Papers by Steve Brantley
Leveraging OA, the IR, and Cross Department
Collaboration for Sustainability: Ensuring Library Centrality in the Scholarly Communication Discourse on
Campus
Librarians in Transition: Scholarly Communication as
a Core Competency
Rethinking Information Literacy: A Practical Framework for Supporting Learning edited by Jane Secker and Emma Coonan
Public Services Quarterly, 2015
Repositioning Reference: New Methods and New Services for a New Age by Laura Saunders, Lillian Rozaklis, and Eileen G. Abels
Public Services Quarterly, 2015
Information Literacy Instruction That Works: A Guide to Teaching by Discipline and Student Population edited by Patrick Ragains
Public Services Quarterly, 2014
Successful Strategies for Teaching Undergraduate Research
Public Services Quarterly, 2014
Using a blog and social media promotion as a collaborative community building marketing tool for library resources
Library Hi Tech News, 2016
Two and a half decades into the open access (OA) movement, rapid changes in scholarly communicati... more Two and a half decades into the open access (OA) movement, rapid changes in scholarly communication are creating significant demands on scholars. Today’s scholars must wrestle with meeting funder mandates for providing public access to their research, managing and preserving raw data, establishing/publishing open access journals, understanding the difference between “green OA” and “gold OA,” navigating the complicated issues around copyright and intellectual property, avoiding potentially predatory publishers, adapting their tenure plans to OA, and discovering increasing amounts of OA resources for their research and their curricular materials. These demands present an opportunity and a need for librarians to step in and assist scholars with the scholarly communication process. Along with a rapidly-shifting scholarly communication field, two important areas of librarianship have been undergoing changes as well in the past fifteen years. Institutional repositories (IR) continue to pr...
Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 1992
“[W]hatever I'm thinking, I want to put it in my paper, I type it in Google Books, and I find a b... more “[W]hatever I'm thinking, I want to put it in my paper, I type it in Google Books, and I find a book for it, and usually the book is even talking about what I'm talking about. Sometimes I'l look up the book in this [UIC] library, and I'll find it here. I can just–you know Google shows you some pages in the book? I can cite it from Google.”
Journal of Web Librarianship, 2014
In the spring of 2013, the University Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago was in the... more In the spring of 2013, the University Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago was in the unique position of having access to two discovery systems, Summon and WorldCat Local, at the same time. When tasked with choosing between the two systems, librarians undertook a usability study of Summon and WorldCat Local. The goal of this study was two-fold: to test the ease-of-use of each discovery system with an eye toward identifying one tool to retain for the longer term, and to learn about the search behaviors of different types of user groups. Eighteen subjects, consisting of undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty, participated in the study. Participants performed usability tasks using each tool and answered pre-task and post-task questions. While there was no clear preference among study participants for either discovery layer, individual groups did express preferences. Faculty, for example, preferred Summon to WorldCat Local at a rate of five to one. The study findings are explored in detail through an examination of the three major data sets produced by the usability test instrument: results derived from tasks performed by participants as part of the study; themes and trends identified by the investigators within the recorded participant tests; and discovery tool preferences as determined from pre-task and post-task questionnaires administered to study participants. This study has implications for librarians engaged in information literacy instruction, those considering implementing discovery tools, as well as for librarians currently using Summon or WorldCat Local at their libraries.
In 2010, Booth Library began establishing an institutional repository, The Keep, an effort that i... more In 2010, Booth Library began establishing an institutional repository, The Keep, an effort that involved multiple departments within the library. Potential content recruitment for the repository included large-scale digitization of archival materials and migration of previously created digital collections. Creation of the repository resulted in increased accessibility, better presentation of content that had existed on outmoded legacy web platforms, and the rescue of damaged content that had been disintegrating on other digital storage formats. By utilizing personnel across many departments and incorporating content from the Archives and Digital Collections areas, Booth Library has developed a robust institutional repository in only two years.
Journal of Web Librarianship, Vol. 4, iss. 4. p. 351-374., Dec 2010
Library 2.0 literature has described many of the possibilities Web 2.0 technologies offer to libr... more Library 2.0 literature has described many of the possibilities Web 2.0 technologies offer to libraries. Case studies have assessed local use, but no studies have measured the Library 2.0 phenomenon by searching public social networking sites. This study used library-specific terms to search public social networking sites, blog search engines, and social bookmarking sites for activity associated with librarians and library users. Blog search data about the recentness of activity or the popularity of a blog post indicate that Library 2.0 technology has many early adopters but provides less evidence of sustained use. The results follow a curve resembling the 80/20 rule and also resemble Chris Anderson's “long tail” effect, in which very few authors create the vast amount of content. These exploratory results can be used as a starting point for future studies. Librarians who use tags to describe Web-based content might use these findings to select more effective tags. Librarians implementing a blog or a social networking presence might use this study to balance the benefits with the amount of work required to maintain an up-to-date presence.
Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, v. 34, iss.1 , Mar 2010
This study examines holdings of 21 members of the Association of Research Libraries for books rev... more This study examines holdings of 21 members of the Association of Research Libraries for books reviewed in American Historical Review. The study asserts that approval plans are inadequate for collecting from small publishers or from scholarship that crosses disciplinary boundaries. Although approval plans increase efficiency in collection development, the need for expert selection cannot be overstated. Results indicated that small publisher's books were less likely to be in libraries than university press publisher's books, and that history monographs are frequently classified outside disciplinary boundaries, and are therefore invisible to approval plans that define disciplines based on classification systems.
College & Research Libraries, v. 67, iss. 2, Mar 2006
Conference Presentations by Steve Brantley
What We Discovered About Discovery: A Comparative Evaluation of Summon and WorldCat Local at the UIC Library
In the spring of 2013, librarians at the University of Illinois at Chicago were tasked with recom... more In the spring of 2013, librarians at the University of Illinois at Chicago were tasked with recommending which of two discovery tools, Summon or WorldCat Local, the library should retain. To this end, they recruited six users each from four different groups – undergraduate students, graduate students, health science professional students, and faculty – to assess the usability of the two systems. Participants were interviewed and given a series of tasks to complete. This presentation provided a detailed overview of the study, including development of the usability instrument, user search behaviors, and challenges faced by the researchers
“College Information Literacy Summit 2013” Panel Discussion
This meeting did not have any publishable output, however since it is getting regular hits, I wil... more This meeting did not have any publishable output, however since it is getting regular hits, I will contact the other participants to see if some useful textual output could be established and shared.
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