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Item Open Access Uniting Policy, Advocacy, and Education: Reframing the Open Access Policy as a Statement of Values in a Time of Funder Mandates(ACRL Publications, 2025) Rigby, Miriam; Gaede, FrannyOpen access policies are statements of advocacy, a way for institutions to express their values of openness, collaboration, and sharing, and a statement of commitment to our communities and the scholarly and creative process. We have progressed beyond open access policies being compliance tools, as funder mandates have emerged to serve that purpose. An institution’s open access policy operates hand in hand with the requirements of governments, funders, and disciplines to work in a manner that demonstrates transparency and returns knowledge and value to all.Item Open Access Weed Your Budget: Visualizing an Academic Library’s Financial Position(The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), 2025-03-17)This paper presents a case study about opportunities for libraries to elevate reporting on their organization's financial status, transactions, and available funds using data visualization, specifically with Power BI, based on work at University of Oregon Libraries. The Power BI dashboard aggregates data from the university’s financial system and integrated library system to provide a consolidated view, and to tell the library's story in a more engaging way. The author proposes using this type of business intelligence technology to provide a transformative impact on financial operations of libraries.Item Open Access Journalism in the AI Era: Opportunities and Challenges in the Global South(Thomson Reuters Foundation, 2025-01-28) Radcliffe, DamianAn AI revolution in journalism is reshaping how we produce, distribute and consume news. This transformation promises creativity and innovation in newsrooms. However, it also presents significant challenges in areas such as ethics and equity. Existing narratives about AI adoption are often Western-centric, yet access to this technology differs worldwide, as do the problems faced by journalists and newsrooms. To address this imbalance, in October 2024, the Thomson Reuters Foundation surveyed more than 200 journalists – all alumni of their training programmes – from 70+ countries across the Global South and emerging economies to explore their adoption of AI, as well as their hopes and fears about journalism in the AI era.Item Open Access Sovetish Heymland and the Making of Socialist Yiddish Culture after Stalin(2025-03-06) Chorley-Schulz, MiriamIn August 1961, a significant event occurred for many Jewish left-wingers around the world. Among them was Norman Puterman, a Montreal Yiddish-speaker and member of the United Jewish People’s Order, a secular and socialist Jewish organization supporting the Yiddish-speaking workers’ movement in Canada. For the first time in thirteen years, a Yiddish periodical appeared in the Soviet Union amidst the cultural “thaw.” It was called Sovetish Heymland (סאָװעטיש הײמלאַנד, Советская родина, Soviet Homeland) and it was distributed globally.Item Open Access World Press Trends Outlook 2024-2025(WAN-IFRA (World Association of News Publishers), 2025-01-21) Radcliffe, DamianThe findings of the latest World Press Trends Outlook report are based on insights from over 240 senior media executives across 85 countries, providing a global snapshot of the trends shaping the future of publishing. This new WAN-IFRA study marks a milestone as news publishers’ revenue structures become more diversified and less reliant on traditional print sources. For the first time in our research, print circulation and advertising revenues account for less than half of respondents’ total revenues.Item Open Access Advancing Community-Centered Journalism(Agora Journalism Center, 2024-09-25) Radcliffe, DamianIn 2023, the Agora Journalism Center released Redefining News: A Manifesto for Community-Centered Journalism, authored by our colleague Damian Radcliffe. That report outlined the principles and priorities that define the growing community-centered journalism (“CCJ”) movement that focuses on doing journalism in ways that serve communities by partnering with them, not just reporting “on” them. In this report, Damian goes deeper, interviewing over a dozen leading thinkers and practitioners about how CCJ is being implemented in a variety of news organizations, the challenges it is facing, and how this innovative approach to journalism can continue to grow even in the midst of declining newsroom resources and a fraught social and political environment. These interviews also reveal five key challenges – organizational culture, the time-intensive nature of CCJ work, demonstrating impact, building the journalistic skillset, and sustaining CCJ work – that practitioners are grappling with. How they learn to meet those challenges will shape the way community-centered journalism evolves. We hope this report will offer a practical and provocative set of lessons and experiences for journalists who are new to the community-centered approach as well as for those already practicing it. Journalism may be in crisis, but there is no doubt that quality, inclusive, and trusted news is needed more than ever. We hope this report helps the promising practice of community-centered journalism forward. Andrew DeVigal, Director; Regina Lawrence, Research Director; Agora Journalism CenterItem Open Access Chicana Mothering in the 21st Century: Challenging Stereotypes and Transmitting Culture(Columbia University Press, 2008) Vasquez-Tokos, JessicaThis chapter examines the experiences of mothering among Mexican American women in the early 21st century. Mexican Americans are a large and growing minority group due to both immigration and fertility rates. Chicana mothering involves acting as a guardian or mediator between racial messages from the “outside world” (school, media, inter-racial social networks) and their children. Mothers are responsible for overseeing their children’s growth and development; as minorities, this often requires defusing negative racial messages and replacing them with affirmation.Item Open Access Check(Out) Your Privilege or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Putting on a Diversity Event(McFarland, 2019) Campbell, Damon; Harlan, Lydia; Lilley, RachelThe University of Oregon Libraries’ well-established Library Diversity Committee adopted a newly energized tone when a new Dean of Libraries joined the institution and assumed the responsibility of chairing the committee. Inspired by the sense of urgency in her leadership, our committee recognized the need to move conversations surrounding diversity into action which, ultimately, resulted in a public program focused on privilege.Item Open Access Leveraging SharePoint to Better Manage the University's HR Records(University of Oregon, 2024-02-27) Harlan, LydiaThe goal of this project is to survey UO’s current administrative processes, and how the information (records) from those processes is being handled (where are the records stored, who is responsible for them, how do the records get into those systems, who reviews the records for retention, how are the records disposed of). Next, determine which of those processes could be moved into SharePoint, and prioritize the list in terms of what you believe the University should focus on first.Item Open Access Don’t Call It a Comeback: Popular Reading Collections in Academic Libraries(American Library Association, 2018) Brookbank, Elizabeth; Davis, Anne-Marie; Harlan, LydiaDespite the persisting notion that recreational reading does not have a place in the academic mission of college and university libraries, these libraries have a long history of providing pleasure reading for their patrons. During the latter half of the twentieth century, the idea of academic libraries meeting the recreational reading needs of students seems to have fallen out of favor, but a literature review of that time period shows that the collections themselves still existed. Discussion of—and justifications for—these collections, however, has enjoyed a resurgence in the library literature over the past decade. Given this renewed interest, this study seeks to assess just how common these collections are in US academic libraries today, and whether or not they are, in fact, enjoying a comeback from previous decades. This study surveyed the thirty-nine academic libraries that make up the Orbis Cascade Alliance in the Pacific Northwest, a diverse group of libraries in terms of size, type, budget, and student populations. The results of the survey show that a majority of libraries have a recreational collection and that these collections are valued by patrons and librarians alike. Recommendations are made for shifting the perspective on popular reading collections and their place in academic libraries, as well as for how to study them in the future.Item Open Access Cost per Use in Power BI using Alma Analytics and a Dash of Python Authors Lydia(University of Oregon Libraries, 2024) Harlan, Lydia; Buxton, Kristin; Hayden, GabrielleA trio of personnel at University of Oregon Libraries explored options for automating a pathway to ingest, store, and visualize cost per use data for continuing resources. This paper presents a pipeline for using Alma, SUSHI, COUNTER5, Python, and Power BI to create a tool for data-driven decision making. By establishing this pipeline, we shift the time investment from manually harvesting usage statistics to interpreting the data and sharing it with stakeholders. The resulting visualizations and collected data will assist in making informed, collaborative decisions.Item Open Access Mexican Migration and Settlement(Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 2010-06) Vasquez-Tokos, JessicaLiterature on international migration, assimilation, and transnationalism continues to be concerned with questions about ties that migrants and their descendants have with their homelands, coethnics, and the native-born population. Tomás R. Jiménez's Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity and Joanna Dreby's Divided by Borders: Mexican Migrants and their Children provide important perspectives on different aspects of the larger phenomenon of international migration from Mexico to the United States that is a consequence of labor demand in the United States, economic need and job scarcity in Mexico, and a global economy. Both books deal with social life that takes place across ethnic boundaries, within ethnic groups, and across national borders. Taking qualitative approaches and dealing with the perennial tension between inclusion and exclusion, these books analyze the experiences and perspectives of Mexican migrants, Mexican children, and Mexican Americans.Item Open Access Methodological Appendix: A Note on Sociological Reflexivity and "Situated Interviews"(New York University Press, 2011) Vasquez-Tokos, JessicaItem Open Access Whiter is Better: Discrimination in Everyday Life(New York University Press, 2011) Vasquez-Tokos, JessicaRuben and Adele Mendoza are a married second-generation couple who are both light skinned and have a Hispanic surname. They tell me a powerful tale about how their Spanish-sounding name—Mendoza as a “giveaway” last name—restricted their access to housing when they were newlyweds.Item Open Access Conclusion: Racialization despite Assimilation(New York University Press, 2011) Vasquez-Tokos, JessicaThis book has addressed the question of Mexican immigrants’ and their descendants’ integration into U.S. society. One more glimpse into respondents’ lives reinforces the point that racial/ethnic identity is a fluid process that is highly contingent upon context and that assimilation path-ways are not straightforward but open to voluntary personal switchbacks and vicissitudes driven by external social forces.Item Open Access Thinned Attachment: Heritage is Slipping through Our Fingers(New York University Press, 2011) Vasquez-Tokos, JessicaSixty-five-year-old Maria Montes is a devout Catholic, bilingual in English and Spanish, and the matriarch of her family.1 One of six siblings, Maria emigrated from Mexico when she was four years old with her mother and sister, while her brothers stayed in Mexico. Maria’s mother chose to immigrate in part because one of her brothers and her eldest son were already in the United States and encouraged her to move. They crossed the Rio Grande River and took the train into the United States. Upon arrival, she worked in the fields picking potatoes and green beans and then at the packing house. Maria would join her mother in the fields when she was young or would be under the care of her older sister, a “second mother” caretaker for her. Twelve years later Maria’s mother brought two of her other sons over to the United States.Item Open Access Cultural Maintenance: A Pot of Beans on the Stove(New York University Press, 2011) Vasquez-Tokos, JessicaWhen I arrived at the Benavidas home in the Oakland hills, my respondent’s wife, Melissa, gave me a tour of the front portion of the home, saying her husband would join us in a minute. The house was immaculately decorated, boasting art on the walls from Spain, Mexico, and Ecuador, as well as southwestern art hand crafted by Melissa’s father. As Melissa ushered me into the kitchen, she laughed, saying tongue in cheek, “Not to be a stereo-typical Mexican family or anything, but we’ve got to get the beans on!” We both laughed. She followed up with, “Well, really, we usually do have a pot of beans in the house.”Item Open Access Tortillas in the Shape of the United States: Marriage and the Families We Choose(New York University Press, 2011) Vasquez-Tokos, JessicaMarriage is a central component of assimilation. Marriage patterns, in particular frequency of intermarriage, are a basic yardstick used to measure assimilation. Marriage has historically been understood as a way to preserve or alter the racial makeup of society. Antimiscegenation laws that banned interracial marriage and interracial sex were enforced until ruled unconstitutional in the 1967 Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia. “Anti-miscegenation laws . . . were both a response to increased immigration from Asia [and Latin America] and a reflection of persistent concerns regarding racial purity and the nature of American citizenship” (Sohoni 2007: 587). While marriage patterns have been the subject of heated popular debate and legal battles, we know less about the role marriage plays in the subjective experience of race among the marital partners and their children, which is the subject of this chapter.Item Open Access As Much Hamburger as Taco: Third-Generation Mexican Americans(New York University Press, 2011) Vasquez-Tokos, JessicaNearly seven million people are third-plus generation Mexican Americans (Macias 2006: 6), yet there is great diversity and fluidity within this group regarding the way they classify themselves. This chapter analyzes how the contradictory forces of “flexible ethnicity” and “racialization” influence the way third-generation Mexican Americans identify. “Flexible ethnicity” refers to the ability to deftly and effectively navigate different racial terrains and be considered an “insider” in more than one racial or ethnic group. “Racialization,” by contrast, refers to the process of distancing and oppressing people perceived as nonwhite. In this case, other people’s expectations and enforcement of difference create or reproduce social distance and unequal power dynamics. Regardless of whether Mexican Americans experience their racial/ethnic identity to be more “flexible” or “racialized,” they often encounter challenges to their racial “authenticity.” This chapter is organized in four sections. First, I examine the diversity of racial/ethnic claims third-generation Mexican Americans make. Second, I develop the concept of “flexible ethnicity.” Third, I analyze the process of racialization. Finally, I discuss the issue of racial authenticity and the dynamism of culture, especially with regard to gender.Item Open Access Review, Latinos in American Society: Families and Communities in Transition(Contemporary Society: A Journal of Reviews, 2013-04) Vasquez-Tokos, JessicaReview of Latinos in American Society: Families and Communities in Transition by Ruth Enid Zambrana.