Copley Connects Spring Summer 2024

Message From the Dean

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MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

Table of Contents Message From the Dean Annual Faculty and Staff Retreat New Bookplates Added to Digital Collection 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 Copley Library and San Diego Public Library Team up to 6 Celebrate Black History Month and Women’s History Month Research and Scholarship Recognition 8 Fourth Pontem Partnership Event 8 SCELCapalooza 2024 8 Digitial Initiatives Symposium 9 Copley’s Summer 2024 Reading List 10 New Faces at Copley 11 Social Media 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 18 Faculty and Staff News 20 Save the Date: DIS 2024 Social Media

The American Library Association (ALA) selected San Diego as the site for its 2024 annual conference, which attracted 13,532 librarians from around the world. Ten Copley employees attended the conference. ALA offered professional development programs, committee meetings, conversations with vendors in the Exhibit Hall, and an opportunity to connect with colleagues and friends. Copley Library and librarians were integral in several conference programs. The library hosted two significant events on campus on June 28. The first was Core’s Buildings for College and University Libraries’ ALA Annual Preconference: Academic Library and Learning Spaces Tour of innovative academic libraries and flexible teaching and learning spaces. The tour featured the UC San Diego Geisel Library, the Design and Innovation Building, and the Halicioglu Data Science Institute (HDSI). The participants were then transported to the University of San Diego to tour Copley Library and adjacent Learning Commons. From 1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., the tour participants were introduced to Copley Library and the University of San Diego. I conducted a 30-minute presentation with Q & A about the Copley Library renovation for the 52 attendees from the United States, Canada, China, Germany, Mexico, and Singapore, including architects, librarians, and furniture representatives. Christopher Marcum, Head of Access and Outreach Services, and Diane Maher, Head of Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, gave them a library and Learning Commons tour. Joe Agati, Jr. of Agati Furniture participated in the tour and wrote an article about Copley Library’s Agati furniture: https://www.agati.com/ blog/copley-library-renovation-expansion/. Later that evening, we hosted the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s Coretta Scott King Book Awards 55th Anniversary event. This celebration was held from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. in the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies Auditorium and Garden of the Sea, and 200 people attended. Both programs on Friday were a huge success. During the ALA Conference, Copley Library received the 2024 PR Xchange Award at a ceremony held on Sunday, June 30, 2024, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., in the Sails Pavilion at the San Diego Convention Center (SDCC). A panel of 25 judges selected Copley’s 10 th Anniversary issue of Copley Connects from 334 entries to win an award in the External Communications 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 with Santa Barbara As a SSS mentor for transfer students tra Theta Pi since the Sp Service Chair. He wa for exemplifying the assistance. Raul will Administration and B full-time position at San Diego. In additio Hardware and Lighti working with his fam For the past two sem Outreach Student As in photography to cr newsletters, annual with Raul to ask abo in Copley Library, an YOU'RE AN ACCOU INTERESTED IN P Yes, I’m an Account junior year of high sc cousin introduced m person out of the wh posts on Instagram me to get a camera then. I’m self-taugh a photography class but everything they By Catherine Paolillo, Visiting Evening Access Raul Flores Torres (C has worked in Cople Services since Fall 2 his 4 years at USD h in Movimiento Estud de Aztlán (M.E.Ch.A) and Student Suppor while being employe Center, and operatin first-generation stud extended family to g on the M.E.Ch.A e-b Representative whe General Body Meetin Farmers Workers Ma events, with the oth involvement in M.E.C and San Diego comm ALA Comes to San Diego

2 3 4 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

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 website 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 Executive Assistant Jordan Kobayashi Library Assistant, Periodicals/Serials Michael Conlee Archives/Digital Initiatives Assistant 2 COPLEY CONNECTS 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 Reference Librarian and Coordinator of Instruction and Undergraduate Learning Cindy Espineli

“Masao Maeda Bookplate” (1965). Japanese Bookplate Collection . Image 16. https://digital.sandiego.edu/japanese_bookplates/16

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