Library Research & Innovative Practice Forum
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The Library Research & Innovative Practice Forum is an annual event in June featuring lightning talks, presentations, and poster sessions by UMD Libraries’ librarians and staff.
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Item Creating a culture of research and innovative practice: 5 years of the UMD Libraries Research and Innovative Practice Forum(2019-06-11) Hanson, HeidiThe Library Research and Innovative Practice Forum launched in 2015, making the Forum in 2019 the 5th annual Forum. This poster reflects on the origin of the LRIPF and how it has developed through the years, including: • Who made the LRIPF happen – partnerships of committees, etc. • Format of the program over the years 2015-2019 • Number and nature of presentations, presenters • Assessing the impact of the LRIPF on the culture of scholarship and innovation in the Libraries This poster also serves as a kickoff of sorts for a future research project on the impact of the LRIPF in the University of Maryland Libraries.Item Assessing effectiveness of communication and collaboration platforms at USMAI partner campuses(2017-06-08) Dahl, David; Hanson, Heidi; Koivisto, JosephThe USMAI library consortium — originally formed to capitalize on cooperative resource sharing — provides partner institutions with a knowledge-sharing network and a pool of talented, insightful collaborators. By combining a range of perspectives, practices, and localized expertise, consortial partners have become better equipped to address the individual needs of their campus community while also gaining increased library domain knowledge through collaborative engagement and collegial correspondence. While acknowledging this noble mission, the authors of this proposal posed a question to the USMAI consortium: do the communication and collaboration platforms used among consortial partners help enhance this aim, or do they rather serve as a stumbling block to an otherwise motivated community of peers? During the summer and fall of 2016, the project team conducted a series of surveys, meetings, and focus groups to determine the effectiveness of the variety of tools available to the consortium for communication and collaboration purposes, such as the USMAI web sites, web conferencing platforms (e.g., GoToMeeting), and the USMAICollaborates Google site. In this presentation, the project team will describe the motivating factors for this assessment, an overview of the planning and execution of our data collection activities, and a report of our findings on the user assessment of tool effectiveness and usability. The authors will also lay out a series of recommendations for enhanced platform development that have been submitted to the USMAI executive leadership and the Council of Library Directors.Item WorldCat Usability at UMD: Library Research & Innovative Practice Forum, June 8, 2016(2016-06-08) Goldfinger, Rebecca; Quintilian, Steven; Singh, Madhu; Hanson, Heidi; Carroll, Alexander; Mears, JaimeThis presentation provided the results of a two-round iterative study of WorldCat UMD usability.