1. Telling the Research Story…
Emily Asch
Head of Technical Services
St. Catherine University Library
Library Technology Conference 2012

2. St. kate’s story Private, Catholic University
Undergraduate College for Women
5,300 students
3,800 undergraduate, 1,500 graduate
261 faculty
Associate, Bachelor, Masters, and Doctoral Degrees
Part of 8 library consortium (CLIC)

3. Digital Commons
Berkley Electronic Press hosted institutional repository solution
Simple but robust structure
Series (group of documents)
Galleries (for a more visual/gallery presentation)
Events & Conferences
Journals
Customizable
Comes with very own support person!

4. Sophia: An e-community of scholarship and creativity
St. Kate’s institutional repository
Faculty & Student Research Visibility
Graduate research projects & papers
Senior Honors Papers
Oral history project
Art exhibit by faculty member
Video of faculty annual lecture

5. What we were trying to do
Create a showcase of for our
faculty-student collaborative research while focusing on the people and the experience
Office of Research and sponsored programs approached me about finding a venue to showcase the faculty/student collaborative research that happens at St. Kate’s This showcase would be on the students and their experience, as well as the faculty…

6. What we had Digital Commons Student interviews Student pictures
We knew we wanted to use this
Student interviews
Student pictures
Faculty pictures
Out of the box thinking

7. What we DID not have Final research product
An obvious structure for this

8. Series structure Series data fields: Data to go in: Title Author
Abstract
Description of research
Full-text of research
Data to go in:
Student name
Faculty name
Student interview (text)
Student picture
Title of project

9. Series

10. GALLERIES? Gallery view of objects Pictures Creative works
Just completed one
Could the data fields work for what we wanted?
It used graphics for the primary information point

11. Galleries? Gallery data fields Data to go in: Graphic
Name/title of graphic
Creator name
Description field
Date of creation
Data to go in:
Student picture
Student name
Faculty name
Student interview (text)
Title of project ? ? ? ?

12. GALLERIES!!!!

13. With Galleries We Could:
Have image be primary point of information
Present them as a slide show
Keep them viewable all at once (as a gallery, so to speak) ;-)
Focus on the student
Put dates and names
Add some other information
Interview text could be description
We were on a roll…

14. With Galleries Could we:
Alter and/or add some open text fields?
Create a parallel faculty gallery?
Create links to a particular faculty page?
Add HTML links to open text fields?
Add audio/video?
What if we did have the finished project/research?

15. bePress support to the rescue
I had some knowledge / experience of adding fields
Asked my support rep about what exactly we could do (this happened a lot!)
And as always they came through and made the changes we needed!

16. How it came together Title Research project description
Collaborators names (students & faculty)
Project title
Picture
Year
Experience (interview text)
Included link when possible to the research project

17. Making the connections
Student Collaborator
Faculty Collaborator
Research Project

18. Where we ended up Graphical presentation
Focus on the people and the experience
Links from anywhere to everywhere
The cyclical and linked nature of research
The story of research…

19. The student research experience

20. Continuing the story
Involving University Development & Marketing/Communications
Using the RSS/ ing features
Permissions
Getting the next batch