Texas Conference on Digital Libraries

A Game of Coins: Development of a "Game Play" on the Flow of Money in Scholarly Communication
David Carlson
Most librarians are convinced that the current system of scholarly communication is not just broken – it is structurally defective. The system defies innovation, restricts access, and operates in a monopolistic financial model with stunning financial profits for commercial publishers. Yet the economics of scholarly communication is little understood by faculty. David Carlson devised a game or play for presentation to faculty that plays out the flow of money in scholarly communication through physical demonstration and drama. The game will be played and some reflections offered on its presentation to several selected faculty audiences to date.

Surprise, Youre a Scholar!: Teaching Undergrads Digital Scholarship and Information Literacy
Shelly Barba, Alec Cattell
What began as a simple task of creating a digital collection for an interdisciplinary humanities project around the theme of Identity and Resistance in Global Contexts became an opportunity to teach undergraduates about their role in academia within the classroom and the entire digital world. This enabled a paradigm shift of digital collections being teaching tools as well as information sources. This presentation will cover the creation of this project, the expected and unexpected topics covered in outreach and instruction to participants, and benefits of / tips to attempting an undergraduate digital collection like this at other institutions.