Presentation

Co-presented with Jennifer Keach Presentation at the Virginia Library Association Annual Conference, Norfolk, VA Abstract Are you teaching procedures or are you teaching problem solving? Discover an approach to help develop your staff’s strategic thinking skills to meet the needs of the 21st-century library workplace. Explore how to apply learning theory and walk away with […]

Lightning talk presented at the VIVA Users’ Group Meeting, Virginia Library Association Annual Conference, Norfolk, VA Abstract JMU Libraries distributes its Special Collections finding aids to a number of discovery platforms, a process which historically has involved a significant amount of hand-encoding and manual data entry. We recently developed and implemented Spaceport, a Python app

Co-presented with Tiffany Cole Poster presented at Libraries Showcase, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA Abstract This poster describes a project to develop Spaceport, a Python app that transforms EAD finding aids from ArchivesSpace into EADs for Virginia Heritage, HTML files for the JMU Libraries website, and MARCXML records for the catalog. It outlines the challenges

Lightning talk presented at the Code4Lib DC/Maryland/Virginia Meetup, College Park, MD Abstract This presentation provides a brief overview of a project to develop a workflow and tools for batch creation of DOIs for JMU Libraries’ Digital Collections materials using the DataCite API and Python and XSLT scripts.

Co-presented with Allison Lyttle and Faye Goodman Poster presented at LET Showcase, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA Abstract This poster outlines the functions performed by the JMU Libraries E-Monograph Team to acquire and analyze, batch edit, check access, and distribute or delete metadata records for e-books and streaming media materials.

Co-presented with Steven W. Holloway Poster presented at LET Showcase, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA Abstract JMU Libraries & Educational Technologies participated in a 2017 pilot project with VIVA to present special collections records through a BIBFRAME discovery platform. This poster describes the project’s goals, the steps we took to prepare our records for conversion

Co-presented with Jennifer Keach, Elizabeth Price, Susan Thomas, and Michael Trocchia Poster presented at the Virginia Library Association Annual Conference, Norfolk, VA Abstract Your library may hire new employees throughout the year, but do you prepare them to succeed in your environment? Learn how James Madison University Libraries developed a new employee orientation program designed

Co-presented with Steven W. Holloway Presentation at ACRL Technical Services Interest Group, ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL Abstract The Virtual Library of Virginia Consortium (VIVA) contracted in 2016 with Zepheira and Atlas to launch a pilot project using archives/special collections records from seven member schools in a Linked Data experiment. The records are converted to