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Undersea Cables: The Ultimate Geopolitical Chokepoint, Bert Chapman

FORCES Initiative: Strategy, Security, and Social Systems

This work provides historical and contemporary overviews of this critical geopolitical problem, describes the policy actors addressing this in the U.S. and selected other countries, and provides maps and information on many undersea cable work routes. These cables are chokepoints with one dictionary defining chokepoints as “a strategic narrow route providing passage through or to another region."

Mgmt 110: Standards Module Slide Deck, Margaret Phillips

Libraries Faculty and Staff Supplemental Materials

Slide deck for standards module lesson in MGMT 110: Introduction to Management and Information Studies. Presented Fall 2021.

Survey Protocols To Examine Business Students’ Workplace Information Use During Internships And Co-Ops, Margaret Phillips, Heather Howard, Garrett Brewster

Libraries Faculty and Staff Creative Materials

This document contains a survey protocol created in 2021 to study the information literacy experiences and needs of business student experiences during internships and co-ops.

When Traditional Outreach Isn't Working: How To Reach Undergraduate Students, Jennifer Horne

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

What is a library liaison to do when traditional outreach strategies aren’t working and you can't get buy-in by faculty for instruction sessions for undergraduates? This session will explore the alternative methods of outreach I used to try to “crack” the business school in the absence of in-class instruction opportunities, including a focus on connecting with college staff, direct communication with students through existing college communication channels, and targeted outreach to subsets of students, including international students.

Reefer Madness In Business: What's The Library's Potential "Stash" For The 420 Industry?, Rebecca A. Smith

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

Lightning Talk about why business librarians will want to pay attention to the cannabis industry and a libguide of selected resources will be shared.

Phd Candidates And Solving Data Conundrums, Margaux Patel

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

At one institution, Ph.D. candidates are increasingly seeking highly specific and expensive datasets. This lightning talk will highlight solving a data access problem for news and public records data. In 2020, a Ph.D. candidate reached out to the business and business librarian when they were hitting licensing issues with huge data downloads from Factiva and ProQuest. This talk will explore different solutions and potential pitfalls surrounding the problem. These data requests are occurring more frequently. The talk will also touch upon how they could be approached differently in the future.

A Look Into The Impact Of Bloomberg Anywhere At The University Of Notre Dame, Michael Deike

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

The COVID-19 pandemic presented a set of unique challenges for libraries’ online access policies and procedures. One resource which exemplified many of these challenges is the newly offered Bloomberg Anywhere service. As a resource which traditionally required on site access to a physical terminal, the extension of Bloomberg Anywhere remote access to academic institutions as a COVID-19 contingency revealed many of the positive and negative consequences of the increased focus on remote access during the pandemic. This talk reports the experience of the Thomas Mahaffey Jr. Business Library at the University of Notre Dame with Bloomberg Anywhere. Topics include the …

Investing In Financial Literacy Education: Purdue Libraries’ Quest To Promote Financial Wellness, Zoeanna A. Mayhook

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

Many information challenges that people face in their lives will relate to managing their own personal finances. Whether they are buying a house or looking to make wise investments, attaining a combination of financial and information literacy skills can promote sound financial decision-making practices and result in long-term financial independence and well-being. Business information professionals can aid in this endeavor by providing resources and programming to develop these skills further. With the generous support of the Purdue Federal Credit Union, the Purdue Libraries have prioritized financial literacy education by fostering strategic partnerships, developing instructional materials, and incorporating personal financial competencies …

Developing A Library Market Research Service, Chloe Dufour, Lamonica Wiggins

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

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Creating A Values Based Collections Evaluation Rubric, Heather A. Howard

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

As libraries and communities consider institutional values and ethical standards in the wake of 2020, we need to scrutinize how those values and standards connect with our collections decisions. Critical Librarianship is at the forefront of work being done by librarians across the country. Related to this concept, there is an existing body of literature about the contents of the collections themselves, with respect to issues like decolonization and open access, but little about the specific business relationships we maintain in order to acquire these collections. Are the values of our partners in the publishing ecosystem aligned with ours? What …

Connecting During Covid: Creating And Sustaining Communities In Hyflex And Virtual Settings, Annette Bochenek

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

Librarians have approached community engagement and outreach in many different ways. Whether presenting to members of community groups or hosting events and tours, librarians have actively worked to promote and inspire the use of information resources in the communities they serve. Due to the impact of COVID-19, methods of community engagement and outreach have changed immensely, calling for new and innovative approaches to creating, connecting, and engaging communities. This session highlights emerging and evolving approaches to engagement and outreach for librarians, offering attendees a variety of methods to consider as they work to safely and creatively connect with their communities.

Ai, Ml, And Algorithms, Oh My: How Technology Affects Search Results, Marydee Ojala

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

AI, ML, and Algorithms, Oh My: How Technology Affects Search Results

There’s no doubt that artificial/augmented intelligence, machine learning, and algorithms affect your search results. Most business researchers understand that their web searches are influenced by the underlying technologies and that the algorithms in play are numerous and not disclosed by search engine companies. However, AI is also used by our library subscription databases—you know, the ones we pay money for. Learn the five basic things you should know about the effect of these technologies on your search results.

Biden Administration U.S. Space Force Policy Literature, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

Provides details on U.S. Space Force policy literature produced by the Biden Administration during its first eight months. Includes announcements that the Biden Administration will continue this new armed services branch begun during the Trump Administration. Features congressional testimony of Biden Administration officials such as Secretary of Defense Lloyd Wilson and Air Force Space Command leader General James Dickinson, the text of Space Force's 2021 Digital Force Vision document, congressionally approved FY 2022 space force budget figures, congressional committee comments and report requirements contained in emerging defense spending legislation, the emergence of collaboration between Space Force and universities such as …

How Libraries Responded In The Early Days Of The Pandemic: A Study Of The Lis Literature, Jane Kinkus Yatcilla, Sarah Young

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

As we emerge from an unprecedented pandemic that saw closure of libraries, schools, and universities worldwide, we can begin to assess potential lasting impacts on institutions, professions and communities. Through a rapid bibliometric study of COVID-19-related library publishing, we provide a first glimpse into the impacts of the pandemic on library operations, services, collections, and the workforce. We identified and analyzed 237 journal articles published in 2020 about libraries and the pandemic. These articles indicate broad cross-sectoral, global impacts on libraries and librarianship. Our analysis provides a baseline for future research on lasting effects of the pandemic on the field.

Three Strategic Pillars: Finnish University Libraries' Network Fuelling Open Science And Access To Research-Based Information, Anne Lehto, Minna Abrahamsson-Sipponen, Tommi Harju, Susanna Parikka, Pia Södergård

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In the fast-developing landscape of open science, university libraries need to constantly keep up to date in order to provide expert services that meet the current and future needs of researchers, students, and anyone in need of research-based information. Joint actions are needed both nationally and internationally. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that open science currently only gives partial access to research information. A significant part of the information resources are behind paywalls, and as library premises have been closed for the public walk-in access, the information resources have not been accessible to a wider audience. The Finnish University Libraries’ …

Choosing Readings: Portuguese Academic Library Users' Preferences For Printed Books Or E-Books, Tatiana Sanches, Luiza Baptista Melo, Isabel Sá, Célia Cruz

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The emergence of e-books as resources of scientific information in university libraries has been imposing at the pace of technology, with advantages such as portability, cost or accessibility, assuming that e-reading is being well received and appropriated by library users, who can access scientific information from anywhere. However, recent studies from prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, pointed to the resurgence of paper reading preferences. This study analyses the behavioural trends in the use of scientific information from these two media: printed books and e-books and the way university libraries users choose to use it, particularly in the pandemic context. To …

Students' Information Literacy Skills At The School Of Communication, Public Management And Tourism (Polytechnic Institute Of Bragança, Portugal): Evaluation And University Library Role, Marisa Borges, Liliana Esteves Gomes, Clarisse Do Céu Pais

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Having Information Literacy (IL) skills is essential for the student's academic, professional and personal development. According to the guidelines of the European Higher Education Area, abilities and skills related to research, evaluation, management, use and dissemination of information are required. This research aims to present the results of the study carried out at the School of Communication, Public Management and Tourism - Polytechnic Institute of Bragança. The following data collection instruments were used: IL-HUMASS questionnaire and interviews. The questionnaire sample obtained represents 94.4% of the student’s population enrolled in the academic year 2018/2019. Results reveal that information research is ranked …

Library Services As Partner: Bringing Students And The Public Together To Deliver Impact, Alan Brine, Elizabeth Wheelband

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This paper discusses the creation of a permanent, centre for research and education in a UK university, open to the public and delivered in collaboration with its students and the public. Library Senior Leadership Team presented a business case to develop a new centre at De Montfort University an underutilised area on campus. This area contains parts of a fourteenth century collegiate church, once at the heart of medieval Leicester and was part of the earliest of the predecessor institutions of the University. Grounded in De Montfort University’s central objectives of serving the community and the public good, the proposals …

We Are Partners! - Connecting Through Collaboration And Engagement With Communities At Smu Libraries, Wei Xia

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Increasingly today, libraries are competing for attention in the digital world and need to demonstrate their value to their communities. Singapore Management University Libraries (SMU Libraries) proactively initiate, engage, and collaborate with its internal and external communities and expand easy access to relevant, responsive resources that furthers the needs of the SMU community. These initiatives are aligned with the university’s strategies of integration, industry, innovation, and internationalization. Research librarians at SMU Libraries too, are re-inventing themselves by working closely with their faculty, students, and the external community to make significant impact on the quality of research, teaching, and learning. They …

The Hive: A Love Story Or When Two Libraries Become One, Janine Downes

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

An active embodiment of the concept of the Civic University, The Hive in Worcester is the UK’s first fully integrated public and university library. This paper will explore the partnership and dialogic approaches that led to its creation and subsequent success and examine to what degree Calhoun’s assertion that universities should “educate citizens in general, to share knowledge, to distribute it as widely as possible” has been fulfilled and whether that has resulted in a contribution to the public good. To do this I will explore the literature of the public good of universities and the civic university. This alongside …

Face‐To‐Face With The New: Libraries Readiness And Perspectives Towards The Changing Service Environment, Christine M. Abrigo, Efren M. Torres Jr.

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The new normal has changed the nature of work and services, and a library's readiness, considering these abrupt but mandatory changes, has challenged, and influenced their response to meet the demands of the new service environment. This paper seeks to explore how the library management in academic and school institutions has been adapting to this change, how their priorities have shifted in reinventing their action plans and innovative library responses, to ensure meeting new expectations to support the perceived needs of their communities, especially in the next normal future. It specifically probes into managing change in charting strategic plans, upper …

Universities As Open Knowledge Institutions: Sharing Vital Research, Katie Wilson, Lucy Montgomery, Cameron Neylon, Richard Hosking, Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang, Rebecca N. Handcock, Alkim Ozaygen, Aniek Roelofs

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Universities are key creators of knowledge. Ensuring that research outputs are not inaccessible behind paywalls, and that research data can be interrogated and built upon is central to efforts to improve the effectiveness of global research landscapes. Mandating and promoting open science and open access (OA) for published research outputs and sharing research data are important elements of building a vibrant open knowledge system, but there are additional benefits. Supporting diversity within knowledge-making institutions; enabling collaboration between universities and communities; addressing inequalities in access to knowledge resources and opportunities for contributing to knowledge making are also important. New tools are …

University Libraries As Active Agents For Change. The Bitviews Project: How University Librarians Can Turn All Journals Green And Clear The Path To Open Science, Manifredi M.A. La Manna

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

There can be no open science without Open Access (OA). This paper is a call to arms to individual University librarians to make a decisive move towards open access. The short-term objective of OA is defined as the immediate, cost-free, online access to the content of all peer reviewed scientific, medical, and scholarly articles. This amounts to unrestricted access to the author’s approved manuscripts (AAMs) deposited in institutional and other repositories. Even in the current academic publishing ecosystem, largely directed and managed by a few oligopolistic commercial publishers, 80% of peer reviewed articles can be deposited as AAMs, but only …

An Introduction To The University Of Otago Library Capability Framework And What Its Data Reveals About The Capabilities Required By Researcher-Facing Librarians Delivering Inside-Out Services., Shiobhan Smith

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Lorcan Dempsey has coined the term “inside-out” to describe how academic libraries are increasingly supporting the processes of research at their institutions (Dempsey, 2016). Digital scholarship, changes in scholarly communication practices, advancing technology, and the growing use of bibliometrics for research evaluation, are fuelling the evolution of library research support services. Researcher-facing librarians are increasingly being required to upskill and engage with the research process at deeper, more technical, levels. In 2019 a project commenced at the University of Otago Library to gather information about the knowledge, skills, abilities and attributes of researcher-facing librarians performing inside-out tasks. Various job descriptions …

Library And Faculty Partnering To Increase Open Access Publishing Among Researchers, Cristina Sousa Lopes, Teresa Oliveira Ramos, Palmira Seixas, Luis Miguel Costa, Ana Freitas

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This paper aims to describe the collaboration of FEUP’s Library with faculty in the course unit “Publishing and Scientific Writing” for third-cycle students. It contributed to U.Porto Journal of Engineering, a new open-access journal of the Faculty of Engineering, indexed in DOAJ, OpenAIRE and Scopus. This study also reports the course unit’s lifecycle from its design, development and implementation as a face-to-face format until its present evolution to an online offer. Throughout the last decades, academic libraries have reinforced their educational role as active partners in teaching, learning and research activities within their institutions. In this course, FEUP’s Library is …

International Visibility Of Thesis And Dissertations From Ulisboa Through The Institutional Repositories: Gateway For Open Science, Tatiana Sanches, Luiza Baptista Melo, Silvia Costa Lopes, Susanna Oliveira Henriques

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Institutional repositories of universities are initiatives that integrate the concept of Open Science, enhancing the free circulation of academic and scientific production. The current University of Lisbon (ULisboa) results from the fusion of the former University of Lisbon and Technical University of Lisbon, in 2013. Currently, ULisboa comprises 18 schools. Since the fusion, University of Lisbon still has two independent institutional repositories based on DSpace – the Repositório.UL and the UTL Repository. Focused on the collection of theses and dissertations, the aim of the following study is to look at the scientific production of ULisboa and analyse the international visibility …

Evaluation And Analysis Of Open Access Electronic Resources In Higher Education Libraries In Portugal, Jose Carlos De Carvalho, Maria Joao Amante, Maria Angeles Zulueta

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In this work, it is given public knowledge of a model that was built along the research carried out, with a view to evaluate the information resources in Open Access (OA) and present the results obtained by its application on a comparative study at the level of Higher Education Libraries (universities and polytechnics, public and private) in Portugal, more exactly concerning the Online Public Access Catalogs (OPAC) and Institutional Repositories (IR). For the construction of this model and its application to the Higher Education Libraries in Portugal, 3 dimensions with 9 indicators each were designed, in a total of 27, …

The Rise Of Creative Class In Library: A Chinese Perspective, Lingdan Song

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Library has responded to the rapid change of social development by expanding its role from a physical place of collections to a space supporting the creative process. Florida proposed 3T (technology, talent and tolerance) to be key factors triggering creativity for a region. Based on this theory, this paper elaborates on the academic library as “creative center” who offers attractions for the patrons by exploring specific examples in China, concluding the Chinese library advancing innovation from these three dimensions. Automatic Mapping System between DDC and CLC, Academic Resource Map, the people-oriented atmosphere and activity fostering creativity, like the maker spaces, …

Designing Strategies And Actions To Support Open Science: Building Capacity In A Higher Education Institution, Carlos Lopes, Maria Luz Antunes, Tatiana Sanches

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Introduction: The access of information to new learning devices, the ability to interconnect with libraries and repositories without barriers of time or space, and the way in which information is processed and made available highlight the urgency of reflection and access to the production and dissemination of scientific production by its stakeholders. To address these issues, academic institutions, together with their libraries, can devise and develop strategies that enable them to make fuller use of these resources, assisting them to interact with the Open Science movement with greater autonomy and effectiveness. Aim of the study: A curricular proposal for a …

Look What We've Got For You! – Promoting Library Collections, Viola Voß, Göran Hamrin

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Librarians spend a lot of time and thought on the question "what to buy for the library?" to meet the users’ needs as best as possible. But what happens once a book or a database or a journal has made it onto the (virtual) shelf? How do users learn about new acquisitions or interesting holdings? In this talk we take a tour across collection-marketing activities by academic or research libraries, highlighting some successful examples and collecting ideas for reuse. Method: We scouted the internet presence of all IATUL member libraries, taking into account their websites and, if available, their web …