Fondren Library Staff Presentations and Publications

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This collection contains presentations, publications and other works by staff members at Rice University's Fondren Library

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10 Questions: Debra Kolah
(Special Libraries Association, 2011-04) Hales, Stuart
Interview with Debra Kolah, the founding chair of SLA's new user experience caucus.
A Collection of Resources for Learning to Code in R
(Rice University, 2023) Barber, Catherine Romero
This collection of guides and Markdown code files introduces coding basics to learners who are new to R. Topics include navigating in RStudio, importing and indexing data, data wrangling, visualization, basic statistics, creating reports with Markdown, and programming basics.
Academic Libraries Join the Fight Against Climate Change
(2020) Spiro, Lisa; Fitzpatrick, Ashley
In 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/sustainability
Alternative and Underground Comics: Interview with Caitlin McGurk
(Taylor & Francis, 2018) Vieira, Scott; McGurk, Caitlin
In this installment of "Conversations," Caitlin McGurk, associate curator for outreach at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, discusses alternative and underground comics along with different aspects of her professional career in cartoon and comics librarianship.
Book review: The Impactful Academic: Building a Research Career That Makes a Difference
(Iowa State University Digital Press, 2023) Kipphut-Smith, Shannon
A brief review of Wade Kelly's book, The Impactful Academic: Building a Research Career That Makes a Difference (2022).
Building and Managing Your Online Profile as an Academic
(2016-12-07) Spiro, Lisa; Kipphut-Smith, Shannon
Slides from a workshop on raising your online visibility as an academic.
Can a UX Department Really Make a Difference?
(2017-04-03) Vacek, Rachel; Kolah, Debra; Fondren Library
When a library is truly invested in UX, with total awareness of and buy-in on user-centered thinking, its staff more readily embrace UX principles and have more empathy. However, creating a user-centric culture can be challenging as a solo UX Librarian. Wouldn't it be easier with a dedicated department? For this presentation, a panel of UX department heads will discuss organizational buy-in, advocacy and partnerships, and key elements for establishing more structure for UX in libraries.
Canvas Survey and User Testing, Summer 2015
(2015) Kolah, Debra; Yan, Hao
Civic Engagement During the Pandemic
(Rice University, 2021-05-07) Thomas, Amanda; Xiong, Anna
Collecting to the Core--Physics
(2012) Fosmire, Michael; Kolah, Debra; Doherty, Anne
Column Editor’s Note: The “Collecting to the Core” column highlights monographic works that are essential to the academic library within a particular discipline, inspired by the Resources for College Libraries bibliography (online at http://www.rclweb.net). In each essay, subject specialists introduce and explain the classic titles and topics that continue to remain relevant to the undergraduate curriculum and library collection. Disciplinary trends may shift, but some classics never go out of style. — AD
Conversations: The Open Libraries Project – Interview with Chris Freeland
(Taylor & Francis, 2020) Vieira, Scott
In this installment of “Conversations,” Chris Freeland, director for the Open Libraries project with the Internet Archive, discusses his work with the Open Libraries project and the National Emergency Library.
COVID-19 and Innovation
(Taylor & Francis, 2021) Vieira, Scott
In this installment of "Conversations," multiple individuals share how they or their organizations have coped with COVID-19 and in some cases the innovations that have come from it.
Creating a Community-Driven Digital Archive: The Harvey Memories Project
(2018-04-23) Spiro, Lisa
Between 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.
Cultivating our ORCID garden: Lessons learned from publishers
(2017) Kipphut-Smith, Shannon
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID)--developed to address the problem of name ambiguity in scholarship--has been widely welcomed by many in the scholarly communications community, including many academic librarians. In fact, librarians have been some of the organization’s biggest supporters, largely because they understand how a persistent identifier like ORCID can help to solve issues that have long been a problem in information management. As a result, academic libraries have played a large role in increasing awareness of ORCID on their campuses. Activities are varied, including the development of LibGuides and other resources, hosting ORCID workshops, and even assigning/assisting authors with ORCID sign-up. The number of publishers and funders requiring ORCID is growing, ensuring that an increasing number of authors will be exposed to the identifier. Because it is likely that, for many faculty, their first “encounter” with ORCID will occur during the scholarly publishing process, we seek to discover what ORCID resources faculty encounter and what, if any, additional information is needed. This poster presents the results of the first phase of a project that looks at author engagement with ORCID during the publication process. We identify where within the workflow ORCID engagement typically occurs and what resources authors are provided to learn more about ORCID. In addition, we reached out to publishers requiring ORCID to learn more about what feedback they have received from authors, focusing on what additional assistance may be needed. This information can help libraries to further develop and enhance their ORCID support on campus.
Cultural Anthropology and Open Access—Interview With Dominic Boyer, Cymene Howe, and Marcel LaFlamme
(Taylor & Francis, 2019) Vieira, Scott; Kipphut-Smith, Shannon
In this installment of “Conversations,” Dominic Boyer, Cymene Howe, and Marcel LaFlamme, of the Cultural Anthropology editorial team, discuss the ins and outs of publishing a gold open access journal in the field of anthropology. Highlights of the discussion include Cultural Anthropology’s move to open access, the ethics of open access, the growth of international readership, ongoing publishing challenges in open access, and the role libraries can play with open access publishing.
Curatorial Challenges of the Cassette Culture Revolution
(2015-06-11) Carlson, Scott
Until just over a decade ago, the cassette tape was one of the most popular mediums for prerecorded music. In the West, it was the dominant format of the 1980s, until the shift to compact discs in the mid-1990s; in the developing world, cassettes clung to preeminence for another decade. Perhaps spurred by the resurgence of the phonograph record, cassette tapes have also seen a minor reinvention as a niche format for new, experimental and re-released music. The ease of which tape duplicators can be acquired, and the relative low cost of blank media that is otherwise considered obsolete, means that cassette tapes have become an optimal choice for independent labels and D.I.Y. artists to physically distribute music; a 2009 article on Rhizome.org identified no less than 101 active, contemporary cassette labels. More recently, major labels have started to partner with indie labels to license major-label releases on limited edition cassettes. This poster addresses the cultural factors that led to the cassette tape’s resurrection, but will also discuss collection development challenges presented by such a revival. Librarians and archivists actively curating collections that include cassette tapes will have to cope with the medium’s usual preservation challenges; however, since most modern cassettes are often produced in extremely limited quantities (in some cases with unique artwork) and sold through the internet or merchandise tables at concerts, curators will also need to deal with the added difficulty of acquiring and describing a music format that is as impermanent (and, in some cases, as disposable) as other ephemeral artifacts.
Decolonization and the Cambridge University Libraries—Interview with Mel Bach
(Taylor & Francis, 2023) Vieira, Scott
In this installment of “Conversations,” Mel Bach, head of collections and academic liaison at Cambridge University, discusses her work on decolonization within the Cambridge University Libraries. The discussion includes a history and description of the Decolonisation Working Group, including its membership and some of its earliest efforts.
Deepening the Conversation
(2018-07) Kolah, Debra; Thomas, Amanda
Designing the Fondren Library K-12 Experience: A collaborative project
(2014-06-05) Bynog, David; Spiro, Linda; Edwards, Sandi; Kolah, Debra
How do we create an experience that makes a meaningful impression on our school visitors, so that they come to know the value of a research library, and understand how it fits into a university setting? The high school student visitors of today could be the Rice students of tomorrow.
Digital History: Tools for Research and Teaching
(2009) Spiro, Lisa; Center for Digital Scholarship
Presentation for the History Barrel (Rice U. graduate students in history), October 19, 2009

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