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Explore the value of scholarly outreach in community engagement, from enhancing the scholarly environment with student employees to building bridges with local cultural heritage organizations. Learn about programs like ONEBOOKVILLANOVA and the Institutional Bibliography, and how activities like the Community Bibliography and E-Journals at Villanova University contribute to academic growth and collaboration. Discover the impact of events like Big Planzz Video and initiatives such as the Consciousness-raising community literacy program, all aimed at fostering a vibrant scholarly community at Villanova. For questions, contact darren.poley@villanova.edu.
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“How Else Do We Engage The Community?The Value of Scholarly Outreach”Darren G. Poley ACRL – DVCSpring 2012Stepping Out and Stepping Up: Making A Difference On Campus
Evaluate intellectual assets It’s about people
Enhance the scholarly environment For the sake of scholarship
Be welcoming to scholars Connect with your community
How do we reach out? Scholarly outreach and community development
ONEBOOKVILLANOVA Consciousness raising community literacy program that reaches the entire campus-wide community: Books provided Common text read Curricular tie-ins Co-curricular programming Author visit Books donated
Scholarship @ Villanova Library sponsored programming to highlight: Faculty publications Faculty Research
Falvey Scholars Annual awards given by the library to nominated senior students for capstone projects or thesis as a prize for outstanding undergraduate research
Villanova Works Constantly build bridges
The Institutional Bibliography: A Public Record of Intellectual Contributions by your scholarly Community Local Villanova Database Activity Insight XML Data Dump Document RefWorks Tagged Format Document Activity Insight Intellectual Contributions Publication info is extracted by Library In XML format Edited RefWorks document is ingested into local database via a PHP script Data is converted to RefWorks Tagged Format via XSLT script Faculty add vitae data into Activity Insight VuFind Because data is not entered into AI correctly Library staff time and talent are needed here to convert the data into a useable conventional form Activity Insight Database Villanova owns this data, but the data is stored on a remote AI owned database accessible only through the AI site Community Bibliography pulls its data from the local database via VuFind search. Web Accessible Community Bibliography Site
Interconnectedness with other Cultural Heritage Organizations
Big Planzz Video Don’t neglect social media
Thank You! Questions? darren.poley@villanova.edu