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Detroit Techno’s Response to the Urban Crisis
No full textThis research portfolio was one of the 2025 Burgess Award winners. It was written for Fall 2024 HIST H270 What is History? course and was nominated for the award by the course instructor, Dr. Jason McGraw.In the following research portfolio, I strive to uncover the largely unknown history of techno through Motown’s decline in the 70s to the genre's rise in the late 80s and 90s. Using historical context from the perspectives of Detroiters who lived through this era, I plan to discuss how techno’s very nature served as a response to the cultural implications of Motown’s departure, and the urban crisis as a whole. I will also include a selection of techno tracks (all from Detroit) in efforts to apply the contextual understanding of the genre through its music
An Introduction to Open Access for Graduate Students
No full textAn IU Libraries blog post.
"In your scholarly journey thus far, you’ve undoubtedly clicked on an article only to find a paywall that even your IU affiliation couldn’t unlock. You can imagine how common this experience has become as journal subscription costs outpace library budgets and with the rising number of industry and independent researchers. Consequently many scholars are rethinking the barriers that come between our work and its potential audience...
It’s ok to push back: Successes and challenges in implementing Slow for data services
No full textThis chapter builds on previous efforts to integrate the Slow movement into curating research datasets for our respective institutional data repositories. However, even as Slow advocates, we’ve struggled to implement the practices consistently. As individuals in a larger, Busy system, it has been a challenge to practice Slow– but on a personal level, we also recognize that we love our work, which makes it easy to get caught up in the Busy. We’re stuck in tension and are constantly trying to avoid being pulled back into the Busy. In this chapter, we reflect on how our work has (or has not) changed during the past two years through an anti-racism lens. After providing contextual information on the state of data sharing from the perspective of data librarians in the US, we briefly summarize Slow Data Services concepts. Then, we move on to discuss our successes and ongoing challenges in implementing Slow. We share examples of how this effort to adopt Slow can and has impacted our work, colleagues, and personal lives. We end not with calls to action but calls for help– ways that we would like to be supported and in support of others looking to Slow their work
The Future of the Library Publishing Directory: Looking Backward and Forward
No full textThis presentation was delivered as an active session at the 2025 Library Publishing Forum.Current members of the Library Publishing Directory Committee will engage with the community to discuss the path the Directory has taken and possible directions for the future. We will present findings from the 2024 Directory survey analysis, including highlights from the retrospective data analysis of all 11 years of Directory data. We will focus on how the Directory has expanded over the past decade, the growing role open access and open source platforms have played in library publishing, and other trends within the library publishing space. We will also discuss planned changes to the 2026 Directory survey, from question and section changes, to the important transition to conducting the survey every other year rather than annually. We will then engage participants through collective brainstorming and annotation to provide feedback on survey design and the survey-taking experience, such as the process of filling out the survey, how organizations manage which staff members respond to the survey, question topics and response options that may be missing, and survey accessibility. Participants will be able to contribute feedback and ideas through several means, including open discussion, annotation of the current survey document, and written brainstorming. Participants’ insights will be used to improve the redesign of the Library Publishing Directory survey to more accurately reflect library publishers’ experiences and priorities in the Directory
Challenges to cataloging with Japanese romanization: history, literature and data analysis
No full textJapanese romanization history begins in the late 19th century and keeps evolving in two systems, one of which is the Japanese-government preferred, the other of which is English-speaking-country preferred. The latest revision of the ALA-LC Japanese Romanization Table (2022) adopts these two systems: ISO 3602 and Hepburn romanization. Regardless of the adoption, a lot of Japanese romanization appearing in library metadata does not make good sense to English speakers because it is “phonologically incorrect” for them. ALA-LC Romanization Table is based on the mixture of Hepburn and ISO 3602. In the real world, Hepburn romanization is prevalently used in personal, corporate-body or geographic names. Therefore, as far as Japanese romanization is concerned, the real-world scenario sometimes contradicts what the library metadata displays. This proposed presentation will follow that which was presented for 2024 Core Interest Group Week titled Hepburn romanization revisited that includes the review and examination of the past literature and research on Hepburn romanization in library metadata as well as the history of Japanese romanization and the ALA-LC Japanese Romanization Table. The proposed presentation will briefly discuss the above and focus on the analysis of local data extracted from the Indiana University Libraries’ database. In addition, the research goals and plans and future research prospects will be shared with the participants. The research outcome will shed light on the best approach to Japanese romanization for libraries, in order to improve discoverability
Lieux de fiction: de "L'Île de la Sentinelle" à "Je suis Murakami. Conversation avec Benjamin Hoffmann
No full textCenter of Excellence of the French Embass
A Community-Engaged Study of Washington Community Schools' 2019 Construction Referendum and Strategies for Future Support
No full textAs part of the IU Center for Rural Engagement’s Sustaining Hoosier Communities initiative, students in the Senior Seminar in Sociology conducted a community-engaged capstone project in collaboration with Washington Community Schools (WCS), Daviess County, IN, to identify potential avenues for increasing voters’ support for a possible future referendum to allow WSC to address the additional need for space. With a classmate, I analyzed news and social media coverage of WCS’s 2019 $38M construction referendum, which was opposed by 61.3% of voters. This poster highlights findings from our analysis and reflection on my experience working on an allocative community identified project