LOEX 2012 Conference Report: Columbus, OH

Summary of plenary and breakout sessions of the 40th annual LOEX conference in Columbus, Ohio on May 3-5, 2012

INVESTIGATING WORK ENGAGEMENT AND AFFECTIVE COMMITMENT THROUGH A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL WORK UNDERLOAD SCALE, MEDIATED BY WORK-RELATED BOREDOM

Previous research on workload has primarily approached work underload as unidimensional focusing on either repetitive monotonous tasks or the employee’s perception of their current workload. Researchers have focused on work related outcomes, such as job engagement and organizational commitment, as consequences of those perceptions. Recently, work related boredom has been measured alongside work underload as precursors to aforementioned outcomes. In the current study we investigated if a recently developed, more complex, multidimensional scale of work underload, including desire for more work and expectation of more work, would better explain the relationship between perceived work underload, and work-related boredom, job engagement, and affective organizational commitment. For the present study, 169 participants were recruited from the MTurk and through snowball sampling and included 49% full time working women and 50% full time working men. The average age of the participants was 34. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses were conducted to test for significant changes when a desires and an expectations dimension are added to a model with perceived work underload. We found that adding both a desires and an expectation dimension did not further explain the relationship between work underload and job engagement or organizational commitment, however it did better explain the relationship between work underload and work related boredom. Furthermore, in this study we examined the mediating effect of work-related boredom between the multidimensional work underload scale and job engagement and affective organizational commitment. Results indicate that work related boredom mediated the relationship between work underload and the aforementioned outcomes. Implications from this study suggest whether researchers should consider the effects of desires and expectations when investigating perceptions of workload. In practice, these results could emphasize the importance employee’s expectations and desires play in how they perceive their job, and how to avoid work related boredom

Library as Publisher of Graduate Student Data

As a winner of a 2014 Library as Publisher grant, Jessica Clemons, Moon Library, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, will speak about her project “Library as Publisher of Graduate Student Data”. She will share her inspiration, challenges, goals and outcomes, and well as recommendations for others

SUNY-Wide Open Access Initiatives

In this session, Jessica Clemons, Interim Director of College Libraries at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry talks about some of the open access initiatives taking place in the SUNY Council of Library Directors

Institutional Repositories: Inquiry and Success

This poster was presented at the SUNY Council of Library Directors spring 2016 meetin

Embedded Librarianship: Invaluable Campus Contributions

Academic librarians are increasingly playing a role in the teaching and research process for students and faculty. Learn how librarians are active in the classroom and becoming partners in research

F. Franklin Moon Library Annual Report for 2015-2016

The Annual Report serves to record the efforts and accomplishments of F. Franklin Moon Library over the past year. It serves to assess your unit’s progress in meeting Faculty and College goals. It also serves to assess the contributions of unit personnel

The Repository as Publisher: Opportunities and Challenges in a Dual Role

In tandem with increasing support for open access worldwide, academic libraries of all sizes have expanded their support of public dissemination of research beyond their walls. Through the establishment of institutional repositories, libraries are openly sharing articles, presentations, dissertations, media, and data files published elsewhere. In a related — but in some ways strikingly different — role, libraries are acting as publishers of new content through journals, monographs, and new media. Presenters will discuss questions and opportunities emerging from this dual role many libraries now fill, and describe strategies employed at their institutions to meet these challenges

Supporting Research with a Research Repository: The View from the Dean\u27s Office

Adelphi University in New York has identified scholarship as a strategic focus for both teaching and research across its diverse campuses. The Libraries are strategically placing themselves at the heart of this focus and went through a rigorous process to determine which solution will help them be most impactful. The Libraries developed relationships campus-wide with the provost office, IT, faculty senate, and grants office to arrive at its decision to move forward with a higher-ed platform rather than a traditional LIS replacement. By thinking broadly and holistically while partnering with varied stakeholders, Associate Dean of Libraries and Deputy University Librarian, Ken Herold, will describe his institution\u27s decision processes and how campus systems integration factored into Esploro in particular. Esploro is a research information management system with a research repository at the core. Esploro leverages the strengths of the library and delivers a strong repository core with automated profiles, metrics, analytics, and beyond to support the research enterprise

LOEX 2012 Conference Report: Columbus, OH

Summary of plenary and breakout sessions of the 40th annual LOEX conference in Columbus, Ohio on May 3-5, 2012