Scholarly Communication Services: From an Island, You Can Build Bridges

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dc.contributor.authorRodriguez, Julia E.
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-29T17:32:55Z
dc.date.available2023-09-29T17:32:55Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractIn 2012, my library reorganized to align with a new strategic plan. As a result, my position changed and I needed a new job title. My dean suggested scholarly communication librarian, to which I had a strong reaction. “What on earth does scholarly communication even mean?” After some discussion, we settled on faculty research support librarian, agreeing that it more clearly communicated my role to campus. I was tasked with developing services for assisting faculty throughout the research life cycle. I didn’t have a department or even a group of other librarians who also embraced this work. It was just me on my island, and it wasn’t a sunny tropical island but a medium-sized Midwest public university library with not enough librarians (thirteen) to serve the growing student population (now 20,000), let alone over 500 faculty. My acquired competencies for this position at this point included some basic expertise in copyright, I had recently served as open access track lead for a regional teaching conference where I also presented on institutional repositories, and I was the author of two peer-reviewed articles. I thought back to four years earlier when I was assigned to support the School of Nursing and the School of Health Sciences with no corresponding experience beyond having been a patient. To alleviate my sense of impostor syndrome, I completed every continuing education course I could find on evidence-based medicine, PubMed, and systematic reviews. Fortunately, many courses were free and my administration financed the cost when there was a fee. With my new title in hand, I set forth, sometimes deliberately and sometimes fortuitously, to develop my skills and knowledge. Reflecting on this eight-year journey, the following themes emerge.en_US
dc.identifier.citationRodriguez, J. (2023). Scholarly Communication Services: From an Island, You Can Build Bridges, in M. Boon, J. Bolick, W. Cross (Eds.) Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge (pp.391-394). Association of Colleges and Research Libraries.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10323/12151
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.departmentOU Librarieseng
dc.relation.journalScholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledgeen_US
dc.subjectScholarly Communication, libraryen_US
dc.titleScholarly Communication Services: From an Island, You Can Build Bridgesen_US
dc.typeBook chapteren_US

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