Open AccessA Proposed Framework for the Evaluation of Academic Librarian Scholarship
Author(s) -
Rachel Borchardt,
Polly Boruff-Jones,
Sigrid Kelsey,
Jennifer K. Matthews
Publication year - 2020
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.5703/1288284317195
Subject(s) - scholarship , documentation , discipline , task force , task (project management) , library science , computer science , scholarly communication , sociology , political science , public relations , engineering ethics , knowledge management , management , publishing , engineering , public administration , social science , law , economics , programming language
The ACRL Impactful Scholarship and Metrics Task Force has created a frameworkdraft that is designed to help librarians and libraries contextualize their impactwithin academic librarianship. To create this framework, the task force studied existingdisciplinary models, institutional guidelines, and surveyed academic librarians. Thetask force discovered few standard practices regarding impact measurement fromdisciplinary societies or in institutional documentation, but did find some largermodels outlining distinct impact areas. The proposed framework outlines evaluation intwo primary impact areas for academic librarians, scholarly and practitioner impact,with suggested metrics for a range of research outputs in each category. It isenvisioned that this framework will help initiate conversations at institutions with theaim of reviewing and revising existing documentation, alongside complementary ACRLinitiatives that will similarly affect scholarly production and evaluation. The firstframework draft was revised based on academic librarian feedback, and could be finalizedas an ACRL document in 2020.