A presentation I gave to FSU Library staff about my experience as a graduate assistant in the FSU Technology & Digital Scholarship department.

1. Library Innovation X FSU
A Y E A R O F E X P L A I N I N G W H A T W E D O A N D W H Y W E A R E D O I N G I T
C A M I L L E T H O M A S
G R A D U A T E A S S I S T A N T I N T E C H N O L O G Y & D I G I T A L S C H O L A R S H I P
F L O R I D A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R I E S

2. About Me
Graduating Library School!
 Graphic novels, research methods, metadata, management, DIS
Presenting Research at NCAAL in St. Louis
 Independent study in data curation education
Stepping down as President of ALA sc FSU
Treasurer of BGSA at FSU
ARL & Spectrum Scholar
Job hunting!

3. What do you do and why???

5. Micah and The Vandeminions

6. Scholarly
Communication
Migrating to Islandora
Copyright
Bibliometrics
Open Access Week
ALA and SGA
Social Media cntent
Revamping office web presence
Moving into the same office
Public Access Mandates
The Owl

7. Digital
Scholarship
 Developing services
 R&D
 Pilot project
 Collaboration/ Partnerships

8. Data
Management
 Learning about it
 Discovery
 Collections
 Visualization
 Storage & preservation

9. Web & social
media
 Archiving, KINDA SORTA
 Researching practices
 Meeting with other experts
 Researcher Impact Development

10. User Experience
 My personal crusade for UX
Mason says there’s more to come!
 Consistency
 More user testing
 Streamlining resources on interfaces
 Scanning for issues
Digital Research and Scholarship + UX
 Web presence
 Marketing
 Migrations as opportunity

11. Professional Experience
Presenting
Copyright consultations
Project management
Working in an Academic Library
Innovations vs. Operations
Collaborating!
Reference
New practices in my own research

12. Conferences & Travel
IEEE Conference on Big Data
FLA
ALA in San Francisco
NCAAL to present poster

13. Suggestions for Improvement
More centralized communication
GA meetings
Brown bags!!
UX dedicated initiative

14. Thanks!
Q&A
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