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ALCTS E-Forum: Research Projects: Identification to Publication, May 21-22
Identifying a Research Project and Seeing it through to Publication
May 21-22, 2014
Sponsored by the ALCTS CRS Education, Research, and Publications Coordinating
Committee
Hosted by Mavis Molto, Heather Ruland Staines, and Cathy Weng
Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It’s free and open to everyone!
Registration information is at the end of the message.
Each day, discussion begins and ends at:
Pacific: 7am – 3pm
Mountain: 8am – 4pm
Central: 9am – 5pm
Eastern: 10am – 6pm
We are all busy today, wearing many hats and constantly juggling many
responsibilities. How can we find time to undertake a research project—let alone
get it published? Please join our e-forum to discuss ways to turn your
day-to-day activities into a research initiative. Learn what has worked for
others and brainstorm what might work for you. Learn how to identify
publications that best match your project criteria and how to submit a
successful proposal. If you have published your research project, please share
your experiences. What would you do differently? What good advice did you receive?
Topics to be covered include:
Identifying a research project
Finding a collaborator or team
Performing a literature review
Identifying publications for submission
Submitting a proposal for grants and/or to an institutional review board
Making a project checklist and timeline
Writing up findings
Submitting manuscript and respond to feedback
Hosts
Mavis Molto has worked in cataloging in special, academic, and school libraries,
with her current position being a serials cataloger at Utah State University.
She has conducted research projects and published on issues relating to
cataloging and database searching, including articles on automatic cataloging,
the use of textual analysis in full text searching, and a recent article in
Library Resources and Technical Services (Oct. 2013), entitled: “Identifying
significant changes in serials with title changes in the recognition of new works.”
Heather Ruland Staines is Vice President Publisher Development at SIPX (formerly
Stanford Intellectual Property Exchange) where she is exploring the nexus of
academic publishing, library technology, and the future of eLearning. Prior to
SIPX, she worked for Springer, as Senior Manager eOperations and Global eProduct
Manager SpringerLink. Active in many industry groups, Heather currently serves
on the Board of Directors for the Society for Scholarly Publishers and on the
ALA ALCTS CRS Education, Research, and Publications Coordinating Committee. She
is also a recent member of the Transfer Working Group. She holds a Ph.D. in
History from Yale University.
Cathy Weng is Head of Cataloging at The College of New Jersey Library. Outside
cataloging and training, Cathy has been active in research. She has published
articles in ALA publications such as Information Technology and Libraries,
College & Research Libraries, and Library Resources & Technical Services. Her
research focus areas include the library catalog interface, collection needs
assessment using usage data, and IR (institutional repository) copyright
management, among others.
What is an e-forum?
An ALCTS e-forum provides an opportunity for librarians to discuss matters of
interest, led by a moderator, through the e-forum discussion list. The e-forum
discussion list works like an email listserv: register your email address with
the list, and then you will receive messages and communicate with other
participants through an email discussion. Most e-forums last two days.
Registration is necessary to participate, but it's free. See a list of upcoming
e-forums at: http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/e-forum.
To register:
Instructions for registration are available at:
http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/e-forum/sympa. Once you have
registered for one e-forum, you do not need to register again, unless you choose
to leave the email list. Participation is free and open to anyone. If you have
any problems, please contact alcts-eforum-request_at_ala.org.
Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee
Received on Sat May 17 2014 - 03:07:59 EDT