Session Directory – Video & Chat Files
USETDA 2023 Conference YouTube Playlist
Video and Chat Files
Click the links below to view the video folders (mp4 video; txt chat)
| USETDA 2023 Program Schedule | ||
| Wednesday 9/20/23 | ||
| All Times Eastern | Session A | Session B |
| 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Session 1 – Workshop – ETD Accessibility: Defined, Designed, Reviewed, and Refined – (Teri Green, The University of Toledo; College of Graduate Studies; Kim Fleshman, Bowling Green State University Graduate College and Alison Thompson, ProQuest). Moderator: John Fudrow | |
| 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Break | |
| 1:00 – 1:45 PM | Session 2 – Rallying A11Y Stakeholders: Digital Accessibility Project Planning Roundtable Session (Lily Compton and Kristin Terrill, Iowa State University Graduate College). Moderator: G.W. Swicord | |
| 1:45 – 2:00 PM | Break | |
| 2:00 – 3:00 PM | Session 3 – Panel Discussion – OhioLINK Accessibility Local Implementation (Kim Fleshman, Bowling Green State University Graduate College; Emily Flynn, OhioLINK; Teri Green, The University of Toledo College of Graduate Studies; Tim Watson, The Ohio State University Graduate School; Cindy Kristof, Kent State University Libraries; and Natalie Cowan, Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies). Moderator: Emily Flynn | |
| 3:00 – 3:15 PM | Break | |
| 3:15 – 4:00 PM | Session 4 – Piloting an Asynchronous ETD Pre-check: Serving the Off-campus and the Time-poor (Kristin Terrill, Lily Compton and Thomas Elliott, Iowa State University Graduate College). Moderator: Teri Robinson | |
| 4:00 – 4:15 PM | Break | |
| 4:15 – 5:00 PM | Session 5 – The Thesis Workspace: Creating On-demand Access to Thesis-Writing Resources (Emily Wuchner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate College). Moderator: Katherine Johnson | Session 6 – You Can’t Access a Reference that Isn’t There: Interventions that Promote the Persistence of Web-Based Evidence in ETDs (Sarah Potvin, Kathy Anders, and Tina Budzise-Weaver, Texas A&M University Libraries; and Martin Klein, Los Alamos National Laboratory). Moderator: Ellen Amatangelo |
| Thursday 9/21/2023 | ||
| Session A | Session B | |
| 10:00 – 11:00 AM | Session 7 – Panel Discussion – From Correcting Margins to Creating Best Practices: Reconsidering the Role and Responsibilities of the Thesis Office – (Heidi Arbisi-Kelm and Erin Kaufman, University of Iowa Graduate College; Ashley Messersmith, Purdue University College of Engineering; Valerie Emerson, The George Washington University Libraries). Moderator: Emily Wuchner | |
| 11:00 – 11:15 AM | Break | |
| 11:15 – 12:00 PM | Session 8 – Poster Presentations – (11:15 AM) The Conundrum of Senior Thesis in the Library’s Open Access Institutional Repository (Jennifer Beamer and Ken Cotich, Claremont Colleges Library); (11:30 AM) Archivists and ETDs: Collaborating to Improve Access and Preservation (Cory L. Nimer and Rebecca A. Wiederhold, Brigham Young University Library); (11:45 AM) Use of AI-based Tools like ChatGPT in Research and/or Discovery Process: A Threat or a Blessing? (Md. Zillur Rahman, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology Library). Moderator: Teri Robinson | |
| 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Break | |
| 1:00 – 1:45 PM | Session 9 – ETD Formatting User’s Group Meeting (Sally Evans, George Mason University Libraries). Moderator: Ruth Lu | |
| 1:45 – 2:00 PM | Break | |
| 2:00 – 3:00 PM | Session 10 – ETD Administrator User Group Meeting (Austin McLean, April Ellsey, Gilia Smith and Alison Thompson, ProQuest, Part of Clarivate). Moderator: John Hagen | Session 11 – OhioLINK ETD Center Users Group Meeting (Emily Flynn, OhioLINK). Moderator: Teri Green |
| 3:00 – 3:15 PM | Break | |
| 3:15 – 4:00 PM | Session 12 – Community Engagement Group Meeting (Emily Wuchner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate College). Moderators: Emily Wuchner, Valerie Emerson. Flash Talks: Switching New URLS for Old in Library Catalog Records / A Stable ID as an Anchor (Elizabeth McDonald – The University of Memphis Libraries) The Journal of Electronic Theses and Dissertations Charlie Greenberg, Managing Editor, J-ETD) Microsoft Copilot: Artificial Intelligence for ETD Formatting (Kristin Terrill, Iowa State University) Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Programs Around the World (Behrooz Rasuli, Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology) Dissertation Writing Retreat (Ruth Lu, Ohio University) Community Engagement Opportunities (John Hagen, USETDA) | |
| 4:00 – 4:15 PM | Break | |
| 4:15 – 5:00 PM | Wrap Up Discussion / Virtual Cocktail Party (Emily Wuchner, Vice Chair, John Hagen, Executive Director – USETDA) | |