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    LIBRARY STAFF WORKING FROM HOME: MEET EMILY!

    by Eva Romanick January 12, 2021
    written by Eva Romanick

    With the majority of students and staff being advised to work and study from home, this is how our staff are supporting online learning…

    Say “hello” to Emily and her pup, Noodle!

    As the Publishing & Digitization Specialist on the Library Publishing and Digital Production Services team, Emily is busy answering emails on the daily.

    On the “publishing” side, Digital Initiatives supports journal editors and textbook authors working on open access projects. For many students, researchers, authors and editors who are engaging with the publishing process for the first time, it can be a real head-scratcher. There’s a lot of elements to consider, from policies to publishing ethics, editorial workflows, copyright and everything in between. Emily helps demystify the process through consultation and documentation, all the while offering lots of software support. Our journals run on an open source platform called OJS (Open Journal Systems), which has a fantastic international community, and for which we’re a development partner. And, our textbooks are published on PressBooks.

    When a journal publishes a new issue, there is a list of routine tasks to run through: 

    • Check that things look right. Is all the information where it’s supposed to be? 
    • Check that the DOIs are working properly — dead links are annoying and detrimental! 
    • Google Scholar crawls our journals automatically, but many indexing and database services don’t. Depending on the journal, Emily may need to submit metadata (information about articles) to databases. 
    • And then, lastly, contact our awesome social media team to help signal boost! Do you follow us yet? Instagram? Twitter? Facebook? Newsblog?
    INvoke, an undergraduate journal that covers sociological topics.

    “It’s such a pleasure to work with student journals. I wish I’d known more about publishing opportunities when I was in undergrad myself!”

    All our journals are completely free to read by anyone with an internet connection, anywhere in the world. Check out our full list of publishings at the University of Alberta Library!

    Emily’s coworker, Noodle, is a 9-pound-nothing rescue from Mexico with very little fur… So he wears a sweater indoors 10 months of the year, and several more layers when it snows. Emily and her partner decided to join workspaces in the living room, to remind each other to take tea breaks (their 4-legged colleague never brings in any snacks).
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  • LIBRARIANS WORKING FROM HOME: MEET DAVID!

    by Eva Romanick December 10, 2020
    by Eva Romanick December 10, 2020

    With the majority of students and staff being advised to work and study from home, this is how our librarians are supporting online learning… Our Academic Librarian, David, is not really doing anything new. We’ve been using online materials and interacting digitally, often outside “normal” business hours, for a long time. Learning on our own through recordings of other people’s ideas is nothing new either; think of books, journals, newspapers, videos, tapes,…

  • LIBRARIANS WORKING FROM HOME: MEET DALE, PART II: LOOKING AHEAD TO 2021!

    by Eva Romanick November 24, 2020
    by Eva Romanick November 24, 2020

    This is a special two part interview with our Vice-Provost (Library & Museums) & Chief Librarian, Dale Askey. Part One (posted yesterday) reflected back on 2020 and how it changed UAlberta Library. Today’s Part Two is looking forward to 2021 and beyond. Do you have any ‘hot-takes’ about what libraries will look like in the future? Looking fairly far out into the future, say a generation from now, I think we will…

  • LIBRARIANS WORKING FROM HOME: MEET DALE, PART I: REFLECTIONS!

    by Eva Romanick November 23, 2020
    by Eva Romanick November 23, 2020

    This is a special two part interview with our Vice-Provost (Library & Museums) & Chief Librarian, Dale Askey. Part One reflects back on 2020 and how it changed UAlberta Library. Part Two (coming tomorrow) is looking forward to 2021 and beyond. How has working from home changed the way you work and interact with U of A and UAL staff? Profoundly. I’m a social person who enjoys conversation and interacting with a…

  • LIBRARIANS WORKING FROM HOME: MEET ALLISON!

    by Eva Romanick November 12, 2020
    by Eva Romanick November 12, 2020

    With the majority of students and staff being advised to work and study from home, this is how our librarians are supporting online learning… Our Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation Librarian, Allison, has students asking her all kinds of questions. How to refine their searches so they don’t get overwhelmed with citations? Where they can go to find the information they need? And, whether she can help create sophisticated searches for comprehensive reviews…

  • LIBRARIANS WORKING FROM HOME: MEET SARAH

    by Alèthe K. July 14, 2020
    by Alèthe K. July 14, 2020

    With the majority of students and staff being advised to work and study from home, this is how our librarians are supporting online learning… Sarah Shaughnessy, librarian from the Bibliothèque Saint-Jean (BSJ) mostly enjoys working at home, although her computer’s camera gives her a constant reminder that her home office needs painting, cleaning and repairs. “My BSJ colleagues say this giant drywall patch looks like a cloud.  I’ve thought about putting a…

  • Librarians Working From Home: Meet Anne!

    by Eva Romanick June 11, 2020
    by Eva Romanick June 11, 2020

    With the majority of students and staff being advised to work and study from home, this is how our librarians are supporting online learning… When classes moved online, Anne was in Halifax. The day she returned to Alberta, everyone started working from home. Anne Carr-Wiggin quarantined herself for over two weeks and had everything delivered to her doorstep. A couple of kind colleagues even brought delicious soup! Anne grew up close to…

  • Let us introduce you to… Kayla Lar-Son!

    by Eva Romanick April 16, 2020
    by Eva Romanick April 16, 2020

    Staff profiles tell the story of an organization. Here at the University of Alberta Library, this is ours… Meet Kayla Lar-Son!Kayla Lar-Son is an Indigenous Academic Resident in Digital Initiatives. She is also an outreach librarian for the Transition Year Program at the University. Originally, Kayla is from Tofield AB, and is a proud member of the Metis Nation. When she’s not at work she can be seen scooting around town in…

  • Librarians working from home: Meet Jessica!

    by Eva Romanick March 31, 2020
    by Eva Romanick March 31, 2020

    With the majority of students and staff being advised to work and study from home, this is how our librarians are supporting online learning… How do you train an animal on a farm? What does its habitat look like, and how does it play? These are just some questions that an ALES class needs to answer for an assignment in this new, all-virtual, learning environment. They need to pick an animal species…

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