Sharon Shafer, Chair-Elect of NGCIG, launched the discussion by giving historical context to the third ever meeting of the Next Generation Catalog Interest Group. The first meeting of NGCIG addressed commercial alternatives to the traditional library catalog, the second meeting focused on non-commercial, open source endeavors while the third meeting was dedicated to next steps in next-generation catalogs. The meeting held presentations and discussion about two examples of recent next generation catalog endeavors. Karen Schneider (Evangelist for Equinox’s Evergreen support) shared what she does as an Evangelist by giving some real world, grounded information on the pluses and minuses of open source software as compared to proprietary software. Sara Davidson and Amy Kautzman (Members of the UC/OCLC Pilot Implementation Team) presented insights in to the benefits and challenges encountered while launching a next-generation consortial catalog (Melvyl) pilot using WCAT Local.

The meeting held presentations and discussion about three locally developed and/or open source catalog projects. Ross Shanley-Roberts, Miami University, Ohio, gave a detailed history, technical overview and description of SolrPac (http://beta.lib.muohio.edu). Bess Sadler, University of Virginia, gave a detailed history, technical overview and presentation on the open source OPAC known as Blacklight. Chris Barr and Andrew Nagy of Villanova discussed the VuFind (http://www.Vufind.org/demo) project.

Data Lake is a central repository for assessment-related reports, data, and tools created for the use of UCLA Library. It is a centralized assessment planning platform with modules. Today, we will be covering the tool module and how to use it to your best advantage to conduct assessment, research, and to request new programs related to your work.

Using previous research on derogatory terms in LCSH, we investigate their prevalence and use in UC Library Search at UCLA. We discover how users, cataloging practices, and system behavior work in real life

Although immigrants have a right to be represented by counsel in immigration court, it has long been the case that the government has no obligation to provide an attorney for those who are unable to afford one. Recently, however, a broad coalition of public figures, scholars, advocates, courts, and philanthropic foundations have begun to push for the establishment of a public defender system for poor immigrants facing deportation. Yet the national debate about appointing defense counsel for immigrants has proceeded with limited information regarding how many immigrants currently obtain attorneys and the efficacy and efficiency of such representation.This Article presents the results of the first national study of access to counsel in United States immigration courts. Drawing on data from over 1.2 million deportation cases decided between 2007 and 2012, we find that only 37% of all immigrants, and a mere 14% of detained immigrants, secured representation. Only 2% of immigrants obtained pro bono representation from nonprofit organizations, law school clinics, or large law firm volunteer programs. Barriers to representation were particularly severe in immigration courts located in rural areas and small cities, where almost one-third of detained cases were adjudicated. Moreover, we find that immigrants with attorneys fared far better: among similarly situated removal respondents, the odds were fifteen times greater that immigrants with representation, as compared to those without, sought relief, and five-and-a-half times greater that they obtained relief from removal. In addition, we show that involvement of counsel was associated with certain gains in court efficiency: represented respondents brought fewer unmeritorious claims, were more likely to be released from custody, and, once released, were more likely to appear at their future deportation hearings. This research provides an essential data-driven understanding of immigration representation that should inform discussions of expanding access to counsel.

Proper neurological function relies on the cellular and molecular microenvironment of the brain, with perturbations of this environment leading to neurological disorders. However, studying the microenvironments of neurological tissue has proven difficult because of its inherent complexity. Both the cell type and metabolomic underpinnings of the cell have crucial functional roles, thus making multimodal characterization methods key to acquiring a holistic view of the brains microenvironment. This study investigates methods for combining matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI MSI) and immunofluorescence (IF) microscopy to enable the concurrent investigation of cell types and lipid profiles on the same sample. In brief, 1,5-diaminonaphthalene (DAN), α-cyano-4-hydroxy-cinnamic acid (CHCA), and 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid (DHB) were tested in addition to instrument-specific parameters for compatibility with IF. Alternatively, the effects of IF protocols on MALDI MSI were also tested, showing significant signal loss with all tested permutations. Ultimately, the use of CHCA for MALDI MSI resulted in the best IF images, while the use of DAN gave the lowest quality IF images. Overall, increasing the laser power and number of shots per laser burst resulted in the most tissue ablation. However, optimized parameter settings allowed for minimal tissue ablation while maintaining sufficient MALDI MSI signal.

A key performance indicator (KPI) is a metric used to evaluate factors that are crucial to the success of the Library and should be owned by the library function. Confluence templates provide a central, collaborative, and transparent environment for reports and analytics to be embraced by data driven decision makers. Use of APIs make it possible to gather dynamic data from external sources like Google Analytics and Tableau while it is also possible to supply contextual qualitative metrics to deliver a complete analysis. The process of identifying needs and building the site for a large academic library will be shared with opportunity for discussion.