The Library’s Role in Highlighting Faculty Scholarship

ABSTRACT

Academic librarians have long highlighted faculty publications inside of the library’s walls using faculty publication displays and other methods. In today’s environment where scholarly output is important for reputation and rankings, librarians can expand this effort further and help promote scholarship performed at their university to the broader world. External and internal audiences will be discussed and some strategies for promoting faculty research outside of the university will be highlighted.

KEYWORDS:

• Scholarly communications
• library exhibits
• faculty publications
• library marketing

Column Editor: Edward M. Corrado, Associate University Librarian, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA [email protected]Editor’s Note: The “Trending Tech Services” column examines current developments along with emerging and future trends involving technology and its impact on the technical operations of modern libraries and information centers. In this issue’s column, Rachel Jaffe explores how “good“ metadata should be evaluated. Interested authors are invited to submit proposals and articles to the column editor at [email protected]. Please include “TSQ submission“ in the subject line of the e-mail.

Column Editor: Edward M. Corrado, Associate University Librarian, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA [email protected]Editor’s Note: The “Trending Tech Services” column examines current developments along with emerging and future trends involving technology and its impact on the technical operations of modern libraries and information centers. In this issue’s column, Rachel Jaffe explores how “good“ metadata should be evaluated. Interested authors are invited to submit proposals and articles to the column editor at [email protected]. Please include “TSQ submission“ in the subject line of the e-mail.

Notes

1. Librarians can also use their expertise to highlight the works of authors from underrepresented groups such as African American authors (Wiley & Yon, 2018) or use Wikipedia Ediatthons to increase coverage of underrepresented topics including women’s and African-American history (Oregon State University Libraries, 2020).