Peer-reviewed · 2026

Research & Publications

Research on how institutions can design work more fairly, sustainably, and humanely.

3 peer-reviewed articles3 open-access articlesThe Journal of Academic Librarianship

Evidence and practice

Scholarship grounded in the realities of academic work.

These peer-reviewed articles examine the structures that shape professional life: roles, workload, job control, equity, hybrid work, and role reform. All three Versions of Record are open access; each publication includes a free PDF link and a direct link to its publisher record.

Published in The Journal of Academic Librarianship, an international peer-reviewed journal published by Elsevier.

103222CC BY 4.0

Peer-reviewed article · Open access

Redesigning academic librarian roles for a post-crisis world: A role theory perspective on workload equity and occupational stress

The Journal of Academic Librarianship · 52 (2026) · 103222

A role-architecture framework for redesigning academic-library workloads by connecting role ambiguity, conflict, and overload with job resources, resource loss, and workload equity.

Version of RecordPublished online: 2026-03-02

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103275CC BY-NC 4.0

Peer-reviewed article · Open access

Hybrid work in academic libraries: A scoping review of role stress, job control, service sustainability, and equity

The Journal of Academic Librarianship · 52 (2026) · 103275

A scoping review of 32 direct and closely related sources showing when hybrid work becomes a resource—and when it creates new pressures, visibility gaps, and inequities.

Version of RecordPublished online: 2026-05-30

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103332CC BY 4.0

Peer-reviewed article · Open access

Studying hybrid role reform in academic libraries: A conceptual-methodological framework and an illustrative comparative qualitative design

The Journal of Academic Librarianship · 52(5) (2026) · Article 103332

A conceptual-methodological framework for studying hybrid role reform in academic libraries, paired with an illustrative comparative qualitative design.

Version of RecordPublished online: 2026-08-27

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Discovery ranking prototype · R4

Current evidence · Revision R4

Explore saved discovery rankings

Research project: Governing Library Discovery Ranking

Explore 50 TREC-COVID topics, 200 candidates per topic and 10,000 candidate appearances, with 22 original ranking configurations and two saved text-only development profiles. The read-only viewer displays existing NIST human relevance judgments, retained rankings and metrics. It does not run a new search, rerank records, infer new scores or collect judgments.

Baseline is the default. The original Full and Guardrail configurations have lower mean relevance than Baseline. Their paired 95% intervals include zero; the benchmark establishes neither equivalence nor noninferiority and does not validate these configurations for adoption.

The two text-only development profiles apply no metadata rewards. All 50 topics were used during development, so their saved results do not provide independent confirmation and neither profile is promoted.

Reviewers and testers can explore the prototype at their own pace, with no time limit or completion deadline. No account or access code is required.

Historical demonstration: the separate September 24, 2026 OpenAlex snapshot contains 107 title queries and 10,075 candidate appearances representing 10,023 distinct works. This read-only demonstration has no human relevance judgments and cannot be compared as relevance evidence with the 50-topic TREC-COVID benchmark.

The viewer is in English. Inspection filters preserve the saved ranks and metrics; no new responses are collected.

Academic affiliations are provided for identification purposes. The views presented on this website are those of the author.