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Information Outlook, November/December 2019, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2019

Volume 23, Issue 6

Information Outlook, September/October 2019, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2019

Volume 23, Issue 5

Fogler Library: Maine's Business, Science And Technology Library, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

UMaine Video

Raymond H. Fogler Library at the University of Maine is Maine's designated library for Business, Science, and Technology. Fogler Library provides free resources, expertise, and support for Maine business owners. A portal of free, handpicked resources is available through the Maine Business, Science, and Technology website.

Information Outlook, July/August 2019, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2019

Volume 23, Issue 4

Managing Researcher Expectations: Defining The Scope Of Your Expert Gallery, Heather J. Martin, Daina Dickman

Books, Presentations, Posters, Etc.

This presentation explains Providence St. Joseph Health's experiences in creating researcher/author profiles in the Expert Gallery of Digital Commons, their institutional repository. It discusses some of the unique challenges with creating profiles in a health system environment and the need to set clearly communicated limitations of the project.

Social Justice And Medical Library Institutional Repositories: Tactics And Outreach, Daina Dickman

Books, Presentations, Posters, Etc.

Objective: This paper discusses the experiences of an institutional repository (IR) manager at a multi-state health system. Launched in 2018 the IR aims to gather published articles, presentations, posters, etc. produced across the 50+ hospitals in the system. Since the IR is new, there is the opportunity to build social justice and critical librarianship in to the strategic planning from the beginning.

Methods: How can a social justice lens inform what is added to an IR? If an IR aims to collect the entire body of research at an institution what steps can be taken to make sure works promoting …

Information Outlook, May/June 2019, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2019

Volume 23, Issue 3

Fogler Library: Build A Brand That Gets You Hired, Anne Marie Engelsen, Nick Mitchell

UMaine Video

Fogler Library and Dr. Nick Mitchell from Clarivate Analytics present a series of discussions focused on scholarly communication, bibliometrics, publishing, and more for faculty and graduate students. The following topics are covered:

Session #1 - Make it easy for a stranger to find your research publications
Session #2 - What metrics do hiring and promotion committees use to gauge “scholarship quality”?
Session #3 - Where and what should I publish to grow my research brand?

About the Presenter Nick Mitchell, PhD. is a Solutions Consultant for Clarivate Analytics, the world’s foremost provider of research information and analytics. Prior to joining …

Building A Health System Institutional Repository: Setting Yourself Up For Success From The Start, Heather J. Martin, Barbara (Basia) Delawska-Elliott, Daina Dickman

Books, Presentations, Posters, Etc.

Background: While more common in university settings, institutional repositories (IR) have a place within hospitals and healthcare systems too, though the challenges in creating them may be different. This paper looks at the development of a Digital Commons institutional repository at Providence St. Joseph Health. The authors present the necessary steps for a successful initiative beginning with the planning process and building from there. Highlighted are some of the different challenges faced in non-academic settings; considerations when selecting a platform and designing and structure; and recommendations for doing outreach and promotion to unique user groups.

Description: Library staff proactively followed …

Organizing Your Organization: Taxonomy And Organizational Schemes In A Health System Institutional Repository, Daina Dickman, Heather J. Martin

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Background: In the development of a new institutional repository, library staff at a large health system were faced with building an organizational structure that would be meaningful to both internal and external users. The health system context meant unique challenges designing a taxonomy that supported end users as well as institutional goals and branding. Health systems have unique user needs for specialized collections and organizational schemes. With a comparatively large volume of items being added there are also concerns with the backend structures to accommodate the institutions’ large research output.

Description: This large, recently merged health system did not already …

2019 Spring - Friendly Correspondence Newsletter, Courtright Memorial Library

Friends of the Library

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Otterbein Singers Sing Songs of the Heartland, Social Justice Week Events, Sarah's Corner Updated, Annual Bookmark contest, Mark Peters and Rev. John F. Wells honored.

Institutional Repository Workflow, Project Management, And Outreach In A Remote/Online Library Environment, Daina Dickman

Books, Presentations, Posters, Etc.

In 2018 Providence St. Joseph Health launched an institutional repository, primarily staffed by a librarian located in Oregon and a library assistant located in Montana with occasional help from other Library Services staff. Workflow and communication standards had to be created that would allow library staff in multiple locations and time zones to seamlessly launch, populate, and manage the institutional repository. Outreach, instruction, and promotion tactics had to also be created to reach researchers and clinical staff across six states and 100+ locations.

Information Outlook, March/April 2019, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2019

Volume 23, Issue 2

Information Outlook, January/February 2019, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2019

Volume 23, Issue 1