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Engaging the Community: Strengthening Scholarly Outreach

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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Engaging the Community: Strengthening Scholarly Outreach

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  1. “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

  2. FalveyMemorialLibrary 1949

  3. Falvey Memorial Library (c. 1968)

  4. Falvey Memorial Library 2012

  5. Let’s Go Inside…

  6. Evaluate intellectual assets It’s about people

  7. Student Employees

  8. Enhance the scholarly environment For the sake of scholarship

  9. Be welcoming to scholars Connect with your community

  10. How do we reach out? Scholarly outreach and community development

  11. Engage the Whole Person

  12. Campus Collaboration

  13. Cultural/Social/Intellectual Involvement

  14. Leisure Time Activities

  15. 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

  16. Scholarship @ Villanova Library sponsored programming to highlight: Faculty publications Faculty Research

  17. Falvey Scholars Annual awards given by the library to nominated senior students for capstone projects or thesis as a prize for outstanding undergraduate research

  18. Villanova Works Constantly build bridges

  19. 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

  20. Interconnectedness with other Cultural Heritage Organizations

  21. E-Journals at Villanova University

  22. E-Journals with Partners

  23. Learning Commons in Falvey

  24. Growing Event Venues Such as “Speaker’s Corner”

  25. Big Planzz Video Don’t neglect social media

  26. Thank You! Questions? darren.poley@villanova.edu

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