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Making It Better: A Project Management Framework for Creating a Research Data Services Program
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Bjornen, Kay K.; Ippoliti, Cinthya – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2021
When librarians at Oklahoma State University (OSU) began creating services to support data intensive research they found plenty of published guidance about doing surveys and outreach to get started. However, they also found that offering the prescribed workshops and consultations didn't assure that researchers would use them. A Sparks! grant from…
Descriptors: Program Administration, State Universities, Academic Libraries, Library Services
The NASA Library and Researchers at Goddard: A Visitor's Perspective
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Powell, Jill H. – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2014
Jill Powell, engineering librarian from Cornell University, visited the library at NASA Goddard in Greenbelt, Maryland in July 2013, interviewing library staff and selected NASA scientists. She studied the library's digital projects, publications, services, and operations. She also interviewed several NASA scientists on information-seeking…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Government Libraries, Research Libraries, Space Sciences
Metrics and Science Monograph Collections at the Marston Science Library, University of Florida
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Leonard, Michelle F.; Haas, Stephanie C.; Kisling, Vernon N. – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2010
As academic libraries are increasingly supported by a matrix of database functions, the use of data mining and visualization techniques offer significant potential for future collection development and service initiatives based on quantifiable data. While data collection techniques are still not standardized and results may be skewed because of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Research Libraries, Bibliometrics, Data Analysis
Science Documentaries at Your Library: Two Penn State Programs
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Rimland, Emily; Butkovich, Nancy J.; Musser, Linda – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2008
Two science branch libraries at Penn State's University Park campus hosted film series centered on scientific documentary films. Although the reasons for starting the series differ, both have been successful in meeting their goals. Patron responses have been favorable, and the series have focused attention on the collections and services offered…
Descriptors: State Programs, Documentaries, Films, Library Services
Percentile-Based Journal Impact Factors: A Neglected Collection Development Metric
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Wagner, A. Ben – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2009
Various normalization techniques to transform journal impact factors (JIFs) into a standard scale or range of values have been reported a number of times in the literature, but have seldom been part of collection development librarians' tool kits. In this paper, JIFs as reported in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) database are converted to…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Journal Articles, Selection Tools, Reference Materials
Web 2.0 as Catalyst: Virtually Reaching Out to Users and Connecting Them to Library Resources and Services
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Xiao, Norah – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2008
This article is based on services to library users in the area of chemistry at the Science and Engineering (S&E) Library of the University of Southern California (USC), to which I applied various new technologies as outreach approaches. Various Web 2.0 technologies such as a blog, tags, YouTube, RSS feeds, Instant Messaging, online…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Library Services, Users (Information)