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University of South Florida

Tampa Library Faculty and Staff Publications

2021

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Increasing Scholarly Productivity: Developing An In-House Academic Librarian Support Network, Leetta Schmidt, Jason Boczar, Barbara Lewis, Tomaro I. Taylor Sep 2021

Increasing Scholarly Productivity: Developing An In-House Academic Librarian Support Network, Leetta Schmidt, Jason Boczar, Barbara Lewis, Tomaro I. Taylor

Tampa Library Faculty and Staff Publications

Organizational and professional support structures can provide tools and resources to help academic librarians address the challenges of research and publishing. At the USF Libraries, a Research and Publishing committee was created by the faculty to develop tools and provide professional development support, with the aim of encouraging a community culture of research. The committee's work resulted in a series of workshops, discussion groups, guiding documents, and tools.


Designing A Flexible Outreach Program For Scholarly Communication And Copyright Services: A Modular Roadshow For The University Of South Florida, Leetta Schmidt, Jason Boczar Jan 2021

Designing A Flexible Outreach Program For Scholarly Communication And Copyright Services: A Modular Roadshow For The University Of South Florida, Leetta Schmidt, Jason Boczar

Tampa Library Faculty and Staff Publications

Much the same as many other academic libraries, the University of South Florida (USF) developed scholarly communication and copyright services in response to community demand and to fulfill perceived institutional needs. The services initially established connections through liaison librarians and referral, when faculty patrons intuitively approached the library with a query. Growth of the services was slow. A new method of outreach for copyright and scholarly communication services was needed. The DSS Roadshow, named after the library department Digital Scholarship Services, aimed at providing a menu of modularly configured presentations to faculty and graduate students at the university. Based on …