Country Bookshelf, Montana’s largest independent bookstore, is located in the growing metropolis of Bozeman and for over 65 years has been a literary destination for locals and travelers alike. Country Bookshelf engages with its community in various ways, including book fairs with local schools. Before this project, Country Bookshelf had little in terms of concrete procedures and tools that could be referenced when hosting a book fair. The creation of a book fair handbook aims to build upon the successful book fair program that Country Bookshelf has been able to implement and guarantee continued opportunities for students, librarians, and booksellers.

Our project tackles the challenges of high food delivery costs, limited meal options, and inefficient deliveries for university students on campus. Integrating a "Mass Delivery" feature into the existing DoorDash app enables students to participate in group orders at designated campus food lockers, significantly reducing the cost per meal and delivery times. Our results from testing with students demonstrated both cost savings and increased convenience. This project makes a significant difference in the lives of students by providing them with a more affordable and efficient way to access meals, allowing an increased focus on studies and less on meal logistics.

As an expansion of Multnomah County Library’s evaluation of Spanish early readers, our team audited the Spanish language picture books at the Gresham branch, examining language and cultural representation through text, illustration, country of publication, and author/illustrator nationality. Our goals were to determine the collection’s cultural responsiveness for MCL’s patrons and to develop an assessment tool for MCL and other libraries. Findings indicate a need for more Mexican and Central American representation in the collection, and our assessment tool should be used as an iterative, dynamic document to be tailored for each library rather than a final, static product.

Gender disparities in computer science authorship persist as a significant challenge in academia. Our project involves creating a data visualization website to highlight the gender gap in computer science research. We discovered that women represent a mere 21.9% of published papers. Additionally, women constitute only 25% of full-time professors and earn just 80% of what their male counterparts make. By presenting engaging data visualizations and employing a predictive algorithm, our website sheds light on the future gender gap. This project empowers others by raising awareness and facilitating informed actions to combat gender disparities in computer science

Understanding how to use an integrated library system, Koha to automate the library services of a targeted tribal library to better organize their collection and provide an easy and accessible services to their patrons. In addition to informing the stakeholder what Koha can do for them, learning their needs and expectations to ensure that the system is suitable to their needs is also the aim of the project.

The Humanalyst platform gives individuals access to the latest data and insights from organizational science, empowering them to thrive in a safe, supportive, and nurturing workplace. After recognizing the market's lack of free resources for individuals to evaluate work well-being, Humanalyst provides an easy-to-use psychometric evaluation to help workplaces and employees assess job satisfaction and well-being. Eventually, Humanalyst aims to democratize access to employee experience tools and data in order to make work work for everyone.

Cybersecurity is a field that has seen an incredible amount of growth in the last decade. PenSec is an educational platform for students and small businesses looking to expand their knowledge within cybersecurity, more specifically within penetration testing. While most people are aware of the implications a weak cybersecurity infrastructure can have, they are unaware of where to begin. Through PenSec, we aim to allow people to gain an insight into penetration testing and provide them with resources to further their interest in cybersecurity.

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown the importance of making museum materials accessible to the public via the internet. While photographs are useful for this purpose, 3D models create unique opportunities to view objects from all angles. The goal for this project was to create an online toolkit that includes all the information a small cultural heritage institution needs to create 3D models of their objects and make them available online. In this way, cultural heritage institutions will be able to create more dynamic online exhibits, invite guests to see objects in new ways, preserve more fragile artifacts, and more.

The initial concept of this project was to create the proposition for a web-based timeline of the Book Arts movement. In doing data collection, I realized that I had taken for granted Sandra as a storyteller, and it would benefit all students, particularly MLIS students, to have access to this indefinitely. Therefore, I have an additional timeline format to propose for the future; a living book, which would outlast all those involved in creating it. Based on my hometown’s “Hear, Here” system, it would preserve not only the content of Sandra’s knowledge but her way of sharing it through storytelling.

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