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UIC Library Liaison Program: Activities, Competencies, and Indicators
4 |UIC Library Liaison Activities, Competencies, and Indicators, July 2015
o Librarians can refer patrons to the DMPTool
o Librarians can explain how to cite data in articles
o Librarians can communicate/advocate/ market the library’s role in data
management to users
o See Liaison Librarian Competencies
Scholarly Communications
o Liaisons are able to articulate issues in scholarly communication and describe
scholarly communication/ open access/ publishing services offered by library
o Liaisons are knowledgeable about and are able to speak to a range of scholarly
communication issues, including rising journals costs, new models for publishing,
publishing fees, open access memberships, relevant legislation, UIC initiatives,
author rights, open access.
Help faculty and graduate students to understand their rights as authors
Promote use of CIC addendum
Promote use of Creative Commons License
Advocate for sustainable models of scholarly communication
o Support and promote Library SC initiatives (INDIGO@UIC, Journals@UIC, open
access memberships)
INDIGO@UIC
Helping administrators, faculty, and students understand the role of the
INDIGO in preserving and promoting scholarship
Assist in content recruitment identify content appropriate for IR
Journals@UIC
Promote Journals@UIC as an alternative to traditional publishers for
publishing journals
ROAAP Fund
Promote UIC Research Open Access Article Publishing (ROAAP) Fund
See Scholarly Communication Competencies for UIC Librarians
Special Collections &Archives
o Level one (all liaisons)
o Have a general understanding of SCUA unit organization and know the SCUA
liaisons within the department: Val Harris, rare books, Peggy Glowacki,
manuscripts Megan Keller, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Kevin O’Brien,
Health Sciences
o Refer inquiries to appropriate staff, usually via QP or the LibChat IM queue.
o Have a general knowledge of SCUA policies and procedures, including public
hours, how researchers access collections.
o Level two (liaisons with relevant disciplines):
o Have reviewed SCUA holdings for their subject area in person.
o Be able to describe, in general, SCUA holdings relevant to their subject area
(e.g., for sociology, we hold papers of a number of cultural organizations and
social service agencies particularly related to Eastern European immigration
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