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New Student Journal @ JCCC

I’m a big fan of our Institutional Repository, ScholarSpace.  A repository, set up to gather all of the publishings coming from our campus, has really exposed some of our works to the greater academic arena, but there’s been a glaring issue: there has been a horrible lack of student-created material. And certainly one of the most glaring issues has been my lack of advertising to get students more involved.

UNTIL NOW. I’m proud to announce that with the support and hard work of Patricia Decker, we’ve been able to launch the Johnson County Community College Honors Journal. Students who have completed their Honors contracts for courses at JCCC can now submit their final projects for inclusion in our entirely digital journal.  There are some great advantages to this journal being all digital:

  • Obviously it is more green
  • Digital publishing allows the article to be included in larger academic online communities
  • We can incorporate alternative projects, such as video, images, powerpoint presentations, or a combination of many of these

We’re very proud to be showcasing the work of our students, and hope to receive many more submissions in the coming semesters.  Thanks to everyone who helped get this off the ground, especially the contributing students:

  • Christina Turner
  • Courtney Masterson
  • William Sherrill
  • William Bettes
  • Belinda Peister

Seriously: without students willing to share their fantastic work, we wouldn’t be able to show the rest of the world what our students are capable of.  I hope this gets students (Honors or not!) interested in submitting their work. Thanks again!

ScholarSpace Redux

Do you write?  Do you present?  Do you have papers, reports, presentations, handouts from conferences, or any other intellectual property produced by you during your reign of employment or enrollment at JCCC?  Then I challenge you!

ScholarSpace is our Institutional Repository, and while I’ve mentioned it here before, it has been awhile.  Chances are, if you’re faculty, I’ve already made plans to knock on your door.  But you are henceforth challenged to approach me first!

If you are not faculty, help me!  I can only go department to department and ask for your intellectual output.  The whole point is to capture the work of everyone, including faculty, staff, and students. Please, if you are a student and have a work you’re really proud of, then speak with your instructor, speak with me, and we’ll see if ScholarSpace is the appropriate spot for your work.

It’s pretty awesome.  Your work has its own page where people can download it, get the proper citation for it, and you can even bump a notification to your facebook page or digg account about it.

An Institutional Repository is fancy-pants talk for the collected material of one entity (JCCC in this case).  If a work is put in the repository, it is by all means published.  What better way to show your pride, our value, and the quality of students we have than by showing what those students, their teachers, and the supporting staff around them can create?

It may look small now, but it is ready to grow. If you have a work that doesn’t fit into a department, just e-mail bbaile14@jccc.edu, and we’ll get it set up.  If you have any questions, stop by my office.  JCCC, you’ve been challenged to help store our legacy!  Let’s get it going!

ScholarSpace: The Academic’s Place

Today, Judi Guzzy and I announced ScholarSpace, the institutional repository for JCCC. Soon, this space will become populated with journals, conference proceedings, occasional papers, and other documents which represent our collected scholarly output. This is a big step, not just for our library, but for our institution as an academic presence on the Web. To learn more, e-mail me, comment, or sign up at scholarspace.jccc.edu.