Changing Roles & Research
Published on Jun 24, 2016
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Kate Mercer
BA(History); MI(LIS); PhD. cand.(Pharmacy)
@vivalakt | kathrynmercer.com
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Research is Changing
- Constantly & rapidly changing technologies
- Over saturation of data
- Presence of the internet
- Measuring research outputs
- New publishing platforms
Changing technologies like mTurk, crowdsourcing in general, online surveys changed how we survey and analyze data.
There are quantities of data out there previously we didn't know existed. 500 million tweets per day. What do we do with it?
The internet is everywhere. I had 7 online options on presentation software.
How do we measure research output when how research is disseminated is changing? There's a growing importance of blogs and twitter, but how should we work with it?
Fake journals.
There are quantities of data out there previously we didn't know existed. 500 million tweets per day. What do we do with it?
The internet is everywhere. I had 7 online options on presentation software.
How do we measure research output when how research is disseminated is changing? There's a growing importance of blogs and twitter, but how should we work with it?
Fake journals.
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Communication is changing
- Social media
- The internet as a tool for collaboration
- New technologies for communication & collaboration
How we're interacting with each other is changing. It used to be students would ask me what my twitter is, now it's collaborators.
Finding researcher and industry partners is a whole new world with the internet.
Slack, twitter, texting, skype are all different ways of communicating. As librarians we need to know what researchers are using so we can stay in the loop.
Finding researcher and industry partners is a whole new world with the internet.
Slack, twitter, texting, skype are all different ways of communicating. As librarians we need to know what researchers are using so we can stay in the loop.
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Liasion Librarian Scope
- Shift in liasion librarian role & perception in the research community
- Transformations in research, teaching and learning
- Increasingly dependant on the internet
- Changing sources of information
- Role of collaborator
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(informal) Polling of Faculty
- 7/9 send their grad students
- 4/9 had a librarian talk to their class
- 4/9 help with lit search
- 2/9 collaborated with a librarian
- 5/9 asked a librarian about resources
- 2/9 knew who their liasion librarian was
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"Librarians shelve books"
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Challenges
- Miscommunication and misunderstanding
- Knowledge Translation
- Open access publishing
- Lack of role-specific knowledge
- Staying abreast of changing resources, information and trends & resulting information overload
Staying abreast of changing resources, information and trends
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Fully Identify Gaps
- Service expectations not always clarified or explained between stakeholders
- Researchers are generally siloed, culture shift
- Not fully recognized collaborative potential
- Dual-sided desire for training
- Tangible impacts
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Opportunities
- "I don't really know what I would use a librarian for..."
- "I don't know why someone would help me without credit."
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Trends
- User-centred library services
- Changing scope of collection development
- Reference as a community hub - copyright, open source, knowledge management, information literacy
- Instruction
- Embed Librarians
It is clear that as the nature of research within our institutions changes, so must the role of the library in supporting research. The increasingly competitive research environment demands greater collaboration (across disciplines, institutional, and national boundaries) and generates greater quantities of data than ever before. In addition, funders are placing increased emphasis on the demonstration of the impact of research outputs and engendering wide dissemination of research findings. As research activities evolve, research support must evolve with it. There has been much debate within libraries as to what form this evolution will take—but little consensus in terms of the part to be played by the library in general or the role of library staff members in particular.
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Liaisons can partner with faculty to develop and curate new forms of scholarship. Starting with workshops, speaker series, and usual consultations, we can move on to a new range of topics, such as how to use social media to effectively communicate academic research, and how to utilize things like mTurk.
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Embeddedness
- Build a presence
- Build an environment of community service
- Focus on user needs
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EX/ Librarians can embed either themselves or content into teaching and learning experiences. For example, the practice of medicine is taught in clinical rounds. Librarians attend and teach medical students and residents how to find relevant medical information at point of need—often using mobile devices and services.
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Innovation
- Try new things: failure is an option
- Work with new technologies
- Liasion Librarian acts as a catalyst for trying new things
- Library as a hub for creative spaces
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EX/ Increased understanding of new areas of research such as text mining, and using the collections budget to purchase or provide access to source
materials for digital-based research
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Collaboration
- Consultations
- PhD student advising
- Publish in "good journals"
- Be present in journal clubs
- Build new initiatives
- Encourage interdisciplinary activities
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EX/ The term Liaison Librarian itself suggests a collaboration between the library and a faculty. There is also a collaboration between the library, IT, the office of research, and other campus units to work together toward mutual goals.
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Research Expertise
- Help with finding resources for papers and for grants
- Orientation that goes beyond resources
- Research impact assistance
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In Short:
Be adaptable.
Try new things.
Be Present.
Know your strengths.
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Questions?
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