Research, Publications, and Presentations (The Ohio State University Libraries)
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The Ohio State University Libraries Research, Publications, and Presentations collection in the Knowledge Bank contains publications, presentations, and research of The Ohio State University Libraries' faculty and staff. Beginning July 1, 2012, Libraries' faculty will submit their scholarly articles to this collection under the Libraries’ Faculty Open Access Resolution.
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Item 1990s Zine Distribution and Understanding the Work of Zine Distros through Their Catalogs(University of Chicago Press, 2024-09) Braun, JolieDuring the 1990s zine distros—small scale, DIY distributors—emerged to become a vital part of zine communities by attempting to address the lack of established distribution channels, championing the medium, and fostering community. Before distros moved online in the 2000s, some produced paper catalogs to market and sell the zines they carried. These publications are complex documents that offer important information about zine distribution and culture unavailable elsewhere. This article considers the function of zine distros and what their catalogs can tell us. The first section provides an overview of 1990s zine distribution and examines how and why distros emerged when they did, arguing that distros offered something unique and important among distribution methods: distribution overseen by those embedded in zine communities that afforded creators the opportunity to reach a wider but controlled audience within a framework that valued support, participation, and community building. Yet a close examination of distros also reveals some of the problems inherent in these volunteer-run projects. The latter portion of this article analyzes catalogs produced by several distros. Catalogs, although short lived, document an important window of time: the emergence of distros, their optimism and efforts, and the role they played in zine distribution and communities.Item A Hidden Obligation: Stewarding Privacy Concerns in Archival Collections Using a Privacy Audit(Society of North Carolina Archivists, 2014-04) Gilliland, Anne T.; Wiener, Judith A.Item Finding a Silver Lining: The Importance of Documenting Medical Tragedies(Medical Library Association, 2018-04) Wiener, Judith A.Item Leaving Privacy in the Past? Exploring a Curatorial Conundrum(Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2016-10) Wiener, Judith A.Item Invitation to Metacognition and Acknowledge Emotions Encourages Help-Seeking(2024-05) Black, Elizabeth L.In our welcome materials, libraries regularly emphasize help they can provide and encourage students to use our services. Yet, studies show that this is not enough. While help-seeking is linked with academic performance, it is also complex and feels risky, especially for minoritized and first-generation students. This session shares results of a qualitative study which suggests that explicitly sharing feeling aspects of information challenges common to the transition to college followed by invitations to metacognitive thinking result in signs of openness to help-seeking. This presentation will include time for participants to discuss applications in their home contexts.Item Encouraging the disposition of help-seeking with information-based transition challenges(2024-03) Black, Elizabeth L.Both the Framework for Information Literacy and the Seven Pillars of Information Literacy reference the information literate individual as one who has a disposition to seek assistance – from sources, libraries and other experts. In our welcome materials, libraries regularly emphasize the help they can provide and encourage students to use our services. Yet, studies show that this is not enough. Help-seeking is complex and feels risky, especially for minoritized and first-generation students. This session will share findings from a qualitative study of student responses in an intervention that modeled positive help-seeking related to common information-seeking needs for students beginning at university.Item Staffing of Library Publishing Programs in the United States and Canada(Ohio State University, 2024-07) Meetz, Johanna; Story, JeffThis dataset is the transformed data of a subset of the public dataset issued by the Library Publishing Coalition that can be found here: https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1Z1lvz3BaXUi1Lc_QYbXRKTLIsyTCKOcM . It contains information about the staffing of library publishing programs gathered by the Library Publishing Coalition's annual Directory Survey, and also adds enrollment information for the institutions included.Item Communicating Equity: Research Impact Services at ARL Libraries and Prevalence of DEIJ(2023-03) Craft-Morgan, SheilaLibrarians are key to helping faculty communicate the impact of their research to funding organizations and university departments for promotion and tenure. Scholarly metrics also inform strategic planning, benchmarking, and program review. As such, librarians are in the best position to share research about the intersection of diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ) and scholarly metrics with their audiences. Find out how prevalent research impact services librarians are at research institutions, to which unit they report, and whether the institutions’ scholarly metrics LibGuides include information about DEIJ issues.Item Terms of Inclusion: Mapping the concepts used to describe bias in the research lifecycle(2024-06) Craft-Morgan, SheilaWhile conducting research about diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ) and research impact, I have found that there is a great deal of literature in a variety of disciplines about citation bias and other types of bias in the research lifecycle. I define bias in the research lifecycle as bias based on gender, ethnicity, country of origin, institution, language, etc., that affects the participation or experience of that group, such as bias in peer review, citation bias and/or citational justice, bias in grant evaluation, or editorial board composition. Building off of my previous work which found that few ARL libraries include resources addressing this topic in their research impact resource guides, I am currently working on a project to build a toolkit to help other research impact librarians begin to incorporate this information into their resource guides. One part of the project is a literature review that will be used to develop a framework to describe bias in the research lifecycle, in general, and specifically, proposed methods of mitigation of the bias, including the actions that other disciplines suggest that libraries can take to address this issue. For this proposal, I will map the concepts and terminology used in the title and abstracts of articles discussing bias in the research lifecycle during a ten-year time span, 2013-2023. I will be using VosViewer and Tableau to create visualizations for this proposal. The resulting analysis will be used to shed light on the ways that other researchers are discussing this topic and contribute to the development of the framework for the toolkit.Item Preserving the Legacy of Black Press Cartoonists(The Ohio State University Press, 2023) Robb, JennyThe comics and cartoons featured in twentieth-century Black Press newspapers are particularly important as historical documents that offer insights into Black experiences in the United States and as works of art that recover the voices of artists from traditionally marginalized communities. Yet clear, high-quality versions of these cartoons and comic strips are difficult to find. Physical copies of newspapers like the Chicago Defender and the Pittsburgh Courier were discarded by libraries and replaced with microfilm, which was subsequently digitized and made available through databases like ProQuest Historical Newspapers and Newspapers.com. These versions can be inadequate for comics studies scholars due to poor image quality and other factors. The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum has uncovered physical Chicago Defender newspaper pages and volumes from 1943–47 and 1950. They have also acquired some physical Pittsburgh Courier issues and sections that include comics and cartoons. Howard University has also launched the Black Press Archives Digitization Project, which may eventually digitize physical newspaper pages directly. It is important for libraries to preserve the remaining physical copies of these newspaper comics and cartoons and to digitize them directly, perhaps as part of a large, cross- library cooperative project.Item Exploring a Read and Publish Agreement: The Three-Year Taylor & Francis Pilot(American Library Association, 2024) Walsh, Maureen P.; Springs, Gene R.; Foster, Anita K.The Ohio State University Libraries (University Libraries) entered into a three-year read and publish pilot agreement with Taylor & Francis in 2020—the first read and publish agreement for The Ohio State University and the first such deal for Taylor & Francis in the Americas. This study provides an overview of University Libraries’ motivations behind the agreement, the lessons we learned implementing and supporting the agreement, and the open access publishing outcomes of the pilot agreement that ended December 2022.Item An Analysis of Hybrid/Remote Work Eligibility in Academic Librarian Job Advertisements(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2025-07) Longmeier, Meris Mandernach; Connell, RuthThis paper seeks to capture changing policies and approaches to hybrid and remote work in academic libraries following the COVID-19 pandemic. For this study, job advertisements were gathered and those hiring managers surveyed. Results show hybrid/remote positions have competitive salaries, many types of academic library positions have hybrid eligibility, and campus and library policies regarding hybrid/remote work and their inclusion in job postings continue to evolve. Despite the potential recruitment benefits of these flexible work arrangements, many who offer them are not including this information in their job advertisements; therefore, job candidates should ask or negotiate for this benefit.Item Capturing Snapshots in Time: Environmental Scanning as an Ongoing Process(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2024-03) Longmeier, Meris MandernachEnvironmental scanning—the practice of taking a step back and reviewing the context of a system, the key players, similar services available elsewhere, and how information/resources/ money flows through the system—provides a holistic view upon which recommendations can be made. Although this approach has been a mainstay in library strategic planning processes,1 it is less prevalent in planning ongoing work. This process has many different names depending on the field: a traditional SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis from the business world,2 capture planning in the realm of research development offices,3 landscape analysis for entrepreneurs,4 or competitive intelligence for our colleagues in special libraries.5 Overall, an environmental scan typically has both an internal and external focus. It concentrates less on what the competition is doing and more about a snapshot of current practices. It is an approach used to inform local strategic planning and provides a way to gather information about the local environment to make more informed decisions.6 In libraries, there are many stakeholder perspectives to keep in mind while designing services, delivering collections, or planning future projects. For this reason, having a clear understanding of the environment will allow those developing strategies to stay informed of their users’ needs as well as anticipate any barriers present that may interfere with a successful implementation of the vision. For example, in my work as a liaison, scanning the environment helped inform my collection development to know the research specialties of my faculty as well as program offerings at the graduate and undergraduate levels. I gathered information about the courses where I offered instruction, examined the course catalog to identify additional areas for inroads, and compared with colleagues at other institutions who were partnering in similar courses.Item Piloting a Sanborn Map Georef-a-thon for GIS Day 2023(Western Association of Map Libraries, 2024) Sadvari, Joshua; Hooper, MichelleItem Lost in Translation: Engaging Student Employees to Surface Japanese Language Maps for a Broader Audience(Western Association of Map Libraries, 2023) Davis, Ann Marie; Dotson, Daniel; Sadvari, Joshua; Seitz, Evelyn; Goto, TakumaItem Data for Healthy Communities: A Public Interest Pilot Course Designed to Develop K-12 Data Literacy(Association for Computing Machinery, 2024-03) Nutwell, Emily; Badger, Kelsey; Kulp, Jessica T.Data analytics skills are in high demand in a wide variety of professions and data is increasingly present in our everyday lives. Considering this, educators should be equipped to prepare future data scientists, but also data literate citizens. This project engages high school students in the real-world practice of data analytics to promote the public interest. The research team is partnering with a local public STEM high school to design, evaluate, and publicly share an enrichment course that introduces students to data analytics in the context of public health. Integrating data science education and public health will enable students to engage in meaningful data-driven problem solving while promoting civic engagement. A key challenge in introducing data skills in K-12 is addressing barriers to access. To cope with these barriers, the course design incorporates the use of spreadsheets to engage students in computational thinking. This poster will present preliminary assessment results from the 3-week enrichment course conducted in January 2024. This project contributes to the ongoing discussion of K-12 data science education by demonstrating the value of contextualizing data science as a key competency for 21st century public service.Item A Problem Shared Is a Community Created: Recommendations for Cross-Institutional Collaborations(Lamar Soutter Library, UMass Chan Medical School, 2023-12) Hertz, Marla; Badger, Kelsey; Bohman, Lena; Carr Jones, Lucy; Nieman Hislop, Christine; Smith, Katy; Ye, HaoCommittee work is a requisite job function for many in academia, yet designing a productive collaborative experience often remains a challenge. In this article, we reflect on our experiences as part of a successful cross-institutional working group and describe strategies to improve leadership structure, group dynamics, accountability, and incentives for collaborative projects. As of January 2023, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Data Management & Sharing (DMS) Policy requires investigators applying for funding to submit a Data Management and Sharing Plan (DMS Plan) that describes how scientific data will be managed, preserved, and shared. In response to this new policy, a community of more than 30 librarians and other research data professionals convened the Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance, collaboratively producing comprehensive guidance about the policy for researchers and research support staff. In less than a year, the working group produced glossaries of NIH and data management jargon, an example data management and sharing plan, a directory of existing example plans, checklists for researchers and librarians, and an interactive repository finder. This group was a successful grassroots effort by contributors with diverse expertise and backgrounds. We discuss practical strategies for each stage of activity throughout the lifecycle of the working group; from recruiting members, designing pathways to encourage participation from busy professionals, structuring the meetings to facilitate progress and productivity, and disseminating final products broadly. We invite fellow librarians, data professionals, and academics to apply and build upon these strategies to tackle cross-institutional challenges.Item Towards a Shared Framework: A Classificatory Matrix for Teaching Data Standards(Lamar Soutter Library, UMass Chan Medical School, 2023-12) Badger, KelseyStandards for research data can be a mystifying topic for both researchers and data professionals. A common source of confusion is that they are multipurpose: standards can (and should) be applied to both primary data and metadata, enabling a wide range of functions from the search features in a repository to the integration of disparate data sources. This paper reviews examples of classificatory approaches used by both librarians and researchers to describe data standards. This literature is synthesized into a classificatory matrix that can be used to map different types of standards. The matrix is constructed around two organizing principles: purpose (finding or using data) and type of information controlled (meaning or syntax). The objective of this classificatory exercise is to encourage further discussion about the misunderstandings between researchers and data support professionals and to spur further development of the educational resources needed to improve understanding and use of data standards.Item The Development of a Multilanguage Thesaurus Based on Linked Data(EasyChair, 2023-01-06) El-Sherbini, MagdaThe need for multilingual information access has been addressed in many forms for several years. The ALCST (Association for Library Collection and Technical Services) Non-English Access Committee indicated that research in the area of assigning subject headings in the language of the script will enable the user to find materials in the library more efficiently. It also indicated that CSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings) does not sufficiently represent the culture of the Arabic and Islamic world. Several examples of the deficiency of LCSH coverage in these areas illustrate the need to develop an Arabic open-source controlled vocabulary that can be used when assigning subject headings for Arabic materials. This paper aims to address three issues: • The LCSH and its coverage of subjects • Enhancing the discoverability of Arabic materials by adding Arabic subject headings • The development of an Arabic thesaurus based on the linked-data approachItem English-Arabic Thesaurus Based on Linked Data: Tool for decolonization(2023-04-27) El-Sherbini, MagdaThe Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is the primary tool used to assign subject headings for all library materials, including those published in non-Roman scripts, such as Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and so forth. Although the LCSH is a comprehensive tool, it falls short in providing in-depth description of cultural phenomena for those regions of the world that publish in scripts other than the Roman. Assigning subjects headings in the script and language of the publication is the optimal solution to this problem. Adding the Arabic, Japanese or Chinese language subject terms to catalog records will enable the academics to conduct research in those languages and gain access to materials previously unavailable to them. Communication among culturally and linguistically diverse communities is hampered by unequal access to educational opportunities and information sources. In the field of library science, access to information is controlled to large degree by the way libraries classify knowledge and the terms that are used to describe subject categories. Studies of the LCSH indicate that the database does not sufficiently represent the cultures of underrepresented and marginalized communities. Several years ago, the Ohio State University Library has undertaken the task of expanding access to its non-Roman collections by introducing subject terms in the language of the script. In this presentation will describe the project, the reasons, the pilot, and the experience of subject searching of non-Roman script materials using either the LCSH English language terms, or their equivalents in non-Roman script languages. Ensuing discussion will be focused on how the MARC21 record can be utilized to display non-Roman script subject terms in the ILS. I will conclude with a demonstration of a non-Roman script search from the Ohio State University Library catalog.