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“Back Alley Abortion”: A Rhetorical History, 1945-1980
“Back Alley Abortion”: A Rhetorical History, 1945-1980
Date: May 2019
Location: University of Minnesota
Faculty PI: Emily Winderman, Communications (there were also 2 undergraduate research assistants)
Librarian Project Manager: Shanda Hunt
Libraries Team: Alicia Kubas, Cody Hennessy, Lois Hendrickson, Linnea Anderson
Sprint Activities and Accomplishments
Sprint Activities and Accomplishments
This Sprint built an exhaustive archive of where and how the phrase Back Alley Abortion (and very closely related phrasing) circulated between the years of 1945-1980. This included the following activities and accomplishments:
-A Zotero library and supporting bibliographic files and search strategies from the fields of health, government, history, popular culture & media, communications & journalism, sociology, policy, and women’s studies.
-Extensive archival instructions, sources, and future directions
-Both targeted and broad gray literature search results.
-Documentation of research methodology
-A presentation and review of timeline tools and NVivo software
-A presentation on scholarly communication by guest librarian, Jenny McBurney
-Contacts for Libraries services/persons for future reference, including media support, qualitative tools, scholarly communications, publishing, and text analysis.
RELATIONAL DATABASE FOR MEXICAN-AMERICAN ART
RELATIONAL DATABASE FOR MEXICAN-AMERICAN ART
Date: May 2017
Location: University of Minnesota
Goal:
Design a framework for a relational database and digital archive to support research on Mexican American Art since 1848
End Products:
Relational database in Elevator, Metadata schema, Qualtrics survey for research on museum’s metadata practices Mexican-American art, Gantt chart and long-term project plan in Asana
Libraries Team: Sarah Carlson, Stephen Hearn, Jennifer Hootman, Lindsay Keating, Cecily Marcus, Colin McFadden, Jason Roy, Deborah Ultan, and Benjamin Wiggins
CAREGIVER-FOCUSED COMMUNICATION INTERVENTIONS: A SCOPING REVIEW
CAREGIVER-FOCUSED COMMUNICATION INTERVENTIONS: A SCOPING REVIEW
Date: May 2019
Location: University of Minnesota
Faculty PI: Lizbeth Finestack, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Librarian Project Manager: Sarah Jane Brown
Libraries Team: Amy Riegelman, Scott Marsalis, Katherine Chew, Richmond Kinney
Sprint Activities and Accomplishments
Sprint Activities and Accomplishments
This Sprint coordinated a scoping review for the research team exploring what is known about caregiver-focused interventions for child language development, and laid the groundwork for their upcoming application for an NIH R01 grant. This included the following activities and accomplishments:
-Completed and registered with OSF
-Ongoing scoping review in Covidence
-Methodology draft to be included in the final publication
-Extensive literature searching and documentation of a detailed search strategy to be included in the final publication
-Results maintained in an EndNote library
-Updated NIH Biosketch for Lizbeth
-Grant application materials and guidance
-All mandatory and optional forms for the grant application package
-Project timeline draft
-Manuscript completion goal is mid-September
-Project coding manual/data extraction form
A RESEARCH PORTAL FOR SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
A RESEARCH PORTAL FOR SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Date: May 2017
Location: University of Minnesota
Goal:
Create a secondary research tool for the Masters in Supply Chain Management program’s capstone class
End Products:
Designed a “choose your own adventure”-style website with Drupal Lite, currently being used for the summer course
Libraries Team: Kristi Jensen, Caroline Lilyard, Lindsay Matts-Benson, Jenny McBurney, Andrew Palahniuk, and Mary Schoenborn
Consulting: Shane Nackerud
WOMEN'S STUDIES EMPLOYMENT DATA
WOMEN'S STUDIES EMPLOYMENT DATA
Location: University of Minnesota
Date: May 2019
Faculty PI: Jigna Desai, Professor, Gender, Women, Sexuality Studies
Libraries Project Manager: Emma Molls
Libraries Team: Kim Clarke, Wanda Marsolek, Andrea Simenstad, with a visit from Alicia Hofelich Mohr (LATIS)
Sprint Activities and Accomplishments
Sprint Activities and Accomplishments
Dr. Desai and her research partner (who joined virtually for a few hours) have been collecting job postings for women’s studies faculty positions for the past few years with the help of various graduate students. Coming into the sprint, Dr. Desai had a large spreadsheet with coded job postings from three different venues online. Activities included:
-Clean and normalize the data across worksheets.
-Match every hiring institution with a unique identifier from IPEDS
-Present and demonstrate data sharing and storage platforms
-Present and demonstrate data visualization options for future publication
-Create README file
COLPAZ: EVALUATING COLUMBIA'S INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE LAW
COLPAZ: EVALUATING COLUMBIA'S INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE LAW
Date: May 2017
Location: University of Minnesota
Goal:
Discover literature relating to the COLPAZ: Mediation and Restorative Justice Procedures in Domestic Violence project evaluating the implementation of Colombia’s 2008 intimate partner violence law
End Products:
Interdisciplinary & bilingual bibliography of literature & resources (EndNote), Search guides by subject: Archives, Psychology, Public Affairs, Typologies and Conjoint Therapy, & Women’s Studies/Social Sciences
Libraries Team: Linnea Anderson, Kim Clarke, Jenny McBurney, Amy Riegelman, and Mary Schoenborn
Consulting: Loren Turner
ASSURING CLEAN WATER & SUSTAINABLE ECOSYSTEMS VIA IMPROVED AGROECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT
ASSURING CLEAN WATER & SUSTAINABLE ECOSYSTEMS VIA IMPROVED AGROECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT
Assuring Clean Water & Sustainable Ecosystems via Improved Agroecological Management
Assuring Clean Water & Sustainable Ecosystems via Improved Agroecological Management
Sprint Activities
Sprint Activities
Librarians and researchers collaborated to collect literature related to the business, economic, societal issues of the manufacture and use of urea and biuret. The team drafted rich bibliographies on chemical manufacturing processes and chemical purity, business intelligence on urea and biuret suppliers, current and historical uses of N-fertilizer components, and the social and environmental impacts of ammonia and biuret. Librarians then organized these documents into a single, linked report.
Location: University of Minnesota
Sprint Researcher Participants: Lawrence P. Wackett, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics; Carl J. Rosen, Soil, Water, and Climate; and William R. Harcombe, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
Project PIs: Lawrence P. Wackett, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics; Carl J. Rosen, Soil, Water, and Climate; and William R. Harcombe, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
Libraries Team: Megan Kocher, Caroline Lilyard, Katie Wilson, Kristen Cooper, Mary Schoenborn, Meghan Lafferty
Unique Circumstances: Faculty present for only one day, librarians continued this work across all three days
COMMUNITY RESEARCH DISSEMINATION IN A DIGITAL AGE
COMMUNITY RESEARCH DISSEMINATION IN A DIGITAL AGE
Date: May 2017
Location: University of Minnesota
Goal:
Experiment with different ways to disseminate her research to the public, the populations she studies, and practitioners who do not have access to scholarly works
End Products:
Twittergraphic, Infographic, Map, Website
Libraries Team: Jan Fransen, Jennifer Hootman, Shanda Hunt, Scott Marsalis, Shane Nackerud, and Benjamin Wiggins
Consulting: Melinda Kernik, Valerie Collins, Emma Molls, Carolyn Bishoff, John Barneson, and Len Kne
Data Expedition
Data Expedition
Location: University of Minnesota
Faculty PI: Dr. Bodong Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, CEHD
Libraries Team: Mariya Gyendina, Melinda Kernik, Ryan Mattke, Carolyn Bishoff, Franklin Sayre, Lindsay Matts-Benson, Shane Nackerud, John Barneson
Research Assistants: Daniel Hanson
Sprint Activities and Accomplishments
Sprint Activities and Accomplishments
We started with curating a set of open science datasets focused on information from the Arctic and Antarctic, recording metadata for each dataset and tagging its location and category. Each downloaded dataset has an accompanying Google doc with data transformation description and potential inquiry questions.
After exploring several visualization options, we designed the instructional approach and created a prototype of a website that would guide the students through a flexible “choose your own adventure” data expedition. In addition to this, we created a set of accompanying documents, including instructions for processing datasets and tutorials on creating data representations and transforming data.
Black Identity Development
Black Identity Development
Location: University of Minnesota
Faculty PI: Na’im Madyun, Associate Dean for Undergraduate, Diversity and Equity Programs
Libraries Team: Jenny McBurney, Malaika Grant, Amy Riegelman, Sunshine Carter, Shane Nackerud
Research Assistants: Eskender Yousuf
Sprint Activities and Accomplishments
Sprint Activities and Accomplishments
The team created a group Zotero folder for all materials, and identified two categories of newspapers: National Newspapers and Black Newspapers. From there, we created custom searches in ProQuest for each category and ran searches in both categories, importing results into Zotero. For the literature, the team identified major works and hand-searched to add to Zotero. They developed a scoping review search protocol and ran it in PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts, and International Index of Black Periodicals. The results were imported to Zotero folders. IIBP search interface required hand-searching. The team also identified major scales and hand-searched to add to Zotero. For the research tree, the team hand-searched to find pivotal works and how they relate to each other. The layout of the webpage was planned and tested Zotero folders with Zotpress and a practice timeline for Research Tree. Then, they created a basic website layout with sections for Literature, Scales, and Newspapers and a Slider Timeline. The team consulted with Shane on next steps for improving the website after the Sprint.
Denim: A Play
Denim: A Play
Location: University of Minnesota
Faculty PI: Lisa Channer, Associate Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
Libraries Team: Sarah Jane Brown, Kate Hujda, Linnea Anderson, Rafael Tarrago, Nancy Herther
Research Assistants: Matt Boerst (Theatre student), Lena Figlear (Theatre student), David Melendez (PhD student, Dramaturg), Savannah Reich (Playwright), Dan Dukich (Composer)
Sprint Activities and Accomplishments
Sprint Activities and Accomplishments
This sprint served as the research backbone for the writing of a new play with music about the history of denim jeans, their connection to the gold rush and the ways in which jeans have become a metaphor (accurately or not) around the world for ideas of American democracy and classlessness. The library team searched, collected, and curated a Zotero library of pertinent historical and archival materials to serve as background and inspiration for the writing process. The library team also identified archives of particular interest to the researchers, oriented the researchers to on-site archival research, and assisted in the planning of an upcoming trip to California.
Identifying & Addressing Disparities in the Criminal Justice and Health Care Systems
Identifying & Addressing Disparities in the Criminal Justice and Health Care Systems
Location:University of Minnesota
Project PIs: Rebecca Shlafer, Pediatrics; Michelle Phelps, Sociology; Kevin Reitz, Law School; and Tyler Winkelman, Medicine
Libraries Team: Benjamin Wiggins, Amy Riegelman, Caitlin Bakker, Sarah Brown, Scott Marsalis
Sprint Researcher Participants: Rebecca Shlafer, Pediatrics; Tyler Winkleman, Medicine; Latasha Jennings, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation
Unique Circumstances: A two-day sprint
Unique Circumstances: A two-day sprint
Sprint Activities
Sprint Activities
The faculty team and librarians collaborated over two days to produce the foundation of a scoping review that examines the intersection of community supervision (i.e., probation, parole) and health (broadly defined). The team also compiled an original data-set outlining the conditions of parole in each state from 1956-present and data on risk assessment tools for probation and parole from 1928-present. Additionally, librarians created an Experts@Minnesota profile page for the research group and trained researchers how to update their individual profiles.
GREEK RHETORIC IN SITU
GREEK RHETORIC IN SITU
Date: May 2017
Location: University of Minnesota
Goal:
Preserve and share career-spanning research project “Greek Rhetoric in Situ”, which includes decades of work and massive files
End Products:
Built a dynamic website to showcase research, Deposit 3D and other multimedia files into the University Digital Conservancy
Libraries Team: John Barneson, Valerie Collins, Jennifer Hootman, Erik Moore, and Shane Nackerud
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES PORTAL FOR INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH STUDENTS
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES PORTAL FOR INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH STUDENTS
Open-Access Educational Resource Materials for International Public Health Students
Open-Access Educational Resource Materials for International Public Health Students
Location: University of Minnesota
Faculty PI: Betsy Wattenberg, Associate Professor, School of Public Health
Libraries Team: Shanda Hunt, Kristi Jensen, Andrew Palahniuk
Research Assistants: Nancy Ching
Sprint Activities and Accomplishments
Sprint Activities and Accomplishments
The team curated freely available public health resources on 8 different topics and organized them on an open access website that we created. We also located or created many tutorials on finding open access information and developing professional skills. We hope that public health students and professionals who do not have access to expensive subscriptions will find the information on our website useful.
Feral Hemp
Feral Hemp
Date: May 2019
Location: University of Minnesota
Faculty PI: Tom Michaels, Professor of Horticulture
Librarian Project Manager: Shane Nackerud
Libraries Team: Kristen Cooper, Marlys McGuire, Kathy Allen, Julie Kelly, Kristen Mastel, Ryan Mattke, Colin Jones (Grad RA)
Sprint Activities and Accomplishments
Sprint Activities and Accomplishments
The challenge was to find diverse populations of feral hemp in the state of Minnesota. The objective was to find private and public lands where there is a high probability of finding feral hemp plants and then map those locations. Dr. Michaels hopes to initiate a hemp breeding project to introduce new cultivars of hemp for fiber, grain and CBD production specifically adapted to conditions in our state. Dr. Michaels also wanted research done on the Kentucky hemp cultivars that may have supplied hemp growers in Minnesota in the 1930s and 40s, and we agreed to create a bibliography of hemp production in Minnesota since the early 1900s.
Activities included:
-Setting up a shared, organized Zotero bibliography, Feral Hemp in Minnesota.
-Using print and online indexes, researched Kentucky hemp cultivars and added those to the bibliography.
-Scoured newspaper archives, university archives, MHS archives, national archives, bibliographic databases, internet tools, obituaries, government documents, county historical records, Minnesota digital library, and more for any records of pre-1950s hemp farms in Minnesota
-Using county plat books to pinpoint farm locations, mapped locations of hemp farms found into an ArcGIS StoryMap.
Finding Sources for ESPM 3051 Lands and Humans in World Cultures
Finding Sources for ESPM 3051 Lands and Humans in World Cultures
Date: May 2019
Location: University of Minnesota
Faculty PI: Kyungsoo Yoo, Professor, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate
Librarian Project Manager: Mariya Gyendina
Libraries Team: Kristi Jensen, Maggie Ragnow, Kris Fowler, Megan Kocher, Alexis Logsdon, Brian Vertuba, Lindsay Matts-Benson.
Sprint Activities and Accomplishments
Sprint Activities and Accomplishments
The goal of the sprint was to locate sources for course units and supplement them with reading engagement and class activities. Each unit was supposed to have focused readings on a soil science topic, as well as materials about the region and its culture. The goal was to create materials for three units. We ended up creating reading lists and activities for all 15 units in the course.
Activities included: Curating lists of readings for each topic, Developing sample activities, and developing outline of the final course project.
MAPPING THE HIDDEN WATERWAYS OF THE TWIN CITIES
MAPPING THE HIDDEN WATERWAYS OF THE TWIN CITIES
Date: May 2017
Location: University of Minnesota
Goal:
Create a map of the hidden & lost waters that lie below the Twin Cities
End Products:
Literature search and map of the rivers, lakes, streams, and wetlands based on land surveys that date back to pre-1900 which will be submitted to DRUM and ArcGIS Online
Libraries Team: Shanda Hunt, Melinda Kernik, Len Kne, Erik Moore, Megan Kocher, and Ryan Mattke
Blackface/Yellowface
Blackface/Yellowface
Location: University of Minnesota
Faculty PI: Josephine Lee, Professor of English
Libraries Team: Benjamin Wiggins, Yao Chen, Cecily Marcus, Marguerite Ragnow, Deborah Ultan
Sprint Activities and Accomplishments
Sprint Activities and Accomplishments
Josephine utilized the sprint to embark on a research project about the historical relationship between yellowface and blackface. Beginning with a lengthy list of productions that feature both yellowface and blackface or African-American actors in yellowface, the team extensively searched primary sources for details of plays and roles at the intersection of blackface and yellowface. The team completed searches of all actors and productions on the list using multiple databases, particularly those that feature historical newspapers and archival sources. Josephine combed through our results in a staging folder and added relevant citations to a collaborative Zotero citation library.
Storytelling for Justice
Storytelling for Justice
Location: University of Minnesota
Project PIs: Roozbeh Shirazi, Organizational Leadership, Policy, & Development; Kristine Miller, Landscape Architecture; Cindy Garcia Theater Arts & Dance
Libraries Team: Shanda Hunt, Kim Clarke, Phuoc Tran, Scott Spicer, Rafael Tarrago, Hayley Coble
Sprint Researcher Participants: Roozbeh Shirazi, Organizational Leadership, Policy, & Development; Kristine Miller, Landscape Architecture; Cindy Garcia, Theater Arts & Dance
Sprint Activities
Sprint Activities
The team of researchers and librarians worked together to craft an interdisciplinary literature review and annotated bibliography on the relationships between equity and sustainability in urban design and landscape architecture. The group conducted reviews of literature in four fields across multiple databases in each and also incorporated gray literature into these surveys. All citations and annotations were captured in Zotero. Librarians also provided mini-workshops for the three faculty on how to use a citation manager, collaboration tools, and data management.
Water and Equity: Co-developing Research and Engaged Approaches to Transforming Environments (WE CREATE)
Water and Equity: Co-developing Research and Engaged Approaches to Transforming Environments (WE CREATE)
Project PIs: Kate Derickson, Geography; Susan Galatowitsch, Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology; Sarah Hobbie, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; Bonnie Keeler, Institute on the Environment; Stephen Polasky, Applied Economics; and Fred Rose, Institute on the Environment
Libraries Team: Kate Peterson, Allison Langham, Dorothy Berry, Linnea Anderson, Melinda Kernik, Ryan Mattke
Team Derickson Sprint Activities
Team Derickson Sprint Activities
Location: University of Minnesota
Sprint Researcher Participants: Kate Derickson, Geography; five undergraduates; two community partners
Faculty, librarians, community partners, and undergraduate research assistants used the sprints to conduct foundational, interdisciplinary research on stormwater management and property dynamics in Nassau County, FL with a focus on permitting practice, eminent domain, and archival research on land use. The team collected GIS files, government documents, archival sources, interview transcripts, photographs, and scholarly literature. The undergrads are working on an atlas of environmental justice in the county. Librarians worked with the group to organize the team’s file management structure and workflows for collaboration. Additionally, the team conducted an extended interview with John Chapman, an Assistant Professor of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering. Finally, the team drafted components of an ArcGIS Online Story Map on stormwater management in Nassau County from the perspective of community members.
Unique Circumstances: WE CREATE team participated in two distinct sprints
Team Keeler Sprint Activities
Team Keeler Sprint Activities
This sprint focused on the various ways people value water in the Mississippi River basin. The researchers and librarians assembled a bibliography for research and primary documents on the subject. The result was a shared Mendeley reference collection and a spreadsheet of physical and digital archives with relevant sources for further exploration.
Location: University of Minnesota
Sprint Researcher Participants: Bonnie Keeler, Institute on the Environment, and Fred Rose, Institute on the Environment
Project PIs: Kate Derickson, Geography; Susan Galatowitsch, Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology; Sarah Hobbie, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; Bonnie Keeler, Institute on the Environment; Stephen Polasky, Applied Economics; and Fred Rose, Institute on the Environment
Libraries Team: Kris Fowler, Alicia Kubas, Cecily Marcus, Ellen Engseth, Kristen Mastel, Malaika Grant, Katherine Gerwig
Unique Circumstances: WE CREATE team participated in two distinct sprints; one day sprint
DISCOVERING GOVERNMENT AND ARCHIVAL RECORDS ON THE GULLAH/GEECHEE
DISCOVERING GOVERNMENT AND ARCHIVAL RECORDS ON THE GULLAH/GEECHEE
Date: May 2017
Location: University of Minnesota
Goal:
Discover and evaluate government and archival data about Gullah/Geechee people of the Southeastern United States, and explore grant options
End Products:
Identified and cataloged government data, surveyor records, maps, and archival materials on the historical relationship between the state and the Gullah/Geechee people
Libraries Team: Caitlin Bakker, Melinda Kernik, Alicia Kubas, Benjamin Wiggins
Consulting: Linnea Anderson & Dorothy Berry
Legislating Women’s Citizenship and Rights
Legislating Women’s Citizenship and Rights
Location: University of Minnesota
Faculty PI: Zornitsa Keremidchieva, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies
Libraries Team: Shane Nackerud, Kim Clarke, Alicia Kubas, Wanda Marsolek, Michael Beckstrand (LATIS)
Research Assistants: Kate Tuley
Sprint Activities and Accomplishments
Sprint Activities and Accomplishments
For this research sprint, Zornitsa and the team traced how women emerged as an object of discussion in the U.S. Congress. The team set up a shared, organized EndNote library where Zornitsa can collect congressional and secondary sources, include the PDFs of all citations, and annotate those documents online. They also trained Zornitsa on how to annotate collected documents using her Microsoft Surface Pro and how to use EndNote and NVivo. At the end of the Sprint, the team found and grouped roughly 2000 citations from various government document databases in EndNote.
Wild Rice in Minnesota and the Great Lakes Region: A Flagship for Environmental Preservation and Indigenous Resource Sovereignty
Wild Rice in Minnesota and the Great Lakes Region: A Flagship for Environmental Preservation and Indigenous Resource Sovereignty
Location:University of Minnesota
Project PIs: G.H. Crystal Ng, Earth Sciences; Mark Bellcourt, CFANS Office of Diversity and Inclusion; Mae Davenport, Forest Resources; Daniel Larkin, Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology; Amy Myrbo, Earth Sciences; Cara Santelli, Earth Sciences; and Michael Dockry, U.S. Forest Service
Libraries Team: Shane Nackerud, Carolyn Bishoff, Erik Moore, Julie Kelly, Shannon Farrell
Sprint Researcher Participants: G.H. Crystal Ng, Earth Sciences; Michael Dockry, U.S. Forest Service; Diana Dalbotten, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory; two graduate students
Sprint Activities
Sprint Activities
Librarians and researchers worked together during the sprints to develop a strategy to search for academic literature, gray literature, and primary source documents related to the topics of partnering with tribes, wild rice and tribes, community-based participatory research, natural resources management, food sovereignty, and listening sessions. The results of these searches were then categorized and collected into Mendeley, a citation manager. Also, with the assistance of archivists, the team collected finding aids and primary sources from archives at the university and around the country. Finally, the group collaborated to build a publicly accessible website for the project team using WordPress through DASH Domains.
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