NCompass Live: Reading for Justice: A Database for YA & Youth Literature
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NCompass Live - May 20, 2020 http://nlc.nebraska.gov/ncompasslive/ Presenters: Laura Bell, St. Catherine University; Katie Retterath, Visual Resources Specialist, Macalester College; Dr. David McKoskey, St. Catherine University, Adjunct Professor.
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NCompass Live: Reading for Justice: A Database for YA & Youth Literature
- 1. READING FOR JUSTICE DATABASE Laura Bell, Katie Retterath, & Dr. David McKoskey May20,2020
- 2. •3 Key Experiences ⚬ LIS 7030 Organization of Knowledge ⚬ LIS 7040 Information Access Services ⚬ LIS 7190 Social Justice for Children’s & YA Lit INSPIRATION
- 3. PURPOSE & SCOPE ● For librarians and patrons ● Subjects centered around themes of social justice ● Tool for subject identification ○ Children’s and YA Lit ○ Supplement to existing catalogs ● Current form: ○ 67 Books ○ 8 Subjects ○ 121 Terms
- 4. DATABASE DEVELOPMENT •Three Initial Phases ■ MySQL ■ Eight tables •Independent Study ■ Further development ■ PHP & HTML ■ Github ■ Test cases
- 5. INITIAL SUBJECTS & TERMS
- 6. Phase III: Tables Center Table ISBN Title Author last name Author first name Database Tables Center Table Gender Reference Gender Terms Racial Reference Racial Terms Subject Reference Subjects Terms Gender Reference ISBN Gender ID Gender Terms Gender ID Gender Term Subjects Subject ID Subject Subject Reference ISBN Subject ID
- 7. WIRE FRAMES
- 8. Final Tables Database Tables Center Table Authors Illustrators Translators Subjects Terms Work 2 Term Center Table Work ID ISBN Title Image URL Terms Term # Term ID Term Subject ID Work 2 Term Work ID Term ID Subjects Subject # Subject ID Subject Authors Work ID Author Last Name Author First Name
- 9. FUNCTIONALITY • Prototype • Three main pages ■ Report ● Title, author, translator, illustrator, ISBN, image ■ User Search ● Title, author, ISBN ● Results not filtered ■ Admin Search ● Similar to User Search ● Edit, Delete, Create a New Work
- 10. REPORT PAGE
- 11. USER SEARCH
- 12. ADMIN EDIT & DELETE
- 13. ADMIN CREATE NEW
- 14. TESTING THE DATABASE ● Test cases • Test editing the title, author, and check boxes • Does a work delete completely? • Can I find x title and does it return its y subjects? ● Informal peer review ⚬ Review terms and books
- 15. CHALLENGES & LIMITATIONS ● Our identities, experiences, and unintentional biases ● Preventing a “default” ● Managing expectations and goals ● Only 67 books
- 16. DEMONSTRATION
- 17. FUTURE POSSIBILITIES ● Cover social justice topics in-depth ● Recommended changes: • Current subjects and terms • Search functionality
- 18. Technical Limitations and Securities ● Institutional Sponsorship / Support ● Application Security • SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting attacks • Mainstream and institutional security • Login or JWT access ● Software Engineering • Not essential, but easier to maintain • Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture • UI / API software patterns
- 19. QUESTIONS Contact Information: ● Laura Bell: laura.bell7017@gmail.com ● Katie Retterath: krettera@macalester.edu ● Dr. David McKoskey: drmckoskey@stkate.edu