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In This Issue: Annual Employee Appreciation and Donors\u27 Reception Feeling Nostalgic? You Can Now Browse the Reflector 8,000 Items Donated by the Late Orion Harrison Ashley Lowery Is Awarded Staff Merit Award of Excellenc

Community-driven Repository Infrastructure Programs at LYRASIS—an Overview

Academic libraries, and institutional repositories in particular, play a key role in the ongoing quest for ways to gather metrics and connect the dots between researchers and research contributions in order to measure “institutional impact,” while also streamlining workflows to reduce administrative burden. Identifying accurate metrics and measurements for illustrating “impact” is a goal that many academic research institutions share, but these goals can only be met to the extent that all organizations across the research and scholarly communication landscape are using best practices and shared standards in research infrastructure. For example, persistent identifiers (PIDs) such as ORCID iDs (Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier) and DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) have emerged as crucial best practices for establishing connections between researchers and their contributions while also serving as a mechanism for interoperability in sharing data across systems. The more institutions using persistent identifiers (PIDs) in their workflows, the more connections can be made between entities, making research objects more FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable). Also, when measuring institutional repository usage, clean, comparable, COUNTER-conformant statistics are needed for accurate internal assessment, as well as for benchmarking with peer institutions. In this session, we will highlight three LYRASIS consortial programs: the ORCID US Community, the LYRASIS DataCite US Community (for DOIs), and the IRUS (Institutional Repository Usage Statistics) US Community, and how these programs influence the research lifecycle. In particular, we will discuss the impact to the research, researchers, and management of institutional repositories

Books on Demand: A New(er) Look for Print Monographs Acquisitions

How do you respond to increasing library materials cost? Do you still provide enough, fewer, or more print books? How do you sustain access to library resources? In the past few years, Zach S. Henderson Library at Georgia Southern University faced these questions and more. As many libraries have done, Henderson Library responded by decreasing monograph acquisitions to allocate additional funds for serial acquisition. However, these challenges provided opportunities for the library to be creative in purchasing monographs. One of the approaches the library chose to explore was establishing a print demand-driven acquisition (pDDA) or Books on Demand program with ProQuest. Through this program, the library has increased its access to print monographs despite experiencing budgetary challenges

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In this issue: Welcome New Associate Dean Clement Lau First Edition of The Awakening Donated by Dr. & Mrs. Keith Johnson Seed Library Update New Faculty: Jessica Garner Sustainability Showcase 2016 Money Smart Week 201

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In This Issue: Reflectors for Sale Digital Commons Update Assessment Back Home 72 Years Later Donating Books & Materials New Resource

Community Engagement: Arrangement, Description, and Preservation Recommendations for Cunningham Children's Home Media Archive

In the summer of 2008 Rosalie C.F. Rippey, Director of Communications and Marketing, and Stephanie Brunner Lynge, Associate Director of Church and Community Relations, contacted members of the UIUC Graduate School of Library and Information Science about aiding in the process of arranging and storing the extensive Cunningham Children???s Home archives. The collection, described in further detail below, consisted of photographs, business papers, audio material, video material, and other media dating as far back as the inception of CCH more than 100 years ago. The collections of photographs, mainly of past residents and staff at CCH, hold particular importance both for promotional considerations and for the memories and emotional legacies of former alumni and their families. For returning alumni and family members, these photographs often constitute the sole or primary window into the childhoods of CCH residents. The entirety of the collection is spread over three locations, the core collection being located on the CCH campus. The photography collection had been only loosely organized by the identity of the cottage, the event, chronology, or some combination thereof. In addition, photographs were stored in simple plastic binders, not suitable for preservation. Directors Rippey and Lynge inquired as to whether or not the archival program or the community informatics program might be able to aid in the creation of a system for more consistent arrangement and access of materials, recommendations for storage, and a procedure for the intake and outtake of materials within the collection. The project of organizing and developing recommendations for maintenance was offered as one of several projects available to students in the LIS 490 Community Engagement class. Paolo P. Gujilde, a graduate student within the LIS program specializing in community archives, had already served as a contact with CCH. Graduate students Rebecca Crist and Logan Moore additionally chose to partner with CCH for their semester project in the class. (For more background information, see Appendix II.)unpublishednot peer reviewe

Cunningham Children's Home: Preserving the Past Through University-Community Partnership

Community Archives ???are the grassroots activities of documenting, recording, and exploring community heritage in which community participation, control, and ownership of the project is essential??? (Flinn, 2007). It is the aggregation of shared interests, identity, and memories by a group of individuals in the community. One such project is the Cunningham Children???s Home Archives in Urbana, Illinois. This project, initiated by CCH in collaboration with University of Illinois graduate students, preserves the memories of former residents through the archivilization of photographs, audiovisual materials, and papers. This project exemplifies the need of a local institution as well as the need of graduate students in engaging to the community. Thus, in this poster, we will describe the collaborative work between CCH and the university through its graduate students. CCH is a former orphanage and is now a residential treatment center dedicated to helping children, youths, and their families. The history of CCH since its inception in the late 1800s includes memories of staff and former residents. These memories are represented in photographs, audio-video tapes, art works, and letters. These materials document part of many people???s lives and are, often, the only memories of their childhood. Additionally, CCH has been an institution in Champaign County for over 100 years and is a significant part of the community. Hence our efforts together with CCH staff are valuable to the preservation of history of the local community and to the memories of many people directly and indirectly part of the children???s home. So, in this poster, we will describe the first stage of the project, which includes inventory of materials and recommendations for long-term preservation as well as discussion of the future of the project. The first stage of the project involves the assessment of the photograph collection in the archives. The photograph collection is the bulk of the materials at the CCH archives and is heavily accessed by staff and former residents. We also set a short-term goal for the first stage, which was to establish the recommendations for organizing and preserving the current photograph collection and future photograph collections of the archives. Ultimately, the long-term goal of the project is to have the materials, both non-digital and born-digital materials, properly archived for the future

SAA UIUC Student Chapter: At Home and On the Road

Poster of SAA student chapter presented at SAA annual meeting, San Francisco, August 2008.unpublishednot peer reviewe

A New Community Partnership: The University Of Illinois Student Chapter And The Frances Willard Memorial Library And Archives

Poster presented at 2009 meeting of SAA in Austin, Texas.unpublishednot peer reviewe