Ethics/Values – A library is many things

Personal Digital Archiving for Clergy

Andy Meyer — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:33:22 +0000

Managing digital assets is now a critical part of our society. I wanted to put together some notes for a presentation on personal digital archiving that I’ve proposed for the Covenant’ MidWinter gathering of pastors. If this proposal is accepted, this post will be a first, rough draft of the content I hope to cover there. …

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Working with Chicago Data (part 1)

Andy Meyer — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 15:58:41 +0000

We are still talking a lot of data at North Park – in particular Chicago data. So I’m going to start getting my hands dirty working with this data to build capacity for future partnerships with faculty and students. So here is the first in what I hope to be many installments of the “Working …

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Pietism and Libraries – Musings

Andy Meyer — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 18:44:34 +0000

Despite a long break between posts, I am still thinking about libraries and pietism and the potential relationships between the two. I always find it difficult to organize my thoughts so I’m going do some free-writing and free-association to condense my thoughts: No Real Connection or Limited Connections In many ways, there are no real …

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Roadmap to Library Publishing

Andy Meyer — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:57:38 +0000

First, I’ve determined that there is no one “roadmap” that will lead my library into digital publishing. So, instead of creating a map, I’m going to do the best I can to sketch out the terrain ahead and think about questions that can guide our path. Broader Context This section tries to address two main …

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Review: “Library-as-Publisher: Capacity Building for the Library Publishing Subfield”

Andy Meyer — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:58:11 +0000

I’ve been tasked with creating a “Roadmap to Digital Publishing” for the Brandel Library. I’ll post the draft of the “roadmap” I develop later on, but right now I’m in the research phase of the project and wanted to document the sources I’m reading. I could include this as a bibliography in the other post, …

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Copyright and Faculty Guidance

Andy Meyer — Thu, 26 May 2016 16:15:27 +0000

My library just fielded a question from the Nursing department who, after reading this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education, wanted to know our policy for posting articles and chapters into our Learning Management System (LMS). While I was drafting a response in private, I thought it would be good to summarize that article …

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Graduation and Commencement

Andy Meyer — Mon, 16 May 2016 16:23:20 +0000

After four semesters and countless hours of work, I’m slated to graduate from Library School this weekend. I’m actually not able to attend the graduating ceremony but I thought I would take some time to consider what this means for me on a personal level. I recently toured a special exhibition in the Art Institute of …

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Notes for ALCTS Symposium

Andy Meyer — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 21:00:56 +0000

I’ve volunteered to speak at the ALCTS Symposium on January 30th about North Park’s experience using demand driven acquisitions for ebooks. The topic of the day is “Collection Directions: The Evolution of Library Collections and Collecting” (website) and is based on the following article: Dempsey, Lorcan, Constance Malpas, and Brian Lavoie. 2014. “Collection Directions: The Evolution …

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Information Habits of Religious Leaders

Andy Meyer — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:05:48 +0000

I want to jot down a quick research question so that I can pick it up at a later date. Essentially, I’d like to research how religious leaders gather and use information. By religious leaders, I mean pastors and clergy (though I’d be interested in other religious traditions as well) and I think I’m defining …

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Review – Publisher of the Community: We’re All Doomed

Andy Meyer — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 20:20:01 +0000

I just watched R. David Lankes’s recent keynote and wanted to post a short review of the material he covered. Information “Publisher of the Community: We’re All Doomed” Closing keynote for the NISO Workshop on “Using the Web as an E-Content Distribution Platform: Challenges and Opportunities.” http://quartz.syr.edu/blog/?p=6265 Abstract: We need to build platforms for scholarship and …

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