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Building Community: Synergy And Empowerment Through Staff Development And Marketing In A Small Rural Academic Library, Bethany Wilkes, Jennifer Ward Jan 2016

Building Community: Synergy And Empowerment Through Staff Development And Marketing In A Small Rural Academic Library, Bethany Wilkes, Jennifer Ward

Collaborative Librarianship

This paper presents two collaborative programs at a small academic library that leverage the insights, engagement, and interests of our most important asset: our staff. Two new library committees, the Staff Training Advisory Group and the Marketing Team, extended planning, accountability, and partnerships to paraprofessional staff members. The onset and associated activities of these two committees yielded not only direct results in terms of staff training programs and marketing initiatives, but also resulted in creating a more collaborative culture and shared purpose in our library. This paper examines how the overlap of these two committees created a convergence that …

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What Collaboration Means To Me: The Infrastructure Of Welcome, Emily Drabinski Jan 2016

What Collaboration Means To Me: The Infrastructure Of Welcome, Emily Drabinski

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Academic Library And Publisher Collaboration: Utilizing An Institutional Repository To Maximize The Visibility And Impact Of Articles By University Authors, Judith C. Russell, Alicia Wise, Chelsea S. Dinsmore, Laura I. Spears, Robert V. Phillips, Laurie Taylor Jan 2016

Academic Library And Publisher Collaboration: Utilizing An Institutional Repository To Maximize The Visibility And Impact Of Articles By University Authors, Judith C. Russell, Alicia Wise, Chelsea S. Dinsmore, Laura I. Spears, Robert V. Phillips, Laurie Taylor

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The George A. Smathers Libraries (Libraries) (http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/) at the University of Florida (UF) (http://www.ufl.edu/) and Elsevier (http://www.elsevier.com) have embarked on a pilot project to maximize visibility, impact, and dissemination of articles by UF researchers who have published in Elsevier journals. Article links and metadata are automatically delivered to UF’s Institutional Repository, the IR@UF (http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ir), in the IR@UF-Elsevier Collection (http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ielsevier). The metadata, with links for approximately 31,000 articles by UF authors, is made possible through integration of the IR@UF with the ScienceDirect application programming interfaces (APIs) (https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/sciencedirect/support/institutional-repository) that are …

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A New Partner In The Process: The Role Of A Librarian On A Faculty Research Team, Leslie J. Foutch Jan 2016

A New Partner In The Process: The Role Of A Librarian On A Faculty Research Team, Leslie J. Foutch

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Academic librarians have tremendous opportunity to demonstrate their worth to the institutions they serve. One successful approach is for faculty and librarians to collaborate on a research project; however the frequency of such partnerships has not been readily documented in academic library literature. This paper shows how the addition of an academic librarian to a faculty research team led to a better understanding of how faculty projects operate, and how the process can lead the way for librarians to be seen as valuable research partners in the academic landscape.

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Building A U.S. Federal Government Documents Collection In Hathitrust, Heather Christenson Jan 2016

Building A U.S. Federal Government Documents Collection In Hathitrust, Heather Christenson

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The HathiTrust Digital Library encompasses over 760,000 federal documents digitized from print. HathiTrust has recently begun to focus attention on further developing this collection via the U.S. Federal Documents Program. The program will leverage the power of HathiTrust infrastructure, services, and member contributions and will focus not only on collection building, but also on the enrichment of discovery and access for end users. This article provides history of HathiTrust’s investment in federal documents, background on the program, a description of current goals and activities, and a brief look at the future.

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Collaborating For Success: A Case Study On Mentoring, Partnering, And Teaching, Megan N. Kellner, Nedelina Tchangalova, Rachel W. Gammons, Alexander J. Carroll, Devon C. Payne-Sturges Jan 2016

Collaborating For Success: A Case Study On Mentoring, Partnering, And Teaching, Megan N. Kellner, Nedelina Tchangalova, Rachel W. Gammons, Alexander J. Carroll, Devon C. Payne-Sturges

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Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) graduates seeking employment in academic libraries are often expected to possess user instruction and public service skills. However, it is difficult for students to achieve this experience through coursework alone. To address this disconnect, librarians at the University of Maryland (UMD) College Park Libraries created a Research and Teaching Fellowship to allow MLIS students at UMD to gain practical instruction experience. The authors present the experience of one MLIS student in collaboration with a subject librarian and a faculty member to plan, implement, and assess an information literacy instruction session for an undergraduate …

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The Seven Year Ache, Ivan Gaetz Jan 2015

The Seven Year Ache, Ivan Gaetz

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Finding Joy In Our Profession: John F. Helmer On Library Consortia, John F. Helmer, Valerie Horton Jan 2015

Finding Joy In Our Profession: John F. Helmer On Library Consortia, John F. Helmer, Valerie Horton

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John F. Helmer, executive director of the Orbis Cascade Alliance, has had an amazing career. In this interview with Valerie Horton, Helmer shares his insights, humor, and deep understanding of our profession. John sees the best of library collaborations as “entrepreneurial, spirited, ambitious,” and leading to the development of critically important working relationships. John offers many nuggets of wisdom for collaborative leaders in this interview. His insights into failure should be required reading in our profession. He argues that if you aren’t failing, you aren’t trying hard enough.

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Communication In Library Consortia, Matt Lee, Valerie Horton Jan 2015

Communication In Library Consortia, Matt Lee, Valerie Horton

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The authors interviewed ten library consortia leaders and studied the communication tools used by a number of consortia. Library consortia employ a broad range of communication tools to share information with their libraries. Different methods are used for different purposes, but a hierarchy of utility emerged from our study. Certain communication vehicles anchored nearly every communication message, some provided secondary support, and others suited highly specialized needs. This paper reviews shared communication methods, highlights communication best practices, and shares unique communication ideas employed by library consortia.

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Occam’S Reader: The First Library-Developed Ebook Interlibrary Loan System, Ryan Litsey Litsey, Kenny Ketner Ketner Jan 2015

Occam’S Reader: The First Library-Developed Ebook Interlibrary Loan System, Ryan Litsey Litsey, Kenny Ketner Ketner

Collaborative Librarianship

An ebook interlibrary loan system called “Occam’s Reader” was developed through collaboration among libraries of the Greater Western Library Alliance. The first of its kind, Occam’s Reader has proved to be a great success due in no small measure to thorough planning, testing, implementation and development through 2012 to 2104. A new version of the system, Occam’s Reader 2.0 is planned for later in 2015. As libraries band together to accomplish a collaborative goal, there really is nothing that can hold them back

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Promoting Innovation: The Wils Model, Andrea Coffin, Stefanie Morrill Jan 2015

Promoting Innovation: The Wils Model, Andrea Coffin, Stefanie Morrill

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WiLS, a membership organization of over 600 libraries of all types in Wisconsin and beyond, has developed a model to help its member libraries turn their good ideas into innovative services and projects. This paper details what it means to innovate in the current library climate and describes the model, its critical facets, how it promotes innovation, how WiLS has implemented it internally, and ways WiLS has worked to broaden the impact of the model.

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Tom Sanville In Conversation, Kathy A. Perry Jan 2015

Tom Sanville In Conversation, Kathy A. Perry

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Kathy Perry, Director of VIVA (The Virtual Library of Virginia), discusses with Tom Sanville, on the occasion of his retirement in December, 2014, his noted career serving libraries. This includes Sanville’s entrée into the library world through industry, the beginnings of ICOLC, its operations and accomplishments, the ICOLC “grilles,” the world of electronic content licensing, and more.

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Consortial Ebook Platforms: An Update And Good News, Greg Pronevitz Jan 2015

Consortial Ebook Platforms: An Update And Good News, Greg Pronevitz

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Review Of Library Consortia: Models For Collaboration And Sustainability, Anne Slaughter Jan 2015

Review Of Library Consortia: Models For Collaboration And Sustainability, Anne Slaughter

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The Idea Of “Community Of Practice” As Paradigmatic In Library Collaboration, Ivan Gaetz Jan 2015

The Idea Of “Community Of Practice” As Paradigmatic In Library Collaboration, Ivan Gaetz

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Integrating Communities Of Practice Into Library Services, Jong-Ae Kim Jan 2015

Integrating Communities Of Practice Into Library Services, Jong-Ae Kim

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Since the notion of community of practice was introduced in the early 1990s, it has been popular in various organizations with the recognition that knowledge sharing is important for organizational learning. It has emerged as a strategic approach to knowledge sharing and an innovative way to foster learning. Considering that the notion of community of practice can provide an intriguing framework for library services, this study explores the implications that community of practice suggests for libraries and the roles that librarians can take to foster communities of practice

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Scholarship As A Conversation: A Metaphor For Librarian-Esl Instructor Collaboration, Karen Bordonaro Jan 2015

Scholarship As A Conversation: A Metaphor For Librarian-Esl Instructor Collaboration, Karen Bordonaro

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Invoking the metaphor of scholarship as a conversation offers academic librarians an excellent way to connect information literacy to university ESL (English as a second language) classes. This article describes how this particular metaphor has appeared in the literature of librarianship, and it suggests that this metaphor offers a deeper way to understand and promote information literacy to ESL students. It connects this deeper understanding of information literacy to ESL writing and speaking instructional approaches. These approaches include understanding scholarship as both a formal written end product and as a writing process in the creation, production and dissemination of knowledge. …

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Who’S Out There? The Power Of Spatial Data, Lori Bowen Ayre Jan 2015

Who’S Out There? The Power Of Spatial Data, Lori Bowen Ayre

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Liberated From The Circulation Desk – Now What?, Lori Bowen Ayre Jan 2015

Liberated From The Circulation Desk – Now What?, Lori Bowen Ayre

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Collaborative Cataloging Pilot Project, Jamey Harris, Marilou Hinchcliff Jan 2015

Collaborative Cataloging Pilot Project, Jamey Harris, Marilou Hinchcliff

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Two Keystone Library Network of Pennsylvania academic libraries, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania and Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, partnered to conduct a pilot project involving assistance from one library with cataloging of materials for the other. This article describes the steps involved in obtaining approvals, meeting legal, identifying appropriate materials and transporting them, establishing guidelines, and conducting email consultations as needed. Once the materials were cataloged and returned, assessment criteria were developed and agreed upon, assessment was conducted, and discussion was held regarding future similar projects. As a result, a cataloging business plan was developed and approved, and a new service …

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Does Virtual Communication Equal Virtual Collaboration? The Influence Of Technology On Job Satisfaction And Collaboration, Kathy Butler, Michael Perini Jan 2015

Does Virtual Communication Equal Virtual Collaboration? The Influence Of Technology On Job Satisfaction And Collaboration, Kathy Butler, Michael Perini

Collaborative Librarianship

Library professionals are facing the same increasing pervasiveness of technology as other professions. Technology gives librarians positive new tools for managing and delivering information, but also changes modes of communication and collaboration with our patrons. This qualitative study explores the connection between the influx of virtual communication and its impact on collaboration and job satisfaction among academic librarians.

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Collaborative Librarianship: A Historical Sketch, An Appreciation And Thanks, Ivan Gaetz Jan 2015

Collaborative Librarianship: A Historical Sketch, An Appreciation And Thanks, Ivan Gaetz

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Collaborative Librarianship moves to its next phase of development as new editors take the helm and the publishing platform moves from Open Journal Systems to the publishing suite of Digital Commons. The new home for management of the journal will be the University of Denver. Thus far, the journal has followed a path of development that has seen steady, impressive growth in readership and, while the geographical focus of the publication remains on the United States, participation of authors and readers has become world-wide. Following a historical sketch of the formation and early development of the journal, members of the …

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Art Exhibit On Black Panther Challenges Library Patrons To Face Violence Of Mass Incarceration, Chris Steele Jan 2015

Art Exhibit On Black Panther Challenges Library Patrons To Face Violence Of Mass Incarceration, Chris Steele

Collaborative Librarianship

Although libraries are often regarded as spaces for inclusiveness, diversity, and democracy, this hasn’t always been the case in the United States. Using historical examples this article explores the legacy of racism in the United States concerning library access to citizens. This article analyzes a social justice artistic collaboration between artist Jackie Sumell and New York Public Library concerning solitary confinement and the racial disparity of mass incarceration in the United States. Intersections between community education and library exhibits are also discussed.

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Conceptualizing Classified Staff As Collaborative Partners, Michael Perini Jan 2015

Conceptualizing Classified Staff As Collaborative Partners, Michael Perini

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Academic librarians have varied roles within the higher education community and librarian perceptions of these duties establish their professional identity. Applying Whitchurch’s “blended professional” model of professional identity, the findings of this case study of librarian perceptions of their roles and functions suggest that academic librarians fail to consider all of the collaborative partnerships available to them due to institutional restrictions or perceived structural and hierarchical constraints. This discussion analyzes the effect of these impediments on academic librarians and advocates utilizing classified staff in a more substantive manner.

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Passing The Torch, Ivan Gaetz Jan 2015

Passing The Torch, Ivan Gaetz

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The Holy Grail Of Library Automation: The Shared Library System, Lori Bowen Ayre Jan 2015

The Holy Grail Of Library Automation: The Shared Library System, Lori Bowen Ayre

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Cohort-Based Technology Training: A Collaboration With Faculty Grounded In Diffusion Of Innovation And Faculty Learning Community Theories, Gretel Stock-Kupperman Jan 2015

Cohort-Based Technology Training: A Collaboration With Faculty Grounded In Diffusion Of Innovation And Faculty Learning Community Theories, Gretel Stock-Kupperman

Collaborative Librarianship

Librarians excel at teaching patrons how to use resources for their research and learning needs. Librarians can introduce these skills into faculty technology training since faculty research needs often intersect with their technology interest, be it mobile devices, technology-enhanced teaching strategies, or tools that support their research. The purpose of this paper is to explore a framework for collaboration in technology training through the lens of a “faculty learning community” and a “diffusion of innovation theory.” This will be examined through a case study of the author’s library, where a multi-year intentional and systematic collaboration with instructional design and Information …

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Librarians And The Institutional Review Board (Irb): Relationships Matter, Laureen Cantwell, Doris Van Kampen-Breit Jan 2015

Librarians And The Institutional Review Board (Irb): Relationships Matter, Laureen Cantwell, Doris Van Kampen-Breit

Collaborative Librarianship

Libraries and librarians have a variety of relationships with Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). These relationships differ by the institution type, engagement level with the IRB, and the type of library within which a librarian works. What roles, then, might a librarian fill with regard to an institution’s IRB? This article provides a short history and an overview of the purpose of the IRB, and proposes three possible roles for librarians: that of the lead investigator in their own research, that of a reviewer for the IRB, and that of an ex-officio member or research liaison serving as an information consultant …

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Home Grown Ebooks: North Carolina’S Collaborative Ebook Pilot Project, Jill Morris Jan 2015

Home Grown Ebooks: North Carolina’S Collaborative Ebook Pilot Project, Jill Morris

Collaborative Librarianship

This article describes how NC LIVE, a large, statewide, multi-type library consortium piloted new models for funding and purchasing a shared ebook collection that concentrated on books published by local publishers. Although the pilot is still being evaluated, the consortium counts the project as a success in that 200 libraries statewide gained unlimited simultaneous user access to more than 1,200 titles not previously available in libraries. NC LIVE is now working with publishers and a platform provider to move the ebook pilot into its next phase as a full-fledged ebook program. The aim of this article is to describe the …

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Bottling The “Collaboration Thing”, George Needham Jan 2015

Bottling The “Collaboration Thing”, George Needham

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