Crazy Train: Managing an IR during transition
Description
This presentation will describe the paths we have taken to get back on the rails through data analysis, surveys, and living through the trials and errors of starting in the middle of a large project. You will learn about the pain points of restarting an IR “from scratch” and will also gain insights in management practices that might allow their IR trains to keep running on the tracks after they have moved on.
Recommended Citation
Lennertz, Lora and Cabrera-Sarduy, Jessica, "Crazy Train: Managing an IR during transition" (2024). Digital Commons Conferences. 6.
https://dc.researchcommons.org/dcnoamconf/2024/oct8/6
Crazy Train: Managing an IR during transition
This presentation will describe the paths we have taken to get back on the rails through data analysis, surveys, and living through the trials and errors of starting in the middle of a large project. You will learn about the pain points of restarting an IR “from scratch” and will also gain insights in management practices that might allow their IR trains to keep running on the tracks after they have moved on.
Speaker Details
Lora Lennertz is currently the Director of Open Education, Data and Publishing Services at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. She currently coordinates the services of the units of Open Education, Scholarly Communication, the Institutional Repository, and Data Services. She obtained her MLIS at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MIS in Business Information Systems at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. A librarian at the University of Arkansas for 34 years, she has had a variety of roles ranging from Head of Circulation, Music Librarian, Preservation Librarian, Director of Academic Research Services, Interim OER Librarian, and Data Librarian.
Jessica Cabrera-Sarduy holds a B.A. in Psychology and an M.S. in Curriculum and Instruction from Florida International University, an Ed.S. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Florida and is in the process of earning her M.S. in Information from Florida State University. As a former educator, she is very passionate about Open Access and Open Educational Resources, having shared her best practices for showcasing magnet program excellence at the national Magnet Schools of America Conference. She joined the University of Arkansas Libraries in July of 2024 as the Institutional Repository Coordinator after 17 years as a classroom educator and academic program manager.