Branching Out: Communication and Collaboration Among Librarians at Multi-Campus Institutions

Bottorff, Tim; Glaser, Robbin; Todd, Andrew; Alderman, Barbara

doi:10.1080/01930820802289391

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“…Distance was a major factor, as it often created logistical issues such as time, money, and appropriate scheduling of the event. As found in Bottorff et al’s study [ 6 ], satellite librarians were more likely to visit the parent institution than be visited by their colleagues from the parent institution. As echoed in this study, the burden often fell on the satellite librarians’ shoulders to participate without always having the proper technological or financial support.…”

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confidence: 81%

“…This study delved deeper to look for larger patterns. From this study, we have learned that Fyfe et al’s [ 1 ] themes of centralized planning and governance, local autonomy, trust, respect, and careful communication along with Bottorff et al’s [ 6 ] themes of collaboration, communication, and networking were experienced by satellite academic health sciences librarians. Our study revealed similar themes in the attitudes and perceptions of this population.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…Delving into the literature on satellite librarianship in general academia, we found that Bottorff et al explored issues surrounding the collaboration, communication, and networking among solo librarians in a multicampus academic library systems that were not specific to the health sciences. Their data revealed that isolation and communication barriers were common issues confronting satellite academic librarians [ 6 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Satellite stories: capturing professional experiences of academic health sciences librarians working in delocalized health sciences programs

Phinney

Horsman²

2018

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ObjectiveHealth sciences training programs have progressively expanded onto satellite campuses, allowing students the opportunity to learn in communities away from an academic institution’s main campus. This expansion has encouraged a new role for librarians to assume, in that a subset of health sciences librarians identify as “satellite librarians” who are permanently located at a distance from the main campus. Due to the unique nature of this role and lack of existing data on the topic, the authors investigated the experiences and perceptions of this unique group of information professionals.MethodsAn electronic survey was distributed to health sciences librarians via two prominent North American email discussion lists. Questions addressed the librarians’ demographics, feelings of social inclusion, technological support, autonomy, professional support, and more.ResultsEighteen surveys were analyzed. While several respondents stated that they had positive working relationships with colleagues, many cited issues with technology, scheduling, and lack of consideration as barriers to feeling socially included at both the parent and local campuses. Social inclusion, policy creation, and collection management issues were subject to their unique situations and their colleagues’ perceptions of their roles as satellite librarians.ConclusionsThe results from this survey suggest that the role of the academic health sciences librarian at the satellite campus needs to be clearly communicated and defined. This, in turn, will enhance the experience for the librarian and provide better service to the client.

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Phinney

Horsman²

2018

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“…The Bottorff article (Bottorff, 2008) addresses the most important components of collaboration by searching for factors influencing cooperation among colleagues, touching only indirectly on aspects of acquisitions work. The article describes a survey wherein 13% of the responses came from acquisitions librarians, but specifics of their work are not addressed.…”

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Navigating to the Future: Understanding Common Tasks in a Multi-Campus Environment in the Dramatically Changing Acquisition World

Bock

Burgos-Mira

2010

Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship

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In the context of a diverse, multi-campus university, this study discusses historical factors and recent changes in scholarly communication and the economic impact of these changes as we seek to forge stronger cooperation among our campuses. After consulting literature, the authors found that issues relating to acquisitions of multi-campus environment are not adequately addressed in the literature. The articles are written both from the administrative or electronic content-sharing purposes and from much larger-scale operations in comparison to our university setup.The library is not exempt from the general rule of an ever-changing world but, instead, is the laboratory for the future. To secure this role, acquisition work requires more and more knowledge of accessing and disseminating materials in previously untraditional formats and understanding newer

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“…The diagram below illustrates on the combination of the Mendeley Institutional Editions and the Mendeley platform join to a unique solution that will drive research productivity and collaboration, supported by the library and research institution. Via this model, the communication and collaboration will be part of the vital aspects in the 21st century librarianship, particularly for librarians in branch and regional settings who are often separated from their system colleagues by both physical distance and administrative structures are able to play an effective and efficient roles in supporting the research life cycle and scholarly communication too (Bottorff, Glaser, Todd, & Alderman, 2008;Ducas & Michaud-Oystryk, 2004;Taraborelli, 2011a). In addition, it forms a bridge between the information provider (librarians) and also the information seeker to use and reuse the knowledge to improve their research visibility.…”

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Harvesting Scholarly Communication Padi Seeds via Mendeley Institutional Edition for Your Academic Libraries

Aziz

Keita²,

Yahya

2013

SSRN Journal

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With the advent of internet technologies in today's information science landscape, a number of researchers and scholars are using new media into their professional communication and scholarly work. This action shifted the patterns in using beyond than just a reference management tool and place a challenge in library science's service on the reflection of new demographic pool's patrons behavior and usage in using the library's model. Librarians have to keep up on their toes, with these attributes in acquiring knowledge, tools, resources and operations to serve a unique information service model to their patrons, especially in academic and research libraries. Understanding the needs of the librarians, here at Swets, the partnership with Mendeley aims to set a milestone ahead to aid and provide a strategic alignment model for their on-progress challenging model. Together, in this paper, the illustration will focus on the discussion topic to invest and align strategically, a tool that is designed to be part of the ecological cycle in current scholarly communication lifestyle. Mendeley is not only build for a basic reference management tools to aid academics and researchers (or even undergraduate) in their daily academic writing. But, that will be beyond than just a scholar's imagination. This includes topics as access, visible, preserve, collaborate, share, knowledge transfer, mobile and openness. This is because Mendeley rides on the open science concept, indirectly immerse the usage of the product in part of a scholar's life in a university. This will seeds a good, positive seeding investment for librarians and research managers to look beyond the basic service model, along with the other productive competitive services and platforms, especially for Malaysia's and South East Asia's library and information science industry to leverage for the future in open science development.

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Branching Out: Communication and Collaboration Among Librarians at Multi-Campus Institutions

Cited by 15 publications

References 7 publications

Satellite stories: capturing professional experiences of academic health sciences librarians working in delocalized health sciences programs

Satellite stories: capturing professional experiences of academic health sciences librarians working in delocalized health sciences programs

Navigating to the Future: Understanding Common Tasks in a Multi-Campus Environment in the Dramatically Changing Acquisition World

Harvesting Scholarly Communication Padi Seeds via Mendeley Institutional Edition for Your Academic Libraries

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