| Virtual Open Access project through Institutional Repository Library at UMSL (Thomas Jefferson) with Lena Marvin |
| Week 8 April 13, 2020 , Monday 3 to 4 ZOOM Meeting |
| I had an introductory ZOOM Meeting with Helena Marvin, the Institutional Repository Librarian at UMSL |
| Ms. Marvin gave us the run down on the assignment, including the functionalites and requirments of Open Access Checker, BePress and Wiki |
| Week 8 April 17, 2020, Friday, 8 to 3:30 |
| Checked and sent e-mails related to practicum. Organized Practicum Activity Log. Watched video on how to get started with Wike Leaks. E-mailed Lena to set up appointment time. Created an account with Wiki and BePress. Worked on creating a discussion page and uploaded photo to BeePress. Booked an appointment with Lena Marvin on ZOOM. Lena sent me a link to BeePress. Linked BeePress to Wiki Account after succesful Zoom meeting. Lena helped me to organize my Wiki page and BeePress page. Lena also checked in on me occasionally through e-mail before ZOOM Meeting. Instructed me on next assignment to have ready prior to next ZOOM meeting. |
| Week 9 April 21, 2020, Tuesday, 9 to 3:30 |
| Filled in Practicum Activity Log. E-mailed Ms. Laura England Biggs and Helana Marvin in reference to my schedule. Revisited my notes . Started contemplating a plan to have documentation ready for Lena when I meet with her on ZOOM. Rewatched video. Worked on creating documentation for how I created a Wiki Page and BePress Page and linked them together. I am creating HTML in the edit page of Wiki in order to make a viewable document. Met with Lena Marvin on Zoom. Shared Microst Word document with instructions on creating wiki/bepress. Shared Wiki page with instructions. Lena instructed me to copy my instructions to the Main Page in HTML from Accounts Startup Guide. |
| https://works.bepress.com/dana-ross/ |
| Week 9 April 23, 2020 Thursday |
| Worked on Practicum Learning Plan for Open Access project with Lena Marvin through UMSL Institutional Repository Library |
| Checked e-mails, booked appointments, scheduled time to do assigned tasks, including Teams. Posted Activity Log onto Wiki |
| Started working on Teams. Created an account. Uploaded Wiki and BePress instructions |
| ZOOM Meeting |
| Week 9 April 24, 2020 Saturday |
| Worked on Google Sheets; Open Access Button Permission Checker. Attempted to look for permission information for individual articles |
| Week 9 April 25, 2020 Saturday |
| Attempted to log on to Skills Soft/Team: Username was unrecognizable. I also tried to look up Badri Adhikari’s Discovery page, but no information was available. I ended up doing some research on him; looked up his UMSL and LinkedIn page and watched his video on making effective power point presentations. I messaged Lena on TEAMS about some of the technical issues that I was having. |
| Week 10 April 26 2020 Sunday |
| Journaled |
| Week 10 April 27 2020 Monday |
| Experimented with Open Access. Met with Lena on Zoom. Gave me an assignment to copy faculty member’s work from Discovery Academy to a spreadsheet and organize it by year, type and title. Then filter the titles and copy it over to Permission Fact Checker |
| Week 10 April 29, 2020 Wednesday |
| Worked on my assignment. Copied informaion about professor from Discovery Academy to Open Access Spread Sheet. Organized each work by year, type of work, and title. I then filtered each document by title and copied and pasted it onto Articles Permission Checker. |
| Week 10, 2020 May 1, Friday |
| Met with Lena for about 25 minutes on TEAMS to discuss Open Acces Checker. I had several duplicates or articles as a I copied and pasted from Selected Works/Bee Press to unlocked Open Acess Button Permission Checker. I then copied titles to Open Access Button Permission Checker. I then did a CTRL, Shift V to copy to Unlocked Open Acess Button Permission Checker and information began to populate. However, I still had an article missing. Spent the remainder of time seeing what was missing from Spreadsheet from BeePress/Selected Works |
| Week 10, 2020 May 2 Saturday |
| Making sure that I had copied over all of Lav Gupta’s work to Google Sheets. I worked on copying a title to the articles permission checker to generate results. Checking to make sure that proper information transferred over. Was not able to populate results in Articles Permsission Checker |
| Week 11 , 2020 May 3 Sunday |
| Finalized copying Lav Gupta’s Conference Proceeding over to Articles Permission Checker. Removed excess “Open Acess Button’s” from Google Sheets. There were 21 dcouments all together, but for some reason I had mistakenly left one off. Copied the remaining file over |
| Week 11, 2020 May 5 Tuesday |
| ZOOM Meeting, worked on Open Access Checker and opened up an account for Word Press/UMSL Digital Humanities. Created a Blog Post. |
| Week 11, 2020 May 7 Thursday |
| Conducted final meeting with Lena on Teams/Zoom. Met fellow practicum student Michelle Lahiri. Posted Practicum Summary on UMSL digital humanities site. Tried to copy/paste Practicum Activity Log, unsucessfully. Read through a word press editing site that Lena sent me. Please view the below links |
| http://umsldigitalhumanities.org/openaccess/practicum-students |
| http://umsldigitalhumanities.org/openaccess/wp-admin/post.php?post=49&action=edit |
| Week 11, 2020 May 9 Saturday |
| Finalizing Practicum Activity Log |
| Updating and finalizing BePress and UMSL Digital Humanities Blog. Having issues with editing in Internet Explorer. Trying to switch to Google, but having password/username issues. |
Practicum Conclusion Summary
I started my practicum in 2019 during the month of September. I initially spent Saturdays at Lewis and Clark and Florissant Valley Library. It was a very fun experience that allowed me the opportunity to assist patrons and develop some hands on experience about the organizational structure of libraries. I started a new position a few months prior and was still in my probationary phase, so I only volunteered on Saturdays; not every Saturday. I took a short hiatus between December and February and started back up again at the tail end of February 2020. I was only able to get two dates in this year: One at FV and the other at LC, before COVID-19 hit.
At this point, like so many of my peers, I was not yet complete and did not know how or when I would be able to complete my practicum. The libraries had shut down and for the time being webinars were being offered as a substitute. While this was going on, I was still working on my Portfollio for another course I was taking and in the process of preparing for graduation. I also had to make some adjustments to my work schedule. In the meantime, Laura England -Biggs and Dr. Adkins were working with UMSL to get a project set up for those who were in limbo about their practicums and even those who needed to start for the following semester. So I ended up taking on this project, working with Lena Marvin, the Institutional Repository Librarian at UMSL.
Through a series of back and fourth emails and virtual meetings I learned about Open Access Works through BePress and Missouri Discovery Academy. I was also shown how to check the content profile of a work though Open Access Checker. I created a BePress and Wiki Page, documented how I did it and uploaded it. I was also invited to join Teams; a shared collaborative work site and am currently writing my first blog for UMSL digital humanities. I am thankful for all that I have been able to learn through this short period of time. Lena has been incredibly helpful. I look forward to graduating, although there won’t be a formal celebration. Just knowing that this chapter of my life is coming to a close is bittersweet. Thanks for taking the time to read this.