How do people use mobile devices for information seeking, and how can we best design library and information services for those who do so? How can we transform spaces and services to address the changing needs of library users? These themes are just two running through new publications by library faculty and academic professionals at the University of Illinois Library. Summer proved a productive season for new research, and in the list below you can get a hint of library contributions to these areas and others spread across diverse topics, from virtual poetry to invasive plant species to library and information science education.

• Calinger, Kellen, Elisabeth Calhoon, Hsiao-chi Chang, James Whitacre, John Wenzel, Liza Comita, et al. Historic Mining and Agriculture as Indicators of Occurrence and Abundance of Widespread Invasive Plant Species. PLoS ONE 10.6 (2015).
• Dewey, Michelle Hook, Sandra B. Placzek, and Candle Wester. The Mentoring Family Tree: How Intergenerational Concepts Can Inform and Improve Our Mentoring Relationships. AALL Spectrum 19.9 (2015): 25-27.
• Dougan, Kirstin and Kate Lambaria. iPads in the Music Library: Harmony or Dissonance? Music Reference Services Quarterly 18.2 (2015): 61-78.
• Green, Harriett E. and Rachel Fleming-May. Humanities Librarians and Virtual Verse: Changing Collections and User Services for Online Literature. Journal of Academic Librarianship 41.4 (2015): 457-465.
• Green, Harriett E. and Angela Courtney. Beyond the Scanned Image: A Needs Assessment of Scholarly Users of Digital Collections. College & Research Libraries 76.5 (2015): 690–707.
• Hinchliffe, Lisa Janicke. Library Assessment and User Surveys in Academic Librarianship in the United States. Associazione Italiana Biblioteche 55.2 (2015).
• Jacoby, Joann and Susan E. Searing. Merging, Creating, Transforming: The New Service Model Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Difficult Decisions: Closing and Merging Academic Libraries. Ed. Sara Holder and Amber Butler Lannon. Chicago: ACRL, 2015. 1-32.
• Lee, Jong-Moon and Yoo-Seong Song. Mobile Information-seeking Behavior: A Comparative Study. IFLA Journal 41.2 (2015): 153-161.
• Moustafa, Laila Hussein. Follow Your Passion and Think Globally. International Leads 29.2 (2015).
• Namachchivaya, Beth Sandore and Jamie McGowan. Assessing the Library’s Grant Program. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 10.2 (2015): 63-77.
• O’Brien, Nancy P., Mary Beth Allen, Peg Burnette, Cindy Ingold, Kelly A. McCusker, and Beth Sheehan. Merging the Social and Health Sciences Step by Step. Difficult Decisions: Closing and Merging Academic Libraries. Ed. Sara Holder and Amber Butler Lannon. Chicago: ACRL, 2015. 49-71.
• Pionke, JJ. Community Organizing for Database Trial Buy-In by Patrons. Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship 27.3 (2015): 165-170.
• Pionke, JJ. Disaster is in the Eye of the Beholder. Handbook of Research on Disaster Management and Contingency Planning in Modern Libraries, ed. Emy Nelson Decker and Jennifer A. Townes. Hersey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. 516-533.
• Simmons, Heather J.E. Practical Magic: How the Ancient Art of Storytelling Can Make Us Better Lawyers. Michigan Bar Journal 94.8 (2015): 52-53.
• Sotomayor, Antonio. Un parque para cada pueblo: Julio Enrique Monagas and the Politics of Sport and Recreation in Puerto Rico during the 1940s. Caribbean Studies 42.2 (2014): 3-40.
• Sotomayor, Antonio. “Operation Sport”: Puerto Rico’s Recreational and Political Consolidation in an Age of Progress. Journal of Sport History 42.1 (2015): 59-86.
• Tracy, Daniel G. The Users of Library Publishing Services: Readers and Access Beyond Open. Journal of Electronic Publishing 18.3 (2015).
• Trei, Kelli. Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Academic Librarian Positions during 2013: What Carnegie Classifications Reveal About Desired STEM Skills. Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship 80 (2015).
• Ward, David, James Hahn, and Lori Mestre. Designing Mobile Technology to Enhance Library Space Use: Findings from an Undergraduate Student Competition. Journal of Learning Spaces 4.1 (2015): 30-40
• Witt, Steven W., Joe Lenkart and Lynne M. Rudasill. Shifting Borders: Changes in the Scholarly Landscape and Integration of Area Studies Libraries to Accomplish New Service Goals in an Academic Library. Difficult Decisions: Closing and Merging Academic Libraries. Ed. Sara Holder and Amber Butler Lannon. Chicago: ACRL, 2015. 33-48.
• Witt, Steven W., Laurie Kutner and Liz Cooper. Mapping Academic Library Contributions to Campus Internationalization. College and Research Libraries 76.5 (2015): 587-608.

Curious about what else librarians have been working on? A full bibliography of major research publications by library faculty and academic professionals can be found in the Library Faculty Publications Database.