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retroTECH Online Project Summary, 2018-2020

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-06) Hagenmaier, Wendy ; Gerke, Maura ; Pellerin, Amanda ; Thompson, Jody ; Virmani, Richa

From 2018-2020, the Georgia Tech Library was part of an Institute of Museum and Library Services-funded cohort of six organizations--the Guggenheim Museum, Living Computers: Museum + Labs, the University of Arizona, the University of Illinois, and the University of Virginia--exploring the key challenges to providing long-term access to software-dependent cultural heritage. The grant project, Fostering a Community of Practice (FCoP): Software Preservation and Emulation Experts in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (IMLS grant RE-95-17-0058-17), aimed to broaden participation in software preservation, advance digital preservation practice, and inform field-wide understanding. Under the umbrella of its retroTECH initiative, which provides access to vintage technologies and seeks to inspire a culture of long-term thinking, the Georgia Tech Library’s project has been to create a proof-of-concept for retroTECH Online, a web presence through which patrons can utilize software from retroTECH’s collections for teaching and learning, explore the stories surrounding that software, and foster a virtual retroTECH community. The project team used oral history and emulation to tell the stories of several software innovations created by Georgia Tech community members--from the graphical simulation that helped win Atlanta's 1996 Olympics bid to Game Boy Advance games coded by current students mastering computer science.
Persistence and teamwork for new horizons: Exploring a distributed teaching model in support of information literacy competencies

( 2018-05) Altamirano, Isabel ; Givens, Marlee ; Holdsworth, Liz ; Mi, Ximin ; Rascoe, Fred ; Viars, Karen

The Georgia Tech Writing and Composition program, part of the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) builds first-year composition courses around literature, film, science, technology, and pop culture. The Library has long been embedded in this program, providing resources and course-integrated instruction led by the subject librarian for the LMC. This is a highly successful partnership with increasing demand far beyond the capabilities of a single person to meet. For the first time, librarians whose background or primary focus is science and engineering are providing instruction to undergraduate English students. In a STEM school primarily concerned with the history of technological literature, the approach breaks new ground by combining efforts across disciplines. This presentation elucidates the model and offer perspectives from three embedded Georgia Tech subject librarians. Additionally, they will reflect on their first year in the new program, examine broader trends in library liaison models, and anticipate future developments. In early 2016, the Georgia Tech Library reorganized many of its subject and other public-facing librarians into a single department, called Campus Engagement and Scholarly Outreach (CESO). This unit breaks down traditional liaison barriers in order to meet the rapidly shifting needs of the students, faculty, and staff of Georgia Tech. In addition to liaison librarians, CESO includes experts in assessment, digital scholarship, and data visualization among other areas of expertise. This colocation of different kinds of expertise lead to the creation of the distributed teaching model, where influences from around the academy inform and enhance instruction. Presented at LOEX 2018 Annual Conference.
Making a Connection to the Mothership: Launching a Multimedia Instruction Program With Maximum Funk

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018) Holdsworth, Liz ; Valk, Alison

From data visualization to video editing, library instructional services are growing to include a wide variety of technology-rich offerings. Libraries can offer training on technologies and resources that enhance and supplement their campus curriculum. But for institutions who have not yet developed these classes, where are the starting points to implement such programming? Careful planning can reveal hidden barriers and obstacles in developing multimedia instruction. Other library instruction may only necessitate a projector and screen, but teaching multimedia skills requires the coordination of far more people, equipment, and knowledge. Multimedia skills should be taught with hands-on activities for users; librarians need to align an intricate skill set to another set of scholarly learning outcomes e.g., editorial, research, and aesthetic choices for an assignment. The strength of the program depends on relationships, materials, and a clearly articulated vision. This paper will first discuss aspects of how the Georgia Tech Library developed their multimedia instruction program over the last five years. Using the Georgia Tech Library program as a model, these resources will act as a guide for addressing the pragmatic elements of effectively developing new educational programming in academic libraries. The main components of this interactive workshop include: developing a needs assessment; performing a stakeholder analysis; identifying open source or low-cost technologies; and, based on the principles of project management, crafting a program proposal framework in order to share with library decision-makers.
History of the Georgia Tech Library, with Emphasis on the Crosland Era

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-06) Li, Lisha ; Altamirano, Isabel M. ; Finn, Bette M.

To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Engineering Libraries Division of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) and the seventy-fifth anniversary of the creation of the Engineering School Libraries Committee (ESLC), the authors of this paper want to highlight the outstanding accomplishments of a former member of ESLC, Dorothy Murray Crosland, who was director of the Library at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) for more than four decades. Dorothy Crosland was the longest serving head of the library in Georgia Tech’s history. She made many notable contributions to the Library, the Institute, the profession, and beyond. This paper will focus on her accomplishments, particularly in the areas of Georgia Tech’s library buildings, collections, and information science education.
Virtual Browsing: A White Paper

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-05) Bennett, Charlie ; Porter, Seth

This paper proposes an addition to the Library’s search and discovery services. In order to recreate one of the qualities of collection browsing that is lost by relocating the physical collection off-site, the Library should provide a recommendation service that can provide the kind of serendipitous search results that patrons have identified as critical-to-quality in their browsing. The paper details the proposed recommendation service and presents a SWOT analysis of creating the service.
STEAMing up STEM: Visual Arts and Maker Culture as a Vehicle for Student Engagement and Collaboration on a STEM campus

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-05) Valk, Alison

As programming within academic libraries evolves, librarians have moved beyond traditional information literacy instruction to an environment in which they create strong partnerships with the campus faculty, community and beyond. This paper addresses one such specialized partnership and unique library program, providing an overview of newly formed initiatives at the Georgia Tech Library. This instructional model may serve as a framework for other institutions considering non-traditional partnerships in library educational programming. The Communication through Art program involves a collaboration between campus faculty, the library, local artists and a community center focused on DIY culture and ephemeral media. One of the many challenges on college campuses is finding new ways to engage students with their course material. Often limited by the constraints of traditional classroom spaces and layouts, college instructors are increasingly looking to collaborate with campus and community partners on unique student projects, but often lack the resources or time to adequately plan for such an endeavor. Libraries, with their evolving flexible spaces and commitment to changing pedagogies, are ideally positioned to facilitate interdisciplinary programs. Libraries by nature touch on every discipline, and often librarians can recognize relevant synergies and beneficial educational partnerships ahead of the curve. Bringing librarians, campus educators and community artists into the course planning process together can make the educational experience both more rewarding for the student and beneficial to the instructor of record. Our creative team developed a series of library workshops that incorporated the visual arts into the curriculum. What makes this library program unique is the primary educational focus on the campus. On a largely STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) focused campus, librarians and faculty utilized the visual arts as a vehicle for student engagement. This paper will discuss the benefits of this inquiry-based model of learning, as well as outline the practical aspects of how this program was planned, implemented and assessed.
Virtual Browsing: The Georgia Tech Library in the Digital Age

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015) Akins, Alex ; Poux, Alexandre M. ; Williams, Louis ; Karusala, Naveena

White paper exploring virtual browsing in the digital age. Authored by undergraduate students on the Georgia Tech Library undergraduate advisory board.
Funding open access journal publishing: Article processing charges

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-05) Fruin, Christine ; Rascoe, Fred

An established business model adopted by OA publishers is assessing authors an article processing charge (APC). Often, authors can rely upon research grants to cover APCs in order to comply with the grant requirements or as part of the implicit cost of research. Authors without grants, or with grants but no reserved funding, may look to their university for assistance. Universities administering funds for OA publishing must grapple with several questions about management and distribution of these funds. For publishers not relying upon APCs to fund their operations, business model experiments abound, such as the PeerJ author membership model and the SCOAP3 consortium model. The challenge for librarians is to not only educate themselves about these available business models and the pros and cons of each but also how to use that knowledge to meaningfully impact the field of scholarly communication.
Reimagining the Georgia Tech Library

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-05) Bennett, Charlie ; Hagenmaier, Wendy ; Rolando, Lizzy ; Rascoe, Fred ; Critz, Lori ; Renfro, Crystal ; Baer, Willie ; Axford, Mary

In this paper, we discuss the major elements of that renewal as pertaining to our Library. First, we are a research library. A 21st century research institution still requires the multifaceted services of a research library. We also discuss the space of the Library itself. A library has never been merely a container for books. The physical space of the renewed Library will be the interdisciplinary platform for innovative scholarship and learning, as services expand. Finally, we discuss the role of the Library as an integrated network of resources, focusing on the important and unique collaborative services provided by Library faculty and staff . The renewed Georgia Tech Library will be the research library that Georgia Tech needs to both support and define what a 21st century research institution should be.
Stewardship of Research Data

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-07) Parham, Susan Wells ; Murray-Rust, Catherine

The Stewardship of Research Data Proposal recommends the development of an institute-wide data stewardship framework, with a focus on providing long-term access and preservation of Georgia Tech research data. Georgia Tech is, and should continue to be, recognized globally as a source for quality research data. To continue in this capacity, we require the institutional ability to capture, manage, and retain the valuable data sets produced by our researchers. The goal of this proposal is to present the rationale for a coherent set of research data services, including institutional policies and technical infrastructure, with coordination among campus service providers. Proposal recommendations include areas for improvement; an institute-level working group to establish responsible research data stewardship; a central web presence for research data information; and a strategy for the development of a data repository with external storage and replication. Financial resources are required for research data curation and preservation technology and services.