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
Assessing for Alignment: How to Win Collaborators and Influence Stakeholders
22 June 2018
Stephanie Mikitish, Vanessa Kitzie, Lynn Silipigni Connaway
This chapter, excerpted from Shaping the Campus Conversation on Student Learning and Experience, proposes how academic libraries can leverage the Assessment in Action: Academic Libraries and Student Success (AiA) approach to advance communication, collaboration, and institutional mission and alignment.