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Measuring Altruistic Impact: A Model For Understanding The Social Justice Of Open Access, Margaret Heller, Franny Gaede
Measuring Altruistic Impact: A Model For Understanding The Social Justice Of Open Access, Margaret Heller, Franny Gaede
Margaret Heller
INTRODUCTION Traditional assessment of ways in which open access initiatives and institutional repositories have provided a return on investment normally use pragmatic measures such as download counts and citation benefits. This pragmatic approach misses out on the powerful altruistic impact of improving access to international and/or marginalized communities. Using a frame of social justice, this article considers the importance of developing altruistic measures of repositories, particularly for institutions with missions specifically related to social justice and related themes. METHODS Using web analytics data for search keywords from eight institutions and geographic usage data from nine institutions, the authors were able …
Collaborative Growth Toward Discovery: Becoming Stronger Through Change, Margaret Heller, Hong Ma
Collaborative Growth Toward Discovery: Becoming Stronger Through Change, Margaret Heller, Hong Ma
Margaret Heller
The radical act of replacing a traditional OPAC and ILS with a hosted library services platform (LSP) and web-scale discovery (WSD) system creates the impetus for libraries to rethink core workflows and practices. Both of these tools have the potential to greatly improve access to library collections and enhance user experience, but only if the implementation is a collaborative effort between different stakeholders, technical experts and subject librarians, grounded in a thoughtful selection process that emphasizes user needs. Furthermore, because this model removes the traditional OPAC, subject librarians must take on the challenge of understanding the tool and work as …
How To Hack It As A Working Parent, Jaclyn Bedoya, Margaret Heller, Christina Salazar, May Yan
How To Hack It As A Working Parent, Jaclyn Bedoya, Margaret Heller, Christina Salazar, May Yan
Margaret Heller
The problems faced by working parents in technical fields in libraries are not unique or particularly unusual. However, the cross-section of work-life balance and gender disparity problems found in academia and technology can be particularly troublesome, especially for mothers and single parents. Attracting and retaining diverse talent in work environments that are highly structured or with high expectations of unstated off-the-clock work may be impossible long term. (Indeed, it is not only parents that experience these work-life balance problems but anyone with caregiver responsibilities such as elder or disabled care.) Those who have the energy and time to devote to …
What Does Your Repository Do? Measuring And Calculating Impact, Margaret Heller
What Does Your Repository Do? Measuring And Calculating Impact, Margaret Heller
Margaret Heller
A multifaceted approach at understanding the impact of institutional repositories using both quantitative and qualitative processes, particularly with regards to alignment with institutional mission.
What Does Your Repository Do?: Understanding And Calculating Impact, Margaret Heller
What Does Your Repository Do?: Understanding And Calculating Impact, Margaret Heller
Margaret Heller
Librarians working in scholarly communications need to understand how to calculate and explain how including work in a repository affects its impact. This presentation describes the current state of research and practice into metrics for repositories including traditional metrics and newer alternative metrics, and some preliminary results of a research study assessing the usage and impact of a Digital Commons repository.
A Review Of “Digital Libraries And Information Access: Research Perspectives”, Margaret Heller
A Review Of “Digital Libraries And Information Access: Research Perspectives”, Margaret Heller
Margaret Heller
This article reviews the book Digital Libraries and Information Access: Research Perspectives.
Library Labs, Margaret Heller, Mackenzie Brooks, Eric Phetteplace
Library Labs, Margaret Heller, Mackenzie Brooks, Eric Phetteplace
Margaret Heller
Libraries can experiment with innovative ideas through collaboration with members of their communities. Successful programs are discussed, with practical advice for starting similar programs.
A Review Of “Digital Media: Technological And Social Challenges Of The Interactive World”, Margaret Heller
A Review Of “Digital Media: Technological And Social Challenges Of The Interactive World”, Margaret Heller
Margaret Heller
A review of “Digital Media: Technological and Social Challenges of the Interactive World”