Krystal Schenkhttp://hdl.handle.net/10106/242352024-03-28T14:44:22Z2024-03-28T14:44:22ZEmpowering Pandemic Narratives: Transitioning from In-Person to Virtual Blog TrainingPirkle, AlexandraSchenk, Krystalhttp://hdl.handle.net/10106/299572021-07-28T08:25:31Z2021-07-01T00:00:00ZEmpowering Pandemic Narratives: Transitioning from In-Person to Virtual Blog Training
Pirkle, Alexandra; Schenk, Krystal
When UTA Libraries launched its new website in January 2020, one of the goals for Marketing and Communications was to provide comprehensive and accessible blog training to Libraries staff. What began as pre-scheduled, in-person training sessions in computer labs quickly transitioned to more fluid, virtual offerings as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the United States and staff began to work from home.
This presentation will describe the original development of our blog training, including documentation, branding, and overall curricular structure, and how we translated that to the more nebulous Microsoft Teams-based sessions we continue to offer to staff today. We will also explore the ways that we were able to customize our training in a virtual setting, which allowed for greater opportunities to empower our colleagues to write about their work in a time that such empowerment is essential, and led to greater impact in our community, particularly on social media.
2021-07-01T00:00:00ZHow To Create a Library Website With Limited Experience and Your Web Developer Leaves the Day It Drops in Beta (Oh yea, we did this in 3 months!)Schenk, Krystal E.Holmes, RamonaReece, Derekhttp://hdl.handle.net/10106/252752016-06-14T21:51:38Z2015-08-07T00:00:00ZHow To Create a Library Website With Limited Experience and Your Web Developer Leaves the Day It Drops in Beta (Oh yea, we did this in 3 months!)
Schenk, Krystal E.; Holmes, Ramona; Reece, Derek
UT Arlington Libraries released a new Drupal website in January 2015, only eighteen months after several members of our web team were still learning basic tools such as CSS! Discussion will include planning, use of SharePoint as a tracking tool and documentation repository, and in-house training of the web team and content editors on the Drupal product. To build this data-driven website, we used CrazyEgg on our prior site and Google Analytics to determine our most used information to migrate to the new site. Hear about how we navigated challenges to a successful deployment without losing our minds.
Paper presented at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Annual Conference. CTLC is a library consortium based in the U.S. region known as the Cross Timbers, which surrounds DFW, northern Texas, and south Oklahoma.
2015-08-07T00:00:00ZTexas Documents: What Are They Good For?Downing, JeffSchenk, Krystal E.http://hdl.handle.net/10106/242512016-06-14T21:48:39Z2014-05-07T00:00:00ZTexas Documents: What Are They Good For?
Downing, Jeff; Schenk, Krystal E.
Although some people might have thought to use these documents as fuel to keep warm this past winter… UT Arlington Libraries has decided to digitize a core collection of legacy documents produced by Texas state agencies. What seemed like a straightforward project: select documents, scan and upload to our institutional repository – quickly became a complex project. Problems included creating a comprehensive list of our state document holdings, mapping titles and agencies to degree programs, and deciding which titles were candidates for scan to destroy vs. scan to retain, and how to use existing metadata from our catalog to populate the institutional repository metadata. Early successes include developing a better understanding of how to find holdings for state documents and building a closer working relationships with our Special Collections, systems and cataloging units.
A possible outcome of this project could be the creation of a statewide collaborative where individual institutions would choose to become a “center of excellence” for a particular state agency. Based on ASERL’s Collaborative Federal Depository Program, institutions would take responsibility for collecting, digitizing and making available the works of their “adopted” agencies.
Poster session at the 2014 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
2014-05-07T00:00:00ZCentralized to Scattered: Designing Project Workflows for a Dynamic StaffSchenk, Krystal E.Wills, Faedrahttp://hdl.handle.net/10106/242502016-06-14T21:48:02Z2014-04-28T00:00:00ZCentralized to Scattered: Designing Project Workflows for a Dynamic Staff
Schenk, Krystal E.; Wills, Faedra
How can staff collaborate on digital projects when they are dispersed throughout the library? This is the challenge the new Digital Creations department was faced with after a library wide reorganization in the summer of 2013. In 2011, the UT Arlington Libraries began mining faculty CVs for articles that we could add to our local institutional repository. After the re-organization the staff previously working on this project were now scattered between three departments. By leveraging the project management features of the newly adopted tool SharePoint, we are able to distribute the work of this project across staff, and departments.
In this presentation we will demonstrate how we are using SharePoint’s workflows, custom lists, task lists and shared calendars to help keep staff informed, generate reports and manage projects. In particular, we will show how we use these features to help keep staff on task, and faculty informed of our progress.
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