Spinning a Scholarly Story: Using Faculty Interviews to Develop a Scholarly Communications Agenda for Liaison Librarians

 

Session Description:
How do liaison librarians develop services that meet faculty needs related to scholarly communications issues when a library is unable to provide full-time, dedicated staff to such efforts? This paper describes one university’s attempts to develop a scholarly communications agenda for its liaison librarian program. Liaison librarians conducted semi-structured interviews with faculty in their respective departments about topics related to their experiences with and perceptions regarding publishing, metrics, copyright, open access, grants, data sharing requirements, and open educational resources. Information from the interviews was used to create a strategy for developing and marketing scholarly communications services.

 

Posted in 2019 Contributed Paper.