Alignment of library services with the research lifecycle

Ragon, Bart

doi:10.5195/jmla.2019.595

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“…However, studies have rarely discussed the role and experience of embedded librarians who have participated as research partners in faculty research projects (Bedi and Walde, 2017; Ragon, 2019). In other words, embedded librarianship is still in its infancy and perceived as an emerging model, and the strategy for how to succeed is not fully established (Abrizah et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

Embedded librarians as research partners in South Korea

Shin

2020

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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Recently, many articles co-authored by librarians have been published in non-library and information science journals. This may indicate that embedded librarians are actively working as research partners in various fields. However, studies have rarely discussed the roles and experience of embedded librarians and, unlike the USA and European countries, the activities of embedded librarians in Korea are not well reported. This study collected and analysed co-authored articles from Korean faculty and librarians. In addition to identifying the role of the embedded librarian by analysing the author-contributions texts of the articles, the study examined the backgrounds of librarians and the difficulties of collaborating through interviews with librarian authors. The results of the analyses show that the number of collaborative articles by faculty and embedded librarians increased over the years and, of these, almost 70% were medical publications. The roles of the librarians outlined in the author-contributions texts were as reported in previous studies but, in many cases, their role was more significant than traditional liaison work, such as reporting the study’s methodology or approving the final draft. In the interviews, the embedded librarians expressed that they had experienced some difficulties, such as lack of time, insufficient guidelines and an inadequate curriculum in their library and information science department. For librarians to be recognized as research partners, they need to communicate well with team members and have knowledge, skills and abilities related to the research. Further, to achieve this collaboration, the curriculum of departments should be reformed. If such efforts are made, it is expected that embedded librarians will continue to excel in their role as liaison librarians, which has contributed to supporting research projects.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Embedded librarians as research partners in South Korea

Shin

2020

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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“…In this study, for those nursing researchers who indicated they were engaged with doing reviews 14.3% (6) indicated that a librarian was on their research team as a co-investigator, but there was interest among faculty to have a librarian as a team member. Other research with nursing faculty published in 2009 reported a very small minority (8%) of them see librarians as partners in research pursuits and would be open to researching and/or publishing together as scholars [18].…”

Section: Conductingmentioning

confidence: 85%

Needs assessment of nurse researchers through a research lifecycle framework

Janke

Rush

Miller

2022

jmla

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Objective: Health sciences librarian roles are evolving to better meet the needs of faculty. This study explores nursing faculty needs at the University of British Columbia through the research lifecycle framework of planning, conducting, disseminating, and assessing the impact of their research. Methods: A mixed methods survey study with Likert scale, multiple-choice, or ordinal ranking-scale questions and six open-response questions was conducted. The format was a web-based Qualtrics survey; participants had approximately three weeks to respond. Results: Nursing faculty identified the dissemination phase as benefiting most from library support prioritizing reference management and archiving research data as the top needs in that phase. Assessing impact skills such as citation analysis and Altmetrics training was ranked second. The Planning phase was ranked third with systematic review and literature review support most needed. The Conducting phase was identified as the phase where they needed the least support. Conclusion: Understanding the needs of researchers and enhancing scholar productivity is vital to offering responsive library research services. Across the research lifecycle, nursing faculty identified reference management, data management, metrics evaluation, systematic reviews, and literature reviews as the key areas for which they need support.

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“…In addition to best practices in data visualization, several workshops included instruction on data cleaning and analysis, such as splitting columns, using “lookup” and other Excel functions, and creating pivot tables. This reflects the reality that users seldom, if ever, perform data visualization in isolation and that different phases of collection, cleaning, and analysis are interrelated with the process of visualizing data, which can be done to both analyze and communicate findings [2, 12]. Thus, some degree of competence in data cleaning and analysis would help data visualization librarians be able to speak meaningfully to the data-related skills needed to create figures for presentation, and a recent study found that one third of the libraries in their sample currently offer services in cleaning and wrangling data [12].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Excel for data visualization in academic health sciences libraries: a qualitative case study

LaPolla

2020

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BackgroundData visualization is a growing topic of discussion and area of educational programming in health sciences libraries. This paper synthesizes information on eight institutions’ experiences in offering Excel-focused data visualization workshops with the goal of providing an overview of the current state of educational offerings in this area.MethodsSemi-structured interviews were conducted by phone and email with librarians at institutions that offer Excel-focused workshops, which were identified by reviewing the websites of Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries members and the 2019 Medical Library Association annual meeting program.ResultsLibrarians from six institutions were interviewed, online class materials from one institution were reviewed, and information from the author’s institution was included, resulting in a total of eight institutions. Educational offerings in Excel-focused data visualization ranged from one workshop to five workshops in a series, which typically first presented information for beginners and then progressed to more advanced data visualization skills. Regarding motivations for offering these workshops, librarians stated that they were committed to providing instruction in software programs that were already familiar to users. Workshop evaluations, when available, were generally positive.DiscussionBecause of its widespread availability and usage, Excel offers a compelling opportunity for providing hands-on data visualization instruction in health sciences libraries.

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Alignment of library services with the research lifecycle

Cited by 12 publications

References 9 publications

Embedded librarians as research partners in South Korea

Embedded librarians as research partners in South Korea

Needs assessment of nurse researchers through a research lifecycle framework

Excel for data visualization in academic health sciences libraries: a qualitative case study

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