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2014

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Library Outreach Through Media Wall Exhibits, Gwyneth Crowley, Lori Bronars Nov 2014

Library Outreach Through Media Wall Exhibits, Gwyneth Crowley, Lori Bronars

Gwyneth H. Crowley

This article describes the media wall exhibit program used to showcase and promote the work of Yale faculty, researchers, academic units, and university-sponsored community programs. With the mandate to combine two traditional, academic branch libraries and astatistical lab, designing a new hybrid service model was crucial. Planners reviewed dataabout students’ use of space, visited innovative library sites, and researched architectural features that could be included to create a vital,aesthetically pleasing collaborative space forthe 21st century. Data showed that students preferred group study spaces and an interactive community facility. A media wall is an avenue for interaction with this research community …

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Scholarly Communications Committee Report On Activities 2013-14, Janelle Wertzberger Nov 2014

Scholarly Communications Committee Report On Activities 2013-14, Janelle Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

2013-14 annual report for Musselman Library's Scholarly Communications Committee, including Gettysburg College's institutional repository, The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College. Covers June 2013-May 2014.

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Measuring The International Usage Of U.S. Institutional Repositories, Lauren Fralinger, Jonathan Bull Jul 2014

Measuring The International Usage Of U.S. Institutional Repositories, Lauren Fralinger, Jonathan Bull

Jonathan Bull

Purpose – In an educational world with increasing internationalization, digitization, assessment and financial justification, US institutions, especially academic libraries, must justify each new project. Institutional Repositories (IRs) are no exception. The authors attempt to identify factors that might affect the international usage of US IRs as part of assessment efforts to determine an IR's return-on-investment. Design/methodology/approach – A survey was disseminated to IR administrators asking for demographic information, international usage counts for website hits and downloads, and any internationalization efforts connected to the IR in order to determine any influencing factors on an IR's international usage. Findings – While many …

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Faculty And Staff Checklist, Jonathan Bull Jul 2014

Faculty And Staff Checklist, Jonathan Bull

Jonathan Bull

This document lists materials that faculty and staff need to send to the library to have their work added to Valparaiso University's IR, ValpoScholar, such as a copyright release form and CV.

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If You Build It, They Will Come (If You Invite Them Thoughtfully): Institutional Repositories In Academic Libraries, Janelle Wertzberger Jun 2014

If You Build It, They Will Come (If You Invite Them Thoughtfully): Institutional Repositories In Academic Libraries, Janelle Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

The road to a successful institutional repository is a long and involved one - so where would an interested library begin? What are some important initial considerations? What options exist for repository platforms? Eric Jeitner will discuss some of those considerations, as well as the methodology used to decide on the staging for Arcadia University's ScholarWorks repository.

After picking a platform, decisions must be made about what work belongs in your IR, and why. How can librarians build campus awareness about open access? Who should be promoting your IR? Janelle Wertzberger will talk about the education and outreach efforts that …

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Peering Into The Gap: An Exploration Of Technical Services Outsourcing And The Library Profession, Leanne Olson May 2014

Peering Into The Gap: An Exploration Of Technical Services Outsourcing And The Library Profession, Leanne Olson

Leanne Olson

Outsourcing of cataloguing is becoming more and more common at academic libraries as a way to save time and money. What does outsourcing mean for the academic library profession? 

While investigating the topic of deprofessionalization of librarianship, and the professional/paraprofessional divide between librarians and library assistants at academic institutions, we noticed a gap in the literature when it came to technical services/cataloguing departments. Specifically, the people at private firms who contribute much of the cataloguing and metadata to universities are not represented in the literature. What role do they play in librarianship and specifically cataloguing/metadata librarianship, as a profession?  How included …

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Seeking A Diversity Of Voices - Editorial Introduction, Ron Peterson Apr 2014

Seeking A Diversity Of Voices - Editorial Introduction, Ron Peterson

Ron Peterson

The Editorial Committee of the Code4Lib Journal is always looking for ways to improve the content of the journal and ensure that it is meeting the needs of our readers. New additions to the Committee have brought new ideas about how we can make the journal the best that it can be. When several members of the Committee met in March 2014 during the Code4Lib Conference in Raleigh, we had the opportunity to discuss these issues in person. Inspired by the presentations on data visualization, the Editorial Committee talked about how we can use the data that we have to …

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Preaching What We Practice: Educating Stakeholders About Research Data Management At Purdue University, Lisa Zilinski Apr 2014

Preaching What We Practice: Educating Stakeholders About Research Data Management At Purdue University, Lisa Zilinski

Lisa Zilinski

Over the past few years, an increasing number of academic libraries have been adding or supplementing research data management support and services to their offerings. In an effort to support different stakeholders (e.g. students, library faculty and librarians, and disciplinary faculty), Purdue Libraries faculty and staff have developed several different tools and resources specifically designed for librarians and liaisons in supporting research data management. These resources and tools have been developed through innovative partnerships and include the Data Information Literacy (DIL) Project, a partnership between faculty and librarians across multiple institutions; the Purdue University Research Repository (PURR), created through a …

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Look Good When You're Googled: Creating And Optimizing Your Digital Identity, Amanda Izenstark Dec 2013

Look Good When You're Googled: Creating And Optimizing Your Digital Identity, Amanda Izenstark

Amanda Izenstark

This is a pre-publication author manuscript of the final, published article.
Purpose: This paper describes techniques librarians can use to enhance their online presence
so that students, patrons, researchers, and prospective employers can locate them easily. It is
an extension of a presentation given at the Association of College and Research Libraries New
England Chapter Annual Conference held in Worcester, MA on May 9, 2014.
Design/methodology/approach: The presentation focused on a number of established and
emerging tools to share professional contact information and professional output, such as
Google, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, SlideShare, and ImpactStory, among others.
Findings: The audience of …

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Open Access And The Institutional Repository, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher Dec 2013

Open Access And The Institutional Repository, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Julia Lovett

Over the past year, the University of Rhode Island (URI) has taken some steps towards shifting the default to Open Access for both faculty scholarship and student work. First and foremost, in March 2013, the URI Faculty Senate passed a Harvard-style Open Access mandate. And in February 2013, the Library and the Graduate School began making electronic dissertations and theses openly available through URI’s institutional repository. In this presentation, we will define Open Access policies and discuss why they are important. We will give an overview of our experiences with Open Access advocacy, implementation of policies, and next steps.

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