UHCL Library Annual Report 2021-2022

Annual Report 2021-2022

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Table of Contents

01 Message from the Leadership Team

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Vision & Mission

03 Renovation

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Annual Achievements

By the Numbers

18 Staff News

Love Your Library

Strategic Planning Process

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Archives & Special Collections

Events Around Campus

Soaring Librarians

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Annual Strategic Planning Session

Executive Director

Dr. Vivienne McClendon

Director, Communications & Operations Chloris Yue

Associate Director, Archives & Special Collections Matthew Peek Associate Director, Evaluation & Assessment Martha Hood

Associate Director, Technology & Resource Management Jingshan Xiao

Assistant Director, Research & Instruction Dr. Yumi Shin

Assistant Director, Access & Delivery Services David Palmer

2022, UHCL Libraries An equal opportunity/affirmative action university

Message from the Leadership Team As we look ahead to this next year, we begin with what we learned and accomplished during the 2021-2022 academic year.

In May 2021, the library began a major renovation of the main floor, with a creative spatial strategy of providing an engaging and stimulating learning experience through innovation-oriented spaces and technology. In February 2022, we celebrated the reopening of our main floor with our "Love Your Library" event. We are looking forward to providing more learner-centered and collaborative spaces, new technology, and an updated Archives and Special Collections area. Our utmost desire is to make a positive impact on the success of UHCL students from all disciplines.

Archives & Special Collections: This year, we embarked on reviewing and managing our holdings under a new collection policy, which will help us acquire and make available high-quality archival collections to support university and public research needs. We plan on expanding our online resources and will partner with UHCL instructors to facilitate education experiences with primary sources. We continue to seek funding opportunities and grants which will help make the Archives’ holdings more readily available and discoverable by our researchers.

Assessment: Throughout the year, we have visualized additional data points for the library community, and all are welcome to explore the library's dashboard for interesting usage, space, and engagement statistics. We will continue to seek your invaluable input through surveys and focus groups as we look towards making improvements in our services and spaces.

Access & Delivery Services: The Access & Delivery Services Team operated from the library’s upper floor for the first half of the school year and returned to its original location, with a new Access Services desk, upon completion of the main floor renovation. Throughout the year, we continued to provide users with access to library collections, materials from other libraries, technology, and spaces. We will continue to seek new ways to improve student access to library resources and spaces.

Research & Instruction Services: At the beginning of the fall semester, the service-oriented Research and Instruction Team returned to campus to meet the research needs of students onsite, in addition to maintaining their virtual presence prior to the Feb 14 soft opening of the library’s main floor. We are proud to have answered hundreds of text enquiries and emails and completed over 600 chat transactions.

The team also worked diligently with the faculty to offer library instruction sessions through a mix of delivery models including asynchronous/synchronous virtual, face-to-face, and hybrid classes. Next year we plan to welcome students, faculty, and staff back with a grand reopening which will feature an active learning classroom, XR lab, new consultation service desk, and brand-new private research consultation space.

Scholarly Communications: This year we continued to work with faculty and campus organizations to develop partnerships to better assist faculty through faculty-focused events on scholarly communication topics and research and instruction services. Next year we hope to expand our institutional repository of faculty works. See our Scholarly Communications Guide.

Technology & Resource Management: Throughout the year, we have improved OneSearch in several areas. We will continue to select and maintain a wide range of scholarly materials which are consistent with the university's mission and curricula/research needs.

Enhancing the success of our students through education innovation Library Leadership Team Chloris Yue, Donna Elrod, Linsey Ford, David Palmer, Chat Steed, Mattew Peek, Jingshan Xiao (from left) and Martha Hood (not pictured)

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VISION A dynamic center of campus life that cultivates a passionate, confident, forward-thinking community through innovative scholarship and learning.

MISSION The University of Houston-Clear Lake Libraries provide a dynamic and welcoming experience that is innovative, immersive, and collaborative. Through our specialized expertise we foster academic success and information literacy by providing physical and virtual access to vital information resources and services, advanced technology, and flexible spaces conducive to study, collaboration, and reflection. The libraries strengthen and support transformative, inclusive teaching and learning by facilitating the critical analysis, creativity, and scholarly research essential to making a beneficial contribution to equitable global development and a sustainable future for all.

Adopted February 2022

Adopted February 2022

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Renovation: A look back & forward What is next?

Since our Soft Grand Reopening (February 14, 2022) we continue to update our look May 2022 - Research Desk installed - Glass boards installed in Active Learning Classroom June 2022 - Window covering for copy room - Upper floor restrooms updated to have automatic swing doors

October 2022 XR Lab Opening 2023 New front entrance

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Innovation

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The library provides students innovative ways to study and collaborate. Our patrons can utilize intelligent touch screens and connect their own device to cast any screen onto the display through wireless technology. Also, patrons can use the digital discussion board and other collaborative tools to assist with their studies.

Our new furniture provides our patrons a more flexible, modern environment. We wanted to stimulate student learning by bringing in innovative, collaborative, and comfortable furnishings.

The new XR lab provides students the opportunity to learn and faculty to teach in an immersive platform. VR and AR are new mediums for storytelling which we hope will enrich our student's excitement for learning.

~$ 1.7 million in improvements UHCL LIBRARIES | PAGE 05

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Benefits of the Renovation

This past year we have continued our renovation and will soon embark on our upper floor of the library. Our main floor has been improved in many areas.

Accessibility - More ADA compliant spaces in the library including restrooms, modified research and access services desks.

Lighting - Ample lighting to improve the interior and study areas which include reading desk lighting.

Adaptability - Expanding to meet the broadest needs of our patrons. Flexible active learning classroom, and XR lab.

Flexibility - New areas and furniture allow for expanded uses for teaching and speakers. Patrons have the option to easily change from single to collaborative studying.

Space - Better utilization of space to improve and offer a variety of environments for study, research, and social interaction including our new open presentation space.

Technology - Faster internet and outlets for all technology. Study rooms now have monitors with touch screen and extra-large glass boards.

Creativity - Enhancing the imagination and creativity of our students and providing an engaging learning environment.

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Future Plans for Upper Floor Quiet Study Area

Consolidation of Juvenile Area

Study pockets within general stacks area

Increase ADA Compliance

Multipurpose flex classroom

Reconfiguration of staff offices

Sound dampening individual rooms

Expand study areas along windows & walls

Update of Archives & Special Collections area

The starting data is unknown at this time, but we hope to make improvements in the near future.

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Annual Achievements September 2021 (Fall Semester) Weeding of complete Texas documents began and completed in June 2022.

October 2021 Soft reopening of the library. Services provided on upper floor.

November 2021 UH System Conscious Editing Working Group (UH-CEWG) successfully completed the update of harmful terms to better align with more inclusive terminology with respect to library users, library workers, and community members of all backgrounds.

See ALA's removal of Offensive "illegal aliens" Subject Headings.

February 14-28, 2022 The "Love Your Library Reopening Celebration" was held with over 100 comments left on our feedback panel board. See comments shared on inside cover page.

January 2022 (Spring semester) In January, the library was selected for participation in OCLC’s new Express Digital Delivery program due to the library's consistent successful delivery of articles and other digital resources within 18 hours or less through OCLC’s WorldShare ILL Network. Program .

"Dipping a Toe into Open Educational Resources" presented by Scholarly Communications Librarian, Linsey Ford and Library Associate, Olivia Wilde in collaboration with the Center for Faculty Development.

Access Services reestablishes the circulation desk from their temporary renovation location on the upper floor to the main floor.

March 2022

June 2022 Quicklinks feature was enabled in OneSearch.

This feature provides a convenient and quick way for users to access full-text articles with a single click on the full view of the records page.

Guidelines and procedures developed for reservations of Hawk's Nest, Overlook, and other areas for scheduled events and collaborations.

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Events Around Campus

UHCL Spirit Week Dr. Vivienne McClendon & Chloris Yue

First Place for Group Costume at the annual Halloween Social, for “Snow White and His Seven Dwarves,” Rosana Salinas, Olivia Walden, Kate Carter, Donna, Elrod, Laura Bernal, Daivd Palmer, Dr. Vivienne McClendon and Linsey Ford (front)

Spring 2022 Chili Cook-off Kate Carter, Linsey Ford, Rosana Salinas, Olivia Walden

University Staff Assocation's (USA) Finalizing Summer Programming Bingo Event Olivia Walden, Jingshan Xiao, and Cindy Goode

Kiki Neumann visited the library and staff. Pictured here with the portrait of her father, Dr. Alfred R. Neumann, the University's founding chancellor.

Also pictured: Dr. Vivienne McClendon, Matthew Peek, and Chloris Yue

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BY THE NUMBERS UHCL LIBRARIES

6,260 Checkouts of study rooms

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303,200

Faculty Publications

Total views of library website & research guides

Authored Book/Book Chapters published (Fall 2021-Summer 2022)

74,255

833

Physical visitors to our libraries

Instructional video views during the year

331% Increase of visitors to our library from previous year

UHCL ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

8,015 Page totals for documents Scanned/Copied

6,049 Page totals for documents extracted (JSC History Collection)

833

Fostering Student Connections Library Events

INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY @ UHCL

273

Number of ETDs

401

UHCL Faculty & Researcher Works

1,350

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COLLECTIONS 154,185

2,518

Physical & electronic media

Institutional Repository documents

103,303

1,030,173

Print & electronic books

165,705

Print & electronic government documents

Print & electronic journals

Top 3 Databases OCLC WorldCat APA PsycInfo EBSCO Academic Search Complete

LIBRARY SPACE

85,553 total net sq ft 1,058

Total students reached

TEACHING

74

Total number of classess

710

individual seats

12,607 net sq. ft for study spaces

23%

Increase of librarian instruction classes during FY2022

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THE STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS In March of 2022, the Library enlisted Dr. Megan Topham, Executive Director for the UHCL Institute for Human and Planetary Sustainability (IHAPS) for guidance in leading the library through the strategic planning process. A planning work group was formed to coordinate efforts within the library.

The team consisted of: Dr. Vivienne McClendon (Executive Director), Kate Carter, Donna Elrod, Juliana Espinosa, Linsey Ford, Jennifer Holland, Martha Hood, Neeta Jambhekar, David Palmer, Matthew Peek, Chat Steed, Jingshan Xiao, and Chloris Yue. The planning team met at least once a month from March until August. From the beginning, the planning team focused on gathering and incorporating library staff input into the final plan. To this end, we held a half-day retreat in May and the process continued at our Annual Planning Session held in August.

The implementation and finalization of of objectives has been delayed due to being shortstaffed. The library hopes once we have additional staff hired, to refresh and evaluate the plan for next year including looking at initiatives and measures.

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Our Library

Values

RESPECT

TRANSPARENCY

We recognize and value each person with dignity, accepting cultural and accessibility differences, by nurturing differing points of view, actively listening, and communicating courteously.

We commit to practicing clarity and openness in our communications and operations.

ACCOUNTABILITY

We establish a culture of responsibility by defining clear expectations and standards for success.

INTEGRITY

We adhere to the shared moral and ethical values of librarianship that prioritizes courage over comfort, honesty, and the greater good.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

EXCELLENCE

We value and incorporate a variety of perspectives, experiences, and expertise representative of our community that serve to connect, inspire, and foster collaboration and learning.

We create a supportive environment that cultivates creativity and innovation to provide reliable, user-centered services that result in engaging and transformative experiences.

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Library Strategic Objectives

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Definitions Increase Value of an Inclusive Culture Library prioritizes a culture in which diversity and inclusion is valued by implementing tools and techniques which respects race, ethnicity, gender, age, religious or ethical values, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, social class, accessibility, and political beliefs. Diversity is defined as any dimension that differentiates a group of people. Inclusion is defined as respect and appreciation of differences among people.

Improve Workload Management Library will efficiently plan, schedule, and distribute work across teams to optimize how work is assigned, help keep teams and projects on track, and maximize employee performance and job satisfaction.

Increase Opportunities for Continuous Learning Library prioritizes the ongoing expansion of knowledge and skill sets, while also reinforcing what has been previously learned. Library staff are given the opportunity to learn simultaneously while they work in order to develop the habit of acquiring skills, knowledge, and abilities to help them become better at their jobs.

Increase Communications Create a multi-channel system of sharing information to engage with internal and external audiences. Provide guidance and instruction to all Library staff regarding how we may effectively and efficiently communicate our messaging.

We hope to define our remaining objectives in the coming new year.

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Staffing News

SERVING THE COMMUNITY Librarian, Minyoung Chung is active with the Conscious Editing Working Group UHS. The objective of the working group is to identify harmful terms in the catalog, discuss proposed changes, and create local authority records. She is also serving on the conference planning committee for the ExLibris Southcentral Users Group (ELSUG) which successfully had their virtual conference in November.

Librarian, Cindy Goode is also active in TLA. She serves on the Scholarship Committee and serves as the District 8 Webmaster. Kate Carter is in TLA holding the office of Alternate Chancilor.

In October, Kate Carter was elected Vice Chair of the Texas Digital Library GIS Interest Group, a two-year commitment in which she will serve as Vice Chair in 2022 and Chair in 2023.

Jennifer Holland, is the District 8 Past Chair (TLA) and also is a member of Gulf Coast Reads since January.

The title "Lone Stars, a Novel" by Justin Deabler was selected this year as a book which hopes to appeal to many adults in the community.

Librarian, David Palmer, became a TALL (Texas Accelerated Library Leaders Institute) Texan which provides advanced leadership and management education in service. He was one of 25 future Texas library leaders who participated in a three-day learning experience in Dallas in November.

Jingshan Xiao is also serving on the conference planning committee for the ExLibris Southcentral Users Group (ELSUG).

Associate Director for Archives and Special Collections, Matthew Peek is serving on the Society of American Archivist Mility Archives Section Steering Committee as the Communication Liaison (term 20212023) and the Society of American Archivist Public Library Archives/Special Collections Section Steering Committee as a Member-At-Large (term 2021-2023).

David Palmer, Jennifer Holland, Kate Carter, and Cindy Goode (from left)

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Staff News New Staff

Recognition of Service

Olivia Walden, Library Associate, Scholarly Communications, joined the library staff in September 2021. She formally worked at Pasadena ISD, where she was an educator for six years.

Diana Dulek, joined UHCL in January 2022. She is starting in a new role for the library titled Digital Strategies and Data Librarian and joins us from Houston Public Library.

Andrew Elrod, Library Associate, Copy Cataloger, began his career in our library as a student worker and transitioned in January 2022 to his new position. He is currently attending library school at Texas Woman's University and working towards his MLIS. Juliana Espinosa, Student Success Librarian, joined our staff in February 2022 from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo where she was an Assistant Professor and User Engagement Librarian.

Retirees: 27 years Neeta Jambhekar Coordinator UHCL Library at Pearland, 1995-2022

18 years Jody Mantell Interlibrary Loan Supervisor, 2003-2022

Matthew Peek, Associate Director, Archives & Special Collections, joined the library in March 2022. He is joining us from the State Archives of North Carolina where he was the Military Collection Archivist.

Service:

Tisha Woody, joined us in April 2022 as the Library's Department Assistant. She formerly worked at the University of Houston in the Conrad Hilton College of Global Hospitality Leadership .

Jingshan Xiao

Betsy Dalstra, Library Associate (Serials), started working as a student worker in 2020, and transitioned into her new role as Serials Library Associate in May 2022. She will graduate with her Bachelor of Arts in History from UHCL in May 2022.

15 years

5 years Associate Director, Technology & Resource Management

Mark Gary Senior Library Associate, Acquisitions

Laura Bernal, was promoted to Interlibrary Loan Supervisor in May. She now oversees ILL borrowing, lending and document delivery and also her duties from circulation. She started in December 2020.

Also in May, Linsey Ford was officially promoted to be Head of Scholarly Communication Services.

Farewells Keith Daniels, Library Associate, ILL started a new position at University of Houston in December 2021.

Sashia Klein, Library Associate, Serials left in December 2021 for a new position in Montana.

Jody Mantell, Interlibrary Loan Supervisor, retired in January after 18 years of service with the library.

Marlene Thomas, Administrative Assistant III, left in January 2022. She started a new position with Galveston County to work in their Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Office.

Jingshan Xiao with his 5 year award

Neeta Jambhekar, Coordinator at UHCL Library at Pearland, retired at the end of July 2022. She served almost 27 years with the university.

Minyoung Chung, Metadata and Catalog Librarian, moved to California to be with family.

Diana Dulek, Digital Strategies and Data Librarian, transferred to work at UH Law Library's as their new Metadata & Discovery Librarian in June 2022.

Kate Carter, Research and Instruction Librarian, also transferred to UH Anderson Library and is now the Open Educational Resources Librarian. She began in August 2022.

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ARCHIVES & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS HAPPENINGS

By Matthew Peek Founded in 1989, the University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives and Special Collections’ mission is collect, preserve, and make publicly accessible original historical archival materials for use by its constituents for research and preservation of community history. It serves as the official repository for University of Houston-Clear Lake non-current records The Archives and Special Collection has the following collecting areas and collections in its holdings: University Archives, Human Space Flight Collection, Clear Lake Area Collection, and the Johnson Space Center (JSC) History Collection. These materials are open for research to UHCL students, alumni, faculty, staff and the general public.

The UHCL Archives has developed a new collection policy to implement more responsible management of its holdings, and to bring a more specific focus on the types of materials it will collect. We have also reoriented some of our storage and working space to provide staff and users with a more streamlined experience that better serves their needs. With our staff returned to full-time office work from the pandemic, the Archives also began hosting more class, donor, and public tours of the archives, with plans to increase tours of the facility in coming years.

NASA Alumni League Space Collections Internship The NASA Alumni League, JSC Chapter, Space Collections Internship continued for its second year, hosting UHCL history master’s student Jacob Welch. Welch arranged and described the Space News Roundup Collection (HSF-1), Lisa (Leonard) Moore Papers (HSF-54), and Allan DuPont Papers (HSF-55) in our Human Space Flight Collection. Welch also helped reorganize and manage duplicates within our Space History Reference Book Collection stored in the Archives’ reading room, which provided the Archives with additional space for other collection materials. Michael Guillen and Alexander Rodriguez also interned during 2021-2022.

2021-202 NAL Intern Jacob Welch

Archives Tour Video

New Archives Access Materials To help spread awareness and provide an introduction to the Archives, the UHCL Archives and Special Collections produced a short tour video of its facility, featuring a history of the program. The video highlights the means by which the Archives became the custodian of the NASA Johnson Space Center History Collection through a partnership with NASA and the National Archives. The video offers the scopes for the Archives’ three collecting areas and features unique items from various collections in those areas. If you have never visited the Archives, this tour video is a great introduction to familiarize yourself before visiting us. The Archives’ Associate Director is now using the tour video to introduce the Archives to potential donors, UHCL classes and students, and for grant applications.

In order to help UHCL faculty, students, and outside researchers become more familiar with the Archives, the UHCL Archives produced its first ever Archives research guide with general information about the Archives, as well as individual guides for all four of its archival collections. These guides provide detailed researching tips, information researchers should know before arrival, usage and handling rules for using the Archives’ materials, and inventories of the collections and series of materials available for the various collecting areas.

There is also a page for potential donors to the Archives, providing most of the information one would need to know when considering donating archival materials. The Archives is using these guides for offsite researchers, to make their research experience for efficient and provide them with greater context for our collections.

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Notable 2021-2022 Accessions Clear Lake Area Collections Frank Reinhart Real Estate Records The Frank Reinhart Real Estate Records consists of blueprints, plans, drawings, financial records, real estate records, correspondence, documenting

Houstonian

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housing developments, buildings, concept drawings of properties, and other construction projects in Texas. Most of the materials are for neighborhood developments in the Greater Houston Area and Clear Lake Area. Included are original color drawings and plans for the Clear Lake Boat Club (which is believed to later have become the Clear Lake Yacht Club), several of the developments in El Lago, and a large portion of the developments in Taylor Lake Village. These are the first set of Clear Lake Area housing development records that the Archives has ever received.

Human Space Flight Collections Paul F. Horsman Papers The Paul F. Horsman Papers is composed of 4.50 linear feet of materials created and used by NASA Johnson Space Center engineer Paul F. Horsman. Horsman worked for NASA as one of the original 40 engineers and scientists with NASA’s Space Force Task Force in Langley, Virginia. He worked from 1962 to 1997 at NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, Texas. Horsman worked in various divisions and offices at NASA for the Mercury and Apollo programs from 1959 to the early 1970s, before turning to work on Space Shuttle orbiter engineering work. The main two departments in which he worked were the Electro-mechanical Systems Section of the Guidance and Control Division of the Engineering Directorate, and Space Shuttle Integration and Operations Office.

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ANNUAL STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSION

Library staff at the Bay Oaks Country Club

The Annual Strategic Planning was held at Bay Oaks Country Club on August 19, 2022.

Discussions and activities included each library unit giving updates of accomplishments and challenges throughout the year.

Dr. Megan Topham, Executive Director of the Institute for Human and Planetary Institute (IHAPS), joined our library meeting and concluded the day with a review of the Strategic Planning Working Groups newly adopted values for the library and completing our library objectives.

The UHCL Libraries' "Employee of the Year" was awarded to Martha Hood, Associate Director, Evaluation and Assessment.

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to Dr. Megan Topham for your immense leadership and guidance with the library's strategic planning process

Dr. Megan Topham (center) and Dr. Vivienne McClendon May 2022

Credits: Photos: Cindy Goode, Martha Hood, Dr. Yumi Shin Some photos are courtesy of UHCL Marketing and Communications Videographers: Cindy Goode, Matthew Peek Designed & Created: Martha Hood

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