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New Roles for New Times: Research Library Services for Graduate Students

The report proposes that the growing number, and heterogeneity, of graduate students and programs presents opportunities for research libraries to provide segmented services targeted for students at different stages of their academic and demographic life-cycle.

Through their interviews, Covert-Vail and Collard found an enthusiasm for a broad range of new services, from advanced data manipulation and visualization to softer skills-based instruction in time management and writer’s block. They also report that new configurations of library space, housing aggregated services into research or scholarly commons, for example, can both create and leverage collaborations within the larger institution.

Finally, the authors present different strategies for staffing graduate student services, from dedicated positions and committees to more loosely structured teams comprising subject liaisons, technologists, data librarians, and others, who work together to deliver a suite of complex solutions to meet the needs of graduate students in research institutions.

pdf nrnt-grad-roles-20dec12.pdf

Terms:2012, Collaboration, New Roles for New Times, Planning and Visioning, Publications, Space, Facilities, and Services, Text, Workforce

Membership Meeting 2012 (Fall): Data-Mining Partnership for Library Operations

Proceedings of the 161st ARL Membership Meeting, October 2012.

pdf mm12fall-britton-renaud.pdf Audio on YouTube

Terms:2012, ARL Membership Meeting, Assessment, Audio , Collaboration, John Renaud, Library Administration, Proceedings, Publications, Scott Britton, Slide

21st-Century Collections: Calibration of Investment and Collaborative Action

Deliberations over library collections will have no end. Balancing serial and monograph investments, assessing the latest digital format, anticipating new directions in teaching and research—this large undertaking resists all formulas. The Task Force on 21st-Century Research Library Collections defers for detail to the expertise that is spread so impressively across ARL libraries, seeking here to give a big picture of collections: to describe not everything on the map, but the general landscape we face today.

pdf issue-brief-21st-century-collections-2012.pdf

Terms:2012, Collaboration, Issue Brief, Publications, Research Collections, Text