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This talk provides an overview of the work of the Oral History Center of The Bancroft Library and opportunities for collaboration. The Oral History Center puts stories in the historical record that hadn’t been there before and might otherwise be lost. We preserve thousands of voices from all walks of life, political perspectives, national origins, and ethnic backgrounds through oral history interviews. We also produce interpretive materials, such as podcasts; train scholars in the field through educational initiatives, including workshops and internships; create curriculum for K–12; and write articles for scholarly and lay audiences. During shelter-in-place, we pivoted to remote interviewing, created a toolkit and hosted a webinar to train practitioners. We are committed to open access and all of our transcripts, articles, and podcasts are accessible online or in-person at no cost. We partner with other universities and organizations, such at the National Park Service and California State Archives, on projects ranging from the WWII home front to the birth of the Chicano Studies movement. Opportunities for collaboration include oral history projects; projects with oral histories and other archival materials; interpretive materials, such as multimedia showcases, exhibits, oral history performance, or podcasts; educational initiatives, such as building curriculum or conducting training; and digitization and preservation of oral histories; among others. Some benefits of partnerships include an enhanced scholarly experience (and donor relations) by supplementing existing or incoming archival collections with oral histories; highlighting the work of university alumni and leading university scholars; and creating more opportunities for public engagement.

UC Libraries Forum: Leading with Innovation, Stronger through Collaboration

Opportunities to Collaborate with the UC Berkeley Oral History Center

archival collections

podcasts

interviewing

donor relations

oral history

communications

partnerships

open access

funding

instruction

public engagement

curriculum

exhibits

collaboration

This  conference will explore the intersection of technology and service, the lessons learned through the past extraordinary year, and the value of change management. In light of the challenging times, we are coming together virtually to share our work under the theme 'Leading with Innovation, Stronger through Collaboration'.

The UC Libraries Forum will serve as an opportunity for UC library colleagues to meet virtually, share, learn and find opportunities for new collaborations and projects across the UC system. Presentations and conversation will note existing collaborations and spark ideas for new ones. This forum builds on and extends the scope of UC DLFx 2018 and 2019 beyond digital initiatives to all library employees to include themes such as research data, scholarly communications, the current-COVID academic library and others.




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This  conference will explore the intersection of technology and service, the lessons learned through the past extraordinary year, and the value of change management. In light of the challenging times, we are coming together virtually to share our work under the theme 'Leading with Innovation, Stronger through Collaboration'.

The UC Libraries Forum will serve as an opportunity for UC library colleagues to meet virtually, share, learn and find opportunities for new collaborations and projects across the UC system. Presentations and conversation will note existing collaborations and spark ideas for new ones. This forum builds on and extends the scope of UC DLFx 2018 and 2019 beyond digital initiatives to all library employees to include themes such as research data, scholarly communications, the current-COVID academic library and others.

lightning talk

Across the disciplines, from physical sciences to social sciences to digital humanities, researchers are pursuing new and innovative research with big data and data science methodologies. In response, libraries and other campus units have begun to implement instruction, consultation, and curation services to support researchers in planning, managing, sharing, and publishing their data. However, many libraries have not yet fully assessed the needs of big data researchers, much less developed services specifically tailored for researchers producing and working with big data. In order to provide a better understanding of the state of the big data research landscape in higher education, the Ithaka S+R Project on “Supporting Big Data Research” brought together twenty-one U.S. institutions to conduct and analyze interviews with big data researchers on their campuses. Teams at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego each assembled rosters of interviewees across domains and ranks to examine practices, challenges, and trends related to data collection, data analysis, research communication, and training. Themes emerged around such issues as data storage, computing infrastructure, data and code sharing, openness, collaboration, and training needs. UCB and UCSD team members will present their common findings, important differences between the two campuses, and potential opportunities for cross-campus collaboration.

Supporting Big Data Research: Recommendations from the Ithaka S+R Projects at UCB & UCSD;

Academic librarians have increasingly gone public with their experiences of low morale and burnout, yet less attention has been paid to the workplace experiences of library staff. As Kaetrena Davis Kendrick notes in her work on the persistent harm of low morale among librarians, “the cost of silence can be high.” 

We decided to examine that gap in the research. In exploring the landscape of library staff morale, we hypothesized that the nature of the academic library’s hierarchies, and staff roles within them, would be major factors in levels of morale. We also sought to investigate questions of organizational culture, opportunities for professional development, and management style.

Our research team, including library staff, former library staff, a recent MLS grad and MLIS student, and librarians, conducted 34 structured interviews with academic library staff nationwide (purposefully excluding UC staff). The interviews took place during a three-week period in May-June 2020, and provide perhaps the final snapshot of library staff life in the pre-COVID era. Interviews were transcribed by a student who was trained by a member of our team, and de-identified transcripts were analyzed using the qualitative data analysis software MAXDQA.

In this talk, we present our findings, some of which surprised us. Among other things, the findings establish that efforts to address equity in compensation, provide professional growth opportunities, and create more collegial work environments, in particular addressing the librarian-staff divide and the need for manager advocacy, can all improve staff morale. In addition, we suggest concrete ways to make changes in libraries in order to assess and improve morale across staff hierarchies, and we offer resources for workplace development and support for staff.


Library Staff Morale in the Academic Hierarchy;

This presentation shares the work at the UC Davis Library, Research and Learning Directorate to revamp our process for collecting research consultation metrics - to give us better insight into who our users are, and how they engage with our consultation services. 

We will share how we renovated our research consult metrics gathering process, including 1) identifying shortcomings of our previous processes, 2) gaining institutional buy-in to revamp the process, 3) forming a representative team and inclusive feedback process, 4) determining which metrics to gather, 5) working with IT to assemble a technological stack for data input, tiered data access and visualization, and 6) workforce training and rollout. 

We will also share the results of our informal survey of how research consult metrics are collected and used across the UC Libraries - including whether UC Libraries: 1) use a centrally organized or standardized process for collecting research consult metrics 2) What software (if any) is used to collect research consult metrics 3) what survey/form instruments are used and what metrics are collected, and 4) whether UC Librarians consider their metrics to be useful for improving how they deliver services.

Finally, we will discuss our ongoing work to establish an evidence-based practice of reviewing and acting on these data regularly. We will also touch on the tensions between use of this data for service improvement vs assessment of librarian performance. 


Research Consultation Metrics: Building Infrastructure for Evidence Based Improvement at the UC Davis Library;

Always Be Migrating : Processes, Products, and People

In the wake of the racial violence occurring in the United States in 2020, the UC San Diego (UCSD) Library created a collaborative, non-hierarchical, employee-led group that allowed for a new way of sharing and listening across the organization. The Library Community Collective (LCC) is a collaboration between the Library Community Building Committee and the Library Diversity and Inclusion Committee and has provided an ongoing platform for challenging discourse on topics such as white supremacy, allyship, anti-asian violence, fat phobia, race and health disparities and microaggressions. In hopes of providing a model and inspiration for other libraries to pursue similar initiatives, we will provide background on the LCC and its creation, methods, outcomes and challenges.



The Library Community Collective - Conversations on Diversity, Inclusion and Equity

Call for collaboration surrounding use of the Alma/Primo APIs and tools for automation. At UC Santa Cruz, we have used the program Postman to automate the process of deleting electronic collections in bulk. As part of the P2E process of our migration from Millennium, some records had electronic collections created as inventory, instead of electronic portfolios. For proper display in Primo, they needed to be converted to electronic portfolios. As a librarian with limited coding experience, Postman allowed me to use the Alma API to automate some of this work. As we complete the SILS migration, I believe it could be valuable to create a space or community to share work around the Alma/Primo APIs and tools that we find helpful. Postman allows for the use of workspaces and easy sharing of API work without sharing institution-specific information, and there are other library-developed tools that utilize the Alma/Primo APIs.

An API request: tools and the Alma/Primo APIs

Research interests in African Studies range from anthropology to zoology, with source material produced in an array of languages -- indigenous, colonial European and Arabic. To support this research, the Library of Congress collects and catalogs material from 29 African countries, and both UCLA and UC Berkeley participate in their Cooperative Acquisiton Program. This year, for the first time, UCLA and UCB created a shared collection development approval plan, taking advantage of the new integrated library system and fulfillment network to provide a richer and more diverse information ecosystem to students, faculty and independent scholars.


Stronger Together: Shared Collection Development for Africa

Since March 2021, the UCSB Library's Research Data Services (RDS) became the first UC campus to be part of Dryad's workflow and responsible for curating campus affiliates' deposits to the repository before public release. Our assistance ranges from data files and metadata inspection to more involved processes, including data transformation and documentation augmentation to maximize deposited data's reproducibility and potential reuses. This experience has allowed our department to establish a closer relationship with researchers and better understand their data-related needs while helping us promote data literacy and make our services more well-known on campus. This presentation will cover our internal workflow and curation steps; a debrief of the most common curatorial actions performed, the feedback we have received from depositors, and how we plan to move forward with our curation services.

Opportunities to Collaborate with the UC Berkeley Oral History Center

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