hierarchical browse experience that allows users to see the subject heading structure as a whole and easily navigate related subjects is possible given the subject heading structure and collection distribution within that structure. While a precise implementation of the hierarchy is, unfortunately, outside the scope of this paper, I hope to make a strong case that a hierarchy of this kind is a natural choice for expressing the subject heading structure, will be highly useful to users, and is technically feasible. |
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Presenter: Amandajean Freking Nolte Practicum Location: University of Northern Iowa Rod Library, Cedar Falls, Iowa During spring 2018, practicum student, Amandajean Freking Nolte performed an informal audit of the recently merged Library Service Desk space at UNI Rod Library to gather perceptions of its functionality. She distributed a survey to all merged desk workers, interviewed a selection of faculty and staff, as well as completed two weeks of observation at the desk each week. These responses will be considered when making future recommendations for the space and also when planning for future training for the space. |
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Presenter: Molly Lawlor Practicum Location: Lawrence University, Seeley G. Mudd Library, Appleton, WI Mudd Library subscribes to many electronic resources that pertain to the curriculum and are built off faculty recommendations. In order to manage and maintain this collection, multiple technical services staff take on the tedious and time consuming responsibilities typically seen from an Electronic Resources Librarian, ERL. By observing the library’s current practice for these resources, and researching what an ERL does, it seems as though the simplest solution would be to hire an ERL to remove the additional workload added to others’ day to day tasks. |
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Presenter: Tobin Hoover Practicum Location: UW-Baraboo/Sauk County, Baraboo,WI This paper looks at the particular collection development needs of a community college library in contrast to the more common four-year and research institution model. It identifies four main needs, supporting the curriculum, extra-curricular resources, currency and supporting various skill levels. This came out of work a liaison for the UWC system English department and discuss surveying campus ‘gatekeepers’ to balance the various needs and to specify what those what priorities would look like in practice. |
Archives
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Presenter: Timothy George Connolly Practicum Location: Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance, Sauk City, WI Original order and respect des fonds are to the archival profession what the Prime Directive is to the crew of the Starship Enterprise: canonical principals which guide the daily work of both. Yet the recent explosion in “community archiving” is challenging these fundamental principles, through its need to assess, arrange, and describe collections of randomly assembled materials that have little or no context, no original order, no organizational structure, and no creator intent. By examining the seeming chaos carefully, it is possible to craft approaches that allow for a level of arrangement and description commensurate with the needs of the user. This paper examines those approaches and their implementation and offers recommendation on future activities to further enhance the usefulness of a collection. |
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Presenter: Jamie Marie Wagner Practicum Location: University of Colorado-Boulder archive, Boulder, Colorado For myriad financial or administrative reasons, most archivists regularly work with staff, students, or volunteers who do not have formal archival training. This paper uses the James Stanley Brakhage collection at the University of Colorado-Boulder as a case study in major pitfalls that may occur when collections are processed, with little oversight, by nonarchivists. The author delineates distinct issues in the Brakhage collection’s existing arrangement and description and goes on to suggest that archivists emphasize to untrained colleagues three major theoretical principles – MPLP, neutrality/transparency, and a focus on the needs of the researcher – in order encourage better processing decisions. |
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Presenter: Lydia Rice Practicum Location: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, Madison, WI The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, located in the Wisconsin Historical Society, is digitizing its United Artists Collection, Series 5.5. which consists of photographic negatives taken on movie sets. I initially focused on digitizing a portion of the collection for the purpose of preservation, and later creating an online exhibit with previously scanned images. I found myself struggling with creating descriptive metadata in a limited amount of time, while also choosing from images that lacked said metadata. I found that focusing on creating broadly descriptive metadata while digitizing, while leaving the more detailed and time-consuming metadata creation for later cataloging, would save time and effort. |
Public Libraries
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Presenter: Erin Zaputil Practicum Location: Blairstown Public Library, Blairstown, Iowa How does a library ensure continuity of service to its community in the event of leadership change, whether expected or unexpected? Because of a tragic event a nearby library, for my practicum at the Blairstown Public Library in Blairstown, Iowa I researched succession planning. Succession planning is an important action all libraries should consider as a best practice. It involves activities aimed at making sure the library has the staff and information available to continue the library’s mission into the future. |
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Presenter: Olivia Davison Practicum Location: Matheson Memorial Library, Elkhorn, WI This paper explores how teens’ use of social media and management of their own online privacy affect efforts by public libraries to make use of certain social media platforms in marketing campaigns. While surveys show that Snapchat is ranked by teens as the most important social media platform, it may not be the most effective platform to market teen public library programs. This paper explores current research on teens, social media, and privacy to suggest that highly visible social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram are more appropriate choices for public library teen program marketing. |
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Presenter: Gordon Backer Practicum Location: Middleton Public Library, Middleton, WI Middleton Public Library is a public library serving the city of Middleton, Wisconsin. The library serves an increasingly diverse population through its space, collections, and programming. In this position paper and its accompanying presentation, I seek to evaluate whether the library’s programming for children offers adequate diverse representation. Based on my review of the relevant literature, it is my conclusion that Middleton’s existing approach to diversity in children’s library programming, while not detrimental, is in need of updates to bring it in line with current accepted practices. |
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Presenter: Stephanie Licko Practicum Location: Batavia Public Library, Batavia, IL This paper takes a look at how a library can successfully navigate a migration to a new consortium. Since a migration to a new library consortium is a long, complicated process with many moving parts, this paper discusses the four critical elements needed to ensure that a migration goes as smoothly as possible. |
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Presenter: Jessica Lind Practicum Location: Austin Public Library, Austin, MN How can a library sustain programming after an unpaid intern is done? I spent over 10 hours a week implementing a tween program for under-served youth in my area. The library will have to justify the budget spent if the program is to continue. My position paper, presentation and poster address the benefits of continuing the programs but the question that must be asked is, “will they be successful if education is tied into their daily library time?” |
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Presenter: Kelli Miller Practicum Location: Verona Public Library, Verona, WI My paper addresses the use of story times and programming for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (or ASD) and special needs in the public library. I looked at ways that other libraries had implemented and developed programming for this population, and provided solutions for things that Verona Public Library could do to improve their current Sensory Friendly story time. I also looked at the challenges and benefits that other librarians had encountered with providing programming and story times with this population. |
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Presenter: Andrew Heckroth Practicum Location: Columbus Public Library, Columbus, WI The Columbus Public Library, a Carnegie Library with an active role in community engagement, had over eight hundred books in their adult non-fiction not circulate since 2014. While weeding out these books was simple, filling in holes in the collection was not. To fill the holes, newly-published books on prominent minority figures in American history were purchased. In buying these books, the Columbus Public Library brought to light these works for a predominantly white community in southern Wisconsin. |
Other Information Agencies
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Presenter: Philip Romero-Masters Practicum Location: UW-Madison, Office of Cybersecurity, Madison, WI Cybersecurity risk assessments rely on subjective information from unit technologists to generate a frequency and impact score for each risk identified as an unimplemented security control. Without a more controlled way to rate risk frequency and impact the risk scores generated from risk analysis are inconsistent across the organization. As such, after literature review, I recommend formalizing the risk analyst’s guiding evaluations techniques to create baseline scores for each control as a set of tables. |
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Presenter: Meng Qu Practicum Location: N/A There are two software have been examined and compared in the filed of digital content management system. The CWIS and Omeka are all free and ope-resource software, good for small institutions to collect, manage, and share their resources. Detailed process of how to conduct library software are discussed in the paper. And the real-world cased are provided to identify the differences. |
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Presenter: Evan Meszaros Practicum Location: Cleveland Health Sciences Library, Cleveland, OH The librarians at the Cleveland Health Sciences Library in Cleveland, OH have been receiving an increasing number of requests for assistance in performing the exhaustive literature search required for a systematic review—the most rigorous form of study in the area of health sciences research. In an effort to better assist researchers who understand the significant commitments of time and effort required by a systematic review, and to detect and dissuade—while also educating—those who are unprepared, my site supervisor and I developed a screening form modeled on those in use at other health sciences libraries. |
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Presenter: Jennifer Flake Practicum Location: Hope Eccles Health Library at University of Utah Campus, Salt Lake, UT Within the Hope Eccles Hospital Library, patients with Multiple Sclerosis can borrow an iPad in order to test out apps about MS. This program is a way to manage isolation amongst the hospital’s MS patients. By adding medical device apps to these iPads, librarians were able to see an emerging role of medical apps, and work in a new way with doctors. |