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Taking Collective Action: Collaborative Strategies For Growing Your Institution's Repository, Jon Mcglone

Library Scholarly Publications

For over a decade library literature has championed the benefits of open access institutional repositories. Many academic librarians and library administrators agree upon the idea of an open access institutional repository and have invested in running a repository. The open access movement has begun to change the landscape of research and scholarly publishing through mandates and shifting publisher policies. Despite these advances, repository content growth has been slow in North America.

Wayne State University’s repository—Digital Commons—has existed since 2005 but experienced similarly slow growth. In late 2008, Wayne State addressed this issue with the creation of an actionable roadmap that …

Animal Law Developments, Virginia C. Thomas

Library Scholarly Publications

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Roadmap To Success: Scholarly Communications At Wayne State University, Suzan A. Alteri, Jonathan Mcglone

Library Scholarly Publications

Despite the role of libraries in the open access movement, many librarians still need education on differing viewpoints, the vocabulary, and initiatives surrounding the movement. Recently, Wayne State University Librarians formed a Scholarly Communications team to introduce open access and scholarly communication reform. This team took a leadership role in educating liaison librarians, providing campus-wide workshops on research dissemination, and creating special open access week programming. How this was accomplished, the positive outcomes and future opportunities generated by these collective efforts will be discussed.

Choosing And Using Digitalcommons@Wsu: Preserving Wayne State University's Scholarly Output, Jonathan Mcglone

Library Scholarly Publications

Presentation on Wayne State University's (WSU) open access repository, DigitalCommons@WSU. Shares WSU Library System's current approach to digital collections, and reflects upon its technologies and library services to aid in permanently archiving and disseminating research and scholarship produced at WSU.

Cultivating The Fully Engaged Librarian, Judith Arnold, Veronica E. Bielat, Anne Hudson

Library Scholarly Publications

This panel session reports on a professional development workshop series to prepare librarians to assume a more engaged role in the university. The goal of the program is to re-examine the librarian’s role, focusing on the liaison role as the unifying agent to cultivate engagement with users through the teaching-learning process. Attendees will complete sample activities from the workshops and will learn how this model might be adapted to their own institutional setting.

Better…Stronger…Faster: Improving Your Skills Through Self-Assessment, Michael Priehs

Library Scholarly Publications

As interlibrary loan librarians and paraprofessionals work to improve the speed, convenience, and visibility of the services we provide, we may often overlook the importance of our own involvement in the process. Taking an introspective look at your role and overall professional knowledge, with the intent to sharpen and enhance the services provided, can improve workflow and provide opportunities to promote interlibrary loan services to our institutions. Literature discusses the assessment of services and users, but has focused less on the professional’s skills. Assessing your knowledge of your library’s collection, measuring your processing times, and knowing where to find answers …

Providing Mobile Librarian Service To A College Of Nursing To Increase Interactions And Transactions: One Wayne State University, Science And Technology Librarian's Experience, Nancy A. Wilmes

Library Scholarly Publications

A mobile librarian service to the Wayne State University College of Nursing was developed to provide in-person reference and research support. This service has been successfully used for eight semesters by College of Nursing faculty, graduate students, and some undergraduates for support of research and course work. This article will address the details and provide a description of the service.

Redesigned With Them In Mind: Evaluating An Online Library Information Literacy Tutorial, Rebeca Befus, Katrina Byrne

Library Scholarly Publications

This study investigates Wayne State University Library System’s redesigned information literacy tutorial: re:Seach. Seventy-two students participating in the 2010 Wayne State Federal TRIO Student Support Service Summer Residential Program participated in the questionnaire. The questionnaire measured student learning via a multiple choice knowledge based test. Confidence and satisfaction were also measured using a five point Likert scale. Students received an overall average score of 71% on the knowledge portion and student responses varied on the confidence and satisfaction portions of the questionnaire. Results clearly indicated the necessity for future revisions. The discussion will address the specific revisions being undertaken and …