Educopia Releases First in a Series of Community Cultivation Resources
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Just in time for Spring, Educopia is releasing its first Community Cultivation guide!
Vision in Formation: Articulating Your Community's Purpose is the first in our long-planned library of entirely open tools, templates, and guidance documentation to help communities navigate common challenges across lifecycle stages and growth areas.
As a new community forms, its initial members need to articulate and document the shared purpose of their collaboration. Using Vision in Formation: Articulating Your Community's Purpose, a facilitator can guide the members of a new community or network through this process with structured activities and templates.
About the Community Cultivation Resource Library
The Community Cultivation Resource Library first launched in 2018, with the release of the Community Cultivation — A Field Guide. This growing library of resources is our way to give forward to the networks and communities in our field. Each element is grounded in work undertaken with dozens of clients, partners, and affiliates to build robust, active networks that fully embody the values and principles of their members.
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NGLP Team Releases Scholarly Communication Technology Catalogue (SComCat)
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Have you ever needed to find a quick, concise description of an open source scholarly communication tool? Have you ever wished you had a way to compare and contract scholarly communication tools based on features like their organization model, standards adoption, or dependencies? Welcome to the Next Generation Library Publishing team's vision for the Scholarly Communication Technology Catalogue (SComCat).
Created by Antleaf, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), and the Next Generation Library Publishing project, SComCat is a catalog and knowledge base of scholarly communications open technologies including software and some essential running services. SComCat’s purpose is to assist potential users in making decisions about which technologies they will adopt by providing an overview of the functionality, organizational models, dependencies, use of standards, and levels of adoption of each technology.
About Next Generation Library Publishing Project
The Next Generation Library Publishing project is led by Educopia Institute, California Digital Library (CDL), and Strategies for Open Science (Stratos), in close partnership with LYRASIS, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), and Longleaf Services. The project is generously funded by Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. Its purpose is to improve publishing pathways and choices for authors, editors, and readers through strengthening, integrating, and scaling up scholarly publishing infrastructure to support library publishers.
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BitCuratorEdu Team Launches First Learning Objects and Revised Guidelines for Hosting Remote Internships
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The shift to remote learning has presented challenges to students and instructors, as students may not be able to download the BitCurator virtual machine to their personal computers for hands-on use. To help address this issue, the BitCuratorEdu team has released two sets of discussion questions to encourage student engagement with the BitCurator Environment. These discussion questions accompany the BitCurator Consortium screencasts that walk users through the BitCurator Environment.
To address the current necessity for remote internship opportunities, the team also released the final version of the “BitCuratorEdu Guidelines for Hosting Remote Internships” after a round of public feedback and revisions.
About BitCuratorEdu
The BitCuratorEdu project is a three-year effort funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to study and advance the adoption of digital forensics tools and methods in libraries and archives through professional education efforts. The project is a partnership between Educopia Institute and the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, along with the Council of State Archivists (CoSA), several organizations that provide or facilitate professional continuing education, and several Masters-level programs in library and information science.
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LPW Team Hosts Platform- and Format-Specific Breakout Sessions
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The Library Publishing Workflows team recently launched a series of breakout sessions focused on specific aspects of library publishing. These sessions are opportunities for library publishers to share their processes, common pain points, and solutions. The first sessions focused on platforms (Digital Commons, OJS, Janeway) and types of journals (law, student-run). The LPW team will continue to hold breakout sessions for the next year, and some will be open to the broader library publishing community, so be on the lookout for opportunities to join!
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About Library Publishing Workflows
Library Publishing Workflows is a 3-year, IMLS-funded project to investigate, synchronize, and model a range of library publishing workflows. Library Publishing Coalition and Educopia Institute are working with 12 partner libraries to document these processes, with the goal of increasing the capacity of libraries to publish open access, peer-reviewed, scholarly journals. |
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Over the course of 2020-2021, members of the Educopia staff will be contributing blog posts to the “Making Community Spaces Safer” series. Each post will explore one of our organizational values and describe our efforts to live into that value, including our successes, our failures, and the hard-won lessons that occur in between.
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A Tool to Help Community Leaders Accept and Act on Values-Related Feedback by Melanie Schlosser and Jessica Meyerson
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The Educopia team recently published a resource that may be helpful to community members who are in a position to receive and respond to critical feedback. In Making Community Spaces Safer: A Tool to Help Community Leaders Accept and Act on Values-Related Feedback, Educopia employees Melanie Schlosser and Jessica Meyerson offer up a script for handling feedback on sensitive values-related issues.
The script is meant to help the recipient of the feedback to deal with their own emotions, honor the trust that is being placed in them, and begin to repair any damage to the relationship. It is intended to be used alongside community processes for deliberation, decision making, and resource allocation, and takes the burden off of the recipient to figure out in the moment how best to address the problem being raised.
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On Being Transformational by Matt Schultz
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Using his experience leading the MetaArchive Cooperative through a period of reflection and strategic transformation, Matt Schultz explores what it means for Educopia to hold "being transformational" as an organizational value. The result is a case study on how the MetaArchive community evolved without losing its guiding principles and organizational vision.
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On Being Caring by Hannah Ballard
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For many, any semblance of a work-life balance has been buried under the weight of a global pandemic. In our latest post, Hannah Ballard reflects on how a caring work environment makes the road to a work-life balance a little less rocky, even if the journey still includes potholes, roadblocks, and the occasional wrong turn. We invite you to read the post and then cancel a Zoom meeting as a reward.
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| The Educopia Institute empowers collaborative communities to create, share, and preserve knowledge.
We believe in the power of connection and collaboration. In all of our work, we encourage knowledge sharing and network building across institutions, communities, and sectors. Our strengths include community cultivation and administrative backbone support services for collaborative communities. Educopia also develops and manages applied research projects that benefit our affiliated communities and the broader information fields of libraries, archives, and museums.
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