Skip to Main Content

Staff Development: Reports & Articles

Information for Library staff in support of professional development

Reports & Articles

EDUCAUSE Review: Special Report | Digital Transformation

EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Teaching and Learning Edition

 

Edcause Review Steven Bell, Published: Friday, April 15, 2022
 

Moving to Mobile: Space as a Service in the Academic Library

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

LIBER Insider - March 2022 (mailchi.mp)

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The latest issue of ALISS quarterly is now available. 

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

LIBER blog post, “Support SCOSS (the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) in Providing Funding for Three Essential Services (arXiv, Redalyc/AmeliCA,and DSpace) for the Open Research Community."

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

OCLC How should we address cybersecurity?

OCLC The 10-Minute Digital Librarian

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

OASPA  blog post and report from cross-stakeholder workshops
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Primary Research Group Inc. has published the International Survey of Academic Research Library Dataset Purchasing Practices, ISBN 978-157440-688-7
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Open Educational Resources: The Story of Change and Evolving Perceptions. Mirela Roncevic Library Relations, Knowledge Unlatched
https://openresearch.community/posts/open-educational-resources-the-story-of-change-and-evolving-perceptions
from the post: "What exactly has contributed to the explosion of OERs in recent years? The steep cost of textbooks and higher education in general, particularly in the United States, is frequently attributed to their popularity perhaps more than any other factor."

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

FYI - ACRL task force report

Transforming Library Services for Computational Research with Text Data: Environmental Scan, Stakeholder Perspectives, and Recommendations for Libraries (ala.org)

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

CILIP

Research Report: The impact of AI, machine learning, automation and robotics - CILIP: the library and information association

New blog post available on Jisc joining Sparc Europe  

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Blog post from Dr. Steve Albrecht in Library Service, Safety, & Security" section of Library 2.0"Is There Hidden Bias at Your Library?"

Solving Conflicts Between Library Employees: A Tool For Getting Along When No One Wants to Get Along - Service, Safety, & Security with Dr. Steve Albrecht - Library 2.0 (library20.com)

Continue reading for a 9-step method to get to cooperation and collaboration...

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Announcing a new API to access CORE data

New Frontiers of Digital Access: The development and delivery of Virtual Reading Rooms and Virtual Teaching Spaces amongst collection-holding institutions presents the results from a major international survey of libraries, archives, and museums, conducted by RLUK in May-June 2021.

RLUK  published results of a major survey exploring the role, and potential role, of research and academic libraries as partners in, and leaders of, research.

 The role of academic and research libraries as active participants and leaders in the production of scholarly research

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Headline findings from an upcoming report on the role of libraries in scholarly research - Research Libraries UK (rluk.ac.uk)

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The impact of AI, machine learning, automation and robotics on the information professions: A report for CILIP https://www.cilip.org.uk/general/custom.asp?page=researchreport

UKSG: Open access e-book usage – analysis gives differing counts

JISC Quick Guide: An introduction to open access 
JiscFuture Themes and Forecasts for Research Libraries and Emerging Technologies” 

Get the latest predictions from the latest report from Association Research Libraries (USA). They include predictions on technology and ways of working in a post covid world 
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Educase

Sway presentation outlining options for online teaching

The Creating Socially Distanced Campuses and Education (SDCE) Project has now published its Final Capstone Report, providing a summary of the project's outcomes.

 Information Literacy Group Covid-19 and Information Literacy: A selective list of useful resources

The June issue of the Journal of Information Literacy is published and free to read and download.

ECAR Study of the Technology Needs of Students with Disabilities

Library and Knowledge Services (HEE) technology Update

Collection weeding: Innovative processes and tools to ease the burden,The Journal of Academic Librarianship May 2020

"Socially distanced on campus education: the next big question04 May 2020 | Doug Parkin

Reports by Organisations

Publications

An article by Dan Cohen on Controlled Digital Lending and the recent court case between the Internet Archive and various publishers is a great overview of CDL, the current state of play in the US and more generally, the kind of transformations on ebooks have had on libraries. 

 

Council For Learning Resources In CollegesReflecting on the legacy of two years of pandemic trauma on students – Implications for Library and Learning Resource Services

The December 2022 issue of the IFLA Metadata Newsletter is now available.  Published twice a year, the Newsletter is a joint production of the IFLA Bibliography, Cataloguing, and Subject Analysis and Access Sections. 

Publishing in transformative journals to make your research openly available 19 December 2022

Teaching and Learning Perspectives on the EDUCAUSE 2023 Top 10 IT Issues

 IFLA Journal October 2022 

EDUCAUSE 2022 Horizon Action Plan: Hybrid Learning

EDUCAUSE Report 2022 Students and Technology Report: Rebalancing the Student Experience

EDUCAUSE Review Weathering the Storm: Targeted and Timely Analytics to Support Disengaged Students Sept 1st 2022

EDUCAUSE Review Digital Transformation in Higher Education: 7 Areas for Enhancing Digital Learning

2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Data and Analytics Edition

Aliss Quarterly | (alissnet.com)

CILIP Rare Books & Special Collections Newsletter

EDUCAUSE Review Artificial Intelligence: Where are we now. Special Report

EDUCAUSE Review Digital Transformation Special Report

ARL Research Library Issues no. 303 (2022): Future States of the Research Library

Future States of the Research Library: Claire Stewart, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries

Library as Place: Kornelia Tancheva, University of Pittsburgh Library System

Impressions from a Former ARL LCDP Fellow of the Pandemons Class: Martha Alvarado Anderson, University of Arkansas Libraries

Mitigating Health Misinformation: Potential Roles for Academic Libraries: Jeffery L. Loo and Erik T. Mitchell, University of California San Diego Library