Issue Briefs (About)
CURRENT IASC21 ISSUE BRIES
2015
Defining the International and Area Studies Librarian in an Era of Re-Organization (S. Witt)
2014
New IASC21 Issue Briefs Series (P. Graham)
South Asia Cooperative Collection Development Workshops (J. Simon and M. Rader)
Briefs under preparation
Title VI, NRCs and Libraries
Topic suggestions for future Briefs
- Acquisitions travel — innovative approaches, measuring impact and outcomes
- Advocacy within our institutions –approaches to engaging administration and aligning mission with university goals
- Archives and special collections — partnerships with area studies
- Assessment projects for area studies collections and services
- Data curation and the scholar as digital content creator– where do libraries fit in?
- Developing physical, programmatic space for area studies in libraries (reading rooms, collaboration and consultation spaces, community building via space development)
- Digital humanities and area studies
- Digital projects — LARRP and other examples, including international collaborations
- Discovery — challenges and issues with non-Roman scripts and discovery systems
- Discovery– cataloging and metadata to ensure discovery of our resources
- Discovery– innovations in large scale web discovery, linked open data and area studies resources
- Ebooks — models for negotiating, engaging publishers, vendors, special needs
- Innovative approaches to teaching and research support– outreach to non-traditional audiences, and the shifting needs of traditional constituencies
- Large scale digitization and inclusion of area studies materials
- Mentoring new career area librarians — examples of existing programs, approaches
- Models of archival practice and area studies materials
- Open Access and its role in Area Studies Collections
- Re-skilling and training — examples of efforts to build, cultivate new skills, or discussions of what new skills we may need and want
- Scaling area studies collecting – roles and practices for institutions with smaller or more targeted budgets and mandates
- Shared bibliographer collaborations
- Web archiving and area studies collecting
Interested in writing for this series? Contact us!
Pamela Graham, Columbia University
Mary Rader, University of Texas at Austin
James Simon, Center for Research Libraries