Browsing by Author "Stovall, Connie"

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    Collaborations Beyond the Library: Bibliometric Analyses to Support Engineering Research, Innovation and Diversity
    Over, Sarah; Stovall, Connie (2023-06-28)
    A new library department was formed to focus on growing university research impact and delivering data-driven research intelligence. The department collaborates with multiple units across campus, including with the College of Engineering via the department’s Engineering Collections and Research Analyst. All collaborations stem from the need for data-driven decisions for determining inter- and intra-institutional strengths and for discovering potential and existing research partnerships. This paper focuses on key collaborations with campus partners relevant to engineering research, innovation, and diversity efforts at Virginia Tech, providing processes and examples in each area. Examples include: an analysis of institutional degree data to determine competency related to the CHIPS and Science Act; prospective aerospace company collaborations; and research alignment analysis with HBCUs and other minority serving institutions. Each example covers tools, alternatives, and processes used to generate these analyses with end products presented to collaborators. Overall the collaborations have been successful and are growing, which prompted the need for a new department, with wide support within the library and across campus.
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    Creating, Recalibrating, and collecting assessment metrics for Strategic Initiatives and Annual Reporting: A case study at Virginia Tech
    Kohler, Ellie; Stovall, Connie (2019-07-24)
    This paper presentation shares the approach taken by the Data Analytics Team at the University Libraries at Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA, USA) to create and execute a program intended to streamline measurement outcomes tied directly to library strategic initiatives. Further, it provides insight into the challenges of adopting a systematic approach to measuring the impact of strategic initiatives, as well as discusses implementation practicalities. The program includes three essential components: 1. holistic integration of library strategic initiatives into the daily processes and procedures, 2. impact methodology, and 3. annual reporting processes for metrics communication.
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    Data Management. It’s for Libraries, Too!
    Hall, Monena; Ogier, Andrea; Gilmore, Tracy; Stovall, Connie (2014-08-01)
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    Health Worker Potential for Expanded Exploration of Public “Frontlineness”: A Scientometric Analysis
    Bredenkamp, David M.; Abdelrasol, Saif Tarek; Boyette, Charity L.; Comer, C. Cozette; Stovall, Connie; Talukdar, Shahidur Rashid (2024-06-28)
    Public-sector frontline service scholarship in the field of public administration has been conducted under relatively limited circumstances and contexts. While literature focusing on the topic has been prolific, the context and lenses through which “frontlineness” has been viewed and observed are more limited (Chang & Brewer 2022). The scholarship on street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) has focused on a well-defined, though narrow, set of workers and work environments (e.g., teachers and nurses; schools and hospitals); those concentrated and consistent parameters may present an opportunity for greater generalizability of our understanding of SLBs than previously realized. We seek something of a new beginning: for theoretical exploration, clarity, and eventual reassessment of what frontlineness is and what it means. Healthcare has been a field in which public administration scholars have—either adjacently or directly—explored the nature of frontline work. We hypothesize, however, that there is much territory that goes unexplored due to siloing of disciplines, narrow definitions of what it means to be on the “frontline,” and more limited use in public administration scholarship of available evidence synthesis methods. One such method, scientometric analysis, provides useful tools to explore the potential of fields such as healthcare, with its results providing the “lay of the land” for further exploration. Using a scientometric analytical approach, this paper offers an answer to the following research question: What is the potential for existing research to describe the proximal relationship between a frontline healthcare employee and the frontline itself?
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    Leveraging Research Intelligence and Analytics Tools to Support Strategic HBCU Research Collaborations
    Stovall, Connie; Becker, Heidi; Over, Sarah (2023-05-09)
    Are you equipped to enhance and improve the strength of your collaborations with HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions? Can your institution validate in a data-driven way why specific collaborations were chosen based on research strengths? We all recognize the importance of diversity in research, but what practical steps can organizations take to move these efforts from discussion towards concrete action? In this session we will show you how to leverage and consolidate available research data to inform strategic planning, and better position your research organization to take action toward a more equitable future.
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    Mining EZProxy Data: User Demographics and Electronic Resources
    Stovall, Connie; Kohler, Ellie (2018-12-06)
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    Native American Literature in Collection Development
    Stovall, Connie; Shaffer, Christopher (2007-06-01)
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    Open Access Dissemination Challenges: A Case Study
    Radcliffe, David H.; Stovall, Connie; Young, Philip (Virginia Library Association, 2007-11-01)
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    Open Access E-Books in Academic Libraries
    Young, Philip; Stovall, Connie (Virginia Libraries Association Annual Conference, 2012-10-26)
    How are open access e-book collections identified and described? This presentation addresses the types of freely accessible electronic books, sources for them, and metadata workflows for adding them to the catalog. Additionally, we address larger questions such as the role of academic libraries in an increasingly open environment.
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    Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, and Business Intelligence Tools for Electronic Resources in Academic Libraries
    Cheng, Cheng; Gilmore, Tracy; Lougen, Colleen; Stovall, Connie (2017-11-09)
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    Translating Information to Insights: Bibliometrics & Beyond: Delivering Strategic Research Intelligence for Offices of Research & Innovation and Corporate Partnerships
    Stovall, Connie (2022-06-15)
    This presentation will demonstrate how the team uses tools such as Scival, VosViewer, and Altmetrics in conjunction with in-depth industry reports and background intelligence to provide campus stakeholders with accessible analysis by using Tableau and slides. Example findings will be provided and will be centered around research intelligence on corporate-academic authorship, providing evidence of past successes with specific corporations, providing data-driven evidence of Virginia Tech and peer/competitor competencies, discovering potential high-impact recruits, discovering statewide collaborators for a cybersecurity imitative and creating custom groups around collaborators to demonstrate impact, developing an understanding of the patent and funding landscape, uncovering public policy and social media impact, and developing metrics and collaborative network mapping for key initiatives. Just as important, the team uses the opportunity to make campus stakeholders more aware of problems inherent in bibliometric data and underscores responsible use.
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    Virginia Tech Research Impact & Intelligence Team: An Integrative Approach to Research Analytics and Responsible Assessment Practices
    Miles, Rachel A.; Stovall, Connie; Over, Sarah (2022-09-22)
    The current landscape of academic incentives, rewards, and assessment practices is beginning to shift and evolve, and though change is slow, it is critical to a healthy academic ecosystem. At Virginia Tech, a large research institution and state university in southwest Virginia, United States; librarians Rachel Miles, Connie Stovall, and Sarah Over of the newly formed Research Impact & Intelligence (RII) Team are helping to ensure that the Virginia Tech research community can competently, ethically, and expertly assess research productivity and impact, benchmark across and against departments, colleges, and other universities; and assess individual faculty members fairly and responsibly. This poster presentation will outline the services, projects, and initiatives provided by the RII Team and how they connect to and complement one another. For example, Rachel has focused much of her work on responsible research assessment efforts within university governance structures and is currently chairing a Faculty Senate Task Force to write the first responsible research assessment statement of principles for the university. In addition, Connie and Rachel work together and individually on research impact reports and research analytics for groups across campus. They also consult with administrators from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, Faculty Affairs, and Academic Resource Management to make recommendations on decisions regarding the use of bibliographic data and bibliometrics. Together, these initiatives and services inform the Virginia Tech research community about its research activities and impacts while providing guidance on proposed policies, the incentive-based budget model, and nuanced bibliographic data interpretation.
  • Virginia Tech University Libraries: Discovery Team 3: Knowledge Creation
    Stovall, Connie; Gilmore, Tracy; Gentry, Wendy; Henshaw, Neal (2012-08-06)
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