42 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
offered six or more times a year at the library. Also, a community series of four weekly Science Café programs featuring
six professors was recently held at the local public library.
Occasionally, typically for book publications.
Open Access Week events symposia in Special Collections and elsewhere
Series title: Chats in the Stacks
The Divinity Library has an ongoing series of recorded interviews (published on the web pages) with faculty about
recently published books.
The Libraries have hosted public presentations by faculty/researchers who serve as editors or founders of open access
journals or conferences that are in ScholarWorks @UMass Amherst, our institutional repository’s journal software,
(bepress Digital Commons).
The Libraries’ Center for Community Initiatives sponsors a lecture series for faculty to discuss their research
(and publications).
The University Libraries has a “Visible Scholar” initiative.
We regularly hold talks in which faculty present their research. They don’t necessarily discuss their publications explicitly,
but most often the research they’re presenting is based on something they’ve published or are preparing for publication.
Answered No, but we plan to N=2
Part of our library’s near-future renewal/renovation is creating space to showcase scholar work in many different ways.
Working on new programming series as part of services of the Scholars’ Commons.
Answered No N=3
Done at the university and academic college level.
Not at this time but this is an interesting idea.
The Libraries does not have an ongoing program for public presentations by faculty/researchers to discuss their research
publications, but there have been ad hoc presentations by faculty/researchers on open access, authors rights, or their
research as part of the Scholarly Communications and Management Program (SCAMP), LAUC-I Programs (librarian
association programs), and as part of our development efforts.
17. Does your library have a web page dedicated to showcasing faculty/researcher publications? N=69
Yes 18 26%
No, but we plan to 9 13%
No 42 61%
Comments N=19
Answered Yes N=10
DigitalGeorgetown
offered six or more times a year at the library. Also, a community series of four weekly Science Café programs featuring
six professors was recently held at the local public library.
Occasionally, typically for book publications.
Open Access Week events symposia in Special Collections and elsewhere
Series title: Chats in the Stacks
The Divinity Library has an ongoing series of recorded interviews (published on the web pages) with faculty about
recently published books.
The Libraries have hosted public presentations by faculty/researchers who serve as editors or founders of open access
journals or conferences that are in ScholarWorks @UMass Amherst, our institutional repository’s journal software,
(bepress Digital Commons).
The Libraries’ Center for Community Initiatives sponsors a lecture series for faculty to discuss their research
(and publications).
The University Libraries has a “Visible Scholar” initiative.
We regularly hold talks in which faculty present their research. They don’t necessarily discuss their publications explicitly,
but most often the research they’re presenting is based on something they’ve published or are preparing for publication.
Answered No, but we plan to N=2
Part of our library’s near-future renewal/renovation is creating space to showcase scholar work in many different ways.
Working on new programming series as part of services of the Scholars’ Commons.
Answered No N=3
Done at the university and academic college level.
Not at this time but this is an interesting idea.
The Libraries does not have an ongoing program for public presentations by faculty/researchers to discuss their research
publications, but there have been ad hoc presentations by faculty/researchers on open access, authors rights, or their
research as part of the Scholarly Communications and Management Program (SCAMP), LAUC-I Programs (librarian
association programs), and as part of our development efforts.
17. Does your library have a web page dedicated to showcasing faculty/researcher publications? N=69
Yes 18 26%
No, but we plan to 9 13%
No 42 61%
Comments N=19
Answered Yes N=10
DigitalGeorgetown
