It's Academic

Presented by Sara Kern 

September 21, 2022 at 1:00 pm EST

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Library assessment is an essential part of library planning and management. It helps us make informed decisions about collections, operating hours, events, and more. However, moving past collecting data to analyzing it can be challenging. This presentation will share how a librarian at Juniata College used R statistical software to analyze information gathered by our student workers to assess library space and resource usage. R is a free, open source software environment that you can use for statistical analysis and creating visualizations. The presenter is a novice R user, and this presentation is geared towards those with little to no experience using R, but with takeaways that may be useful for more experienced R users.

Sara Kern is the Student Success & Outreach Librarian at Juniata College.

As a reminder, the Zoom link will be sent approximately 48 hours before the session. We will mute participants on entry into the Zoom room. Session will be recorded and available on YouTube after the session. We will enable Zoom’s Live Transcription feature during the session.

If you would like to present with C&CS, please contact the C&CS team.

This project is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, Governor.

Support is also provided by the College and Research Division of the Pennsylvania Library Association.

 Library support of scholarly activity of our library patrons and students can look differently depending on the role and setting we find ourselves in. In libraries many times the role of the librarian who supports this activity is called the Scholarly communications librarian and according to ACRL, scholarly communication is defined as “the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use. The system includes both formal means of communication, such as publication in peer-reviewed journals, and informal channels, such as electronic listservs.”¹ This support can begin with education surrounding rules and laws that govern copyright and then moving into helping our staff/faculty and students choose journals for publication. This role can also play an exciting part of promoting and training about open access resources and even support of hosting and development of publishing platforms to house the work of your institution’s authors.

 For me, I work in a hospital setting and one of my major tasks is in support of the author publication report process. These reports require the completing of searching, reviewing, and  preparing of lists of citations of the published works of the many clinical and educational authors within our hospital. It is a process in which I conduct searches within multiple databases, utilize excel spreadsheets to keep track and rely on continuous and clear communications between departments and the library. It is a rewarding process which I have been, since I arrived, working to streamline and improve. I welcome any feedback or recommendations from other librarians who manage this scholarly activity for their institution as I know there is always room for learning for improvement.

1. Retrieved from https://acrl.libguides.com/scholcomm/toolkit/ on Aug 8, 2022

The session recording for the August’s Connect & Communicate Series presentation, “Working with Student Organizations to Enhance Outreach to Underrepresented Groups,” is now available on the C&CS YouTube channel. Thanks to Paul McMonigle of Penn State University for this informative and practical session.

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Greetings, 

You are cordially invited to participate in the Fall 2022 series of the Virtual Journal Club, sponsored by the College & Research Division of the Pennsylvania Library Association! Please use this form to indicate which topic(s) you would be interested in reading about in the fall series, as well as indicate your scheduling preferences.

You are welcome to attend one, two, or all three of the meetings to discuss the readings. If you are interested in participating, please feel free to sign up – there is no cost and no commitment beyond your time to read and discuss the articles. 

Thanks to everyone who participated in our Summer 2022 series on faculty perceptions of information literacy, and Spring 2022 series on inclusive libraries!

Please feel free to reach out with any questions.

Thank you, and have a great day!

—

Melissa Correll (she/her)

Student Success Librarian Arcadia University

The Pennsylvania Library Association’s College and Research Division Connect and Communicate Series provides programming that is relevant to and useful for academic librarians.

If you have a session you would like to share with our academic library community, we invite you to submit a proposal. If there is a speaker you would like to hear from, you are also welcome to include that information in our proposal form.

Please submit your ideas using our online form: https://forms.gle/LAjB7DBqudTgHfKF7

There’s more information at the Connect & Communicate webpage: https://crdpala.org/connect-communicate/

Recordings of the most recent recent sessions are available on the C&CS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIdr724MhuZV7bh_iOOlc-Q

Thank you!

CRD Connect and Communicate Team