| Date | Activity | Time (hrs) |
|---|---|---|
| 5/1 | Viewed Wiki tutorial | 0.5 |
| 6/22 | Met with Lena via Zoom for onboarding | .75 |
| Reviewed orientation materials, created BePress account, created Activity Log, installed Microsoft Teams | 1 | |
| 6/27 | Reviewed Workflow materials | .5 |
| 6/29 | Meeting with Lena for UMSL/spreadsheet training, added Ann Steffen | 1 |
| Checked Patrick Stark, Debra Sprague, Christopher Spilling, Chris Spencer. Added Kim Song. | .5 | |
| Added Michael Smith, Lee Slocum, Alina Slapac. Checked Daniel Sise. Tried to troubleshoot extension, which stopped working. | 1.5 | |
| Received help with extension. Added Jeffrey Sippel, Vivek Singh, Anshuman Singh, Nancy Singer, and Florian Sichling. | .5 | |
| 6/30 | Bepress training. Meeting with Lena. | .75 |
| 7/1 | Brought Nancy Singer to A. | 2 |
| Worked on Michael Smith to bring to A, but not complete due to questions. Began work on Ann Steffen, steps A1-A3. Issues: Resolution: Reassigned to another practicum student who had more experience. | 2 | |
| 7/2 | Brought Nancy Singer and Ann Steffen to A+. Met with Lena to review progress, fixed errors on Ann Steffen’s page. | 1 |
| 7/3 | Brought Kim Song to A1. | 1 |
| 7/6 | Brought Kim Song to A+. Looked over SPARC information. | 1.25 |
| 7/7 | Brought Lee Slocum to A3, posted question in professor problem chat. | 1 |
| Worked on Alina Slapac, Jeffery Sippel. Brought Vivek Singh, Anshuman Singh, and Florian Sichling to A+. Questions: Resolution: Include the book and chapter for increased exposure. Jeffrey Sippel reassigned because art professors are often difficult to catalog. | 1 | |
| 7/8 | Checked James Shymansky, Jenny Shrensker, Helene Sherman, Mary Sharpe, Peter Stevens, Douglas Swanson, Tate David, Rachel Taube, Taylor Matthew, and George Taylor. Added James Shuls, Keith Stine, Pamela Stuerke, Yuan Sun, and Todd Swanstrom. Began work on James Shuls. | 1 |
| Met with Lena. Worked on Alina Slapac and James Shuls. | 2 | |
| 7/9 | Brought Lee Slocum to A+. Brought Todd Swanstrom to B. Continued work on Todd Swanstrom. | 2 |
| Continued working on Todd Swanstrom. | 1.5 | |
| 7/13 | Meeting with Lena, discussed adding totals to links/OA, James Shul issues. | .25 |
| 7/14 | Added links/OA counts to A+ professors, continued work on James Shuls. | 1 |
| Brought James Shuls to A+. Continued work on Todd Swanstrom. | 1 | |
| 7/15 | Meeting with Lena. Brought Todd Swanstrom and Pamela Stuerke to A+. Brought Keith Stine to B. | 3 |
| 7/16 | Brought Keith Stine and Yuanlu Sun to A+. Assigned Mary Sharpe F-. Began work on Helene Sherman. | 2 |
| 7/21 | Installed Zotero and Chrome plugin. Brought Helene Sherman to AF+, assigned Jenny Shrensker F-, and brought James Shymansky to F+. Question: Resolution: Lena provided a link to Shymansky’s works on Worldcat – added the most recent ones/recent ones in the series. | 4 |
| 7/22 | Meeting with Lena. Continued work on James Shymansky. | 4.5 |
| 7/23 | Brought James Shymansky to AF+. Assigned Daniel Sise, Chris Spencer, and Patrick Start to F-. Brought Debra Sprague to AF+. Began work on Peter Stevens. | 3 |
| Meeting with Lena. Continued work on Peter Stevens. Brought Matthew Taylor to AF+. Assigned Douglas Swanson to F-. | 3 | |
| 7/25 | Brought Peter Stevens to AF+. Brought David Tate to F+. Question: Resolution: Add all the preprints! | 4 |
| Brought George Taylor to F+. | 2 | |
| 7/28 | Meeting with Lena; discussed adding F professor files and status of David Tate. Fixed Helene Sherman per email request. Continued work on David Tate. | 5 |
| 7/29 | Brought David Tate to AF+. Meeting with Lena, gave update on progress and remaining hours. Began work on Joseph O’Sullivan – was unable to import to Zotero. | 5.5 |
| 7/30 | Updated blog with answers to questions previous asked. Met with Lena to discuss O’Sullivan’s file – will focus on journal articles. Continued work on Joseph O’Sullivan. | 6 |
| 7/31 | Bought Joseph O’Sullivan to AF+. Reuploaded O’Sullivan file. Began work on Christopher Spilling, bringing him to F+. | 4 |
| 8/2 | Continued work on George Taylor. | 1 |
| 8/3 | Brought George Taylor to AF+. | 2 |
| 8/4 | Brought Christopher Spilling to AF+. Read up on Copyleft. Consulted Lena about what to do next. Began checking Abderrahmen Mtibaa. Question: Answer: Generally, skip conference proceedings, but add it in this case, since it is accessible. | 4.5 |
| 8/5 | Finished checking: Abderrahmen Mtibaa, Adrian Clingher, Aimee Dunlap, Ala Heisel, Alice Hall, Amber Candela, and Andrea Cadenbach. Began Andrew Hurley. | 4.5 |
| 8/6 | Finished checking Anne Winkler. Began Barong Guo. | 1 |
| Finished checking: Barong Guo, Andrew Hurley, Benjamin Torbert, and Bethany Zolman. Began Beth Huebner. | 3 | |
| Finished checking: Beth Huebner, Bettina Casad, Brandon Ofem, Bruce Wilking, and Carissa Philippi. Question: One of Carissa Philippi’s links went to a journal that no longer hosts the article. I searched the journal, then Google Scholar, and was unable to find a link to it anywhere else. | 3 |
Summary
Through this experience, I have gained a better understanding of copyright, Creative Commons licensing, Copyleft, and why open access research is so important to the academic community. These are things I have not considered much because I work in a public library. I was glad to be able to contribute to a resource that academics can benefit from.
I learned how to work collaboratively in a remote environment, and understand how to use Microsoft Teams now. I plan on introducing my workspace to Microsoft Teams and seeing if we can start to use it for our children’s programming. It is a good tool for collaboration and would save us from email chains and text messages getting lost.
I also got much better at using WorldCat, which I have only used to fill out ILL forms for my library system. I learned how to find chapters in books through WorldCat, and how to sift through the multiple editions to find the best match for the data entry. I feel more comfortable with this resource now.
Overall, this was a great learning experience. Lena is a good, motivational supervisor and her flexibility was critical to getting this practicum accomplished in the time of COVID-19. I greatly appreciated her cross-platform availability and her knowledge about not just what we were doing, but why it was important. I feel like my knowledge about the principles of open access is much better than before, and something to try to incorporate more into the public library world as I continue in my career.
I wish your notes included some address to the questions, what were the answers? I found the activity log of interest. Good questions, nice detail.
Thanks! I’ve updated the log with a short summary of the answers. A couple were reassigned and I was able to resolve the other two with Lena’s guidance.
Thank you. That was interesting and informative.