During MT Engage Week, be sure to visit the library on Wednesday, September 26th to play LibGO! Snacks and prizes are available to the first 100 participants that play LibGO in room LIB 264A from 10:30am to 1:30pm on Wednesday!

A Quick and Fun Introduction to Walker Library with LibGO!

Co-sponored by MT Engage and Walker Library

Wednesday, September 26

10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Walker Library, Room 264A

Students who want a quick, interactive library game orientation (LibGO) experience will participate in an online *educational* challenge which will take them on a tour of the building and its resources. Students will learn how the library can help with academic success. Snacks and prizes will be available. The first 100 participants to play LibGO receive a grab bag of prizes: drawstring bag, water bottle, Frisbee, stress ball, carabineer, pen, and more! (must be present to win).

Still not sure you want to play?

You decide what paths to take and earn or lose points along the way. There are characters for all: undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and community members. Staff can benefit too by playing faculty or community characters! You can even play characters you don’t identify with and learn even more about how the library can help you succeed. Will you get a high score? Try it out by playing LibGO in the library on Wednesday, Sept. 26! 

LibGO (PDF)

The Spring 2019 Digital Workshops Series schedule is now available. Mark your calendar for the following topics.

*All workshops are in LIB 264A or LIB 272. Register to get a reminder email before the workshop and to help with program planning*

Workshop Schedules below:

• Scholarly Publishing Workshop Part 1: Intro to the Open Access Movement, Monday, February 18, 2019, 11:30am-12:30pm, Update 2/14/19: CANCELLED

• Scholarly Publishing Workshop Part 2: Jump Start Your Scholarly Writing, Wednesday, February 27, 2019, 11:30am-12:30pm, Update 2/14/19: CANCELLED

• Exploring Wikipedia Workshop, Tuesday, April 2, 2019, 11:30am-12:30pm, Room LIB 272
  • More information at http://dsi.mtsu.edu/wikipediaSP2019

For a PDF copy of the spring 2019 schedule (with class descriptions), click here.

Scholarly Publishing Workshop Part 1: Intro to the Open Access Movement

Monday, February 18, 2019, 11:30am-12:30pm

This session will provide an overview of the scholarly publishing model with an emphasis on its evolution to the open access movement. Discussion will emphasize the pros and cons of the open access movement as it pertains to authors of scholarly content. A hands-on activity will help participants discern between the different types of publisher agreements available to authors, and will give tips as to selecting preferable conditions for publication.

Audience: Most interesting for graduate students, early-career faculty, and those interested in scholarly publishing. Part 2 will be presented later on Feb. 27.

Prerequisites: Familiarity with one’s research interests/agenda

Presenter: Walker Library’s Education Librarian, Dr. Karen Reed

Location: Walker Library, LIB 264A (Instruction Classroom)

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Scholarly Publishing Workshop Part 2: Jump Start Your Scholarly Writing

Wednesday, February 27, 2019, 11:30am-12:30pm

Building on the concepts introduced in Part 1, the Part 2 session will help graduate students and early-career faculty produce an individualized, multistep action plan for turning one’s research into a submitted article. Participants will review library resources they can consult in locating possible journals for publication. The session will highlight organizational strategies for productive writing, and concepts such as author identifiers and author metrics data will be discussed.

Prerequisites: Familiarity with one’s research interests/agenda

Presenter: Walker Library’s Education Librarian, Dr. Karen Reed

Location: Walker Library, LIB 264A (Instruction Classroom)

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Exploring Wikipedia Workshop • Tuesday, April 2, 2019, 11:30am-12:30pm

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia is part of the fabric of our digital life. It is used worldwide, by millions of people daily. Join this workshop to learn more about it, as well as, how to use your knowledge and research skills to make it better. The instructor will share what she learned after taking a 9 week Wikipedia course, as well as, her experience working with a faculty member on a Wikipedia classroom assignment.

This workshop is for anyone who wants to add to their knowledge of Wikipedia.

Session topics:

• Overview of Wikipedia and how it really works
• Learn the ways you can contribute to Wikipedia
• See examples of how it is being used to teach digital literacy
• Explore the Library Wikipedia Research Guide for more in depth information

Prerequisites: None

Presenter:  Librarian, Jean Reese

Location: Walker Library, LIB 272 (Instruction Classroom)

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Project Update: The scholarly digital research collection, Trials, Triumphs, and Transformations, was awarded Honorable Mention for the Garfinkel Prize in Digital Humanities at the American Studies Association Conference in November 2018.

Collection available at dsi.mtsu.edu/trials

This project was produced by the James E. Walker Library, in partnership with the Center for Historic Preservation and funded, in part, by the Tennessee Board of Regents Office of Academic Affairs and the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area, a unit of the National Park Service. A topical summary of the research collection and its unqiue content is below:

Trials, Triumphs, and Transformations: Tennesseans’ Search for Citizenship, Community, and Opportunity

Tennessee’s history between the end of the American Civil War (1865) and the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act often gets ignored. This historic period offers insights into the transformations that took place, including challenges and achievements, as Tennesseans searched for citizenship, community and opportunity. Citizenship—what that has meant and how that has changed—is at the heart of this digital exploration into Tennessee history and culture. This digital collection’s objects, songs, photographs, paintings, and documents often reveal the challenges faced by Tennesseans as they pursued the rights and benefits of citizenship.

Unique Content
A curated collection of rare, hidden, and unique items uncovered from collaborative partnerships including universities, public libraries, state and local archives, museums, and historical societies across the state. The collection includes interpretive layers such as scholarly essays, lesson plans, interactive visualizations and metadata records.

A visual copy (PDF) of the collection introduction is available for download here.

Trials, Triumphs, and Transformations: Tennesseans’ Search for Citizenship, Community, and Opportunity

Tennessee’s history between the end of the American Civil War (1865) and the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act often gets ignored. This historic period offers insights into the transformations that took place, including challenges and achievements, as Tennesseans searched for citizenship, community and opportunity. Citizenship—what that has meant and how that has changed—is at the heart of this digital exploration into Tennessee history and culture. This digital collection’s objects, songs, photographs, paintings, and documents often reveal the challenges faced by Tennesseans as they pursued the rights and benefits of citizenship.

Collection available at dsi.mtsu.edu/trials

Unique Content
A curated collection of rare, hidden, and unique items uncovered from collaborative partnerships including universities, public libraries, state and local archives, museums, and historical societies across the state. The collection includes interpretive layers such as scholarly essays, lesson plans, interactive visualizations and metadata records.

Produced by the James E. Walker Library, in partnership with the Center for Historic Preservation and funded, in part, by the Tennessee Board of Regents Office of Academic Affairs and the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area, a unit of the National Park Service.

Project Update: This scholarly digital research collection was awarded Honorable Mention for the Garfinkel Prize in Digital Humanities at the American Studies Association Conference in November 2018.

A visual copy (PDF) of the collection introduction is available for download here.

The Fall 2018 Digital Workshops Series schedule is now available. Mark your calendar for the following topics.

*All workshops are in LIB 264A. Register to get a reminder email before the workshop and to help with program planning*

Workshop Schedules below:

• Introduction to StoryMaps, Tuesday, October 2, 2018, 11:30am-12:30pm
  • More information at http://dsi.mtsu.edu/storymap2018fall

• Getting Started in Scholarly Publishing, Tuesday, October 9, 2018, 11:30am-12:30pm
  • More information at http://dsi.mtsu.edu/Publishing-Fall2018

• Getting started in NVivo 12, Wednesday, October 31, 2018, 11:30am-12:30pm
  • More information at http://dsi.mtsu.edu/NVivo2018fall

• Introduction to Social Explorer, Tuesday, November 6, 2018, 1:30am-12:30pm
  • More information at http://dsi.mtsu.edu/SocialExplorer2018

Those who attend any of the fall 2018 workshops (above) can win a grab bag of prizes (above image)!!

(must be present at the workshop to win)

How do you win the prize bag? Play LibGO:

• Take the library tour challenge!
• Designed for students, faculty, staff and community
• Pick your character, make decisions
• Earn or loose point based on those decisions
• Discover how the library can help you succeed
• Try to get a high score!
• Take the short survey, help us improve the game

       (show staff the completed survey at the workshop to win prize bag)

Still not sure you want to play?

You decide what paths to take and earn or lose points along the way. There are characters for all: undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and community members. Staff can benefit too by playing faculty or community characters! You can even play characters you don’t identify with and learn even more about how the library can help you succeed. Will you get a high score? Try it out by playing LibGO.

Not interested in prizes?  Play anytime at http://library.mtsu.edu/libgo.

Getting started in NVivo 12 • Wednesday, October 31, 2018, 11:30am-12:30pm

Have you begun conducting qualitative research, but are finding it difficult to keep your data organized? Would you like a better way to manage data analysis? If so, come learn the basics of NVivo 11, a software tool designed for the collection and analysis of qualitative data sources.

This NVivo overview will include a demonstration of the presenter's research to present real-life examples of qualitative research in the social sciences. Participants will receive a free copy of the NVivo 11 Getting Started Guide.

Session topics:

• Navigating the NVivo Workspace
• Uploading and linking different data sources
• Structuring of data to facilitate coding
• Basic coding and analysis of text sources

Prerequisites: Familiarity with qualitative research methodology.

Presenter:  Walker Library’s Education Librarian, Dr. Karen Reed

Location: Walker Library, LIB 264A (Instruction Classroom)

REGISTRATION RECOMMENDED

Call for Proposals Now Open: October 1 thru October 26

Digital Projects Showcase applications due Friday, October 26, 2018

Walker Library Digital Scholarship Initiatives invites proposals for speakers to present a digital project with emphasis in digital methods or technologies in research, teaching, or outreach from any discipline or area at MTSU. Projects may be individual or collaborative and from MTSU faculty, staff or students. Great opportunity to highlight research, ideas, works-in-progress, project milestones/challenges/summaries, and to get conference presentation experience, and learn about other projects being done at MTSU.

Examples of digital projects include (but are not limited to):

• spatial research (with StoryMaps, ArcGIS, QGIS, Zeemaps, CartoDB, Batchgeo);
• text analysis (with Oxygen, OpenRefine, TEI, Viewshare, or Voyant);
• crowdsourcing or annotation research (Hypothes.is, Scripto);
• digital publishing (Scalar, Git, PressForward, Twine, Adobe, Drupal);
• digitization projects (with Omeka or CONTENTdm) or web applications;
• applying data visualizations or machine learning for discovery (with Tableau, R, D3, Python);
• network analysis (with Palladio or Gephi);
• temporal analysis (with TimelineJS, SIMILE);
• qualitative research (NVivo) or statistical analysis (SPSS);
• immersive media; computational methodologies; and others                                                                                                                                        

Selected projects will present in a lightning round style Showcase on Wednesday, November 28, 2018. Presenters will have 2, 4, or 7 minutes to present the use of technologies and overview of their digital projects. Computer, internet access, whiteboard and a microphone will be available for use. For examples projects, see the lineup from last year's Showcase 2017 here.

*Applications are due October 26, notifications to selected speakers are November 1. Send questions to digitalscholar[at]mtsu[dot]edu.

** APPLICATION FORM  (Link)         WORKSHOP SCHEDULE/CFP (PDF)