{"id":1284,"date":"2022-03-16T09:13:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T13:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2022-03-16T09:15:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T13:15:58","slug":"strategies-for-growing-our-institutional-repository-evaluating-tuscholarshares-cv-review-service-training-for-liaison-librarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/2022\/03\/16\/strategies-for-growing-our-institutional-repository-evaluating-tuscholarshares-cv-review-service-training-for-liaison-librarians\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategies for Growing Our Institutional Repository: Evaluating TUScholarShare\u2019s CV Review Service Training for Liaison Librarians"},"content":{"rendered":"

A guest post from Alicia Pucci\u00a0<\/span>and Annie Johnson\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Since the launch of Temple University\u2019s first institutional repository (IR) <\/span>TUScholarShare<\/span><\/a> in fall 2020, Alicia Pucci,\u00a0 TUScholarShare\u2019s administrator, and Annie Johnson, assistant director for open publishing initiatives and scholarly communications have tested strategies for raising awareness of the service and depositing more content. In this guest post, they describe a project with liaison librarians, undertaken with support from the Scholarly Communications Strategic Steering Team, that was designed to address some of these concerns.<\/span><\/p>\n

Background<\/b><\/p>\n

The CV review service is one of four mediated TUScholarShare deposit services that are offered to Temple faculty and staff. This is where TUScholarShare staff review a CV or list of publications, determine copyright and permissions for every work, and deposit permitted scholarship to the repository on the author\u2019s behalf. By adopting a \u201cwe\u2019ll do it for you\u201d service model, depositors do not need to do any heavy lifting to self-archive their scholarship, which also makes this deposit option a good first step toward familiarizing themselves with TUScholarShare. Like other institutions that have a similar service in place for their IR, we currently rely on a student assistant to help with this review work. Yet, in spite of this support, our most popular service among faculty depositors remains a labor and time-intensive workflow for the TUScholarShare team. How do we actively promote the use of this service to faculty while making the workflow more sustainable? We decided to try turning to our colleagues in Learning and Research Services for additional support.<\/span><\/p>\n

In fall 2021, we asked for liaison librarians to volunteer to review at least one CV for a faculty member from their department by the end of the fall 2021 semester. In order to support them in undertaking this work, we conducted a two-part training on the CV review service for liaisons and other interested library staff. The greater part of the training focused on showing liaisons how to do the first two parts of the CV review workflow: conducting targeted outreach to their faculty to obtain a CV and reviewing copyright and self-archiving permissions of the faculty member\u2019s scholarship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Objectives<\/b><\/p>\n

Our objectives for this project were twofold. First, we aimed to raise awareness of TUScholarShare among faculty. By drawing on the existing rapport between liaisons and their departments, we hoped to initiate a conversation about the CV review service and establish a level of trust in TUScholarShare. Second, by asking liaisons to conduct targeted outreach to their departments and review CVs, we aimed to create a more streamlined and sustainable workflow for depositing new content into the repository.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Key Findings\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Overall, <\/span>11 liaisons participated<\/b> in the training and <\/span>10 were able to obtain at least one faculty CV to review<\/b>. By the end of the project, <\/span>10 CVs (across 5 different schools\/ colleges) were reviewed<\/b> and a total of <\/span>93 new items were deposited<\/b> to the repository. Once each liaison completed their review, they were asked to complete a short survey. The survey found that:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n