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Grow Your Own Scholarly Communication Program, Barbara Tierney, Lee Dotson, Sarah Norris, Ven Basco, John Venecek
Grow Your Own Scholarly Communication Program, Barbara Tierney, Lee Dotson, Sarah Norris, Ven Basco, John Venecek
Barbara Tierney
How does an academic library go about growing its own Scholarly Communication (SC) program with no budget, no staff, no dedicated office space, no partners, and no experience? The University of Central Florida Libraries responded to such a challenge during 2012-15 by creating a grassroots SC program staffed by a volunteer 20-member library faculty/staff advisory group.
The group began its work by creating an innovative “Research Lifecycle” model to help define an evolving menu of SC resources and services that could be turned on, as available, to UCF constituents. This grassroots program proved to be so successful that in 2015 …
Japanese Academic Libraries: An American Librarian’S Impressions, Barbara Tierney
Japanese Academic Libraries: An American Librarian’S Impressions, Barbara Tierney
Barbara Tierney
In October 2015, JANUL invited me to to make a presentation on the Learning Commons service model in North America at their Jan. 29, 2016 symposium at the University of Tokyo.