Abstract
As the scholarly communication system continues to evolve, academic librarians should take an active role in both developing their own knowledge and educating their campus communities about emergent topics. At Furman University, librarians developed an outreach program, aimed primarily at faculty, to increase awareness of current scholarly communication issues. Expert speakers were recruited to present throughout the year on open access, altmetrics, author’s rights, and other relevant topics. This program addressed a number of needs simultaneously— outreach to faculty; education for Furman librarians; and education for the greater library community—and affirmed the importance of providing opportunities to discuss these issues beyond the libraries. The program also further established Furman University Libraries’ role in educating and guiding its campus community through changes in scholarly communication models and practices.
Highlights
Every person on a college campus is a producer and consumer of information, a participant in scholarly communication
Conversations met its goal of increasing awareness and knowledge of key scholarly communication issues and sparking dialogues about these topics
The variety of topics and speakers appealed to the interests of researchers in different disciplines as well as faculty at different stages of their careers
Summary
Every person on a college campus is a producer and consumer of information, a participant in scholarly communication. In the decade following the Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002), the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (2003), and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003), libraries have been at the forefront of advocating for new business models for scholarly publications. Because of their visibility in this dimension of scholarly communication, they have become “the de facto center for scholarly communication on campus” This type of outreach is not usually described in the literature for any type of institution, let alone a small university such as Furman
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