Library

The Learning Center pairs up with CAPS to help you get through the last stretch of assignments and finals!

Charging the Final Stretch Online Workshop
Tuesday, May 5, 4-5 pm
https://humboldtstate.zoom.us/j/92836347194

Studying and finishing classes virtually isn't easy, but you don't have to do it alone. Join the Learning Center and CAPS for an online, interactive workshop to help you finish strong.

• Learn motivational strategies
• Set end-of-semester goals
• Create a schedule to get to the end

Docuseek is offering 12 amazing documentaries on sustainability & environmental justice through Friday, May 1. Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day and enjoy this free streaming offer that includes new films as well as popular classics. But it's only for one week. Enjoy NOW!

In light of the current COVID-19 situation, the 7th Annual ideaFest Symposium will now be hosted online in a variety of digital platforms. Students, staff, and faculty can still participate in the spirit of ideaFest by disseminating & sharing their research & creative activities in the following ways:

• We are extending the online registration for ideaFest 2.0 to May 1, 2020. Participants can continue to submit their project abstracts online at https://ideafest.humboldt.edu/. Presenters will have their abstracts published here.
• Registered participants will be encouraged to publish their projects/posters online at Humboldt Digital Commons. Then, during the week of May 4-8th, Humboldt State University will be highlighting examples of the research & creative works submitted to Humboldt Digital Commons.
• Anyone from the HSU community can also submit their academic essays or research articles for the next issue of ideaFest Journal, HSU’s own peer-reviewed academic journal. The deadline to submit your publication proposals is December 23, 2020. For more information about ideaFest Journal contact Kyle Morgan at kyle.morgan@humboldt.edu.

This year’s ideaFest 2.0 is sponsored by the Office of Research & Sponsored Programs, Marketing & Communications, and the HSU Library in collaboration with the Colleges. We are all excited for the opportunity to support the development and dissemination of research & creative activities at Humboldt State University.

Next year, we look forward to hosting the 8th Annual ideaFest in-person to once again connect our campus community to the scholarly research, creative arts, and performances here at Humboldt State University.

For information about project submissions, contact Sally Hang at sally.hang@humboldt.edu.

Dear Campus Community,

Due to the ongoing situation with COVID-19, the HSU Library, including the Library Cafe, will close on Friday, March 27 at noon until further notice. We remain committed to supporting your learning and growth and will continue to offer several remote resources and services, listed below:

• Information Services
  • Library Instruction Online: Available upon request. Please email Librarians@humboldt.edu
  • Library Virtual Services: Chat with a research librarian 24/7
  • Research Help Desk: To reach HSU librarians email librarians@humboldt.edu, 10am-4pm
  • SkillShops Online: Workshops for academic and professional growth
  • Special Collections: Digital collections are available anytime, email consultations are available Monday-Friday, 9am-4pm, please email special@humboldt.edu
  • Textbook access: Please check our online Textbooks resources

You can also find a full list of resources and services the Library offers.

• Computer Resources
  • Students who have technology needs should submit a help ticket to ITS here.
  • Laptops: The library has a limited number of Chromebook computers available for students long term checkout. To have a laptop shipped to you while they last, please email libadmin@humboldt.edu and include your name, student ID#, and mailing address.

Please call the ITS Help Desk (707) 826-4357 or humboldt.edu/techhelp for technical support.

• Remote Instruction, Learning & Working
  • Keep Teaching: Center for Teaching & Learning support to faculty for alternative modes of instruction.
  • Keep Learning: Center for Teaching & Learning resource on how students can prepare for remote learning.

Also please note overdue fines have been suspended until June 1. The date is subject to change if needed.

Thank you for your understanding. Please email the Library at libadmin@humboldt.edu or call (707) 826-3431 and leave a message if you need assistance. We will get back to you as soon as possible!

Sincerely,
Cyril Oberlander
HSU Library Dean
Cyril.Oberlander@Humboldt.edu

On Pi Day, March 14, 2020, the University Library announced the release of Citing Insights, open source software designed to streamline the assessment of student papers. Five Cal Poly Humboldt undergraduate students working at University Library have successfully developed this powerful and unique software for information literacy and other assessments.

Cyril Oberlander, Library Dean shared, “Thanks to one-time funding from the California State University Graduation Initiative 2025 and the support of the campus, we employed amazing students to build Citing Insights. This software provides much needed automation to support assessment of information literacy and other competencies, including the evaluation of sources of citations used in student papers featuring standard or customized rubrics.”

What can Citing Insights do? It streamlines assessment of student papers. Just upload one or a set of papers, and Citing Insights automatically detects the citations in the paper, enabling one click access to the sources of citations via Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar, or a library’s discovery system. You can also evaluate the paper and citations using the built in Information Literacy or Critical Thinking Value rubrics from the AAC&U, or create and edit your own rubrics, and even add annotations. Lastly, you can output the results for assessment, or provide feedback to students.

Cal Poly Humboldt faculty, librarians, and staff contributed feedback during several software sprints and alpha testing of this innovative prototype during fall semester. Thanks to everyone’s feedback, the Citing Insights Team; Cindy Batres, Elizabeth Lujan, Ben Miller, Kyle Smith, and Mitchell Waters, are sharing Citing Insights with the world on this Pi day, with a planned full version release this May. You can find and download Citing Insights Beta at: github.com/hsu-library-project-x/citing-insights-beta

The Library internships and project-based student employment opportunities are designed to empower effective learning to solve challenges faced by higher education and the community at large. One of the key questions for Citing Insights is how can we make assessment easier. The first phase of development for Citing Insights answers that question by reducing the workload of assessment. Once the full version is released, the next version of Citing Insights will support students research and writing; answering our second key question: how can we assist student research and writing anytime and anywhere? Building this tool will be as ambitious as the supporting assessment with automation software.

Ben Miller … “This experience at the library improved our ability to work in teams, develop a product to meet client needs, and expanded our knowledge – we had to acquire new programming languages, learn project management and agile development skills… working at the library was an invaluable experience.”

The Citing Insights team and Cyril Oberlander, Dean of the Library, will co-present Citing Insights and student software development projects, at the American Library Association Annual Conference (LITA program) in Chicago June 2020, showcasing the importance of engaging students in solving grand challenges. Cyril adds “I am excited to see the additional features planned for the Version 1 release, advancing assessment features for groups and adding inter-rater reliability norming and analytics will significantly make assessment easier and more powerful. Libraries are innovative engines in higher education, as we engage students in project-based learning, we provide practical and powerful strategies to rapidly prototype, test, effectively iterate, and thereby shape the future of higher education.”

For more information, please contact Cyril Oberlander, Library Dean at: Cyril.Oberlander@Humboldt.edu

This event will be rescheduled for Fall Semester

HSU Library, Oh SNAP!, and two filmmakers, Jessica Eden and Jennifer Bell, invite you to join this fun evening of films and food.

GOING WITH THE GRAIN describes the resurgence of locally grown grains in Humboldt County including wheat and quinoa. Learn from several entrepreneurs how they have incorporated local grains into their products.

COASTAL FOODS: SOWING THE SEEDS OF SUSTAINABILITY explores Humboldt's coastal local food movement including Community Supported Agriculture farms (CSAs), Native community health, and how important young people are to the future of local foods.

Come meet the filmmakers, learn about Oh SNAP!, and eat delicious local food! This is a FREE event.

"Food for Thought" is a DreamMaker project of the Ink People Center for the Arts. These films recognize the outstanding work of local food enthusiasts. Come celebrate our community and food connections!  

Join us for a communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to art and feminism on Wednesday, March 4 from 12-3pm in the Library Lab 121. We will provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, reference materials, and refreshments. We'll have a computer lab for you to work in and suggestions for pages to edit, but you can also bring your laptop and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. People of all gender identities and expressions are invited to participate.

This year the Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon is happening as a workshop for the Humboldt State University Social Justice Summit. For more information events on the schedule visit: https://summit.humboldt.edu/welcome-2017-social-justice-summit

Pre-register for this event at: https://forms.gle/AJS7tpCa6Qbq7ZCB7.

Contact Kimberly Stelter at kimberly.stelter@humboldt.edu for more information.

Join us on Tuesday, March 10th from 5-7pm for some hands-on crafting using paper, yarn, and cardboard to create wall-hangings for your apartment or dorm in the Library Makerspace (3rd floor across from Special Collections).

Snacks and supplies will be provided by Housing and Residence Life and WRRAP will be providing additional recycled materials for your creative use.

Contact Kimberly Stelter at krs95@humboldt.edu for more information.

Interested in working at the Library? Two areas are looking for student assistants - HSU Press and Special Collections. Join the friendly crew at the Library and gain valuable experience while working flexible hours.

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HSU Press: Will work on scholarly communications, HSU Press, open education, and office projects as needed. Duties may include master’s thesis reviews, writing, editing, typesetting, graphic design, research, digitization, project management, and/or marketing as needed. Need good communications skills and attention to detail. Knowledge of Adobe Suite, editing, or marketing a plus, but not required. 10-12 hrs per week. $13.25 per hour. For additional information and to apply, go to humboldt.joinhandshake.com.

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Special Collections: Love researching Humboldt history? Excited to share your passion with other students? The HSU Library Special Collections is hiring student assistants for a variety of projects. Under the supervision of the Special Collections Librarian, student duties include:

• Provide research and library assistance for HSU students and community users.
• Teach researchers how to navigate the Special Collections website, catalog, database and finding aids.
• Complete collection inventories and photoduplication requests.
• Answer the Humboldt Room phone and reply to distance researcher requests.
• Promote Special Collections via social media and blogs.
• Updating the content of the Humboldt Room website and perform quality control for archival projects.
• Provide access to the rare book collection while maintaining the safety of the collection.
• Edit Wikipedia pages related to Humboldt County History in order to direct researchers to collections in the archive.
• Graphic design projects.
• Create physical and digital exhibits to promote Special Collections to visitors.

Skills Required: Experience using the Humboldt Room collections. Knowledge of archival procedures and standards. Ability to work independently and use problem solving skills and independent judgement.

Other Competencies Required: Dependable, proactive, show initiative, interest in Special Collections or library work.

Preferred Skills: Maintain accurate statistics Familiarity with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Access), Adobe Photoshop and Indesign, scanning, efficient typing, web creation, video editing, or text editing are bonuses.

Timeline for interested applicants: Resumes will be reviewed from date of job posting until Monday, February 3, 2020. Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis until the position closes. Please apply early.

Application Information: Please email the following four items to Carly Marino, carly.marino@humboldt.edu

1. Library Student Assistant Application
2. Work Availability
3. Resume with names and contact information for two references
4. Cover letter stating why you are interested in this job and how it relates to your professional goals after you graduate

$13.25 per hour