Is What’s “Trending” What’s Worth Purchasing? Insights from a National Study of Collection Development Librarians

Sutton, Sarah; Miles, Rachel; Konkiel, Stacy

doi:10.1080/0361526x.2017.1297593

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“…Other types of research impact metric usage were addressed in the survey, such as using metrics for collection development or information literacy sessions. Some of these results have been reported elsewhere (Sutton, Miles, & Konkiel, 2017).…”

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Scholarly Communication Librarians’ Relationship with Research Impact Indicators: An Analysis of a National Survey of Academic Librarians in the United States

Miles

Konkiel

Sutton

2018

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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INTRODUCTION Academic librarians, especially in the field of scholarly communication, are often expected to understand and engage with research impact indicators (or the collective quantitative and qualitative measures of research impact). However, much of the current literature only speculates as to how academic librarians are using and implementing research impact indicators in their practices. METHODS This study analyzed the results from a 2015 survey administered to over 13,000 academic librarians at Carnegie-classified R1 institutions in the United States. The survey concentrated on academic librarians' familiarity with and usage of research impact indicators. RESULTS This study uncovered findings related to academic librarians' levels of familiarity with research impact indicators and their uses of these indicators in their professional development and in their library job duties. DISCUSSION In general, academic librarians with regular scholarly communication support duties at R1 institutions tend to have higher levels of familiarity with research impact indicators. Overall, academic librarians are most familiar with citation counts and usage statistics and least familiar with altmetrics. During one-on-one consultations with faculty, certain research impact indicators, such the JIF, were more likely to be addressed than others. In addition, the findings suggest that faculty who are concerned with tenure, promotion, and grants are more likely to have an interest in research impact indicators. The survey results also hint toward a growing interest in altmetrics among academic librarians for their professional advancement. CONCLUSION Academic librarians are continually challenged to keep pace with the changing landscape of research impact metrics and research assessment models. By responsibly employing research impact indicators in their own practices, academic librarians can provide a crucial service in educating the wider academic community.

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Scholarly Communication Librarians’ Relationship with Research Impact Indicators: An Analysis of a National Survey of Academic Librarians in the United States

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Konkiel

Sutton

2018

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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“…They obtained permission from their institutional review board in February 2020 to conduct this research. Researchers have used surveys to gather collections-related information in the extant literature ( Oltmann, 2019 ; Sutton, Miles, & Konkiel, 2017 ). The authors designed their own instrument in Qualtrics to gather focused data on librarians' experiences with, perceptions of, and concerns about CCD (see Appendix).…”

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Collaborative collection development: current perspectives leading to future initiatives

Levenson

Hess

2020

The Journal of Academic Librarianship

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As academic libraries continue to face acquisition budget challenges, collaborative collection development (CCD) offers greater opportunities to fulfill the core role of library collecting and collection management, namely, to provide enhanced access to the widest variety of relevant resources in the most cost-responsible manner possible. Libraries have successfully implemented CCD projects of various types, and as a result, have achieved these needed cost savings. The authors conducted survey research to investigate current CCD activities and librarians' perceptions of its benefits, drawbacks, elements contributing to successful CCD programs, and possible obstacles to success. Library collections consist of a variety of material formats and librarians have applied CCD models to maintain needed access to these resources, shifting from ownership to access, all in support of building collective collections. The survey results found that, although challenges can exist, application of CCD activities have realized substantial benefits, financial and otherwise, for academic libraries overall.

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Reference analytics as an unexpected collection development tool

Kolendo

2019

Collection Management

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Is What’s “Trending” What’s Worth Purchasing? Insights from a National Study of Collection Development Librarians

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Scholarly Communication Librarians’ Relationship with Research Impact Indicators: An Analysis of a National Survey of Academic Librarians in the United States

Scholarly Communication Librarians’ Relationship with Research Impact Indicators: An Analysis of a National Survey of Academic Librarians in the United States

Collaborative collection development: current perspectives leading to future initiatives

Reference analytics as an unexpected collection development tool

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