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What Does Your Repository Do? Measuring And Calculating Impact, Margaret Heller
What Does Your Repository Do? Measuring And Calculating Impact, Margaret Heller
University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works
A multifaceted approach at understanding the impact of institutional repositories using both quantitative and qualitative processes, particularly with regards to alignment with institutional mission.
Celebrating Faculty Scholarship: Bibliography - 2013, Loyola University Chicago
Celebrating Faculty Scholarship: Bibliography - 2013, Loyola University Chicago
University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works
A bibliography of faculty publications submitted for inclusion in the fifth annual 'Celebrating Faculty Scholarship' event sponsored by Loyola University Libraries. The event, which took place on October 21, 2014 in the Richard J. Klarchek Information Commons on the university's Lake Shore Campus, featured articles, books, creative works, and other materials authored by Loyola University Chicago faculty in 2013.
What Does Your Repository Do?: Understanding And Calculating Impact, Margaret Heller
What Does Your Repository Do?: Understanding And Calculating Impact, Margaret Heller
University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Librarians working in scholarly communications need to understand how to calculate and explain how including work in a repository affects its impact. This presentation describes the current state of research and practice into metrics for repositories including traditional metrics and newer alternative metrics, and some preliminary results of a research study assessing the usage and impact of a Digital Commons repository.
Library Spaces In The 21st Century—Meeting The Challenges Of User Needs For Information, Technology, And Expertise, Robert A. Seal
Library Spaces In The 21st Century—Meeting The Challenges Of User Needs For Information, Technology, And Expertise, Robert A. Seal
University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Libraries and library professionals face multiple challenges in meeting user needs in the second decade of the new millennium. This is particularly true in academic libraries where students and faculty demand and expect fast, easy, and seamless access to information as well as flexible, comfortable places to work alone was well as collaboratively with colleagues, friends, classmates, and instructors. These same patrons often require the assistance of information specialists to navigate a library’s increasingly large array of online resources. The past fifteen plus years have seen a major shift in philosophy in the U.S. and in other parts of the …
Complementing Traditional Leadership, Jane P. Currie, Marianne Ryan
Complementing Traditional Leadership, Jane P. Currie, Marianne Ryan
University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works
The article discusses attributes of effective followers and highlights the relationship between leadership and followership in libraries. Topics include seeking employment in organizations to allow followers align their goals with those of the organization, the ability of followers to self-manage and self-assess by communicating problems to their leader, and the need to show advance levels of competence by followers to continue their own skill development.