Research

Publications

Refereed Book Chapters and Monographs

Pomerantz, J., Choemprayong, S., & Eakin, L. (Forthcoming, 2008). A History of Digital Libraries Through Grant Funding. In Abels, Eileen G. and Danuta A. Nitecki (Eds.). Advances in Librarianship 31. New York: Academic Press.

Research Reports and White Papers

Pomerantz, J. & Eakin, L. (2007). The Return on Investment of Collaborative Virtual Reference Service. Final Report, 2006 OCLC/ALISE Library & Information Science Research Grant. Dublin, OH: OCLC Online Computer Library Center. Inc.

Conference Posters

Eakin, L. & Pomerantz, J. (2006). Capturing the Costs of Virtual Reference Service ACRL/NY Symposium 2006. Commercialization and the Academic Library: Mission Statement or Market Share? December 1, 2006, New York: ACRL/NY.

Presentations

Conference Presentations

Panel Presentation with Jeffrey Pomerantz. The Return on Investment of Collaborative Virtual Reference Service. 69th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Austin, TX. November 6, 2006.

Recent Graduate Posts

Graduate Assistant

December, 2005 through May, 2007

NCKnows ROI project: developed a cost model for virtual reference services. (See Presentations, above.)

Technical Research Assistant

May, 2006 through December, 2006

Developed a MySQL database and PHP forms to collect and house copyright request information for Documenting the American South (DocSouth), a digital library of southern history.