Key Activities and Accomplishments FY 17-18
- Created group charge and set goals and priorities for the year
- Created an inventory of existing scholarly communication-related services and activities across the Libraries and the university
- Coordinated with Learning and Research Services (LRS) Unit Heads to systematically incorporate scholarly communication work into liaison librarian activities.
Worked with LRS Unit Heads to encourage librarians to add a goal related to scholarly communication in their PDP
Created a self-assessment document related to scholarly communication skills for liaison librarians
Created a resources document aimed at helping liaison librarians learn more about different topics in scholarly communication
Created opportunities for liaison librarians to assist or lead scholarly communication events and activities in 2018-2018 4.
Planned activities for Fair Use Week --Organized tables in Paley to talk to students about fair use. Students took a fair use quiz and were entered to win a $20 gift card
- Commissioned a blog post about PA Digital for Scholarly Communication @ Temple, and engaged in social media outreach about Fair Use Week
- Planned activities for Open Education Week --Organized two workshops for faculty on “Using Open Textbooks in the Classroom” --Interviewed a Temple faculty member about their use of an open textbooks for the Scholarly Communication @ Temple blog, and engaged in social media outreach about Fair Use Week
- Planned the event, “Pod Save the Academy: The Ins and Outs of Sharing Your Research Via Podcasting” which featured a panel of four Temple faculty members. --Summarized the advice from the event in a blog post for Scholarly Communication @ Temple
- Began working with the Website Presence Redesign team to identify and describe scholarly communication-related services for the new website
- Began coordinating with the Research Data Services Strategic Steering Team on a policies and procedures document for the institutional repository
- Began researching and writing a report on the Libraries’ investments in open access, open education, open data, and open infrastructure