Copley Connects _ Spring 2023

STUDENT ASSISTANT SPOTLIGHT

MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

Celebrating Ten Years of Copley Connects: 2013-2023 Over the past ten years, Copley Library has thrived. The central focus of the library is collections, services, and space. Print remains vital, but Covid made digital-first in all formats popular. In 2013, students engaged with Reference Librarians in-person. However, today they work with librarians in-person and virtually through our chat reference service and Springshare’s 24/7 reference cooperative. The library initiated the Digital Initiatives Librarian position and joined the institutional repository (IR) and open movement. This year, we reached 2 million IR downloads of faculty’s and students’ research being accessed worldwide. In 2020, we began participating in JSTOR’s Open Communities Collections initiative featuring three of our marquee collections: Japanese Bookplates, Paris Exposition Postcards, and the San Diego Lowrider Archival project. Like many of the schools in USD, Copley Library has matured. In 2015, former President Lyons granted us our tenure process. The faculty holds its own elections. We became Faculty Senate members in 2018. The faculty taught 1,433 instruction sessions and 217 workshops. They gave 97 conference presentations and published 21 articles, 4 book chapters, 7 conference proceedings, 8 book reviews, 1 book and 3 short stories. The faculty has grown, and their expertise strengthened with embedded librarians located in the schools and liaison librarians in the College. Moreover, the library organization has benefitted from creating positions, such as the Associate Dean for the Library and the Associate Dean for Student Success and Diversity. Seminal Library Moments 2013-2023 • Compiled the first Annual Report, 2016 • Joined USD’s Annual Senior Survey, 2017 • Launched the Copley Library Retreat, 2018 • Renovated the Building, Fall 2017-Spring 2020 • Impacted by Covid, March 2020-August 2021 • Assisted with the Faculty Research and Scholarship Recognition Reception, 2023 For additional highlights, see the timeline on p. 4-5. • Purchased the JSTOR Alumni Databases, 2013 • Started the Digital Initiatives Symposium, 2014 • Offered $1,000 OER Stipends to Four Faculty, 2015

By Catherine Paolillo, Visiting Evening Access Librarian Raul Flores Torres (Class of 2023) has worked in Copley Library Access Services since Fall 2021. Throughout his 4 years at USD he’s been involved in Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (M.E.Ch.A), Beta Theta Pi, and Student Support Services (SSS)

TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 Message From the Dean 3 Student Assistant Spotlight 4 Copley Connects Celebrates 10 Years with Highlights 6 Bookplate Tradition Honors Graduating Student Assistants 8 COPLEY READS: Book Recommendations 10 Immersive Global Reading 11 Faculty and Staff Retreat 12 Faculty Research and Scholarship Recognition Reception 14 The 9th Annual Digital Initiatives Symposium 16 Black and Women's History Month Event

while being employed at Copley Library, the One Stop Student Center, and operating as CEO of his family business. He’s a proud first-generation student and will be the first of his immediate and extended family to graduate from a 4-year institution. He served on the M.E.Ch.A e-board for 2 years as Programmer and External Representative where he helped organize multiple events such as General Body Meetings, Family Reveal, Virgen de Guadalupe Mass, Farmers Workers Mass, Fiesta Night, a Chicano Park tour, and social events, with the other M.E.Ch.A de San Diego chapters. Through his involvement in M.E.Ch.A, he’s been able to not only impact the USD and San Diego communities, but also his hometown by partnering with Santa Barbara City College and his high school AVID program. As a SSS mentor for the Class of 2024, Raul helped freshmen and transfer students transition to USD. He’s also been a member of Beta Theta Pi since the Spring of 2021 and has served as the Community Service Chair. He was awarded the Beta Award last semester for exemplifying the chapter’s commitment to mutual aid and assistance. Raul will graduate this spring with a Bachelor of Business Administration and Bachelor of Accountancy. He has accepted a full-time position at Ernst & Young as a tax accountant in La Jolla, San Diego. In addition, he’s the CEO of his family business, Flores Hardware and Lighting Inc, in Santa Barbara, California, and will be working with his family to grow the business. For the past two semesters, Raul has served as our Social Media & Outreach Student Assistant, where he was able to use his interest in photography to create content for our social media platforms, newsletters, annual reports, website, and more. I recently caught up with Raul to ask about his creative process, his experience working in Copley Library, and what he’s looking forward to after graduation. YOU'RE AN ACCOUNTING MAJOR, HOW DID YOU GET INTERESTED IN PHOTOGRAPHY? Yes, I’m an Accounting and International Business major. I was in junior year of high school when I picked up my first camera. My cousin introduced me to the photography world; he was the first person out of the whole family that was a photographer. Seeing his posts on Instagram made me interested in photography, and pushed me to get a camera of my own. I haven’t stopped shooting since then. I’m self-taught, so YouTube is how I learned. Eventually I took a photography class at Santa Barbara City College in my hometown, but everything they taught I already learned from YouTube.

Professional development and connection to library professional organizations helped the library advance and deliver services to the university’s consitituencies. We are affiliated with SPARC, CRL, CNI, HathiTrust, NISO, and Lyrasis. The Artwork Committee assists with selecting art and installing exhibitions that create a welcoming and inclusive environment for all students. Our December AlumniWorks 2022 exhibition featured 13 alumni artists. Three of these diverse artists’ works now hang on the library’s walls. Copley closes the period from 2013-2023 by focusing on accessibility; a changing collection development model; fake news and misinformation; diversity, equity, and inclusion; affordable learning materials; and artificial intelligence. The library is meeting the needs of an evolving USD, and its faculty. Our scope is even bigger with the demands of the university’s R2 status. Here’s to another ten years of Copley Connects informing the USD community of Copley’s milestones and services. Theresa S. Byrd, DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

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C OPLEY CONNECTS Published twice a year by: Copley Library University of San Diego 5998 Alcalá Park, San Diego, CA 92110 Copley Connects is also available on our web site at www.sandiego.edu/library. Dr. Theresa S. Byrd, Dean of the University Library tsbyrd@sandiego.edu Copley Connects Review Committee: Martha Adkins , Reference Librarian, Editor Hugh Burkhart , Reference Librarian and Coordinator of Instruction and Undergraduate Learning Cindy Espineli , Executive Assistant Jordan Kobayashi , Library Assistant, Periodicals/Serials Jennifer Bidwell , Business Librarian Naomi Reeve , Archives/Digital Initiatives Assistant

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