Library Faculty/Staff Scholarship and Research

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    Mentoring When Librarians Have Faculty Status
    (IGI Publications, 2010) Novara, Vincent J.; Williams, M. Jane; Brown, Phillipa
    Numerous academic libraries participate in their campuses' systems for faculty status for librarians, in separate tracks or identical tracks as those for teaching faculty. In either case, a practice is to encourage or require mentoring for librarians without tenure or permanent status. This chapter will cover the special challenges and benefits of mentoring and faculty status, the need for mentoring, and processes for best practices to make mentoring meaningful for all involved. The chapter will draw on the authors’ experiences, an environmental scan, a survey of selected institutional practice where librarians have faculty status, and published research and related literature. It will also feature mentoring programs developed by various institutions, including the University of Maryland Libraries.
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    Participatory Design in Redesigning an Academic Library: Asking Students about Their Favorite Study Spaces
    (2012-10-29) Barnachea, Lutgarda; Grijalva, Stacey; Williams, M. Jane; Wray, Tanner; Ippoliti, Cinthya; Luckert, Yelena; Tchangalova, Nedelina
    In 2011 a library-led project team gathered user-based information for a total redesign of McKeldin Library, the central library serving the University of Maryland, College Park. In addition, graduate classes in anthropology and architecture provided other elements of user input. All of the above were provided to an Architecture Studio course to create actual designs for a reprogrammed library. This poster focues on data from one of the three sets of library-led activities. In on-the-spot interviews in four outdoor spaces on campus, 33 undergraudate students were asked open-ended questions about where they do their academic work (projects, research papers, studying for exams) and why. This poster presents the results of those interviews.
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    Participatory Design in Redesigning an Academic Library: Capturing Users’ Work through Structured Observations
    (2012-10-29) Tchangalova, Nedelina; Barnachea, Lutgarda; Williams, M. Jane
    This poster session focuses on one of the three sets of participatory design activities undertaken in the fall 2011 by a library-led project team to build an informational basis for a total redesign of McKeldin Library, the central library serving the University of Maryland, College Park. Graduate classes in anthropology and architecture also provided part of the information basis, all of which are now with an Architecture Studio to provide actual designs for a reprogrammed library. This poster session will present the data, findings and findings’ significance for the structured observation activity, to get a picture of how McKeldin Library is being used now.