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The University Library provides and promotes discovery tools, trusted informational resources, and information literacy skills as a vital campus partner in ensuring that the university will lead the world in advancing the land-grant ideals of putting science, technology and human creativity to work. In doing so, the Library equips faculty, staff and students to create, share and apply knowledge in addressing the challenges of the 21st century. The University Library features a collection of over 2.6 million volumes, with strengths in biological and physical sciences and technology.

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https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/handle/20.500.12876/99040

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Student Success Outcomes and Predictors from the 2019 Student Survey

2021-01 , Anderson, Linda , University Library , Library Assessment

Averages of two student success measures, cumulative GPA and response to the survey question “To what extent have the Library’s resources and services contributed to your academic success?”, were estimated at two different levels of library resource usage and library building usage and for a variety of student groups, while adjusting for demographics and other predictor variables.

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What’s Your Tier? Introducing Library Partnership (LP) Certification for Journal Publishers

2021-11-16 , Caldwell, Rachel , Sinn, Robin , University Library

As libraries consider how to support the global transition to open, choices and priorities can be overwhelming. Annie Johnson described the difficult place librarians inhabit, including shrinking collections budgets and greater needs to provide paywalled content and support open publishing efforts. In addition to financial concerns, libraries also need to make “informed, strategic decisions about which initiatives to support (and which not to support) [while acknowledging that] each agreement takes so much time to evaluate.” In this situation, so aptly described by Johnson, assessing publishers’ practices is a useful approach.

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ISU Library Focus Group Report by Question and Group

2022 , Davis, Greg , University Library , Library Assessment

Focus Group Report by Question and Group, data reflects interviews with Students, Faculty, Stakeholders, Library

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Share the Space - Actions to make library spaces more accessible

2022 , Davis, Greg , Vega García, Susan , Wampole, Katie , Library Assessment , University Library

In the fall of 2021 the ISU Library surveyed students supported by our campus student accessibility services department. The goal of the survey was to collect ideas for how to make our library spaces more accessible. The goal for this LAC poster is to describe our survey and share the action steps we took based on the information collected.

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Information flows and topic modeling in corporate governance

2020-06-19 , Anderson, Marc , Kushkowski, Jeffrey , White, Robert , Shrader, Charles , Management and Entrepreneurship , University Library , Management

Purpose – Multiple disciplines such as finance, management and economics have contributed to governance research over time. However, the full intellectual structure of the governance “field” including the exchange of knowledge across disciplines and the large variety of governance topics remains to be uncovered. To appreciate the breadth of corporate governance research, it is necessary to understand the disciplinary sources from which the research stems. This manuscript focuses on the interdisciplinary underpinnings of corporate governance research.

Design/methodology/approach – This paper employs bibliometric analysis to trace the evolution of corporate governance using articles included in the ISI Web of Science database between 1990 and 2015. Journals included in these categories encompass a full range of business disciplines and provide evidence of the multi-disciplinary nature of corporate governance. It also uncovers the topics treated by disciplines under the governance umbrella using a machine learning method called latent Dirichtlet allocation (LDA).

Findings – Corporate governance research deals with a number of strategy-related topics. Unlike strategy topics that reside in a single discipline, corporate governance crosses disciplinary boundaries and includes contributions from accounting, finance, economics, law and management. Our analysis shows that over 80% of corporate governance articles come from outside the field of management. Our LDA solution indicates that the major topics in governance research include corporate governance theory, control of family firms, executive compensation and audit committees.

Originality/value – The results illustrate that corporate governance is far more interdisciplinary than previously thought. This is an important insight for corporate governance academics and may lead to collaborative research. More importantly, this research illustrates the usefulness of LDA for investigating interdisciplinary fields. This method is easily transferable to other interdisciplinary fields and it provides a powerful alternative to existing bibliometric methods. We suggest a number of topic areas within library and information science where this method may be applied, including collection development, support for interdisciplinary faculty and basic research into emerging interdisciplinary areas.

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Trimming the Sails: What Libraries Need to Know about Transformative Agreements

2020 , Campbell, Colleen , Brundy, Curtis , University Library , Collections and Technical Services

In response to increasing demand for scholarly journals to transition from the subscription business model to open access, libraries and consortia are driving the next evolution in licensing by integrating open-access publishing into their agreements with scholarly publishers. These new license models, or Transformative Agreements, are, by nature, iterative, temporary, and transitional, but can all be characterized by their overarching objectives, underlying cost mechanisms that shift payments from subscriptions to publishing, and new workflow and metadata standards that are rapidly becoming standard business practice in scholarly publishing and library processes, ushering in operational readiness for a scholarly publishing system in which “open” is the default.

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Iowa State University Library Assessment Plan 2017-2022

2022 , Davis, Greg , Anderson, Linda , University Library , Library Assessment

The Iowa State University Library Assessment Program (ISULAP) raises the Library’s visibility and promotes the value of its collections, programs, services, and expert staff to multiple audiences both on- and off- campus. Using words, numbers, imagery, and context ISULAP assists users of the library in benefiting from the library and the services the library provides.

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Subscribe to Progress: Advancing Equity Through Openness

2021-08-16 , Brundy, Curtis , Steel, Ginny , University Library , Library Administration

A blog post about the Open Access business model Subscribe to Open (S2O).

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Improving Subject Headings for Iowa Indigenous Peoples

2022-01 , Campbell, Heather , Dieckman, Christopher S. , Rose, Nausicaa , Wintermute, Harriet , University Library

By authorizing outdated terms for North American Indigenous peoples, the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) vocabulary deprioritizes or ignores the preferred names of the peoples being described. As a result, cataloging and metadata professionals constrained by LCSH often must apply names imposed during colonization. For example, in many library catalogs, works about people of the Meskwaki Nation in Iowa are labeled with “Fox Indians--Iowa” and “Sauk Indians--Iowa,” and Ioway peoples are described as “Iowa Indians.” As part of a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiative at Iowa State University Library, a working group in the Metadata Services department undertook a project to build, publish, and use a controlled vocabulary of preferred terms for Indigenous communities with ties to land that is now part of the state of Iowa. This paper describes the working group’s research, outreach efforts, published vocabulary, and process for adding the preferred subject headings to library metadata.

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Iowa State University Library Assessment Plan: Fiscal Year 2021 Report

2021-09 , Davis, Greg , Wampole, Katie , Dowell, Norma , Vega García, Susan , University Library , Library Assessment

This report is the third annual Iowa State University Library Assessment Plan Report. It includes selected data visualizations along with narrative descriptions of measures and analysis in support of the library’s assessment plan. This report is intended to provide an update on the library’s progress related to the goals and objectives articulated in the library’s assessment plan strategy map. The structure of this report has been aligned with the library’s strategy map. The strategy map contains thirteen objectives. The body of this report will contain a section for each strategy map objective. Those sections will contain a review of performance indicators and the associated targets that have been established for each strategy map objective.

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