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    Access services and student affordability: Leading the way in new offerings
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-11) Blakely, Andrew ; Freeman, John Mack ; Holdsworth, Liz ; Nagel, Gabe
    At an R-1, STEM-focused academic library, the access services department collaborated with the librarian coordinating library affordability initiatives to create several opportunities for increased campus impact and student savings. This presentation will highlight two projects. The first is an equipment-based course reserve collaboration with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. This partnership saved students over $100,000 in a single year by circulating the required MyDAQ and mbed devices that are used in labs. The second affordability project was a syllabus and Canvas evaluation that opened the door for proactive course reserves. These specific initiatives were led by frontline staff while facilitated by department leadership and library faculty. On top of its positive financial outcomes for students, this project provided beneficial outcomes to both partners. Library affordability initiatives received the staff time necessary to pilot certain projects, while access services staff got an opportunity for leadership in project management and development.
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    Setting ourselves up for success: Starting a new mentor training program
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-10-23) Givens, Marlee
    After completing an expensive renovation and coming out of a pandemic lockdown, both of which necessitated hiring freezes, our library has begun recruiting and hiring its first new librarians and archivists in many years. We have also hired our first ACRL Diversity Fellows. It has been nearly a decade since we have had a formal mentoring program in this library. The institution to which we belong has also started looking at establishing mentoring programs for faculty. Several studies indicate that training mentors can lead to greater success for mentoring efforts, and we coordinated our first mentor training program this year. This poster will cover the model we set up as well as other options to consider when creating training for mentors in your library.
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    Unraveling History: The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill from Past to Present
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-10-18) Elsas, Nina Caltabiano ; Henderson, Kirk ; Thompson, Jody ; Willkens, Danielle
    An enlightening evening of exploration as we delve into the rich history of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill. This panel discussion, held in conjunction with the exhibit in the Library’s first-floor Price Gilbert Gallery, will shed light on the mill's significance, its symbiotic relationship with Georgia Tech, and its contemporary role as a unique educational resource. An iconic landmark looming over the history of both Georgia Tech and Atlanta, the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill stands as a testament to a bygone era and continues to influence the present. To fully grasp its significance as a symbol of Atlanta’s industrial prowess, we invite you to an engaging panel discussion featuring distinguished experts who will guide us through its past, its integration with Georgia Tech, and its relevance in modern education. After the panel, visitors are invited to explore the journey of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill from its beginnings as a cotton manufacturing powerhouse to its present-day significance in the exhibit. Discover the profound ways in which Georgia Tech and the mill have influenced each other, and witness how students are actively utilizing the mill's legacy to gain practical knowledge and insights in diverse fields.
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    Approaching the limits of climate viability: Urban heat vulnerability in Atlanta and how to adapt
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-10-04) Stone, Brian
    As our world grapples with the undeniable impacts of climate change, urban areas face unique challenges. Among them, the relentless rise in urban temperatures, often referred to as the "urban heat island effect," poses significant threats to the well-being of our communities. Stone, a leading authority in the field of climate science and urban planning, will shed light on the specific context of Atlanta, as recently highlighted in the article titled "Heat risk is growing. These are Atlanta's most vulnerable neighborhoods" in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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    Flowing through the streams: A case study of Georgia Tech Library Public Services staffing expansion proposal through the lens of Kingdon’s three streams framework
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-10) Freeman, John Mack
    The Georgia Tech Library Public Services Department proposed to expand the number of staffed service points throughout the Library to increase coverage and service. The proposal was well-received by Library leadership and earned priority placement in the Library’s annual budget request. The theoretical underpinning for this reception is an adaptation of Kingdon’s three streams framework of public policy adapted to internal policy work: namely, that success in internal requests requires the same confluence of problem, policy, and politics to open a window of opportunity to place the issue on the agenda of those who make decisions.
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    Extension of Community: what it means to be sustainable in a digital world
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-09-28) Graves, Jordan ; Griffin, Adira ; Janicki, Sylvia ; Krieger, Joel ; Landesberg, Amy ; Lewis, Matt ; Longobardi, Pam ; Parvin, Nassim ; Romm, Stuart ; Spence, Hunter ; Talero, Mauricio ; Treu, Hudson ; Correa-Baena, Juan-Pablo ; Bolen, Jeremy
    Extension of Community: what it means to be sustainable in a digital world explores the intersection of science, technology and art, asking questions such as; How have our technological and digital developments helped and harmed us? How can we be more digitally sustainable? And how can technology be harnessed to help heal the planet? All the artists reflect on community and sustainability within their practice and question the impacts of technologies on the environment. This artist talk features work by an array of artists and researchers based here in Atlanta: Jeremy Bolen, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Jordan Graves, Adira Griffin, Inspired Action Design (Collaborators: Joel Krieger, Matt Lewis, Hunter Spence and Mauricio Talero) Sylvia Janicki, Amy Landesberg, Pam Longobardi, Nassim Parvin, Stuart Romm, and Hudson Treu.
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    “’You have my sword.’ ‘You have my bow.’ ‘And my axe.’: Creating a popular reading collection through interdepartmental collaboration
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-06) Freeman, John Mack ; Manci, Catherine ; Cruz, Sarah ; Sheldon, Kimberly
    In Spring 2021, the Georgia Tech Library received unexpectedly robust support for the redevelopment of the Library's previously removed Popular Reading Collection. The project had a strict four-month deadline to encumber funds and to ensure that materials were available before the Fall 2021 return to campus. A cross-functional team was established to create and implement a plan to achieve this goal. The successful project resulted in widespread positive feedback from students, Institute partners and leaders, and Library leadership. This case study demonstrates the importance of context in deciding library projects, the utility of cross-functional teams in establishing new collections, and the psychological value of physical materials to campus communities.
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    Thinking about Design Thinking During a Migration
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-05) Patrick, Martin
    The systems librarian's goal should be to optimize and enhance the systems in use by centering the needs of the system's users. However, much of the literature and the focus on centering users is about, in academic libraries, our students and faculty. For the systems librarian, though, there is a group of users whose needs are equally valid: the library’s staff, faculty, and student workers (that is, the internal users). A recent survey of 55 of the most recent articles indexed in LISTA about user experience in libraries revealed one that focused on staff users. In this presentation, I outline some ideas for discovering and designing for the internal user’s needs, particularly given our upcoming migration, based on ideas found in IBM’s Enterprise Design Thinking Framework (EDT). I will cover a very brief history of Design Thinking in general, and then discuss some of the ways I think EDT could prove useful during a system migration. I will also share a few real-world examples of how I have approached problems and issues in the past, and how EDT might change that approach. The goal of this presentation is not to propose a dogma around EDT but to challenge those of us on the systems side to do user experience work with and for our colleagues, in addition to our student and faculty communities.
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    Co-Creating the Beginnings of a Culture of Belonging at the Georgia Tech Library: Supervisors, Leaders, and a Proposed Model Forward
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-05) Freeman, John Mack ; Sharp, Leslie
    In 2019, the Georgia Tech Library was coming out of a painful period of transition where lofty change initiatives had created significant toxicity in the culture. New leadership was brought in to rectify the situation. Through a series of efforts that translated institutional efforts, departmental actions, and team-based support, the Georgia Tech Library turned a corner and started working towards creating a culture of belonging. In this participatory case study, the authors proposed a nested model of cultural support in which the underpinnings of individual support flow from the team, the department, and the institution. Each part has a role to play in working to create a culture of belonging, understanding that the work is never complete, and that while the example of the Georgia Tech Library has made progress, there is still much work to be done.
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    Publishing without perishing: Alma publishing profiles for fun and profit
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-05) Patrick, Martin ; Traill, Stacie
    Alma publishing profiles are a powerful and flexible way to export metadata from Alma. In this presentation, we will demonstrate how publishing profiles play a key role in customizing and normalizing data to meet project needs, and discuss when they are a better choice than Alma Analytics or the Export Bibliographic Records job. Publishing profiles can easily incorporate physical or electronic inventory information into MARC bibliographic records for further analysis and transformation through various MARC editing and processing tools. Publishing also allows powerful filtering rules and normalization routines to customize data outputs and can work incrementally via OAI-PMH for data harvest and processing by external programs. Applications covered in the presentation include: using published data for analysis to support enrichment and remediation projects, exporting transformed metadata for ingest into a local digital repository, incremental OAI publishing for external partners, and using general publishing for OCLC Datasync.