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The Evolving Role of the Library in Supporting a
Changing Research Landscape
by Karen Phillips (SVP Global Learning Resources, SAGE Publishing) <[email protected]>
In this special issue of Against the Grain, We will draw on the perspective of the needs of researchers. Roz Tedford’s article,
we aim to highlight some of the diverse academic and student researcher, the librarian “Expert, Guide, Cheerleader, Coach, Fake
ways that academic librarians support the as researcher, as well as the librarian as pro- News Combatant,” focuses on the librarian
research endeavors of researchers in their in- vider of research materials and resources and support for the student researcher ranging from
stitutions at all levels and across all disciplines as advisor in managing research data. As new a whole class session to one-to-one support for
and in a changing methods landscape. At types of big data research emerge, the need a research project. In an era of fake news, she
SAGE Publishing, we share with librarians a will only increase for knowledgeable support points to a faculty need for the library to help
focus of supporting the researcher, and we do in how to manage data and maintain openness students learn which sources to trust.
this primarily through our research methods and transparency in both data and research. We are delighted to bring to this issue the
publishing program, from our introductory ref- In this issue we start with two librarian per- voices of both a researcher and student, Diane
erence resources, our journals spectives on how they support research Hirshberg and Iain Miller, each talking
publishing, through to our in their institutions. Anne Langley’s about how they use library services and take
QASS series of quantitative article, “How Research Libraries Sup- advantage of the expertise of their librarians,
techniques for the advanced port the Research Process,” points when they find the library most helpful,
researcher, and of course our to how the research process has and tips for librarians looking to strengthen
digital library research tool become more complicated for their relationship with faculty and support
SAGE Research Methods. researchers with new funder for students. We also bring the voice of the
In this issue, we want to requirements, metrics to un- librarian as researcher with an article by Frans
draw on our publishing ex- derstand, and demands of in-
continued on page 8
perience to highlight some formation management. She
of the trends in research outlines how librarians have
as well as the library’s re- become more service-orient- What To Look For In This Issue:
sponse to these changes. ed, listening and responding to the
Blogs & Research ..............................38
If Rumors Were Horses Deciphering and Archiving
History ...............................................46
Jack Walsdorf: Bookman
Nonpareil ...........................................48
Yo everyone! We are all gearing up for to help students trans-
the 37th Charleston Conference! Can form their learned Book Proposals ..................................66
it be? Really? skills into successful Peering into Peer Review ..................67
careers. Sounds ex-
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(does she ever sit still?) Franny Lee. She University Library .............................74
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ence! Stay tuned!
Market Development at “Chegg, a public-
ly-traded company with the leading connected https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chegg Interviews
learning platform that puts students first. Its https://www.chegg.com/ Ann Michael ......................................40
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current product lines include textbook rental,
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tutoring services, test prep, internship and
scholarship platforms, etc.” Franny says Speaking of the Penthouse Suite inter- New profiles for nine people, two
she will be focusing on outcomes. It’s been views, total credit goes to Tom Gilson who companies, and four libraries ...........96
“a long-standing passion to leverage big data conceived of the idea back in November 2011 Plus more ..............................See inside
approaches to ensure we are as effective as we and Jared Seay who does all the technical
can possibly be at educating and contributing work and filming. Hip Hip Hooray and thanks!
to society.” Chegg partnered with Ingram The Penthouse interviews are on the Against
Content in 2015. Franny says they are the Grain website. For this year, interviews
working on new programs and product lines
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FEATURES
Associate Editors:
Cris Ferguson (Murray State)
Tom Gilson (College of Charleston) The Evolving Role of the Library in Supporting a Changing
John Riley (Consultant) Research Landscape — Guest Editor, Karen Phillips
Research Editors:
Judy Luther (Informed Strategies) The Evolving Role of the Library Primary Sources as a Vital Part of An
Assistants to the Editor: in Supporting a Changing Research Academic Library Collection: The
Ileana Strauch Landscape ............................................1 university of Denver Experience .....26
Toni Nix (Just Right Group, LLC)
by Karen Phillips — This issue highlights by Michael Levine-Clark — At the University
Editor At Large:
Dennis Brunning (Arizona State University) some of the diverse ways that academic li- of Denver, we have invested heavily in digital
brarians support the research endeavors of primary source collections from a range of
Contributing Editors:
Glenda Alvin (Tennessee State University) researchers in their institutions. vendors, and our reference librarians have
Rick Anderson (University of Utah) How Research Libraries Support worked closely with our special collections li-
Sever Bordeianu (U. of New Mexico) brarians to integrate print and digital primary
Todd Carpenter (NISO) the Research Process: From Idea To sources into a variety of humanities and social
Bryan Carson (Western Kentucky University) Publishing ..........................................12
science courses.
Eleanor Cook (East Carolina University)
by Anne Langley — Librarians now support
Anne Doherty (Choice) Data Management and Preservation
Ruth Fischer (SCS / OCLC) faculty and post-graduate researchers through-
of Digital Research Data ...................30
Michelle Flinchbaugh (U. of MD Baltimore County) out multiple stages of the research process, and
Joyce Dixon-Fyle (DePauw University) thus researcher interaction with the library by Sayeed Choudhury — How can libraries
Laura Gasaway (Retired, UNC, Chapel Hill) has increased. evolve data management services to support
Regina Gong (Lansing Community College) the changing needs of researchers? Linked
Chuck Hamaker (UNC, Charlotte) Expert, Guide, Cheerleader, Coach,
data graphs and moving data closer to the
William M. Hannay (Schiff, Hardin & Waite) Fake News Combatant: The Many
Mark Herring (Winthrop University) active phase of research are two approaches.
Hats of Academic Research Librarians
Bob Holley (Retired, Wayne State University) Q&A with Dr. Arthur Lupia on the
Donna Jacobs (MUSC) in Supporting Students ......................14
State of Openness and Transparency
Lindsay Wertman (IGI Global)
by Roz Tedford — Students come to college
Ramune Kubilius (Northwestern University) in Science ............................................36
Myer Kutz (Myer Kutz Associates, Inc.) with varying degrees of research experience
Tom Leonhardt behind them. But research librarians at all by Eric Moran — What gave rise to the cur-
Rick Lugg (SCS / OCLC) levels are nothing if not flexible. rent call for better sharing of research data
Jack Montgomery (Western Kentucky University) and methods?
Faculty & Student Perspectives on the
Bob Nardini (ProQuest)
Op Ed .................................................68
Jim O’Donnell (Arizona State University) Role of the Library ............................18
Ann Okerson (Center for Research Libraries) Pelikan’s Antidisambiguation — Encoding,
by Diane Hirshberg and Iain Miller — These
Rita Ricketts (Blackwell’s) Reproduction, and Fidelity by Michael P.
Jared Seay (College of Charleston) are perspectives from a university professor Pelikan — Michael was recently struck by the
and a recent university graduate on the library
ATG Proofreader: value of the printed medium.
Rebecca Saunders (College of Charleston) role in teaching and research.
back Talk .........................................102
Graphics: A Librarian’s Journey to becoming a
Bowles & Carver, Old English Cuts & Illustrations. Researcher-Practitioner....................22 Come Flash With Me! (at IFLA 2017) by
Grafton, More Silhouettes. Ehmcke, Graphic Trade Ann Okerson — Libraries and IFLA’s annual
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books About books by John Riley — A look in- Reviews of Reference Titles by Tom Gilson
side Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through — Tom reviews Great Events From History:
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booklover ...........................................46 nary of Popular Music; and more!
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From Your (hurricane-hating) Editor:
This year has been especially tiresome ford (supporting students), Diane Hershberg Library and Penn State university Libraries
with all the tropical storms and hurri- and Iain Miller (faculty and student perspec- as well as Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries.
canes. Hurricane Hugo (September tives), Frans Albarillo (a librarian research Regina Gong, Tom Gilson, Donna Jacobs,
22, 1989) is emblazoned in my memory. Had practitioner), Michael Levine-Clark (impor- Jeremy Garritano, and John Riley review
to bundle computers, dogs, kids, and as many tance of primary sources), Sayeed Choudhury and discuss books. Tom Leonhardt pens a
belongings as could fit in the car and evacuate (preservation of digital research data) touching remembrance of our old
Charleston! The devastation afterwards was and Eric Moran (a question and colleague Jack Walsdorf.
unbelievable. My condolences and sympathies answer session with Dr. Arthur Scott Smith returns with
go out to Puerto Rico, Florida Keys, Houston, Lupia on the state of transpar- “Notes From Mosier,” Mark
Louisiana, Alabama, and all those affected by ency in science). Herring is into peer review,
these natural disasters. Our Op Ed is about the Myer Kutz talks about el-
This issue of ATG – The Evolving Role fidelity of encoding and re- ements of book proposals,
of the Library in Supporting a Changing production, back Talk is Caroline J. Campbell and
Research Landscape is guest edited by Kar- about IFLA’s annual World Lindsay Wertmen explore the
en Phillips and we extend special thanks to Library and Information problem (is it?) of donations,
Camille Gamboa who helped brainstorm the Congress. Our interview is with Ann Mi- Susan J. Martin and Christie Thomas want
contents. We have papers by Anne Langley chael, President and founder of DeltaThink. to simplify the ordering process, Joe badics
(libraries and the research process), Roz Ted- There are library profiles of brooklyn College talks about staffing and print journals, Jenni-
fer Albers-Smith talks about marketing and
bookmarks. We have a brand new column
Letters to the Editor from John McDonald and Kathleen McEvoy,
dealing with library analytics, Don beagle
returns to part 3 of belmont Abbey’s QEP, Pat
Sabosik talks about blogs and their importance
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The Evolving Role of the Library ...
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ke a closer look at.... a Researcher-Practitioner,” which brings
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A key part of library support for the
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and how the librarian can support researchers
Rumors by Regina Semko, the registrar (now retired) in successfully responding to these trends.
of the Charleston Conference in December of An interview with Arthur Lupia outlines the
from page 6
2004 to compile attendee evaluation results and response of the research community to these
annual surveys for ATG. Leah left the College trends, setting up Data Access & Research
idea! The moderators are Jonathan Harwell in 2005 when her family moved upstate, where Transparency (DA-RT), and providing trans-
(Rollins) and Eleanor Cook (ECU). she continued to work as an independent con- parency and openness guidelines for research-
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ATGme- tractor for the Conference and ATG part time. ers. He sees librarians as being on the frontline
diagroup/ As her role and responsibilities have grown and of these initiatives for change and working
The fabulous Glenda Alvin was reminisc- changed in the 12 years she’s worked with us, together with DA-RT and the Center for Open
ing about past conferences and colleagues. Leah has helped the Charleston Conference Science they can help bring about changes that
There used to be a bunch of African American and Against the Grain to grow and flourish. are needed to maintain the legitimacy of Higher
Librarians that sat together when we were Leah lives in Gilbert, SC, an idyllic little com- Education research as the source of valid and
meeting in the Lightsey Center. Two of them munity near Columbia, SC, where she home reliable knowledge.
retired this year (Deborah broadwater at schools her two children (Maddie and Jacob). This is a time of change in both the meth-
Vanderbilt and Pam Theus at William Pat- Her husband Patrick is a construction manager ods of research, and the roles of the academic
erson in NJ) and two retired last year (Sharon for SCANA. In her spare time with the help of librarian. These changes come with chal-
Johnson at Austin Peay and Gloria Harvell Maddie and Jacob and Patrick, Leah takes lenges of dealing with increasing complexity,
at Virginia State). Glenda is hoping that care of a farm full of horses, dogs, goats, rab- increased demands for transparency and
some of the younger generation will step up bits, chickens, etc.... And they all participate openness, and more complex research datasets
and attend the Charleston Conference. We in 4-H activities. Talk about multi-tasking! to manage. This all means more pressure for
were gratified to learn that Aaisha Haykal, Leah says, “I’m honored and thrilled to be librarians to continually evolve their roles as
Manager of Archives at the Avery Center for named Executive Director of the Charleston supporting research of students and faculty
Research in African American History will Conference. I feel extremely fortunate to have comes with new demands. At SAGE Pub-
attend this year! Katina as a mentor and look forward to con- lishing, we are keen to find ways of supporting
tinuing to build on the conference’s tradition
big Announcement! — Leah Hinds is academic librarians to rise to these challenges.
of excellence.”
now Executive Director of the Charleston As several of our contributors point out, this
Conference! We all know Leah as the hardest www.charlestonlibraryconference.com is also an exciting time to find new ways of
working member of the Charleston team! www.charlestonbriefings.com inserting the library into the research process
Leah handles everything! She is smart, quick, More exciting news! Choice and the of their institutions, developing new skills and
and determined! Leah graduated from the Charleston Company have announced the bringing in new specialist roles to the library.
College of Charleston in 2000 and worked launch of ccAdvisor, an online review source I’d like to thank our contributors for sharing
at the College of Charleston as an Assistant for information databases and digital resourc- their experiences and insights and giving us
Director of Admissions of Graduate Studies es. ccAdvisor draws upon Choice’s and The all lots of food for thought in how to keep the
for four years. She began to work with The Charleston Advisor’s objectivity and schol- research of the institution at the heart of the
Charleston Information Group (AKA arly excellence. Rather than a digital edition activities of the library.
Charleston Conference) when she was hired
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LET’S READ REVENGE LET’S READ ABOUT WW II CORRESPONDENTS
by Bruce Strauch (The Citadel, Emeritus) by Bruce Strauch (The Citadel, Emeritus)
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1861) (the jilted Miss Eric Sevareid, Not So Wild a Dream (1946) (hired by Ed Murrow,
Havisham takes revenge on the world); (2) Ian Fleming, Moonrak- later a major TV newsman); (2) Alan Moorehead, Eclipse (1945)
er (1955) (ex-Nazi Hugo Drax plans to blow up London; Fleming (graphic account of the Falaise Gap is unsurpassed by any other writing
writing in his prime); (3) Agatha Christie, the Mirror Crack’d From of the war); (3) Osmar White, Conquerors’ Road (1996) (his dark
Side to Side (1962) (Miss Marple allows sympathetic killer to escape side of the war accounts of black marketeering, criticism of Patton and
justice); (4) Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin (1867) (lovers murder girl’s revulsion at Nuremberg trials got him rejected by publishers immedi-
husband, destroyed by madness and guilt); (5) Arthur Conan Doyle, ately post-war, much later in print); (4) Ernie Pyle, Brave Men (1944)
A Study in Scarlet (1887) (Doyle’s first big novel and the first modern (focused on the ordinary grunt, he became the most read correspondent
detective story). of the war); (5) George Weller, Weller’s War (2009) (covered more
See — Anthony Horowitz, “Five Best,” The Wall Street Journal, battle-fronts than anyone; first into Nagasaki).
June 10-11, 2017; p. C10. See — Ray Moseley, “Five Best,” The Wall Street Journal, July
Horowitz is the creator of “Foyle’s War” and author of “Magpie 1-2, 2017, p. C10.
Murders.” Moseley is the author of “Reporting War: How Foreign Corre-
spondents Risked Capture, Torture and Death to Cover World War II.”
CHASING KEATS IN SCOTLAND
RED CLOUD: CATHER COUNTRY
by Bruce Strauch (The Citadel, Emeritus)
by Bruce Strauch (The Citadel, Emeritus)
In the early 1800s, Scotland was a hot literary tourist destination.
“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating
It had been made famous by Wordsworth, boswell and Johnson, and
themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened.” — Willa Cather.
Robert burns.
Red Cloud, Nebraska is like Hannibal, MO and Oxford, MS — each
In the summer of 1818, Keats set off on a fanboy hike. At Word-
inscribed with a writer’s identity. The National Willa Cather Center
sworth’s home in the Lake District, the great man was out. Keats
has opened with archives, museum exhibits, apartments for scholars
left a note.
and book store.
At burns’ home in Alloway, south of Glasgow, Keats found the
“Cather People” as the locals call the literary tourists are a key
cottage turned into a pub and a drunk old fool spinning yarns in a swap
element of the local economy. The Cather home has been preserved,
for ale.
and the train station is a museum. A 600-acre preserved prairie — the
Today, the town museum holds the world’s largest collection of
Willa Cather Memorial Prairie — has the never-plowed grassland of
burns manuscripts plus a “Burns Jukebox” with “Power Ballads” and
the 1880s when she moved there from Virginia.
“Tearjerkers.”
This is quite a worthwhile article that reviews Cather’s life and
Keats went on to Mull, Iona and Inverness. He returned to London
career at McClure’s and as a novelist, her lesbian romances and her
for the most productive year of his life, penning “Ode to a Nightingale”
place as a major modernist rivaling Woolf and Joyce.
and “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”
See — Alex Ross, “Cather People,” The New Yorker, Oct. 2, 2017,
See — Anna Russell (who recently made the journey by car),
p.32.
“Poetry in Motion,” The Wall Street Journal, July 15-16, 2017, p. D3.
LET’S READ ABOUT ADULTERY
LET’S READ NOVELS SET IN LONDON by Bruce Strauch (The Citadel, Emeritus)
by Bruce Strauch (The Citadel, Emeritus) Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust (1934) (this is Waugh’s great
Elizabeth bowen, The Heat of the Day (1948) (espionage and one where the cuckolded husband ends up trapped by a lunatic on the
blackmail in wartime); (2) J.M. Coetzee, Youth (2002) (self-loathing Amazon endlessly reading aloud from Dickens); (2) Ford Madox
S. African poet lives in drab bedsits working as computer programmer Ford, The Good Soldier (1915) (wealthy British and American couples
while trying to write); (3) Nell Dunn, Poor Cow (1967) (working at German spa); (3) Henry James, The Golden Bowl (1904) (impoverish
class girl with boyfriend in prison turns tricks for cash); (4) Arnold Roman prince and his no-money American lover each marry money and
bennett, Riceyman Steps (1923) (over-the-top miser runs second hand then continue their affair); (4) Stendhal, The Red and the Black (1830)
book store in Clerkenwell); (5) Muriel Spark, A (provincial aristocrat wife and the teenage tutor of her children); (5)
Far Cry From Kensington (1988) (young war Guy de Maupassant, Like Death (1889) (politician’s wife has affair
widow lives in wretched boarding house with portrait painter who in turn falls in love with her daughter).
amidst malice, secrecy and paranoia yet book See — Anka Muhlstein, “Five Best,” The Wall Street
is a revenge comedy). Journal, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2017, p.C16.
See — Helen Simpson, “Five Best,” Muhlstein is the author of “The Pen and the Brush:
The Wall Street Journal, June 17-18, 2017, How Passion for Art Shaped 19th-Century French
p. C10. Novels.”
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