Libraries' Staff Research and Publications

Going mobile: iPad pilot program for library staff

Jamie Dendy — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:07:59 PDT

Faced with an increasingly mobile environment, the Northeastern University Libraries initiated a pilot program to distribute iPads among reference and liaison librarians to improve awareness and facility with mobile devices. We will share and discuss our experiences with selection, training, and deployment, as well as our expectations and the results of the pilot and its expansion.

Web 2.0 and libraries: All Staff Meeting, 12/11/2007

Maria Carpenter — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:34:07 PST

Implementing a research activity discovery tool at Northeastern University

Hillary Corbett — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:16:44 PDT

Lurking in the lab: analysis of data on molecular biology laboratory instruments

Jen Ferguson — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:08:49 PDT

Description and annotation of biomedical data sets

Jen Ferguson — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:22:35 PST

Deposition of biomedical data sets is on the rise as more scientists submit experimental data to accompany their publications. Scientists are also increasingly reusing these publicly available data sets in their own work. Despite these developments, lack of both context and metadata can create barriers to understanding and repurposing these data sets. Researchers from the Bioinformatics Core Group in the Harvard School of Public Health attempted to address this issue by assembling a team of data curators who used the open source software suite ISA tools to annotate and contextualize microarray data sets.

This paper describes the workflow and software...

Citizens of Drupal: staffing & sustainability in the open source environment: an informal survey

Amanda Rust — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:13:15 PST

Northeastern University’s Snell Library used a major Web site redesign as an opportunity to move to the Drupal CMS platform. Our planning process required us to estimate the staff needed to support a large, customized Drupal Web site. To either challenge or back up our estimate, we created a survey and distributed it via the Web4Lib, Code4Lib, and Drupal4Lib email lists. The aim of the survey was to determine what sort of staffing would be necessary for a large, heavily-customized Drupal Web site, and the results informed an internal staffing proposal. The survey results also give a brief overview of...

Marketing your repository with the power of Google Analytics

Hillary Corbett — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:26:39 PST

The Crisis in Scholarly Communication, Part I: Understanding the Issues and Engaging Your Faculty

Hillary Corbett — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:39:25 PST

Given the rising costs of journal subscriptions and the difficulty that authors have in retaining rights to their own works, reform in the scholarly publishing industry is needed. This article, the first in a two-part series, presents an overview of the crisis in scholarly communication and discusses the groundwork that must be laid in order to develop successful programs to address the crisis on college and university campuses. As the de facto centers of scholarship and research on campus, libraries must educate faculty and advocate for more sustainable publishing models. Programs developed by the Boston Library Consortium and its member...

The Crisis in Scholarly Communication, Part II: Internal Impacts on the Library, With a Focus on Technical Services

Hillary Corbett — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:39:25 PST

This article, the second in a two-part series, focuses on the roles that various library departments can and should play in the development of a robust scholarly communication program. It discusses how the crisis in scholarly communication affects different work areas and groups of staff. A whole-library approach to addressing the crisis can reveal how each department's responsibilities require management of different scholarly communication issues. The article also addresses the ways in which technical services is particularly impacted by the crisis in scholarly communication in order to provide a more in-depth analysis of how a discrete work area within the...

Preserving the history of Boston's diversity: one university's efforts to make Boston's history more inclusive

Joan D. Krizack — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:39:24 PST

Ejournals, budgets and collection policies: managing the serials stranglehold in libraries

William M. Wakeling — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:39:24 PST

Building a marketing program 101: "if you build it they will come"

Edward A. Warro — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:39:24 PST

Getting grants: a primer

Joan D. Krizack — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:39:24 PST