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The Order Of Success: A Slow Path To Copyright Librarianship, Leetta M. Schmidt

Tampa Library Faculty and Staff Publications

No faculty lines were open when I graduated with my MLS at the library where I was employed as a staff member, but I was able to take advantage of organizational restructuring to obtain a management position over interlibrary loan. My department head at the time was assigned with providing copyright assistance. I seized the opportunity to learn more while I searched for a position that required my degree. I was supported while pursuing continuing education in copyright. I was also given increasing responsibilities that I suspected were beyond my rank. My eagerness to develop a professional skill set had …

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

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 …

Calling Earth: The Academic Library As Podcaster, Andrew M. Smith, Meghan Cook, Matt Torrence

Tampa Library Faculty and Staff Publications

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Making Disciplinary Research Audible, Andrew Smith, Meghan L. Cook, Matt Torrence

Tampa Library Faculty and Staff Publications

Academic libraries have long consulted with faculty and graduate students on ways to measure the impact of their published research, which now include altmetrics. Podcasting is becoming a more viable method of publicizing academic research to a broad audience. Because individual academic departments may lack the ability to produce podcasts, the library can serve as the most appropriate academic unit to undertake podcast production on behalf of researchers. The article identifies what library staff and equipment are required, describes the process needed to produce and market the published episodes, and offers preliminary assessments of the podcast impact.

Representation Of Atypical Resources In The Discovery Layer: Metadata And Cataloging Aspects, Brian Falato

Tampa Library Faculty and Staff Publications

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Charting A Course Of Collaboration Between An Academic Library And A Museum, Brian Falato

Tampa Library Faculty and Staff Publications

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Balancing Informed Evaluation With Efficiency: Applying Copyright And Licensing Evaluation To Reserves And Interlibrary Loan, Leetta Schmidt

Tampa Library Faculty and Staff Publications

This article examines steps taken at one academic library to address issues encountered when attempting to create a foundation of copyright knowledge to assist staff in reserves and interlibrary loan. It reviews the development of a copyright policy for the library that specifically addressed interlibrary loan and reserves activities. It also addresses how conducting staff instruction, developing process documentation, and having regular training meetings, enhanced each department’s ability to incorporate the new policy into daily workflows. Finally, it points out new issues encountered when attempting to simplify how copyright and licensed materials are handled.

Copyright Educational Services And Information In Academic Libraries, Leetta Schmidt

Tampa Library Faculty and Staff Publications

Library and information science literature tells a story of the recent surge in creation the copyright librarian positions in academic libraries from identification of need to construction of job responsibilities and position requirements. This article seeks to continue the story by identifying what information materials and services the librarians responsible for providing copyright assistance have created at their libraries, and how those services are delivered to their institutions. An examination of 115 library websites is employed to identify topics and foci within copyright services with the goal of establishing commonalities of service among U.S. research 1 libraries that can be …

Scholarly Publishing Literacy At The University Of South Florida Libraries: From Advising To Active Involvement, Chelsea Johnston, Jason Boczar

Tampa Library Faculty and Staff Publications

INTRODUCTION Successful open access (OA) publishing in libraries requires careful guidance and organization. Support and services offered vary depending on available resources as well as the robustness of a library’s publishing program. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM This article describes the connection between publishing services and scholarly publishing literacy through examples from the University of South Florida (USF) Libraries. The USF Libraries’ OA publishing program includes journals, textbooks, conference proceedings, and more. Our program balances advocating for open access with advising for actions that serve our partners’ goals. This invites trust, sustainable relationships, and opportunities for new work. NEXT STEPS At the …

Quantitative Literacy (Ql) And Numeracy: A Discipline-Based Education Research Perspective, Meghan Cook, Victor J. Ricchezza

Tampa Library Faculty and Staff Publications

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When So Much Information Is Available For Free On The Internet, Does The World Still Need Libraries?, Claudia J. Dold, Rashid Jayousi

Tampa Library Faculty and Staff Publications

Libraries have traditionally been repositories of information, whether the media was clay, papyrus, velum, paper, or electronic. The main work of librarians has always been to organize and to locate information. In this new era of expanding information technology and communication (ICT), of advances in the use of the internet, and of the expansion of social media, the world has created new roles for librarians. Libraries are shifting orientation from being repositories to institutions specializing in information access and information services. In the past librarians largely controlled the content, organization, and access to information in their libraries. With the advent …

A Quantitative Study Of User Experiences In Bethlehem University Library, Claudia J. Dold, Mike Hazboun, Juana Juha

Tampa Library Faculty and Staff Publications

This study evaluates user experiences in the Bethlehem University Library across four categories: Services, Resources, Library Usage, and the Building itself, based on an anonymous survey issued in October 2017. The Library was refurnished in 2016 with the express purpose of creating a facility with the most current practices and equipment, at a level comparable to other modern academic universities, to enhance the learning experience at Bethlehem University. The objective of the survey was to determine the level of user satisfaction with the refurbished Library. The response rate was 9.44% (of a total population N = 3750). The survey also …

My Year As A Visiting Scholar In The West Bank, Claudia J. Dold

Tampa Library Faculty and Staff Publications

For two semesters in the academic year 2017-2018 I have had the privilege of working in the West Bank/Palestine as a Fulbright Scholar, with financial support from the US government and my home university in Florida. I have worked as a librarian at two universities: one is a Palestinian state university and the other is a private Catholic university.

Methodology: The goal of my work was to promote research and critical thinking, as vehicles to encourage university students to become mature individuals and citizens. As education reaches across borders and around the world, I present some observations and examples from …

Burns, Senge, And The Study Of Leadership, W. Michael Reid, Claudia J. Dold

Tampa Library Faculty and Staff Publications

James MacGregor Burns and Peter Senge have been two of the most influential writers on leadership over the past 40 years. This paper is based, in part, on a survey of articles published in four leading leadership Journals (Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, Journal of Leadership Studies, Leadership, and Open Journal of Leadership) to determine how the concepts of Burns and Senge were used in the articles. Each journal was searched from its first issue through January 1, 2018 for references to Burns and Senge. The authors found frequent references to each of them, but no systematic, adequate summary …

Review Of Patterson, The Eve Of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America, Amanda Boczar

Tampa Library Faculty and Staff Publications

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The Invisible Employee: Success And Fragility Of Automating Interlibrary Loan, Leetta Schmidt

Tampa Library Faculty and Staff Publications

Libraries and their interlibrary loan departments have enacted different methods for improving processes and services to create greater efficiency and less waste. Techniques range from holistic, and expansive process improvement projects to leveraging the ability of request management systems to automate processes and services successfully. This article explores the effect of automation on the output of a sample interlibrary loan department and points out possible challenges that this automation success may create in the future.

Review Of Cobbs Hoffman, American Umpire, Amanda Boczar

Tampa Library Faculty and Staff Publications

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