DPLAfest 2019

DPLAfest will kick off with an opening plenary featuring welcoming remarks by John Bracken and Brian Bannon, followed by a conversation between danah boyd, founder and president of Data & Society and Elaine Westbrooks, Vice Provost of University Libraries and University Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, moderated by Tracie D. Hall, Director of the Joyce Foundation's Culture Program.

Westbrooks will share how she is working to build community and culture while the campus, and indeed our nation, suffers from serious factionalization on many levels. boyd, one of the leading scholars in technology and social media, will explore her latest insights. Together, they will discuss the roles each of us can play in using digital platforms to build community.

Global Access To Accessible Reading Materials: Millions of books for millions of readers
There has been a shift in the way people access information: e-books and the widespread use of graphics to convey information have created a “new normal” for how many people read and learn. While these resources are readily available, too many of them are not accessible to people who have a disability that prevents their use of printed material.  As a result, people with disabilities such as vision impairments, physical limitations and severe learning disabilities often face barriers to information.  Bookshare, the world’s largest collection of accessible books, aims to reach all persons with print disabilities to provide opportunity to read and learn in the way that works for them.
Presenter: Lisa Wadors, Benetech

Getting Unstuck
While it can be daunting, there are strategic ways to rethink ebook access. In Georgia, two new services from the state library agency aim to expand content and options for the future.
Presenter: Wendy Cornelisen, Georgia Public Library Service and COSLA Ebook Working Group

Using Metrics to Understand Patron Behavior  
Librarians have relied on key performance indicators like circulation, holds, and foot and web traffic to understand how well they meet the needs of their users. However, do these data paint a complete picture? Using data gleaned from browsing information, collection promotion efforts, and user personas, this talk will consider how additional data sources can produce a more nuanced portrait of a user population.
Presenter: Sam Stover, Product Manager for NoveList

Library for All: Global impact potential
Globally there are over a billion people that cannot read. Openly-licensed digital books like those created by Library For All and available through their free app and on the DPLA Open Bookshelf can be part of the solution.
Presenter: Micah May

Engaging Students: Technologies for Publishing Ebooks and Prints Books
Learn about a writing and publishing partnership between an academic library and Leadership Education graduate program. The WSU Library and Leadership Education faculty created a graduate student project which results in the publishing of graduate student writing in the form of an ebook and print book. The session will provide an overview of technologies used to publish ebooks and print books. Technologies include Pressbooks (via the Minnesota Library Publishing Project), Canva, Ingramspark, LuLu, Adobe Creative Cloud, and bepress Digital Commons.
Presenter: Kendall Larson, Winona State University

Library Simplified and SimplyE: How LYRASIS is working to help libraries change the state of play for e-content
Lisa Larson from LYRASIS will talk about Library Simplified and SimplyE from the point of view of a non-profit technology organization with a service mission to help libraries achieve different impacts within their own communities and change the marketplace through scaled open or community supported services. Together with DPLA and other non-profit stakeholder organizations, LYRASIS seeks to help libraries change the current state of play for ebook and audio book delivery to patrons and researchers through technology and scale. Eliminate the library/patron disintermediation, improve circulation and provide better measurable community impacts all by taking charge of your patron ebook and audiobook experience.
Presenter: Lisa Larson, LYRASIS

The Road Everything Rides On: Public Libraries & Highspeed Broadband
This lightning talk will discuss broadband access in public libraries as the minimum that libraries need to provide the public for access to digital services including e-content.
Presenter: Paula MacKinnon, Califa

Canadian Urban Library Council (CULC) Advocacy Campaigns
Susan Caron will present on the Canadian Urban Library Council’s (CULC) recent advocacy campaign aimed at getting the public to contact the Big Five publishers about lack of access to eaudiobooks and unfair pricing of ebooks and eaudiobooks, and CULC’s upcoming campaign on the same topic aimed at legislators.
Presenter: Susan Caron

Local history collections in public libraries have long served as vital resources for documenting community memory, but how are they adapting to the ascendance of the web as the primary platform for publication and communication? In this session you will hear from participants in, and founders of, the "Community Webs" program, a national-scale effort to build a network of public librarians with the training and tools to build born-digital local history collections preserving the lives of their communities as expressed on the web and in social media.

Virtual reality is a growing technology advancement, and what better place to explore VR than at the library! Learn tips, strategies, and resources to help jumpstart your libraries virtual reality offerings. We'll explore ways to build interest, promote circulation and expand programming for all ages

This session will share the Caselaw Access Project and Caselaw Access Project API from the Harvard Library Innovation Lab. Launched in Fall 2018, the Caselaw Access Project API represents access to 40 million pages of U.S case law and underlying metadata, digitized from the collection of the Harvard Law School Library. This session will explore the background of the Caselaw Access Project, introduce the Caselaw Access Project API, and review how researchers are using the dataset to create new kinds of legal scholarship.

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Working with non-traditional partners on digitization initiatives can be full of challenges. As academic libraries, we often see our roles as facilitators and advisers, providing expertise where needed to help achieve the community’s digitization goals.

Yet, how do we ensure collaborative efforts are beneficial for all parties? How do we ensure everyone has a seat at the table while balancing the technical workflows required in creating digital collections?

This presentation will look at how two institutions, Florida State University and Florida International University, accomplished successful digital collections initiatives with non-traditional and historically marginalized communities, where mindful collaboration is essential.

Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC), a two-year, IMLS grant-funded program managed by WiLS and Recollection Wisconsin, a DPLA Service Hub for Wisconsin cultural heritage organizations. Launched in December 2017, CCDC aims to 1) provide digital stewardship practicum experience for information school graduate students; 2) to help small or under-resourced institutions in Wisconsin develop and sustain a digital preservation program; and 3) to build community around digital preservation work within Wisconsin and beyond.

Interested in using standardized statements from RightsStatements.org, but don’t know where to begin? Looking for answers to digital collections copyright questions? Using statements that don’t quite fit your needs? The DPLA Rights Statements Working Group (RSWG) will overview their current projects--a rights resources portal site and an integrated rights curriculum. We’ll present tools and methods for successful statement implementation, and involve the audience in a lively discussion covering copyright, statement implementation, and what the RSWG can do for the community. Additionally, international RightsStatements.org group representatives will give updates on recent efforts, focus areas, and new members. This session will also be informed by data driven research from both a survey and in person interviews to articulate a roadmap for digital collection managers to navigate copyright challenges stemming from the adoption of standardized rights statements and licenses.

Come one, come all! Hear about the 2018 ALA National Ebook Summit where publishers, distributors, libraries, library consortia, and other industry experts created a National Agenda for the delivery of ebooks and eaudio by libraries. The panel will discuss the current initiatives and future projects that will test new models using data to demonstrate the power of libraries in connecting readers to new titles and expand the relationships between these industries. Join us for a roundtable discussion of the how and why cross industry data sharing and collaboration demonstrates how libraries can turn our 99 ebook problems into opportunities.

A roundtable discussion, chaired by representatives from ReadersFirst (readersfirst.org).

This session is intended to help orient libraries that are new to Library Simplified in how they can start acquiring content from the DPLA Exchange and serving it in SimplyE and highlight the key benefits they can realize by taking back control of their e-shelves.

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This session will cover the basics of IIIF technology and the current state of development on the specifications, as well as a number of use cases ranging from fun audience engagement tools to bleeding edge uses of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Currently, there are four IIIF specifications for flexible image delivery, presentation, authentication, and search-within functionality. Meanwhile, real world examples will include projects covering museum-like guided image annotation tours and image similarity/pattern recognition efforts as well as crowd-sourcing examples.

Over the past 18 months, Liz and her team have been leading a project funded by Arts Council England and the Carnegie UK Trust to investigate user expectations and demand for a national online platform for public libraries, drawing on international benchmarks such as DPLA, Finna and Trove. In this session, Liz will outline the British Library's key findings and recommendations and how the UK libraries sector has responded.

The digital tools you use to create and curate projects sit side-by-side with digital resources you need to build awareness, find affinities, and create sustainability of your projects. Take a lesson from cause-marketing campaigns and join John Chrastka from EveryLibrary for a survey of cutting-edge digital marketing and fundraising resources to create communities around your projects. Learn how to reposition your projects to access key audiences. Gain the support you want and find the funding you need. 

Interactive Digital Exhibits: A Gateway to Community Engagement   
#beinthecircle is an interactive exhibit for a community read initiative One Book, One Village 2017 at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library. Inspired by Dave Eggers’ The Circle, the exhibit invited library customers to reflect on how social media had influenced them, individually and collectively, as well as challenge them to imagine a utopian society of their own. My talk will highlight the exhibit conceptualization and content development. Using the exhibit as an example, I will address how special exhibits with the use of digital technology in public library can serve as community engagement and alternative impact assessment.
Presenter: Carol Ng-He, Exhibits Coordinator, Arlington Heights Memorial Library

Let’s get Visual: A New Tool for Assigning RightsStatements.org Statements   
Introducing a new visual tool for selecting standardized rights statements from RightsStatements.org and Creative Commons: bit.ly/RightsTool. Created through PA Digital’s rights group, the Rights Tool lets you determine an item’s copyright status, then navigate to the correct statement without undertaking supplemental research or reading, easing implementation and simplifying workflows for hubs and repository managers. Galson will connect the Tool to the work currently being undertaken by the DPLA’s national rights statements working group, as well as to other efforts to encourage the adoption of the RightsStatements.org standard worldwide.
Presenter: Gabe Galson, Technology Projects Librarian, Temple University. Member, DPLA Rights Statements Working Group, and PA Digital Rights group
 
Integration of primary source sets into K-12 curriculum   
This presentation will talk about the integration of MWDL’s primary source sets into classroom curriculum. Primary sources provide rich stories and historical experiences and are widely available today through digitization efforts and hosting on digital library platforms. MWDL is working on creating an education toolkit using primary source sets available in its portal, for integration into K-12 classroom curriculum and also as a supplemental resource for K-12 educators. These resources will support the use of culturally relevant primary sources that are engaging for students as supplemental resources to the traditional curriculum.
Presenter: Kinza Masood, Director, Mountain West Digital Library

Creating Community through Digital Futures: Sustainability beyond the 1's and 0's   
The concept of sustaining digital projects is often seen as machine-dependent, focused on continual innovation to ensure content integrity via migration, web platforms or emulation. How can we work to extend this passion for continual innovation to building relationships that sustain and support our projects? This talk will share concrete examples and successful models for creating community around digital projects within and outside your organization.
Presenter: Molly Szymanski - NDSR Digital Preservation Fellow - The Art Institute of Chicago

Partners in History Revisited: DPLA and Beyond   
Partners in History Revisited: DPLA and Beyond is a follow up to the 2017 DPLA presentation Partners in History: Chicago State University Archive and International Society of Sons & Daughters of Slave Ancestry Digital Collaboration. The lightning talk will include a debut of the collection on DPLA and share how CSU and ISDSA has “activated” the archive through outreach, "Wall of Remembrance", and public outreach programs.
Presenter: Raquel Flores-Clemons, University Archivist and Director of Archives, Records Management, and Special Collections, Chicago State University

Cultural Heritage in the Round: Considerations for pointing to 3D content from DPLA    
Increasingly, museums and universities are integrating virtual reality, augmented reality, and 3D modeling applications into their online platforms. This Lightning Talk will address some factors to consider as we embark on pointing to contributing partners' 3D content from DPLA.
Presenter: Tara Carlisle, University of Oklahoma

Search Strategy Strategies: Metadata Aggregation and Umbra Search African American History  The challenges of umbrasearch.org search strategy go to the heart of challenges confronting archives and libraries regarding description, metadata standards, diverse collections, histories of non-diverse staff, archival protocols such as “More Product Less Process,” and more.  This presentation provides a short overview of how we confront issues of race, description, and diverse collections as one of the largest consumers of DPLA's massive metadata corpus.    
Presenter: Cecily Marcus and Mary Lodu, University of Minnesota Libraries

From 2-D Print to a Multi-Faceted Portal: Exploring the 25-year evolution of the LA as Subject Directory   
This session examines the 20-year evolution of the LA as Subject (LAAS) directory as it moved from a print to an online format. The online version, allowed it to be edited and expanded by LAAS members in egalitarian fashion—giving each entity represented the power to update their own entry. Now in its 20th year, LAAS aims to move beyond the functionality of a directory to an interactive portal that will provide a dynamic online presence for community archives and a centralized platform for researchers that considers visual media; taxonomy creation; front-end and back-end user functionality; and face-to-face community engagement.
Presenters: Liza Posas, LA as Subject Coordinator, USC Libraries and Stella Castillo, LA as Subject Community Archives Specialist

​New Horizons: Integrating the Last 20 into digital projects   
The session will outline one approach to assessing titles that fall within a portion of U.S. copyright law (Section 108(h)) to include published works from 1924-1941 into digital initiatives. This talk will include current work that involves library personnel from digital projects, copyright, cataloging, collection development and systems to identify and select titles that qualify in the copyright exception, focusing on defining "forgotten" and "neglected" works. The talk will provide tips for librarians to start a Last 20 project with some initial steps for collections of any size.
Presenter: Virginia Dressler, Digital Projects Librarian, Kent State University

DPLA Exchange pilot partners share their experiences using the DPLA Exchange during its pilot phase and discuss next steps for their institutions' implementation and possibilities for broader adoption as DPLA turns from pilot to production phase. Also, hear from NYPL's SimplyE team on the current and future plans for SimplyE, an app for econtent delivery.

The DC Public Library supports local creatives through an artist residency focusing on innovation in maker tech and the arts. Join current Maker in Resident Tsedaye Makonnen and Fab Lab Librarian Esti Brennan for a discussion on the future of art in making and why libraries are vital community maker hubs. Tsedaye will talk about how beneficial the library residency has been for her art career and share what she is working on for current and upcoming exhibitions and performances in 2019.

Pamela Wright will discuss History Hub, which is a crowdsourcing platform sponsored by the National Archives. Experts from the National Archives as well as other experts, history enthusiasts, and citizen archivists are available via the platform to help the public with their research. History Hub offers tools like discussion boards, blogs, and community pages to bring together experts and researchers interested in American history. Think of it as a one-stop shop for crowdsourcing information related to research. Lately, NARA has been working with Library of Congress and others to collaboratively provide reference to our holdings. Is this a tool that DPLA might use? Let's discuss the possibilities.

Building a digital preservation program involves assessing current activities and training appropriate staff. This session reports on the NEH-funded Digital Assessment Training program (https://tinyurl.com/nehdat2018), a collaborative project that approaches digital preservation assessment and training through case-study assessments, shadowing opportunities, and workshops. Attendees will gain an understanding of the challenges of digital preservation and the ways that assessment can make those challenges more manageable, and will be introduced to newly-released, free resources for assessing digital preservation of digital collections.

This interactive workshop will give participants a grounding in international and foreign copyright issues that are relevant for DPLA contributors. We'll talk about assessing the U.S. public domain status of foreign works, how U.S. and foreign law apply to collaborative digitization projects with participants inside and outside the U.S., and when online projects by U.S.-based institutions subject those institutions to jurisdiction outside the U.S. (spoiler alert: they mostly don't). Then, participants will collaborate on practice questions involving these concepts. This workshop is designed for people who work with digital collections and have some previous experience with copyright law.

How does onboarding new collections work at various DPLA service and content hubs? Members of the DPLA Metadata Working Group will present on metadata quality & assessment with a focus on comparing and contrasting methodologies, tools, and best practices. Structured as a moderated panel with ample time for audience Q&A, the panelists will share details on their local auditing and ingest process as well as discuss advantages and drawbacks to their particular workflow. Panelists will also discuss the metadata tools repository being developed by the DPLA Metadata Working Group and how it can support hubs to aggregate quality metadata.

Representatives from a range of publishers will discuss libraries, licensing, and more.

Book scanning projects have made tremendous strides in bringing public domain literature online for the world's scholars and enthusiasts, but materials published after 1923 are still not widely available due to US copyright restrictions. The Internet Archive has developed a controlled digital lending service that enables libraries to digitize and lend a digital version of a non-circulating physical volume stored on their shelves. Through controlled digital lending, libraries can make available the 20th-century scholarship that is largely absent from their digital holdings in a way that respects the rights of authors and publishers.

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This session will describe the genesis of a novel joint publication effort by the MIT Press and the MIT Libraries. The Ideas series is a hybrid print and open access book series for general readers that provides fresh, strongly argued, and provocative views of the effects of digital technology on culture, business, government, education, and our lives. Books in the series are published in print and openly accessible on the PubPub platform. http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/strong-ideas

This session will explore the Story Map, “How Did Arizona Get its Shape?” which uses maps from the State of Arizona Research Library Special Maps Collection to tell a historical narrative of Arizona’s shifting geopolitical borders from 1679 to 1912. Maps are a unique resource that can be hard to “read,” but every map contains a story about that place. A sequence of maps, therefore, can tell a more comprehensive story about how a particular landscape changed over time. Story Maps connect the reader to a simple interface where they can learn the histories contained in the maps.

The University of Denver (DU) Libraries have a strong history in digitization. Several iterations of various repositories and organizational structures through the last decade have informed a concerted effort to build a sustainable approach to digital collections work, and our resulting, nascent efforts to join the Plains-To-Peaks Collective in DPLA. For an institution that is perhaps too large to settle for easy solutions, but not always large enough to maintain development efforts at scale, sustainability is crucial. This presentation gives a brief history of digital efforts at DU and offers a case-study in “just right” sustainability: from an administrator’s perspective.

In 2018, the User Assessment Committee of the Chicago Collections Consortium (CCC) conducted a workflow analysis with member institutions in order to develop requirements for enhancements to Metadata Hopper, the system used to contribute content to the EXPLORE Chicago Collections portal. This presentation will explore how the workflow analysis provided opportunities to explore the technology, training, and support needs of a range of libraries, archives, and cultural heritage institutions while also serving as an avenue for engaging the CCC member community.

Digital Storytelling Beyond Ebooks
Digital text is just the beginning—audio, video, virtual and augmented reality, and other technologies are transforming the ways people are making, consuming, and sharing stories and knowledge. Hear from experts working at the forefront of these new approaches of play, publishing, and collaboration. 

Reception sponsored by Digital Library of Georgia

DPLA Board member Mary Minow will moderate a panel discussion with industry thought leaders about possibilties for moving toward a brighter future for libraries' ability to purchase ebooks and other e-content for lending.

Explore new and emerging initiatives in academic ebook delivery from University of Michigan Press, including their Fulcrum platform, and LYRASIS' work to expand SimplyE to academic titles.

You've probably heard of machine learning, but how does it work, and what does that mean for libraries? In this talk I'll make you laugh - and then think - as we walk through real-world examples. You'll get a high-level overview of how neural nets work and you'll get to explore Hamlet, a prototype library discovery interface based in neural nets. You'll also see why machine learning might NOT be the right tool for your job, due to its limitations, biases, and social risks.

Thanks to the open-source Zooniverse Project Builder, anyone can mount a crowdsourcing project in minutes, collecting transcriptions for handwritten items ranging from business forms to specimen cards to recipe books. Designed as a fully-hosted, plug-and-play solution, the Project Builder reduces technical overhead for crowdsourcing initiatives -- letting project staff shift focus to the crucial work of building participant communities. In this session, practitioners in academia, libraries, and museums will discuss best practices and lessons learned in partnering with the public to unlock digitized primary sources.

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Library collections are more than static aggregations of materials - they are living documents of how communities learn, grow, and build value. Digital collections can narrow the lead time between an object's creation and distribution, and increase access to local creative work. How can libraries leverage these strengths to benefit local creators?

This panel examines several libraries’ use of the MUSICat platform to amplify the work of local musicians, channeling the DIY spirit to connect creative communities with passionate library users. We will explore the logistics of creating a collection, including workflows, licensing, marketing, launch, and developing a model for sustainability.

Join us for a roundtable discussion focusing on evaluating the usage of our collections and the impact of our activities. We will discuss both qualitative and quantitative methods, tools and frameworks, success and failures. Participants will come away with a better understanding of the shared needs, challenges, and solutions within our community.

We describe using community of inquiry (CoI) as a framework to problematize dominant narratives by asking, “Whose stories are absented? Who benefits from those silences?” We discuss how our Community Knowledge Librarian is exploring the answers via three initiatives: (1) Personal digital archiving services to assess digital inclusion literacies (Urban Libraries Council, The Edge); (2) “Discovering” a significant collection of a civil rights leader and first African American elected to office in Evansville, IN; and (3) “History as it Happens”, a rapid-response collection of civic action, featuring a President Trump rally (2018) and protests of “Drag Queen Story Hour” (2018-2019).

Among librarians, DRM is a topic often addressed with grit teeth. Global ebook distributor De Marque and public library consortium BIBLIOPRESTO ran into innovation problems with their PRETNUMERIQUE.CA e-lending service related to proprietary DRM. However, by changing their approach to digital rights management, developments were fast-tracked and new opportunities became possible, including a government-backed project to bring digital libraries to public schools. It is a massive undertaking that would not be possible for a public library consortium without flexible and low-cost digital rights management and a close partnership with a technology provider. We’ve learned to love DRM.

What is the indie tidal wave? It’s about librarians promoting the value of self-published content to readers hungry for more than what is available through the traditional and highly filtered Amazon and big five publisher pipeline. It’s about Minnesota libraries reaching out to its writing community to create an innovative self-publishing program and fund a statewide geo-located version of Pressbooks. It’s about self-published authors finally getting the attention they deserve, including literary awards and publishing contracts. It’s about how libraries can actively curate and acquire self-published work and work with indie authors. Speakers will provide stories as well as facts, figures and predictions to help you surf the tidal wave.

Visualizing Funding for Libraries   
Interested in who's funding libraries? Visualizing Funding for Libraries, provided by Foundation Center, shows you funders, grant amounts, and the topics being funded. Search by geographic location, population served, or year given. If you are interested in creating lists of potential funders for your library, filling in gaps in your knowledge of grant seeking, or in simply exploring the library grant landscape then this free tool is for you.
Presenter: Sarah Rice, Librarian, Forefront

Metadata Cleanup in the Pacific Northwest   
In 2016-2018, the Washington State Library piloted two rounds of grant funding for libraries seeking to bring digital collection metadata in line with regional and DPLA standards. We partnered with the Orbis Cascade Alliance to provide initial consultation, metadata analysis, and targeted trainings. Approximately 20,000 records were remediated over the course of two LSTA grant cycles.
Presenter: Evan Robb, Digital Repository Librarian, Washington State Library

Bridge2Hyku: Progress on a Migration Toolkit    
The Bridge2Hyku Project, an IMLS National Leadership/Project Grant (LG-70-17-0217-17), is nearing the end of its second phase and has produced a multifaceted migration toolkit. We will provide information about our toolkit, including software (CDM Bridge, HyBridge) and our migration guide, and how it will help those considering moves from legacy systems to open source platforms compatible with the DPLA.
Presenter: Todd Crocken, Content Strategist, University of Houston Libraries

LINEAGE: An artificially intelligent visual discovery engine     "
Visual archives are often incredibly well-annotated resources, but unless you know precisely what it is you are after they can be difficult to search and utilize. This talk will present LINEAGE, an artificially intelligent search engine that enables exploration of digitized visual archives in a human-like manner. LINEAGE bridges the gap between institutions and the curious public by creating a visual way to explore collections without presuming prior knowledge. It mimics the way humans look at objects, encouraging serendipitous connections across time periods, location of origin, creator and medium, allowing users to quickly and independently gain perspective.
Presenter: Noya Kohavi, Research Scholar, Brown Institute for Media Innovation, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Aggregating with Eliza and Barb: creating user personas for software development at PA Digital   
In 2018, PA Digital, Pennsylvania’s service hub, received funding to completely redo their Blacklight/Fedora/Solr aggregation system. In this lightning talk, I will discuss how we developed personas that represented various stakeholders, both internal and external, to get the planning process started. With a little help from “Eliza” (the metadataist), “Danni” (the lone arranger at a small, contributing institution), and “Jo” (the developer), we wrote user stories that helped us think strategically about functional requirements and articulate our needs to the development team without getting lost in the weeds. It also added welcome levity to our regular stand-up meetings.
Presenter: Leanne Finnigan, Database Management Librarian, Temple University (PA Digital)

Introducing Pyrepox: A Repox Client for Python   
Pyrepox is a lightweight Repox client written in Python that utilizes the Repox REST API. It is designed to make reading, writing, updating, and deleting data in a Repox instance as easy as possible with Python. Want to harvest a set programmatically? There is a method for that. Want to schedule a future harvest? There is a method for that too. In this lightning talk, I’ll introduce the package and talk about some of the ways we use it for work in the Digital Library of Tennessee.
Presenter: Mark Baggett, Head, Digital Initiatives, University of Tennessee

Process Assessment as a Cultural Shift   
After ten years libraries are recovering from the devastating cuts resulting from the recession. This session is a look back to see forward and plan for continued and future success. Virginia Beach Public Library, Support Services, seized the opportunity to create a new culture and philosophy through collaborative process improvement. The careful examination of long standing practice resulted in some astonishing discoveries, including; redundancy, overlap, bottlenecked workflow, backlogs, ill-defined job descriptions, inefficient budgeting, and collections based on presumption rather than demand and data. VBPL turned it around through thoughtful examination, collaboration, and a cultural shift in practice and process.
Presenter: Clara Hudson, Support Services Administrator, Virginia Beach Public Library

The Illinois Digital Heritage Hub Type Metadata Project: Increasing User Access and Record Visibility   
The Illinois Digital Heritage Hub (IDHH) helps contributors shape their metadata to the standards recommended and required by the DPLA. Type metadata, an important field for search, discovery, and user-interactivity within the DPLA had room for improvement. This lightning talk will present a not-overly-technical overview of the process for gathering and analyzing contributor’s type metadata, issues identified in the analysis of the metadata, and ways that contributors, the IDHH, and the DPLA work together to improved metadata quality.
Presenter: Joshua Lynch, Visiting Metadata Services Specialist, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Project Outcome (www.projectoutcome.org) is a free online toolkit designed to help libraries understand and communicate the impact of their programs and services. It now includes toolkits for both public and academic libraries. It provides simple surveys for measuring and analyzing learning outcomes in four areas – knowledge, confidence, application, and awareness. Project Outcome provides both public and academic libraries the means to gather evidence of the learning outcomes of their programs and services and to use that data as the basis for improvements and advocacy.

This presentation explores how small archives can develop sustainable preservation plans for endangered AV material by partnering with other institutions. Panelists will present a case study in which a small, community-run archives (The Archives of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club) partnered with a digitization vendor (Bay Area Video Coalition) and a university-based archives (The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research) to digitize, preserve, and expand access to a collection of unique, half-inch open reel videos documenting 1970s-era experimental theater and performance. Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the project uses a post-custodial model to support effective, affordable digital preservation, discoverability, and access.

How can we harness the power of media to challenge conventional narratives about history, community, and public policy? This panel showcases a collaboration between archivists, media makers, students, and educators to draw out untold stories from historical footage. Our case study specifically examines the remixing of interviews of Civil Rights organizers, anti-Vietnam War activists, and scholars who were filmed for the documentary Howard Zinn: You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004). Participants will walk away with a model for building collaborations to remix and reuse archival documentary materials to tell new stories.

The Closing Plenary will feature Louise Bernard, founding Director of the Obama Presidential Center, and Eric Klinenberg, Professor of Sociology at New York University and author of Palaces for the People. They will be introduced by Brian Bannon, Commission and CEO, Chicago Public Library.

Louise Bernard will share the latest on the planning for the Obama Presidential Center, including a preview of the first major collaboration between a public library and a presidential center. Eric Klinenberg will explore how libraries serve as “a textbook example of social infrastructure in action,” a shared space which invites and supports the full continuum of people, sometimes considered a radical notion. Together, they will explore possibilities for reimagining libraries for the mid-21st century.

Robert Miller, Chief Executive Officer of LYRASIS, will deliver closing remarks, synthesizing content from this session and the full fest.

Join members of DPLA's Board of Directors over lunch for an open meeting and Q&A.

A meeting to discuss next steps for community engagement for SimplyE

Why should we upgrade the web to be decentralized? Isn't it decentralized already? What is content addressing? How do you update data on the content addressed web? How do you delete things? What's the relationship to git? Why do people keep talking about blockchains? Is any of this relevant for my work? This workshop aims to answer these questions and more by giving an orientation to the concepts and technologies of the Decentralized Web.

Over the last three years California, Washington and Nevada launched statewide initiatives to integrate Xtended Reality (XR) systems and programming into libraries. John MacLeod, Director, XRLibraries will share the best practices developed in each of their states as libraries installed XR systems. Participants will learn the process of how libraries can introduce AR and VR to patrons through demonstrations, programs and community events. Integrating XR  into teen, adult, senior and special needs library programming will be featured, along with  how to setup an XR digital collection. with examples of staff and patrons immersive stories produced using 360 cameras.  A look to the future of new devices, and applications will be discussed with examples of wireless VR and AR headsets, and how to have an adaptable system in place for an emerging field where standards are just beginning to emerge. The session will solicit input from those attending to share their experiences as libraries explore this new frontier.

After JSTOR and Artstor formed a strategic alliance in 2016, the product teams started working on what bringing together journals, books, and cultural heritage content could mean for researchers and instructors. This presentation will cover the various research methods used to explore research and teaching workflows using multiple content types, including surveys, interviews, heatmaps and prototyping. We will also share our findings that will inform the next stage of our bringing these resources together.

St. John's University colleagues established community partnerships with Queens Libraries’ Queens Memory Project, National Archives at NYC, and NYCDOE to obtain a National Archives-NHPRC grant to develop curriculum that connects family and neighborhood history with broader NYC immigration movements and push/pull factors in world history. Project PIs highlighted DPLA exhibitions and Primary Resource Sets for contextualizing immigration narratives and World History movements; professional development sessions also focused on rights statements, metadata, citation features, and the DPLA infrastructure as springboards for discussions about technology literacy, licensing and creative commons, and for gaining a better understanding of how digital archives work.

Join the Minnesota Digital Library’s Metadata Librarian for an overview of one of her recently completed projects, an overview of a digital collection usage and gap analysis. Few studies have been completed and/or shared in this area of digital collection assessment. Greta Bahnemann will provide an in-depth explanation of her collection and usage analysis work for the Minnesota Digital Library’s collection Minnesota Reflections. Beginning with a review of her written report, Greta’s presentation will also include a discussion of her methodology, including the use of Google Analytics, and a summary of the initial set of recommendations for future growth.

Developers and implementors from the Library Simplified community will discuss their experiences and technical concerns with the project.

Map how decentralized approaches apply to our community’s real-world problems. This is a facilitated working session -- there will be post-its for you to play with!