Copley Connects - Fall 2019

Donuts & Digital USD: Celebrating Open Access Week

by Amanda Makula Copley Library celebrated Open Access Week (Oct. 21-25, 2019) by recognizing the top three most downloaded items in Digital USD. The Nonprofit Institute, the M.A. in Leadership Studies program, and the Music department all received an official letter of recognition – and a complimentary box of donuts – to celebrate their wildly popular contributions to the institutional repository. Here are the winners: “Sample Advisory Board Invitation Letter/Email,” a template by The Nonprofit Institute (over 20,000 downloads) “Twelve-tone Serialism: Exploring the Works of Anton Webern,” an undergraduate honors thesis by music student James P. Kinney (over 8,000 downloads) “Leadership Cultural Values of United Arab Emirates— The Case of United Arab Emirates University,” an M.A. in Leadership Studies thesis by Ebtesam Ali Alteneiji (over 7,000 downloads) Today there are approximately 25,000 items in Digital USD — and together they have been downloaded nearly 350,000 times across the world. The repository continues to grow and diversify its content. It currently includes faculty work, student work, archival material, photographs, posters, postcards, theses and dissertations, journals and magazines, and more.

PHOTO: COLTON C. STRAWSER

Staff and students at the Nonprofit Institute enjoy donuts from Copley Library.

If you are interested in learning more about Digital USD or would like to make your work openly available, please contact the Digital Initiatives Librarian, Amanda Makula. You never know: your contribution could one day go viral and become the most downloaded item!

Librarians from Both Sides of the Border Meet for the First Time By Alma Ortega The first Border Academic Librarians Meeting (B.A.L.M.) was held on October 4, 2019 on the campus of the University of San Diego.

and future assistance with the success of the group. The next meeting will be held in the fall of 2020 at CETYS Universidad, at either their Ensenada or Tijuana campus. USD will host this meeting of border area academic librarians again in 2021.

three collaborative projects which are currently underway between universities on both sides of the border. The group plans to meet once a year, alternating countries. The Dean of the University Library, Dr. Theresa Byrd, welcomed the group and stated her support for another meeting at USD

Twenty-three librarians representing twelve institutions met to establish a third space for academic librarians in the California / Baja California region for academic librarians to explore and collaborate within the border area. The meeting resulted in promised continuation of

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