Faculty Learning Communities are a positive way for libraries to engage academic staff in scholarly communication.

The stakes and politics of research and scholarship are different depending on discipline, department, and institution, and as such, increasing awareness of scholarly communication is fraught with difficulty. Librarians Jennifer Bazeley and Jen Waller share their experience developing a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) in order to address the issues. Cultivating awareness of the entire scholarly communication landscape created stronger faculty advocates for change, but key differences emerged between longer established and newer faculty members

E-Books in Ohio: What's a Librarian To Do?

Presentation about managing PDA e-books given at the ALAO CMIG Workshop on March 22, 2013

Transfer Code of Practice

Update on the Transfer Code of Practice, which is now under the umbrella of NISO

Using LibGuides in Technical Services

Technical services departments in academic libraries have struggled to communicate effectively with other library departments, particularly public services departments. As academic libraries acquire large numbers of digital resources, technical services departments are increasingly responsible for providing current information about those resources to public services staff. In this webinar, the presenter will discuss the process of creating, testing, and implementing a LibGuide as a way of communicating much-needed information between technical services and public services staff at Miami University Libraries

E-Resources, E-Reality

Presentation given at E-Resources & Libraries (ER&L) on March 18th, 2013. Managing e-resources with free and proprietary tools

Transfer Code of Practice

Lightning talk on Project Transfer given at ER&L 2015

Transfer 2.0 and Beyond! An Update

Presentation given at the Charleston Conference on November 3, 2011. Information about Project Transfer (v. 2.0) for librarians and publishers

Technical Services Transparency: Using a LibGuide to Expose the Mysteries of Technical Services

Technical services departments in academic libraries have long struggled to communicate effectively with other library departments, particularly public services departments. As academic libraries acquire large numbers of digital resources, technical services departments are increasingly responsible for providing current information about those resources to public services staff. The authors of this paper describe the process of creating, testing, and implementing LibGuides (proprietary software for building library portals and facilitating information sharing in libraries) as a new way of communicating much-needed information between technical services and public services staff at Miami University Libraries

Taming the Communication Beast: Using LibGuides for Intra-Library Communication

Presentation given at the Library Technology Conference on March 16, 2011. Using LibGuides for communication between technical services and other library departments

Transfer Turns Ten: The Future of the Code

Libraries, publishers, and intermediary vendors strive to disseminate the most current information to their patrons and clients through the metadata in their catalogs, services, and software. One significant pinch point in this landscape is the transfer of journals from one publisher to another. The Transfer Code of Practice was created to provide these stakeholders with guidelines to ensure that the transfer process occurs with minimal disruption and that journal content remains accessible to subscribers. The importance of these guidelines has grown since the creation of the Transfer Code in 2008, as the number of online titles, publishers, and intermediaries has grown exponentially. To accommodate this growth, Transfer made two significant changes in 2018. The previous Code of Practice was in its third iteration, which was adopted in 2015; in 2018, the Transfer Committee began revisions for version four. These revisions accommodated changes that occurred in the technology and terminology of the journal publishing market. In conjunction with the revision of the code, the Transfer Alerting Service (TAS) migrated to the ISSN International Centre (France). This new platform replaced the Enhanced Transfer Alerting Service, which was hosted by the University of Manchester (UK). The session presented attendees with an overview of the code, with a specific focus on new and updated content. Presenters also provided a demonstration of the new platform, showcased the new and improved features of the service, and explained the processes that publishers and librarians use to share and access Transfer information