The photos below showcase the newly opened faculty publication gallery at my previous institution in China. Actually, several university libraries I’ve visited in the past years have developed similar galleries to centralize scholarly publications by their own faculty and sometimes alumni as well. But this one at SYSU Library looks much more attractive in appearance. At the opening ceremony, the University President gave a keynote speech, in which he highly regarded the library’s endeavor.
To me, there are at least three advantages for library to build such kind of faculty publication gallery, including –
- systematically and sustainably collecting and preserving generations of campus research output, which is of course one of the traditional missions of an academic library
- making these local research output more visible to the public and increasing various stakeholders’ awareness of the excellence of local research over time
- building a stronger relationship between the library and the campus research community, and hopefully encouraging more scholarly activities
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