Third week reflection

This week was focused on tours and sessions.

Tours: Harold Washington Branch Chicago Public Library, University of Chicago, Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS), OCLC Data Center, OCLC Library, Ohio State University Thomson Library, Westerville Public Library

Sessions : Digital Scholarship and Digital Humanities
OCLC Data Center Overview
OSU Research Commons Overview

Digital Scholarship and Digital Humanities

I am interested in digital scholarship and digital humanities. So this session was really helpful for me. When I went to the University of Chicago, I had a session about digital scholarship and digital humanities. Andrea Twiss-Brooks, the director of humanities and area studies welcomed us, and she gave us a lecture about digital scholarship. I was interested in how the University of Chicago can play an active role in enhancing access to scholarly publications from academic departments and research centers. The center for digital scholarship’s mission is connecting students, faculty, and staff to digital resources for research and learning. The center supports finding data, data management, negotiating text, data mining rights, and the FAIR data principle. The center also provides digital collections & projects : Library Digital collections, Digital Library repository, Publishing platform, Grant writing Guidance, and Collaboration.

Tour of OCLC

Before arriving, I was looking forward to going to OCLC. Because my organization is connected with OCLC. The National Library of Korea converts the bibliographic data of the library written in KORMARC to MARC21 records and gives it to OCLC as a batch load once or twice a year. Only major tags such as 245, 260, and 7XX fields are provided with Roman characters. This rule is the ‘Romanization of the Korean Language ‘ established by the National Institute of the Korean Language. When I went to OCLC I was impressed by its work culture. Employees can use flexible time, and they work just 3 days at the workplace, and 2 days from home.

Westerville Public Library

Westerville Public LIbrary provide several services to users : home deliveries, Items Borrowed, Walking Tours, Seed Library, Pick-Up Window service. Little free libraries, School deliveries, Story trail. I was so impressed that the library provided lots of services for users. The innovation lab provided the following services.

  1. Discover emerging technologies.
  2. Create your next passion project.
  3. Complete a homework assignment.
  4. Gain a competitive edge for your next job or business venture.

Tours were really helpful to me. It was beneficial to learn about what I had wanted to learn in depth while receiving training at the Mortenson Center.

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