They Came and Built It Themselves: Working with Students to Curate Digital Exhibits

Presentation at the Digital Scholarship Colloquium: Pedagogy and Practices, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, November 6, 2014

Catalogers Unite! Creating Documentation through Collaboration

Recent changes have forced Bowling Green State University (BGSU) to reevaluate our documentation, workflows, and communication. There have been staff retirements, changes in staff responsibilities, and a new faculty cataloger. Additionally, BGSU is implementing a discovery layer, purchasing shelf-ready books, and adding more electronic resources. It has become apparent that documentation needs to be updated and, in many cases, created from scratch. Collaboration is critical as catalogers are currently few in number and are seeing the need to work with other departments in ways unheard of previously. The creation of a new cataloging manual is vital to the success of cataloging at BGSU

Supporting Primary Source Instruction in the Undergraduate Classroom at Bowling Green State University: Summary Findings

This report presents the findings and recommendations of research conducted as a part of a study on Teaching with Primary Sources at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) during the Fall 2019 semester. It is worthy to note that this research project was conducted prior to the COVID outbreak. Along with a cohort of over two dozen institutions as part of a national study coordinated by Ithaka S+R, members of the BGSU library faculty conducted this local study with faculty who teach undergraduates with primary sources in the classroom. This report draws only on interviews conducted at BGSU. After describing the methodology employed, this report will present our findings covering four major themes identified in interviews: difficulties with primary sources, learning to work with primary sources, the role of librarians and archivists in primary source projects, and connections to information literacies. The report concludes with recommendations

Cataloguing outside the box: a practical guide to cataloguing special collections materials

A practical guide to cataloguing and processing the unique special collections formats in the Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL) and the Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives (MLSRA) at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) (e.g. fanzines, popular sound recordings, comic books, motion picture scripts and press kits, popular fiction). Cataloguing Outside the Box provides guidance to professionals in library and information science facing the same cataloguing challenges. Additionally, name authority work for these collections is addressed.provides practical guidelines and solutions fo

Browsing is Hard, And Taxonomies Are Dead Sexxy

With the debut of the BookFinder at SBTB, readers can now search the website\u27s internal database of books by subgenre, trope, and archetype - or combinations thereof. The results display in a virtual shelf of book covers, mimicking an in-person browsing experience, something that online book retail and reference outlets struggle with. In this panel, Sarah Wendell from SBTB will discuss the reader-influenced development of the BookFinder, and the problems it attempts to solve. BGSU librarian Stefanie Hunker will discuss their approach to cataloging and classifying romances, and the similarities and differences between institutional and reader-driven cataloging and search terms. Taxonomies drive databases and search engines, but the development thereof can be thorny and complex, highlighting the innate differences between the languages the developers and the end users speak. The panel will also look at the larger and specific intricacies of how websites and libraries attempt to reach their common goal: to connect readers with the books they most want to read

They Came and Built It Themselves: Working with Students to Curate Digital Exhibits

Overview of Digital Humanities collaborations between the libraries and graduate and undergraduate courses at Bowling Green State University