Conference Presentations by Liz Woolcott
At Utah State University, a pilot project is under development to evaluate the benefits of tracki... more At Utah State University, a pilot project is under development to evaluate the benefits of tracking data sets and faculty publications using the online catalog and the Library’s institutional repository.
With federal mandates to make publications and data open, universities look for solutions to track compliance. At Utah State University, the Sponsored Programs Office follows up with researchers to determine where data has been or will be deposited, per the terms of their grant.
Interested in making this publicly discoverable, the Library, Sponsored Programs, and Research Office are working together to pilot a project that enables the creation of publicly accessible MARC and Dublin Core records for data deposited by USU faculty. This project aims to make data sets, as well as publications, visible in research portals such as WorldCat, as well as through Google searches.
This presentation will describe the project and anticipated benefits, as well as outline the roles of the cataloging staff and data librarian, and the involvement of the Research Office.
The Preservation Metadata Standards working group for the Digital Preservation Network (DPN) was ... more The Preservation Metadata Standards working group for the Digital Preservation Network (DPN) was charged to “outline the metadata standards that DPN will follow for digital preservation.” In this talk, we will describe our work to date, share our recommended baseline metadata for DPN deposit, and discuss next steps.
The Library Workflow Exchange (www.libraryworkflowexchange.org) is a website designed to facilita... more The Library Workflow Exchange (www.libraryworkflowexchange.org) is a website designed to facilitate the sharing of workflows and tools for library procedures. Started as a pilot project in the summer of 2015, the site was built as means to collect current workflows from libraries and share them in one repository. While librarians are great at sharing success stories through publications and scholarly outputs, there are many efficiencies to sharing dynamic, changing workflows as they happen in real time.
The Library Workflow Exchange gathers workflows that are posted in nontraditional venues (such as blogs, wikis, etc.) as well as scholarly outputs in order to expedite the exchange of ideas and procedures. Currently, the exchange has collected 130 workflows related to metadata cleanup, digitization workflows, vocabulary reconciliation, xslt examples, and more. LWE is looking to broaden the initial scope from metadata and digital library procedures to other library workflows, including procedures for collection development and analysis, preservation, electronic resources, acquisitions, circulation, and more.
We are interested in further developing the site to build off of the library community’s tradition of openness and sharing. We would like to present the site briefly and ask for suggestions, contributions, or volunteers from the larger library community.
The roles and responsibilities within academic library cataloging units have gradually been shift... more The roles and responsibilities within academic library cataloging units have gradually been shifting over the past several years. To deal with these changes, catalogers on both the librarian/faculty levels as well as professional or paraprofessional staff have had to respond to these changes, shifting workloads to ensure that necessary cataloging tasks are carried out. This presentation will report on the findings of a survey conducted in March and April 2016 to investigate existing academic library cataloging units, with special attention to the type of work that is completed both inside and outside of the cataloging unit as well as new responsibilities that have been shouldered in the recent past or will be acquired in the future. The presenters will relate these roles and responsibilities to the size of the library (both collection size and staffing), the overall structure of the cataloging unit, and the unit’s place within the institution.
The Mountain West Digital Library’s Geospatial Discovery Task Force convened in 2013 to develop c... more The Mountain West Digital Library’s Geospatial Discovery Task Force convened in 2013 to develop common practices for all MWDL partners in geospatial discovery for digital collections. Thirty-nine contributors from around the country investigated a variety of geospatial controlled vocabularies, compared current metadata practices, and evaluated geospatial tools and interfaces. Sandra, Jeremy, and Liz share the next steps and recommended best practices for recording geospatial information in the digital library environment. - See more at: http://connect.ala.org/node/234981#sthash.SFSNmCTm.dpuf
This working session provided an opportunity for feedback on proposed geospatial recommendations ... more This working session provided an opportunity for feedback on proposed geospatial recommendations and opened a discussion on the next steps and best practices for recording geospatial information in the digital library community. Participants had an opportunity to test out the newly developed geospatial metadata decision tree with scenarios from their own digital collections, and helped to refine this tool for use in their libraries and institutions.
Presented Liz Woolcott, Anna Neatour, Sandra McIntyre, and Rachel Wittmann at the Digital Library Federation Forum in Atlanta, Georgia, October 28, 2014.
Presentation given by Liz Woolcott and Clint Pumphrey at the American Library Association Annual ... more Presentation given by Liz Woolcott and Clint Pumphrey at the American Library Association Annual Conference, June 2014, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Presentation on the Highway 89 Digital Collection Collaboration by Liz Woolcott, Dustin Olson, Cl... more Presentation on the Highway 89 Digital Collection Collaboration by Liz Woolcott, Dustin Olson, Clint Pumphrey and Paula Mitchell at the Best Practices Exchange, Salt Lake City, Nov. 13, 2014
Talks by Liz Woolcott
Metadata training for Dublin Core records, devised December 2013.
Papers by Liz Woolcott
Utah State University Libraries Cataloging and Metadata Services (CMS) unit, including student wo... more Utah State University Libraries Cataloging and Metadata Services (CMS) unit, including student workers, transitioned to remote cataloging in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The presentation will outline the process undertaken by supervisors to evaluate and modify services and workflows to continue cataloging materials through the different phases of library capacity from shutting down most of the library, to a hybrid limited staff capacity, through staff back in the library full-time
Presentation given at the 2020 Library Assessment Conference
Conference paper post print that accompanies a presentation given at the 2020 Library Assessment ... more Conference paper post print that accompanies a presentation given at the 2020 Library Assessment Conference.
Presentation for Open Repositories 2019. Presented by Ayla Stein Kenfield and Santi Thompson
This presentation explores the complexities of measuring the impact of use vs. reuse among cultur... more This presentation explores the complexities of measuring the impact of use vs. reuse among cultural heritage and knowledge organizations (including but not limited to museums, libraries, archives, data repositories, and historical societies). It will provide an overview of the project team's evolving definitions for use and reuse, informed by their work with the Measuring Reuse project. These definitions help delineate the differences between reuse and use, thus setting the stage to help information professionals determine which use cases should be considered use or reuse and developing more detailed and relevant assessments of the impact of digital collections. The speakers will apply the new definitions to specific use cases to show their utility and value and suggest how these efforts will lead to more informed assessment methods of digital library materials.
Digital Library Perspectives
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present conceptual definitions for digital object use and... more Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present conceptual definitions for digital object use and reuse. Typically, assessment of digital repository content struggles to go beyond traditional usage metrics such as clicks, views or downloads. This is problematic for galleries, libraries, archives, museums and repositories (GLAMR) practitioners because use assessment does not tell a nuanced story of how users engage with digital content and objects. Design/methodology/approach This paper reviews prior research and literature aimed at defining use and reuse of digital content in GLAMR contexts and builds off of this group’s previous research to devise a new model for defining use and reuse called the use-reuse matrix. Findings This paper presents the use-reuse matrix, which visually represents eight categories and numerous examples of use and reuse. Additionally, the paper explores the concept of “permeability” and its bearing on the matrix. It concludes with the next steps for future ...
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Conference Presentations by Liz Woolcott
With federal mandates to make publications and data open, universities look for solutions to track compliance. At Utah State University, the Sponsored Programs Office follows up with researchers to determine where data has been or will be deposited, per the terms of their grant.
Interested in making this publicly discoverable, the Library, Sponsored Programs, and Research Office are working together to pilot a project that enables the creation of publicly accessible MARC and Dublin Core records for data deposited by USU faculty. This project aims to make data sets, as well as publications, visible in research portals such as WorldCat, as well as through Google searches.
This presentation will describe the project and anticipated benefits, as well as outline the roles of the cataloging staff and data librarian, and the involvement of the Research Office.
The Library Workflow Exchange gathers workflows that are posted in nontraditional venues (such as blogs, wikis, etc.) as well as scholarly outputs in order to expedite the exchange of ideas and procedures. Currently, the exchange has collected 130 workflows related to metadata cleanup, digitization workflows, vocabulary reconciliation, xslt examples, and more. LWE is looking to broaden the initial scope from metadata and digital library procedures to other library workflows, including procedures for collection development and analysis, preservation, electronic resources, acquisitions, circulation, and more.
We are interested in further developing the site to build off of the library community’s tradition of openness and sharing. We would like to present the site briefly and ask for suggestions, contributions, or volunteers from the larger library community.
Presented Liz Woolcott, Anna Neatour, Sandra McIntyre, and Rachel Wittmann at the Digital Library Federation Forum in Atlanta, Georgia, October 28, 2014.
Talks by Liz Woolcott
Papers by Liz Woolcott
With federal mandates to make publications and data open, universities look for solutions to track compliance. At Utah State University, the Sponsored Programs Office follows up with researchers to determine where data has been or will be deposited, per the terms of their grant.
Interested in making this publicly discoverable, the Library, Sponsored Programs, and Research Office are working together to pilot a project that enables the creation of publicly accessible MARC and Dublin Core records for data deposited by USU faculty. This project aims to make data sets, as well as publications, visible in research portals such as WorldCat, as well as through Google searches.
This presentation will describe the project and anticipated benefits, as well as outline the roles of the cataloging staff and data librarian, and the involvement of the Research Office.
The Library Workflow Exchange gathers workflows that are posted in nontraditional venues (such as blogs, wikis, etc.) as well as scholarly outputs in order to expedite the exchange of ideas and procedures. Currently, the exchange has collected 130 workflows related to metadata cleanup, digitization workflows, vocabulary reconciliation, xslt examples, and more. LWE is looking to broaden the initial scope from metadata and digital library procedures to other library workflows, including procedures for collection development and analysis, preservation, electronic resources, acquisitions, circulation, and more.
We are interested in further developing the site to build off of the library community’s tradition of openness and sharing. We would like to present the site briefly and ask for suggestions, contributions, or volunteers from the larger library community.
Presented Liz Woolcott, Anna Neatour, Sandra McIntyre, and Rachel Wittmann at the Digital Library Federation Forum in Atlanta, Georgia, October 28, 2014.