Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Balancing Services And Safety During The Pandemic: One Law Library’S Story, Virginia C. Thomas

Library Scholarly Publications

Michigan’s academic law libraries, which have provided access to their extensive collections to legal professionals and pro per patrons alike, have had to rethink how to do so in effective, but contactless, ways. In the middle of this pandemic, how can we continue to get legal information to those who need it— and safely?

Four Health Science Librarians’ Experiences: How They Responded To The Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis, Misa Mi, Yingting Zhang, Lin Wu, Wendy Wu

Library Scholarly Publications

In this article, four health sciences librarians from four academic libraries across the country will share their personal or library experiences in reaching out to faculty and students to meet their needs through their initiatives and continuous efforts using various technologies and tools. Three of the four academic libraries are located in two COVID-19 hard-hit states, Michigan and New Jersey. The article will describe their practice of health sciences librarianship during the unprecedented time and provide examples demonstrating how each of them strives to stay relevant, proactive, and become integral to their institutional efforts in support of students and employees …

How An Idea Became A Team: The First Year With Team Dolly, Betty Adams, Stefanie Caloia, Nina Fawaz, Megan Hakala, Lori Rinaldi, Sarah Sorensen

Library Scholarly Publications

How an Idea Became a Team: The First Year with Team Dolly

Team Dolly will present how the Dolly Parton Imagination Library has progressed in the past year from an idea to a first-year funded and (soon-to-be) operational, long-term literacy project with opportunities for expansion. A focus will be placed on how we initiated the project with little previous experience. Come learn what we’ve learned this year, check out our progress, and get a sneak-peek at the next five years!

(Presenters: Members of Team Dolly)

Bankruptcy Law Resources, Jan B. Bissett, Margi Heinen

Library Scholarly Publications

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Findable, Impactful, Citable, Usable, Sustainable (Ficus): A Heuristic For Authors Of Digital Publishing Projects, Nicky Agate, Cheryl E. Ball, Alison Belan, Monica Mccormick, Joshua Neds-Fox

Library Scholarly Publications

We came together in Spring 2018 at a two-day think tank hosted by Duke University Libraries and supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with dozens of other librarians, publishers, and scholarly communication stakeholders, to work on the question of sustainably publishing large digital projects. The outcome of that discussion turned into an extended project at TriangleSCI 2018 and culminated in the heuristic presented here.The heuristic can be used as a checklist to help authors (and their project team) assess their needs when it comes to making their digital projects findable, impactful, citable, usable, and sustainable (creating the acronym FICUS).