2021-2022 UCLA Library Impact Report: Focus on Collections
It’s my pleasure to share with you the UCLA Library’s 2021-2022 Impact Report. From a $13 million grant, the largest in the Library’s history, to significant growth of our digital collections and materials, to a critically acclaimed national exhibition of work curated primarily from a single UCLA collection, the Library's accomplishments were broad and far-reaching. Woven throughout this report you will see a common thread — a steadfast commitment to enhancing and fostering research, teaching, and learning on campus and beyond. While the start of the academic year was governed by strict COVID mandates, the Library was able to ramp up services and safely reopen our physical locations by the winter quarter. At the same time, our UCLA Film & Television Archive division welcomed patrons back to the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum for in-person screenings. No matter how our world changes, the Library will continue to evolve, working daily to build collections, deliver services and technological resources, and to present programs that move knowledge forward.
– Virginia Steel, Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian
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UCLA Library Collections: Accessible Around the World
Loans of materials, licensing of media, online collections and touring series bring pieces of history to communities and scholars everywhere.
$13 million from Arcadia will bolster the Modern Endangered Archives Program making at-risk materials from the 20th and 21st centuries available online.
A remote learning environment in 2020 prompted UCLA librarians to apply open access concepts and game-based learning into the development of Open Axis: The Open Access Video Game. Incorporating role-playing and choose-your-own-adventure style elements, the game delivers a remote-friendly, play-based learning tool that highlights the importance of open access to a wider academic audience. — Coauthored by Scholarly Communication Librarian Jennifer Chan; Website Managing Editor and Content Librarian Courtney Hoffner; Librarian and Collections Coordinator Simon Lee; and Research and Instruction Librarian Salma Abumeeiz, published in College & Research Libraries News.
Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian Ginny Steel discusses the UCLA Rothman Family Institute for Food Studies and its relationship to the Library.
This text is a collaborative work highlighting English monographs on Chinese Studies published outside of China between 2006 and 2016. Using data collected from the 10-year period, the authors constructed a list of monographs published in English and shared extensive analysis of their findings. Their research seeks to expand on other earlier, smaller-scale studies by documenting these monographs and furthering the identification of materials published in the area of East Asian studies. — Coauthored by Head of Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library Su Chen, published in Beijing, 2021.
Hayley O’Malley, Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Iowa Department of Cinematic Arts, writes about Anita Addison's impact on film and television.
The program combines management perspectives and tools for strategic thinking with practical and theoretical approaches to the issues confronting academic libraries.
How can you adapt your services to changing student needs and create inclusive and safe spaces for underserved student communities? A team of librarians and Master of Library and Information Science students explored these questions as they embarked on an eighteen-month campaign to raise awareness about reference services at the Library. In this article, they share lessons learned and offer practical steps for creating an outreach strategy that fosters inclusion of marginalized populations in the student body. — Coauthored by Librarian for Southeast Asian Studies and Pacific Islands Studies Jade Alburo, published in Reference and User Services Quarterly.
This article introduces The Mindfulness Framework as a way to implement mindfulness into teaching strategies being used for information literacy instruction. To construct the framework, the authors reviewed literature on the application of mindfulness in educational settings as well as findings from an original survey of nearly 600 academic librarians. Here the authors discuss how librarians can use familiar mindfulness strategies shown to improve learning and retention in other pedagogical contexts and apply them to information literacy instruction. — Coauthored by Jewish and Israel Studies Librarian and Librarian for Social Sciences Diane Mizrachi, published in The Reference Librarian.
For historically marginalized and minoritized people, erasure—in mainstream media and in archives—is a complicated experience. By engaging with users of community-based archives in Southern California and with LGBTQ+ Asian Americans in Texas, this article outlines four key tensions that exist around representation: holding conflicting desires of how to honor older generations; navigating methods of respecting privacy and cultural values; acknowledging the importance of preserving community history versus individual histories; and developing strategies for protecting the community. — Coauthored by Teaching and Learning Librarian Jimmy Zavala, published in The American Archivist.
In this study analyzing ant nest behavior, researchers investigated the impact of colony identity (genetics), evolutionary history (species) and the environment on nest architecture by comparing how two species of harvester ants constructed their nests under different environmental conditions. Using casts made of each nest, the authors were able to compare nest structures and observe and analyze differences across colonies, species and environmental conditions. The authors present their findings and what they suggest for how ant nest behavior is shaped by different factors. — Coauthored by Emerging Technologies Librarian Doug Daniels, published in Behavioral Ecology.
Acknowledgements
Library Communications Ariane Bicho, Courtney Hoffner, Suzy Lee, Jennifer Rhee, Marisa Soto Feature Writers Adam Jacobson, Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson, Abigail Siatkowski Features Editor Kathleen Brown Illustrations Brett Affrunti(opens in a new tab)Research Rachel Deblinger, Steven Hill, Jet Jacobs, Chela Metzger, John Riemer Lead Developer Parinita Mulak Developers Ashton Prigge, Jen Diamond, Andrew Wallace, Matheus Gomes de Paula Lead UX Designer Axa Liauw Visual Designer Dianne Weinthal Student Assistants Senna Hanner-Zhang, Abigail Siatkowski Special Thanks Joshua Gomez, Head of Software Development and Library Systems; Aaron Hilf, Director of Communications, UCLA Nursing; UCLA Newsroom, and everyone at the UCLA Library and UCLA Film & Television Archive for the opportunity to share your work.
The Open Axis Video Game: Using Gamification for Learning and Open Access Week
海外中国研究现状与趋势分析 (2006-2016)
Amplify Your Impact: Reframing Reference as Outreach: Expanding Engagement and Inclusion Through Reference Services
The Mindfulness Framework for Implementing Mindfulness Into Information Literacy Instruction
“It's a Trap”: Complicating Representation in Community-Based Archives
Harvester Ant Nest Architecture is More Strongly Affected by Intrinsic Than Extrinsic Factors