{"id":19741,"date":"2017-08-16T20:01:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T19:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=19741"},"modified":"2017-08-16T20:01:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T19:01:44","slug":"underutilized-consider-discarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2017\/08\/16\/underutilized-consider-discarding\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Underutilized, consider discarding’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cambridge University asks: How to “provide training solutions for scholarly communication”<\/a> in the UK? Not usually, it would seem from reading this article, by inviting along the member of the library school staff who teaches such things…<\/p>\n

“It is fairly universally acknowledged that it is a challenge to engage with library schools [in universities] on the issue of scholarly communication, despite repositories being a staple part of research library infrastructure for well over a decade. There are a few exceptions but generally open access or other aspects of scholarly communication are completely absent from the curricula<\/strong>.” (my emphasis)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Amazing: one would have thought that Open Access — along with all the other ‘public and free-to-access’ online sources from Google Books to data sources — would have been covered in a compulsory double-module for an entire semester of the second year of a degree in librarianship. But apparently not, though no doubt there are a few unremarked exceptions quietly doing good work. <\/p>\n

Note that this new article has an associated Google Docs list of the (currently very minimal) UK provision for Scholarly Communication training provision<\/a>, including a useful linked list of online caches of free training materials. <\/p>\n

The introduction to this Google Doc further suggests that such training is not always present even at the Masters degree level, or is not there of sufficient duration and quality…<\/p>\n

“… the traditional educational route for library workers through a Masters degree does not always equip them with an adequate level of knowledge [on open access, copyright and research data]”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The implication of the Cambridge University article is that other professional groups may have to be asked to provide such training to researchers, since librarians as-a-class seem to be so unwilling to engage with these pressing topics. It seems yet another indicator that librarians as-a-class are at risk of being labelled: ‘Underutilized, consider discarding’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cambridge University asks: How to “provide training solutions for scholarly communication” in the UK? Not usually, it would seem from …<\/p>\n

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