Browsing by Author "Copeland, Andrea"

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    Collecting, organizing, and preserving diverse publication sources for the good of one community archive: Legal challenges and recommendations
    (2017) Copeland, Andrea; Lipinski, Tomas; Jones, Kyle M. L.; Library and Information Science, School of Informatics and Computing
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    Data Curation for Community Science Project: CHIME Pilot Study
    (Digital Curation Centre, 2018-04-25) Yoon, Ayoung; Spotts, Lydia; Copeland, Andrea; Library and Information Science, School of Informatics
    This paper introduces a community science project, Citizen Data Harvest in Motion Everywhere (CHIME), and the findings from our pilot study, which investigated potential concerns regarding data curation. The CHIME project aims to build a cyclist community–driven data archive that citizens, community scientists, and governments can use and reuse. While citizens’ involvement in the project enables data collection on a massive, unprecedented scale, the citizen-generated data (cyclists’ video data recorded with wearable cameras in the CHIME context) also presents several concerns regarding curation due to the grassroots nature of the data. Learning from our examination of cyclists’ video data and interviews with them, we will discuss the curation concerns and challenges we identified in our pilot study and introduce our approach to addressing these issues. Our study will provide insights into data curation concerns, to which other citizen science projects can refer. As a next step, we are in the process of developing a data curation model that will consider other factors related to this community science project and can be implemented in future community science projects.
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    How Public Libraries Respond to Crises Involving Patrons Experiencing Homelessness: Multiple Perspectives of the Role of the Public Library Social Worker
    (2023-05) Provence, Mary Anita; Starnino, Vincent; Adamek, Margaret; Copeland, Andrea; Kyere, Eric; Wahler, Elizabeth
    Due to a shortage of affordable housing, gaps in social welfare infrastructure, and the criminalization of homelessness, public libraries find themselves providing daytime shelter to patrons experiencing homelessness. Their needs and crises have created demands on staff and security that exceed their training and role. Sometimes police are involved, exposing patrons to possible arrest. To fill this knowledge and service gap, libraries have begun hiring social workers. Early research on the broad role of social workers suggests they are changing how libraries respond to crises with patrons experiencing homelessness in four keyways: by providing an option to calling 911; influencing code of conduct implementation, serving patrons, and equipping staff. However, no study has given an in-depth explanation of how social workers are changing libraries’ responses to crises with patrons experiencing homelessness. The purpose of this study is to explain how the role of the social worker influences how libraries respond when patrons experiencing homelessness are in crises. Considered through lenses of role theory, social cognitive theory, and the humanization framework, this embedded multiple-case study of three U.S. urban libraries collected 91 surveys and conducted 46 Zoom interviews. It includes the perspectives of 107 participants across six roles: patrons experiencing homelessness, social workers, front-facing staff, security, location managers, and CEOs. The social workers’ influence was perceived to reduce behavior incidents, exclusions, and arrests around three themes: (1) being an option, with subthemes of in-house referrals and de-escalation; (2) running interference, with subthemes of low barrier access and barrier-busting services; and (3) buffering, with subthemes of equipping, influencing code of conduct implementation, and advocating and being present during security and police interactions. Three models of library social work and their impact on the social worker’s role of de-escalation were identified and described: The Sign Up and Summon Model, the Outreach and Summon Model, and the Social Work Center Model. In addition, a commingled rival was found: the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement. The implications of the findings include recommendations for structuring library social work practice to reduce exclusions and arrests of patrons experiencing homelessness.
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    Inclusive Library Leadership: ILLID Focus Group
    (University Library, 2023-10-03) Johnson, Elizabeth "Nikki"; Copeland, Andrea; Palmer, Kristi; Sutton, Charles
    Alumni of the 2008 Indiana’s Librarians Leading in Diversity (ILLID) Fellowship Program will participate in focus groups to provide insight into the longitudinal impact of the program on their academic and professional experiences. Preliminary discussions with ILLID fellows surfaced both high and low program points, many aligning with the challenges identified in the 2017 IMLS Forum Report, Positioning Library and Information Science Graduate Programs for 21st Century Practice. Fellows expressed that the cohort experience and mentorship were key to their development and success as library and information science professionals. Several fellows expressed while they attained a full-time professional position, the library work cultures were not wholly conducive to work satisfaction or personal well-being. The ILLID program focused on successful attainment of the MLIS degree and a professional position. It did not however address the climate of the library environments into which the new professionals would enter. The focus group findings (along with other inputs) will inform the creation of a next generation diversity initiative one that connects recruitment and retention, one that will build a bridge between learning and working environments. We hope to learn and share from the focus groups the impact of the original program on the fellows and how that impact influenced the profession. The knowledge we gain from the fellows’ last 15 years of experiences in libraries has the potential to contribute to improving learning environments and curriculum within LIS programs, to developing inclusive leadership approaches, and to promoting work cultures where diverse individuals can thrive.
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    Learning through virtual reality: Virtual Bethel case study
    (2018) Copeland, Andrea; Wood, Zebulun; Spotts, Lydia; Yoon, Ayoung; Library and Information Science, School of Informatics and Computing
    Focusing on the challenges of teaching virtual reality creation and preservation, our paper will present a case study involving the virtual recreation of the Bethel AME Church sanctuary. We were particularly interested in students’ skills, the technology, and costs associated with teaching and learning virtual reality, and how these factors influence overall student learning experiences. Two courses are explored: 3D Production and Digital Preservation. We have learned that teaching and learning in this space is technology and skill intensive. By assessing the skills and technology needed as well as the costs and student experiences, we are better able to communicate the needs of these projects to potential funders and collaborators. We’ve determined that without external funding, we are currently at capacity and will need funding for additional collaborative projects. The level of technical ability of the students influenced their level of satisfaction as well as their capacity to learn.
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    Public Libraries’ service model for Community Open Data Engagement (mCode)
    (2022) Yoon, Ayoung; Copeland, Andrea
    While there has been a growing interest in open data utilization in community context, previous research pointed out that individuals’ participation in open data is low due to the various difficulties and lack of support. Public libraries are an essential role in citizen’s engagement with open data but they need resources and professional networks to guide them to initiate, organize, explain, and promote data services to their communities. Addressing this gap, this research aims to create a research-driven theoretical model for public libraries' open data engagement, named mCODE (the model for Community Open Data Engagement). The mCODE is unique in that it emphasizes the local context and community engagement, reflecting public libraries' strong position to address the place-based needs of their communities.
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    Rural librarians' perspectives on makerspaces and community engagement
    (Wiley, 2020) Kim, Soo Hyeon; Copeland, Andrea; Library and Information Science, School of Informatics and Computing
    This study investigates eight rural librarians' perspectives related to makerspaces, community engagement, and youth informal learning through cultural probes and semi-structured interviews. Preliminary findings through content analysis suggest the importance of aligning the librarians and the youths' interests in making to support learning within library-based makerspaces and highlight the need to support rural librarians to develop STEM competencies and strategic partnerships.
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    Toward Context-Relevant Library Makerspaces: Understanding the Goals, Approaches, and Resources of Small-Town and Rural Libraries
    (Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2021) Kim, Soo Hyeon; Copeland, Andrea
    While best practices for developing makerspaces in public libraries exist, there is scarce literature that describes how they apply to small-town and rural libraries in alignment with the libraries’ existing assets, practices, and constraints. This paper aims to explore the small-town and rural libraries’ goals, approaches, and existing resources towards establishing a future makerspace and investigate the extent to which these elements support or hinder the design of the makerspace or maker programming. From the qualitative analysis of cultural probes and interview data with nine librarians, this paper demonstrates two ways that small-town and rural libraries differed from the best practices in the field: a) focusing on attendance and equipping the materials within the makerspace over community building, b) lack of transfer of existing assets and practices to maker programming. Study findings suggest small-town and rural librarians’ lack of STEM competencies and knowledge around makerspaces as a critical barrier for applying their existing assets and practices to a new area of maker programming. Our study proposes context-specific recommendations and directions for small-town and rural libraries to design and develop makerspaces.
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    Understanding social impact of data on local communities
    (2019) Yoon, Ayoung; Copeland, Andrea
    • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to understand the social impact of data on communities from cases of community data utilization. • Design/methodology/approach: This study took an interpretive qualitative approach and conducted a semi-structured phone interview with 45 participants from data intermediaries and local community organizations. • Findings: The results demonstrate both direct and indirect impact of data on local levels, including resolving local problems from data-driven decisions, realizing unknown problems or correcting misrepresented problems, changing community data practices, strengthening community identity, and enhancing the community’s data skills • Practical implications: The research shows that communities’ data utilization supported community-led actions and initiatives from the bottom-up perspective, which demonstrates the need for supporting communities’ data work. • Social implications: Minimizing inequality in data utilization should be resolved so that all communities can benefit from the power of data. • Originality/value: By demonstrating evidence of data being critical to encouraging communities’ data utilization, this study fills the gap in existing research, which lacks a clear explanation for how the potential of data can be realized at the local level.
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    Virtual Reality for Preservation: Production of Virtual Reality Heritage Spaces in the Classrooom
    (Council on Library and Information Resources, 2019) Wood, Zebulun M.; William, Albert; Copeland, Andrea; Human-Centered Computing, School of Informatics and Computing
    The Bethel AME Church was the oldest African American church in Indianapolis. In November 2016, the congregation moved out of downtown, and the building that had housed the congregation since 1869 was sold. It is now being redeveloped into a hotel. Through the Virtual Bethel project, faculty and students in the Media Arts and Science (MAS) program at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) created a 3D virtual space of the physical sanctuary to preserve the cultural heritage of Bethel. During its creation, Virtual Bethel served as a curricular and co-curricular experience for the undergraduate students in the 3D graphics and animation specialization within class N441 3D Team Production, which was co-taught by Albert William and Zebulun Wood. Virtual Bethel, finished in 2018, was the first historical and cultural preservation project that used VR within our class, program, school, and Indiana University (IU) campus. Users can interact with various types of primary sources (e.g., photographs, video, audio, text) to learn about the underrepresented history of African Americans associated with the church. Virtual Bethel was created in a series of classes within the MAS Program in the School of Informatics and Computing (SoIC), IUPUI. Methods of teaching a team of students to preserve historic spaces using VR are discussed, as are our philosophies toward productions when working with varying stakeholders’ priorities related to data preservation, asset preservation, and cultural preservation.