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
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If We Build It, Will They Come? Recommendations and WorldCat
1 October 2011
Simon Wakeling, Paul Clough, Barbara Sen, Lynn Silipigni Connaway
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Something's Got to Give: What Can We Stop Doing in a Time of Reduced Resources
1 October 2011
Merrilee Proffitt
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Taking Stock and Making Hay: Archival Collections Assessment
26 September 2011
Martha O'Hara Conway, Merrilee Proffitt
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Supporting Research: Environments, Administration and Libraries
23 June 2011