Copley Connects Spring/Summer 2025

Message from the Dean

Table of Contents Message From the Dean Research and Scholarship Recognition Featured Collection: Southern Cross 2025 Holleman Scholarship Winners

Copley At Work AI is the new buzzword. Copley Library accepted the AI challenge by agreeing to be a part of eight libraries nationally to beta test JSTOR’s AI Odyssey Product (now renamed JSTOR Seeklight ). Odyssey’s goal is to streamline the processing of descriptive metadata for digital products, which can be a tedious task. You can learn more about the outcome of this AI-generated metadata platform on page 7. In 2019-2020, the State Library awarded Copley Library a California Revealed grant to digitize the Southern Cross, an independent Roman Catholic newspaper of the Diocese of San Diego, from 1958 to 1989. This Catholic newspaper is spotlighted on page 4. Work-study students are vital to our library, and we take pride in our 98% retention rate. Occasionally, a large group graduates together; for example, 14 students graduated in May 2025. To honor graduating seniors, each selected a book to have a commemorative bookplate, recognizing their contributions. See page 11 for their book choices. An asterisk marks those who worked for five semesters in Copley. Building on our commitment to support students, on page 6, you will be introduced to Copley’s signature scholarship program. Every Spring semester, Copley holds the Roy and Marian Holleman Copley Library Student Assistant Scholarship essay contest. Meet this year’s five Federal Work Study students who were the recipients of the $1,000 scholarship. In May, the library sponsored the Pontem Path research initiative for students from the Catholic Diocese of San Diego. It is a wonderful partnership between the library and the community, and it is featured on page 8. In this issue, we highlight Copley’s very own Jordan Kobayashi, Continuing Resources and Licensing Assistant, who received the university’s Diversity and Inclusion Impact Award. In related news, we also welcomed

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AI Comes for Digital USD

Pontem Partnership Marks Five Years

Spotlight Jordan Kobayashi

New Faculty at Copley

ACRL Conference in Minneapolis 10 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference 10 Copley Recognizes Graduating Seniors with Bookplates 11 Top 10 Digital USD Downloads for the 2024–2025 Academic Year 12 New Resources for Fall 2025 13 Seguimos Creando Enlaces Conference 13 Copley Reads 14 Building Community Connections 15 Student Success Symposium 16

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Research & Instruction Librarian, Editor Research & Instruction Librarian and Coordinator of Instruction and Undergraduate Learning

Hugh Burkhart

Michael Conlee Cindy Espineli Jordan Kobayashi Michael Massaro

Archives/Digital Initiatives Assistant

Executive Assistant

Continuing Resources and Licensing Assistant Engineering and Computer Science Librarian Acquisitions and Electronic Collections Management Assistant

William Tran

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