Copley Connects Spring Summer 2024

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to Martha Adkins, the Copley Connects Editor, and the library team. The San Diego Circuit Library Leaders, which I participated in, presented “Leading Libraries Committed to Community-Centered Collaboration and Impact” on Sunday from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the SDCC. This program highlighted how the Circuit members have collaborated on resource sharing and collection management, information literacy, and community engagement. A small group activity invited the audience to identify issues of concern in their local communities that would benefit from a community-centered approach to library collaboration on programs or services. Laura Turner, Associate University Librarian and Head of Technical Services, and Jill Bogg, OCLC Senior Product Manager, co-presented “Simple Steps to Increase Your Library’s Visibility to Web Users” on Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. in SDCC. Their presentation covered tools and best practices for promoting library resources from both a librarian and a vendor angle. It was also my pleasure to host Liliana Araujo Briones, Library Director, and Imelda Guadalupe Sáenz Rodríguez, Head of the Library Services Department, Universidad de Monterrey Library, our sister library, for lunch and a Copley Library tour during the ALA conference. ALA was a whirlwind. This Copley Connects issue contains articles about the Digital Initiatives Symposium 10 th anniversary, new additions to our digital bookplate collection, and Copley’s Summer 2024 Reading List. I enjoy meeting faculty, students, and community members as I walk through the library, so be sure to visit Copley soon.

Copley faculty and staff tour the Museum of Man

Annual Faculty and Staff Retreat By Martha Adkins , Reference and Instruction Librarian On January 18, 2024, we gathered for our annual retreat day, first in the Nexus Theatre in the beautiful new Knauss School of Business, where our first speaker, Dr. Chris Burden, Assistant Vice President for Student Wellness at USD, gave a powerful presentation about the disturbing increase in college students’ feelings of loneliness, both in our country and on our campus. Following Dr. Burden’s presentation, we headed to Balboa Park for lunch and an afternoon workshop and guided tour of the Museum of Us. Morgan Owen, the Education Manager of the museum, led us through a workshop called Equity Versus Equality, in which we played a Monopoly-like board game created by a sociology professor called Sociopoly. Morgan followed our workshop with a guided tour of compelling and disturbing exhibits at her museum – including PostSecret and Hostile Terrain, a version of which has been on display in the lower level gallery space at Copley Library. Many thanks to the Retreat Committee for their hard work planning this day!

Dr. Theresa S. Byrd DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

Dean Byrd and Dr. Burden

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