Academic librarianship has an intimate association with narratives and stories in their traditional role in curating, caring for, and making collections accessible. Librarians also experience the intricacies and challenges of narrative inquiry through the qualitative research they undertake, oral histories they gather, reflective teaching practices they facilitate, and oral-traditions they...
GWLA Digital Poster.
The OSU Libraries and Press (OSULP) is in the process of implementing a series learning outcomes for our student employees. These learning outcomes are based on the core values articulated in the new OSULP strategic plan. This digital poster will outline the process, assessments, and roll out...
This paper explores the use and creative application of library metaphors. Unfortunately, the facts aren’t always able to speak for themselves. Simply stating reference statistics, gate counts, and resource circulation numbers are not persuasive narratives in and of themselves. Voice and context needs to be given to these forms of...
Presentation at the American Library Association Annual Conference, ACRL STS Research Forum, June 29, 2014, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Libraries are currently challenged to design dynamic learning spaces that are attractive to students and support them in various forms of learning. STEM students, in particular, need spaces that allow them to...
Presentation was for the 7th International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice conference held at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon July 15-18th, 2013.
Poster given at 2012 Library Assessment Conference - Charlottesville, Virginia. Poster earned Judge's Choice award in Organizational Performance poster category
Digital and information literacies instruction is truly a daunting and multi-faceted undertaking. Many librarians have begun to scale back what can effectively be accomplished in a one-shot bibliographic session due to time constraints. Instead, some instructors have started to focus more deeply on teaching toward just a few information literacy...
While libraries are using increasingly sophisticated metrics to determine electronic resources’ usefulness, impact and cost effectiveness, much of this data reflects past usage. More nuanced information is still needed to guide collection managers’ decisions about which content to purchase, borrow or deselect. To fill this gap, librarians at OSU Libraries...
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RichardA. Stoddart, richard.stoddart@oregonstate.edu, Assessment Librarian, Oregon State
University
While libraries are using increasingly sophisticated metrics to determine electronic resources’ usefulness, impact and cost effectiveness, much of this data reflects past usage. More nuanced information is still needed to guide collection managers’ decisions about which content to purchase, borrow or deselect. To fill this gap, librarians at OSU Libraries...
