ARLD Day 2025

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In 2022, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities libraries staff were approached by a student interested in restarting a campus book club after the pandemic and partnering with the libraries. A book club board was created with two library staff in advisory roles and a small number of students. We will share what we have learned throughout the growth of our book club, provide space for exchanging best practices, and inspire you to create a book club of your own. Possible topics include: discussion moderation strategies, online platforms to best support the club’s needs, book selection, and outreach/promotion.

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This data landscape project explores where datasets are discoverable, under which conditions, and evaluating the presence and status of open access datasets in the open scholarship infrastructure.. We have gone about this by using OpenAlex, which is a free and open catalog of the world's scholarly research system. Our work also builds upon the Realities of Academic Sharing (RADS) Project Phase 1, which used Crossref and DataCite as a source and was completed before OpenAlex was launched. Since OpenAlex has access to many open access datasets via ORCID, ROR, DOAJ, Unpaywall, Pubmed, Pubmed Central, the ISSN International Centre, Subject-area and institutional repositories from arXiv to Zenodo, this allows us to get a data landscape of the current status of dataset management based on these sources.
We used Python to access OpenAlex’s dataset metadata via its API; we narrowed our scope to datasets published from authors who are affiliated with institutional members of the Data Curation Network (DCN), whose vision it is to advance open research by making data more ethical, reusable, and understandable. Narrowing our scope to datasets affiliated with DCN members, allows us to compare partners who collaborate and use similar dataset submission processes and standards. This way we can see how DCN members' datasets are being presented in the open scholarship landscape. In addition, we can compare how member institutions stack up against each other, and how our own institution, the University of Minnesota, compares to the larger group, and how this may inform our library’s guidelines and policies

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In this featured session to follow the keynote, Alison will engage us in an interactive activity where we can work through feelings of grief, anxiety, and fear, and strategize about real, actionable steps towards a better future.

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The US Congressional Serial Set is widely considered one of the most important publications of the US Federal government and is a rich source of primary source material on all aspects of American history.  The University of Minnesota Twin Cities works to preserve this historic title as an official Preservation Steward partner with the US Government Publishing Office.  Come to this session to learn about the history and content of the Serial Set and how our library has preserved and grown our large collection of over 14,000 volumes as a Federal Depository Library and Preservation Steward.