Where Have All the Librarians Gone? The Academic Library Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Left Job to reasons:

1. Opportnities for growth
2. New Challenging projecrs
3. Salary
4. Location
5. Working Environment

Library Subject Guide Widgets

Recasting the Role of Comprehensive University Libraries: Starting Points for
Educating Librarians on the Issues of Scholarly Communication and
Institutional Repositories

Selling pts.

Visibility
Branding
Students for future employers (hmm ,, need driving innov… anticipate)

Physics … big

1. mit
2. harvad
3. berkley
4. stanford
5. princeton

#25 Southamton (1st to mandate publ. in OA journals)

——- GVSU  —-

Schl. Comm. Wrkshps

4 sessions:

- readings before and into
- find journals or models in their field – how can lib help
- outreach – author rights
- relationships/stakeholders within Univ.

-> annual reception for published faculty

Publishing in Open Access Journals in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Who’s Doing it and Why?

Coonin – East Carolina
Younce  Auburn (after May 18)

free access for all
authors pays ( 26% psychology .. and science) – DOAJ lists pay vs free ($100 Soc. Sci. -$5000 in Science)
peer review is at the heart
electronic is not OA
Culture of discipline
comfort of tenure (tenured more accept.)

Can Library encourage Faculty publ. in Open Access .. cost benefit to Library (but author pays)

smells a bit like vanity publ. to some

edge vs fringe (accepting – lagging in Soc. Sci and Humanities)

excellent survey and charts .. see Virtual Conf.

Digital Libraries Need Digital Organizations:Identifying, Defining and Creating New Academic Library Management Structures

1966 – MARC
1968-73 – Online Cat
1971 – OCLC Union Cat – start collaboration in technology context
1987 – Online Journals
1991 – Web
1996 – Google
2001 – Wikipedia
2005 – YouTube

Playing on ”Practice Fields”: Creating a Research and Development Culture in Academic Libraries

Labs – Think Tanks – Testbeds – Sandboxes

Environ. Scan:

Strat. Plans
Org charts
Position announcements

Most is R&D is tech/open source/digitization

Labs w/ user community
Portal sand gateways at GMU for grads/fac
U Minn. “Dig lib Dev. Lab”
Zotero and Bamboo

Read: James Neal re: R&D Imperative
Katherine Dice  – Library Trends – 2004

See .. R&D Models

DevShed – Mobile- Mobile Devices

… See Virtual Conf.

Low and no cost options:

1. Meebo
2. Twitter – Library News page (also Content Mang. Syst.)
   
3. Optimized Mobile site (Small – 5pgs) – redirect by branding with “Mobile” Icon
   Optimized for for iPhone/iPodTouch – most traffic

PreConference –

Managing Change, Diversity, and a Multi-Generational Workforce: Developing Effective Problem Solving and Leadership Skills

Best workshop ever…

3 Tests:

1. MBTI – Im an “ESNP”
2. KAI
3. KGI

Twitter for Libraries: Best Practices and Advanced Uses of Micro-Blogs

.. see Virtual Conf.

Both Social & Mobile .. the 2 most important new Libr Tech

Context:

Mobile: Cell Phones (Smart Phones .. iPhones)
Social “SMS
Current awareness .. “blogs old fashioned” “not enough time to read”

KBART: Improving Access to Electronic Resources; plus, Finding the Hidden Side of Seattle – McCracken

Open URL improvement.. to solve Inaccurate Data  .. in NISO working group now