2.  Backstory
 Defining promotion & tenure outreach
 Why this outreach is needed now
 Promotion & Tenure Outreach study
 Your feedback

3. 2004-: Assisted faculty
individually with citation
analysis
2006: Created Tenure
Preparation Guide for Faculty
section of library website
2009: Started research, developed
term promotion & tenure outreach
2010: Conducted workshops for
Educational Psychology faculty

4. The act of librarians guiding
tenure-track faculty toward
citation analysis and journal
evaluation tools in order to
strengthen evidence of
scholarly impact.

5.  Greater expectations
→QUALITY over QUANTITY
 Greater competition
 Increased availability of bibliometric tools

6.  Substantive
evidence of scholarly impact
→achievement of promotion and tenure
 Librarians as partners
 Advanced support of faculty research

7.  New Faculty
 Graduate Students
 Librarians: tenure-track or faculty status

8.  Librarian training
 Inclusion in job description
 Promotion

9. Only 1 practical article on scholarly
communication has discussed this type of
outreach:
“Academic librarians may find new roles as
consultants to authors in methods of
self-archiving and citation analysis”
-Mullen, 2008

10.  Identified 7 US academic libraries with guide
or workshop on website
 Interviewed 4 contacts from libraries
individually via phone

11.  Doctoral universities
 Subject librarian/liaison model
 Participants are main source for
workshop/guide
 Participants and staff conduct individual
assistance
 No formal assessment

12.  Implementation
 Training
 Job Descriptions
 Promotion of outreach
 Recommendations
 Impact
 Future plans
©2010 Brenna K. Helmstutler, M.S., MLIS

13.  Librarian training
 Assessment
 Campus collaboration
 Overall Benefits

14.  Tenure Preparation Guide & Workshop
Handout
http://research.library.gsu.edu/como
 Mullen, L.B. (2008). Increasing impact of
scholarly journal articles: Practical strategies
librarians can share. Electronic Journal of
Academic and Special Librarianship, 9 (1).
[no pagination]

15. Contact me: brenna@gsu.edu
Session URL:
http://research.library.gsu.edu/como