The link to Marielle Veve's article, "Using the Harvesting Method to Submit
ETDs into ProQuest: A Case Study of a Lesser-Known Approach," in my
original email pointed to a different article in the same issue. The
correct link is https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ital/article/view/12197
(updated below).

Ken



On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 11:51 AM Ken Varnum <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The September 2020 issue
> <https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ital/issue/view/1119> of Information
> Technology and Libraries (ITAL) was published on September 21. LITA
> President Evviva Weinraub Lajoie writes about the change from LITA to Core
> in her LITA President’s Message, In the Middle of Difficulty Lies
> Opportunity <https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ital/article/view/12687>.
> Our September “Editorial Board Thoughts” column, What More Can We Do to
> Address  Broadband Inequity and Digital Poverty?
> <https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ital/article/view/12319>, by
> editorial board member Lori Ayre, reflects on ways that libraries of all
> kinds can help improve network connectivity for our communities.
>
> We have two columns in our “Public Libraries Leading the Way” section:
> Mary Howard of the St. Clair (Michigan) Public Library writes about Harnessing
> the Power of OrCam
> <https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ital/article/view/12637> to provide
> assistive technology for reading. Laura Denton of the Denton (Texas) Public
> Library and Ana Krahmer (University of North Texas Libraries) write about a
> public-academic partnership to seek grant funding and digitize the city
> newspaper’s backfile in A Collaborative Approach to Newspaper Preservation
> <https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ital/article/view/12593>.
> Peer-reviewed Content
>
> Applying Gamification to the Library Orientation: A Study of Interactive
> User Experience and Engagement Preferences
> <https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ital/article/view/12209>
>
> Karen Nourse Reed and A. Miller
>
> By providing an overview of library services as well as the building
> layout, the library orientation can help newcomers make optimal use of the
> library. The benefits of this outreach can be curtailed, however, by the
> significant staffing required to offer in-person tours. One academic
> library overcame this issue by turning to user experience research and
> gamification to provide an individualized online library orientation for
> four specific user groups: undergraduate students, graduate students,
> faculty, and community members. The library surveyed 167 users to
> investigate preferences regarding orientation format, as well as likelihood
> of future library use as a result of the gamified orientation format.
> Results demonstrated a preference for the gamified experience among
> undergraduate students as compared to other surveyed groups.
>
>
> Evaluating the Impact of the Long-S upon 18th-Century Encyclopedia
> Britannica Automatic Subject Metadata Generation Results
> <https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ital/article/view/12235> (this paper
> was the winner 2020 LITA/Ex Libris Student Writing Award)
>
> Sam Grabus
>
> This research compares automatic subject metadata generation when the
> pre-1800s Long-S character is corrected to a standard < s >. The test
> environment includes entries from the third edition of the Encyclopedia
> Britannica, and the HIVE automatic subject indexing tool. A comparative
> study of metadata generated before and after correction of the Long-S
> demonstrated an average of 26.51 percent potentially relevant terms per
> entry omitted from results if the Long-S is not corrected. Results confirm
> that correcting the Long-S increases the availability of terms that can be
> used for creating quality metadata records. A relationship is also
> demonstrated between shorter entries and an increase in omitted terms when
> the Long-S is not corrected.
>
>
> Making Disciplinary Research Audible: The Academic Library as Podcaster
> <https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ital/article/view/12191>
>
> Drew Smith, Meghan L. Cook, and Matt Torrence
>
> Academic libraries have long consulted with faculty and graduate students
> on ways to measure the impact of their published research, which now
> include altmetrics. Podcasting is becoming a more viable method of
> publicizing academic research to a broad audience. Because individual
> academic departments may lack the ability to produce podcasts, the library
> can serve as the most appropriate academic unit to undertake podcast
> production on behalf of researchers. The article identifies what library
> staff and equipment are required, describes the process needed to produce
> and market the published episodes, and offers preliminary assessments of
> the podcast impact.
>
> Likes, Comments, Views: A Content Analysis of Academic Library Instagram
> Posts <https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ital/article/view/12211>
>
> Jylisa Doney, Olivia Wikle, and Jessica Martinez
>
> This article presents a content analysis of academic library Instagram
> accounts at eleven land-grant universities. Previous research has examined
> personal, corporate, and university use of Instagram, but fewer studies
> have used this methodology to examine how academic libraries share content
> on this platform and the engagement generated by different categories of
> posts. Findings indicate that showcasing posts (highlighting library or
> campus resources) accounted for more than 50 percent of posts shared, while
> a much smaller percentage of posts reflected humanizing content
> (emphasizing warmth or humor) or crowdsourcing content (encouraging user
> feedback). Crowdsourcing posts generated the most likes on average,
> followed closely by orienting posts (situating the library within the
> campus community), while a larger proportion of crowdsourcing posts,
> compared to other post categories, included comments. The results of this
> study indicate that libraries should seek to create Instagram posts that
> include various types of content while also ensuring that the content
> shared reflects their unique campus contexts. By sharing a framework for
> analyzing library Instagram content, this article will provide libraries
> with the tools they need to more effectively identify the types of content
> their users respond to and enjoy as well as make their social media
> marketing on Instagram more impactful.
>
> Analytics and Privacy: Using Matomo in EBSCO’s Discovery Service
> <https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ital/article/view/12219>
>
> Denise FitzGerald Quintel and Robert Wilson
>
> When selecting a web analytics tool, academic libraries have traditionally
> turned to Google Analytics for data collection to gain insights into the
> usage of their web properties. As the valuable field of data analytics
> continues to grow, concerns about user privacy rise as well, especially
> when discussing a technology giant like Google. In this article, the
> authors explore the feasibility of using Matomo, a free and open-source
> software application, for web analytics in their library’s discovery layer.
> Matomo is a web analytics platform designed around user-privacy assurances.
> This article details the installation process, makes comparisons between
> Matomo and Google Analytics, and describes how an open-source analytics
> platform works within a library-specific application, EBSCO’s Discovery
> Service.
>
> Integrated Technologies of Blockchain and Biometrics Based on Wireless
> Sensor Network for Library Management
> <https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ital/article/view/11883>
>
> Meng-Hsuan Fu
>
> The Internet of Things (IoT) is built on a strong internet infrastructure
> and many wireless sensor devices. Presently, Radio Frequency Identification
> embedded (RFID-embedded) smart cards are ubiquitous, used for many things
> including student ID cards, transportation cards, bank cards, prepaid
> cards, and citizenship cards. One example of places that require smart
> cards is libraries. Each library, such as a university library, city
> library, local library, or community library, has its own card and the user
> must bring the appropriate card to enter a library and borrow material.
> However, it is inconvenient to bring various cards to access different
> libraries. Wireless infrastructure has been well developed and IoT devices
> are connected through this infrastructure. Moreover, the development of
> biometric identification technologies has continued to advance. Blockchain
> methodologies have been successfully adopted in various fields. This paper
> proposes the BlockMetrics library based on integrated technologies using
> blockchain and finger-vein biometrics, which are adopted into a library
> collection management and access control system. The library collection is
> managed by image recognition, RFID, and wireless sensor technologies. In
> addition, a biometric system is connected to a library collection control
> system, enabling the borrowing procedure to consist of only two steps.
> First, the user adopts a biometric recognition device for user
> authentication and then performs a collection scan with the RFID devices.
> All the records are recorded in a personal borrowing blockchain, which is a
> peer-to-peer transfer system and permanent data storage. In addition, the
> user can check the status of his collection across various libraries in his
> personal borrowing blockchain. The BlockMetrics library is based on an
> integration of technologies that include blockchain, biometrics, and
> wireless sensor technologies to improve the smart library.
>
> Using the Harvesting Method to Submit ETDs into ProQuest: A Case Study of
> a Lesser-Known Approach
> <https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ital/article/view/12197>
>
> Marielle Veve
>
> The following case study describes an academic library’s recent experience
> implementing the harvesting method to submit electronic theses and
> dissertations (ETDs) into the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
> database (PQDT). In this lesser-known approach, ETDs are deposited first in
> the institutional repository (IR), where they get processed, to be later
> harvested for free by ProQuest through the IR’s Open Archives Initiative
> (OAI) feed. The method provides a series of advantages over some of the
> alternative methods, including students’ choice to opt-in or out from
> ProQuest, better control over the embargo restrictions, and more
> customization power without having to rely on overly complicated workflows.
> Institutions interested in adopting a simple, automated, post-IR method to
> submit ETDs into ProQuest, while keeping the local workflow, should benefit
> from this method.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ken Varnum, Editor
> *Information Technology and Libraries <http://italjournal.org/>*
>
>