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Expert engagement: practical researcher digital literacy provision at City Diane Bell Research Librarian, City University London [email protected] www.city.ac.uk/library
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Expert engagement: practical researcher digital literacy provision
at City
Diane Bell Research Librarian, City University London
www.city.ac.uk/library
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Overview• Questionnaire & Library Researcher
Development Programme.• Blog & digital literacy case study resource.• Digital literacy workshop informed by
researcher inputs. • Patron-driven acquisition influencing IL. • Research-based practice.
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Library researcher training questionnaire (2014)
All categories have good responses.
The most popular was strategic literature searching (72%); managing your references (65%).
The “digital researcher” least popular but is important.
Open access workshops were not heavily attended although OA is useful.
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Library training formats responses• 33333 All formats popular.• Research webpages
rated highest (53%), we now have these.
• Onlin Online learning for researchers is still a challenge.
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Library Researcher Development Programme• University Researcher induction • Library services for researchers • Managing your references - Introduction to RefWorks • Strategic literature searching• Making an impact: citation searching and impact factors• Open access, online repositories, finding theses • The digital researcher, using social media tools to create an
online presence • Evaluating resources, keeping up to date and news sources
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Citylibresearchers blog
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Practical case study resource
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Case study : Research studentProfile: LIS Research student, 3rd year, multi-disciplinary topic, works part-time in an academic library. Databases: LISTA, LISA and JSTOR. Libraries used: SOAS, Senate House, British Library, public libraries.Tools used: Mendeley, Figshare, RefWorks, Nvivo. Social media/ blogs: Twitter, Tumblr, Academia.edu, research blogsAdvice: Connecting with others, using social media for feedback, always follow up citations in papers.
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Online personal ‘newspapers’ as research
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Digital research apps used by City research student
BrowZine (journal
browsing app)
Feedly (feed reader) Twitter
Evernote (notes, photos) –
favourite app
Pocket (PDF reading app) One Drive
Kindle app (reading)
Dropbox (storage)
Mendeley (reference
management app)
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IL workshop: Building an online profile using social media & employability
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Read for Research – Patron Driven Acquisition #readforresearch
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Research student feedback to inform IL“Library support for research students has been excellent. I was especially impressed with the #readforresearch campaign.” https://blogs.city.ac.uk/ludiprice/2014/05/08/read-for-research-reading-list/“Deepening research on info behaviour McQueen & The House of Worth, thanks to #readforresearch @CityUniLibrary #citylis #fashion.”“Big thanks to @CityUniLibrary #readforresearch scheme, which has helped keep my reading up to date.”“Quick and personalised service.”
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Researching the researchers
• Undertaking an MA research project - Factors which influence the digital literacy of research students.
• Literature review, Survey Monkey survey and qualitative interviews with research students.
• Hope to inform future IL workshops & training.
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Conclusion
• Key message: Research- Engage-Change. • Research students have much to offer in terms of
knowledge & skills.• A University wide doctoral programme is desirable.• Different engagement methods are advisable. • Use case studies, researchers’ topics & tools to
enhance IL. • Future: research-based practice: digital literacy.
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Thank you, any questions, discussion points, engagement ideas?
Researcher guide http://libguides.city.ac.uk/researchers Researcher case study resource http://www.citylibresearchcasestudies.wordpress.comEmployability guidehttp://libguides.city.ac.uk/employability Epistemology of Cool Daily http://paper.li/acdelion
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