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Reaching Out To The Underserved: More Than Thirty Years Of Outreach Job Ads, Colleen T. Boff, Carol Singer, Beverly Stearns Dec 2013

Reaching Out To The Underserved: More Than Thirty Years Of Outreach Job Ads, Colleen T. Boff, Carol Singer, Beverly Stearns

Carol A Singer

Content of outreach position announcements posted in College and Research Libraries News from 1970 through 2004 were examined. Ads fell within three broad groups: distance education, multicultural services, and specialized. Overall, outreach positions have been on the rise with the exception of multicultural services librarian positions which have not increased at a stable rate.


Jump-Starting The Conversation About Altmetrics At Umass Medical School, Lisa A. Palmer Nov 2013

Jump-Starting The Conversation About Altmetrics At Umass Medical School, Lisa A. Palmer

Lisa A. Palmer

An outline of altmetrics activities by librarians at UMass Medical School's Lamar Soutter Library, which include: utilizing altmetrics in the the medical school's institutional repository, eScholarship@UMMS, for a journal published by the library; and, education and outreach efforts.


Reaching Out To The Underserved: More Than Thirty Years Of Outreach Job Ads, Colleen T. Boff, Carol Singer, Beverly Stearns Nov 2013

Reaching Out To The Underserved: More Than Thirty Years Of Outreach Job Ads, Colleen T. Boff, Carol Singer, Beverly Stearns

Colleen T. Boff, Ed.D.

Content of outreach position announcements posted in College and Research Libraries News from 1970 through 2004 were examined. Ads fell within three broad groups: distance education, multicultural services, and specialized. Overall, outreach positions have been on the rise with the exception of multicultural services librarian positions which have not increased at a stable rate.


Promotional Video 2013, Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Peter Lee Johnson (Violinist) Jun 2013

Promotional Video 2013, Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Peter Lee Johnson (Violinist)

Rebel Cummings-Sauls

Promotional video (~3mins) for the University of South Florida's institutional repository, Scholar Commons. Overview of services provided through the bepress digital commons platform.


The Social Map: Leveraging Historypin For Community Outreach, Kevin C. Miller Apr 2013

The Social Map: Leveraging Historypin For Community Outreach, Kevin C. Miller

Kevin C. Miller

Kevin Miller, Librarian for Digital Curation and Publication, discusses the steps that Pepperdine University has taken to leverage the free social mapping site Historypin.com to expand awareness of its digital collections and reach out to members of the Malibu community. The presentation was part of a panel discussion (Session 11) featuring LA as Subject members.