Copley Connects Spring/Summer 2025

Research and Scholarship Recognition By Martha Adkins , Research and Instruction Librarian In April, for the third time, Copley Library hosted the Research and Scholarship Recognition Celebration. This annual event is a partnership between the office of the Senior Vice President and Provost, the Office of Sponsored Programs, and Copley Library to honor the achievements of faculty and staff who have secured external grant funding or published their research. This year, we gathered with colleagues on campus, as well as Provost Gail Baker and Associate Provost Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, in the Mother Rosalie Hill Reading Room, amid a virtual sea of research and scholarship. In the months leading up to this event, Copley librarians compiled the bibliography of scholarship that accompanied this event, meticulously collecting the scholarship and creative work of our colleagues in the disciplines. In total, we identified approximately 450 research outputs, including journal articles, books and book chapters, conference papers, and more. At the event, we displayed a sample of these items — 21 books, 32 book chapters, and posters made from the first page of 174 journal articles, creating a striking visual of the University’s intellectual output. Approximately one hundred faculty from across campus attended the event, and the final bibliography, organized by school, has been deposited in the University’s open access repository, Digital USD (https://digital. sandiego.edu/bibliography-scholarship/), providing a permanent record that is openly available for anyone to view. At the event, faculty and staff from all over campus mingled, enjoyed refreshments, perused the items on display, and celebrated the scholarly achievements of one another.

home Catherine Paolillo as the new Head of Access and Outreach Services. Due to our strong relationship with the San Diego Public Library (SDPL), Ady Huertas, chair of the Seguimos Creando Enlaces Conference and SDPL Youth, Family, & Equity Program Manager, asked us to host this binational conference, which took place in the Mother Rosalie Hill Reading Room during spring break. If you are interested in faculty and student research, be sure to check out the Top 10 Digital USD downloads for the 2024 2025 academic year. Finally, two of Copley’s new faculty members, Amy Pham, Senior Electronic and Open Content Librarian, and Michael Massaro, the Engineering and Computer Science Librarian, share what they have been doing on page 10. As we concluded these many activities, the semester ended with the library operating 24/7 for two and a half weeks. I am deeply grateful to our exceptional staff who provided the tremendous service of keeping the building open for around-the-clock study during finals.

Dr. Theresa S. Byrd DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

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