“How Else Do We Engage The Community? The Value of Scholarly Outreach” Darren G. Poley ACRL – DVC Spring 2012 Stepping Out and Stepping Up: Making A Difference On Campus

Falvey Memorial Library 1949

Falvey Memorial Library (c. 1968)

Falvey Memorial Library 2012

Let’s Go Inside…

Evaluate intellectual assets It’s about people

Student Employees

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

Engage the Whole Person

Campus Collaboration

Cultural/Social/Intellectual Involvement

Leisure Time Activities

ONE BOOK VILLANOVA 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

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 Activity Insight XML Data Dump Document RefWorks Tagged Format Document Local Villanova Database Activity Insight Database Activity Insight Intellectual Contributions Web Accessible Community Bibliography Site VuFind Faculty add vitae data into Activity Insight Publication info is extracted by Library In XML format Data is converted to RefWorks Tagged Format via XSLT script Villanova owns this data, but the data is stored on a remote AI owned database accessible only through the AI site 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 Edited RefWorks document is ingested into local database via a PHP script Community Bibliography pulls its data from the local database via VuFind search.

Interconnectedness with other Cultural Heritage Organizations

E-Journals at Villanova University

E-Journals with Partners

Learning Commons in Falvey

Growing Event Venues Such as “Speaker’s Corner”

Big Planzz Video Don’t neglect social media

Thank You! Questions?