Library Faculty/Staff Scholarship and Research

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    You choose, we deliver: Providing educational opportunities to researchers in STEM
    (2019-10-05) Tchangalova, Nedelina; Harrington, Eileen; Over, Sarah; Ritchie, Stephanie
    OBJECTIVE/BACKGROUND: Subject librarians at the University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries have experienced an increased demand for research support not only in the health and medical sciences but also from education, engineering, agriculture, library science, humanities, and social sciences. With the goal to provide sustainable support to graduate students and faculty who are writing scientific texts, we developed a suite of systematic review services. METHODS: To introduce researchers to the process of compiling the best evidence on a particular topic, we developed online materials with resources supporting the systematic review cycle. To justify the librarian's time and efforts, we provided a description of the three-tiered free service. In addition, we designed a face-to-face workshop series based on participants’ feedback. The pilot program was launched in three phases during the academic year of 2018-2019 under the UMD Libraries’ Research Commons Unit. RESULTS: A total of 18 workshops in two locations were offered, including a webinar to a group of 10 international researchers. The workshops were attended by 124 including undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and librarians with 62% attendance from the registrants’ pool of 200. New relationships with faculty were established resulting in three co-authored peer-reviewed publications, four joint projects underway, and one co-authored grant proposal. We received eight requests for consultation following or instead of in-person workshops. Another 12 research teams requested research assistance or workshops recordings. CONCLUSIONS: The Systematic Review workshop series at UMD Libraries has been successful during the pilot phase. Benefits for librarians include increased expertise in conducting systematic reviews, familiarity with tools and techniques involved with it, creating new relationships with faculty and students, and co-authoring publications and grants. Designing online materials exposed this service to an international audience.
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    Researchers ask, librarians deliver: Meeting the needs of scholars through a suite of systematic review services for every subject discipline
    (2019-04-26) Tchangalova, Nedelina; Harrington, Eileen; Over, Sarah; Ritchie, Stephanie
    Scholarly communities are producing more articles every year due to the implementation of speedy review processes and innovative technologies for research dissemination. To quickly inform best practices and policies, systematic reviews started flourishing beyond the health and medical sciences. Researchers from other subject disciplines including education, engineering, agricultural, library, humanities and social sciences, explore ways to compile, analyze and evaluate in a systematic way the best evidence to inform future practices. To address this growing need, University of Maryland Libraries launched a pilot program in two phases under the Research Commons Unit to introduce researchers to the process of conducting systematic and scoping reviews. The primary focus of this presentation will include the development of workshop series designed based on the registrants’ feedback. Future plans for assessment and evaluation will be shared as well.
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    It’s Fun to Partner: Expanding Library Collaborations
    (ALA, 2017) Munster, Irene; Harrington, Eileen; Negro, Toni
    As funding continues to diminish in libraries, partnerships become even more important as a way to survive. Academic libraries often collaborate cross-departmentally within the university to enhance their impact on users. Expanding these collaborations to outside institutions makes libraries efficient, effective and responsive to changing needs of users. They extend the scope of resources and real-life experiences to participants, as well as increase awareness of library services. This paper will describe collaborations the Priddy Library engaged in not only within academia, but also innovative programs with national and local government agencies, while highlighting the pitfalls and promises of these partnerships.
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    Digitization Initiatives Committee Charter
    (2013-08) Pike, Robin C.; Archer, Joanne; Foss, Heather; Harrington, Eileen; Montori, Carla
    This is the charter of the Digitization Initiatives Committee (DIC) of the University of Maryland Libraries. The committee was established “to collect and document proposed outsourced digitization projects across the UMD Libraries, match these projects with available or proposed fiscal resources, and prioritize the projects...based on available fiscal resources, Libraries strategic initiatives, division priorities, and available staff resources for the specific projects.”