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    2005 SOLINET Educational Services Survey
    (SOLINET (now LYRASIS), 2005)
    SOLINET conducted a survey to collect information from members about their needs and interests in regard to continuing education and professional development. SOLINET asked about preferences for course topics, class delivery methods, and communications, and wanted to know what factors are important to you when making a decision to register (or not) for a course. The survey was designed to learn more about user evaluations of SOLINET’s Educational Services.
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    Access to US Congressional Correspondence Data
    (LYRASIS, 2019) Emerling, Danielle
    This is a link to the recording of a webinar from West Virginia University for the Catalyst Fund Webinar Series.
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    Acting Now to Enhance Performing Arts Emergency Preparedness: A White Paper
    (LYRASIS, 2017) Clareson, Thomas F.R.; Nyberg, Sandra
    The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation convened a group of experts from the arts and heritage communities on September 22, 2015, to consider strategies for strengthening emergency preparedness within the performing arts sector. In response to what was learned during that meeting about needs, resources, barriers and opportunities, LYRASIS, one of the participants in the convening, proposed a planning project to design a program to improve and increase emergency preparedness within the performing arts sector. This White Paper provides a summary of what was learned during the planning grant project. It is a snapshot of the state of emergency preparedness among performing arts organizations in the U.S. This snapshot forms the basis for recommendations to improve readiness that will be piloted through an implementation project during 2017-2019.
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    Advancing 3D Digitization and Metadata Conventions for Libraries, Museums, and Archives
    (LYRASIS; IUPUI, 2017-10-11) Johnson, Jennifer
    This is the slide presentation from the 2017 LYRASIS Leaders Summit documenting the IUPUI 2017 Catalyst Fund project - advancing 3D digitization and metadata conventions.
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    Advancing 3D Digitization for Libraries, Museums, and Archives
    (LYRASIS; IUPUI, 2018) Johnson, Jennifer; Miller, Derek; Palmer, Kristi
    $29,500 to Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) to pilot 3D digitization and metadata conventions by: 1) Digitizing and describing objects of varying colors, shapes and sizes, with a variety of intended audiences 2) Documenting those processes 3) Establishing preliminary standards and workflows 4) Testing those preliminary standards and workflows and 5) Nationally vetting those preliminary standards. This work will underpin the beginnings of standardization of digital collections of library, museum, and archive 3D artifacts on a national scale.
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    AI for Archives: Using Facial Recognition to Enhance Metadata
    (LYRASIS; Florida International University, 2020) Bakker, Rebecca; Rowan, Kelley; Hu, Liting; Guan, Boyuan; Li, Zhongzhou; He, Ruizhe; Monge, Christine
    $25,000. The goal of this research project is to determine the most effective facial recognition application for use with digitized archive images from cultural heritage institutions and provide opportunities for future development. Florida International University computer scientists and librarians will conduct qualitative assessments of facial recognition application models. This project addresses the issue of incomplete metadata within digital repositories and decreases the time involved in locating and matching images of people.
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    AI for Archives: Using Facial Recognition to Enhance Metadata
    (LYRASIS, 2019-10-03) Bakker, Rebecca
    This is the slide presentation from the 2019 LYRASIS Leaders Summit documenting the Florida International University Catalyst Fund project - AI for Archives: Using Facial Recognition to Enhance Metadata.
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    The Alternatives Pilot Project: A Catalyst Fund Research Report
    (LYRASIS, 2022-02-16) Grinstead, Leigh A.
    In 2020, Yeshiva University submitted an idea application to the LYRASIS Catalyst Fund. It outlined a community need to address humanities textbook costs by leveraging library resources. Over 2020 and 2021, LYRASIS and Yeshiva University piloted a program to harness academic librarians’ expertise with humanities information resources. They reviewed syllabi and re-designed them using open-source documents and resources (“AlterTexts”). These AlterTexts were already available to students through library full-text subscriptions (periodical literature, electronic reference sources, and relevant chapters from electronic books).
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    America Contacts Congress: Providing Access to U.S. Congressional Correspondence Data
    (LYRASIS, 2018-10-24) Emerling, Danielle
    This is the slide presentation from the 2018 LYRASIS Leaders Summit documenting the West Virginia University Catalyst Fund project - Access to US Congressional Correspondence Data. A recording of the presentation can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO8h_8WheBs.
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    America Contacts Congress: Providing Access to U.S. Congressional Correspondence Data
    (LYRASIS; West Virginia University, 2019-07) Emerling, Danielle
    $27,000 to complete a feasibility study that will assess and plan for the future collaborative technical infrastructure for an open-source congressional correspondence data access tool, to improve how libraries process and provide access to large data sets with sensitive information and how scholars and the public use data related to Americans’ civic engagement.
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    Applying Machine Learning on Digital Library Images
    (LYRASIS, 2019) Maringanti, Harish; Samarakoon, Dhanushka; Zhu, Bohan
    This is a link to the recording of a webinar from the University of Utah for the Catalyst Fund Webinar Series.
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    Build a Better Library Website Bootcamp
    (LYRASIS; New Jersey State Library, 2021) Levandowski, Andrea; Morales, Eileen
    $18,250. This project focuses on developing a robust online version of its User Experience (UX) Boot Camp and make it available at no cost to attendees. The course is designed to equip participants with the skills to create vibrant and appealing websites that serve the needs of the public. While the Boot Camp is marketed to public librarians, the curriculum is largely applicable to all members of the LYRASIS community who have any responsibility for a public-facing website.
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    Building Libraries, Building Communities: A Summit on the Role of Public Libraries in Re-creating Community on the Gulf Coast
    (LYRASIS, 2007-01-17) Bingham, Elizabeth E.; Santiago, MaryEllin; Nyberg, Sandra
    SOLINET, the State Library of Louisiana and the Mississippi Library Commission hosted a Summit in Baton Rouge, LA, November 28-30, 2006, designed to assist libraries in planning for rebuilding after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. The Summit is part of the Gulf Coast Libraries Project, funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and administered by SOLINET. The invitation-only Summit was for teams from the affected libraries in Louisiana and Mississippi. This report is a summary of that summit.
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    Caption This: Creating Efficiency in Audiovisual Accessibility Using Artificial Intelligence
    (LYRASIS; University of Mississippi, 2021) Norris, Abigail; Emanuel, Michelle
    $28,198. This project focuses on the creation of a successful workflow to use open source code to efficiently produce captions for the native streaming audio and video files in our institutional repository, thereby making A/V materials accessible to all users, in accordance with the University’s accessibility standards.
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    Collecting Archival Materials During the COVID-19 Pandemic
    (LYRASIS, 2020-09-01) Klettlinger, Katy L.W.; Grinstead, Leigh A.; orcid: 0000-0003-0442-5332
    In April 2020, a member institution reached out to LYRASIS for advice on how to safely collect archival materials during the early stages of the pandemic. The archives held half of a substantial collection from a donor who had contracted COVID-19 and was in assisted living. Upon hearing the news, the archives had one month to collect the remaining materials from the executor before they were lost. In discussing the case, LYRASIS consultants hypothesized that other institutions across the country were experiencing similar situations and decided to create a survey to uncover collecting trends and archival practice during the pandemic.
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    Conversational Artificial Intelligence: Bringing the Library to Your Living Room
    (LYRASIS, 2019-10-03)
    This is the slide presentation from the 2019 LYRASIS Leaders Summit documenting the King County Library System Catalyst Fund project - Conversational Artificial Intelligence: Bringing the Library to Your Living Room.
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    Conversational Artificial Intelligence: Bringing the Library to Your Living Room
    (LYRASIS; King County Library System, 2020)
    $34,600. King County Library System will explore community demand for and research the feasibility of implementing a library application to interface with common conversational artificial intelligence systems (e.g., Alexa, Siri, Cortana, etc.), with the goal of empowering the public to benefit from library resources anytime, anywhere.
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    Copyright Education for Libraries, Archives & Museums
    (LYRASIS, 2017-10-11) Pantalony, Rina Elster
    This is the slide presentation documenting the Columbia University 2017 Catalyst Fund project - a feasibility study for a copyright education center.
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    Data-Intensive Tools for Modeling and Visualizing Mass Reading
    (LYRASIS; DePaul University, 2018-10-24) Shanahan, John
    This is the slide presentation from the 2018 LYRASIS Leaders Summit documenting the DePaul University Catalyst Fund project - Data-Intensive Tools for Modeling and Visualization Mass Reading. A recording of this presentation is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_MvB2ScdsU.
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    Data-Intensive Tools for Modeling and Visualizing Mass Reading The ‘Reading Chicago Reading’ Project
    (LYRASIS; DePaul University, 2019-07) Shanahan, John; Burke, Robin; Lucic, Ana
    $24,352 to support development of new models of data for civic reading initiatives across book content, social media, city demographics, and other factors, with an interactive dashboard and visualizations to provide insights for academic and public librarians and the general public. More information about the project can be found at: https://dh.depaul.press/reading-chicago/.