Browsing by Subject "Librarians"

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    Context and characteristics of the research metrics librarian
    (2019-10-25) Craven, Hannah J.; Grooten, Todd M.; Whipple, Elizabeth C.; Ralston, Rick K.; Odell, Jere D.
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    Doing better with library classes in 2019: Streamlining scheduling, marketing, and data gathering
    (2019-10-06) Stumpff, Julia C.; Craven, Hannah J.
    Objective: Librarians were hesitant to offer recurring classes because attendance was historically low. The scheduling system was cumbersome, and there was no consistent assessment of attendance, class content, or teaching quality. To improve this situation, the library adopted LibCal, marketed classes, and standardized assessment during the spring 2019 semester. The library is now has baseline data to make future evidence-based decisions about scheduled classes. Methods: After surveying current practices and discovering the campus had access to LibCal, two librarians and a staff member quickly trained themselves on and then employed LibCal. LibCal features adopted were: course templates, registration, email reminders, post-test emails with links to assessments, and attendance tracking. The librarians and staff successfully integrated into the marketing team in order to promote the classes across campuses. Results: With the new system in place, the number of classes offered doubled. This led to three times the number of attendees overall. The average class size increased by one. By providing a hard copy of our assessment survey complimented by an automated email with the online version, the survey response rate was 84%. Class attrition rate was 36%. Conclusions: Separating the registration and attendance data by month, day, and hour will inform future classes scheduling. Class content and teaching assessment will be analyzed and shared with the class instructors to improve course delivery. In the future, assessment will ask about participants’ locations to determine if distance learners are reached at other campuses across the state. Marketing efforts will continue to evolve.
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    I’m Not an Archivist But I Played One For a Year: Lessons For Librarians Who Step Outside Of Their Comfort Zones
    (Indiana Library Federation, 2008-10-09T17:05:21Z) Dill, Emily
    The author reports on her experiences in a temporary archivist position and the lessons she learned about archives and libraries during this time.
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    The Medical Library Association Data Services Competency: A Framework for Data Science and Open Science Skills Development
    (Medical Library Association, 2020-04) Federer, Lisa; Foster, Erin Diane; Glusker, Ann; Henderson, Margaret; Read, Kevin; Zhao, Shirley; Ruth Lilly Medical Library, School of Medicine
    Increasingly, users of health and biomedical libraries need assistance with challenges they face in working with their own and others' data. Librarians have a unique opportunity to provide valuable support and assistance in data science and open science but may need to add to their expertise and skill set to have the most impact. This article describes the rationale for and development of the Medical Library Association Data Services Competency, which outlines a set of five key skills for data services and provides a course of study for gaining these skills.
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    Organizational Dynamics with StrengthsFinder® Facilitation
    (2019-06-06) Rios, Gabriel R.; Craven, Hannah J.
    Introduction: Team building is a crucial investment to any library. It increases communication, trust, and collaboration while minimizing conflict. It is the director's responsibility to create an environment conducive to collaboration. The purpose of this trial program is to present strategic steps toward building an effective team and to present techniques on becoming a successful contributor on an existing team. Previous organizational-level facilitation was done, establishing core values. The current focus uses the industry standard tool StrengthsFinder to help staff understand their preferences and how they can be most supportive of others. Description: New hires have been informed of prior staff development and current core values. Individuals will complete the StrengthsFinder inventory and go over their results with a facilitator. The facilitator will then work with the library staff to show the different perspectives and preferences of their fellow coworkers. Pre-and post-team evaluation results will be measured. In this presentation, the director will describe the greater mission behind this exercise, which is ultimately to foster bonds and create a more efficient work place environment. A new faculty hire will describe their experience becoming an effective team member pre-and post-inventory facilitation. Discussion: Results are pending.
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    Reel Vs. Real Librarians
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2005) Schmidt, Steven J.
    Librarian. a person who is skilled in library work.” — The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language “Let’s try a game of word association. What profession do you think of when you read or hear “ambulance chaser,” “take two,” “slide rule,” “pork barrel,” “open wide,” “shhh”? You probably think immediately of lawyer, doctor, engineer, politician, dentist, and librarian. You are reacting to common stereotypes, even though these professional people perform important tasks. My line happens to be science/technical information specialist and library administrator, but you’d call me a librarian. – Wayne Wiegand “...the days of the librarian as a mouser in musty books must pass...” Melvil Dewey. In 1986, the popular television game show, Family Feud, posed a question to a group of 100 people and then asked the contestants to identify the four most frequently given answers. The question was: “What are the typical characteristics of a librarian?” Survey said, librarians are: 1. quiet 2. mean or stern 3. usually single or unmarried 4. Wear glasses. At the time, this program irritated a number of librarians, but whether their irritation was based on the question, the answer or the fact that the contestant guessed all four “correct” answers is still to be determined.
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    The Seuss Six and Collection Maintenance
    (2021) Lamb, Annette; Library and Information Science, School of Computing and Informatics
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    Understanding our impact: Analyzing librarian involvement with systematic reviews
    (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Strauss Health Sciences Library, 2019-05-06) Craven, Hannah J.; Palmer, Kristina C.; Piper, Christi R.
    Objectives: On a medical campus, systematic reviews with librarian co-authors compared to reviews without librarians were published in journals with lower impact factors, although still within the comparative range. To try to determine why, discipline and authors’ publishing experience were examined. The bibliographic analysis was also expanded to see if there is a difference in the journal ranks by discipline. Methods: Search strategies were created to pull systematic reviews published in the last five years by campus authors from PubMed, Ovid MEDLINE, and Web of Science. Citations were exported and deduped using EndNote X8. The systematic reviews were grouped by whether a librarian from our campus assisted with the search or not by searching for librarians’ names in the author field. A statistically appropriate number of articles without a librarian author were randomly selected for comparison with articles that had librarian assistance. Selected articles were analyzed based on Journal Impact Factor for the year of publication, journal rank by discipline, authors’ discipline(s), and years of authors’ publication experience. Authors’ years of experience are determined by the date of their first published article. Results: Systematic reviews with the assistance of a librarian were statistically no different from those without a librarian in terms of the Journal Impact Factor or journal rank by discipline where systematic reviews were published. Years of experience significantly differed between groups, with librarians assisting most authors with 5 years or fewer of experience. The departments who utilized librarians for systematic searching the most were: General Medicine, Orthopedics, and Gastroenterology. Conclusions: This exploratory research helped evaluate who our librarians are primarily working with on systematic reviews. It also informed us that we do not have an impact on the systematic review being published in a higher impact journal based on Journal Impact Factor or rank by discipline. Our liaison efforts will focus less on the three departments listed above as they already utilize our service. Since most of the authors we assisted had 5 years of experience, we will target the campus faculty onboarding orientation.
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    Warrior Librarian: How Our Image is Changing (A Personal Look)
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2005) Wooton, Melissa
    When I decided that a librarian’s life was the life for me, I really didn’t consider it to be a career where I would do battle daily. At the time, I was exhausted from being a Warrior Manager and ready for a slower pace. So it was serendipity when the flier from library school came in the mail. Like Harry Potter getting his first owl post, I wasn’t sure how it knew to find me, but it did. And it sounded perfect: reading, helping people—grateful people—find things, and of course, quiet. Of course, the brochure didn’t promise any of that, but my preconception was that I would be a peacekeeper, and leave the war behind. Having been a librarian for four short years now, I realize we are a group of warriors, although some of our battles are changing.