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:
Publications
If We Build It, Will They Come? Recommendations and WorldCat
1 October 2011
Simon Wakeling, Paul Clough, Barbara Sen, Lynn Silipigni Connaway
Something's Got to Give: What Can We Stop Doing in a Time of Reduced Resources
1 October 2011
Merrilee Proffitt
Taking Stock and Making Hay: Archival Collections Assessment
26 September 2011
Martha O'Hara Conway, Merrilee Proffitt
This report identifies projects and methodologies that can be used as-is or serve as models for librarians, archivists and others who are considering collections assessment to meet one or several institutional needs. The goal of the report is to encourage a community of practice and to make it easier for institutions of all types to undertake collections assessment.
Supporting Research: Environments, Administration and Libraries
23 June 2011
John MacColl, Michael Jubb