Think Local: Delivering Higher Ed Scholarship to Area High Schools with an Institutional Repository
Start Date
10-11-2016 2:45 PM
End Date
10-11-2016 3:30 PM
Description
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. While Institutional repositories (IR) make your University’s scholarly works available half the world away, set your sights on a hundred mile radius. The potential of a global audience for faculty publications and student ETDs is a great, but ultimately broad approach to publicizing the content in your IR. When you reach out to the students and teachers in the high school down the road, or in the next town over, you can achieve tangible results. Results that your university, your library, and your community may benefit from. Scholarly Communication Librarian A.J. Boston discusses the benefits experienced from publicizing the Murray State University IR to a local audience. Session members will discuss collections housed by their own libraries and how they are (or could be) used by local high schools, or other non-academic local communities. Methods and strategies for these types of outreach efforts will also be think-tanked. Participants should leave this session with the kernel of a plan to spread world-class scholarship to their local high school classroom.
Think Local: Delivering Higher Ed Scholarship to Area High Schools with an Institutional Repository
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. While Institutional repositories (IR) make your University’s scholarly works available half the world away, set your sights on a hundred mile radius. The potential of a global audience for faculty publications and student ETDs is a great, but ultimately broad approach to publicizing the content in your IR. When you reach out to the students and teachers in the high school down the road, or in the next town over, you can achieve tangible results. Results that your university, your library, and your community may benefit from. Scholarly Communication Librarian A.J. Boston discusses the benefits experienced from publicizing the Murray State University IR to a local audience. Session members will discuss collections housed by their own libraries and how they are (or could be) used by local high schools, or other non-academic local communities. Methods and strategies for these types of outreach efforts will also be think-tanked. Participants should leave this session with the kernel of a plan to spread world-class scholarship to their local high school classroom.