Poster presented at American Library Association 2009 Annual Conference
Chicago, IL - July 2009
by Wes Wilson, Ruth Szpunar, Tiffany Hebb,
Rick Provine & Kathryn Courtland Millis
Academic libraries routinely display books written by their institution’s faculty, to celebrate faculty contributions to knowledge and library’s role in supporting faculty scholarship. But these represent only a segment of scholarly and artistic work, face challenges in an increasingly online information environment, and are only available to those in the library building.
At DePauw, we’ve created an online guide to faculty scholarly and artistic work. We list (and when possible link to) articles, books, and presentations, and are adding recognition of musical, theatrical, artistic, and other creative works. This guide builds upon our archivist’s online finding aid for historic faculty publications (some of which is being digitized for inclusion in CONTENTdm). Creating the guide gave us opportunities to collaborate with staff in faculty development, public relations, and other administrative offices.
We have not given up the physical book display, but have moved it to a prominent location in our café, where we host book-signings for faculty authors. These celebrate faculty scholarship and acknowledge the importance of physical library materials. Together, the guide, the ongoing display, and the receptions reiterate the collaboration between the libraries and our faculty scholars and artists.
See our faculty scholarship guide:
See our CONTENTdm collection:
The information (including content and links) in this guide will not likely be updated after the time of the presentation. Please contact the presenter(s) with any questions.
