Scholars Portal Days 2022: Currents of Change

Thursday, May 12 & Friday, May 13, 2022

10:00am - 1:00pm EDT

Online Event

The Scholars Portal Journals platform first launched as an OCUL service in 2002. In the intervening two decades, the landscapes of collections, scholarly publishing, library technology, and consortial collaboration have all evolved significantly. For this year’s Scholars Portal Days, we would like to explore the current environment, the currents of change that brought us to where we are today, and those that are pulling us ever forward.

How do our current realities stack up against the visions, or the fears, of the past? What new and unexpected challenges or triumphs have arisen in our present? How can we prepare ourselves for the future when the pace of change is too rapid for us to predict what the landscape will look like in another twenty years?

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Agenda

Thursday, May 12

All Thursday Slides (warning: large file)

Thursday Recording

TimeSession
10:00-10:15
Opening

Remarks from the chair of the Scholars Portal Operations & Directions Committee
Beth Sandore Namachchivaya
University Librarian, University of Waterloo

Recording

10:15-11:15
Keynote

Scholars Portal: Currents of Change *

Leslie Weir
Librarian and Archivist of Canada

Recording


OCUL Update

Michael Vandenburg
Interim Executive Director, OCUL

Recording


Break & Throwback Thursday

(Slides)

(recording)

11:40-12:30
Client Services: Accessible Content ePortal, Ask a Librarian, Publishing Services, RACER

Moderator: Sabina Pagotto

Recording

  • Harnessing Alma work orders to support the Accessible Content E-Portal (Harjinder Rana & Susan Bond, University of Toronto)
  • Journal hosting at Scholars Portal (Alisdair MacRae & Valerie Critchley, Carleton University)
  • From Zero to Hero: the true story behind Carleton’s texting success (Aleksandra Blake & Sherri Sunstrum, Carleton University)
  • Completing a Quality Assurance assessment on Ask a Librarian reference service (Chelsie Lalonde, Guinsly Mondésir, Erik Rayment, Ask Transcript Review working group)
  • The future of Fair Dealing after York U vs Access Copyright (Hujma Chowdhury & Karina Espinosa, University of Toronto)
  • Q&A with presenters and Scholars Portal staff
12:30-1:00
Scholars Portal Day... en français!

Modérateur : Guinsly Mondésir

Enregistrement

  • Mises à jour de l'équipe de Scholars Portal (Sabina Pagotto, Scholars Portal) (Diapos)
  • Questions et réponses


Friday, May 13

All slides for Friday (PDF format)

Friday recordings

TimeSession
10:00-10:05
Housekeeping / welcome to Day 2
10:05-10:15
Scholars Portal Update

Kate Davis & Amy Greenberg, Scholars Portal

Slides

Recording

10:15-10:55
Content Services: Scholars Portal Journals, Scholars Portal Books

Moderator: Jacqueline Whyte Appleby

Recording

  • Marching towards a PDF pitstop: Improving Scholar Portal Journals for blind users across Ontario along the way (Ashley Shaw, Mark Weiler, Bartek Kawula, Aneta Kwak, Matt Thomas)
  • So, about all that text... (Art Rhyno, University of Windsor)
  • Government Information & Grey Literature on Scholars Portal Books (Ravit David, Scholars Portal)
  • Brief update and Q&A with presenters and Scholars Portal staff
10:55-11:15
OCUL Lightning Talks

Moderator: Guinsly Mondésir

Recording

  • Videos OCUL-ly (Charlotte Innerd, Wilfrid Laurier University / OCUL Video Community)
  • Update from the Future of Collections and Resource Sharing working group (Amy Greenberg, Scholars Portal)
11:15-11:30
Break & Pet Parade

Recording

11:30-12:00
Preservation & Storage Services: Ontario Library Research Cloud, Permafrost

Update from Grant Hurley (Scholars Portal), featuring Satya Miller (University of Ottawa)

Slides

Recording

12:00-12:50
Data Services: Scholars GeoPortal, ODESI, Dataverse

Recording

Moderator: Amber Leahey

  • CoreTrustSeal at Scholars Portal and Queen’s (Alicia Cappello & Meghan Goodchild, Queen's University / Scholars Portal)
  • Reinvesting in the Scholars GeoPortal: the future of GIS at OCUL (Kara Handren & René Duplain, GeoPortal Business Case Working Group)
  • Looking to the past for <odesi> future directions (Alexandra Cooper, Nesstar Replacement Working Group)
  • Q&A with presenters and Scholars Portal staff
12:50-1:00

Closing remarks from the co-chair of the OCUL-Scholars Portal Committee
Karen Pillon, University of Windsor

Recording

Closing

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