Category Archives: library

An assessment of the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL)

When our second grant for the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL) was ending in 2019, we wanted to take the opportunity to look back on the program, through the eyes of the 124 participants who had been through … Continue reading

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Using our Journal Evaluation Tool to determine credibility of a journal

It’s been about seven years since we developed a tool (a downloadable rubric and explainer) to help our faculty determine the credibility of a journal. You can download the tool at https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/librarian_pubs/40/ and read about the development of it at … Continue reading

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Complex and Varied: Factors Related to the Research Productivity of Academic Librarians in the United States

The major take-away from our new research is that librarians are motivated to conduct research, yet the factors leading to their success are complex and varied. Kris and I have already conducted two studies (with five years between the first … Continue reading

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A new e-resources usage statistics dashboard

New usage statistics dashboard alert! Check it out at https://whheresourceusage.shinyapps.io/dash/. Drop me a line here or on twitter and let me know how much you love it. *** For the last several years I have been annually publishing the usage … Continue reading

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Remembering Walter Walker

I am reminded of a brief interaction I had with Walt Walker at a library event last fall, during which I told him about the work I was doing to acquire monographs by or about women scientists, to add to … Continue reading

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#WomenInScience

At LMU, I am the library liaison to the departments of Physics and Chemistry & Biochemistry. Last year I worked through a review of Physics and Chemistry monograph titles for possible withdrawal from the library collection, as part of our … Continue reading

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