Public Health Crisis Management Playbook for Archives, Libraries, and Museums

1 September 2022

REopening Archives, Libraries, and Museums (REALM) project

Develop a plan for your institution to navigate and recover from a public health emergency with the Public Health Crisis Management Playbook for Archives, Libraries, and Museums. This free resource supports cultural heritage institutions in planning for a significant public health emergency.

 

Library Collaboration as a Strategic Choice: Evaluating Options for Acquiring Capacity

11 August 2022

Brian Lavoie

This report delivers tools and insights to support academic libraries in making strategic decisions about cross-institutional collaboration opportunities to acquire capacity.

 

Speaking on the Record: Combining Interviews with Search Log Analysis in User Research

6 April 2022

Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Brittany Brannon, Christopher Cyr, Peggy Gallagher

This paper reports on a novel sequential mixed methods approach combining search logs and semi-structured individual interviews to study user search behavior within a library discovery system.

Reimagine Descriptive Workflows: A Community-informed Agenda for Reparative and Inclusive Descriptive Practice

5 April 2022

Rachel L. Frick, Merrilee Proffitt

This community agenda contextualizes the challenges facing the library and information field in inclusive and reparative metadata work and offers a framework of guidance can help frame institutions’ local priorities and areas for change.

Evaluation of environmental conditions as a decontamination approach for SARS-CoV-2 when applied to common library, archive and museum-related materials

30 January 2022

William R. Richter, Michelle M. Sunderman, Tom O. Mera, Kim A. O'Brien, Kendra Morgan, Sharon Streams

This article, published in the Journal of Applied Microbiology, shares the findings of the Reopening Archives, Libraries, and Museums (REALM) project’s COVID-19 research simulating virus on common library, archive, and museum materials.

How real is real enough? Participant feedback on a behavioral simulation used for information-seeking behavior research

12 January 2022

This paper assesses the realism of a behavioral simulation used to study the evaluation behavior of 175 students from fourth grade through graduate school. We assess realism through the examination of targeted participant feedback about what would have made the simulated environment and tasks more realistic to these participants. Based on this feedback, we reflect on decisions made in designing the simulation and offer recommendations for future studies interested in incorporating behavioral simulation in their research design.