Copley Library Annual Report 2022-2023

HELEN K. AND JAMES S. COPLEY LIBRARY Annual Report 2022-2023

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Message from the Dean

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In the Library

Favorite study destinations Library Exhibits (Summer 2022-Summer 2023) Department of Anthropology — Hostile Terrain 94 exhibition Outreach and Engagement

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Comic Studies and Practices Symposium Copley’s Annual Signature Event — the Digital Initiatives Symposium Art in the Library: A Feast for the Senses One Book One San Diego Winning Student Video for Promoting Renovated Library Programming Partnerships with the USD Department of History Candice Marie Benbow — Black History Month/Women’s History Month Speaker Research and Scholarship Recognition Reception Research Day for Middle School — Copley’s Pontem Partnership with Diocese Schools Upward Bound Tours the Library USD Student Support and Instruction 11 Information Literacy Instruction: Bringing Students to the Library and the Library to Students Summer Bridge 2022 McNair Scholars

AnchorSTEM Scholars First-Gen in the Library 2023 Roy and Marian Holleman Copley Library Student Assistant Scholarships Copley Library 2023 Undergraduate Research Awards Destination for Information Resources Inviting Scholars into the Library Virtually with a Website Redesign Copley Connects Celebrates Ten Years USD Alumni Can Return Virtually to Access Popular Library Databases 2022–2023 New Library Databases Social Explorer Attention Travelers! If the past is what you seek… Welcoming Encounters

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Annual Library Retreat Student Employees in Copley Library Copley Library Faculty Scholarship

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Presentations Publications Open Access Benefits for USD Copley Library Statistics

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Message from the Dean

ART, EVENTS, INSTRUCTION, AND SCHOLARSHIP Over the past 12 months, art, events, instruction, and faculty scholarship dominated the library’s agenda. In December 2022, Ximena Morena Jose won the prize for the best student video about the newly renovated library. The Alumni Works evening featuring 13 USD-trained artists was memorable. Our stats revealed group study rooms were reserved by students 35,262 times. Academic Search Premier , a multidisciplinary research resource, was the most popular database, and United States History books had the highest check-out rate. Dr. Marni LaFleur, Associate Professor of Anthropology, used Copley’s lower-level art gallery to promote her “Hostile Terrain 94” exhibit that told the story of the deaths of would-be migrants who enter California on foot.

Spring semester found us planning for the Digital Initiatives Symposium (DIS) and Black History Month. We are proud of our five-year relationship with the San Diego Public Library in sponsoring the Black History Month event, which is a community model. Candice Marie Benbow spoke about her book, Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who’ve Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store: When Sunday Morning Isn’t Enough . Her presentation was a big hit with the 40 and under crowd. The 9 th annual DIS Symposium attracted 146 librarians to campus who loved having all the speakers in the Joan B. Kroc Theatre rather than requiring them to choose from competing concurrent sessions. Copley’s first-ever Comics Studies and Practices Symposium, a virtual program hosted by Professors Vanjury Dozier and Millie Fullmer, attracted a national audience and showcased well-known scholars in this genre. In April, we collaborated with the Provost and Sponsored Programs Offices to host the inaugural Faculty Research and Scholarship Recognition Reception in the Mother Hill Reading Room. The 2022 faculty scholarship output was 498 entries: 33 books, 25 book chapters, and 440 journal articles. In line with our strategic plan’s diversity, equity, and inclusion goal, our annual January retreat featured Jay Rice, USD Director, Black Student Resource Commons; Sahmie Wytewa, USD Tribal Liaison; and Isabel Soto-Luna, Business Librarian, University of Nebraska Omaha. Rice and Wytewa discussed serving Black and Native American student populations. Soto-Luna assisted us with learning more about Hispanic culture and students. The day included team-building exercises. Information literacy is at the core of our librarians’ teaching philosophy. They are always eager to teach students and faculty how to locate, use, and evaluate information, a highly desired skill in the disinformation age. Hugh Burkhart, Coordinator of Instruction, documented instruction trends in First Year Writing, Living Learning Communities, and Transfer Learning Communities. Through instruction, the library reached 700 of 1,686 students in first-year classes. I invite you to meet our five 2023 Roy and Marian Holleman Student Assistant Scholarship winners. Each student received a $1,000 scholarship. Moreover, two students won Copley’s Undergraduate Research Award. For the 400 Level Course, Olivia Sutton for The Emasculation of Glory: Pestilence, Revolution, and Madness in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, and Holly Fisher for Maya Lin: Memorial as Politic for the 300 Level Course. Daily, we strive to support teaching and learning on campus. I like to say, “There’s never a dull moment in Copley.” I hope you’ll take a few minutes to read about our inspiring achievements during the 2022-2023 year!

Dr. Theresa S. Byrd DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

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In the Library

Favorite Study Destinations Ask about a favorite spot to any USD students that regularly use Copley Library for studying, research, and/or collaboration and you may get a different answer from each student. With over 35,000 study room reservations between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023, the library knows that these spaces are prized by students. Other students enjoy the informality of the booths on Copley’s ground floor or the sunny conditions in the Journals Reading Room on the upper level. Some students prefer the traditional look and silent study available in Copley’s beloved Mother Hill Reading Room. Students seeking solitude have discovered

discreet study spaces in the Camino stacks, surrounded by rows of book stacks. Still others flock to the Copley Lounge on the ground floor with its comfortable seating and fewer restrictions on noise levels. Finally, the beauty and table spaces in the Roy and Marian Holleman Quiet Study Room draw regular student appreciation of its niche location in Camino beyond the Mother Hill Reading Room. We hope that all USD students will make Copley spaces a destination and find a favorite spot of their own in the library.

Library Exhibits (Summer 2022-Summer 2023) Diane Maher, Copley Library’s Head of Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, curates the library exhibits in the new display cases along the hallway to the Mother Hill Reading Room. Exhibits in these cases frequently represent the events hosted or celebrated by Copley Library as well as the library’s significant scholarly resources.

Comic Arts Exhibit (Summer 2022–Fall 2022) An exhibit created to support Copley Library’s Comic Studies and Practices Symposium in Summer 2022, the hallway cases featured graphic novels held in the library’s Special Collections as well as books on comic arts from the library’s general

collection. The exhibit highlighted the use of graphic novels in the classroom, a focus of the symposium; provided a historical view of the development of this genre beginning with satirical political publications of the 18th century; and provided an overview of its predominant subgenres: Comics, Graphic Novels, and Manga.

Black History Month/Women’s History Month Exhibit (February–March 2023) This year’s exhibit explored the works of Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Maria W. Stewart, and the subject of Womanist Theology. The exhibit also featured essayist and theologian Candice Marie Benbow’s book Red Lip Theology , which served as the showcase title for the 2023 Copley Library and San Diego Public Library joint Black History Month / Women’s History Month program.

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Library Exhibits

Artists’ Books at Play: An Exhibit of Books Selected From Copley Library’s Artists’ Book Collection (Spring 2023–Summer 2023) This exhibit featured books that are works of art in both concept and intention. These books playfully engage their readers in the act of looking and reading while often subverting established genres--sometimes the result is purely for pleasure, but often the artists use these works to discuss serious social and personal issues. The exhibit also featured video of Mexican book artist Derli Romero’s artists’ book Dextra/Sinistra and the process of its creation with fire, branding irons, and paper.

Celebrating Juneteenth (June 2023) Primarily highlighting Juneteenth’s origin story at the close of the Civil War and its path to federal recognition in 2021.This exhibit also reveals the holiday’s customs and practices that have developed along the way.

Department of Anthropology — Hostile Terrain 94 Exhibition In Spring 2023, Dr. Marni LaFleur, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology worked with Copley Library to host an adapted version of Hostile Terrain 94 in the lobby of Copley’s lower level. As a participatory exhibition created by the Undocumented Migration Project, the exhibition visually displayed the deaths of undocumented migrants on California soil (or waterways). Visitors were asked to reflect upon U.S. border policy and the violence it inflicted on vulnerable people. The exhibition included information on how to support humane migration and featured a creative space where visitors wrote messages, produced art and left altar offerings for the deceased migrants.

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Outreach and Engagement

Comic Studies and Practices Symposium In recent years, comic books and graphic novels, forms of sequential art, have become powerful teaching tools that

Copley’s Annual Signature Event — the Digital Initiatives Symposium

The 9th annual Digital Initiatives Symposium (DIS) took place on April 17-18, 2023, marking a return to in-person sessions and featuring guest speakers and attendees from across the country and beyond. Held over the course of two days, the event kicked off with workshops, covering topics such as digital exhibits, the management of digital projects, copyright issues in the digital era, participatory archiving, and open access agreements. On the second day, the proceedings commenced with a keynote presentation by Greg Eow, Center for Research Libraries, focusing on postcolonial knowledge commons. Eow’s speech delved into the significant challenges faced by libraries in response to the digital revolution of the past half-century, drawing parallels with challenges encountered more than four centuries ago during the emergence of the printing press. Featured speaker Sayeed Choudhury, Director of the Open Source Programs Office at Carnegie Mellon University (pictured below), spoke on “How Open Scholarship Will Help Reboot the World,” while closing keynote speaker Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis presented her work on reuniting fragmented medieval manuscripts using digital means. Other sessions covered advancements in primary sources and special collections in research, the establishment of a U.S. repository network, digital initiatives as seen from the perspective of library deans, and digital access to copyrighted materials, including an update on the recently-launched Project LEND. For additional information about the Digital Initiatives Symposium (DIS) and to access the complete program with presentation abstracts, please visit https://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/2023/ .

enhance student learning outcomes through visual literacy. This engaging medium is no longer just

for pleasure reading, but like any creative expression reflects its time and place be it through popular culture, issues of race and gender, mental health, history, memoir and other subjects. Two librarians at Copley wanted

to celebrate this evolving genre in both scholarly and practice-based contexts by bringing like-minds together. V. Dozier and Millie Fullmer identified an opportunity by applying for a SCELC Project Initiatives Fund (SPIF) grant. SCELC, the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium, awarded the two librarians $12,500 to host a Comic Studies and Practices Symposium (CSPS). The two-day event took place on July 18-19, 2022, featuring spectacular keynote addresses by Dr. Chesya Burke, critically acclaimed author and Assistant Professor of English at Stetson University, on Afrofuturism in comics, and John Jennings, Eisner award-winning graphic novelist and Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside, on the call and response interplay of comics. Both are leaders in the field of sequential arts, similarly, the presenters were also well-established authors, practitioners, scholars, librarians, and graduate students that touched on such topics as graphic medicine, pedagogical uses of sequential art, archives, cataloging, critical librarianship, and social justice. Symposium attendees tuned in virtually from across California, the United States and internationally. Following the event, Dozier and Fullmer actively engaged in collection development of comics, manga and graphic novels at Copley Library with generous support from Dean Theresa Byrd. You can see the full CSPS program agenda here: https://digital.sandiego.edu/csp-symposium/2022/ .

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Outreach and Engagement

Copley Library was pleased to collaborate with partners on campus and off to host several events during the academic year.

Art in the Library: A Feast for the Senses The renovated Copley Library offers USD an art destination, hosting a dazzling array of rotating exhibitions. One of the standouts, titled Alumni Works 2022, opened

for Homecoming 2022 with an array of artwork by USD alumni artists from across several decades. The exhibition culminated in a well-attended evening reception in early December 2022. Internationally recognized artist and invited guest speaker Nami Kozu-Satow (Class of 1984) traveled from Japan to discuss her large colorful paintings

that foster a sense of peace and contemplation. She generously donated Soul Energy (2006), one of her compelling pieces, to be displayed on Copley Library’s Upper Level (pictured at right).

In addition to hosting the rotating exhibitions, Dean Byrd formed an Artwork Committee charged with fundraising and assisting in the selection of artwork to enhance spaces throughout the library’s renovated space. Through her efforts, the Roy and Marian Holleman Foundation and the Office of the President (USD) awarded a total of $150,000 in artwork funding for the 2022-2023 academic year. The Dean’s vision is to adorn Copley with engaging, contemporary art that cultivates a sense of belonging and promotes justice, diversity, and inclusivity. Other alumni artwork chosen for the library’s art collection include a luminous neon installation piece, titled Que sueñes con los angelitos (2022), by noé olivas (Class of 2013), a rising star in the art world with a recent profile in the New York Times. The second stunning work, by David L. Smith (Class of 2008), is a triptych titled NIPSEY, BEAN, PAC (2021), which engages immediate reactions from library visitors from the recognizable portraits depicted (pictured below). A special thank you to the USD Alumni Association and Mary Whelan, Executive Director of University Design, for assisting the library in hosting its inaugural art exhibition Alumni Works 2022 . If you are interested in using the library’s exhibit space, please contact Cindy Espineli at cespineli@sandiego.edu or 619-260-2370. In addition, if you want to donate money to assist Copley Library in purchasing additional artwork, contact Dr. Theresa S. Byrd, Dean of the University Library, tsbyrd@sandiego.edu .

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Outreach and Engagement

One Book One San Diego For its tenth year of participation, Copley launched an inaugural partnership with The Center for Educational Excellence and the Center for Inclusion and Diversity to encourage USD students, faculty and staff to participate in San Diego County’s annual premier

Winning Student Video for Promoting Renovated Library Ximena Morena Jose (Class of 2023) was the grand prize winner of Copley Library’s student video contest to capture the excitement and grandeur of the renovated library. As the winner, she was awarded $750 at an unveiling of the video prior to the Alumni Works 2022 evening reception on December 1, 2022.

community reading program, One Book One San Diego (OBOSD). The program encourages partnerships between local public media station KPBS and over 80 public libraries, service organizations, universities, and other educational institutions. The library gave away over 70 copies of the 2022 OBOSD

selection, The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. Shea Salamack, winner of the USD Student Graphic Design contest to market the program (pictured at left), and a variety of faculty reading assignments

From left: Chris Marcum, Head of Access and Outreach Services; Dr. Theresa Byrd, Dean of the University Library; Ximena Morena Jose (Class of 2023); Catherine Paolillo, former Evening Access Services Librarian.

Programming Partnerships with the USD Department of History Veterans Day 2022 Programming

boosted the visibility and impact of the book. USD programming culminated in a community reading circle at Copley Library on November 15, 2022.

Copley Library collaborated once again with the USD Department of History and the San Diego County Veterans for Peace to host a Veterans Day event, entitled Veterans Day and Historical Memory , on November 10, 2022 at the library. More than 60 members of the USD and San Diego community attended the event to hear four local veterans reflect on what Veterans Day means to them. The library partnered with the Department of History again in Spring Semester on April 27, 2023 for an evening with acclaimed author and founder of @ theglobalvillagefoundation, Le Ly Hayslip. Hayslip shared passages from her memoir, “When Heaven and Earth Changed Places” that detail her experiences during the Vietnam Wars as well as clips from the Oliver Stone film inspired by her writing, “Heaven and Earth”.

Copley Library’s first 10 years of participation in OBOSD included the following OBOSD titles, which are also available in the library’s catalog: Titles: Caleb’s Crossing (2013) Monstress (2014) Shadow of the Wind (2015) Waiting for Snow in Havana (2016)

Sandcastle Girls (2017) March: Book One (2018) The Great Believers (2019) They Called Us Enemy (2020) Being Heumann (2021) The Vanishing Half (2022)

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Le Ly Hayslip (center) and Dr. Kathryn Statler, USD History Professor (far right), join local veterans at the V eterans Day and Historical Memory event in Copley Library.

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Outreach and Engagement

Black History Month/ Women’s History Month Speaker

Copley Library teamed up with the San Diego Public Library in February 2022 to showcase Candice Marie Benbow, author of Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who’ve Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn’t Enough , as speaker for the fifth annual Black History Month/Women’s History Month programming collaboration between the libraries.

From left: Dr. Theresa Byrd, Dean of the University Library; Candice Marie Benbow, speaker; Misty Jones, San Diego Public Library Director

Research and Scholarship Recognition Reception On April 4, 2023, Copley Library hosted the Research and Scholarship Recognition Reception. This inaugural reception showcased faculty scholarship from academic units across campus and acknowledged external funding awards. The Office of Sponsored Programs, the Provost’s Office, and the Library organized this event, which was part of the broader campus Research Month activities. Dr. Truc Ngo, who serves as the Associate Provost for Research Administration, commenced the event by providing an overview of the trends in research expenditures and external

awards at USD. Ngo also introduced the forthcoming USD Research Expertise Database. Dr. Gail Baker, the university’s Senior Vice President and Provost, presented awards recognizing individuals who received external funding for the first time, those who secured one million dollars or more in external funding, and those who earned prestigious fellowships. In addition to hosting the ceremony, Copley Library played a vital role in the event. Library staff curated and displayed an impressive representative collection from 498 entries (33 books, 25 book chapters, and 440 journal articles) authored by faculty across the university to highlight the remarkable breadth and depth of research and scholarship taking place at USD.

Upward Bound Tours the Library On July 8, 2022, Copley librarians Martha Adkins and Christopher Marcum welcomed a cohort of Upward Bound participants to Copley Library for an inaugural library program. The events included an interactive tour of library resources and services. Students had the opportunity to discover how the university libraries support teaching, research, and learning on college campuses and explore library spaces and services on their own afterwards.

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Outreach and Engagement

Research Day for Middle School — Copley’s Pontem Partnership with Diocese Schools On Saturday, May 6, 2023, Copley Library held its third Research Day for students in the Pontem Path, USD’s college bridge program administered through the School of Leadership and Educational Sciences (SOLES). Middle school students from St. Rita’s School, Our Lady’s School, and St. Katharine Drexel Academy participated in a research lesson with Copley librarians centered on finding and evaluating a variety of information sources. Their parents learned about the college admissions process from representatives from Undergraduate Admissions and took a campus tour. The group came together at the end of the morning for a round of student group presentations before enjoying lunch outside in the courtyard of the Monsignor Dillabough Ministry Center.

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First row: 1. From left: Leticia Oseguera , Superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Diocese of San Diego; Dr. Theresa Byrd , Dean of the University Library; Dr. Sean Green , Assistant Dean for Community Engagements in Spirituality, Mental Health, and Catholic Education, SOLES; Natalee Nunes , Graduate Assistant, SOLES; Hugh Burkhart , Coordinator of Instruction and Undergraduate Learning. 2. Steve Staninger conducts a session on using reference sources such as specialized encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Second row: 3. A group of students presents the results of their morning research about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. 4. From left: Christian Santa Maria , Director of University Ministry; Christopher Marcum , Head of Access and Outreach Services; Jennifer Bidwell , Business Librarian; Steve Staninger , Reference Librarian

Third row: 5. Dr. Sean Green , Pontem Path Director, speaks to parents and students about higher education and the college application process. 6. Christopher Marcum helps students in the Mother Rosalie Hill Reading Room find and evaluate popular sources of information online. 7. Communication Professor and Director of the Frances G. Harpst Center for Catholic Thought and Culture, Dr. Esteban del Rio , engages an audience of middle school students and their parents in a conversation about research and the human experience — and a little bit about the San Diego Padres — as well as the role of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the academic life at USD.

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USD Student Support and Instruction

Hugh Burkhart, Coordinator of Undergraduate Instruction, targeted outreach in Fall 2019 specifically for instructors teaching LLC and TLC courses. Tracking from last year revealed that librarians held instruction sessions in 15 LLC or TLC classes, reaching over 300 students. To put that into a better perspective, USD’s Institutional Research and Planning Data shows that 1,686 first-year and transfer students were enrolled last year, and the library saw over 700 students in required first-year classes. The goal for 2023-24 is to reach over 50% of all first-year students in either FYW courses or LLC and TLC linked courses. By introducing information literacy concepts in these required courses, Copley’s instruction librarians can help lay a solid foundation on which students can build their academic careers. *See the stats on page 21 for the complete data. Summer Bridge 2022 On August 22, 2022, Catherine Paolillo (former Evening Access Services Librarian), Steve Staninger (Reference Librarian), and Wisdom Choice (Student Assistant, Class of 2023) led a tour for 100 USD Student Support Services Summer (SSS) Bridge participants for the 2022-2023 academic year. The SSS Summer Bridge program is “an intensive one week program that will help incoming first-year and transfer students transition into life at USD.” Copley Library has partnered with SSS Summer Bridge for many years in order to provide its students with a crash course in Copley’s many services and resources that can support and help students thrive at USD. Catherine incorporated a TikTok video challenge for the 2022 library program, having groups of students make videos that celebrated Copley’s recently renovated space and helped students feel welcome in the library.

Information Literacy Instruction: Bringing Students to the Library and the Library to Students As Copley Library’s instruction numbers continue to tick upwards, one standout is the increase in workshop attendance. While only four more workshops were held during the 2022-23 academic year compared to the previous year – for a total of 49 workshops – attendance increased by 79% for a total of 997 attendees. *This increase included a larger percentage of undergraduates among the attendees compared to last year. New workshops, attended primarily by undergraduates, helped boost attendance, such as “Introducing Bloomberg Terminals” led by Jennifer Bidwell, the library’s embedded Business Librarian, as well as ongoing workshop series for specific student groups such as the sessions for McNair Scholars on conducting literature reviews and navigating the scholarly publishing system. While most workshops were held in person, the library also continues to offer online and hybrid options to increase accessibility to all students, whether they are working on or off campus. Similarly, instruction librarians teach in classrooms around campus as well as in the library, and they hold consultations both in person and online. Last year also marked the first year in which the library made a more concerted effort to document where it was reaching undergraduate students by level. Starting in the 2022 Fall semester, the library tracked all instances of library instruction sessions to First Year Writing (FYW) and Living Learning and Transfer Learning Community (LLC and TLC) linked courses, courses taken by new Toreros. The library first partnered with First Year Writing instructors after the launch of the revised undergraduate core curriculum in 2017. In 2022-2023, librarians taught sessions for 20 sections of First Year Writing 150, reaching more than 400 students.

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USD Student Support and Instruction

Hugh Burkhart, Coordinator of Undergraduate Instruction, covers proposal writing with McNair Scholars.

V. Dozier, Coordinator of Graduate Student Programs, illustrates McNair research projects strategies.

McNair Scholars Copley Library participates annually in the USD McNair Scholars Program, which serves high-achieving USD undergraduates who are committed to pursuing a PhD or research-intensive graduate degree post-baccalaureate. The McNair Scholars workshop series is designed to give them a condensed introduction to the research process, scholarly communication, and support available at Copley Library. Hugh Burkhart, Coordinator of Undergraduate Instruction, covered information on literature reviews and citations in the April 2023 proposal writing workshop hosted by the USD TRIO McNair Scholars Program. Burkhart also led the Research Literacy / Literature Review Introduction workshop for McNair Scholars in June 2023. In June 2023, V. Dozier, Coordinator of Graduate Student Programs, led the McNair Scholars: Navigating Scholar Presence & Impact workshop, introducing the scholar cohort to scholarly identity development as an undergraduate, navigating academic social networks, and distinguishing scholarly publishing biases. The group also explored strategies to locate and evaluate reputable undergraduate research journals appropriate for their McNair research projects, extending the learning objectives of Burkhart’s proposal writing and literature review workshops. AnchorSTEM Scholars Library faculty in Copley continue to support the new AnchorSTEM Scholars program, a 5-year project launched in 2021 at USD with an award from the National Science Foundation. For the 2022 cohort of 9 freshmen, Martha Adkins, Reference Librarian, provided an information literacy instruction session in Summer 2022 to the cohort to prepare them for program-related writing assignments.

First-Gen in the Library The library hosted Erika Rodriguez, former Copley Library student assistant, Class of 2014, and founder of Nadi Marketing, on November 9, 2022 in the Journals Reading Room to share her First-Gen story with current First-Gen students.

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USD Student Support and Instruction

2023 Roy and Marian Holleman Copley Library Student Assistant Scholarships Copley Library student assistants are eligible to apply for annual scholarship funds set aside specifically for them and endowed by the Roy and Marian Holleman Foundation. The Foundation honors the legacy of the Hollemans’ service respectively leading the library of the College for Women and the University of San Diego. The 2023 Roy and Marian Holleman Copley Library Student Assistant Scholarship Winners included:

“Copley is so much more than just a place to study or do homework.” Valeria Villa Turbay

Chantelle Tiya

Cynthia Gonzalez-Millan

Jayson Winstead

Aleksandra Davies

Valeria Villa Turbay

Copley Library 2023 Undergraduate Research Awards The Copley Library Undergraduate Research Awards were established in Spring 2020 to recognize students’ exceptional research papers using library resources and services. In addition to their research paper, applicants provide a reflective summary of their research process and their professor’s letter of support. The winning papers, selected by a panel of USD faculty members, are added to Digital USD (digital.sandiego.edu), the university’s institutional repository. Spring 2023 winners include: 400 Level Course/Independent Research Award Winning Paper Olivia Sutton

The Emasculation of Glory: Pestilence, Revolution, and Madness in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man https://digital.sandiego.edu/library-research-award/12

Olivia Sutton

300 Level Course Award Winning Paper Holly Fisher Maya Lin: Memorial as Politic https://digital.sandiego.edu/library-research-award/13

Holly Fisher

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Destination for Information Resources

Inviting Scholars into the Library Virtually with a Website Redesign Copley Library launched a major website redesign in August 2022, after over a year of planning and testing with University Web Services. Besides updating the look and feel of the library’s homepage, the library carefully organized library services and resources webpages to improve user navigation. The library made tweaks to streamline the redesign in August 2023, providing a new Copley Quick Links box and improved marketing of library news and events.

Copley Connects Celebrates Ten Years

The Copley Library newsletter, Copley Connects , was founded ten years ago, with our first issue published in the Spring 2013 semester. The newsletter had been in the planning stages since the previous year, when all faculty and staff members of the library met to discuss what stories we might tell in a newsletter and what we would name it. We chose Copley Connects as a name that communicated our link to the campus and community. Our broad goal with each issue is to tell our story, to share the ways in which we engage as a library with the campus community, and with the community beyond the mesa. We share events, collections, services, and celebrate accomplishments. For ten years, we have published two issues of Copley Connects each year. We have distributed our newsletter in print from the beginning, with a brief hiatus to online-only publication during the Covid-19 pandemic, and all issues are

• JOURNALS READING ROOM • BLACK AND WOMEN'S HISTORY • INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY • RECOMMEND BOOKS • STUDENT ASSISTANTS • SCHOLARSHIPS • STEAM ACADEMY • MOTHER HILL READING ROOM • DIGITAL INITIATIVES SYMPOSIUM • BANNED BOOK WEEK • ALUMNI ART WORKS • SUMMER BRIDGE • PONTEM PARTNERSHIP RESEARCH DAY • BOOKPLATE • COPLEY READS • STAFF RETREAT • FACULTY RESEARCH • EMBEDDED LIBRARIAN • POSTCARD COLLECTION • EMBEDDED LIBRARIANSHIP • SUSTAINABILITY • THE COLLECTIONS, ACCESS, AND DISCOVERY DEPARTMENT UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD • HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION • ARCHIVES • CAMINO STACKS • COPLEY LOUNGE • E-TEXTBOOKS • STREAMING MEDIA • UNIVERSITY ARCHIVIST • MCNAIR SCHOLARS• SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM RESEARCH DAY• CATHOLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS • DIGITAL USD• STUDENT EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR• SAN DIEGO LOWRIDER ARCHIVAL PROJECT• TRAVEL GUIDE COLLECTION • MCNAIR SCHOLARS• SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM RESEARCH DAY• CATHOLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS • DIGITAL USD• STUDENT EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR• SAN DIEGO LOWRIDER ARCHIVAL PROJECT• TRAVEL GUIDE COLLECTION • JOURNALS READING ROOM • BLACK AND WOMEN'S HISTORY • INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY • RECOMMEND BOOKS • STUDENT ASSISTANTS • SCHOLARSHIPS • STEAM ACADEMY • MOTHER HILL READING ROOM • DIGITAL INITIATIVES SYMPOSIUM • BANNED BOOK WEEK • ALUMNI ART WORKS • SUMMER BRIDGE • PONTEM PARTNERSHIP RESEARCH DAY • BOOKPLATE • COPLEY READS • STAFF RETREAT • FACULTY RESEARCH • EMBEDDED LIBRARIAN • POSTCARD COLLECTION • EMBEDDED LIBRARIANSHIP • SUSTAINABILITY • JOURNALS READING ROOM • BLACK AND WOMEN'S HISTORY • INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY • RECOMMEND BOOKS • STUDENT ASSISTANTS • SCHOLARSHIPS • STEAM ACADEMY • MOTHER HILL READING ROOM • DIGITAL INITIATIVES SYMPOSIUM • BANNED BOOK WEEK• JOURNALS READING ROOM • BLACK AND WOMEN'S HISTORY • INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY • RECOMMEND BOOKS • STUDENT ASSISTANTS • SCHOLARSHIPS • STEAM ACADEMY • MOTHER HILL READING ROOM • DIGITAL INITIATIVES SYMPOSIUM • BANNED BOOK WEEK • ALUMNI ART WORKS • SUMMER BRIDGE • PONTEM PARTNERSHIP RESEARCH DAY • BOOKPLATE • COPLEY READS • STAFF RETREAT • FACULTY RESEARCH • EMBEDDED LIBRARIAN • POSTCARD COLLECTION • EMBEDDED LIBRARIANSHIP • SUSTAINABILITY • THE COLLECTIONS, ACCESS, AND DISCOVERY DEPARTMENT UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD • HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION • ARCHIVES • CAMINO STACKS • COPLEY LOUNGE • E-TEXTBOOKS • STREAMING MEDIA • UNIVERSITY ARCHIVIST THE COLLECTIONS, ACCESS, AND DISCOVERY DEPARTMENT UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD • HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION • ARCHIVES • CAMINO STACKS • COPLEY LOUNGE • E-TEXTBOOKS • STREAMING MEDIA • UNIVERSITY ARCHIVIST • MCNAIR SCHOLARS• SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM RESEARCH DAY• CATHOLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS • DIGITAL USD• STUDENT EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR• SAN DIEGO LOWRIDER ARCHIVAL PROJECT• TRAVEL GUIDE COLLECTION • JOURNALS READING ROOM • BLACK AND WOMEN'S HISTORY • E-TEXTBOOKS • STREAMING MEDIA • UNIVERSITY ARCHIVIST • MCNAIR SCHOLARS• SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM RESEARCH DAY• CATHOLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS • DIGITAL USD• STUDENT EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR• SAN DIEGO LOWRIDER ARCHIVAL PROJECT• TRAVEL GUIDE COLLECTION • JOURNALS READING ROOM • BLACK AND WOMEN'S HISTORY • INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY • RECOMMEND BOOKS STUDENT ASSISTANTS HONORED WITH CUSTOM BOOKPLATES p. 6 C OPLEY CONNECTS EXPLORE | DISCOVER | SUCCEED VOL. 11, ISSUE 1, Spring 2023 COPLEY LIBRARY CANDICE MARIE BENBOW HONORED DURING BLACK AND WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH p. 16 THE 9TH ANNUAL DIGITAL INITIATIVES SYMPOSIUM p. 14 10 YEARS

hosted in electronic format in the institutional repository, Digital USD . Every aspect of the work of our library impacts our community, and we appreciate the opportunity this newsletter has given us to tell the stories of that impact. We look forward to ten more years of bringing our community members into our library lives.

Access the current and past issues of Copley Connects at https://digital.sandiego.edu/copley_connects/

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Destination for Information Resources

USD Alumni Can Return Virtually to Access Popular Library Databases Graduates from the University of San Diego may miss more than their fellow classmates and inspirational faculty. The library, both physical space and online, remains a favorite destination for many former students. In addition to a library building open to alums, some of Copley Library’s most-used databases for faculty, staff and students at USD are also available to USD alumni. The library first licensed JSTOR Alumni Access ten years ago and over the next several years, added Academic Search Alumni Edition and Business Source Alumni Edition (EBSCO products) along with the Sage Premier Package Alumni Edition. During the 2022-2023 academic year, alums took advantage of these resources nearly 3,200 times. Copley offers this access through the USD Alumni Association website. Alumni that want to take advantage of their virtual access and identify other library resources should try out https://www.sandiego.edu/library/alumni.php

New Subscriptions to Primary Sources in 2022-2023

Black Life in America — an expansive window into

Global Newsstream — one of the largest collections of news from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia that enables users to search the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format.

Hispanic Life in America — primary source collection offering centuries of Hispanic American history, culture, and daily life – as well as the ways the dominant culture has portrayed and perceived people of Hispanic descent.

centuries of African American history, culture and daily life – as well as the ways the dominant culture has portrayed and perceived people of African descent via Black-owned newspapers and mainstream publications.

Social Explorer In March 2023, Copley Library initiated a two-month campus-wide trial for Social Explorer based on a request from a finance professor in the Knauss School of Business. Social Explorer is a data resource that enables users to create maps and tables using data of the U.S. Census Bureau from 1790 to the present. In addition to general U.S. Census data, Social Explorer also offers specialized datasets on various topics, such as U.S. Business Patterns, U.S. Health Data, and European Statistics. Based on the success of the trial, the library initiated a campus subscription to Social Explorer in August 2023.

Social Explorer has additional features such as “lecture launchers” and “data snacks” for students and faculty to access data on a specific topic (e.g., “Using Data in the Hiring Process”). Researchers can easily visualize demographic data with Demographic Profiles, based on zip code, county, or state. Social Explorer offers easy sharing of its data in a variety of formats. Maps are shareable with a link, an embed code, or email. Tables can be downloaded to Excel or shared with a link.

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Destination for Information Resources

Attention Travelers! If the past is what you seek… If you want to visit another era–from the recent past or all the way back to antiquity, the library’s Archives and Special Collections can take you there. These visits are brought about not through a time machine, but through the things that were left behind: letters; diaries; postcards; even cuneiform tablets. Their survival speaks to their enduring value–what was considered important not only to people at that time, but also to succeeding generations. These objects illuminate how people once lived; what ideas animated their intellectual life; and what they believed in. They also show us by comparison what has changed–including opinions and beliefs that to us no longer seem true. Special Collections collects ephemera (postcards, papers, and memorabilia) as well as rare books on a variety of subjects.

For example, you can peruse 19th century household guides containing home remedies like the popular Gunn’s New Family Physician Home book of Health

published in 1866 or get beauty tips from 1841’s Heath’s Book of Beauty edited by the Countess of Blessington. You can delve into family papers like the Davidson Family papers which includes photographs and correspondence written during Ethel Helena Davidson’s time as an American Expeditionary Force nurse in France during World War I; a scrapbook of Ethel’s wartime experiences and army records. Our postcard collection includes messages written from exotic destinations anytime from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. Meanwhile the University Archives documents the life of our university through the records of its employees and its administrators. Through these documents you can get a glimpse of the thoughts, expectations and struggles of individuals and university organizations of the past.The Archives also chronicles events and milestones experienced by the university’s students as they navigated their academic and social lives. University records in the Archives date from the 1940s up to the present time. The Archives can reveal the past through its collection of

physical objects–photographs, videos, oral histories, news clippings and correspondence. The Archives can also showcase the recent past through the digital objects we captured like Faculty Newsnotes whose print version had disappeared only to be reborn online.

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Welcoming Encounters

Annual Library Retreat Copley’s annual retreat for library faculty and staff on January 18, 2023 focused on diversity, equity and inclusion through the voices of three dynamic underrepresented speakers, Jay Rice (USD Director, Black Student Resource Commons), Sahmie Wytewa (USD Tribal Liaison), and Isabel Soto-Luna (Business Librarian, University of Nebraska-Omaha). In addition, activities and breaks planned by the Copley Retreat committee reinforced the benefits of a teambuilding approach to challenges.

Top left: Dr. Theresa Byrd, Dean of the University Library and Jay Rice, Director of the USD Black Student Resource Commons. Top right: Isabel Soto-Luna, Business Librarian, University of Nebraska-Omaha) addresses retreat participants. Bottom left: Teambuilding experiences for Copley Library. Bottom right: Sahmie Wytewa, USD Tribal Liaison, and Dr. Theresa Byrd.

Student Employees in Copley (Federal Work/Study, Graduate, and ROTC)

Garret Schrantz Kelise Shaw Isaiah Smith Lia Tabatabaei Egemen Tangun Chantelle Tiya Montse Ventura Valeria Villa Turbay Jayson Winstead Gunner Zoch

Yliana La Cross Leila Loya Michael Mack Ximena Moreno Jose Molly Murray David Ordaz Faith Osei-Tutu Maria Perez Sarah Rodriguez Bianca Salazar Dionisio Saucedo

Amari Esper Raul Flores Torres

Willie Allen Cecilia Baker Eliza Bocksch Amara Brooks Scarlett Cai James Carroll Emily Carter

William Gabel Izabella Garfias Cynthia Gonzalez-Millan Carlie Hall Thanya Hawkins

Abigail Hynes Sherry Khalil Matthew Koebel Maria Krembs

Wisdom Choice Regina Czerewko Aleksandra Davies Michael DePaula

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Copley Library Faculty Scholarship

Presentations

Besnoy, A . (2023, July 24). Navigating the Ever Changing Digital Landscape: Information Literacy, the Internet, and Safety [Presentation] Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of California San Diego. Burkhart, H . (2022, November 4). College Bridge Programs and the Academic Library: Creating and Sustaining the Pontem Partnership [Presentation] at the Catholic Library Association’s Fall Virtual Conference. Byrd, T. , Houston, A., and Namachchivaya, B. (2022, November 8). HathiTrust’s Aspirations: A Conversation with HathiTrust Board Members [Panel presentation]. HathiTrust Annual Members’ Meeting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s142Ykltzrw&t=327s. Dozier, V. (2023, February 8-12). Beyond Performative: Experiences of an Action-focused DEIA Committee [Presentation]. Joint Council of Librarians of Color (JCLC). Dozier, V. & Leftwich, A. (2023, March 15-18). Let’s Talk About the Future An Open, Socially Just Peer Review Process [Presentation] Association of College & Research Libraries. Fullmer, M. , Schumacher, S., (2023, September 26). Unsettling Collections: Bias in the Visual Canon. In Blended Session: Adventures in Critical Cataloging [Paper presentation]. Visual Resources Association (VRA) 2023 Conference, Onsite. https://vra2023.sched.com/event/1Nogn/blended-session-adventures-in-critical-cataloging Gong, R. (2023, March 2). Building the tapestry of student success: We are all in this together [Keynote Presentation]. Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) OER and Dual Enrollment Conference. Atlanta, GA. Gong, R. (2023, April 25). Active collaboration and engagement with students: A key to OER success [Invited presentation]. OERWest Network Convening. Tempe, AZ. Gong, R. (2023, May 24). Starting from the ground up: Developing a vision, strategic plan, and assessment framework for OER programs [Invited presentation]. Partnership Among South Carolina Academic Libraries (PASCAL) Webinar. Gong, R. (2023, May 25). Centering student success and equity in OER programs [Keynote presentation]. The Louisiana Library Network (LOUIS) OER for Student Success and Equity Virtual Symposium. Marcum, C. (2022, September 29) Author Panel Questions and Answers [Panelist]. Journal of Library Outreach and Engagement. Marcum, C. (2022, November). Funding and Experience Optional: Developing an Academic Library Outreach Plan [Presentation]. Annual Access Services Conference, Atlanta, GA. Marcum, C. & Paolillo, C. (2022, October). Motivating and Retaining Library Student Assistants in Access Services . [Presentation] Annual Student Employment in Academic Libraries Virtual Symposium, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, IN. O’Grady, K. (2023, June 5-6). Is there a recording? Can I get the slides? The death of live workshops [Presentation]. The Association of College & Research Librarie New England Chapter Joint Annual Conference. https://acrlnec.org/annual-conference/conference-program/ O’Grady, K. (2023, October 11-13). Do working graduate nursing students apply the evidence-based nursing skills they learn in school when they go to work? [Presentation] The Midwest Chapter of the Medical Librarian Association Virtual Conference. https://mcmla45.wildapricot.org/conference2023 Turner, L. , Hackett, C., Thonen, K., & Cipkowski, P. (2023, March 7). Fearlessly interim: Best practices for eresource management when the position is vacant . [Panel presentation]. Electronic Resources and Libraries (ER&L) 2023 Conference, Onsite. https://electroniclibrarian.org/2023-program/

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Copley Library Faculty Scholarship

Publications

Bidwell, J. , & Anan, B. P. (2023). “Advancing professional skills in undergraduate students: Faculty-student mentorship.” College & Research Libraries News , 84(9), 322–325. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.84.9.322 Dozier, V. , Nann, A., and Adkins, M. (2022). “When DEIA Meets Faith in Heightened Tensions: DEIA Initiatives at Catholic-serving Institutions.” Theological Librarianship , 15(2), 8-25. Fullmer, M. (2023). “Future Proofing Streaming Video Acquisitions: A Medium Sized Academic Library Adapts.” Technical Services Quarterly 40(2): 59–75. doi:10.1080/07317131.2023.2187109 Gong, R. (2022). Two sides of the same coin: A tale of two OER programs . In A. Elder, S. Buck, J. Gallant, M. Seiferle-Valencia, & A. Ashok (Eds.), OER Starter Kit for Program Managers . https://press.rebus.community/oerstarterkitpm/ Maher, D. (2023, July 17). “Documenting support for human rights on both sides of the California-Mexico Border with Archive-It.” Archive-It Blog . https://archive-it.org/post/documenting-support-for-human-rights-on-both-sides-of-the-california-mexico-border with-archive-it/ Turner, L. (2022). ” Technical Services and the Project Management Approach for Library Renovations.” In E. German & J. Ballestro (Eds.), Project Management in Technical Services . American Library Association, Chicago, IL.

Open Access Benefits for USD Faculty Scholarship beyond Copley Library From July 2022 through June 2023, through its membership in SCELC (Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium), Copley Library’s consortial open access agreements with select academic publishers allowed seventeen USD authors to publish their articles with open access (OA). This designation makes the articles freely available with no barriers to individuals who wish to read them. The authors would otherwise be charged Article Processing Charges (APCs) by their publishers to publish their own articles as open access, for a total savings of $53,890 to the authors.

SCELC Transformative Agreements with Publishers

Author APC Avoidance (Savings to the Authors)

Number of OA Articles

University of San Diego

17

$53,890

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