Copley Connects _ Spring 2023

2013 The first issue of Copley Connects hit mailboxes around campus and the country, as we began to tell our story in this new format. https://digital.sandiego.edu/copley_connects/5/

USD's institutional repository was officially launched in Fall 2014. Digital USD has, at the time of this publication, seen over 2 million downloads, from every continent on Earth. https://digital.sandiego.edu/copley_connects/2/ 2014 The first Digital Initiatives Symposium was held in April 2014, with 130 attendees from across the country. Read about the most recent Symposium on page 14, and save the date for the 10th anniversary Digital Initiatives Symposium, April 29-30, 2024. https://digital.sandiego.edu/copley_connects/3/

In the summer of 2015, Copley librarians began a partnership with the faculty organizers of the STEAM Academy, a summer day camp for middle school students. We reunited with camp attendees in the summer of 2022 for in-person instruction with middle and high school students, and are excited to continue this partnership. https://digital.sandiego.edu/copley_connects/6/ 2015 In the fall of 2017, Copley joined in the American Library Association’s celebration of Banned Book Week, with a display, LibGuide, and contest, in which one student and one faculty or staff member each won their favorite banned book and other prizes. https://digital.sandiego.edu/copley_connects/10/ 2017 August 2021 marked the 10th year of collaboration with the Student Support Services Summer Bridge Program, an intensive week setting up incoming first year and transfer students for success at USD. Students tour Copley Library as part of the program, learning about all the ways library services support their learning. https://digital.sandiego.edu/copley_connects/18/ 2021

Copley awarded the first Student Assistant Scholarships to five deserving assistants. This scholarship award was named the Roy and Marian Holleman Copley Library Student Assistant Scholarship in 2016, and became a permanent feature of our student assistant retention program, thanks to a generous endowment by the Holleman Foundation. The Foundation is featured in the Spring 2022 issue. https://digital.sandiego.edu/copley_connects/19/ 2016

The first year Copley recognized graduating library student assistants with their choice of book/video/music title to be plated with their name. The 2015 graduating student assistants are pictured here with their chosen books. See the story on page 6.

2018

In 2019, middle school students from three local Catholic schools joined us for an extended information literacy workshop while their parents toured the campus and attended informational sessions led by university admissions representatives. This was first year of the successful Pontem Partnership Research Day, which has continued to grow.

The first annual Black History Month and Women’s History Month author events were held in February 2018, when Dr. Duchess Harris, author of Hidden Human Computers , shared the stories of her grandmother and other black women who worked as human computers for NASA in the 1940s. See page 16 for the most recent event in this annual celebration of black women authors. https://digital.sandiego.edu/copley_connects/11/ Though we were working from home, we had the opportunity to see our newly renovated library for the first time in photographs, and were able to share those with the campus community. https://digital.sandiego.edu/copley_connects/15/ 2020 Copley goes remote, in response to COVID-19.

Copley hosted its first exhibition of artwork by USD alumni, celebrating the art and artists at a reception in December 2022. The exhibit and reception commemorated the beginning of an endeavor to fill Copley with art that will help make our spaces welcoming and inclusive for all our visitors. https://digital.sandiego.edu/copley_connects/20/ 2022

2019

This year’s event, May 6, 2023, welcomed students once again, this time for a deep research dive into the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. https://digital.sandiego.edu/copley_connects/20/

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