Joseph R. Kraus

Reference & Digital Repository Librarian
Associate Professor
Arthur Lakes Library

Biography

Joe has been interested in science and engineering libraries since he started working at the circulation desk of the Beloit College library as a work study student during his four years there. After he graduated with a BS degree in physics in 1989, he found a life-long interest in amateur astronomy, and he worked at a small telescope manufacturing company, Astro-Physics. In 1991, he relocated to the Washington DC metro area from Wisconsin. While living in Maryland, he was accepted to the Master’s program in Library and Information Science (MLS) at the University of Maryland, College Park. He completed his MLS in 1995. Soon after getting his MLS, he found a position as the Engineering Librarian at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. in 1998, he moved to be the science and engineering librarian at the University of Denver Main Library. In 2019, he started working at the Arthur Lakes Library at Mines.

Over the last 25 years, he had been active in the Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics Division, the Sci-Tech Division, and the Scholarly Communication Section of the Academic Division of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) where he chaired both PAM and the Sci-Tech divisions. In 2010, he convened a STEM focused library organization called STELLA which continues to meet biennially. He was on two different publication oversight committees for both the American Physical Society (APS) and CRC Press. He was a co-editor of the journal Collaborative Librarianship from 2009 to 2016, and he is a founding and current editor of the Journal of Creative Library Practice. Lately, he has been active with the Open Repositories group helping to organize those international conferences. He has written numerous articles and has presented on topics ranging from library unconferences, collection development, citation analysis and metrics, and social media use in scholarly communication. He has been an associate librarian with the Arthur Lakes Library since 2019.

Education

• BS in Physics, Beloit College, 1989
• MLS, Library and Information Science, University of Maryland, College Park, 1995

Some Recent Publications & Presentations

• Vuletich, Seth, Danielle L. Ostendorf, Joseph R. Kraus, and Brianna Buljung, “Operating a budget-friendly open publishing buffet” in The Open Science Cookbook. Emily Bongiovanni, Melanie A. Gainey, Chasz Griego, and Lencia McKee, eds. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2025. pp 34-37. https://hdl.handle.net/11124/180598

  Kraus, Joseph R, “Flexibility is Key When Participating in a Total Solar Eclipse Experience.” Bulletin of the AAAS 56(9), 2024. https://doi.org/10.3847/25c2cfeb.92f4dd44

  Kraus, Joseph R., and Christine Baker, “What types of sources provide citations to dissertations and theses?” Presented at the 2024 United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (USETDA) Conference held September 25-27, 2024, in Provo, Utah. https://hdl.handle.net/11124/179170

  Kraus, Joseph R., “Supporting open science on a small budget: the role of the Mines Repository.” Presented at the 2023 Carnegie Mellon University Open Science Symposium, online conference, November 3, 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/11124/178526

  Vuletich, Seth, Brianna B. Buljung, and Joseph R. Kraus, “Mapping graduate student workshops to career readiness frameworks.” Paper presented at the 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore, Maryland, June 27, 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/11124/177592

  Kraus, Joseph R., and Emily Bongiovanni, “The Bigger the better?: A comparison of institutional repository statistics.” Poster Paper presented at the 2023 Open Repositories Conference, Stellenbosch, South Africa. June 13, 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/11124/177593

  Kraus, Joseph R, “Global Registry of Fossil Fuels.” The Charleston Advisor 24(3):33-36, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5260/chara.24.3.33

  Kraus, Joseph R., and Christine Baker, “The creation of an institutional repository migration checklist.” 2022 Northeast Institutional Repository Day, online conference, December 1, 2022. https://dx.doi.org/10.13028/rtxg-hz30

  Kraus, Joseph R., “Collected Papers of Albert Einstein.” The Charleston Advisor 23(3):17-19, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5260/chara.23.3.17

  Kraus, Joseph R., “Cooking Up Open Access LIS Journals” in The Scholarly Communications Cookbook, Brianna Buljung and Emily Bongiovanni, eds, Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2021, pp 186-189, https://hdl.handle.net/11124/176580

  Dunn, Lisa, Brianna Buljung, Emily Bongiovanni, and Joseph R. Kraus, “Building the STEM Librarian Skill Set: An Exploratory Study to Identify Skills Needed by STEM Librarians.” Paper presented at the 2021 Virtual ACRL Conference, http://dx.doi.org/10.25676/11124/176395 or http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/conferences/confsandpreconfs/2021/BuildingSTEMLibrarian.pdf