Copley Library Annual Report 2022-2023

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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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