“How Else Do We Engage The Community?The Value of Scholarly Outreach”

Darren G. PoleyACRL – DVCSpring 2012

Stepping Out and Stepping Up:Making A Difference On Campus

FalveyMemorialLibrary

1949

Falvey Memorial Library (c. 1968)

Falvey Memorial Library 2012

Let’s Go Inside…

Evaluate intellectual assets

It’s about people

Student Employees

Enhance the scholarly environment

For the sake of scholarship

Be welcoming to scholars

Connect with your community

How do we reach out?

Scholarly outreach and community development

Engage the Whole Person

Campus Collaboration

Cultural/Social/Intellectual Involvement

Leisure Time Activities

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Consciousness raising community literacy program that reaches the entire campus-wide community:

Books providedCommon text readCurricular tie-insCo-curricular programmingAuthor visitBooks donated

Scholarship @ Villanova

Library sponsored programming to highlight:

Faculty publicationsFaculty Research

Falvey Scholars

Annual awards given by the library to nominated senior students for capstone projects or thesis as a prize for outstanding undergraduate research

Villanova Works

Constantly build bridges

The Institutional Bibliography: A Public Record of Intellectual Contributions by

your scholarly Community

Activity Insight XML Data Dump

Document

RefWorks Tagged Format

Document

LocalVillanova Database

Activity Insight

Database

Activity Insight Intellectual

Contributions

Web Accessible Community Bibliography

Site

VuFindFaculty add vitae data into Activity

Insight

Publication info is extracted by

Library In XML format

Data is converted to RefWorks Tagged Format

via XSLT script

Villanova owns this data, but the data

is stored on a remote AI owned

database accessible only

through the AI site

Because data is not entered into AI

correctly Library staff time and

talent are needed here to convert the data into a

useable conventional form

Edited RefWorks

document is ingested into local database

via a PHP script

Community Bibliography pulls its data from the local database via

VuFind search.

Interconnectedness with other Cultural Heritage Organizations

E-Journals at Villanova University

E-Journals with Partners

Learning Commons in Falvey

Growing Event Venues Such as “Speaker’s Corner”

Big Planzz Video

Don’t neglect social media

Thank You! Questions?

darren.poley@villanova.edu