Presentation Type
Presentation
Date
2021-11-17
Description
The Health Sciences Library at New York Medical College has made its annual Faculty Author Celebration and Awards event a tradition 27 years-running. Over the last quarter century, the event has evolved with the digital age, finding an archival home in our institution’s digital repository, Touro Scholar, beginning in 2018. While we have used Touro Scholar to publish our annual awards list, depict the event in photos, and of course collect New York Medical College faculty publications - 2020 was the first year that our repository has been used to host the Faculty Author Celebration and Awards event itself. We worked with faculty authors, administrators, and special speakers to make unique video content referencing the faculty publications already searchable within the repository, to be accessed via Touro Scholar and on Youtube. The event was in part inspired by the increasing popularity of video abstracts, as they can be more accessible and captivating than print and are well suited to social media platforms for promoting and describing scholarship. Likewise, the video event could be circulated beyond the premiere date, and accessible to a wider audience both within and beyond New York Medical College. This presentation will describe how librarians at New York Medical College turned the pandemic into a community-building experience through use of the digital repository, and utilized the video event to supplement, enhance, and promote existing collections within Touro Scholar while appealing to the administration, promoting intellectual discourse, and celebrating faculty achievements.
Keywords
institutional repositories, health sciences, Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries, MIRL, MIRL 2021, Digitization, Video
Open Access
1
Rights and Permissions
Copyright © 2021 Aprile
Repository Citation
Aprile, Jeanette, "Digitizing the Accolades: Documenting Institutional Research Impact with a Video Time-Capsule" (2021). Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL). 8.
https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/mirl/2021/program/8
Digitizing the Accolades: Documenting Institutional Research Impact with a Video Time-Capsule
The Health Sciences Library at New York Medical College has made its annual Faculty Author Celebration and Awards event a tradition 27 years-running. Over the last quarter century, the event has evolved with the digital age, finding an archival home in our institution’s digital repository, Touro Scholar, beginning in 2018. While we have used Touro Scholar to publish our annual awards list, depict the event in photos, and of course collect New York Medical College faculty publications - 2020 was the first year that our repository has been used to host the Faculty Author Celebration and Awards event itself. We worked with faculty authors, administrators, and special speakers to make unique video content referencing the faculty publications already searchable within the repository, to be accessed via Touro Scholar and on Youtube. The event was in part inspired by the increasing popularity of video abstracts, as they can be more accessible and captivating than print and are well suited to social media platforms for promoting and describing scholarship. Likewise, the video event could be circulated beyond the premiere date, and accessible to a wider audience both within and beyond New York Medical College. This presentation will describe how librarians at New York Medical College turned the pandemic into a community-building experience through use of the digital repository, and utilized the video event to supplement, enhance, and promote existing collections within Touro Scholar while appealing to the administration, promoting intellectual discourse, and celebrating faculty achievements.