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Dynamic Research Support for Academic Libraries
Higher education and academic libraries are in a period of rapid evolution. Technology, pedagogical shifts, and programmatic changes in education mean that libraries must continually evaluate and adjust their services to meet new needs. Research and learning across institutions is becoming more team-based, crossing disciplines and dependent on increasingly sophisticated and varied data. To provide valuable services in this shifting, diverse environment, libraries must think about new ways to support research on their campuses, including collaborating across library and departmental boundaries.
This book is intended to enrich and expand your vision of research support in academic libraries by inspiring you to think creatively about new services; sparking ideas of potential collaborations within and outside the library, increasing awareness of functional areas that are potential key partners; providing specific examples of new services, as well as the decision-making and implementation process; and encouraging you to take a broad view of research support rather than thinking of research and instruction services, metadata creation and data services, etc. as separate initiatives.
Dynamic Research Support in Academic Libraries provides illustrative examples of emerging models of research support and is contributed to by library practitioners from across the world. The book is divided into three sections: Part I: Training and Infrastructure, which describes the role of staff development and library spaces in research support; Part II: Data Services and Data Literacy, which sets out why the rise of research data services in universities is critical to supporting the current provision of student skills that will help develop them as data-literate citizens; and Part III: Research as a Conversation, which discusses academic library initiatives to support the dissemination, discovery and critical analysis of research.
This book is intended to enrich and expand your vision of research support in academic libraries by inspiring you to think creatively about new services; sparking ideas of potential collaborations within and outside the library, increasing awareness of functional areas that are potential key partners; providing specific examples of new services, as well as the decision-making and implementation process; and encouraging you to take a broad view of research support rather than thinking of research and instruction services, metadata creation and data services, etc. as separate initiatives.
Dynamic Research Support in Academic Libraries provides illustrative examples of emerging models of research support and is contributed to by library practitioners from across the world. The book is divided into three sections: Part I: Training and Infrastructure, which describes the role of staff development and library spaces in research support; Part II: Data Services and Data Literacy, which sets out why the rise of research data services in universities is critical to supporting the current provision of student skills that will help develop them as data-literate citizens; and Part III: Research as a Conversation, which discusses academic library initiatives to support the dissemination, discovery and critical analysis of research.
224 pages, Paperback
Published March 16, 2016
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About the author
Starr Hoffman
1 book33 followersI'm a geeky artsy librarian nerd, with a bookish penchant for fantasy (preferably *without* a plethora of names containing "y"), scifi, comics, weird premises, humor, queer/diverse characters, and insane descriptions of food & drinks. (I also adore avocados, but that's less relevant to books.)
More formally:
Dr. Starr Hoffman is the Director of Assessment and Planning for the University Libraries at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is a member of the Libraries' senior leadership team, and her responsibilities include strategic planning, assessing library performance, and consulting with library faculty on research design. Her previous positions include Head of the Journalism Library at Columbia University (New York, NY) and the Head of Government Documents at the University of North Texas (Denton, TX).
More formally:
Dr. Starr Hoffman is the Director of Assessment and Planning for the University Libraries at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is a member of the Libraries' senior leadership team, and her responsibilities include strategic planning, assessing library performance, and consulting with library faculty on research design. Her previous positions include Head of the Journalism Library at Columbia University (New York, NY) and the Head of Government Documents at the University of North Texas (Denton, TX).
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June 16, 2016
A quick overview of ways to better engage the academic library around research support-broad ranging and applicable to lots of situations.
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