Library Faculty/Staff Scholarship and Research

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    Research Support Services in STEM Libraries: A Scoping Review
    (University of Alberta Libraries, 2021-05-07) Tchangalova, Nedelina; Coalter, Jodi; Trost, Amy; Pierdinock, Amber
    As science and technology libraries continue to evolve, specialized research support services are developed and offered at academic institutions or research organizations. Making sense of this changing landscape and determining the best programs for an institution can be a daunting task, especially for early-career librarians. This article aims to provide an overview of various small to medium size non-traditional or specialized research support services in academic and special libraries serving Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. A systematic search of five databases was conducted for articles that described the development and implementation of research support services. Non-traditional or specialized research support services identified in this scoping review fall in the following areas: bibliometrics/altmetrics, data management services, geographic information systems, patents, and systematic reviews. The paper provides a detailed foundation for novice and experienced STEM librarians to offer innovative library services or enhance existing research support services.
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    A Bibliometric Exploration of LIS Scholarship
    (2019-06-17) Trost, Amy
    Librarians who practice bibliometrics are often asked to compare the research output of an academic department or research group to a larger body of scholarship. Here I explore techniques to address these requests with a case study examining the field of Library and Information Science (LIS). Scholarship around academic libraries is evaluated in two ways: broadly, and as produced by librarians within the University System of Maryland (USM). This analysis relies on bibliographic data from EBSCO's Library and Information Science Source (LISS) database for the time period of 2008-2019. 16,248 records related to the exploded “academic libraries” subject heading were retrieved via bulk export. The analysis below explores the controlled vocabulary associated with these articles and endeavors to answer three questions: 1. Can the co-occurrence of thesaurus terms be used to map the research landscape around academic librarianship? 2. Are there trends in keyword usage over time? 3. How is the research focus of 140 published librarians in the University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions (USMAI) consortium different from the focus of the broader collection?
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    The Role of Practitioners in LIS Scholarship: A Case Study from the University of Maryland
    (2018-08-20) Trost, Amy
    Librarians who practice bibliometrics are often asked to document the contribution of an academic department or research group to a larger body of scholarship. Here I explore techniques to address these requests with a case study examining Library and Information Science (LIS) scholarship at the University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries. This analysis relied on bibliographic data from three sources: - Work produced by librarians at the University of Maryland since 2008 collected from Google Scholar. - 8,924 records related to the “academic libraries” subject heading in EBSCO's Library and Information Science Source (LISS) database; and - The 5,000 most commonly used records in the “Information Science Library Science” research area in the Web of Science (WoS) core collection. Technologies used to access, analyze and visualize the records included the tm and bibliometrix packages in R, VOSViewer, and Gephi. This study found that practitioner scholarship at the University of Maryland overlaps with much of the work in the larger field of LIS. A few topics in the broader collection LIS documents—reference services, access, and social media, for example—were not found in the UMD title analysis. Without a more careful documentation of the scope of each data source, however, it is difficult to draw any firm conclusions.