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Item Assessing scholarly communication programs(2021-07) Chan, Emily; Yaukey, Suzanna; Dickman, Daina; Lawson, Nicole; Towson University. Albert S. Cook Library. Administration; CSU Digital Repositories MeetingIn August 2019 California State University, Sacramento and San Jose State University were awarded an IMLS National Forum Grant to identify standards and best practices in evaluating scholarly communication programs at M1 Carnegie-classified public universities.Item Bit by Byte: Building Best Practices in Data Literacy(2022-05-05) Price, Carrie; Garczynski, Joyce; Yaukey, SuzannaData-related jobs are among some of the fastest growing in the United States. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, demand for data scientists is likely to grow by more than 30% by 2030 (Kness, 2022). Even if students don’t choose a data science career, data skills are becoming more and more in demand across several professions, from marketing to the health sciences. Increasingly, "digital technologies and data systems play central roles" in our lives and in society (Raffaghelli & Stewart, 2020, p.435). In order to jumpstart data skills at Towson University, LIS professionals at the Albert S. Cook Library sought to incorporate and support data skills and proficiencies through several different approaches over time.Item I Just Want Tenure: Mapping Librarian Dissatisfaction with Library Science Scholarship(ACRL Conference, 2015-03) Browndorf, MargaretThis research is formulated on a single large significant assumption – that there exists among readers of LIS literature some degree of dissatisfaction associated with the quality of library literature. It was designed as an exploratory study to determine the shape of dissatisfaction in order to lay the groundwork for further work examining the scholarly conversation, discrepancy between the themes of dissatisfaction and evidence in the literature, and possible causes and solutions for the dissatisfaction. Four rough themes emerged, characterized by a series of subthemes. These are: perspective, depth and relevance; writing quality and presentation; methodology; and innovation and creativity. Additionally, some minor themes emerged, which attempted to explain major themes or represented conversations within the data. I have provided select examples in this poster. The poster was presented in March 2015 at the ACRL conference in Portland, Oregon.Item In-person to virtual in six weeks: moving a conference online due to COVID-19(2021-07) Chan, Emily; Yaukey, Suzanna; Dickman, Daina; Lawson, Nicole; Towson University. Albert S. Cook Library. Administration; Towson Conference for Academic LibrariesItem Measuring campus engagement for scholarly communication services: A mixed methods study of U.S. public teaching institutions(International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries, 2021-11) Chan, Emily; Yaukey, Suzanna; Dickman, Daina; Lawson, Nicole; Towson University. Albert S. Cook Library. AdministrationOver the past several decades, new technologies and paradigms have impacted the creation and sharing of work; scholars across all fields have seen changes in research output, publication, and preservation of the scholarly record, as well as emergent publishing models and an emphasis on the measurement of impact. Libraries have broadly defined their efforts to support the research and dissemination lifecycle as “scholarly communication” services. Despite investing significant resources -- personnel, technological investments, and budget -- to develop scholarly communication programs, evaluation of the outcomes and impact of these activities has largely consisted of quantitative measures, like consultation counts, workshop attendance, or repository growth and usage statistics. A more comprehensive or holistic approach to scholarly communication assessment has remained elusive.Item Twitter and Higher Education: A Bibliometric AnalysisPrice, Carrie; Towson University. Albert S. Cook Library. Research and InstructionSince the inception of Twitter in 2006, the platform has grown tremendously, with over 199 million daily active users worldwide as of May 2021 (Tankovska, 2021). The use of Twitter in academia is of particular interest to me since I have used the platform to live tweet clinical conferences, to share my professional work, and to connect with large networks of clinicians, medical librarians, and methodologists. These connections have often led to lasting relationships and professional collaborations.