Diana L. Ascher, PhD, MBA

I. Professional Competence and Quality of Service within the Library

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  1. Offices and Committee Chairs in organizations, committees, and task forces within the UCLA Library
    1. Chair, 2019-20, Librarian of the Year Committee, LAUC-LA
    2. Convener, 2019, 11th Annual UCLA Volunteer Day Project Site; Initiated and organized our participation in this event to increase the visibility of the IS Dept
    3. Session Leader, 2019, Information Session for Incoming Doctoral Students, Graduate Division
  2. Membership in organizations, committees, and task forces within the UCLA Library
    1. UCLA Library Diversity Committee, 2019-present
    2. MLIS Program Coordinator Ad Hoc Search Committee, IS Dept, 2019[1]
    3. GSE&IS Faculty Executive Committee, GSE&IS, 2018-present
    4. Information Studies Faculty Executive Committee, IS Dept, 2018-present
    5. Information Technology Advisory Committee (ITAC), IS Dept, 2018-present
    6. Instructional Services Committee (ISC), IS Dept, 2018-present
    7. UCLA Library Collections Council, 2018-present
    8. Librarian of the Year Committee, LAUC-LA, 2018-present
    9. Professional Program Committee (PPC); IS Dept; 2016-2017, 2018-present
    10. Strategic Planning Ad Hoc Committee, IS Dept, 2018-2019
  3. Continuing Education
    1. Courses taken
      1. UCLA Library Carpentry Workshop: Intro to Command Line, Data Cleaning with OpenRefine, Intro to Python, Python Continued, UCLA Data Science Center, 2019 link
      2. Justice, HarvardX, 2019 (online) link
      3. Computing in Python 1: Fundamentals and Procedural Programming, GTx, 2019 (online) link
      4. FinTech Ethics and Risks, HKUx, 2019 (online) link
      5. Peer Review Documentation Workshop for Candidate and Review Initiators, 2019 link
      6. Delivering a Keynote Speech, Saul Kotzubei Coaching, 2018 link
      7. Peer Review Documentation Workshop for Candidate and Review Initiators, 2018 link
      8. General Compliance Briefing: University of California Ethical Values and Conduct (2019)
      9. PCI DSS Security Awareness Training – Annual Compliance Requirement (2019)
      10. PCI DSS Security Awareness Training (v2) (2019)
      11. UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Prevention Training for Supervisors and Faculty (2018, 2019)
      12. UC Cyber Security Awareness Training – Refresher (2019)
      13. UC Cyber Awareness Training Fundamentals (2018)
      14. General Compliance Briefing: University of California Ethical Values and Conduct (2018)
    2. Degree(s) completed
      1. NA
  4. Instruction and Teaching
    1. Guest lectures contributed to courses taught by others or course-integrated instruction
      1. Web Development, Class Session on Database & Interface Specifications for the Interim IS Lab Catalog, Spring 2019 (IS 289, 12 students)
    2. Library-sponsored classes/workshops[2],[3]
      1. 16mm Digitization (4 sessions, 5 students, 1 faculty member)
      2. Accession & Digitization (1 session, 3 students) link link
      3. ArchivesSpace (1 session, 5 students)
      4. Audio Transfer (1 session, 18 students) link
      5. Cataloger’s Desktop (1 session, 4 students)
      6. ContentDM (2 sessions, 7 students)
      7. Digitizing Slides (3 sessions, 4 students, 2 faculty members)
      8. EduTech Edit-a-Thon (1 session, 1 student)
      9. Excel (5 sessions, 20 students)
      10. Film Handling & Archiving (10 sessions, 52 students) link
      11. Film Inspection & Handling (15 sessions, 43 students) link
      12. LibGuides (1 session, 5 students)
      13. Libib (3 sessions, 7 students)
      14. Metadata: OxygenXML & OpenRefine (1 session, 9 students) link
      15. mySQL (2 sessions, 6 students)
      16. NodeXL Pro (2 sessions, 5 students)
      17. OCLC (3 sessions, 3 students)
      18. OpenRefine (1 session, 35 students) link
      19. Orientation (2 sessions, 120 students) link
      20. Personal Branding (2 sessions, 23 students) link
      21. PhD Literature Review with Diane Mizrachi (2 sessions, 9 students)
      22. RDA Toolkit (1 session, 2 students)
      23. Resumes & Cover Letters (3 sessions, 14 students) link
      24. Shelf-reading (1 session, 5 students) link
      25. WebDewey (1 session, 3 students)
    3. UCLA (Credit) Courses taught
      1. Independent Study in Information Studies, Undergraduate Level, UCLA. (IS 199, 2 students, Fall 2019, 4-credit course, included both curricular development and participant assessment)
      2. Independent Study in Information Studies, Graduate Level, UCLA. (IS 596, 5 students, Spring 2019, 4-credit course, included both curricular development and participant assessment)
  5. Other Criterion I Activities
      1. Administration & Management
        1. Policies link
          1. Collection Development Policy link
        2. Finance & Budgeting
          1. Budget Overhaul link
      2. Catalog (Shelf-read, Barcoding, Interface)
      3. Department Accreditation Data Project link
      4. Facility Reconfiguration link
      5. First Inaugural IS Lab Showcase link
      6. Grand Tour link
      7. Grant Proposals (1 awarded, 1 under review, 2 in preparation) link
      8. Guiding Principles Marketing Project link
      9. Hayes Collection & Efforts link
      10. Integration with UCLA Library Systems
      11. Internship Fair
      12. Inventory
      13. Lactation Accommodation
      14. Management Systems & Workflows
      15. Manuals Collection
      16. Media Space Expansion link
      17. Networking & Collaborative Relationship Development
        1. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
        2. AI Now Institute
        3. Brown University Library Digital Scholarship Lab
        4. City of Los Angeles
        5. City of Santa Monica
        6. Data & Society
        7. Duke University Library
        8. LA Law Library
        9. Los Angeles Philharmonic Foundation
        10. Los Angeles Fire Department link
        11. University of California, Los Angeles
          1. Anderson School of Management
          2. Arts Library
          3. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
          4. Digital Archaeology Lab
          5. Digital Humanities Program
          6. Digital Library
          7. Film & Television Archive
          8. Green IT
          9. HumTech
          10. Lab School
          11. Library Data Sciences Center
          12. Lux Lab
          13. Library Special Collections
          14. Music Library
          15. Office of Instructional Technology
          16. Preservation Lab
          17. Scholarly Innovation Lab
        12. UCLA IS Associates link
        13. UCSB Library link link

[1] Recused due to conflict of interest

[2] I did not have access to SIA until very recently, so I’ve tabulated the data manually.

[3] These are workshops I developed and delivered in the IS Lab with IS Lab Staff members.