As we all transitioned to virtual work in the spring 2020, many of these workshops, conferences, and presentations became virtual which increased the reach and impact of library expertise. Below is a selection of accomplishments from fiscal year 2020. (July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020)

  • Craig Arthur, F Paige, La’Portia Perkins, M Wright, and M Moseley presented “VTDITC: Community engagement via hip hop pedagogy” at the international Engagement Scholarship Consortium Annual Conference.

  • Jonathan Bradley published “How to use an API management platform to easily build local web apps” in Code4Lib Journal issue 48.

  • Marc Brodsky published “Seeing through risk in the Special Collections classroom: a case for flexibility” in the Society of American Archivists’ series Case Studies on Teaching Primary Sources.

  • Cathryn Copper contributed the chapter “Change agents: libraries and archives confronting gender issues in architecture” in Art at the Intersection of Librarianship and Social Justice. 

  • Julia Feerrar, R Hobbs, S Spicer, and J Groth Evans presented “Film and media literacies in academic libraries,” an international Media Literacy in Academic Libraries webinar.

  • Corinne Guimont presented “Pieces of publications: exploring new ideas for sharing digital projects” at the international Library Publishing Forum.

  • Kirsten Dean and Kelsey Hammer published “Breathing, GIFS, and laughter: low-barrier strategies for acknowledging bodies in classrooms” on medium.com.

  • Amr Hilal, M. Khalil, A. Salman, S. El-Tawab presented “Exploring the use of IoT and wifi-enabled devices to improve fingerprinting in indoor localization” at the 2019 IEEE Global Conference on Internet of Things (GCIoT).

  •  L. Li, J. Geissinger, E. A. Fox, and William A. Ingram published “Teaching natural language processing through Big Data text summarization with problem based learning” in the journal Data and Information Management.

  • Gail McMillan presented “The ETD lens on the institutional repository and the university” at the 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations.

  • Chreston Miller published “Timing is everything: Identifying diverse interaction dynamics in scenario and non-scenario meetings” in the IEEE 15th International Conference on eScience proceedings.

  • Amanda MacDonald, Anne Brown and SN Lewis published the book chapter “Open pedagogical practices to train undergraduates in the research process: a case study in course design and co-teaching strategies” in Open Pedagogy Approaches: Faculty, Library, and Student Collaborations.

  • Lisa Becksford, Kyrille DeBose, Edward Lener, Virginia Pannabecker and Kodi Saylor published the chapter “Sustaining graduate information literacy instruction: A case study of best practices” in Academic Library Services for Graduate Students: Supporting Future Academics and Professionals.

  • Ellie Kohler and Connie Stovall presented “Creating, recalibrating, and collecting assessment metrics for strategic initiatives and annual reporting: a case study at Virginia Tech” at the International Conference on performance Measurement in Libraries.

  • Sarah Sweeney Bear and Max Ofsa presented “Don’t split the party: Using tabletop RPGs to teach collaboration skills” at The Library Collective conference.

  • Jonathan Briganti and Anne Brown published “Exposing students in a data-driven cohort to ill-defined problems” for the 11th annual International Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy.

  • Rachel Miles, Virginia Pannabecker, Amanda MacDonald, J. Kuypers, and Nathaniel Porter published and presented “Faculty perceptions on research impact metrics, researcher profile systems, fairness of research evaluation, and time allocations in the Journal of Altmetrics and the Altmetrics Conference.

  • James Tuttle, Yinlin Chen, Tingting Jiang, Lee Hunter, Andrea Waldren, Soumik Ghosh, and William A. Ingram published “Multi-tenancy cloud access and preservation: Virginia Tech digital libraries platform” in the proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries.

  • Yinlin Chen, Soumik Ghosh, Tingting Jiang, and James Tuttle published “Scaling IIIF image tiling in the Cloud” in the Code4Lib Journal Issue 47.

  • Peter Potter, Anita Walz, Philip Young, KP DePauw, T Thompson, F Paige, and SW Ellingson presented “Connecting the opens: Open access, open education and more” at the Open Education Forum 2020 (https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/97516).

  • Alex Kinnaman and Corinne Guimont presented “Potential strategies for preserving complex DH projects” at Best Practices Exchange 2020.

  • Andi Ogier, Jonathan Petters, Virginia Pannabecker, R Settledge, E Grant, S Harden, Julie Griffin, and Tyler Walters published “Public access: A driver for preservation and discovery of datasets at a US land-grant institution” at the IFLA World Library and Information Conference conference proceedings at the international IFLA World Library and Information Congress.

  • Michael Stamper, Jonathan Briganti, Anne Brown, A Dietrich, A Godrej, M Schreiber, and Anita Walz presented the poster “DESIGN THINKING for visualizing acid-base chemistry - Documenting a user-centered approach for designing and developing an ADA compliant online tool for visualizing acid-base chemistry” at the international Gordon Research Conference - Visualization in Science and Education - Educating Skillful Visualizers (hdl.handle.net/10919/93359).

  • Nathan Hall, J Hardesty, Z Lischer-Katz, J Johnson, M Cook, and R McDonald published the journal article “Challenges and directions in 3D and VR data curation: Findings from a nominal group study” in the International Journal of Data Curation.

  • Scott Fralin and  Alice Rogers published “Course-based exhibitions: Serendipity in the physical and digital spaces of academic libraries” in Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues.

  •  R Skarbez, NF Polys, Todd Ogle, C North, DA Bowman published “Immersive analytics: Theory and research agenda” in Front Robot AI.

  • Elise Monsour Puckett published the children’s book, The Adventures of Scout & Kit: I Wish I Lived in a Treehouse.

  • Aaron D. Purcell presented “The other end of the line: Acquiring the Rupert Cutler Papers at Virginia Tech” at the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting.

  • Xinyue Wang and Zhiwu Xie published “The case for alternative web archival formats to expedite the data-to-insight cycle” in the proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.