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A Success Story? Delivering The Vision For Catalyst, Alison Mackenzie

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In a bold and unprecedented move by the University, a new building, housing Library and Learning Services, Student Services and Careers was agreed by the University’s Board of Governors at their November 2016 meeting. At an initial cost of £26m it represents the largest single investment in a new building project by the University. This was a project to create an inspiring building and ‘provide an intellectually stimulating, creative and inclusive environment for [the university’s] community’. Whilst being highly student-focused, it was designed as a facility for the entire Edge Hill community including researchers, staff, alumni, and external …

Adding Up The Flipped Subscription Model, Scott Nicholls, Simon Hart, Howard Amos, Jill Benn

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One of the common pathways proposed to achieving a global open access scholarly publishing model is the “flipped” approach. In this scenario, journal publishers “flip” their pricing model from subscription to gold open access (gold OA) and library budgets are redirected from supporting subscriptions to Article Publishing Costs (APCs) associated with gold OA. Initiatives such as OA2020, and more recently Plan S, have to varying degrees advocated for this approach.

Underlying the flipped model is the assumption there is enough money in the global academic library subscription system to cover the costs of a scholarly publishing model based on APCs. …

Determining Correlations Between Library Usage And Student Success At The Durban University Of Technology: A Pilot Study, Sagren R. Moodley, Sean R. Carte

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Thorpe et al. (2016: 373) note that there is a growing trend for academic libraries to adopt measures that demonstrate the value of the library in the context of student success. While it may seem intuitive to librarians that students who engage more with library services and resources learn more, Oakleaf (2017) cautions that providing reliable evidence to support this is not straightforward. Librarians are aware of the numerous activities students engage with in the library, and, according to Soria, Fransen and Nackerud (2013), it is important to examine the differences of each of those interactions in relation to student …

Every Step Counts: Adapting Qualtrics To Encourage Student Engagement In Library Orientations, Jennifer Gu, Christopher Chan

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Many libraries have adopted gamification strategies to enhance their orientation programmes, in the hope of encouraging better student engagement via goal-based design. A literature review reveals a lack of in-depth, granular data on participant behavior in these gamified activities, with evidence generally limited to post-event feedback and comments. Such data could potentially provide insights to help assess the extent to which orientation programme outcomes have been achieved.

An example of an orientation activity with in-depth usage data is provided by Hong Kong Baptist University Library’s paperless, mobile-assisted Library Mystery Challenge (the Challenge). Designed using the popular data collection and analysis …

Going To Market With Deweyfish: The Journey From Partnership To Commercialisation, Kylie Black, Cornelia Hooper, Ian Castleden, Nader Aryamanesh, Harvey Millar

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In 2016-7, The University of Western Australia Library partnered with researchers in the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology to produce cropPAL2, a database providing the subcellular locations for proteins in crops significant for food production. The project was funded by the Australian National Data Service as part of its High Value Collections program, with the team consisting of computational biologists, software engineers and a librarian. The project involved many hours of manual article evaluation and data extraction by specialists in the plant species included in cropPAL, and the team decided that developing in-house software could …

Implementing A Current Research Information System (Cris) In Canada, Merran Carr-Wiggin, Melissa Rothfus, Ann Barrett, Donna Bourne-Tyson

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The practice of research information management (RIM) is becoming more important as the research environment becomes increasingly complex, competitive and globalized. National mandates and requirements of national funding agencies regarding open access and research data management are creating added incentives for universities to showcase their publications and make them available in an open access format. Libraries are well situated to offer expertise throughout the adoption of a research information management system by a university. In aligning themselves with the wider strategic plans of the institution, libraries can use this as a platform to further their own goals and communicate their …

Swimming In The Deep End: Curtin Library’S Deep Dive Into Data..., Drew Fordham, David Lewis, Amanda Bellenger

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In 2017 Curtin University Library staff commenced an initiative to explore library data through analysis and visualisation tools. A Working Group was formed of self-selected staff from across the library who had a common interest in opportunities to use data and analytics tools. A key focus was to seek innovative ways to use data and have a measureable impact on library operations and future planning.

An environmental scan of the data landscape in academic libraries suggests five core areas of activity – the use of library data to gain insights, the need to upskill library staff in data methods, the …

The Academic Library As A University Research Business Intelligence Partner, Amberyn Thomas, Sarah Brown

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Ranked in the world’s top 50, The University of Queensland (UQ) is a comprehensive research and teaching institution. The University has an established Planning and Business Intelligence Office (PBI) that provides central reporting infrastructure (via SAP Business Objects) as well as analysis support for strategic planning and decision making. On top of the support provided by PBI, some data providers, especially in areas with complex datasets that require expert knowledge (e.g. awards; publications), partner across the University to deliver bespoke analyses of their data. Underpinned by an institutional repository rich in publication metadata and bibliometric indicators, the Library partners across …

Building A Future-Ready Workforce - Embedding Bibliometric Capabilities At Unsw Library, Jacinta Byrne

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The growing reliance of institutions, governments, funding bodies and world rankings schemes on quantitative indicators of research performance has increased demand from researchers and research administrators for advice, services and tools to measure and understand the impact of research activities. The pitfalls and potential perverse outcomes of the metrification of research management are well documented and a growing concern across the library and university sectors. This paper will explore how UNSW Library is equipping library staff to respond to the growing demand for advice and services in this area. A staff capacity building program, the Bibliometric Capability Framework, has been …

Next Generation Skills And Leaders: Future Proofing Uwa Library, Glynis Jones, Jessica Gallagher, Scott Nicholls, Jill Benn

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The shifting sands and rising tides of digital disruption within academic libraries, and the continually evolving demands and expectations of university leaders, academics and students, require innovative solutions and effective leadership. In 2018, the Library at the University of Western Australia (UWA) commenced two initiatives to future proof its workforce, preparing staff to take advantage and innovate within the rapid pace of change.

Leading for Success is a leadership program designed to provide library staff with a contemporary and relevant skill-set to initiate and lead change to develop and deliver new initiatives. This program builds on a strong history of …

Practicum Placements: An Innovative Opportunitiy To Foster New Skills For Future Professionals In A Cross-University Collaboration In Western Australia., Dawn Mcloughlin, Daniel Rozas Núñez

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Murdoch University in order to share its collaborative approach to supporting future generations of library professionals organised its first group practicum project in 2017. The project targeted a group of library students from Curtin University with an interest in science fiction. Seven students were recruited for a practicum placement to create a collection development report with recommendations on the management of the library’s Science Fiction Collection. The practicum project was a success, as the students delivered an industry relevant report in an environment that resembles the dynamics of a team project. The Library experience was also successful due to the …

Preparing The Academic Library Workforce To Support 21st Century Learners: New Approaches From Canada, Vivian Lewis

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CARL has invested significant energy over the last 20 years in building workforce capacity across Canadian academic libraries. The Association has consistently focused its attention on areas where demand felt greatest and where collective, national action made sense. The “CARL approach” has been strategic, focused on community building and reflective of a peer-to-peer model.

Much progress has been made in recent years to help the nation’s academic library workforce develop their professional expertise and, in doing so, better meet the expectations of 21^st Century learners. Most notably, Canadian research libraries are drafting a contemporary slate of competencies for librarians; …

The Head, The Heart And The Hand: Co-Creating And Personalising A Client Service Charter And Culture At The University Of Western Australia, Alissa Sputore, Emma Helsby

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UWA’s strategic plan to enhance the student experience underpinned funding for the refurbishment of several UWA libraries in 2016/2017. The benefits of these projects were quickly realised with library visits increasing by 30% in two years. An imperative emerged: how to align a large group of frontline staff with diverse experience and skills to a shared vision, reflective of the university’s strategic priority, and use this as a basis to evolve library services in line with changing client volume and expectations, without additional staffing?

In 2018 UWA Library commenced a project to create a client service charter for all frontline …

Positioning The Library As A Strategic Partner To Enrich The Campus Experience Through Art, Tanja Harrison

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Academic libraries are centres that promote research excellence, offering resources for their communities to help consider the world around us. Artists use their form of creative expression to raise questions about life and to interpret the human condition. Art has the power to enrich the academic environment through new and alternate ways of representing scholarship, helping to make research appealing and more accessible to a variety of audiences. The Library can be a catalyst to propel this goal forward, helping students navigate university life, building a bridge with internal and external communities, and informing faculty research in new and meaningful …

Sailing Together At The University Of Miami: How New Campus Partnerships Are Leading To The Transformation Of Librarian Roles In Learning And Research, Lisa Baker, Kelly Miller

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Since 2014, the University of Miami Libraries (UML) has formed a series of strategic relationships with campus partners to advance the University’s priorities for teaching, learning, and research. Engagement with Undergraduate and Graduate Education, College of Arts and Sciences, and Academic Technologies has led to the development of new and expanded programs and services to support student learning. These programs include a Learning Commons in Richter Library that co-locates and coordinates key academic services for students, a Library Research Scholars program that offers librarian-mentorship experiences for undergraduates working on projects of their own design, and a peer-to-peer research consultation service …

Technology And The Positioning Of The Library On Campus: Challenges And Opportunities, John Cox

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Technology has transformed how teaching and research happen, and the strategies and priorities of higher education institutions are continually evolving in response to emerging demands. Positioning itself optimally in a changing organisation is a key challenge for any academic library. The positioning of the library in the institution impacts its status, resources and opportunities. Technology has made effective positioning more challenging, competitive and fluid. This paper examines positioning challenges libraries face on campus and outlines some approaches to advancing their position in the institution.

Digital publishing and communications have moved academic libraries from a position of monopoly for access to …

Both Sides Of The Coin: Supporting Postgraduates And Researchers In Dedicated Spaces At Cput And Stellenbosch University, Dr Michiel Moll, Elizabeth Moll-Willard

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The idea of a space dedicated to supporting research at the university housed within the library is not a new concept. These spaces, often called Research Commons, have been written about widely in literature since 2008. However the impact of these spaces is something that, a decade later, warrants investigation as these spaces have also had to evolve to both meet clients changing needs and to reflect the new trends within libraries.

In South Africa, the Research Commons is a well-known concept within university libraries. Both the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) and the Stellenbosch University Libraries offer such …

Inspiring Novel Application Of Technology And Self-Directed Learning In Library Makerspace, Dr Shirley Chiu-Wing Wong

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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s mission is to nurture next generation of critical thinkers, effective communicators, innovative problem solver, and global citizens. Opened to all students in September 2017, the i-Space of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Library is designated to ignite students’ spirit of innovation and facilitate the development of self-directed learning.

The vision of the i-Space is to lower the barrier of entry of the latest technology for students of all disciplinary and inspire novel application in their disciplinary work. Students can explore different technologies, including 3D scanning, 3D printing, laser cutting, vinyl cutting, Virtual Reality, Internet of …

Planning Ahead, Being Prepared: Looking Into Future Possibilities For Library Space, Anne-Berit Gregersen, Gry Bettina Moxnes

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OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University (former Oslo and Akershus University College) is a new university, situated in the city center of Oslo, with 20.000 students. Four libraries support research and education at their local campuses, 3 of them situated within a 5 minutes walking distance. The university is growing and the need for working space for the students are increasing. There are various plans to expand the university library, from just revitalize the existing library space, extending the existing premises or merging the three campus libraries and move to new premises. We want to plan ahead of those changes and …

The Library Desk In Academic Institutions: Reception Or Pedagogical Tool?, Liv Inger Lamøy, Astrid Kilvik

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The desk services at our university library provide support on a range of services, from circulation to questions about literature searching, reference management and so on. However, we have insufficient knowledge about the use of the desk services. To increase our understanding, we have launched a project called TREFF, towards a new platform for the desk services at the University Library of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The main goal of the project is to learn more about the personal meeting between students and library staff in times of increasing digitization of the library's collections and services. …

An Australian Dynamic: Reflections On The Role Of Partnerships In The Transformation Of Australian Research, And Research Infrastructure And Capability Development, Ingrid Mason, Dr Frankie Stevens, Natasha Simons, Ric Phillips, Heath Marks

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Australian academic libraries first became partners in the transformation of Australian data and technology enabled research in 2008 through their involvement with the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) program to advance research data management capacity and capability. The partnership of academic libraries with ANDS enabled the development of new research support services and helped to shift the knowledge base of the academic community in research data management, in Australia. Recent training initiatives like the ANDS 23 Things was directed toward academic librarians to increase their knowledge of and capacity to help researchers use national research infrastructure and to manage their …

Applying Fair Principles To Scholarly Publishing Outputs To Improve Open Access Compliance, Trinity Mcnicol, Elena Danilova

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While the FAIR Principles were developed for research data, they can also be aptly applied to other research outputs. Applying FAIR Principles to scholarly publications ensures research can easily be found, accessed, used and re-purposed by others. Using these principles in the context of scholarly publishing helps facilitate access to publications by other researchers and the wider community. The existing services and infrastructure, provided by The University of Queensland Library Scholarly Communication & Repository Services (SCARS) team, supports practical implementation of some of the FAIR Principles in scholarly publishing.

The Scholarly Publishing, Research Outputs & Impact, and UQ eSpace (institutional …

Closing The Skills Gap - The Basics Of The Research Data Management (Brdm) Course: Case University Of Turku, Jukka Rantasaari, Heli Kokkinen

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The current challenge for researchers at the University of Turku is that there is a substantial gap between the level of targeted and present research data management (RDM) skills. In order to better understand this challenge and to develop a training course in RDM, we examined the importance of RDM competencies vs. perceived competencies of doctoral students in different stages of research data life cycle. The RDM importance and competencies were examined by interviewing doctoral students, supervisors and biostatisticians. So far, 34 interview sessions on RDM skills have been conducted, covering research data life cycle topics such as collection, organization, …

Eric: E-Research – Infrastructure And Communication, Manuel Hora

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The eRIC team at the University Library of Technical University of Munich acts as a central hub for questions from our scientists related to research data management. We provide services for all steps of research or forward our customers to specialised units, e.g. for bibliometric analysis, publishing or trainings in information literacy. Our team supports researchers with regard to funding requirements, data management and data publication as well as with project-specific requests.

Two integral platforms for our services are the TUM Workbench for research in progress and the repository mediaTUM, mostly for static data sets and publications. In the paper …

Evaluating Data Management Plans - Are They Good And Are They Effective?, Peter Green, Amy Cairns, Dr. Hollie White

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Since 2014, Curtin University Library has provided support to researchers in using the University’s in-house Data Management Planning (DMP) tool. The tool guides researchers through a series of questions on how they plan to collect, store, secure, and share their research data. Creation of the plan is a prerequisite for staff to obtain ethics approval and file storage. Uptake of the DMP has been excellent over that four years, but are the plans good and are they effective?

In 2018, Curtin University Library chose to collaborate with a Masters by Coursework student, Amy Cairns, to undertake a study to analyse …

Fair, Affordable And Open Access To Knowledge: The Caul Collection And Reporting Of Apc Information Project, Stephen Cramond, Cameron Barnes, Susan Lafferty, Virginia Barbour, Debbie Booth, Karen Brown, Dianne Costello, Kate Croker, Robert O’Connor, Harry Rolf, Tom Ruthven, Sally Scholfield

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Article processing charges (APCs) are fundamental to the business models of many Hybrid and Gold open access (OA) journals. The need to quantify the volume of APC payments paid on behalf of institutional researchers has therefore never been greater. New publishing models will have profound implications for future institutional budgets, and libraries urgently require better information about potential costs and savings.

In 2018, the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) commissioned a project to examine the financial impact of APC payments on universities in Australia and New Zealand. The project aims to develop a methodology for the estimation of APC …

Uq Library's Journey Towards Fair Research Outputs - Advancement Of Research Data Management And Digitisation Services, Rebecca Deuble, Mandy Swingle, Dulcie Stewart, Fei Yu

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The growth of data and technology has deeply impacted on the ways that scientific research are practiced, bringing new challenges to academic libraries. In Australia, the recent worldwide movement to FAIR – findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable - research, has seen institutions shift towards developing relevant policies and standards, so as to remain competitive in the global economy.

This paper will discuss how The University of Queensland (UQ) Library has taken significant steps to achieving the FAIR principles for research outputs, within Digitisation and Research Data Management (RDM) services.

The institutional repository, UQ eSpace is critical in supporting these services. …

“What’S Up, Doc?”: Selling Digital Literacy To Academics, Marianne Sato, Kathleen Smeaton, Thomas Palmer

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When academics receive emails that start with “Wassup bro?” and students think digital literacy means “computer skills for old people”, how does the library bridge the gap between students and academics? Increasingly, libraries play a pivotal role in supporting learning in this critical space. However, more could be done. Libraries need to advocate for digital literacy as a legitimate capability that should be embedded into the curriculum rather than an optional extra.

In 2018, The University of Queensland Library undertook a project to create digital literacy modules to enable students to develop digital capabilities that would “fit an individual for …

Co-Designing A Programme Level Approach To Information And Digital Literacy: Initial Reflections From Our Participatory Action Research Project, Vicky Grant, Catherine A. Bazela, Alison V. Little

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Information and digital literacy (IDL) is a core graduate attribute at the University of Sheffield and is defined as follows: “Information and digital literacy (IDL) enables engaged learning. It blends information literacies with digital capabilities transcending technological skills and tools to identify with learning, living and working in a fluid digital world. IDL enables learners to discover and absorb information in a critically engaged manner, innovate in active pursuits of creative scholarship, demonstrate integrity by acknowledging the work of others and make a contribution for others to share” [University of Sheffield Library, 2019].

This paper will present initial reflections from …

A Brave New World: Threshold Concepts And First Year Student Information Literacy, Tim Ormsby

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For many years, Flinders University Library has provided a library quiz, primarily aimed at first year students. Starting life as a paper-based assignment, the quiz was moved into the University’s learning management system in the 2000s. The library quiz focused purely on practical information literacy skills: how to search the catalogue, how to search databases etc.

As time went on, it became clear that the quiz was not working. The videos and screenshots quickly became obsolete with frequent database interface changes. We were constantly updating the quiz at our busiest time of the year. It just was not sustainable. More …