Transcript Workshop

Marilyn S. Billings
Presented by Lenka Němečková
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Communication
◦ Learning (what do we mean by) scholarly
communication?
◦ Benefits of IR, authors rights, Creative commons
◦ Educate ourselves
◦ Teach others – what does OA mean, why they put
their dissertations in
 Faculty
 Librarians
 Students
Workshop CASLIN 2009, 9.6.2009
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Planning
◦ What might we do for planning as an IT person?
◦ Other planning
 Staff
 Money – where? – to start + to keep going
(budget)
 Content!!! – easy first (dissertations)
 Vision and goal
 Users – specific target groups
 Constraints
 SWOT analysis to come up with constraints
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Early adopters – people willing to work with us first
◦ Survey after having learned about scholarly communication
– faculty survey
 What kind of content they have
 Would they be interested in having IR and what content
they would put in?
 How important each f the piece of work is
◦ From survey - about 1000 faculty members,
 Interested faculty
 Their content
 Their priority
 Different content for different group of faculty – many
examples
◦ = much better success in having people participate
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Talking points about the Digital Repository
service
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What
Why
How
Benefits
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Staffing – thinking about the staff
◦ IT staff
◦ Librarians – nervous about learning new things
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Content – the most important
◦ What - The type of content
◦ How to get it in
 Secretaries
 Graduate assistance / library
 IT
◦ Quality
 faculty peer review of journals / dissertations
 librarians
◦ Metadata
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Who will do metadata part – catalogers at a
library – new role
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Publicity / Marketing
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Outreach
News office
Brochures (handout) targeted to faculty
Seminars
Bulletins / library journals
Website
Name of the repository
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New roles for librarians – all over the diagram
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Start learning piece by piece - some
examples:
Authors rights and creative commons
◦ talk to the faculty while doing research
◦ Creative commons are coming closer with Science
commons
◦ Putting older research up to the repository
Workshop CASLIN 2009, 9.6.2009
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Define what we are
◦ Conduct environmental scan
◦ What the university needs + expects
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Learn about software solution
Learn about scholarly communication
◦ Information literacy
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Other similar universities
Survey of faculty
◦ Educate through survey
◦ Find out the content
◦ Early adopters (People who want to play with us)
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Decide IR software + staffing
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Create marketing tools
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Start to work
◦ Name
◦ „Talking points“
◦ Open access
◦ Brochures, etc…
◦ Early adopters, seminars
◦ Structure of IR
 University faculties
 Departments (communities)
 Research papers
 Dissertations
◦ Create RSS feed
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Publicize + use
◦ Website
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Education
◦ Outreach to
 Future faculty
 Future students
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Open education resources for teaching and
learning
◦ Free textbooks
◦ Learning materials
◦ Link through e-learning / course management SW
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Journals
◦ OA journals?
Workshop CASLIN 2009, 9.6.2009
Lenka Němečková