The Georgia Tech Writing and Composition program, part of the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) builds first-year composition courses around literature, film, science, technology, and pop culture. The Library has long been embedded in this program, providing resources and course-integrated instruction led by the subject librarian for the LMC. This is a highly successful partnership with increasing demand far beyond the capabilities of a single person to meet.
For the first time, librarians whose background or primary focus is science and engineering are providing instruction to undergraduate English students. In a STEM school primarily concerned with the history of technological literature, the approach breaks new ground by combining efforts across disciplines. This presentation elucidates the model and offer perspectives from three embedded Georgia Tech subject librarians. Additionally, they will reflect on their first year in the new program, examine broader trends in library liaison models, and anticipate future developments.
In early 2016, the Georgia Tech Library reorganized many of its subject and other public-facing librarians into a single department, called Campus Engagement and Scholarly Outreach (CESO). This unit breaks down traditional liaison barriers in order to meet the rapidly shifting needs of the students, faculty, and staff of Georgia Tech. In addition to liaison librarians, CESO includes experts in assessment, digital scholarship, and data visualization among other areas of expertise. This colocation of different kinds of expertise lead to the creation of the distributed teaching model, where influences from around the academy inform and enhance instruction.
Presented at LOEX 2018 Annual Conference.
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-05)
Fruin, Christine; Rascoe, Fred
An established business model adopted by OA publishers is assessing authors an article processing charge (APC). Often, authors can rely upon research grants to cover APCs in order to comply with the grant requirements or as part of the implicit cost of research. Authors without grants, or with grants but no reserved funding, may look to their university for assistance. Universities administering funds for OA publishing must grapple with several questions about management and distribution of these funds. For publishers not relying upon APCs to fund their operations, business model experiments abound, such as the PeerJ author membership model and the SCOAP3 consortium model. The challenge for librarians is to not only educate themselves about these available business models and the pros and cons of each but also how to use that knowledge to meaningfully impact the field of scholarly communication.
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-05)
Bennett, Charlie; Hagenmaier, Wendy; Rolando, Lizzy; Rascoe, Fred; Critz, Lori; Renfro, Crystal; Baer, Willie; Axford, Mary
In this paper, we discuss the major elements of that renewal as pertaining to our Library. First, we
are a research library. A 21st century research institution still requires the multifaceted services of
a research library. We also discuss the space of the Library itself. A library has never been merely a
container for books. The physical space of the renewed Library will be the interdisciplinary platform
for innovative scholarship and learning, as services expand. Finally, we discuss the role of the
Library as an integrated network of resources, focusing on the important and unique collaborative
services provided by Library faculty and staff .
The renewed Georgia Tech Library will be the research library that Georgia Tech needs to both
support and define what a 21st century research institution should be.