Abstract

Academic libraries offer educational outreach surrounding their technology services available to users. When using those same technology services for internal projects, librarians can better understand the mechanisms behind these technologies, allowing for meaningful outreach efforts in which librarians serve as both primary users and facilitators of use. This paper highlights a case study of leveraging an institutional license to Overleaf, a collaborative LaTeX editor, to rebuild documentation on the use of KiltHub, an institutional repository. This requires a complex mix of text, images, tables, and even videos, and presented a tremendous challenge to format in Microsoft Word and Google Docs. In leveraging the library’s own technologies, the KiltHub team gained a greater understanding of how to use and teach with these platforms, ultimately better serving campus users.

摘要

学术图书馆围绕其向用户提供的技术服务提供教育推广。在内部项目中使用这些相同的技术服务时，图书馆员可以更好地理解这些技术背后的机制，允许图书馆员作为主要用户和使用促进者进行有意义的外展工作。本文重点介绍了一个案例研究，该案例研究利用 Overleaf（一个协作性 LaTeX 编辑器）的机构许可来重建关于使用 KiltHub（一个机构存储库）的文档。这需要文本、图像、表格甚至视频的复杂组合，并且对 Microsoft Word 和 Google Docs 中的格式提出了巨大挑战。通过利用图书馆自己的技术，KiltHub 团队对如何使用和教授这些平台有了更深入的了解，