"Walk Right In, SIt Right Down": Baby Let Your Hair Down and Jump in the Middle of a Migration

Location

Cook 206Z / Zoom

Presentation Type

Lightning Talk

Start Date

25-4-2024 4:30 PM

Description

Moving cross-country and joining a new team, in a new environment, in the middle of an institutional repository migration can be a bit of a challenge, to say the least. Add to this recipe that the team is already suffering burnout, and is migrating a proprietary database, CurateND, to a vendor-based database, Figshare. The new position: service manager, peer leadership, and navigating stakeholder relationships. The team: one migration engineer, consultant, three librarians, and two graduate college staff. This presentation will discuss navigating relationships, strategy, and workflow of an already challenging migration project as a new library faculty member at Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame. It will focus on a "people first" approach, which makes all the difference.

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Apr 25th, 4:30 PM

"Walk Right In, SIt Right Down": Baby Let Your Hair Down and Jump in the Middle of a Migration

Cook 206Z / Zoom

Moving cross-country and joining a new team, in a new environment, in the middle of an institutional repository migration can be a bit of a challenge, to say the least. Add to this recipe that the team is already suffering burnout, and is migrating a proprietary database, CurateND, to a vendor-based database, Figshare. The new position: service manager, peer leadership, and navigating stakeholder relationships. The team: one migration engineer, consultant, three librarians, and two graduate college staff. This presentation will discuss navigating relationships, strategy, and workflow of an already challenging migration project as a new library faculty member at Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame. It will focus on a "people first" approach, which makes all the difference.