Session attendees will learn from, and engage with, three panelists who have/are planning compost collection programs in their academic libraries. Each program is in a different stage of implementation. Panelists will share their experiences and lessons learned with library composting and user education. Attendees will take away practical steps to...
Librarians support student success through partnership with academic success units such as writing centers. This roundtable explored a range of writing center-library models, some based in service design thinking. Discussants sought to highlight practices, such as studio pedagogy, that lead to sustainable, mutually beneficial outcomes for libraries and writing centers....
Presentation delivered at the annual meeting of the Oral History Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This talk provides an overview of strategies used to grow the oral history program at the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Research Center. The presentation is divided into three parts: institutional context, making...
This is a chapter regarding the use of project management for technical services work. The specific project is in regards to the movement of physical material due to the demolition of the OSU Libraries & Press off-site storage facility.
Presentation delivered to the OSU Libraries and Press Staff at the monthly administrative briefing on May 23, 2018.
The presentation details the framework and ambitions of the Oregon State University Libraries and Press (OSULP) Community Interviewing Project. The project seeks to build community and reduce silos within OSULP by capturing...
Oregon State University Libraries piloted a one-year ILL purchase on demand service beginning in February 2009. An online survey was used to measure patron satisfaction and determine future borrowing and recommendation behavior. These results, along with patron comments, were used to explore future success of the service and ways to...
Many libraries offer workshops on research topics such as data management and information organization for graduate students and faculty. We recommend that library workshops focus on teaching skills rather than principles or theories, especially if the goal is to improve data management practices. At Oregon State University Libraries, we have...
Els grups d’investigació d’arreu del món són cada cop més interdisciplinaris i heterogenis, i generen cada cop més dades. Gestionar amb cura aquestes dades de recerca és complicat, especialment perquè els canvis tecnològics que acompanyen aquestes dades són molt ràpids. La quantitat de dades, els formats en què s’emmagatzemen, els...
Librarians support student success in many ways such as partnerships with writing centers. When an opportunity arose to partner with our writing center to create a shared space in our library, we saw it as a great way to support student success. Called the Undergrad Research and Writing Studio, student...
This phenomenological inquiry explored the experiences of library leaders and discipline faculty members engaging in a collaborative instructional change initiative focused on a process-based learning pedagogy and led by an academic library. The investigation’s purpose was providing insight and understanding concerning the: (a) library’s role in instructional leadership; (b) experience...
This study investigated the practices public and academic
library administrators find useful and utilize in analyzing
use of collections. The study also investigated
administrators' satisfaction with their collection use
analysis practices, and the impact they perceived automation
to have upon collection use analysis practices.
A survey developed for this study...
Graduate students are critical stakeholders for academic libraries. As libraries continue to reinvent themselves to remain relevant, spaces, services, and instruction targeted specifically for the needs of the graduate student community are essential. Transforming Libraries to Serve Graduate Students is a practical atlas of how librarians around the world are...
Some academic libraries no longer assign subject headings to bibliographic records for dissertations, but have not evaluated the impact this might have on dissertation usage. In this study, bibliographic and circulation records for a sample of 248 academic dissertations were examined to determine the effect of controlled subject headings in...
Subject reference librarians at OSU create subject guides to assist library patrons to locate pertinent sources on their own. These guides direct patrons to information in a variety of formats, including books, series, and journals, but often lack Internet resources. The original intent of the CAMEL Project was to set...
Oregon State University has trained paraprofessionals to assign subject headings to theses and dissertations. This article describes the training program for the paraprofessionals and the ongoing support provided by weekly meetings to discuss works that are difficult to analyze. The transition from copy cataloging to subject analysis is a major...
Academic library faculty require a supportive atmosphere in order to successfully engage in research and publication. At Oregon State University, the Library Faculty Association (LFA) provides avenues for peer criticism of manuscripts and presentations and for the discussion of professional issues. A survey of LFA members on their level of...