Making Magic: Creating Digital Exhibits with the MagicBox at UND

The MagicBox is a multimedia display case that allows libraries to create interactive digital exhibits highlighting their physical and digital collections. Physical items can be displayed within the box while users use the touch screen to virtually flip through books, interact with 3D models, and browse images and videos. Since purchasing the MagicBox we’ve created one exhibit and accompanying reception and are currently creating our second exhibit (to be released in January 2019). In the process we’ve worked with our university art department, School of Aerospace Studies, and local heritage foundation to highlight materials with significance for broad swathes of the campus community. We’d like our audience to walk away from our presentation with an understanding of how this technology can be used to highlight unique items within their collections; the lessons we’ve learned about how to effectively collaborate with outside departments and community organizations to create exhibits; and, ideas about how to integrate digital collections with physical items to create better interactive multimedia experiences.https://commons.und.edu/cfl-lpp/1009/thumbnail.jp

Institutional Repositories and Open Access Misconceptions at UND

Librarians at the University of North Dakota Chester Fritz Library have been promoting the UND Scholarly Commons and open educational resources to faculty, staff, and students on campus. This presentation discusses misconceptions about open access that we have heard during our promotional efforts, how we\u27ve addressed them, and what this reveals about broader challenges in promoting open access initiatives. How do you promote a solution to a problem that isn\u27t necessarily recognized?https://commons.und.edu/cfl-lpp/1006/thumbnail.jp

Data Visualization with Tableau

Interested in data visualization but not sure where to start? In this workshop we\u27ll be discussing data visualization software with a focus on Tableau Public. Tableau Public is a free software that can be used to work with CSV files, select the type of chart best suited for the data, and publish visualizations online for sharing via social media. Its ease of use makes it a good tool to work with students and integrate into workshops for working with datasets. Participants will be asked to download Tableau Public prior to the session and provided with sample datasets to experiment with using to create data visualizations to display online.https://commons.und.edu/cfl-lpp/1014/thumbnail.jp

The Cost of Research

This OER contains the materials to adapt \u27The Cost of Research\u27 display created as part of Chester Fritz Library\u27s programming for the 2021 Open Access Week. It demonstrates how much it would cost a reader without access to institutional resources to obtain the research underlying a single short academic article. It also looks at how much it would cost to flip those same resources to open access based off their publishers\u27 current APC charges. This display could best be used as part of educational programming focusing on the economics of scholarly publishing.https://commons.und.edu/oers/1025/thumbnail.jp

Author\u27s Rights: What to Know Before Publishing Your Work

When you publish a journal article, you sign a copyright agreement. Do you know what you’re agreeing to when you sign it? In the US copyright covers a bundle of intellectual property rights. In this workshop we will discuss what copyright is, what it allows you to do, and how to maintain your rights as an author. By the end of this workshop you will be able to answer: What is a copyright transfer agreement? How can you find out a journal\u27s rights policies? How can you negotiate contracts to make the most of your rights as a scholar, researcher, and author? What are the benefits of protecting your rights? This workshop can be modified to match the particulars of the campus where it is being presented.https://commons.und.edu/cfl-lpp/1020/thumbnail.jp

Data Management With Pokemon

Research data management education provides guidance on how researchers can effectively manage their data to increase the scholarly impact from their research, comply with funder mandates, and take control of their research data. This workshop teaches data management principles of file naming, metadata, and documentation through a lens of hands-on activities involving Pokémon. It is adapted from Hannah Gunderson\u27s Data Management with Pokemon workshop, under a CC-BY license.https://commons.und.edu/oers/1026/thumbnail.jp

Open Access Explained

This workshop gives a basic overview of the open access movement. By the end of this workshop you should be able to: Identify what open access is Understand why Open Access is important Learn how it can benefit you as a researcher, student, or professional Know where to find additional resources for help This workshop can be modified to match the particulars of the campus where it is being presented.https://commons.und.edu/cfl-lpp/1019/thumbnail.jp

Making Magic: Creating Digital Exhibits with the MagicBox at UND (Lightning Round)

The MagicBox is a multimedia display case that allows libraries to create interactive digital exhibits highlighting their physical and digital collections. Physical items can be displayed within the box while users use the touch screen to virtually flip through books, interact with 3D models, and browse images and videos. Since purchasing the MagicBox we’ve created one exhibit and accompanying reception and are currently creating our second exhibit (to be released in January 2019). In the process we’ve worked with our university art department, School of Aerospace Studies, and local heritage foundation to highlight materials with significance for broad swathes of the campus community. We’d like our audience to walk away from our presentation with an understanding of how this technology can be used to highlight unique items within their collections; the lessons we’ve learned about how to effectively collaborate with outside departments and community organizations to create exhibits; and, ideas about how to integrate digital collections with physical items to create better interactive multimedia experience

Peer Who? Introducing Peer Review and You

In this interactive workshop we introduce participants to the basic concept of peer review, the ways it\u27s practiced, and go through activities designed to allow them to assess their own thoughts on peer review and what a useful review looks like.https://commons.und.edu/cfl-lpp/1021/thumbnail.jp

Scholarly Communication Initiatives

Scholarly Communication Librarian, Sara Kuhn, and Digital Initiatives Librarian, Zeineb Yousif, tell us about Scholarly Communication Initiatives happening at the Chester Fritz Library. These initiatives include a suite of online Scholarly Communication Research Guides with resources and information about open access, open educational resources (OERs), researcher profiles and communities, journal quality, research metrics and altmetrics, publishing strategies, data management and author\u27s rights. Yousif highlights UND\u27s new institutional repository, the Scholarly Commons, where researchers can deposit theses, raw research data, manuscripts, media, and other research work. Reference librarians also provide a brief overview of the information and tools presented on each research guide in the suite