Policy – A library is many things

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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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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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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Data Curation Project Progress Report

Andy Meyer — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 19:39:27 +0000

I’m taking the Foundations of Data Curation class at GSLIS and just finished a progress report for the MODIS Snow Frequency data set. Here is a link to the report. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO_AeAX1v5Q

Northfield Historical Society Metadata Guide

Andy Meyer — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 14:24:00 +0000

Scanning and File Naming To create high quality digital copies of photographs, scan at a high resolution and save in an approved file format. For most images, scanning at a moderate resolution (600 DPI) and saving as a JPEG should be adequate for this project. For particularly important images and/or images with preservation concerns, scan …

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Springer Collection Procedures

Andy Meyer — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 22:58:21 +0000

I’m back for the second day of my internship with the Center for Railroad Photography and Art and wanted to record some of the technical parts of our process. Scanning While most of this collection has already been scanned, some needs to be scanned for the first time. Here is the process I’m using for the …

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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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