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ItemWhat would a (poi) dog want to know? Thinking outside the litter box( 2019-11-10)All you need to know is a) 4 words for good cooking - Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, b) 3 words to stop the robot from destroying Earth - Klaatu barada nikto, and c) 5 words for good research. E a'o aku i nā kumu a'o. Help faculty help their students with the 5 words, a novel concept, and some examples: Citation as continuum, Google Scholar results ranking, OneSearch and Open Access.
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ItemWhat else can we have them do? Growing student employees with responsibility( 2019-11-11)We at the BYU-Hawaii Library have been actively looking for ways to help our students employees gain meaningful work experience. In the Information Services Department, we have had great success in trusting students with more responsibility and opportunities for employee development. Some examples of responsibilities delegated to students include interviewing and making hiring recommendations, scheduling desk coverage, developing communications and PR, running employee meetings and taking minutes, taking the lead on specific projects, and more. We will leave time at the end for discussion and to hear any other ideas that you all might have!
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ItemSay What? The Good, the Challenging, the Funny in Public Libraries Today( 2019-11-11)Join us for a lively group discussion where participants can talk-story, discussing both the best parts of working in a public library, as well as the challenges of staying relevant and welcoming to users. Bring your favorite tips & resources, to be compiled and shared after the session. Main topics will include: 1) Library Laughter as an Art Form 2) Balancing Information Overload 3) Varied Users, Varied Spaces 4) Customer Service and Your Sanity 5) Strategies for Long-term Job Satisfaction.
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ItemPIALA Year in Review( 2019-11-11)The Pacific Island Association of Libraries Archives and Museums (PIALA) is a collective of other associations and individuals throughout the Pacific with the mission to address the needs of libraries, archives and museums within the region. All activities culminate at an annual PIALA conference in the latter part of the year, in which major endeavors, events and struggles are shared and addressed amongst entities and other members. Just as notable, is the sharing of culture and familial atmosphere amongst its members. Major events and developments in the past are reviewed with updates of the upcoming PIALA Conference in late November.
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ItemWhy Open Access? Demonstrating that Open Access articles in ScholarSpace get more citations and more diverse citations than paywalled articles( 2019-11-11)Persuading students and faculty to take the effort to make their work Open Access can be challenging. One way to help convince them is to show that not only is Open Access better for their readers, but it’s also better for them directly. Our bibliometric study showed that Open Access articles in institutional repositories like UH Manoa’s ScholarSpace receive about 30% more citations than pay articles in the same journal and their citations are about 19% more interdisciplinary. We discuss how this result can help libraries market and sustain their services, and the implications for Open Access.
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ItemʻOlelo Hawaiʻi and Uchinaaguchi: Language Preservation and Cultural Revitalization in Hawaiʻi and Okinawa( 2019-11-10)The United Nations declared 2019 The Year of Indigenous Languages. Languages around the world continue to disappear at an alarming rate. Our presentation will discuss two specific languages, shimakutuba and ÿölelo Hawaiÿi (Hawaiian language), and how the University of Hawaiÿi at Mänoa Library supports language revitalization. Hawaiÿi and Okinawa are two islands with some similarities. Both places are formerly independent kingdoms, with specific cultural differences from its colonial overseers (the United States and Japan, respectively). Both are also heavily militarized, touristic places. Hawaÿi has seen a revitalization of the ÿölelo Hawaiÿi (Hawaiian language) since the 1970s, with the Hawaiian renaissance and the establishment of Hawaiian immersion schools. Students in Hawaiÿi can now be educated in ÿölelo Hawaiÿi from preschool to graduate school and ÿölelo Hawaiÿi is one of two official languages of the State of Hawaiÿi (the other English). There are many long existing connections between Okinawa and Hawaiÿi. One surprising one is that Okinawans are looking to Hawaiÿi to learn about Hawaiian language revitalization. Language is tied to culture and many Uchinanchu (Okinawan people) are wanting to preserve Okinawan languages. What can Okinawa learn from Hawaiÿi about language revitalization? Okinawan languages, shimakutuba, is examined in the light of Hawaiian language revitalization and some observations on how the Asia Collection supports Okinawan language revitalization will be shared. The audience will learn how Hawaiian language revitalization has affected Okinawa’s shimakutuba movement and the similarities and differences between the two regions.
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ItemMetadata 2020: Improving Access to Research( 2019-11-11)Metadata 2020 is a global collaboration of publishers, data publishers and repositories, platform providers, librarians, funders, and researchers that advocates for richer, connected, reusable, and open metadata for all research outputs, to improve access to scholarly pursuits for the benefit of society. The collaborator communities have been focusing on six areas: 1) Researcher Communications 2) Metadata Recommendations and Element Mappings 3) Defining the Terms We Use About Metadata 4) Incentives for Improving Metadata Quality 5) Shared Best Practice and Principles 6) Metadata Evaluation and Guidance This talk describes the different interest areas and offers a summary of the status of the collaborative projects. It will be of interest to librarians and scholarly communication stakeholders who want to improve research discovery and access.
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ItemMaking Count: Translating COUNTER Release 4 to 5( 2019-11-11)COUNTER, the international Code of Practice for reporting usage of electronic resources, has implemented a radical new release. This vendor-neutral session will review what Release 5 does, maps Release 4 to the new Release 5, and provides a bit of detail on how you might use this data in your library to aid in evaluating your resources and calculating your Return on Investment.
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ItemA Makeover Inside and Out: Reinventing Ourselves After the Big Move( 2019-11-10)Change is inevitable. The recent relocation of the main downtown campus library at Hawai‘i Pacific University has provided librarians with the unique opportunity to reimagine allocated spaces, services, and staff workflow. One of the main challenges the library faced is that the library’s new space is considerably smaller than the previous one, which meant the collection had to be substantially reduced. This presentation will showcase how a basic set of guiding principles has been critical to ensuring the success of the transformation. These principles sought to leverage user-centric design practices for collection development, reference, instruction, and circulation interfaces. The session will highlight how other libraries can learn from our experience as they look to reinvent and adapt to shifting circumstances.
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ItemLibrarians Need to Take-up the Writing Revolution( 2019-11-11)This presentation discusses why librarians are uniquely qualified to lead the writing-across-the-curriculum charge, which has been largely ignored by our schools, and cultivate better writing among our students. The first section charts the assessment of student writing since the 1980’s and shows how student writing has not improved and, in fact, along with critical reading and information literacy skills, has actually declined. The second section explains why librarians are perfectly suited to lead a writing revolution by including writing in their instruction, alongside the other interdependent skills of information literacy, research, and critical reading. The final section of the presentation, with help from audience members, shares ways writing can be included in the library curriculum and offers instructional writing strategies and tips on giving feedback. Audience members will leave the presentation with a bibliography of resources and sample lesson plans to help them take-on this new instructional challenge.