Jim Hahn
Orientation Services and Environments Librarian
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Bill Mischo
Head, Grainger Engineering Library Information Center
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Beth Sandore Namachchivya
Associate University Librarian for Information Technology
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Tyler Walters
Dean, University Libraries
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Julie Speer
Associate Dean, Research and Informatics, University Libraries
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Technology Innovation in Support of Institutional Priorities: Exemplars at the University of Illinois Library (Hahn, Mischo, Namachchivya)
This briefing describes two innovative approaches to developing discovery and access tools in a library. The two programs featured are:
• A program focused on design and implementation of federated search and discovery systems that incorporates research and mentoring of librarians, information professionals, and graduate students in library and information science (LIS) and computer science.
• A library technology prototyping service that employs and mentors undergraduate computer science minors from diverse backgrounds.
The panel takes an in-depth look at key products that have emerged from this work, what has fueled their success, and how lessons learned can shape future technology innovations that support the important organizational themes of effective discovery and growing diversity in technology design and development.
The Future is Now: Capacity Building and Partnership Development to Advance eResearch Programs (Walters, Speer)
Research universities are adapting to a changing environment where networked open research, cyberinfrastructure, and cyberlearning approaches are transforming them. Organizational change is inevitable and the pace of this change moves more quickly with each new disruptive development in the economic, policy, technological, and social realms. This milieu calls for entrepreneurial approaches and intra-organizational strategies that produce new technological and organizational platforms through which new partnerships of information and technology professionals with researchers, instructors, and learners are created. The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VT) Libraries has developed two sets of strategies for advancing eResearch partnerships and programs within the university: 1) Internal strategy: developing new positions such as the Associate Dean for Research and Informatics, Research Environments Librarian, and other specialty positions such as the Engineering Informatics and Data Librarian and Art & Design Informatics Librarian; designing work units with a new, flexible model: the hub. The library-based hub fosters capacity-building to support eResearch and digital scholarship practices, processes, and technologies; 2) External strategy: establishing a research center (the VT Center for Digital Research and Scholarship [CDRS]) that also serves as a services center for mapping and integrating the Libraries into the research enterprise. The Center monitors and assesses changes in the university environments in which research and scholarly knowledge is produced. It offers tools and services that address the many research and scholarly environment needs of VT researchers. The Center partners with researchers and others to solve information/data/content-related academic problems and serves as a consultant on digital curation processes.
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https://github.com/minrva
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http://search.grainger.uiuc.edu/linker/
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