Publications

Publications by categories in reversed chronological order.

2022

Contactless Library Service: Case Studies from Ohio’s Private Academic Libraries

Derek Zoladz, Rebecca Raeske-Grinch, Laura D’Amato, and 1 more author

2022

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"While contactless library services have been available for decades, there’s been a distinct shift in the design of and expectations from contactless services in the last few years. Whether accelerated by the pandemic, or by the expansion of contactless services in adjacent industries, there’s an increasing demand for simplicity and convenience of library services. A smooth user experience on the surface often involves complex behind-the-scenes procedures, requiring a depth of technical knowledge, cross-organizational communication skills, and a high level of patience and understanding as the process for creating new service models that remove barriers to accessing library resources can be burdensome."

2020

ezPAARSE ’em: Towards an Increasingly Refined Understanding of Activity

Derek Zoladz

2020

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"Rather than fussing with the overhead and time investment required to maintain a suite of custom scripts to gain deeper insight into EZproxy usage, take advantage of the cumulative efforts of EZproxy users from around the world. In this presentation, the presenter will demonstrate the use of ezPAARSE, an open-source application for ingesting, parsing, deduplicating, and enriching EZproxy log files for standardized analysis. Attendees will leave with an understanding of the utility of ezPAARSE and the knowledge required to begin using ezPAARSE to extract a more rich and finer-grained set of insights from usage activity."
Contextualizing EZproxy for Improved Troubleshooting and Problem Reports

Derek Zoladz

2020

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"Contextualizing EZproxy is a presentation to the OhioLINK membership, primarily Ohio’s academic libraries. The presentation focuses on the challenge of troubleshooting EZproxy issues, as we need to consider the wide range of potential failures that are possible at each stage in the remote access workflow."

2017

Beam Me Up, Scotty: Migrating into an Evergreen Consortium

Derek Zoladz

2017

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"Beam Me Up, Scotty! is a presentation for the Ohio Library Council event, RightClick 2017, at the State Library of Ohio. RightClick 2017 is an annual one-day conference for sharing IT ideas, solutions, and best practices by and for library IT staff and administrators."

2015

Know the Lingo: How ILEAD Ohio Influenced Library Collaboration and Discovery for Patrons

Jessica Crossfield McIntosh, Kirstin Krumsee, Derek Zoladz, and 1 more author

2015

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"The purpose of this paper is to share the authors’ collective experiences of ILEAD, explore the mobile app development process and inspire further use of the open access code."