Management – A library is many things

Sending Article Level Metadata from OJS to DOAJ

Andy Meyer — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 16:06:37 +0000

That’s a pretty scary sounding title…but the process was actually super simple. I just want to document it here for my own future reference and to share with others looking to do the same thing. Background In my role as Technical Advisor for the Covenant Quarterly, I oversaw the application process for our journal into …

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Google Scholar Tutorial

Andy Meyer — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 14:45:02 +0000

As a way to document and share my work, I wanted to post this short online tutorial I made about using Google Scholar and the Brandel Library. I manage the data feeds (from SFX and now from EBSCO) that make these library links possible but I also feel like I needed to do more to …

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Tools for Data Analysis

Andy Meyer — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 22:29:35 +0000

In addition to providing the raw data to our campus community, I think the library can take a leadership role in providing the tools and expertise to mine this data into something usable and useful. However, many of the tools that are used to transform data are highly specialized and have a pretty steep learning …

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Chicago Data for Undergraduate Research

Andy Meyer — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 17:07:09 +0000

We are talking a lot about data, data literacy, and how North Park University can use Chicago data in the classroom. There are already a lot of courses using data in instruction and research so part of my work is figuring out what is already happening. But I think the library can have a unique …

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Interlibrary Loan Data Analysis and Visualization

Andy Meyer — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 22:58:31 +0000

I’m working on improving the interlibrary loan services at North Park as well as improving my skills in statistics and data visualization. I’ve combined these two interests to look at analyzing and visualizing our interlibrary loan data using Tableau. Data Sources The first step was identifying and “cleaning” my data sources. I am pulling in …

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Report on Interlibrary Loan Improvements

Andy Meyer — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 19:20:37 +0000

I recently revised CV to include the following line: Manage interlibrary loan systems; increased the local fulfillment rate from 59% to 80% while decreasing average turnaround time I thought it would be good to provide a little additional context for this claim by supplying some data, look at visualizing that improvement, talk about how we accomplished …

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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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Northfield Historical Society (behind the scenes) updates!

Andy Meyer — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:40:07 +0000

I just finished some “behind the scenes” updated to the Northfield Historical Society site and wanted to document that process here. It was definitely a bit messy at times and quite labor intensive, but I think it was the best way to deal with the situation I faced. Background Starting last year, I got about …

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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 …