California State University, San Bernardino CSUSB ScholarWorks Peacock – John M. Pfau Library Newsletter John M. Pfau Library Spring 2017 Spring 2017 John M. Pfau Library Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/peacock Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation John M. Pfau Library, "Spring 2017" (2017). Peacock – John M. Pfau Library Newsletter. 31. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/peacock/31 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the John M. Pfau Library at CSUSB ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Peacock – John M. Pfau Library Newsletter by an authorized administrator of CSUSB ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Peacock Real News from the John M. Pfau Library evf Spring 2017 Library System Migration Set for Late June Eva Sorrell, Librarian HOW WILL THE THE PFAU Library team is excited MIGRATION to announce that we will go live with our AFFECT CSUSB? new Unified Library Management System (ULMS) on June 27, 2017. The timing zzz of the migration was chosen to minimize impact on the campus community. New interfaces for the search It’s been nearly two years since all 23 boxes on the library’s website CSU libraries signed the contract to move and in our catalog. data cleanup and training. to sharing a single ULMS using ExLibris’ The ULMS will facilitate collabora- Alma product for internal library resource z tive services amongst the various CSU management and Primo as a discovery sys- libraries. The new system will provide tem or public interface. The new ULMS The ability to expand your increased tools for statistics gathering and will be cloud-based and combine several search across all the CSU analysis. Resource sharing amongst the separate library tools into one interface for libraries and request items campuses will be improved and there will staff. with the same interface. be a unified name, OneSearch, for the public search interface at all campuses. z The library is eager to implement the new Links to existing records or ULMS which will allow us to better sup- searches in the library’s catalog port the campus community and promote in Blackboard (or elsewhere) student success. will need to be updated. More details will be provided as we ap- proach summer! v z Similar circulation policies across the CSU libraries with longer loan priods. IN THIS ISSUE Last spring, all 23 campuses parti- w Library System Migration, p. 1 cipated in a test load of the new system w Thesis Digitization, p. 2 w Kanopy, p. 2 using real data. Since then library staff w Fake News, Again p. 3 have been working with the vendor and w A 2017 Look at 1984, p. 3 configuring the system to ensure we have w Librarian of the Year, p. 4 a successful migration. Committees made w “Tech-quisitions,” p. 4 up of librarians and staff from different w Two Texas Poets, p. 5 campuses have been busy formulating w Pacific Review Reading,p. 5 w The Sun Dance, p. 6 shared policies and streamlining workflows as the libraries learn to navigate this new collaborative environment. Behind the scenes, the libraries have been working on 1 Fake News, Again own ways ask how on earth we have come to believe any of it” (Bean, 2013, p. 81). Barbara Quarton, Librarian The public became engaged, and so- cial media provided the forum through The burden of responsibil- which the people could respond. Digital ity to the public…has always technology made it possible for the public been great, yet it has in- to react to traditional, increasingly un- creased enormously in recent trustworthy, news sources by choosing and A 2017 Look at 1984 years by reason of the rapidly sharing news that corresponded to their increased efficiency of the beliefs. Gina Schlesselman-Tarango, Librarian distributing mechanism. By the 2016 presidential election, fake news had devolved into “…information Very likely as many as a Quiz: When was this written? that is clearly and demonstrably fabricated dozen people were now 2011, 1989, 1925, 2005, or 2016? working away on rival ver- sions of what Big Brother Give up? had actually said. And pres- “Librarians are ently some master brain in THE SUPERINTENDENT of The the Inner Party would select Associated Press wrote this in his 1925 observing the this version or that, would Harper’s Magazine article, “Fake News latest fake news re-edit it and set in motion and the Public” (McKernon, p. 529). He the complex processes of went on to say, “What makes the problem phenomenon with cross-referencing that would of distributing accurate news all the more be required, and then the difficult is the number of people…who interest, but not chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and are intent on misinforming the public for surprise.” become truth. their own ends” (p. 530). Ninety-two -George Orwell, Nineteen years ago, an esteemed journalist identified Eighty-Four the complicated, fraught relationship be- and that has been packaged and distrib- tween technological progress and human LIBRARIES HAVE long been staunch uted to appear as legitimate news” (Me- This delightful map which appears on the main page of the Thesis Digitization Project’s website reveals how CSUSB scholarship and research is spreading throughout the world! nature that continues into the 21st century. defenders of privacy, intellectual freedom, This screenshot shows that someone located in Hong Kong downloaded Jean M. Irwin’s thesis. Note that during the week preceding the screenshot, there were 160 downloads from diaMatters). Unscrupulous people, unfet- freedom of the press, access to and pres- this collection which will be displayed one by one when viewing the live map. Other features allow you to embed this map in a web page or be notified as items are added. tered by the traditional news media’s code ervation of accurate information, and the of professional ethics, used technology to to ScholarWorks, the CSUSB institutional posted, starting with the older volumes like. In thinking about how the Pfau Li- Thesis Digitization Project produce and disseminate their own ver- brary could speak to some of the concerns repository, is vital to increasing scholarly first. sion of the news—to make money, make a arising from our current political climate communication, while also showcasing our Did you receive a master’s degree from Stacy Magedanz, Librarian point, change minds, and gain power. (fake news, alternative facts, post-truth, graduates’ intellectual endeavors. CSUSB, or do you have friends or family Librarians are observing the latest fake etc.), we thought that taking a fresh look This academic year, the library received who did? Please let them know about the OVER THE years, the Pfau Library news phenomenon with interest, but not at George Orwell’s classic work, Nine- initial funding through a VETI grant to project! teen Eighty-Four, would be a great way to has received many requests to make past surprise. Analyzing information critically begin scanning our collection of CSUSB If you do not want your thesis posted, engage our campus community in a larger CSUSB master’s theses and projects avail- is the foundation of our profession. The theses for inclusion in ScholarWorks. all you need to do is tell us. Or maybe conversation about these issues. able online. Starting with 2014, current fake news of 2017, like that of 1925, is With nearly 5,000 volumes to scan, this you want your thesis digitized first—let us This spring, we’ve partnered with the CSUSB theses are produced in digital a product of unethical people leveraging will be a multi-year project. know that too. Just use our Digitization University Diversity Committee’s Yotie form only, but pre-2014 volumes were technology for their own purposes. To Talks council to host a three-part, campus- The first digitized theses from our col- Project Request Form to opt out or request available only in paper. locate accurate, authoritative information, wide program that examines Nineteen lection went up at the end of January at quick digitization. The library supports Open Access we must approach information with the Eighty-Four. In March, we acquired the Thesis Digitization Project website. As Questions? Contact Stacy Magedanz, to scholarly content wherever possible, same level-headed, critical eye as always: 50 new copies of the book (including a of this writing, more than 500 have been 909-537-5103. v and the addition of campus scholarship we must consider the source, analyze its Spanish-language ebook) and hope that students, staff, and faculty will join us in purpose, read beyond the headline, and reading this dystopian but perhaps pre- Third, the library is only obligated to triangulate the facts by venturing out of scient novel. pay for licensing of films if a specific title Fear and Learning at the comfort of our filter bubbles. On April 19 from 2 to 4 pm, we host- is viewed four or more times. Hoover Elementary For help identifying fake news, take ed a film screening of Nineteen Eighty-Four Kanopy has proven to be very popu- a look at the flyer, “How to Spot Fake in PL-5005. This award-winning version lar on our campus. The most frequently In the 1980s, journalists and scholars The Raising of America released in 1984 sets the stage for the final accessed content has been documentaries wrestled with the same phenomenon when News,” and to get even more information event, a Yotie Talk, on April 26 from noon on race and class studies, sociology, North fake news took the form of video news re- and background reading, see our library Miss Representation to 1 pm in PL-4005.