Innovation Session 1 Recording

These 60 minute sessions focus on innovative or entrepreneurial thinking in libraries – new ways to solve problems, new technology or existing tech utilized in new ways, etc. They will feature five 8-minute presentations back-to-back, with a moderator for introductions, Q&A, and time keeping. Plenty of time will be allotted at the end of the session for audience questions and discussion.

Moderated by Darrell W. Gunter, Gunter Media Group

Finding Solutions for Inequities in Open Access: The Test Case of KU Open Opportunities

Kristen Twardowski (Michigan Publishing) & Sven Fund (Knowledge Unlatched)

Keywords: open access, DEI, publishing

Literature has shown that though open access enables all sorts of readers to engage with digital scholarship, there remain inequities regarding precisely which research  to become open. These inequities often replicate rather than challenge power structures that currently exist in higher education. In order for open access publishing to center previously ignored voices, libraries and publishers have to take new approaches to the idea of open.

To help bring excluded scholars to the forefront, University of Michigan Press and Knowledge Unlatched have launched a new crowdfunded program for open access books. This program, known as KU Open Opportunities, dedicates a specific portion of its funding to supporting scholars who otherwise might struggle to publish OA, including contingent faculty, graduate students, and those not employed by academic institutions. The panel will explore what assumptions there are about who "can" publish open access, how existing OA models have often excluded certain types of scholars, and how the library and publishing communities can work together to eliminate these inequities. 

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Alice Daugherty (The University of Alabama)

Keywords: Interlibrary loan, Lean Library, Article Galaxy Scholar, access solutions

The academic library plays a pivotal role within the organizational framework of higher education, supporting teaching, learning, and research with robust collections of materials in an array of formats. The usefulness of library collections in support of higher education institutions, in conjunction with the ease of access to those collections, cannot be understated. Accordingly, neither can the importance of interlibrary loan services from which access to materials beyond the local collections is gained. Access to materials through a discovery layer or library catalog is complemented by the ease at which users may obtain materials from outside of a local collection, allowing for a holistic mechanism by which researchers can most efficiently gain access to the research they need. In an effort to enhance access and discovery of materials and further promote interlibrary loan services, The University of Alabama Libraries implemented three new tools over the course of a few short months. This case study presentation details the process by which the technical services unit at a major research library implemented Lean Library, Article Galaxy Scholar, and EBSCO custom linking to expand and enhance access and discovery of library materials and interlibrary loan services. The main purpose is to bring understanding to the technical complexities connecting interlibrary loan and technical services workflows, and to illustrate the usefulness of three separate product solutions.

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Stephen Rhind-Tutt (Coherent Digital)

Keywords: south asia, decolonization, preservation, cultural heritage

Nearly one quarter of the world’s population lives in South Asia. Another fifth of the world lives in Africa. The cultural, historical, scientific and economic significance of these regions is undeniable, and yet their materials are largely absent from most Western libraries and unavailable online. This session will present lessons and examples from Coherent Digital new Commons platform and in particular how we’re applying it to materials from the Global South. We’ll show practical examples of the challenges we’ve faced and how we’re working to overcome them. We’ll present examples of capturing and creating metadata from our audit of African cultural and historical websites, of preserving content from the South Asia Research Foundation and of enabling users in these regions to host content easily and deliver it to their patrons on mobile phones in local languages.

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Ilona Burdette (Kentucky Virtual Library) & Enid Wohlstein (Kentucky Virtual Library)

Keywords: EZproxy SAML Authentication Scale Shoestring

What if a every student in a statewide, multi-type consortium could log into consortium databases with their school-issued Google or Microsoft email address? Except there are 600,000 students with email accounts administered by 171 different districts, and you’re a staff of two, and you’re self-hosted, and you don’t know your SP from your IDP?

Join the Kentucky Virtual Library as we explain very fast how we went from What if? to That Was Easy! with the help of a patient school district IT team, EZproxy support docs, and the generous assistance of EZproxy listserv colleagues from Boston to Australia. We’ll focus on nuts-and-bolts implementation steps and provide documentation, including model login.htm JS, to seamlessly direct users to the right authentication server, for those who want to try this at home!

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Nettie Lagace (NISO - National Information Standards Organization)

Keywords: standards, linked data, publishing technologies, content management

The demand for academic, research, and professional content has never been greater. However, technology has significantly changed the way in which this content is consumed. Users have become accustomed to contextualized, bite-sized, targeted content delivered as a natural part of their workflow. Content creators produce machine-actionable content and data, and desire to link their work products and output with the work product and output of others, both known and unknown, for discovery and dissemination. It is often quite difficult for scholarly publishers to support these dynamic connections.

The NISO CP/LD (content profile/linked document) standard, now available in draft form for comment, defines a flexible, extensible format—based on HTML and JSON—for combining content, data, and semantics intended as a machine-readable, self-describing markup. This standard is intended to be used as an interchange format between systems, APIs, and services, including content authoring and delivery systems and data platform services.

CP/LD is not intended to replace existing models used for journal articles, books, data sets, or semantic and metadata schemes. Instead, it enables combining arbitrary portions of content, data, semantics and software from separate sources into a single, standards-based format optimized for interchange, search and display.

These 60 minute sessions focus on innovative or entrepreneurial thinking in libraries – new ways to solve problems, new technology or existing tech utilized in new ways, etc. They will feature five 8-minute presentations back-to-back, with a moderator for introductions, Q&A, and time keeping. Plenty of time will be allotted at the end of the session for audience questions and discussion.

Moderated by Darrell W. Gunter, Gunter Media Group

Finding Solutions for Inequities in Open Access: The Test Case of KU Open Opportunities

Kristen Twardowski (Michigan Publishing) & Sven Fund (Knowledge Unlatched)

Keywords: open access, DEI, publishing

Literature has shown that though open access enables all sorts of readers to engage with digital scholarship, there remain inequities regarding precisely which research  to become open. These inequities often replicate rather than challenge power structures that currently exist in higher education. In order for open access publishing to center previously ignored voices, libraries and publishers have to take new approaches to the idea of open.

To help bring excluded scholars to the forefront, University of Michigan Press and Knowledge Unlatched have launched a new crowdfunded program for open access books. This program, known as KU Open Opportunities, dedicates a specific portion of its funding to supporting scholars who otherwise might struggle to publish OA, including contingent faculty, graduate students, and those not employed by academic institutions. The panel will explore what assumptions there are about who "can" publish open access, how existing OA models have often excluded certain types of scholars, and how the library and publishing communities can work together to eliminate these inequities. 

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Alice Daugherty (The University of Alabama)

Keywords: Interlibrary loan, Lean Library, Article Galaxy Scholar, access solutions

The academic library plays a pivotal role within the organizational framework of higher education, supporting teaching, learning, and research with robust collections of materials in an array of formats. The usefulness of library collections in support of higher education institutions, in conjunction with the ease of access to those collections, cannot be understated. Accordingly, neither can the importance of interlibrary loan services from which access to materials beyond the local collections is gained. Access to materials through a discovery layer or library catalog is complemented by the ease at which users may obtain materials from outside of a local collection, allowing for a holistic mechanism by which researchers can most efficiently gain access to the research they need. In an effort to enhance access and discovery of materials and further promote interlibrary loan services, The University of Alabama Libraries implemented three new tools over the course of a few short months. This case study presentation details the process by which the technical services unit at a major research library implemented Lean Library, Article Galaxy Scholar, and EBSCO custom linking to expand and enhance access and discovery of library materials and interlibrary loan services. The main purpose is to bring understanding to the technical complexities connecting interlibrary loan and technical services workflows, and to illustrate the usefulness of three separate product solutions.

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Stephen Rhind-Tutt (Coherent Digital)

Keywords: south asia, decolonization, preservation, cultural heritage

Nearly one quarter of the world’s population lives in South Asia. Another fifth of the world lives in Africa. The cultural, historical, scientific and economic significance of these regions is undeniable, and yet their materials are largely absent from most Western libraries and unavailable online. This session will present lessons and examples from Coherent Digital new Commons platform and in particular how we’re applying it to materials from the Global South. We’ll show practical examples of the challenges we’ve faced and how we’re working to overcome them. We’ll present examples of capturing and creating metadata from our audit of African cultural and historical websites, of preserving content from the South Asia Research Foundation and of enabling users in these regions to host content easily and deliver it to their patrons on mobile phones in local languages.

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Ilona Burdette (Kentucky Virtual Library) & Enid Wohlstein (Kentucky Virtual Library)

Keywords: EZproxy SAML Authentication Scale Shoestring

What if a every student in a statewide, multi-type consortium could log into consortium databases with their school-issued Google or Microsoft email address? Except there are 600,000 students with email accounts administered by 171 different districts, and you’re a staff of two, and you’re self-hosted, and you don’t know your SP from your IDP?

Join the Kentucky Virtual Library as we explain very fast how we went from What if? to That Was Easy! with the help of a patient school district IT team, EZproxy support docs, and the generous assistance of EZproxy listserv colleagues from Boston to Australia. We’ll focus on nuts-and-bolts implementation steps and provide documentation, including model login.htm JS, to seamlessly direct users to the right authentication server, for those who want to try this at home!

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Nettie Lagace (NISO - National Information Standards Organization)

Keywords: standards, linked data, publishing technologies, content management

The demand for academic, research, and professional content has never been greater. However, technology has significantly changed the way in which this content is consumed. Users have become accustomed to contextualized, bite-sized, targeted content delivered as a natural part of their workflow. Content creators produce machine-actionable content and data, and desire to link their work products and output with the work product and output of others, both known and unknown, for discovery and dissemination. It is often quite difficult for scholarly publishers to support these dynamic connections.

The NISO CP/LD (content profile/linked document) standard, now available in draft form for comment, defines a flexible, extensible format—based on HTML and JSON—for combining content, data, and semantics intended as a machine-readable, self-describing markup. This standard is intended to be used as an interchange format between systems, APIs, and services, including content authoring and delivery systems and data platform services.

CP/LD is not intended to replace existing models used for journal articles, books, data sets, or semantic and metadata schemes. Instead, it enables combining arbitrary portions of content, data, semantics and software from separate sources into a single, standards-based format optimized for interchange, search and display.