Browsing by Author "Gilbertson, Keith"

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    Behind the Scenes of the Fair Use Week Exhibit - How We Made Our Copyright Decisions
    Pannabecker, Virginia; Sebek, Robert; Walz, Anita R.; Fralin, Scott; Gilbertson, Keith (2016-02)
    This workshop was created for a general audience, with an expectation of most being students, staff, or faculty in a higher education environment. *This workshop was developed with United States copyright law in mind. During this workshop, presenters and participants discussed decisions related to using copyrighted materials in an in-person and online exhibit. Following the discussion, they explored an interactive exhibit and consider whether uses of copyrighted materials in case studies included in the exhibit were more towards ‘Fair,’ or towards ‘Infringing.’
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    Creation of a library tour application for mobile equipment using iBeacon technology
    Bradley, Jonathan; Henshaw, Neal; McVoy, Liz; French, Amanda; Gilbertson, Keith; Russell, Lisa Becksford; Givens, Elisabeth (Code4lib Journal, 2016-04-25)
    We describe the design, development, and deployment of a library tour application utilizing Bluetooth Low Energy devices know as iBeacons. The tour application will serve as library orientation for incoming students. The students visit stations in the library with mobile equipment running a special tour app. When the app detects a beacon nearby, it automatically plays a video that describes the current location. After the tour, students are assessed according to the defined learning objectives. Special attention is given to issues encountered during development, deployment, content creation, and testing of this application that depend on functioning hardware, and the necessity of appointing a project manager to limit scope, define priorities, and create an actionable plan for the experiment.
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    DLA: Who We Are and What We Do
    McMillan, Gail; Gilbertson, Keith; Hall, Nathan; Lawrence, Anne S.; Weeks, Kimberli; Wills, D. Jane; Xie, Zhiwu (2012-05-24)
    In Service Day (ISD) 2012 presentation about the Digital Library and Archives (DLA).
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    Fair Use Week Exhibit and Event Toolkit
    Pannabecker, Virginia; Walz, Anita R.; Sebek, Robert; Fralin, Scott; Gilbertson, Keith (Virginia Tech, 2016-02-22)
    In Fall 2015, the Open Knowledge Committee of Virginia Tech’s University Libraries decided to participate in Fair Use Week 2016. This was our first time participating. We put a call out and gathered a planning group. Our week-long event included an interactive exhibit, an exhibit reception, three workshops, a website, and a blog post. Our goals for this event were to: (a) raise awareness of the nature and application of the Fair Use provision in U.S. Copyright law, and to (b) provide interactive components to engage participants in thinking about copyrights and their choices when: 1. considering the use of copyrighted materials for research, education, creative, commercial, or other purposes, and 2. creating and sharing copyrightable works in various contexts. We took a broad view of our target audience - aiming to provide in-person and online opportunities for interactive engagement by VT students, employees, instructors, researchers, and the general public. We reused resources from others, and want to share our content for further reuse. Fair Use is a 4-part exemption of U.S. Copyright Law which allows copying, redistribution, public displays, performance, transmission, and creation of new versions when the proposed use is deemed by the user’s informed analysis to be “fair” rather than “infringing.” Explore various tools and resources for your Fair Use analysis. Exhibit focuses on several local, current, and historical examples related to fair use. 2016/02/22 - 2016/03/11
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    How we went from worst practices to good practices, and became happier in the process
    French, Amanda; Kayiwa, Francis; Lawrence, Anne S.; Gilbertson, Keith; Lohrey, Melissa (2016-04-25)
    Our application team was struggling. We had good people and the desire to create good software, but the library as an organization did not yet have experience with software development processes. Work halted. Team members felt unfulfilled. The once moderately competent developer felt frustrated, ashamed, helpless, and incompetent. Then, miraculously, a director with experience in software project management and an experienced and talented systems administrator were hired and began to work with the team. People in the group developed a sense of teamwork that they had not experienced in their entire time at the library. Now we are happy, excited, and energetic. We hope that you will appreciate our “feel-good” testimony of how excellent people and appropriate processes transformed an unhealthy work environment into a fit and happy team.
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    Is It a Fair Use? Celebrating Fair Use Week to Promote Critical Thinking about Copyrights
    Pannabecker, Virginia; Walz, Anita R.; Sebek, Robert; Fralin, Scott; Gilbertson, Keith (2016-05-18)
    Have you ever been asked, “Can I use this?” in reference to an article, book, image, or other copyrightable work intended for a course, publication, or professional training? This lightning talk presents one university library’s Fair Use Week celebration that built in training opportunities and self-directed learning tools to address such questions. Learn about one public university library’s experience celebrating Fair Use Week 2016. The celebration focused on engaging ourselves, students, staff, faculty, and the public in critical thinking activities related to U.S. copyrights and fair use. This lightning talk provides a five-minute summary of the highlights, lessons learned, and event components: an exhibit, programming, and accompanying materials. A link to an online event toolkit, openly licensed (CC BY 4.0), with files and information is included in the final slide for further exploration by interested parties. The toolkit includes editable files and example PDFs for items such as: publicity flyer; handouts; exhibit panel design files and photos; program descriptions and materials; and example budget, equipment listing, and timeline.
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    Mutant superheroes, contained chaos, and smelly pets: Library innovation through imaginary anarchy
    Gilbertson, Keith (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2013-04-10)
    Libraries have a history of innovation, from their inception to the advent of open stacks, interlibrary loan, electronic cataloging, learning commons, and maker spaces. The information environment outside of libraries has also changed rapidly, especially in the last two decades. Quality information sources are available to the public instantly and in an à la carte fashion. This has happened at the same time that costs for academic journal subscriptions within the library have increased. In response to these changes, the pressure for the academic library to innovate and redefine itself as valuable resource to the academic community, rather than a cost center, has grown. Many academic libraries have evolved to operate in a culture of consensus building, detailed organization, and preservation. These values are useful and worthy of continuation, but without other strong values, the typical academic library may not have the cultural structure necessary to encourage the desired innovation to occur rapidly and on a regular basis. This paper suggests alternative, supplemental values that would foster innovation and creativity within academic library settings, and proposes a way to begin integration of those values into the library, without compromising traditional values. A model for innovation is proposed by describing a job design that is ideal for encouraging creativity and productivity, and then daring libraries to offer these model jobs to enthusiastic employees. Aspects of the job design will be supported by anecdotes and research from psychology, sociology, business, and libraries. While the job design is meant to be holistic, less adventurous libraries will have an opportunity to implement some of the suggestions independently of others. Encouraging innovation in libraries is a popular topic, but this approach is unique for two reasons. First, it suggests that pockets of innovation can be encouraged in the library immediately, without disruptive, painful, and protracted upheaval of the entire library culture and staff. Second, the job design proposal and the cultural suggestions presented have not originated from library human resource professionals or those in management. These suggestions come from non-managerial employees charged with innovation. Their insights are based on intuition and experience, and compose an alternate viewpoint worthy of consideration. Here are some of the cultural ideas that are likely to spark discussion and controversy because of their variance from traditional academic library practices: The one line job description Meeting only monthly Innovation through isolation Death to deadlines Single-tasking Elimination of yearly reviews Shifting from flexible schedules to un-schedules A central theme is that in order to encourage library innovation, there should be librarians and staff that are self-directed and self motivated. Employees who are happily working on the set of projects that they wish to work on, in the way that want to work on them, will be more creative and more productive. Library workers should develop these traits, while management should shift from planning, organizing, and controlling functions to advocacy, forecasting, simplifying, and building external relationships.
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    A native iPad app for DSpace 7
    Gilbertson, Keith (2019)
    The developers of the upcoming version of DSpace 7, in the process of creating an updated and unified DSpace interface, have also updated the REST API for completeness. This redesigned API opens many opportunities for future institutional repository integrations. One such integration is a native iPad (and also iPhone) app that will allow repository browsers and administrators to interact with DSpace 7. In this non-technical lightning talk, I will demonstrate the app, and explain the differences in interacting with DSpace from a native mobile app versus a website that has been designed to adapt to the screen size of mobile devices. The app is supplementary to the newly updated and complete web interface on DSpace 7; it does not replace the web interface, but will allow organizations to make their repositories available to researchers through the App Store, and will allow partial access to the repository even when a data connection is not available. It also serves as a demonstration of future possibilities based on repository APIs. The release of the app will be timed to coincide with the release of DSpace 7 this summer, so I will also use the conference as an opportunity to look for DSpace institutions that have an interest in piloting the app with their repositories and to discover if there is interest in a similar project for Android.
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    Process Accounting
    Gilbertson, Keith (Linux Journal, 2002-12-01)
    Standard utilities can help you collect and interpret your Linux system's process accounting data. Describes the uses of process accounting, standard process accounting commands, and example code that makes use of process accounting utilities.
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    Video Playback Modifications for a DSpace Repository
    Gilbertson, Keith; McVoy, Liz (Code4Lib Journal, 2016-01-28)
    This paper focuses on modifications to an institutional repository system using the open source DSpace software to support playback of digital videos embedded within item pages. The changes were made in response to the formation and quick startup of an event capture group within the library that was charged with creating and editing video recordings of library events and speakers. This paper specifically discusses the selection of video formats, changes to the visual theme of the repository to allow embedded playback and captioning support, and modifications and bug fixes to the file downloading subsystem to enable skip- ahead playback of videos via byte-range requests. This paper also describes workflows for transcoding videos in the required formats, creating captions, and depositing videos into the repository.