*Review the Complete Agenda for this NISO Virtual Conference*
*Wednesday, August 15, 11am – 5pm (Eastern Daylight)*
*The Computer Campus: Integrating Information Systems and Services
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*Challenges to Successful Technology Alignment between Library and Campus
IT*
*Confirmed Speakers: Mark Beadles*, Chief Information Security Officer,
Ohio Technology Consortium and *Theda Schwing*, Manager, Catalogs &
Technical Implementation, OhioLink
OhioLINK is a consortium of 120 academic libraries from across a spectrum
of different sizes, missions, and structures. In this capacity, OhioLINK
has been helping our member libraries access licensed content and adjust to
technology migrations in a variety of scenarios for over 20 years. This
experience has shown that libraries of different sizes face different
challenges when undertaking technology integration projects. To better
understand the different circumstances at each of our institutions,
OhioLINK recently surveyed member libraries. The survey included questions
about libraries’ relationships with their campus IT department. OhioLINK
also interviewed several libraries of different sizes to find out from
their perspectives what kinds of staffing, financial, and technical
roadblocks they would expect to encounter on the way to successfully making
any change in their current technical environments. This presentation will
outline some of the main challenges and barriers identified in the survey
and interviews for small, medium, and large libraries when partnering with
campus IT organizations.
*Hybrid IT Alignment: for Campus, Cloud and Community*
*Confirmed Speaker: Robert H. McDonald*, Dean of Libraries, University of
Colorado
Research libraries have a long history of cooperating around common needs
for technology, resources, and software. However, this approach is not
always true between libraries and their central IT units on their campuses.
This presentation will discuss use of highly leveraged IT resources for
developing appropriate technology management scenarios that extend from the
single campus to the large university system. The talk with rethink the
leverage brought to bear by current cloud technologies as well as
identifying and utilizing community based resources that may become more
and more important to the library community over the long-term.
*Online College Students Report 2018*
*Confirmed Speakers:* *Andrew Magda*, Manager, Market Research, Learning
House and *Nate Ackerly*, Curriculum Program Strategist, Learning House
Each year, more students take college classes online, but that may soon
change. In fact, enrollment growth for online students will slow by 2019,
according to Eduventures. Meanwhile competition in online education is
heating up. To be successful, your institution must demonstrate that its
online programs can help students achieve their goals — and follow through
after they enroll. If not, you risk losing students to schools that offer
in-demand programs and services.
The Learning House, Inc. and Aslanian Market Research surveyed 1,500
current, future, and recently graduated online students to identify the
programs and services they want most. The results are presented in the
seventh-annual Online College Students report. Do you know how many
students use mobile devices to finish coursework? Or how often online
students use career services?
*A Collaborative Approach to Supporting Research and High Performance
Computing*
*Confirmed Speaker: Marcy Vana*, Senior Support Scientist, Becker Medical
Library, Washington University at St. Louis
Biomedical researchers increasingly need basic programming skills and
access to shared computing resources to conduct their research. In response
to this evolving research environment, Becker Medical Library and the
Center for High Performance Computing at Washington University in St. Louis
formed a partnership to support the use of biomedical data analysis
software designed for a cluster environment and to develop a series of
introductory research computing workshops aimed at researchers new to
programming and cluster computing. Demand for the introductory research
computing workshops, in particular, has been very high, suggesting that
there is a significant need for support in this area on campus. In order to
meet this need, we have extended this successful collaboration to include
the recently created Institute for Informatics, allowing us to begin to
cover additional topics and further support the research community on
campus.
*The Virtual Research Environment and Libraries*
*Confirmed Speaker: Twyla Gibson*, Assistant Professor, Library and
Information Science, University of Missouri and *Ann Campion Riley*, Vice
Provost for Libraries and University Librarian, University of Missouri
Computational tools and techniques and the availability of electronic
resources online make it possible to conduct humanities and social sciences
research on a level and scale that was inconceivable even a decade ago.
This presentation describes The Greek Key, a working prototype Virtual
Research Environment (VRE) for the analysis of ancient texts and
manuscripts. The VRE was initially developed through a partnership between
the University of Missouri and Carleton University, Canada. The plan is to
integrate it into the more comprehensive Digital Humanities Gateway, a VRE
project currently in development under the auspices of University of
Missouri’s Libraries and Cyberinfrastructure Council. The aim of the VRE is
to support research at all levels and scales and to bring people together
across institutions and international borders. How can academic librarians
contribute to new digital research in the humanities and social sciences?
The talk will share experiences concerning the challenges and prospects in
creating, integrating, and supporting leading edge technology environments.
*GIS Services at Michigan State University Libraries: Interactions with the
wider campus*
*Confirmed Speaker: Amanda Tickner*, GIS, Makerspace and Planning Liaison
Librarian, Michigan State University
GIS (Geographic Information System) services are a common offering at many
libraries. Prior to 2015, Michigan State University Library did not have a
GIS Librarian or accompanying services. Navigating the campus GIS service
ecosystem and larger library while developing services has been an
important part of creating GIS services at the library, and these
interactions will be discussed in the context of describing our services
and research assistance. Specific collaboration with central IT includes
coordinating to jointly manage the ESRI ArcOnline/Pro campus subscriptions.
I will also talk briefly about data discovery and purchasing challenges,
and the BTAA Geoportal, created to improve discoverability of GIS data.
*Web Privacy and Web Analytics*
*Confirmed Speaker: Scott Young*, User Experience & Assessment Librarian,
Montana State University
Privacy is a long-held value of libraries. Today’s networked
technologies—including social media, web analytics, and cloud
computing—present new challenges for achieving privacy. Google Analytics
offers an instructive use case. This leading third-party analytics tracker
is widely implemented on library websites, yet its privacy incursions are
not widely understood by librarians or library users. How can we realize
our values and achieve privacy in the age of analytics? This presentation
will provide an overview of the main issues associated with this question,
and discuss practical and strategic responses that libraries can implement
to enhance our analytics practices with a view towards privacy.
*The lock to the safe has been tampered with: Why FERPA & IRB aren’t enough
to protect student data in higher education*
*Confirmed Speaker: M. Brooke Robertshaw, *Assistant Professor & Assessment
Librarian, Oregon State University
This presentation will discuss why the Federal Education Rights Privacy Act
(FERPA), and Institutional Review Boards (IRB), are not effective safe
guards for protecting student data in this time of big data and learning
analytics, even in the library. It will then touch on how the methodologies
used in assessment and learning analytics are unintentionally, or
intentionally, misused. The presentation will end with a list of practical
actions that people can take in response to what they will learn from this
presentation.
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