“This is an Opportunity for Librarians to Reinvent Themselves, but it is about Moving Out of their Areas”: New Roles for Library Leaders?

Gwyer, Roisin

doi:10.1080/13614533.2018.1473258

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“…Collaborative relationships can also occur at the level of individual professionals within the library and beyond (Pinfield et al, 2017). However, collaboration can also contribute to the erosion of the library's identity (Gwyer, 2018). Cannon (2017) suggests: "Whilst the opportunities for collaboration may allow the strengthening of the epistemological boundaries of LIS, they are also a source of weakness when redefining new epistemological boundaries ' (p. 145).…”

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“…Gibbons (2001) argues that in a competitive marketplace if the services provided by an organisation are not relevant and vital, then this organisation faces a serious risk of being supplanted. According to Gwyer (2018), in some cases, collaboration translates into competition over jurisdiction of an area of work. Most specifically, in RDM, competition occurs in the field of professional authority and identity, as might, for example, be evident in competition over the branding and web page hosting of RDM supported services .…”

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Research Data Management (RDM) and the Evolving Identity of Academic Libraries and Librarians: A Literature Review

Andrikopoulou

Rowley

Walton

2021

New Review of Academic Librarianship

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Academic libraries and their staff are increasingly involved in the Research Data Management (RDM) practices and processes in their universities. This article explores the impact that such initiatives have on the image and identity of academic libraries. This paper proposes that involvement in and leadership of RDM university practices has the potential to re-shape the library's role, image, and identity within the university, and going forward, to contribute to the library's continuing relevance to research communities. It also points to the need to develop librarians' skills and competencies in RDM, and reflects on the dynamics associated with collaboration and competition in RDM. The article concludes with an agenda for future research.

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Section: Collaboration and Competition Through Rdmmentioning

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Research Data Management (RDM) and the Evolving Identity of Academic Libraries and Librarians: A Literature Review

Andrikopoulou

Rowley

Walton

2021

New Review of Academic Librarianship

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“…Studies focused on the traditional models of library impact have covered topics such as rates of circulation or staffing and may have included assessments with surveys, space studies or usability testing. Researchers have used library usage and library expenditures to examine their impact on student retention and success (Anderson, 2011; Mezick, 2007; Wong and Cmor, 2011; Wong and Webb, 2011; Gwyer, 2018; Walters, 2003; Matthews, 2012). Circulation of library materials when controlled for student enrollment has been declining over the decades (Anderson, 2011).…”

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“…Focus group interviews, surveys and facility studies provide a deeper understanding of “user needs, expectations, and satisfaction, but they are anecdotal, qualitative measures, and hence imprecise for scientific measurement” (Wong and Webb, 2011, p. 362). When students were surveyed by a Task and Finish Group of the Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL) in the United Kingdom and Ireland, they self-reported that the library had a positive impact on their satisfaction and experience (Gwyer, 2018). However, student perceptions may not be a reliable measure of learning outcomes (Walters, 2003).…”

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Impact of academic libraries on grade point average (GPA): a review

Sterner

2020

PMM

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the literature to determine how academic librarians are measuring their libraries' institutional level impact on student success as measured by grade point average, a metric commonly used in American education. This paper highlights a range of methods, outcomes and challenges in an initial scoping study.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology centered on a literature review of measuring the impact of academic libraries on student success as quantified by grade point average (GPA) from 2010 to present. Searches in ProQuest, EBSCO and Google Scholar were used to identify the relevant literature. Keywords searched in databases included various combinations of academic impact, student success, learning outcomes, library and higher education.FindingsThe analysis of 15 papers shows that academic librarians have demonstrated a small, nonnegligible positive correlation of library usage on GPA. The results of studies have highlighted that correlation does not prove the cause. Concerns and limitations of studies included using the GPA as a measurement of student success, differences between GPAs in subject areas, timeframes used, sample size collected, student privacy and the meanings of the results.Research limitations/implicationsThis study is limited to articles published in English measuring student success as quantified by GPA and focuses heavily on American sources.Originality/valueThe research can guide librarians through known challenges and highlight successful designs and study methods used by other academic librarians to measure the impact of the library on student success.

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Libraries, learning, and porous boundaries: Reimagining the library landscape and its inhabitants

Buck

Nunn

2021

Libraries, Digital Information, and COVID

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“This is an Opportunity for Librarians to Reinvent Themselves, but it is about Moving Out of their Areas”: New Roles for Library Leaders?

Cited by 7 publications

References 13 publications

Research Data Management (RDM) and the Evolving Identity of Academic Libraries and Librarians: A Literature Review

Research Data Management (RDM) and the Evolving Identity of Academic Libraries and Librarians: A Literature Review

Impact of academic libraries on grade point average (GPA): a review

Libraries, learning, and porous boundaries: Reimagining the library landscape and its inhabitants

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