A Dead Link or a Final Resting Place: Link Rot in Legal Citations

A webpage’s URL is often referred to as its address, but frequently it is more like a short-term sublet than a permanent home. This article discusses the problem of link rot in legal citations and advocates for law reviews to adopt DOIs and Perma as complementary solutions

How ethnic studies faculty use streaming video: Instructional needs, applications, and challenges

While there have been studies on faculty use of streaming video resources in academic libraries, none have focused on the specific needs of ethnic studies faculty. Using a thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with 13 ethnic studies faculty from two public university campuses, this study found that faculty engagement with video is based upon a pedagogical strategy that responds to the specific demands and goals of ethnic studies curricula, while centering on student needs by using free resources whenever possible. Within this paradigm, faculty choose from three categories of content: key primary and secondary sources; flexible supporting sources; and current topics of interest. Understanding what motivates ethnic study faculty could be helpful as librarians work with vendors and advocate for the content that best meets instructional needs. Librarians can also help improve faculty\u27s instructional outcomes by communicating about licensing options and streaming media availability through the library

Archiving an Early Web-Based Journal: Addressing Issues of Workflow, Authenticity, and Bibliodiversity

SWITCH is a journal of new media art that has been published in an online-only format since 1995 by the CADRE Laboratory for New Media at San José State University (SJSU). The journal is distinctive in its commitment to presenting scholarship and criticism on new media art in a visual format that reflects and enhances its engagement with the subject. This approach, which includes the practice of redesigning the journal’s platform and visual presentation for each issue, raises significant challenges for the long-term preservation of the journal, as well as immediate issues related to indexing and discovery. This article describes the initial stages of a collaboration between the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library and the CADRE Laboratory at SJSU to archive and index SWITCH and to host a copy of the journal on SJSU’s institutional repository, SJSU ScholarWorks. It will describe the process of harvesting the journal, share scripts used to extract metadata and modify files to address accessibility and encoding issues, and discuss an ongoing curricular project that engages CADRE students in the process of augmenting metadata for SWITCH articles. The process reflects the challenges of creating an authentic version of this journal that is also discoverable and citable within the broader scholarly communication environment. This effort is part of a growing multi-institutional project to archive the new media art community in the Bay Area in a 3D web exhibition format

Instructional Use of Streaming Media by SJSU Faculty

This data set is composed of transcripts from semi-structured interviews of SJSU ethnic studies and clinical practice faculty on their use of streaming media in instruction. The interviews were conducted in Spring 2022 in support of the international Ithaka S+R study on Streaming Media Licensing and Purchasing Practices at Academic Libraries

Do You Count?: The Revitalization of a National Preservation Statistics Survey

The American Library Association (ALA) Preservation Statistics Survey, a national survey on the preservation activities of cultural heritage institutions, was introduced in 2012 in response to the decision of the Association of Research Libraries’ (ARL) decision to discontinue its long-running preservation statistics program. This paper presents the history of both surveys, discusses the rationale for collecting national data on these activities, and how the data has been used. The paper also includes key results, derived from analysis of both surveys. The surveys suggest that institutional support for preservation activities has declined significantly since its peak in the early 1990s. Preservation programs continue to focus on text-based materials and seem to employ fewer nonprofessional staff than they did five years earlier. The benefits and challenges of conducting a voluntary national survey are also discussed

Lightning Talks on Non-Traditional Collections

Join us for an exciting series of lightning talks based around the theme of non-traditional collections in repositories. A number of non-traditional collections will be introduced, and topics discussed will include the technical challenges involved when embarking on a major digital project, the identification of suitable collections, preservation issues, legal, institutional, and technical considerations, and the resources needed to create and host non-traditional collections