Oct
16
2009
Supporting Scholarship
Posted by cindi in Announcements, tags: faculty, scholarship, staff, tlc
Word Cloud: Libraries and Scholarship
Faculty and staff are invited to join the EKU Libraries Leadership Team in the Teaching and Learning Center in the Keen Johnson building on Monday, October 19, at 11:15 a.m. to discuss ways the University Library supports scholarship, teaching, and professional interests.
Topics include:
- A future digital repository to support student and faculty publications, including journals written and published at EKU
- The process for recommending new resources for purchases
- New collections, tools and technologies from the libraries
- Google Books, Google Scholar and Google Documents
- Navigating copyright clearance
- Library instruction
- The Noel Studio for Academic Creativity
- Library website highlights
Lunch will be served. We hope to see you there!
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I wanted to come to this presentation (how the University Library supports scholarship) but it conflicted with my class schedule. Do you have any handouts or anything I can read over to get information about this.
Joy Renfro
Dr. Renfro, thank you for giving me an opportunity to share some of the TLC session highlights with you and others. The Library is committed to supporting scholarship and teaching in several ways. The most obvious way is by providing strong collections. The library’s budget has been negatively impacted by the state of our economy; however, it forces us to be brutal in our evaluation of subscriptions. We review usage for every resource that requires an ongoing commitment or subscription fee, and cancel those resources where the use doesn’t justify the expense. For instance, we canceled ARTStor last year and we recently canceled VAULT. By thoughtfully making decisions to cut resources, we are able to consider new resources. To view our newest online subscriptions, visit http://www.library.eku.edu/new/databases/list_type_search.php?restype=New%20Databases
I am working with Dean Pogatshnik and Dr. Rezaie to raise awareness and recognize the scholarly and creative achievements of our campus community. Together, the Graduate School and the Library are leading the way for a new webcast with the help of EKU’s Media Production Center, entitled, Focus on Scholarship. The first interview will be in the next issue of EKUpdate and you can watch it now at mms://media.eku.edu/mdr/media/library/fos1009.wmv.
The University Archives actively pursues the purchase and preservation of faculty book publications. They also collect, preserve and make accessible unique regional collections that present interesting opportunities for scholarship by Eastern’s faculty and staff.
Finally, the library is planning a digital repository for scholarship, an online environment that will allow individual faculty and online programs a secure place to house, preserve and organize documents that have long term value for the institution and beyond. The digital repository will be the archive for EKU’s master’s thesis and dissertations. Currently, our student theses are not available online.
These are just a few highlights from Monday’s presentation. Please email me if you want to talk specifically about an issue.
Carrie,
I’d be very interested in how the Noel Studio will tie into the Library’s scholarship efforts.
Will there be any special ways that the patrons in the Noel Studio will find research in there more convenient, for example?
I regret I can’t be there Monday since the time conflicts with a class.
Best wishes,
Dr. Marshall Myers
Coordinator of Composition
Department of English
Carrie,
Thanks for providing us with a good introduction to new services at the Library! I’m working hard to keep pace with Information Technology.
–Margaret Dean
Hi Marshall,
The most obvious place that Noel Studio will provide scholarship support will be helping students research and write their papers, particularly Honors and Master’s theses. The library already helps with research, but having research and writing help in the same space will make the two processes more seamless and convenient.
The Noel Studio will also have many spaces for practicing and recording presentations that faculty and students can use before delivering a talk to a broader audience.
The collaborative spaces in the Noel Studio will facilitate group work, and we see the new curriculum being planned for the Studio’s student consultants as an opportunity for published student scholarship.
Thanks for your questions and comments, everyone!
–Cindi Trainor
Coordinator, Library Technology & Data Services
Liaison to English, Geography & Geology