The Library Leads the Way: A Cross-Campus Effort to Curate and Celebrate Intellectual Output at the University of San Diego

The University of San Diego (USD) holds an annual event, coordinated by the Office of the Provost in conjunction with the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP), designed to recognize faculty scholarly output and grant recipients. In 2023, the University Library saw an opportunity to get involved by hosting the event and curating a comprehensive bibliography of all faculty and staff scholarly production for presentation at the event. This new endeavor required close collaboration not only between the Library, Provost, and OSP, but also the Library’s Digital Initiatives unit, who laid the foundation for the bibliography by culling citation databases such as Web of Science and Lens, as well as outreach by all liaison librarians to their respective academic departments in order to solicit their faculty’s scholarly activities and generate enthusiastic participation in the event. From start to finish, this grassroots effort to track, record, celebrate, and preserve the scholarly record at USD is a great example of cross-campus partnerships and collaboration despite the absence of a commercial Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR) or Research Information Management (RIM) platform. Moreover, at the event, we highlight the university's institutional repository, Digital USD, in an effort to encourage faculty attendees to deposit their scholarship into the IR, and we deposit the final bibliography directly into the IR (see: https://digital.sandiego.edu/bibliography-scholarship/) in order to preserve the record of annual scholarly activity at the university.