Toward core competencies for entrepreneurship librarians

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship on 26 Mar 2018, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/08963568.2018.1448675This article shares results of a survey of North American academic librarians supporting campus entrepreneurship to identify the job responsibilities and tasks, skills and experience they employ, and the impact of campus context on engagement with this community. A contextual approach draws on a variety of sources to identify competencies which were adapted and then ranked. Research services and outreach; market and industry research; innovation and problem solving are identified as key competencies. While the frameworks that guide business and liaison librarianship provide a starting point, the combination and application of these established skills sets the entrepreneurship librarian apart

“Pure Delight and Professional Development”: The Reading Practices and Library Use of an Active Poetry Community

Abstract:This paper reports the findings of an online survey designed to explore the reading practices, library habits, and book acquisition of adult members of an active poetry community (n = 32) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Findings show the close relationship between poetry reading and poetry writing and the tight interweaving of poetry throughout the working and personal lives of respondents. Reading and finding out about poetry are also highly social in nature with a clear reliance on the poetry community rather than the public library. Our findings have implications for the roles of reading institutions such as bookstores, libraries, and publishers, as well as for collection development and readers’ advisory services to specialized reading communities

Startups in the library: supporting campus entrepreneurs

While academic librarians have supported campus startups and entrepreneurs since before the dotcom boom, the title Entrepreneurship Librarian is a relatively new one. When I started in that role at University of Toronto Library’s (UTL) St. George Campus, I was given a lot of freedom to define the role as I saw fit. I started by reaching out to the growing network of campus-linked accelerators formalized under the campus entrepreneurship office.</p

The 99 AI Challenge: Empowering a University Community through an Open Learning Pilot - Appendix: Application Form and Questionnaires

This is the appendix to a chapter titled "The 99 AI Challenge: Empowering a University Community through an Open Learning Pilot" forthcoming in an ACRL monograph, The Rise of AI: Implications and Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Academic Libraries. The appendix contains an application form and two survey instruments as referred to in the chapter