UTA Libraries

Conference Proceedings

Bailey, J., & Mirza, R. (2013). LibGuides, videos, and screencasting: Technologies to enhance and promote digital wisdom in information literacy instruction. In Brad Sietz (Ed.), Fiesta de excelencia: Celebrating excellence in library instruction: Thirty-ninth national LOEX Library Instruction Conference proceedings, Fort Worth, Texas, May 5-7, 2011. Ypsilanti, MI: LOEX Press. Conference Proceeding Published

Essays

Bailey, J. (2013). "Paws for Finals" at University of Texas at Arlington Library. College and University Libraries Division Blog, Texas Library Association. Retrieved from http://culd.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/paws-for-finals-at-university-of-texas-at-arlington-library/

Presentations

Plugged into User Behavior: Low-Budget, High-Impact Usability Testing of Library Subject Guides

Trkay, G., Herzog, A., Mirza, R. Huddleston, B., & Bailey, J. (2013, April). Plugged into user behavior: Low-budget, high-impact usability testing of library subject guides. Preconference workshop presented at the Association of College and Research Libraries 2013 Conference, Indianapolis, IN. Abstract retrieved from http://conference.acrl.org/pluggedin-pages-270.php Abstract: How do students really use library subject guides?  Librarians can speculate, but if guides are difficult to navigate, users will leave. Attending this preconference will allow you to take the guesswork out of subject-guide design. Learn how to construct, conduct, and analyze usability tests by practicing these skills during the session. Hands-on activities will also include incorporating models of information-seeking behavior with findings to better meet students’ needs.

Awards and Honors

STAR Award (Super Talent Appreciated and Recognized)

Recognizes outstanding achievement, performance, or service to the UT Arlington Library.

Books

Worcester, Lea and Evelyn Barker. Legendary Locals of Arlington. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2013.

Presentations

"Legendary Locals of Arlington"

"Legendary Locals of Arlington"

"Legendary Locals of Arlington"

Speaker, with Lea Worcester

"Legendary Locals of Arlington"

"Legendary Locals of Arlington"

Speaker, with Lea Worcester

"Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Information: Teaching with Documents"

Speaker, with Lea Worcester and Jenny Sweeney, National Archives

"Informal Educator Groups: Collaborate to Fuel Community Imagination"

Panelist, with Katherine Moloney, Amon Carter Museum; Cindy Gray, Fort Worth Public Library; Jenny Sweeney, National Archives; Sharron Conrad, 6th Floor Museum

Lightening talk on Installments, the bathroom newsletter

Books

Bichel, Rebecca M (co-author). Disrupting Central Asia: Journeys into Realism, Social Media and Other Imagined Communities. Saarbrucken, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2013.

Recordings

Conjure

CD recorded by band Herd of Instinct. Warr guitar, fretless bass, guitar and programming

Presentations

Format Designation in MARC Records

Presentations

The Maverick Veterans Voices Project: Lessons Learned So Far

Presentation with Melissa Gonzales at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Scholarly Communications and Digital Curation Affinity Groups meeting held at the UTA Libraries, December 13, 2013

Journal Articles

"Faculty Use of Altmetrics in the College of Engineering @ UT Arlington"

"Libguides and Usability"

Presentations

"Faculty Use of Altmetrics @ the UT Arlington College of Engineering"

"Using Engineering Library Resources for Research"

A presentation made as part of the UT Arlington Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Brown Bag Seminar series.

"Using Engineering Library Resources for Research"

Seminar given in January and September, 2013

"Using the UEP to Reach Undergraduate Students"

Presentations

"Things They Never Told You in Graduate School"

In this lightning round session, panelists from academic, museum, government, corporate, and non-profit archival institutions will discuss issues and quirks they encountered on the job for which their education did not quite prepare them, and how they dealt with those situations.

Presentations

Analytics for library Web sites and blogs: who's reading us?

Presentation at Texas STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine] Librarians' Conference : Survey of usage statistics modules for social network posts and informal online publications:  WordPress stats packages, Twitter's display, Google Analytics, and ImpactStory (altMetrics)--how to set them up, what they provide and don't provide--and their fit for libraries.

Presentations

Herzog, A., Miller, R., Wilson, A., Jackson, J., Symons, D., and Palmer, M. (2013, April). Braving the New World: What Do Online Library Educators Need to Know? Virtual presentation at Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), Indianapolis.

In order to address professional development needs of online instructors and begin a meaningful conversation about how to prepare the library profession for a leadership role in the online learning revolution, this webcast will discuss results of a recent survey of librarians engaged in online instruction and recommendations that emerged from this study.  Presenters and participants will discuss common challenges and considerations, and participants will begin to craft professional development plans surrounding online instruction competencies.

Trkay, G., Herzog, A., Bailey, J., Mirza, R., and Huddleston, B. (2013, April). Plugged into User Behavior: Low-budget, high-impact usbaility testing of library subject guides. Pre-conference presented at Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), Indianapolis.

Usability testing of locally created web content is crucial to comprehensive services in academic libraries because it helps us better understand whether we are meeting users’ needs. Although many librarians test the usability of their main websites, greater effort needs to be made to determine whether our subject guides are usable for two main reasons: (a) librarians’ research processes differ from those of students; thus when librarians design subject guides, a disconnect between their designs and students’ needs and preferences often occurs. Furthermore, (b) most public services librarians do not have a strong background in information architecture principles. With this in mind, no one should be surprised that students most often turn first to Internet search engines rather than library subject guides.

Presentations

It's a Big World After All ...the pitfalls of digitizing and describing a linguistics project by non-linguists (Ramona Holmes, Krystal Schenk - UT Arlington Library)

Project presentation of a digitized collection of linguistics recordings made by Jimmy G. Harris, a former employee of the United Nations who worked for several decades in many far-flung parts of the world. The recordings are unique, capturing languages and dialects from speakers in currently politically unstable countries where field work is difficult if not impossible. Furthermore, since the recordings were made from the 1960s to the 1980s, they also represent a unique capture of these speakers during a specific time. Adding this digital collection to our institutional repository posed some unique challenges, including reel to reel capture of sound from materials that were decades old and metadata creation without a certain type of specialization.

Faculty & Scholarly Communication; Getting Faculty Onboard an Institutional Repository

Explore why some academic units embrace Scholarly Communication/Open Access and some do not. •Outline an education program for Scholarly Communication/Open Access. •Relate how to approach graduate students concerning OA.

Books

Hough, H. (Editor, Compiler). (2013, August ed.). Tests and measures in the social sciences: Tests available in compilation volumes [Database]. Retrieved from http://libraries.uta.edu/helen/test&meas/testmainframe.htm

Hough, H. (Editor, Compiler). (2013, January ed.). Tests and measures in the social sciences: Tests available in compilation volumes [Database]. Retrieved from http://libraries.uta.edu/helen/test&meas/testmainframe.htm

Hough, H. (Editor, Compiler). (2013, March ed.). Tests and measures in the social sciences: Tests available in compilation volumes [Database]. Retrieved from http://libraries.uta.edu/helen/test&meas/testmainframe.htm

Exhibitions

Hough, H. (2013, January). History of science and technology (Exhibit). UT Arlington Science & Engineering Library, Arlington, TX.

Presentations

"Track Lines, Whistle Stops, and Czech Points: Visualizing Immigrant Routes To and Within Texas"

Presentation about maps and images relating to Czech, Moravian, and Slovakian emigration to Texas in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Presentations

Altmetrics: What is it and how is it relevant to librarians?

Presented at the second meeting of the Scholarly Communications & Digital Curation Affinity Group of the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative. Slides at http://www.slideshare.net/ciakov/iakovakis-mirzaaltmetrics.

Presentations

Arlington, Texas: Our Hometown

Editorial Roles

I Need A Library Job Texas (Head Editor)

I Need A Library Job (INALJ) is a one-stop shop for library and information service job listings (broken up by state, region, or country), articles, interviews, book reviews, and more for job seekers. As the Head Editor for the Texas page, I am responsibl

Exhibitions

MavsArt

MavsArt is a community art exhibit displayed on the first floor of the Central Library. I am the organizer and point of contact for this semesterly exhibit.

Other Creative Activities

The Maverick Lens: Views From the Library (Exhibit and Catalog), Erin O’Malley & Chris Conway, 2013.

Presentations

Library Reorganization, Chaos, and Using the Core Competencies as a Guide

Presentations

Speaker: "Strategic Planning Using Jim Collins' Good to Great; or, The Birth of a Hedgehog" Presentation at the 1st Annual Conference of the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, August 2013.

This presentation summarized the work that we have been doing at the UT Arlington Libraries for the past year toward a reorganization of the libraries' structure.  We used Good to Great as a starting point to set a framework for staffing, learning more about the realities of what we faced and then determining what our focus would be, our "hedgehog."  We spent 6 months finding out more about our users and their needs, surveying our current environment and that of our aspirational peers as a way to inform our decision making process. 

Speaker: "The Dark Side of Being the Boss." Presentation for the Access Services Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2013.

There are conversations no one wants to have:  termination, bad evaluations, etc. Intended for anyone who supervises – from volunteers to professional staff – this program will help set the stage for success by providing practical strategies for having crucial conversations and explaining the ABCs of behavior modification.

Speaker: "The Dark Side of Being the Boss." Presentation for the Texas Library Association (TLA) Annual Conference, Fort Worth, TX, April 2013.

There are conversations no one wants to have:  termination, bad evaluations, etc. Intended for anyone who supervises – from volunteers to professional staff – this program will help set the stage for success by providing practical strategies for having crucial conversations and explaining the ABCs of behavior modification.

Presentations

It's a Big World After All ...the pitfalls of digitizing and describing a linguistics project by non-linguists

Abstract A digitized collection of linguistics recordings made by Jimmy G. Harris, a former employee of the United Nations who worked for several decades in many far-flung parts of the world. The recordings are unique, capturing languages and dialects from speakers in currently politically unstable countries where field work is difficult if not impossible. Furthermore, since the recordings were made from the 1960s to the 1980s, they also represent a unique capture of these speakers during a specific time. Adding this digital collection to our institutional repository posed some unique challenges, including reel to reel capture of sound from materials that were decades old and metadata creation without a certain type of specialization.

Awards and Honors

Customer Commitment Award

Dallas Librarian of the Year 2013

Conference Proceedings

McDermott, John, Taner Ozdil, and Mitch Stepanovich.  "Combining Old and New Tools for Visualizing Environmental Factors: Heliodon, Planar Laser Induced Fluorescnece."  In: Proceedings of the Fourth Biennial Subtropical Cities Conference.  Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October 17-19, 2013.

Poster Abstracts

McDermott, John, and Mitch Stepanovich.  "Lessons Learned."  In: The Visibility of Research: Proceedings of the 2013 ARCC Spring Research Conference, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, March 27-30, 2013.  735.  The Architectural Research Centers Consortium, UNC Charlotte School of Architecture, 2013.

Presentations

"Combining Old and New Tools for Visualizing Environmental Factors: Heliodon, Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence."

McDermott, John, Taner Ozdil, and Mitch Stepanovich

"Lessons Learned: Using an Electronic Drop Box to Rapidly Disseminate Student Originated Research."

McDermott, John, and Mitch Stepanovich

"Unanticipated Impacts of Architectural Studio Culture on Available Technology."

Stepanovich, Mitch, and John McDermott

Exhibitions

"MavsArt" - University of Texas at Arlington Library, Arlington, TX. Sept 28- December 31, 2013.

"MOUNTED" – Fall Invitational, by Art Conspiracy, Dallas, TX. June 08, 2013.

“ArtCon 9” – 9th Annual Art Auction. Dallas, TX. http://artconspiracy.org/ November 16, 2013 – Raised $50,000.00 collectively for “My Possibilities” – a local charity organization. Artists are selected

“AURORA 2013: The Convergence of Light” Sponsored by the Dallas Morning News, Featuring National and International Artists specializing in New Media - Dallas Arts District, Dallas, TX. October 18, 2013. http://www.dallasaurora.com/ (over 45,000 people in attendance throughout the one-night-only event)

Films

"2nd International ISLC-2013 (International Symposium on Language and Communication) Media and Visual Arts Exhibition" - Art Gallery of Izmir University, Izmir - Turkey. June 16-19, 2013. Exhibited 2 short films in the experimental genre.

"Metaphysical Expressions" - Mercury Project Gallery, San Antonio, TX. May 18, 2013. Film feature.

Presentations

Trkay, G., Herzog, A., Bailey, J., Mirza, R., & Huddleston, B. (2013, April). Plugged into user behavior: Low-budget, high-impact usbaility testing of library subject guides. Pre-conference presented at ACRL, Indianapolis.

Usability testing of locally created web content is crucial to comprehensive services in academic libraries because it helps us better understand whether we are meeting users’ needs. Although many librarians test the usability of their main websites, greater effort needs to be made to determine whether our subject guides are usable for two main reasons: (a) librarians’ research processes differ from those of students; thus when librarians design subject guides, a disconnect between their designs and students’ needs and preferences often occurs. Furthermore, (b) most public services librarians do not have a strong background in information architecture principles. With this in mind, no one should be surprised that students most often turn first to Internet search engines rather than library subject guides.

Books

Worcester, Lea and Evelyn Barker. Legendary Locals of Arlington. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2013.

Presentations

Voyager Bulk Import: bibliographic record with multiple holding records

Presented at ELUNA 2013 Abstract: Discuss limitations and options in Voyager Bulk Import regarding bibliographic record with multiple holding records.