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The Liaison Connection Issue 7, University Of Denver, University Libraries

The Liaison Connection

Fall 2013 issue of the Library Liaison Advisory Group newsletter from the University of Denver, University Libraries. The newsletter provides information about library collections, services, and research instruction.

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What We Are Learning About The Diverse Backgrounds Of Academic Library Users: An Overview Of Research Designs And Methods In Information Behaviour Studies, Krystyna K. Matusiak

Library and Information Science: Faculty Conference Presentations

Academic libraries increasingly serve a more diverse population of users not only in regard to race and ethnicity, but also to age, gender, language, sexual orientation, and national and cultural backgrounds. This papers reports the findings of the study that explored information behaviour research as a potential source of information about diversity of academic library users and examined the relationship between the use of different research designs and data collection methods and the information gathered about users’ diverse backgrounds. The study found that information behaviour research offers limited insight into the diversity of academic library users. The choice of a …

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Image And Multimedia Resources In An Academic Environment: A Qualitative Study Of Students’ Experiences And Literacy Practices, Krystyna K. Matusiak

Library and Information Science: Faculty Publications

The digital environment provides an abundance of images and multimedia and offers a new potential for using resources in multiple modes of representation for teaching and learning. This paper reports the findings of a case study that investigated the use of image and multimedia resources in an undergraduate classroom. The study assumed a contextual approach and focused on different class contexts and students’ literacy practices. The class, which took place in a resource-rich, multimodal environment, was perceived by students as a positive learning experience. The distribution of resources and their role in teaching and learning varied and depended on the …

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Collaborative Marketing For Electronic Resources: A Project Report And Discussion, Marie Kennedy

Collaborative Librarianship

This article reports on the design and findings of a project concerning the feasibility of a collaborative model to benchmark the marketing of electronic resources in institutions of higher education. This international project gathered 100 libraries to move in lockstep through the process of a typical marketing cycle that included running a brief marketing campaign and reporting findings to each other. The findings show good reasons and strong support for this kind of model.

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Finding Library Solutions In Adjacent Industries, Lori Bowen Ayre

Collaborative Librarianship

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Leveraging Strategic Institutional Partnerships: Creating A Phased Learning Commons At The University Of Idaho Library, Kristin J. Henrich

Collaborative Librarianship

Following an energizing reorganization of the first floor, the University of Idaho Library sought additional strategies to support student learning and success. Building on previous successful collaborations with the Dean of Students Office, the Library and Tutoring Services created a model to offer peer-tutoring services in the library. Several philosophical and practical guidelines were considered, and implementation of the service, while challenging, was ultimately successful. Strategies for proposing, building, and maintaining similar partnerships with student services units are discussed, with best practices offered for other institutions seeking similar collaboration.

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Independent Study Equals Instant Collaboration, Alison Peters

Collaborative Librarianship

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Partnering With Public Library Services: A Town And Gown Affair, Sarah Cisse

Collaborative Librarianship

This article describes the collaborative effort between academic reference and Public Library Services (PLS) in developing and sustaining a resume resources program at a joint-use library. The resume resources workshops are a part of the summer workshop series, Adult Computer Camp, organized by the PLS department at the Alvin Sherman Library (ASL) of Nova Southeastern University (NSU). The summer workshop series offers an innovative variety of workshops to the public featuring online and computer resources. These workshops have been a successful collaboration between these two departments at the ASL, a joint-use or “town and gown” library

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Crafting Identity, Collaboration, And Relevance For Academic Librarians Using Communities Of Practice, Nora Belzowski, J. Parker Ladwig, Thurston Miller

Collaborative Librarianship

Faculty/librarian collaboration is vital for librarians to remain integral to the academy. We now have an opportunity to change how we perceive ourselves and how we are perceived by faculty and administrators. There are viable solutions for expanding the role of the librarian in ways that could lead to better faculty partnerships. First, librarians must be grounded in a shared purpose and professional identity and establish a contextual framework for our own professional ‘boundaries.’ We cannot create an intersection with the knowledge and experience of others if we do not have an understanding of our own frame. Interviews and investigation …

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Vendor Of The Month: A Marketing Collaboration, Lateka J. Grays, James Cory Tucker

Collaborative Librarianship

Marketing library resources remains an important issue despite library reductions in staff and collections budgets. In order to maintain or expand marketing programs, libraries could do well tapping into the expertise available through the vendors supplying resources to libraries. A case study of a library marketing program called, “Vendor of the Month,” at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas explains the collaboration between the library and its vendors to increase awareness and use of selected electronic resources.

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Whose Job Is It Anyway?, Lori Ayre

Collaborative Librarianship

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Going “All-In” For Deep Collaboration, Valerie Horton

Collaborative Librarianship

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Assessment Of Library Instruction On Undergraduate Student Success In A Documents-Based Research Course: The Benefits Of Librarian, Archivist, And Faculty Collaboration, Paul Victor Jr., Justin Otto, Charles Mutschler

Collaborative Librarianship

This article discusses a successful collaboration between multiple subject specialist librarians, the University Archivist and a faculty member teaching an undergraduate course in documents-based social science research. This collaborative partnership allowed for each subject specialist to expose students to specific information literacy skills they needed to be successful in their class. The authors used pre- and postassessments to gauge student comfort level in conducting library research, as well as a rubric to assess the annotated bibliography of a student’s final research paper. The data from these assessment tools are analyzed and the results discussed. The data indicates that students benefited …

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Review Of Managing Research Data, Dorothea Salo

Collaborative Librarianship

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Directory Of Open Access Journals: A Bibliometric Study Of Library And Information Science, Kotti Thavamani

Collaborative Librarianship

This paper presents a bibliometric study of library-focused journals represented in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). A total of 151 library and information science journals were examined related to a number of issues: subject-specific distribution of library journals, interdisciplinary aspects, country of origin, language-used and other language characteristics, numbers of titles first appearing in given years, publication fees, the existence of license agreements, and the types of organizations having journals in the Directory that focus on libraries or librarianship.

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“She Has A Vocabulary I Just Don’T Have”: Faculty Culture And Information Literacy Collaboration, Carolyn Caffrey Gardner, Jamie White-Farnham

Collaborative Librarianship

The authors describe difficulties pertaining to discipline-specific discourse and identity among collaborators during the process of revising the information literacy component of a first-year writing program. Hardesty’s term “faculty culture” offers a frame through which to understand resistance and tension among otherwise engaged faculty and situates this experience within the uncomfortable history between faculty and librarians who may be perceived as “inauthentic” faculty. The authors suggest ways to improve communication between librarians and writing program faculty when collaborating on information literacy instruction.

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The Quest For Sustainability In International Library Development: The Experience Of The Riecken Foundation, John Boyd, Elizabeth Cramer

Collaborative Librarianship

The Riecken Foundation provides support to communities in developing countries to create sustainable partnership library programs focusing on collection development, technology applications, and assembling professional staff and volunteers. This article studies the experience of the Foundation through research gathered in interviews with Bill Cartwright, President and CEO of the Foundation, along with onsite observations at six participating libraries, and offers analysis of documentation related to these sustainability initiatives. The study also examines the transition of the Foundation from a private foundation to a public charity and the effect this has had in its programming.

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Review Of “Can Library Use Enhance Intercultural Education?”, Jimena Sagàs

Collaborative Librarianship

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Staying Current After Graduation: A Survey Of Social Work Alumni, Linda Hacker

Collaborative Librarianship

How do our alumni stay current once they graduate and are away from academic information resources? Very few studies have addressed how alumni stay current in their field after graduation. This research surveyed the graduate and undergraduate Social Work alumni of The College at Brockport in asking key questions. Are you able to stay current with research, especially without access to article databases? Do you receive support from your employer to stay current? Does this include money/time off for participating in Continuing Education Programs (CEP), conferences or accessing article databases? This paper looks at the methods for, and importance of, …

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Review Of Common Ground At The Nexus Of Information Literacy And Scholarly Communication, Kaijsa Calkins

Collaborative Librarianship

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Review Of Beyond The Silos Of The Lams: Collaboration Among Libraries, Archives, And Museums, Beth Thomsett-Scott

Collaborative Librarianship

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Compelling And Necessary Momentum: A Recent Timeline In Open Access, Ivan Gaetz

Collaborative Librarianship

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Discoverability Challenges And Collaboration Opportunities Within The Scholarly Communications Ecosystem: A Sage White Paper Update, Mary M. Somerville, Lettie Conrad

Collaborative Librarianship

The prominence of mainstream search engines and the rise of web-scale, pre-indexed discovery services present new challenges and opportunities for publishers, librarians, vendors, and researchers. With the aim of furthering collaborative conversations, SAGE commissioned a study of opportunities for improving academic discoverability with value chain experts in the scholarly communications ecosystem. Results were released in January 2012 as a white paper titled Improving Discoverability of Scholarly Content in the Twentieth Century: Collaboration Opportunities for Librarians, Publishers, and Vendors. Following the white paper, this article explores the implications for these findings through review of commissioned studies, research reports, journal articles, conference …

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A Window On Library Collaboration In Southeast Asia: Insights And Perspectives Of Lourdes T. David, Janet Lee

Collaborative Librarianship

Collaborative Librarianship Advisory Board Member, Lourdes T. David, provides an overview of library collaboration in the Philippines and in other countries in Southeast Asia.

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Crossing Borders: Two Academic Librarians And A Young Adult Librarian Collaborate To Teach Teens About Sustainability, George J. Aulisio, Sheli Mchugh

Collaborative Librarianship

Two academic librarians from The University of Scranton’s Weinberg Memorial Library partnered with a young adult librarian from the Scranton Public Library to help plan, organize, and implement, a sustainability themed summer series of events for a teen group. This paper discusses experiences of collaborating across traditional library boundaries from perspectives of a technical services librarian, an academic reference librarian, and a young adult librarian united to work together and educate teens about going green. Various resources and literature helped build a successful summer series on sustainability and demonstrated the important role librarians can play in promoting related environmental issues. …

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Review Of Pay It Forward: Mentoring New Information Professionals, Carol Krismann

Collaborative Librarianship

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Whither Library Consortia?, Valerie Horton

Collaborative Librarianship

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Collaboration For A 21st Century Archives: Connecting University Archives With The Library’S Information Technology Professionals, Erin Lawrimore

Collaborative Librarianship

As communication technologies change, so do the records being produced and acquired by the archival repositories tasked with documenting society. This article, written from the perspective of a University Archivist, discusses the need for collaboration between archivists and information technology professionals in a university library in order to manage the university’s born-digital archival records. Using specific examples of collaborative projects of University Archives and the Electronic Resources and Information Technology (ERIT) department in the University Libraries of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the article makes specific recommendations for overcoming challenges related to professional jargon and work practices shared …

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Scholar-Librarian Collaboration In The Publication Of Scholarly Materials, Craig Harkema, Brent Nelson

Collaborative Librarianship

Recent developments in scholarly publication and the new directions being pursued in both humanities departments and libraries in the production of digital content provide opportunity for scholars and libraries to explore new models for working together to produce and disseminate scholarly materials. We offer as a first step toward a model for publication the case of Opuscula: Short Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (OSTMAR), a hybrid form of publication that leverages the university library infrastructure to create a platform for the publication of scholarly primary materials, an area of publication formerly reserved for the commercial press. This model …

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Implementing A Promotional Process For Academic Librarians, Robert Behary, Leslie Lewis, Bridget Euliano

Collaborative Librarianship

This article describes how the librarians at Duquesne University’s Gumberg Library developed a system for the promotion of academic librarians. While some of the details in the article may apply only to the faculty at Gumberg Library, the thesis of this article is that other academic librarians wishing to develop similar promotional systems might benefit from what we have learned. Library faculty at other institutions should be aware of the practical aspects of aligning the library promotional path with established university structures, working with existing library culture, and making provisions for the initial cohort to work with the new guidelines. …

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The Liaison Connection Issue 7, University Of Denver, University Libraries

The Liaison Connection

What We Are Learning About The Diverse Backgrounds Of Academic Library Users: An Overview Of Research Designs And Methods In Information Behaviour Studies, Krystyna K. Matusiak

Library and Information Science: Faculty Conference Presentations

Image And Multimedia Resources In An Academic Environment: A Qualitative Study Of Students’ Experiences And Literacy Practices, Krystyna K. Matusiak

Library and Information Science: Faculty Publications

Collaborative Marketing For Electronic Resources: A Project Report And Discussion, Marie Kennedy

Collaborative Librarianship

Finding Library Solutions In Adjacent Industries, Lori Bowen Ayre

Collaborative Librarianship

Leveraging Strategic Institutional Partnerships: Creating A Phased Learning Commons At The University Of Idaho Library, Kristin J. Henrich

Collaborative Librarianship

Independent Study Equals Instant Collaboration, Alison Peters

Collaborative Librarianship

Partnering With Public Library Services: A Town And Gown Affair, Sarah Cisse

Collaborative Librarianship

Crafting Identity, Collaboration, And Relevance For Academic Librarians Using Communities Of Practice, Nora Belzowski, J. Parker Ladwig, Thurston Miller

Collaborative Librarianship

Vendor Of The Month: A Marketing Collaboration, Lateka J. Grays, James Cory Tucker

Collaborative Librarianship

Whose Job Is It Anyway?, Lori Ayre

Collaborative Librarianship

Going “All-In” For Deep Collaboration, Valerie Horton

Collaborative Librarianship

Assessment Of Library Instruction On Undergraduate Student Success In A Documents-Based Research Course: The Benefits Of Librarian, Archivist, And Faculty Collaboration, Paul Victor Jr., Justin Otto, Charles Mutschler

Collaborative Librarianship

Review Of Managing Research Data, Dorothea Salo

Collaborative Librarianship

Directory Of Open Access Journals: A Bibliometric Study Of Library And Information Science, Kotti Thavamani

Collaborative Librarianship

“She Has A Vocabulary I Just Don’T Have”: Faculty Culture And Information Literacy Collaboration, Carolyn Caffrey Gardner, Jamie White-Farnham

Collaborative Librarianship

The Quest For Sustainability In International Library Development: The Experience Of The Riecken Foundation, John Boyd, Elizabeth Cramer

Collaborative Librarianship

Review Of “Can Library Use Enhance Intercultural Education?”, Jimena Sagàs

Collaborative Librarianship

Staying Current After Graduation: A Survey Of Social Work Alumni, Linda Hacker

Collaborative Librarianship

Review Of Common Ground At The Nexus Of Information Literacy And Scholarly Communication, Kaijsa Calkins

Collaborative Librarianship

Review Of Beyond The Silos Of The Lams: Collaboration Among Libraries, Archives, And Museums, Beth Thomsett-Scott

Collaborative Librarianship

Compelling And Necessary Momentum: A Recent Timeline In Open Access, Ivan Gaetz

Collaborative Librarianship

Discoverability Challenges And Collaboration Opportunities Within The Scholarly Communications Ecosystem: A Sage White Paper Update, Mary M. Somerville, Lettie Conrad

Collaborative Librarianship

A Window On Library Collaboration In Southeast Asia: Insights And Perspectives Of Lourdes T. David, Janet Lee

Collaborative Librarianship

Crossing Borders: Two Academic Librarians And A Young Adult Librarian Collaborate To Teach Teens About Sustainability, George J. Aulisio, Sheli Mchugh

Collaborative Librarianship

Review Of Pay It Forward: Mentoring New Information Professionals, Carol Krismann

Collaborative Librarianship

Whither Library Consortia?, Valerie Horton

Collaborative Librarianship

Collaboration For A 21st Century Archives: Connecting University Archives With The Library’S Information Technology Professionals, Erin Lawrimore

Collaborative Librarianship

Scholar-Librarian Collaboration In The Publication Of Scholarly Materials, Craig Harkema, Brent Nelson

Collaborative Librarianship

Implementing A Promotional Process For Academic Librarians, Robert Behary, Leslie Lewis, Bridget Euliano

Collaborative Librarianship