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Guideline: Graduate Or Teaching Assistants Borrowing On Behalf Of Faculty Members, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library.

Library Guidelines

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Collection Management Guidelines: Special Collections And University Archives (Usfsp), Nelson Poynter Memorial Library.

Library Guidelines

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Navigating The Political Waters Of Open Access Publishing In Libraries, Carol Ann Davis, Wendy Robertson, Charlene Simser

Digital Scholarship Services Faculty and Staff Publications

The presenters will share their research on politics in library publishing, published in 2016 in the book "Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication." Many libraries have forayed into the world of open access (OA) publishing, marking a major shift in the mission of libraries to move from providing access to content to generating and creating content. The presenters will discuss the politics and issues involved, highlight the approaches various libraries have taken—and the challenges faced—in selecting a platform, writing a business plan, planning for preservation, educating researchers about OA publishing, working with a university press, marketing, and navigating …

Something Old, Something New , Something Bold, Something Cool: A Marriage Of Two Repositories, Carol Ann Davis, Jason Boczar

Digital Scholarship Services Faculty and Staff Publications

For the past several years, many libraries have been developing institutional repositories to house their open access publishing efforts to both showcase and preserve their faculty’s research. Some of those same libraries have been building sizable digital collections, often built from digitized versions of materials in their special collections. So what happens when you put these two groups together? The University of South Florida Tampa Library did exactly that by creating a new Digital Scholarship Services unit. The union of these two groups has created new synergies between staff in complementary areas of the library, as we combine unique skill …

Temple Terrace Beacon Newspaper Collection : A Finding Aid, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Kelsey Peduzzi

Special Collections and University Archives Finding Aids: All Items

For many years, the Temple Terrace Public Library maintained copies of the Temple Terrace Beacon. This local publication, first published in 1931, focused on news and events in the City of Temple Terrace as well as the surrounding University community. Kelsey Peduzzi, a librarian at the Temple Terrace Public Library, embarked on a project to scan and digitize issues of the newspaper in the library’s possession. After this successful project led to the creation of a digital archive of more than 800 issues of the newspaper on the Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative’s digital collections webpage, the library decided that …

Linked Metadata For 3d Models: From Dublin Core To Europeana Data Model, Xiying Mi, Bonita Pollock

Collections and Discovery Faculty and Staff Publications

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Remember When Ebooks Were All The Rage? A Look At Student Preferences For Printed Text Versus Electronic, Vicki L. Gregory, Kiersten L. Cox

School of Information Faculty Publications

Aim/Purpose: In many public and academic libraries, ebooks are being pushed on users mainly due to budgetary and space needs even though readers are still showing a strong preference for print books.

Background: Many librarians are focusing on how to get readers to use ebooks when they really should be considering how ebooks fit into learning, whether formal or self-learning, and the preferences that readers show for one format over the other. Library collections since the 1960s have generally focused on a strategy of “give them what they want,” but in the case of ebooks, there seems to be a …

Sharing Student Research: Student Colloquia At University Of South Florida St. Petersburg, Camielle Crampsie, Kaya Van Beynen

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty 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.

Career Plateauing Among Senior Librarians., Tina M. Neville, Deborah B. Henry

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

Using an online survey and semi-structured interviews, senior academic librarians were asked to reflect on the factors that keep them personally fulfilled and on how they remain motivated to make positive contributions to their organization. Motivations include esteem of colleagues and supervisors, variety in their work, salary, opportunities to learn new skills, increasing responsibility, and working with students and faculty. 59% percent of the survey respondents ranked their job satisfaction at 8 (on a scale of 1—10, with 10 the most satisfied). Using Bardwick’s definitions of plateauing, 60% of the 20 librarians interviewed did not feel that they were content-plateaued.