SPEC Kit 346: Scholarly Output Assessment Activities  · 45
In theory, all of our librarians with public service responsibilities might have some experience with scholarly output
assessment activities. However, for the purpose of this survey, I have indicated the number of librarians most likely to be
involved with these activities on a routine basis: subject-specialist librarians, librarians serving our professional schools
(medicine and law), and librarians serving graduate programs outside the main campus.
It is not so much the reallocation or addition of staff as the realignment of existing subject specialist roles to support
bibliometric analysis and publication analytics. This survey does not sufficiently account for that possibility.
Law notes that services are provided by designated specialist. UL notes training and services. At Law, faculty services
librarian may occasionally request support from other librarians. At UL, various liaisons provide these services, or they
are provided at the reference desk, thus difficult to estimate FTE/staff time overall with exception of CODA librarian,
who does this work.
Liaison librarians provide many of these services to their constituents as part of their professional assignment. We are
looking to incorporate skills and expertise into position descriptions for new hires, particularly in STEM fields.
Liaison librarians provide support and training for scholarly output assessment upon request and through targeted
workshops for faculty.
No one has specific responsibility for this, no one is specifically designated to deal with these issues, but anyone who
works with faculty will provide services related to SOA.
No library employee is tasked solely with work related to scholarly output assessment. The work is done by full-time
librarians but it is only part of any individual’s workload.
Scholarly Communications committee that offers programming and services about scholarly output assessment. The
committee is made up of librarians from various libraries on campus.
Scholarly output assessment is considered to be an important component of the liaison role and broadening this skill
set needs to be carried out in a coordinated fashion. An assessment protocol needs to be established to review the
current products.
Scholarly output assessment is not an official, explicit part of any position description, however, the people who provide
these services do so because they believe it falls within their responsibility.
Scholarly output assessment work with library users is part of the typical subject librarian portfolio of outreach and
reference activities.
Staff has not been hired specifically for this, but a combination of new and existing staff have this as part of
their portfolio.
Staffing model varies a lot in different libraries. On medical campus two librarians have responsibility; on non-medical
campus all subject/departmental librarians would include scholarly output assessment services and training in their
responsibilities and amount of attention varies widely by personnel and by discipline.
Subject/area librarians and other full-time staff in Research Services and Collections, Technical Services, and Scholarly
Communications provide support related to scholarly output assessment on an ad hoc basis. There are no dedicated
staff members whose responsibilities are only related to this area.
The University Library is currently building an Office of Research to support the research activities of faculty and
students. This will include increased attention on scholarly analytics and collaboration with other units on campus.
The librarians who sometimes provide scholarly output assessment do so only very rarely and on a casual basis. There is
not developed program for this.
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