Full Description
New Roles for Research Librarians: Meeting the Expectations for Research Support presents strategies librarians can use to adapt to the new conditions and growing expectations that are emerging from students and researchers. Even if they have never completed a PhD, or even been engaged in independent research themselves, this book will provide a new roadmap on how to deal with the new work environment.
The book provides different approaches that include the library in the research process, an area that is often neglected by researchers during their planning and strategic work on research projects. Users will find content that offers tactics on how to create a new dialogue between the librarian and the postgraduate student, along with comprehensive discussions on different starting points, and how communication and collaboration can help reach the best of both worlds.
Contents
Introduction
1. Notes for the library director
2. Information literacy skills in the research process
Part 1: New roles for the research librarian
1. What is research support from the library - and what should it be?
2. The post graduate student - a case study
2. Meeting different expectations. An approach based on the different library-users' need.
3. What can the library offer, and what can the librarian do?
Part 2: The new research librarian - what to do
1. Communication is key (how to make contact, and stay in touch)
2. Important research support services
3. Differences in subjects
Part 3: Suggested approaches to research support
