SCOPA: Standing Committee on Professional Awareness: Resources

Purchase Requests

Databases

Professional Resources at Yale and Beyond

Yale has several affinity groups and employee resource groups. Each of the groups support recruitment, retention, education, advocacy, and community building. A list of affinity groups is hosted on the It’s Your Yale page: http://your.yale.edu/community/diversity-inclusion/affinity-groups

Library Reading, Discussion, and Interest Groups

• Data and eScience Group
• Open Access Library Interest Group (OALIG)
• Reference, Instruction, and Outreach (RIO) reading group
• Yale Archival Reading Group
• YUL Data Mining Interest Group

Digital Humanities Resources

• Digital Humanities / Text Data Mining - The Digital Humanities Lab maintains an informal, non-circulating collection of books related to their programs and services. Stop by the DH Lab to browse these resources.

Conferences

• American Library Association (Midwinter and Annual)
• Association of College and Research Libraries
• Association of College and Research Libraries New England (ACRL NE)
• Charleston Conference
• Designing for Digital (D4D)
• Digital Library Federation
• Electronic Resources and Libraries
• International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
• Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting (SAA)
• Special Libraries Association Annual Conference
• Resources on conferences:
  • http://www.lib.montana.edu/~james/

Publishing Outlets

• The 2016 Rankings: The Top 25 U.S. Universities Publishing Articles that Advanced Subject Specialized Librarianship, 2011–2015
• Library Science is under “Information Science and Library Science” on the Web of Science’s Journal Citation Reports. Training is available here: http://wokinfo.com/training_support/training/journal-citation-reports/
• Open access publications include:
  • Code4Lib Journal
  • CR&L
  • The Journal of Creative Library Practice
  • The Journal of Electronic Publishing
  • The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication
  • Practical Academic Librarianship: The International Journal of the SLA Academic Division

Project Management

SCOPA has occasionally facilitated Project Management trainings and forums. For documentation relating to the spring 2017 Project Management Forum, please see the SCOPA PM Google Folder.

The following training resources are also available:

Digital Humanities Lab:

http://web.library.yale.edu/dhlab

Lynda.com:

https://www.lynda.com/Project-Management-training-tutorials/39-0.html

Offers a wide range of online project management courses including learning software such a Basecamp and Microsoft project management.

Project Management Institute:

https://www.pmi.org/certifications

If you are interested in a becoming a certified project manager, PMI offers different levels and specialties of project manager certification.  You can also join PMI which allows you access to their publications and local chapters to get involved in.

Yale Basic PM Training Curiculum:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1Pul9BjCMCTRXFsSzN1c3FmSTg

Have an idea for a Forum? Contact SCOPA.

Committee Membership: 2017-2018

• Kate Nyhan (Chair)
• Alexandria Brackett
• Barbara Esty
• Katherine Isham
• Lora Johns
• James Kessenides
• Natalia Sciarini
• Timothy Thompson

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