UCO - Faculty and Staff Publications

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This collection comprises of the scholarly, creative, and/or research-related work of UCO's faculty and staff, including but not limited to presentations, posters, articles, book chapters, and more.

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2023 Proceedings of the Metadata Justice in Oklahoma Libraries & Archives Symposium
(2023-08-31) Beezley, Shay; Steele, Tom; Long, Misty; Masood, Sana; Lefler, Brooke
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Are You Still Talking? Communication in Leadership
(2021-11-19) Jones, Elizabeth
Communication is a critical leadership skill to obtain supporters and buy-in. Effective communication requires critically analyzing your own communication habits and reactions and tailoring them to the individuals or groups with which you are communicating. I will use examples from my 15+ years of experience in library related leadership positions to present communication strategies that work. After all, leaders cannot be leaders without supporters.
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Automating Shelf Inventory
(2016-05-04) Jones, Elizabeth
Alma makes Inventory easy. With a wireless barcode scanner and some creativity you can use Alma to indicate when an item was last found on the shelf, go right to the shelf spot of a grossly mis-shelved title, and make sure all titles not in the library that are not checked out are marked as missing.
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Bea Feitler: Incomplete Design History Podcast
(2021-09-16) Horton, Amanda; Valencia, Shane; Sinclair, Kayla; Gee, Spencer
Bea Feitler was a graphic designer, art director, educator, and a mentor to young professionals. Originally from Brazil, Feitler eventually found her home in New York City and made a name for herself in the magazine industry. Early on in her career she was named co-art director of Harper’s Bazaar along with Ruth Ansel, both having served as graphic designers under art director Marvin Israel (1924-85) who had been one of Feitler’s instructors at Parsons. Known for taking chances, Feitler and Ansel pushed Harper’s to its limits. Under Feitler’s and Ansel’s direction, Harper’s became one of the first national publications to photograph and feature an African American model. After leaving Harper’s, Feitler got involved with Ms., a liberal feminist publication founded by Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes. At Ms. Magazine, Feitler was responsible for many controversial covers including one for a December (Christmas) issue, which featured the slogan “Peace on Earth, Good Will toward People,” revising the historically patriarchal statement “Peace on Earth, Good Will toward Men.” Despite a relatively short career, due to her untimely death at age 44, she made a significant impact on magazine design while also taking a stand for feminism and equality.
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Bringing Patron Services into the Technology Age
(2017-08-10) Jones, Elizabeth
With the fast paced advances in technology, many library patron services can be enhanced using both old and new technology. You can re-purpose outdated technology such as 1st generation iPads into wayfinding maps. Despite advances, many of our students do not have access to existing technologies such as a computer, but also need to learn about new and emerging technologies. This presentation covers these areas as they relate to libraries.
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Controlled Vocabularies beyond LCSH: Customizing Your Catalog to Meet Your Patrons' Needs
(2019-10-31) Beezley, Shay
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is a widely used controlled vocabulary by libraries around the world, but like any controlled vocabulary, it comes with limitations. Come learn about other controlled vocabularies to consider using in your library catalog to help your patrons find the resources they're looking for. Controlled vocabularies to be covered include FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology), AAT (Art and Architecture Thesaurus), and LCTGM (Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials).
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The Creation of the Tribal Nations of Oklahoma Metadata Database
(2023-07-20) Macken, Megan; Palone, Kaitlyn; Zilinskas, Lulu
In the closing discussions of last year's symposium the impromptu creation of the Metadata Justice Collective occurred. Those that volunteered to chair, Megan Macken, Lulu Zilinskas, and Kaitlyn Palone, met shortly thereafter about possible projects that could use collaborative work. Megan presented the idea to create a database of Oklahoma Tribal Nation preferred names. The speakers presented on how this work was accomplished, problems encountered, and plans for future.
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Cultivating a Culture for Inclusive Metadata
(2023-05-12) Beezley, Shay; Sump-Crethar, Anna Nicole
University of Central Oklahoma’s Max Chambers Library is committed to serving underrepresented communities. One way this is accomplished is through the professional catalogers' dedication to accurately and respectfully describing materials relating to underrepresented communities. They are actively taking steps to ameliorate these problematic practices that directly affect the Central community's access to library resources. In addition to retrospective projects, the library’s Systems division is working on creating a culture that supports inclusive metadata practices, both within the library and regionally in Oklahoma—which presents its own challenges in a deeply conservative state. Join us to learn about our initiatives and where we hope to take them next.
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DARE to Say NO
(2022-07-14) Earls, Anona; Compton, JJ
Using the Acronym DARE we'll look specifically at reclassing the offensive and dated terminology of call numbers for materials classified with N and O Cutter numbers for "Negro" and "Oriental." DARE is short for Decide (to undertake the project), Access (changing the metadata), Repair (the label, record, shelving location, etc) or Eliminate (weed)
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Developing a Library Toolbar
(2008-10-24) Jones, Elizabeth
Conduit is a free service for creating toolbars to use with Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Conduit is user?friendly and intuitive. However, there is a compatibility issue with the internet explore version and the Ebrary Reader ActiveX Control. This article explores how to develop and configure a toolbar.
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A Different Breed of Cat: Finding My Queer Self
(2023-07-19) Siewert, Karl
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Digital Initiatives Working Group Progress Report : March 23, 2021.
(2021-03-23) Digital Initiatives Working Group (Chambers Library); Beezley, Shay; Willard, Nicole; Earls, Anona; Caban, Shaye; Davis, S. Kirsten; Jones, Elizabeth
Progress report of UCO Chambers Library's Digital Initiatives Working Group from 2016-2020 with a focus on work done during 2020.
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Drafting the inclusive metadata statement
(11/19/2021) Beezley, Shay; Palone, Kaitlyn
Offensive/outdated terminology in library cataloging standards has been discussed for some years now, particularly around the subject heading “illegal aliens.” A recent trend in library cataloging and technical services departments has been to create public statements that acknowledging these problems to their communities and actions that have been or will be taken to address offensive/outdated terminology found in our standards. The professional catalogers at the University of Central Oklahoma teamed up in summer 2021 to create such a statement, and this lightning talk will address why we created this statement, how we structured this statement, and our own steps for transforming words into actions.
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Early Adopter Primo v3 and Primo Central - UCO Library's Experience
(2010-08-31) Tabatabai, Habib
Describes why/How UCO Library opted to become an Early Adopter for Primo Discovery system v3 and Primo Central.
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Encouraging family involvement in math during the early years
(2019) Davis, Jill M.; Kelly, Loreen
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Ethnographic Research Methods in Library Assessment
(2013-05-17) Jones, Elizabeth; Webb, Lee
Ethnography – the study of cultural groups and their practices – and ethnographic research methods are becoming increasingly prevalent in library assessment. Library users and potential users on a particular campus make up a cultural group. Through a variety of observational and interactive methods, we may learn more about how and why they use libraries, collections and services, and the feelings, beliefs and needs that influence their use. Users may even participate in the design of services and spaces, and this process can build connections with library users that last beyond the assessment research process. This presentation will introduce various methods and examples for conducting ethnographies in libraries.
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Fear not early childhood teachers! You are already using algebraic strategies in your classroom
(2020) Beisly, Amber; Davis, Jill M.; Lake, Vickie; McCombs, Brandy
The article focuses on using algebraic strategies in classroom. Topic include Van de Walle, Lovin, Karp, and Bay-Williams (2014) have fined the vision of algebraic thinking for early childhood classrooms, which involves recognizing patterns and relationships and analyzing relationships, thinking about the use of symbols to generalize certain kinds of math operations.
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Finding the Right Words
(2022-07-14) Beezley, Shay; Palone, Kaitlyn
In Summer 2021, UCO Chambers Library's catalogers crafted an inclusive metadata statement. Our presentation will provide an overview of the process, recommendations for creating your own statement, and the challenges of important terminology being misappropriated as buzzwords (e.g. "decolonizing" the catalog)
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Forming the Oklahoma "Tornado" NACO Funnel
(2018-11-09) Earls, Anona; Palone, Kaitlyn; Shorten, Jay; Beezley, Shay
How do you know if the books by Robert Smith, Bob Smith, or Bobby Smith are the same author or not? Are you stuck in helping your patrons find a resource by the same John Doe? Catalogers are here to help you through the international Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO) steered by the Library of Congress by establishing authorized names to be used in library catalogs far and wide. In 2017, a small group of Oklahoma academic and public librarians came together to form the Oklahoma "Tornado" Funnel where catalogers trained with Jay Shorten of the University of Oklahoma Libraries to learn how to establish and disambiguate names, including names for people and entities in Oklahoma. Our poster will de-mystify the process of starting and joining a NACO funnel as well as showing how catalogers at the University of Central Oklahoma incorporated this new skill into their workflow to improve the quality of catalogs everywhere.
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Fostering resilience through executive function
(2021) Pearce, Nicole; Davis, Jill M.