Finding your way in academic librarianship: Introducing the Scholarly Communication Notebook

Scholarly communication, often called “scholcomm,” is one of the fastest growing and most rapidly changing fields in librarianship. Scholcomm jobs are increasingly prevalent at all types of institutions, and there is increasing recognition that, in a sense, every academic librarian’s work serves and is driven by changes in scholarly communication. Unfortunately, while scholcomm is something we all need to understand, it’s not taught in many LIS programs. Only a handful of programs offer dedicated courses, and only 12% of respondents from a recent survey indicated that scholarly communication was addressed in other courses. As three people working across diverse roles in the field, we’re excited to share a resource that we hope can help academic librarians understand this work, skill up in areas that are relevant to their own practice, and share their own projects with others in the field: the Scholarly Communication Notebook (SCN)

Community-Led Teaching and Learning: Designing an Open Educational Resource for Scholarly Communication and Legal Issues

The open educational resources (OER) movement is growing at a rapid pace - not as rapidly as prices for textbooks have risen over the course of the last decades, and not rapidly enough to yet meet the exigent needs of students, many of whom take educational risks to alleviate costs by forgoing required materials. In order to support those students, libraries and librarians have become staunch advocates for open education and open textbooks. Yet, our community often still relies upon commercial textbooks for our own professionalization. With the rise of library publishing capabilities, interest in providing more open access to LIS literature, and publishers experimenting with open book publishing, it’s time for LIS professionals to take a more active role in defining and describing our fields for our future colleagues, and collectively maintaining that knowledge to keep up with rapid change. To that end, and to demonstrate proof of concept as well as begin to develop methods and learn some lessons, the authors propose the creation of an open textbook about scholarly communication librarianship which, among other things, will cover copyright and other relevant legal issues in libraries

Expanding Scholarly Communication Instruction for the Next Generation of LIS Leaders

This Works in Progress poster was presented at the 2018 ALISE Conference in Denver, CO on February 6, 2018. It provides a short introduction to our research on stakeholder perceptions of scholarly communication librarianship instruction in LIS programs. We describe the growth of scholarly communication librarianship as a field, the lack of instruction in LIS programs to support that growth, and the potential use of open educational resources in LIS programs. Links to surveys for LIS instructors are included.Anyone who keeps an eye on job openings in academic libraries will have noticed the growing demand for library support for scholarly communication, the communication that is at the very core of the scholarly purpose. Professional education for librarians is only starting to catch up with the interest in the field. While scholarly communication is increasingly recognized as a core competency for librarianship, educational resources for training and continuing education are currently lacking in this area. In this IMLS-funded research (LG-72-17-0132-17), we are designing and conducting a nationwide survey and workshop to engage with central stakeholder groups: library school instructors, scholarly communication experts and early career professionals with scholarly communication responsibilities. Through these activities, the researchers will come to understand what is required of an Open Educational Resource focused on scholarly communication, how such an OER might work, possible obstacles to its adoption, and partnerships and promotions that could help in its success. Our project is designed to inform and accelerate the attention devoted to scholarly communication in both LIS and continuing professional education.Institute for Museum and Library Service

Finding Our Way: A Snapshot of Scholarly Communication Practitioners' Duties & Training

INTRODUCTION: Scholarly communication has arisen as a core academic librarianship competency, but formal training on scholarly communication topics in LIS is rare, leaving many early career practitioners underprepared for their work. METHODS: Researchers surveyed practitioners of scholarly communication, as defined by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), regarding their attitudes toward and experiences with education in scholarly communication, job responsibilities, location within their academic libraries, and thoughts about emerging trends in scholarly communication librarianship. results Few scholarly communication practitioners felt well-prepared by their graduate training for the core set of primary and secondary scholarly communication responsibilities that have emerged. They deploy a range of strategies to fill the gap and would benefit from support in this area, from more robust education in graduate programs and through continued professional development. discussion The results of this survey support the assertion that as academic libraries and academic library work have increasingly recognized the importance of scholarly communication topics, library school curricula have not developed correspondingly. Respondents indicated a low level of formal pedagogy on scholarly communication topics and generally felt they were not well-prepared for scholarly communication work, coming at a significant opportunity cost. CONCLUSION: Scholarly communication practitioners should create and curate open teaching and learning content on scholarly communication topics for both continuing education as well as adoption within LIS curricula, and LIS programs should develop accordingly, either through “topics” courses or by integrating scholarly communication into and across curricula as it intersects with existing courses

OER+ScholComm Summer 2023

OER + ScholComm is an IMLS-funded collaboration to research the ideal components of and develop a corpus of open educational resources that supports formal and continuing education preparing librarians to work in and advocate for change in the scholarly communication landscape.This report provides background and present status on a collaboration that has resulted in an open textbook and a corpus of additional open teaching and learning materials scoped to scholarly communication topics. It concludes with next steps, calls to action, and our appreciation for everyone who supported us and partnered with us to do this work

Scholarly Publishing Office Goals September, 2006-August, 2007

Date of publication is approximate.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/79046/1/2007goals.pd

The Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan, University Library: Goals for FY 2005

Date of publication is approximate.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/79044/1/2005goals.pd

The Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan, University Library: Draft goals FY2004

Date of publication is approximate.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/79043/1/2004goals.pd