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“No Librarian is an Island”:Making Connections for Open Advocacy
Lauren B. CollisterScholarly Communications Librarian
University Library SystemUniversity of Pittsburgh
[email protected] @parnopaeus
This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
A Problem
LOCAL AND INTERNAL APPROACH
Have a Party
Do Some Groundwork
• Lunch and Learn sessions for colleagues– Bring snacks!– Have a “toolbox tip” – a concrete take-away that
colleagues can use. – Entire lineup: http://d-
scholarship.pitt.edu/19581/
• Build a track / interest group– Those who came to the lunch & learns all the time– Tasks related to their work.– Example: liaison librarians & advocacy
Advocacy Party• Ask liaisons (subject specialists) “What are your
faculty preoccupied with?”– Answers: ResearchGate/Academia.edu (should we be
using these?), grant funding, impact• Help connect to Open
– Question about ResearchGate? Let them know that our Institutional Repository is less spammy and connected to Google Scholar
– How to show impact? Make their work Open in IR or OA journal, reach a wider audience, plus use altmetrics to track.
– Grant funding? Many funders have an OA requirement – time to start thinking about that now!
Librarians “Walk the Walk”
If we are going to suggest being Open to the scholars and researchers that we work with, we should be Open ourselves.
Action items: Sign an Open pledge, have your work in the repository, use altmetrics on your CV, start conversations about flipping journals to OA. Keep up with this! Ask for “open stories”.
Be Present!
Connect with Role Models
http://pi.tt/openinaction
EXTERNAL APPROACH
Building Some Bridges
ECL Call
• Shoutout to the organizing group:– Emma Molls– Chealsye Bowley– Haley Walton– Lisa Kietzer– & Joe McArthur for support & keeping us together
Community of Practice
• Inspired by OpenCon 2014 post-IMLS meeting “dive bar gathering”.
• Disciplinary mailing list not helpful / kind of intimidating for early career librarians
• “Safe space” for Early Career Librarians working in Open
The Community
• Monthly calls (like OpenCon Community Calls)– 1st call: April 2016– 8 successful calls since then! – Average of 27 participants from up to 5 different
countries. • Topics and agendas set out in advance,
sometimes guest speakers • Opportunity to share happy news, ask
questions, and learn from other ECLs• Join us: http://bit.ly/ECLCall
Thank you!
[email protected] @parnopaeus