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Item Academic Libraries Join the Fight Against Climate Change(2020) Spiro, Lisa; Fitzpatrick, AshleyIn 2017, Hurricane Harvey dumped over 50 inches of rain on Houston, causing approximately 100 deaths and $125 billion in damage. Research indicates that Harvey’s impact was worsened by climate change. More recently wildfires, floods, and droughts - as well as concerted action by climate activists - have demonstrated the urgency of fighting climate change. The library community is beginning to take action; for example, the American Library Association (ALA) recently adopted sustainability as a core value and launched the “Resilient Communities: Libraries Respond to Climate Change” grant program. Rice University’s Fondren Library is one of five academic libraries to have won this grant. Fondren’s core grant-funded activities include organizing a panel discussion featuring four Houston women at the forefront of climate justice work, screening a documentary on queer responses to climate change, becoming a climate resilience hub, and developing a workshop for middle school students focused on understanding air quality data in their neighborhood, a frontline community. The grant is part of a broader series of sustainability initiatives at Fondren, including the development of a sustainability plan, the formation of a staff “Green Team,” and the appointment of a student “eco-rep.” This interactive presentation will examine how and why academic libraries should prioritize sustainability initiatives, using Fondren’s experiences as a model for community and student engagement around climate change. Participants will then engage in discussion about how the library community can come together to fight climate change. https://library.rice.edu/sustainabilityItem Building and Managing Your Online Profile as an Academic(2016-12-07) Spiro, Lisa; Kipphut-Smith, ShannonSlides from a workshop on raising your online visibility as an academic.Item Creating a Community-Driven Digital Archive: The Harvey Memories Project(2018-04-23) Spiro, LisaBetween August 17 and 30, 2017, Tropical Storm Harvey -- later Hurricane Harvey -- crisscrossed the Southeast corner of Texas, killing 88 Texans, damaging or destroying more than 119,000 homes in Harris County, and causing as much as $190 billion dollars in damage. Behind these numbers are thousands of stories of loss, trauma, recovery, and resilience. Soon after the flooding, a dialogue developed between Rice University, the University of Houston Libraries, Harris County Public Libraries, and Houston Public Libraries about how we might build a digital archive that enables people to share their stories about Harvey. Funded through a Rice University Houston Engagement and Recovery Effort (HERE) grant, the Harvey Memories Project (HMP) aims to to collect personal narratives, photos, audio, and video about the experience of Harvey in a digital archive. Its core values include a focus on the community, diversity, compassion, and sustainability. Developing such a digital archive raises complex questions: How do we make the archive useful both to people who experienced Harvey and to researchers who want to study their experiences? How can we respect contributors’ privacy while inviting them to share openly? How do we design the archive to make it easy for HMP contributors from diverse backgrounds to submit materials to the collection, while also making it easy for all users to find objects in the archive? The HMP is still at an early stage of development, and this presentation will not present final answers or a finished product; instead, it will invite attendees to explore the germination of a digital archive that honors personal experiences, contributes to a collective understanding, and raises issues pertinent to collecting digital objects meaningful on both a personal and communal scale.Item Digital History: Tools for Research and Teaching(2009) Spiro, Lisa; Center for Digital ScholarshipPresentation for the History Barrel (Rice U. graduate students in history), October 19, 2009Item Digital Tools for Research and Teaching in Anthropology(2009) Spiro, Lisa; Center for Digital ScholarshipPresentation on digital research tools for Rice University's anthropology department, October 27, 2009Item Dissertation 2.0: Remixing a Dissertation on American Literature as a Work of Digital Scholarship(2008) Spiro, Lisa; Center for Digital ScholarshipItem Doing Digital Scholarship(2008) Spiro, Lisa; Digital Library InitiativePaper presented at Digital Humanities 2008 (Oulu, Finland). Focuses on a project to practice digital scholarship by relying on electronic resources, experimenting with tools for analyzing and organizing digital information, and representing ideas through multimedia.Item Emerging Technologies that Hold Promise for Education(2009) Spiro, Lisa; Center for Digital ScholarshipPresented at Lone Star College System's E-learning Symposium 2009, November 12, 2009Item Establishing fondren@BRC: Insights from a User Study(2010-08) Kolah, Debra; Spiro, LisaRice University’s Bioscience Research Center (BRC) aims to be “a catalyst for new and better ways for researchers to collaborate, explore, learn and lead.”1 With fondren@brc, its new library facility in the BRC, Fondren Library can participate in this collaborative effort and support researchers in producing pioneering new research. Through fondren@brc, the library can explore how to use a flexible library space that focuses on service instead of content, what kind of services to offer to a group of scientists who mainly do their research online, and how to implement embedded librarianship, or the integration of librarians into academic disciplines.Item The Global Library(2008) Spiro, Lisa; Center for Digital ScholarshipPresentation about the global reach of digital libraries, given as part of the "International Treasures" panel at Fondren Library, November 2008.Item Implementing DSpace at Rice: Lessons Learned(2008) Spiro, Lisa; Center for Digital ScholarshipSlides from a presentation about Rice's DSpace installation given at the Texas Library Association's Digitization 101 pre-conference, April 2008. (Note: some of the slides were previously used in a presentation at Open Repositories 2007).Item Introduction to Academic Blogging(2009) Spiro, Lisa; Center for Digital ScholarshipPowerpoint slides from a February 2009 workshop on academic blogging.Item Introduction to Scholarly Communication(2009) Spiro, Lisa; Center for Digital ScholarshipPresentation for The Future of Scholarly Communications A Forum for Houston Area Librarians, July 22, 2009, University of Houston (co-sponsored by UH, Rice and HAM-TMC Libraries). Also includes updated version for UNT School of Library and Information Sciences All-School Day, April 24, 2010Item Libraries at the Crossroads: Technology, Policy, Economics and Culture(2010) Spiro, Lisa; Henry, GenevaPresentation delivered at the Houston Area Forum on the Future of Libraries, July 21, 2010. Revised version of a presentation first given at the CNI Fall 2009 meeting.Item Looking for bachelors in American silent film(Rice University, 2015) Spiro, Lisa; HumanitiesItem Managing Information Overload(2010) Spiro, Lisa; Center for Digital ScholarshipGives an overview of information overload and discusses processes, habits and tools for managing it. Revised version of a presentation about information overload given in 2008.Item Marketing Marvel: Extending the Life of a Scribner's Bestseller(2004) Spiro, Lisa; Center for Digital ScholarshipItem “Methodology for the Infinite Archive”: Exploring the Implications of Digital Resources and Tools for Literary Scholarship(2009) Spiro, Lisa; Center for Digital ScholarshipSlides from an April 2009 presentation on digital humanities research at item A&M University. Remixes some elements from previous presentations. The title pays tribute to Bill Turkel's blog of the same name.Item Open Education in the Liberal Arts: A NITLE Working Paper(NITLE, 2012) Spiro, Lisa; Alexander, BryanItem Organizing & Managing Research Using Digital Tools(2009) Spiro, Lisa; Center for Digital ScholarshipPresentation on the Digital Media Center and digital tools for graduate students in history at Rice, March 27, 2009.