Open Access Kent State (OAKS)

This poster will present visualization of faculty research through five different types of analysis: co-authorship of authors (number of co-authored publications), co-occurrence of keywords (number of publications where the keywords occurred together), citation of documents (number of times publications cited each other), bibliographic coupling of documents (number of references authors shared) and co-citation of cited references (number of times references were cited together). Faculty publications were obtained through twenty individual author profiles from Scopus, and data analysis was conducted using VOSviewer. Method presented in this poster can help a new subject librarian get familiar with research in liaison department(s) and offers a new opportunity/tool for library outreach.

Presented at SLA 2021 conference.

The RDA standard remains in a transition period. The theoretical structure of the RDA standard, initially designed to work with the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) model, has been superseded by to the Library Reference Model (LRM). This change took place because the LRM has been redesigned to be more flexible in linked data environments and to support and promote the use of bibliographic data in linked data environments. For working catalogers, who use the RDA Toolkit, RDA has completed the RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign Project (3R Project) to rewrite the standard. The legacy RDA Toolkit interface has also been retained for the time being. This presentation will discuss some of the new concepts of the LRM being introduced into RDA. It will try and clarify some of the new vocabulary emerging from the RDA restructure and redesign. It will also touch on potential application profiles, around which tools for using RDA with linked data are being developed. And, the presentation will look at the issue of how education and training for RDA is being presented, asking questions about how well the cataloging community is being prepared for the transition to a linked data workflow.

The presentation will review the basics of U.S. Copyright Law, including the exceptions to the exclusive rights of copyright owners that allow libraries and archives to make scholarly and creative works available to library users. Recent legal decisions will be reviewed and their implications to our work in libraries will be highlighted. Tips and tools to help librarians navigate this frequently complex landscape will be shared.

Cindy Kristof manages digital projects and institutional repository initiatives, provides copyright clearance services for faculty and students, and conducts instructional sessions on copyright, fair use, Open Access, and Creative Commons Licenses, at Kent State University Libraries. In addition, she coordinates Affordable Learning Initiatives for the Libraries and serves as Kent State’s OhioLINK ETD Administrator, and she is University Libraries’ Faculty Senate Representative. She holds a BA in English Literature from The Ohio State University and a MLS from Kent State University.

Presentation given at the NOTSL Spring 2021 Meeting (Virtual).

Most organizations had to establish a new way to work during the COVID-19 pandemic and Kent State University and Columbus Metropolitan Library were no exception to this. When the pandemic hit, and throughout the many waves of the virus in 2020 and early 2021, they had to reexamine the way they worked. In this session, you will hear from an academic and a public library to learn about how they adjusted to be productive, while prioritizing safety during the pandemic, and how these changes will affect their processes in the future. Presented session along with Cindy Lindsay and Nicole Sutton, Local History & Genealogy Librarians at Columbus Metropolitan Library.

Presented at Society of Ohio archivists, Annual Meeting, 2021

The Ohio Digital Network (ODN) is a Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) service hub. DPLA seeks to connect people to the riches within America’s cultural heritage institutions that are free and immediately accessible. To do so, DPLA aggregates over 42,000,000 metadata records of digital items found in libraries and museums from across the United States in one easy to find portal at dp.la. All items found in DPLA are free to view, and link back to the original provider’s website, providing discoverability for small libraries’ rich collections alongside collections of well-known cultural heritage institutions such as the Getty, Smithsonian Museums, the Library of Congress and many more. The Ohio Digital Network harvests metadata from libraries and museums across Ohio to be republished and discoverable in DPLA. Since 2018, ODN has harvested metadata of over 250,000 items from 25 Ohio institutions. This presentation will discuss the behind the scenes magic of metadata that make this process possible. Penelope Shumaker (State Library of Ohio), Metadata Librarian for the Ohio Digital Network, will discuss the Metadata Application Profile of the Ohio Digital Network, and the harvest process for metadata records. John Dewees (Toledo Lucas County Public Library), Ginnie Dressler (Kent State University), and Adam Wanter (MidPointe Library System) will describe the process as metadata contributors and will discuss common metadata remediations for contributors of ODN, such as applying specific rights statements and other required fields.

Other presenters on the session: Penelope Shumaker, Metadata Librarian, State Library of Ohio John Dewees, Supervisor Digitization Services, Toledo Lucas County Public Library, Adam Wanter, Digital and Special Collections Archivist, Midpointe Library System.

Presented at Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians (OVGTSL) 2021 conference.

This session will cover copyright issues in digital projects and outline how her institution has developed new workflows to address copyright.

Presented at Northern Ohio Technical Services spring meeting.

Presentation on the oral history project at Kent Historical Society. The digital collection of the oral history collection is now hosted on Ohio Memory, and is now also in DPLA. https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p16007coll83

Presented at ODN 2021 Fest.

In the fall of 2019, the Music Library Association's Reference and Access Services Subcommittee surveyed academic librarians as to the following parameters regarding their music reference services: delivery methods, physical locations, staffing models, approaches to training, perceived effectiveness of services, and changes over time. Findings suggest that despite technological advances, most music reference help is delivered through in-person, email, phone, and chat. Just over half of respondents have only librarians addressing reference questions, while the remainder also use students and paraprofessionals. There was no meaningful difference in perceived effectiveness between the various staffing models. While only 19 percent of participants are situated in branch libraries for music, these locations experienced a higher increase in reference transactions and more outreach and instruction over the last five years and also ranked their reference services with more effectiveness. Additionally, respondents identified training and outreach as integral to the effectiveness of reference services and communicated their experiences with changes to service and staffing models.

Music Library Association’s Midwest Chapter Meeting. October 2021