Changed Responsibilities in Scholarly Communication Services: An Analysis of Job Descriptions

Leadership, Development, and Expertise: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Scholarly Communication Librarian Position Announcements

“…Finlay et al (2015) reviewed job postings in academic libraries to determine the prevalence of SC responsibilities and skills and to learn which positions include them. Xia and Li (2015) ana-lyzed the qualifications and responsibilities of SC librarians to identify the trajectories of SC responsibilities in librarian positions. Kawooya et al studied advertisements for copyright librarian positions and noted a strong connection between these positions and SC (2015, p. 345).…”

“…These themes intersect in some way with outreach, instruction, or collaboration with stakeholders outside of the library. For example, Xia and Li (2015) observed a trend in SC librarian responsibilities for digital content development: they point out that responsibilities for digital content development has moved over time from depositing content into institutional repositories, to legal issues of electronic content-including educating patrons about copyright and related issues-to policy development, and finally to collaboration with colleagues (pp. 18-19).…”

Using Outreach Weeks to Examine Labor, Assessment and Value in Open Advocacy

“…Scholarly communication work has become increasingly representative of the breadth of practices, communities, policies, and technologies that encompass and are impacted by the creation, dissemination and preservation of scholarly knowledge and activities. Academic libraries and librarians are leading efforts related to campus based publishing, copyright and licensing, open educational resources, research data management, digital scholarship, and policy compliance (NASIG, 2017;Thomas, 2013;Xia & Li, 2015). The scope of this work often makes it both highly distributed and collaborative, and these traits are commonly reflected within academic institutions.…”

Perceptions of Scholarly Communication Among Library and Information Studies Students

“…In this instance, the needs are both economic and mission-oriented. In terms of economics, the emergence of open access and new models of preserving and disseminating scholarly work provide opportunities for libraries to mitigate the long-term and well-documented exploitative practices of scholarly journal publishers (Burpee & Fernandez, 2014;Carpenter, Graybill, Offord, & Piorun, 2011;Meyers, 2016;Newman, Blecic, & Armstrong, 2007;Xia & Li, 2015). More fundamentally, however, the attention given to SC by libraries is mission-centered: to wit, it is based on user needs.…”

“…They also underscored that all librarians, regardless of their title or main responsibilities, must familiarize themselves with SC issues in order to initiate and participate in successful communities of practice. Building on this, Xia and Li (2015), conducted a content analysis of library job announcements that showed a trending pattern of job qualifications and job responsibilities that are aligned with emergent institutional SC priorities. This is the climate for which MLIS students must prepare; it is characterized by massive disciplinary change and the need, among other things, to "understand and stay on top of scholarly communication issues" (Promis, 2008, p. 24).…”