Research Collections and Support
Libraries are increasingly leveraging the raw materials of scholarship and knowledge formation by emphasizing the creation and curation of institutional research assets and outputs, including digitized special collections, research data, and researcher profiles. Our work informs current thinking about research collections and the emerging services that libraries are offering to support contemporary modes of scholarship. We are encouraging the development of new ways for libraries to build and provide these types of collections and deliver distinctive services. Our efforts are focused in the following three areas:
Presentations
![Re(Casting) Call: Sculpting Services & Strategies for Cultivating Online Scholarly Identity](/content/dam/research/presentations/2019/connaway-recasting-call-acrl.pdf.thumb.1280.1280.png)
Re(Casting) Call: Sculpting Services & Strategies for Cultivating Online Scholarly Identity
Cleveland, OH (USA)
Presenting panelists consider: How should (or could) academic librarians assist users who wish to build their scholarly identity (SI)? What services are currently offered? What opportunities, as well as concerns, surround this work? Panelists also provide information for librarian-scholars who manage their own online SI.
Topics: Scholarly Identity
![Trending Now: Recasting Services to Support Scholarly Identity Work](/content/dam/research/presentations/2019/connaway-recasting-services-support-scholarly-identity-work-acrl.pptx.thumb.1280.1280.png)
Trending Now: Recasting Services to Support Scholarly Identity Work
Cleveland, OH (USA)
Researchers share results from semi-structured interviews with academic librarians, faculty, and PhD students that explore current practices researchers use to create and manage scholarly identity via online platforms (e.g., ORCID).
Topics: Scholarly Identity