PaLA CRD Workshop - Q&A

To Brian Mathews "What department do you work in and who would do your job if the 'User Experience Librarian' didn't exist?"
- He reports directly to the Head of Public Services (used to be the Engineering Librarian)
- It used to be done by committee, it could be done by a coordinator. It really grew out of usability testing (web and information technology) but was moved into user testing in all areas (real life?)

To Marianne and all "What type of research do librarians do? Is it social science, information science, or it could even be similar to hospitality research?"
- She comments that even social scientists have trouble describing what kind of research they do

To All "Whose responsibility is it to publish on scholarly publishing like the crisis in Humanities for new professionals?"
- This is a new area, a call to study for a new library professional

Missed the questions, but Nancy responded that ACRL conference presentations are published in the proceedings, it isn't just already published unless it is a significant write-up. Joe followed up that a study showed less than 1/3 of ACRL proceedings entries went on to a journal article. I know that ACRL-STS has a Research Forum that Nan suggested they change into a format similar to other Sciences where preliminary research proposals are presented and critiqued with the idea that they would eventually develop into research projects and papers.