Waving anddefinitely notdrowning! offering librarysupport for academicresearch in a GoogleWorld…

Outline

• Discussion: Your experiences of supporting research

• New contexts for research support• UCA academic use of library services: findings• Using the Vitae Joint Statement of Skills training• UCA approaches• Breakout sessions: Trialling new approaches to get

academic staff using library resources• “Ensuring a bright new future”

Working with academic staff

Your experiences:• What are the main

issues?• What approaches

have you taken?• What has worked

well?• What doesn’t work

well?

New contexts

• RIN Reports: academics use of library services, Communicating knowledge, use, value and impact of e journals

• Research Excellence Framework• Sconul Report on international students• Self publication

Joint Statement of Skills Requirements (Vitae)

• Design and execute systems for the acquisition and collation of information through the effective use of appropriate resources and equipment

• Ability to analyse critically and evaluate ones findings and those of others

• Identify and access appropriate bibliographic resources, archives and other sources of relevant information

• Use information technology appropriately for database management, reading and presenting information.

Academic use of library services at UCA

Questionnaire 2008:

• Minimal use of eresources

• Demand for moreservices via desktop

• Strong interest inJSTOR

• Little understanding ofhow to use e-resources

• Not good at keeping references

How to get staff more interested in library

resources…University of Lincoln approach..

Hello Do you want to: * improve the way you search for information in order to retrieve more relevant articles? * find out how to check whether or not a particular author has been cited? * find out how to keep your research up-to-date? * know how to export useful articles to RefWorks (online personal bibliographic management tool)? If you have answered yes to one or more of these questions then this is the training course for you! This course will be held from 10am - 12pm on 12 June in UL101. Refreshments will be provided. To book your place, please email asharman@lincoln.ac.uk

Advanced Research Methods

Issues to consider

• What to call support offered – Top up sessions, one to one seminars?

• Should these be part of staff CPD?• Alerting services…RSS feeds, Zetoc,

TicTocs, using a blog?

• Discuss some of these options

Building a bright new future

• Roberts funding• Build in closer links with Research Centres and

Research Clusters• Create a mechanism to find out what staff

research interests are, i.e in Library Inductions fornew staff?

• Keep a list of research profiles and email out stuffnow and then

• Give yourself an academic profile• Run Refworks sessions at lunchtime