IACRL People's Choice Award in Scholarly Publishing Voting is Closed!
Voting for the 2024 IACRL People’s Choice Award in Scholarly Publishing is now closed. Please vote for ONE of the submissions below by Friday, April 12. When deciding for which submission to vote, please consider the following criteria.
Organization and content of submission
- Is it divided into separate sections for the introduction, research question, methodology, results, conclusions, etc.?
- Do the initial question, the methods for data collection and analysis, and the findings demonstrate a thorough and accurate research process?
- Are any graphs, tables, or other visual representations clearly related to the information in the text?
- Does the abstract clearly summarize the main points?
Clarity of writing and relevance of sources
- Is the information in the submission easy for someone unfamiliar with the topic to understand?
- Are any technical terms or concepts clearly explained, including in visual representations, as one would expect in a scholarly publication?
- Are the sources that are cited or listed professional works providing context for the research?
Relevance to Illinois libraries
- Is this a study you could see recreating at your own library, at least on a certain scale?
- Could you apply the conclusions of the research to daily operations at your own library, such as improving an existing service or adding a new one?
- Is this a scholarly publication you would recommend to a colleague?
The IACRL Awards Committee will announce the top three places (including ties) once the votes are tallied.
Voting is Closed
Title: "African American Undergraduate Students’ Perceived Welcomeness at a Midsized University Library," in Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 18(3), 3–25.
Authors: Ellen Corrigan and Kirstin Duffin, Eastern Illinois University
Summary: This project assessed African American students’ feelings of comfort and belonging about engaging with library resources and services at a public regional comprehensive university in the midwestern United States.
Full Text: https://bit.ly/3ToTMvo
Title: “Cracking the Code on Acquisitions: Transitions from Voyager to Alma," in Library Resources and Technical Services, 67, no. 3 (2023): 79-89.
Authors: Will Midgley and Kavita Mundle, University of Illinois Chicago
Summary: In the summer of 2020 the Library, along with ninety other members of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois, went live in the final phase of a consortial migration to the Alma Library Services Platform. The absence of a “reporting funds” level in the ledger hierarchy in Alma threatened a fundamental premise of our long-established acquisitions processes through which Acquisitions staff translated transactions between a librarian-facing ledger and totally different University financial categories. A creative solution using Alma’s “Reporting Codes” feature was discovered after interviews with stakeholders, which prevented significant confusion throughout the Library and preserved all our processes. This case study describes the history of our acquisitions practices, the fundamental problem raised by the ledger structure in Alma as compared to Voyager, and the solution designed utilizing Alma’s “Reporting Codes” feature.
Full Text: https://bit.ly/48Ma6L8
Title: “Survive and Sustain”: Adaptive and Innovative Library Instruction in the Time of COVID-19," in Internet Reference Services Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/10875301.2022.2163021
Authors: Christina Norton, Bradley University; Anne Armstrong, University of Illinois Chicago; Dee Anna Phares, Northern Illinois University; Kristin Allen, Harper College; Amy Hall, National Louis University, and Tish Hayes, Moraine Valley Community College
Summary: This study surveys members of an Illinois state-wide consortium to chart changes to the instructional practices of academic librarians in response to the conditions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey findings and analysis provide insights into changes made to multiple aspects of participants’ teaching, such as modality, technology use, instructional design, and adjustments to students’ socioemotional needs at a time of rapid change, disruption, and stress. In addition to exploring instructional adaptations of librarians, the study identifies gaps in institutional support that might be addressed at the consortial level. While librarians initially altered their teaching and instructional services in “emergency mode,” their reflections reveal that many changes could be beneficial and long-lasting, given adequate and sustained support.
Full Text: https://bit.ly/438x4LB
Title: “Going beyond the Source: A Revised Curriculum for Source Evaluation,” in College & Research Libraries News, vol. 84, no. 8, Association of College and Research Libraries, 2023, pp. 286-,.
Authors: Firouzeh Rismiller, Holly Cerney, Susan Shultz, Grace Spiewak, and Sveta Stoytcheva, DePaul University
Summary: The DePaul University Library has a longstanding relationship with the First-Year Writing Program to provide information literacy instruction to students in Writing, Rhetoric & Discourse (WRD) 104, a required course for all DePaul University undergraduates. Partnering in these courses is the foundation of the library’s information literacy program: we provide instruction to every section of WRD 104 to introduce these concepts to as many first-year students as possible. We have a standardized curriculum for the WRD 104 library instruction session. The curriculum is developed by the Instruction Working Group (IWG), a committee chaired by the instructional services librarian and made up of three or four additional instruction librarians who serve two-year terms.
Full Text: https://bit.ly/3Trn2Sc
Title: "Ongoing Assessments : Benefits and Challenges of Using Patron Surveys during the Pandemic," in Journal of Library Administration, 63(6), 833–841.
Author: Jung Mi Scoulas, Linda Naru, and Elena Carrillo, University of Illinois Chicago
Summary: This column discusses the benefits and limitations of continuous assessment by reporting on the authors’ perspectives of ongoing assessment using examples from patron surveys designed to understand user experience in the physical library and to measure whether needs were met throughout the pandemic. This column will be helpful to anyone involved in assessment or who is interested in what factors to consider while carrying out ongoing assessment or using evidence-based data for decision-making.
Full Text: https://bit.ly/3uS65qW
Title: "Policy matters: EDI evaluation of an academic library's policies," in Journal of Radical Librarianship, 9, 133-149.
Authors: Kimberly Shotick, Northern Illinois University; Michele N. Hunt, Northern Illinois University; Sata Prescott, Northern Illinois University; Alissa Droog, Northern Illinois University; and Sarah McHone-Chase, Aurora University
Summary: Why does policy matter, and how can libraries reform their policies to create a more equitable library for library workers and library users? The authors discuss their experience in reviewing the policies of their library with a DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) lens. The authors describe how they initiated and developed this project, the factors that they considered in forming their evaluation rubric, and what they learned from the process.
Full Text: https://bit.ly/3PcgSmG
Title: "Documenting Classification Systems: A Case Study and Considerations," in Library Resources and Technical Services, 67(1).
Authors: Christopher A. Straughn, Ph.D., MSLIS, Northeastern Illinois University
Summary: There is little literature on documenting the correct application of classification systems. This paper seeks to remedy this gap by describing how Northeastern Illinois University created documentation for their implementation of system that describes Illinois State publications. We recommend creating documentation that is flexible, accessible, and user-oriented. Flexible documentation not only facilitates changes to the documentation, it also allows librarians to take advantage of other uses of this documentation. In our case, the process of documentation produced a near complete listing of Illinois publications and provided the basis for a structural history of Illinois government. Documentation of classification systems not only improves library work, but also assists in preserving artifacts of library history.
Full Text: https://bit.ly/3P9Tvdf
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