Victoria Peters is the head of the Resource Services area of the DePauw Libraries. She supervises the Acquisitions Manager and Interlibrary Loan assistant, and is responsible for all of the cataloging and processing for the main library, Roy O. West, as well as the branch Music Library. Peters collaborates with the Dean of Libraries on all database and electronic resource purchasing decisions.
As the Scholarly Communications Librarian, she advocates for textbook affordability, and encourages faculty to adopt Open Educational Resources and to publish their scholarship open access. Peters is the sole manager of the institutional repository that collects faculty, and student scholarship, as well as the Institute of Music recordings.
Due to the library closing for a renovation during the pandemic (reopening in February of 2023) she was only been able to connect with faculty virtually and sporadically about issues of scholarly communication during the closure. In the spring of 2023, she was able to invite Amanda Hurford to present a PALSave Open Education Network OER workshop for our faculty. The event gave those on campus interested in textbook affordability the ability to converse and further their understanding after years of virtual workshops, which Peters found to be inspiring. She also collaborated with the Outreach and Access Services Librarian to host the inaugural Senior Research Symposium, an all-day drop-in event allowing graduating seniors from all disciplines to be able to present their research and have it archived in our institutional repository. This gave the students an opportunity to publish their work open access and have a citation and permanent URL to use on CVs or graduate school applications.
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